is rely on cash from relatives. this age group say is a manufactured crisis, resulting from greece's lack of integration policy for refugees. all of them are external. they're resourceful, and they're not there. then they just need more real support. and the plan that we look at their needs from reception to gratian and then that will just be for us, not greece says it is merely implementing the law supporting those deemed in need of protection and asking every one else to go away. but they have nowhere to go. jobs are hopeless at the malak asa entered itala refugee camps. ah, your general deserve me, said robin. a reminder of our top story, south africa's health minister says the country is entering its 4th wave of cone virus infections filled by the new army. com barons. more than 11 and

a half 1000 infections have been confirmed in one day 5 times. the number reported a week ago aaron's chief negotiator has told al jazeera that well pounds could not reject draft proposals that it submitted during nuclear talks. in vienna, an exclusive interview, annie begati, honey, says, all nuclear related sanctions from the u. s. should be removed immediately. the talks are aimed at bringing iran and the u. s. back into the deal. it's meant to limit iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. your current business. the proposals table by iran cannot be rejected at all because they are based on the provisions of the 2015 nuclear agreement on, in principle, the countries which are still the participants of the dre say, boy, they do not want to ruin the nuclear document. all the sanctions which have been imposed or re imposed under the so called maximum pressure campaign of the in order to have safe there should be removed immediately. let's take it over to geneva,

worthy w h. her weekly press conference has begun with maria vaughn kirchhoff speaking, let's listen embers of all we can being detected. and right now the data is, i think, maybe a couple of hours old, but we have reports of over kind of 38 countries in all 6 w 2 regions. and we do see increasing trends in on the con in south africa. so there is a suggestion that there is increased trends miss ability. what we need to understand is if it's more or less transmissible compared to delta, that delta variant is still dominant worldwide. that's important to keep in mind. so we need to see how oma con, compares with delta, when they're both circulating in the population at the same time. so it'll take a few more days, you know, for us to get that information. and we're grateful for their research that's ongoing. with regards to severity, and we have reports of people who are infected with on the con, that have that range in disease very from mild disease, all the way to severe disease. initial reports on the crime came from

a cluster of university students. these tend to be younger individuals, and those individuals tend to present with more mild infection. so there was initial reports that intended to be more mild, but it's really too soon. because 1st of all, everybody who is infected with our school, we to, regardless of what varian low, he start out with a mild disease. and so maybe it will stop there with my own. some people are symptomatic, of course, but it may scuff with mild disease or it may take some time to develop your disease was too early for us to really understand. so very strong. we do also note that south africa has reported increasing hospitalization rates. but that could be for the fact that we have more cases. if you have more cases, you will have more hospitalizations. if you have more hospitalizations, you'll have more deaths. so we need to determine is that the factors, you know, associated with just any virus that circulating in the population. because if people are mixing, you don't have public health and social measures in place and you add another

variant, you will have more cases. or is it actually the very to self that is causing more severe disease? so that also will take some time. we're also looking at the impacts of our countermeasures, or the big question right now at effect scenes. and this will take a little bit more time for us to understand the impact on our vaccines that are currently in use. now this variant has a number of mutations, a large number of mutations, some of which we know a little bit about because these same mutations have, but i had enough, i didn't other variance. and there's other research that has been done. for example, with alpha, with beta, with gamma, with delta. and so we have some clues that we may have some reduced efficacy of axes, but we don't have that information yet. it will take a week or 2 or 3 to get that to that, a large number of scientists around the world that are working directly with us directly with researchers in country to gather that data. and so that needs to take place and we need science. we need the scientist to have

a little bit more time before we have that answer. i think maybe i'll stop there, but it's, it's kind of a fast and furious situation. but we, or last point is we have the systems in place. we have a surveillance system globally for, sorry, covey to viruses. we're increasing genomic sequencing worldwide, and this helps us to detect these variance. and we have systems in place to share information. sequences need to continue to be shared. our platforms like to say, we're thankful for just say for the platform that they have, that analysis can be done and we need re wishes to communicate with each other, share their findings, especially to share their findings with us so that we can make the right policy advice decisions, i'm so that countries know what to do. thank you so much, maria. do you have any reflections on the new knowledge in such a short period of time actually since last week? until today on this new variant? again, with thanks to all those countries around the world who are really following them

very intensively on the case that they have a particular case of f. that's well for, for the work that they have done to some of the best datas, columbus of africa and the last number of days. and i agree with everything that ria says. clearly the virus does appear to be transmitting efficiently. and we saw that before with delta, so again, there are certain things we should be surprised with the virus and those things were not as very surprised with that. i think we've all spoken collectively in the, in, on this platform many times about how one virus can replace another question is in replacing another virus. one of the implications of that for our diagnostics, for therapy leaks for vaccines are for what we do to start to virus. and right now that we've still got to keep doing the things we're doing, particularly in europe,

