they are based on the provisions of the 2015 nuclear agreement. in principle, the countries which are still the participants of the j. c. a. they do not want to ruin the nuclear document. one condom and as the difference is that the previous sounds as we have stations is that there are foreign players and 4 in the region are seriously making efforts in order to disrupt the negotiating table. i believe that design is, should dream a lot of attacking iran and if they go onto this stream, they will never wake up from that dream. all the sanctions which have been imposed already imposed under that so called maximum pressure campaign of the united states . they should be removed immediately with the verifications and guarantees that are very serious issues and discussions which will, which have been outlined in the 3rd document. in this news about non to extend in

richmond was broken by design is media and zone is sources. abandoned with fox news was immediately denied and rejected by the highest authority of the international atomic energy agency, which is the director general. and you can catch the full talk to our to see her interview with her on the chief nuclear negotiator on saturday at 430 hours. gmc ok, let's go back to the top story on a crown. let's take a closer look at how this latest marian has been spreading across south africa. indeed, across southern africa, its earliest detection was encountered tang province on november, the 8th since then. it's been recorded in 5 of the countries, 9 provinces. it's now spread to 40 different countries, 11 and a half 1000 koby 19 cases have been reported in south africa in the past day. fueled largely, we're being told by omicron that is a highly significant jump from just over $300.00 cases,

one month earlier. also new data from south africa suggests the variant is affecting infants, children under the age of to make up 10 percent of hospital admissions there. let's bring in doctor was still adjust that she's a public health specialist at the national institute for communicable diseases. she joins us from johannesburg. dr. welcome to the news. so why is this affecting? we're talking about total isn't babies really? and we were talking about children under the age of 2. a good evening. thanks for having me. yes, uh go, it has always been like mild and children across have been damaging, have africa, despite breaking up 50 percent of the population. they comprise just well into cases 5 percent of hospital admissions and listen one for seem to still now. but in this research and in our 20 district in helping in the 1st 2 weeks of increased our we've seen like to say the percent of the missions in young children under 2. and in fact, 27 percent of all admissions have been children 18 years and,

and i think there's a few regions that we believe this could be in our 1st wave. there were locked down and schools were closed in our 2nd wave. there was a school holiday in the summer holidays and kids were not at school and crashes. so in the 3rd and 4th wave while they've been back at school, there's been ample opportunity for more transmission amongst children. and we store many more outbreaks in schools and amongst social groups. and so for interrupting you doctor, is this may be happening because if one has been any time around a 2 year old, you know, one knows that the immune system, it's not, it's not finished yet. is not cooked yet, could it be that their immune system is medically speaking their immune system is compromised because it's not finished. absolutely. i mean we have seen hire date of birth among children in the very young children under one. and that is like you because the immune system got under, prepared to, by 5 says in fact,

young children are just up to the disease with that, especially viruses as well. does it also mean i would imagine the preparedness in hospital or medical provision around the world is aimed at people above say, 15 to 20 years old. so we're talking about people being treatable or treated in their twenties, thirties, fourties, particularly as well, middle aged and elderly people. do we need to refocus that preparedness towards pediatric preparedness? i think absolutely. given the new trends, we do need to make sure that we have to bid available of what the current said, but it is also too early to say whether the trend will hold in the early part of the wave when there's more be available. general practitioners are more likely to young children who are milder as a precaution, and in fact, what we are seeing is amongst those admitted in hospital at the moment. many are

staying or not more than 2 or 3 days admitted not, not to be a condition. and so we were not really sure whether the dominant of viet cases and admissions will continue to out the way. but certainly in terms of our own preparedness, we do traditionally look at a hospital bibs and oxygen. but this time, particularly, we need to make sure that we have 2 bits available. is there a kind of a corollary flow chart here of the symptoms when we're talking about the under threes, the under 2 year old, the babies, the children? because if you've got a 2 year old, you've got new lungs. if you've got corona virus or a particularly vicious corona virus, that's not just sticky, the virus isn't sticky when it's ingested. when it's breeze, then it's super sticky. does that mean the corolla rates of that? that the symptoms would be worse for a 2 year old? with this particular variant compared to say the delta or the pita variance

i don't think we have any reason to think that there's a greater variety, you know, just biologically in children with best compared to other periods. but you know, as the immune a shift with more adult sex unaided, children as to ship to both. and so we like to see more of them in more than infected and more of them in hospitals. at the moment we not seeing baby severe disease, but there is always a spectrum of clinical isn't asian. and in the hospitals you would have a mild case and you'd also have most of your cases in i see you and possibly even gives the symptoms that the children are presenting with at the moment. uh, quite similar to what we saw before with cops and fevers. and vomiting and diarrhea and shortness of breath. at the moment, there's nothing to indicate that there's any change in the way that they begin thing. okay, we have to leave that out just that. thank you so much for coming on and giving us giving us some clarity about this, particularly for people who are listening to this story as it develops and unfold.