but all over the world, especially given less for 99 percent of the transmission lying on the world is bad to start that wires. and if we do those things to stop the current strains, the circulation then i think will be doing the right things to stop. you overcome variance. should it gain further foothold in the world? but just because we have a new variant doesn't mean the situation is going to get worse. it means we have more uncertainty. and dealing with uncertainty is difficult. and it's not easy because everyone, everyone, i was trying to get back to some kind of normal work, as we said here last week or the week before with delta was no normal. but it introduces a level of concern and a level of fear and a sense of more exhaustion that we all feel. well, here we go again, but you know,

we knew this was going to happen. we spoke about collectively here in the social media group. it's not a surprise that it's happened and the right things are getting the right science is getting on the right evidence is being collected. we've seen extreme transparency on behalf of the countries that have engaged. we're seeing a lot of the really positive behaviors that have led us to gain the knowledge we have. and now we need some patients to wait to get the answers from all of that data which will come in. those answers will come. but we need that patients and while we're patients, we have to recognize that the sky hasn't fallen in life needs to go on. and i think people out there have just got to get a sense that science has this. we have this, we're going to get the answers that everybody out there needs. we will make any changes that need to be made in any part of our control problems based on science,

based on evidence, based on fear, not based on politics, but based on public science. a national goldman is working with us with international institutions to make good decisions that are interest of the public and that in the interest of proper with the interest of public health. and i believe we have the architecture to do that, but it's just going to take a little time. in the meantime, i will say to everyone is do all the things we're doing before because it's good for delta, it's over all my crime. it's good for any other variance, so keep doing what you're doing. if you are often a vaccine get vaccinated, because right now that your best bet for any of these variance. and we will wait to see about the outcomes of all the different investigations or caution. now not just because of all because of the other various delta as well. and it may be that because of all of this increased activity. and because we're only just may have to

tail some of our social mixing and gatherings over and over the coming weeks and all that. so that's a nice message for anyone to hear. but we were in that situation anyway without over. we were in that situation. anyway, i think what omaha does is gives us an extra incentive to recognize that we're not out of this yet. virus, santa montrose. but as i said, we need to trust in the science now and be patient and not be fearful. i, we will be able to do whatever needs to be done to adjust our strategies, to adjust our countermeasures. we can do that, and this is a moment when science does have us. and we got this and we are accountable for everyone out there to make sure we get these decisions made as quickly as possible based on the best evidence and in the public interest of using public institutions to make those decisions on the receiving a lot of questions but, and i will try maybe to summarize some and then you explained what we know so far,

but on the crime and maria, you highlighted it on the card, is not a dominant variant, yet at least not yet around the world. so maybe we can also provide, as usual epidemiological update on what's the global situation at the moment. we cases hospitalizations also mortality. yeah, i mean again, so it, the, this, the emergence of this new variant is on top of the fact that we have a situation globally which is dominant by another variant of concern, the delta variance. we're still seeing increasing cases around the world last week alone. there were almost $3800000.00 cases reported at that local level. there's quite some differences by region and quite some differences. my country. in fact, some countries actually have transmission in a low level and which is a good sign that others are seeing increasing rates. i think i think that concerns us the most is that, you know, we're still seeing high level of gas and you know, more than the 7000 people were reporting to died last week alone. and that number

should be drastically reduced. and the reason for that is because we have vaccines, we have ample amounts of vaccines around the world that need to get into the arms of people who are most at risk in all countries. and that's not happening. it's still not happening as we enter the 3rd year of this and emma, and as vaccines have been online for more than a year now or almost a year now. so that's quite concerning to us. i'm one of the biggest concerns before. i mean, you was in the headline news before, only con was the situation in europe. within europe, they've been seeing increasing trends for more than 2 months. so this is not anything new. sorry, our shades are going up. in 2 months. we either they have a mind of their own. do you want me to wait? no. so we do see across europe and increasing trends over 2 months. so this is not new in this is driven by the delta variance. so if you add another variant of concert on top of that on the con is going to complicate matters. but as

mike said, we don't know how it will unfold. so what we are asking all countries to do right now is to re assess your situation critically reassess your situation and look at what you're doing. first, look at your vaccine access to vaccine and your vaccination policies and focused on those who are most at risk. first, it's not just about the number of people who have been that city is who is vaccinated and critically focused on those risk groups that you're missing. mike has an audiologist her english and by is that maria van mckay. cough the senior epidemiologist. on the w i chair in geneva along with michael ryan, the emergency director giving that weekly briefing on what they know about crime virus. obviously it's been dominated this past 7 days by they knew very adama chrome, which was discuss in south africa, which has now spread to more than 33 countries in 6 regions. as they said,

let springing dominate kane, and dominate in berlin forth and dominate quality cog. give us the whole global picture. you'll say we're listening into watts, maria how to say that. certainly at the end of that press conference, she was talking really about the trends in europe having increased over the last 2 months. and the part of that is due to the weather in the northern hemisphere is getting cold with his winter in northern europe. and it will continue to get colder, and that creates its own problems in the way society socializes with each other in germany and along with japanese neighbors. yes, pretty much winter is almost upon us. and as you say, the natural instinct for everyone is not to go at all so much and to congregate with friends and family and colleagues inside swear it's warm, but of course,

where it is more dangerous because of cove. it an am born virus which is transmitted through breathing. well, obviously in large concentrations of people that's where problems can occur. that's why you see all manner of different states in this federal republic of germany, but other countries to imposing bands on the unvaccinated and requiring many millions of people to have to prove the cov, it's facing. whether they have recently recovered from covered and have a degree of immunity, or whether they've been vaccinated and have a degree of protection against the worst ravages of cove it. but it's no question about this is the time when that sort of thing would happen. it's interesting to point out that in one particular reported outbreak of omi chrome in also the norwegian capital, we 1st learned about it yesterday that it was at an office christmas party were up to 50 people may have come into contact with ami cronan may go on to develop the

infection. why? because they've been at the christmas office party. so no question of viruses. it's that sort of mentality and that sort of mindset. the ministers, medics here in berlin, but also around germany and data around the european continent to trying to contend with. because it's a natural instinct instinct to congregate together in dolls, which is encouraging the transmission of cove it. and there are so many millions of people here in germany, but around europe, who are still on vaccinated are therefore at the most risk from catching the virus . and you've just touched the point that was brought up by maria in terms of groups, coordinating, or groups me that this initial infection in south africa was sort of trace back to a group of university students. which may gave that debate about whether people do gather in groups and how big a group is a dangerous group, and how small

a group is a safe group. because obviously as we had in northern europe to the christmas celebrations of the families will want to get together. and that is another issue that governments will have to think about. and governments also talking about city in the united kingdom about christmas parties, christmas gatherings. it is a debate that is now gaining traction. yes, no doubt about it. one particular example which, which as it were illustrates the problem, the medics ministers have in bavaria the prime minister of the state of a very he's a key figure in german politics. mark asserted from the christine social union. so the allies of anger, miracles, christian democrats, where he has said that he had to close down all the christmas markets in his state in bavaria because of the risk of transmission. he then, earlier this week went public to say that he found it very difficult to see how it

could be justified to close down christmas markets because of the risk of transmission between people at market stalls drinking mulled wine and eating the sort of stolen cake that sort of thing that germany, that bavaria is particularly renown for that it was fair to, to ban such gatherings. but then then not fair to ban football stadiums for being full of fans watching matches which bring tens of thousands of people together. so that's something that's really the german government, federally and in the states is trying to crack down on there. so we have new rules that have been imposed, which basically means that we won't be seeing scenes again of full stadiums around this, this country with 50060070000 people. many of them unmasked gathering together that his as spin, thrown out. what will happen now is that in some football stadia, perhaps $15000.00 people will be allowed to gather there,

but they will obviously have to fall into line with the new rules about proving their vaccination or recovery status. and that implies also this idea of proving your status and, and shrunken numbers, flies to many different public events right across this country. and of course, one of the things that governments, again, across the world have to think about and certainly something that maria van kirk off mentioned was the fact that the delta vary must be the delta variant. is the dominant strain. it is the strain that was driving those infection figures up across europe. it wasn't alma kron because they're not quite sure about how micron is transmitted. how quickly it, it, it infects of the people. and the thing, those sorts of investigations will take 2 to 3 weeks while the science who is, is working while the science is being investigated. we must forget and put in

context where the delta variance is and how dominant is it has been certainly in europe. the delta variance is predominant in germany right now. there's no ambiguity about that at all. the last figures that i saw relating to which forms of cov is had taken hold in germany, said that something like 99 percent of all the infections in the past few weeks, certainly, and other than the whole of november anyway, that was with those are the infections were from the delta variance, and the interesting thing here is that the numbers of infections from that delta variance of at least metaphorically gone through the roof. we know that in the course of less than the last 3 weeks, more than a 1000000 people caught the delta variance here in germany. and if you then look back over the course of the entire calendar year,