thank you very much. you. well, even before the world was talking about, the army kron variant, it seems, the pandemic was still impacting economies and growth. the u. s. economy added for a few jobs, them was expected last month. according to new figures, only $200.00. 10000 jobs were added in november, monthly job growth with average 555000 so far this year. still, the unemployment rate has dropped to full point 2 percent there, some good news for professional and business services, transportation and manufacturing, but employment in retail continues to slide in the lead up to the holiday shopping season. it is of course, a hectic period. millions of workers have decided to change their jobs this year during what's been called the great resignation, a labor shortage, high inflation and supply chain issues of cold economic growth. patricia sutka is the managing business editor at al jazeera digital in new york. she says, millions of americans are using this period to reassess their lives while americans

are just simply residing there quickly in their jobs and record numbers. and that's really underscores the strength that we're seeing in the us labor market. there are a lot of factors that are contributing any of this and a lot of ideas are being floated out there. one really isn't that we're seeing the scarcity of workers is simply that some people are afraid to go back to work because over 19. but there's other factors that play as well. a lot of people believe the baby boomers took early retirement during the pandemic because their stock portfolios and the value of their houses have gone up so much because of the federal reserve, low interest rate policies. and also the united states is an incredibly entrepreneurial nation. and indeed, the other theory is that a lot of people have simply decided that they don't want to work for somebody else, that they want to simply open their own business and work for themselves. so all of these factors are contributing to what we are seeing right now is the great

resignation. we are entering the very critical holiday shopping season. and we want to see very strong robust retail sales. because consumers spending dr. 2 thirds of us because i'm a growth, but there is a lot of uncertainty and the outlook, especially with the emergence of the micron. barry and chinese right hailing giant did. he says it will d list from the new york stock exchange and pursuer listing in hong kong. the company had a stella, w on wall street in july with a 4000000000 dollar initial public offering. but days later, the chinese government cracked down on the company over national security concerns and pulled as products from local app stores. a $6000000000.00 high speed rail link between china and louse is now in operation. the train line runs for just over a 1000 kilometers from couldn't ming to be and t m. china funded 70 percent. the project on the paging belt and wrote initiative, the bullet trains while they traveled at 160 kilometers and our china plans to

expand the rail link all the way to a poor will could mean to be. and john is just the beginning of a much larger network under development. from there, it will link with another line under construction from the board. a ton of dong chi in thailand to bangkok, this coach central route will then extend down through malaysia to singapore. while other lines to the west and east will eventually connect me and ma cambodia and vietnam to the pan asia railway network. let's bring in anthony nelson. he's the senior director of the station and pacific practice that all bright stonebridge group. he joins us from washington. d c. anthony, welcome to the news out. the size of this is absolutely astonishing. i mean, give us a sense, percentage terms, if you can, how much of south asia, southeast asia, east asia, you're going to be able to go from a to b to c, to d on a train on a chinese train at a 160 clicks an hour that's the theories that you'll be able to reach the 601000000

people that live in the association of the page and they some but i think there is a key distinction between the braking route of this project in laos and the other project struck the rest of the region where there are much more difficult situations in terms of completing projects, more pushback from mobile countries that are able to strike a harder bargaining allowances. so that the prospect of this fully realized regional rail network that extends old way through trying to is quite a bit farther off than just why does last really need this? because last was one of the countries coming from correct me. if i got this wrong, he lives on the countries as tourism industry, it didn't just go from being quite good to quite bad. it went from being quite good to virtually nonexistent overnight when kobe is absolutely crazy. yeah,

it's down 80 percent. there is no immediate prospect for recovery, while in the early days of cobra was, was mostly spared, but it's now see from the highest numbers of daily cases. economic growth in the country is as low as the 30 years, but half percent last year. but the question is, how much is this railway by itself, actually going to help law 21 station country. and if you are really trying to serve the mostly kind of world populace, you have more stations make it easier for people to bring crops to market. the hope is that eventually this will help louse connected. so the rest of the region that will help serve as kind of a logistical hub, but whether it can do that fast enough to justify the call put into it was already has an enormous debt problem. losses on the company about 30 percent of the cost is real quick, but that's a $1000000000.00 and a half dollars. quite a bit loud for where they are just as their overall death burden and