clearly the delta variance was not here in germany, right. at the stars of this calendar year, but it certainly has taken hold here in the course of the later summer months into the autumn. so that's basically from august september onwards. and it's been delta that's driving the spike in cases and spike in death rates. and of course, the reason that matters is because with so many unvaccinated people falling victim to the delta variant, which is much more infectious and has potentially more dangerous consequences for the human body. those people are finding themselves having to go to hospital or be taken to hospital. they philip hospital beds, hospital wards, and then the hospital start having to go into what's called tree arch mode. in other words, having to work out what priority to give to each patient, whether a covert patient or not, because they can't deal with the numbers that they have on them. and that, of course, is the delta v, and that's before you consider what ami crohn might do. interestingly,

we didn't really get a great deal more fact about ami kron as you were saying from maria from kirk of or like ryan to people who were speaking in that news conference because i just don't have it just yet. and that's why this research matters. so much into what these cases ah, how they manifest themselves, how they present, and then how they develop. but clearly, right here, right now, in germany it's the delta variance that emetics and ministers are having to deal with. for the moment to double that cain in berlin, thank you very much. of course, we'll continue to monitor what's being said and done across europe in the rest of the world. thanks very much on today's other news now on the on special report her on slavery is insur lanka where he's assessing the government's efforts to improve working conditions and eradicate child labor. when l fernandez has will on what he has to say from colombo, he's been visiting essentially tea factories are looking into the plate. the

working conditions of shall anchors, great labor force in the t industry. and he did see that some of his experiences where he had gone into some of the line rooms where these people did. he said he came out distress. so he did say that there was room for improvement of these people who essentially he was saying, i still have a pretty dismal lot. now on the other hand, he also visited the gum and take the fork to stakeholder, talk to essentially workers in a puddle of factories. he drove to orders, he drove to the government and there in food. there are report that there are some not across the industry, but there are some of the sort of operators that do exploit workers. there are people who are not given the necessary remuneration. they have some pretty dismal working conditions. and these are issues of concern, obviously child labor is something he looked at. but if you look at free lunch as

a whole, the issue of child labor, we don't have a huge number of children who are employed under the children and used for labor. but however, he did say that any form, even during the a corona virus pandemic, he said that some children had been forced to take off work. and he said that some action was required. but overall he did a sort of commend the government in terms of some of the progress they had made. but he did say that our society should be inclusive, that discriminatory practices based on gender, race, age, and all of that should be done away with, in order to get to the core of force labor and eradicating it. the world's largest annual event celebrating the best in architecture is underway in lisbon about a 3rd of all shortlisted sites. actually in china for those katrina, you reports are from beijing. the country hasn't always have the best reputation in

the industry. there are millions of office buildings and china, but the liter skyscraper in southwest bay, jane is unlike any other straddling and later subway station 2 structures are connected by a soaring atrium that twists towards the sky. here we were faced with her and as you were to build an office tower, 200 meters tall, with the subway con, underneath how do we create something very elegant. that really will be part of the city. we critter, we call an urban window. so the atrium that's created because of straddling the, the tunnel creates a tower that's creates the tallest atrium in the world. straight lines are hard to find here, but the unseen is equally impressive. integrated smart systems manage the buildings, temperature and air quality. energy use is minimized. every office is connected with 5 g. these are just some of the reasons it was highly commended at the

prestigious world architecture festival taking place this week in portugal. of about 500 international projects nominated for awards one 3rd a chinese young cluster mon isn't surprised by the country strong showing. he spent a decade working here before founding his birth in 2015. even though china as a place that has actually the largest, traditionally, you can possibly imagine it's still very young at heart. so it's actually always very interested in innovation. but innovation has been interpreted widely. for years, china was known for poor quality, gaudy constructions, president she didn't, paying has called for an end to so called weird architecture. a government ban on ugly buildings was issued earlier this year. there's now focus on sustainability, simplicity and preserving history. themes seen at show gong number 3, blast furnace. another shortlisted project completed in 1959 and closed due to

environmental concerns and 2010 designers chose to refurbish rather than demolish the site. with this land has historical memory and the owners have a deep affection for it. we focus on transformation and renewal to give the enterprise new vitality with these blue skies. it's hard to imagine that this area was once choked by heavy air pollution for decades. shogun was beijing's industrial hub and main source of smoke. these trains used to transport iron, all coal and other materials. the area now houses the offices of the beating winter olympics and has become popular with tourists. with an estimated half of the world's construction taking place in china, buildings here will continue drawing global attention and designers hope for the better and not the worst. katrina, you are the 0, beijing,

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a. oh, wow. this is al jazeera. ah, hello, and welcome on peace adobe. you're watching the news out life from doe hall coming up in the next 60 minutes. we have reports of over kind of 38 countries in all 6 w h o regions. and we do see increasing trends. you know, the current in the south africa, the all me, kron variance of corona virus fuels a 4th wave in south africa. the world health organization says the strain appears to.