makes it difficult for them in a time. the already struggling to meet for anthony. we must leave it there, but many thanks talking to us anthony, else and they're talking to us about this new big railway between going into lives . thank you so much. thank you. and representative has been in sri lanka, looking into the working conditions. many laborers are forced to enjoy every day, some make only $7.00 a day despite long hours and heavy lifting. nelson anders as the story from columbus back breaking was normal hours and minimal. p. david has worked as a puerto or not army for 30 years here in better. she long has busiest commercial hub. it's narrow streets and alleys. how's a large part of the wholesale commodity trade? making the not tommy indispensable. that david and hundreds like him have little to show for their efforts again, and i leave her alone. we aren't

a daily wage. we only have this no extra benefits. but given the current situation, what we make is not enough. we're not blaming anyone, but with everything increasing and price, it's very difficult to manage. and why of these men appeared between 5 and 10. do a sense for each item. they move and make an average of between $7.00 to $10.00 a day. and it's not only here exposed to the sun and the rain that walkers have to deal with harsh working conditions. tens of thousands of women walk in, crammed faces on production lines like this in factories throughout the country. those who work their stablished industry leaders enjoy better working conditions, but never angelie. a single mom who worked for a leading company had a different experience. marley deck in that among intact academic. there were treat me differently because i'm sick, but hoping not to come to work because i couldn't achieve the targets i was given. i couldn't because i had a heart attack and an operation on the song that i could have me at the opposite.

walker's form, the back wall of the garment industry, which on $5300000000.00 us dollars in 2019 the u. n. special repertoire on modern forms of slavery has spent the last week in she lanka, looking into work her rights, achieving target ease, who are saving as an enormous pressure on women in sector as garment. so they, many of these factors have target, you have to produce, produce this a 100 clothing an hour and if you dont air pops, you do not get bonus. labor minister lamar city bothered da silva, told al jazeera he will come criticism. oh barbara, more all sent to you later, the buyers and the government and the international community. when they press these issues, i like the operate in these details because that didn't, they, employers are reluctant to break loose things. what their rights advocates c,

changes are being made, but more needs to be done. or the conversation about an order for liberal or reform is geared towards how to make their work more flexible. how to increase productivity, which is fine like increase in productivity. everybody wants that way, but days, nor talk about how to protect the vote on the cut on the present, his findings in the u. n. in september 2022. and for workers like david, it's likely to make little difference to their daily back over survival minute fernandez o g 0. colombo, mar voters in the gambia are heading to the poles on saturday to elect the next president. the electoral commission says it's made all the preparations for a free and fair election act made address reports now from the capital ban jewel election staff examined voting kit i had of saturday's presidential election. oh, more than 7000 of them will be used in more than 1500 boiling stations across the

gambia. we could look isn't really very turned wooden. welcome citizen is incandescence. what only one year. oh, it is your turn squarely, illegal, all but is to make sure that the loses winnie lacy. nearly a 1000000 people have registered to vote in this election that also sees a record number 6 presidential candidates. the gambia has a unique system of voting that predates its independence over here. are ballard boxes called the ballot. drums. they're made out in different colors for each candidate in this election. and in these boxes are election materials that include marble given to each verified voter. the voter takes the marble and then drops through this all inside the ballard drum. the moment the marble gets in there,

it hits about and makes a sound to the voter election. officials and party representatives present and finally the ballots. i counted on this wooden plate, the gun been, police won't say how many officers they're deploying, but say they aren't leaving anything to charles. and nobody can tell what exactly my biddy glasses situation that my are up and so police of his us ought to be in to be able to deal with this address. and even though we are anticipating that we are going to walk into a peaceful election, but you may not know what my bid is is thanks that all the challenges that repub vote enthusiasm is high, but many people don't trust the politicians would deliver what they promise i believe every politician is there for your interest when it isn't like, sorry to say, but in reality, sense ourselves is there just after that interest i would because as i mentioned earlier and i am a consensus of in and, and i have to what it is my right of way of vicious hope,

this enthusiasm will translate into a high voter turnout, which could be possible as gambia, save out the freedom to vote and express themselves without fear of intimidation. degrees al jazeera, bundle, the gambia. still ahead on al jazeera, we've got all your sports news was far off. yes, we're here from the new inter manager, manchester united manager and tell you about a record score in the n b a. and of course, we've got goals from the secret arab cab alive from our special studio in del y ah,

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a special coverage of the faith at our casa tournament, doubling up as a major warm up event. and the cats are world caught next year. hello, i'm far as my plenty of sport on the same thing. here is what's coming up on the show. apathy for arab post nation cats are book a spot in the quarter final. away from the arab cob mattress united's new inter manager says he's open to keeping the job beyond this season. and in the an da, the memphis grizzlies record the biggest victory annually history, ah, is art, with air of cab? and as mansion cats are through to the quarters following 8 to one victory over oman and match was heading for a draw before the home, cyber and gifted and own goal. joanna gach rosco reports on late drama. when cancer

was awarded, the world cup, many of these young football fans when even born yet, but with the host country moving through to the quarter finals of the biggest test event. yet the arab cup, excitement and expectation is building the owner for us as the arab. i've got golf country raso cuz i'd like to invite you to visit us. tim and doha and 2022. a very beautiful. yeah, amazing. i guess i went into the group a match against her mom looking for back to back victories from the 1st 2 matches. and they took the lead around the half hour walk when amman gave way a penalty ac, from a thief scoring from spot to put the host to one new up. and the education city stadium rejoices but among canada, how should he broke through castles, defence midway through the 2nd half to equalize it's the half time substitute. who

schools a big goal just to look to be heading for drew 7 minutes about a time to zones, to her mom and own goal giving counsel the to one when you read side window. oh boy. oh, it's not the way tampa had hoped to finish the match, but amone's mistake ultimately and the house to place in the quarter finals of the arab cup. joanna raska al jazeera doha educations. did he stadium well after this resolved round a furnace in the room, which is a amazing for us, but we have one more game we want to to play. you want to read the people were out of the teams room to read the pseudo people, hobbies runners. what they'll do is we also wanted to bring that we are going to go to final game. so i wanted to put a bird for fordable gainesville, only one game to go on fridays, syria and tennessee. i take off in

a few minutes earlier, barring and iraq had a scoreless draw, and the u. e. have also booked a spot in the quarter finals factor. beating mauritania one. now, earlier today we were joined here in the studio by thought, my own, the whammy that communications executive director for the cat r roll cab organizing committee. and she explained to santa hamish, how the fee for arab crap is helping preparations for cats are 2022. it is really a great opportunity will always have said that this tournament, it's for the out of birds and actually having all the out of me, nations to be testing all of our venues for the 1st time. and to actually live the tournament experience as if it would be like during the world cup, this would be a actually a good opportunity for us from a, a test all of our operations. we have all of our students actually ready, one year ahead of the tournament on for us know, would was hosting this tournament, it's the opportunity to fine tune all of these plans for one year to the world cup itself. for my read one of your interviews,

they're expecting what more than 1000000 fans for the cutout 20? 22. how do you think? do you think that is going to be ready for that many people? we are ready. i was been ready actually for a quite long time. all of the infrastructure has been completed. all of our stakeholders, like the there's an upgrade to our expressways. the metro is up and running fully. we have an expansion and how much international efforts. and also like when it comes to the accommodations and we have come up with an innovative solutions and variety, we always have said that this world cup will be an affordable worker for everyone. so there will be the availability for $2.00 to $5.00 stars hotel. and we also didn't want to leave a white elephant, so we made sure to have an innovative solutions when it comes to accommodation. we're going to be having to cruise ship like a floating hotels where fan actually can stay throughout. we're also going to be having an, an experiential or accommodation for people who would actually wants to have an

experience deserts experience where they can actually located there. and this is actually one of the project that we're testing as well. and the up cut away from the arrow cap and ralph rag says he's open to staying on. is manchester united manager? beyond this season, a 63 year old german was in the stands to watch his new team beat our small 3 to on thursday. he's been signed up as intern boss until the end of the current campaign and effect to take on a 2 year consultancy role with the club. after that, the major target for me in the next couple of weeks days, weeks is just to, to bring more balance into the team. um, and if you look at look at the total goals, number of goals conceded, it's almost to 2 on average for a game. and this is just too much though, in football for me, is to, to minimize the coincidence flight factor and to have control and gain control on the game. and this is so in football, what it's about, this is my approach. i will try to help this outstanding talented players to,

to try and get and keep the way away from their own goal. and there was an incredible result in the n. b a. the man's, his grizzlies beat oklahoma city founder by a record 73 points. and that's shattering the previous biggest margin of 68 point set by cleveland in 1991 tonight, not necessarily who we are. you know, i think we've definitely shown that from a competitive standpoint. you know, this isn't a, this is an indicative of who our team is, how we've competed all season, you know, from training camp all the way through the games. you know, so it's important, i think, to keep that in mind internally for us. and that's all for now, before we go, a reminder of our top sports story. house nation cats. our had beaten omens, re to puerto finals of the thief arab hub. thanks for your company. i'll be back at 21. 45 gmc with more sports, but stay with us on al jazeera. after the break. we've got another and games

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and i was doing away with the curfew. that was, it was to get everybody off. it's international perspective with the human side zooming way in and then pulling back out again. ah . so i'll make on may be on the rise, and we may come to a point where it takes over to be the dominant variance o e cause to declaring it very concerned health experts say on the kron will keep growing, but it's not a reason to panic. going to be reporting from south africa this our why the government says it was need to lockdown to fight a case rise, blamed on the new variant. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm minimizing and watching al jazeera.