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a variant of concern in which time it's gain more of a foothold around the world world health organization. it's saying it's been detected in a total of $38.00 countries up from $23.00 just 2 days ago. in the past few hours to new z o also confirmed it had detected its 1st case. zimbabwe says it now has at least 50 and a returned to measures 1st seen at the start of the pandemic. many countries, a tackling on the chrome through height and travel restrictions, but health ex, but instead insist very and will continue to spread with calls on friday to concentrate on preparing health systems and being ready to adjust and develop existing vaccines before any point at which on the cross becomes the dominant variance as we're talking about ami con, let's also not forget that the predominant variance right now still remains the delta variance. so all make on may be on the rise, and we may come to

a point where it takes over to be the dominant variance. but at this point, the very dominance very and remains delta. well, south africa health minister says the country will manage on the kron without introducing new law downs. very, it was 1st identified there, and it's now driving a surge in infections with another. 16000 confirmed on friday health officials say they are concerned about the rising number of young people and pregnant women being admitted into hospital for me to miller reports to us now from janice. back. experts in south africa, say the surgeon coven. 19 infections is the highest as seen since the start of the pandemic. and they blame the latest and possibly most contagious variant. ami kron . they want us, that the variance would generally be, want transmissible. but most of the time they would be less appear to be as we enter the 4th wave with a new environment,

we can see confirmation of this one. while people from this and other countries in southern africa facing international travel bands lockdown restrictions in south africa at the lowest, the government is instead urging people to get vaccinated. so fall 42 percent of adults have received a job with hospital admissions, mainly dominated by those who are not vaccinated. and young people below the age of 40, most of whom are not vaccinated. at this stage, we can say that even in how do we japanese for 70 to 80 percent of the new daily infections, we have not yet reached attending stages in terms of our hospital capacity and the new hospital admissions. the government says it has enough resources to deal with the outbreak, even in one of the worst hit provinces, how ting?

the latest statistics show daily infections are growing. and health workers are also concerned about the high number of children. and to 5 years old who been hospitalized the phenomenon of young children get age groups as well as pregnant women having increased infliction in the gated. we are hoping that in the coming weeks will be able to give reason for. busy why this particular cohort of patient is having increased in fiction. but officials hope that while the new variant appears highly transmissible, it can be managed. the government says it will continue door to door campaigns and community awareness programs to try to convince people to get a job. how the experts say the number of people dying from coven 19 has remained low because of vaccinations. and right now, one in 4 people tested for coven, 19 in south africa, a recording positive for me, the miller,

i'll just 0 johanna book. well, in the united states, health officials, they're saying that the vaccine manufacturer is already working on contingency plans, including the possibility of an on the cross specific booster or drug house has more of this now from washington. fresh cases of ami kroner popping up coast to coast in the us from new york to california to many states and between. and particularly one case in hawaii in which the person who is infected has no recent travel history. so it is now undeniable that community spread is happening. kennedy spread on the crown is happening in the united states and the chief white house medical advisor anthony found she talked about this in a briefing today, saying that the vaccine makers were already on top of this working on multiple plans to in the case of whether or not the current vaccines work, which is still a study that's ongoing,

but he says that these vaccine makers will be prepared. they do have plans that have multiple contingency. one is to wrap up the production of the vaccines that they already have. the next is to make, for example, a bio balance. will you have the vaccine against both the ancestral strain and the new variant and the other is to make a variant specific boost. the degree to which they're going to be doing that they are now assuming they may have to do that and being prepared for that. and val, she said that the national institutes of health, citing their early studies, he said that there's strong evidence that the existing boosters do protect against only crohn the voucher said that has yet to be proven auto or the top story this, our iran's chief negotiator is told al jazeera that world powers working to revive the nuclear deal cannot reject his country's draft proposals. ali balcony. connie

says that because iran submissions were based on the original 2015 agreement. he said that european negotiate is, can provide their own drafts for discussion as well. i hash him has more now from vienna after the 1st proposal, the 2nd proposal, the radians are now talking of the proposal that they would submit just after the war powers except the 1st on the 2nd. let's just go into some details. the stresses about the sanctions. the 2nd is about iran rollinback. it's measures following trumps president trump's withdrawal from the j. c, p u a or the new care deal. and the said is going to be bucket you can, he told us on the guarantees and the verification process, whereas this is going to allow iran to get back to its commitments. so this is, this is mainly what the ranges are asking for. right now. they want the united

states to lift all the sanctions that were imposed and re imposed following the united states to throw away from the nuclear deal. and also they want to verify that this, these sanctions will not be re imposed once again on, on iran. and that they can deal with the whole world community and do business as they should. this is, this is what they think they should have guarantees once anyway, this is what are the bucket. it can be hard to tell us earlier today they're going to be that proposal tape and by iran cannot be rejected, i told because they are based on the provisions of the 2015 nuclear agreement. and in principle, the countries which are still the participants of the j. c. p. o, a they did not want to ruin the nuclear document. all the sanctions which have been imposed or re imposed on the so called maximum pressure campaign of the united states. they should be removed immediately. so no,

the talks came to an end to an end. this round of talks came to an end of birth, and ricky moore, or the official who told reporters dot the delegations would go back to the capitals forth to talk to the officials, to the governments that a try get new lines from that a new direction in order to come back to vietnam, maybe earlier next, next week. well, you can see the hallway exclusive interview with ali balcony on talk to al jazeera that will air at 0 full face. he g n t on saturday. well the u. s. is saying that iran doesn't seem serious about returning to compliance is what the white house press secretary ought to say. the new iranian administration did not come to vienna with constructive proposals. the 1st 6 rounds of negotiations made progress, finding creative compromise solutions to many of the hardest issues that were

difficult for all sides. a runs approach to this week was not unfortunately to try to resolve the remaining issues. so and even more importantly, around started this new round of negotiations with a new round of nuclear provocations chaperones. he joins us live now from washington. a sense all disappoint and frustration with how the negotiations are going so far. she helped out us more about the view that in washington we just actually have some comments dropped from the secretary of state's anthony anthony blink. another sentence that we had from the iranian negotiators that it's the us who backed out of the deal to us, imposed unilateral sanctions. we got into national un sanctions. i'll throw the own as always on iran, as far as lincoln is concerned, sir. he said the following, we've had the 1st round of talks. iran does not seem to be serious about doing what's necessary to return to compliance, which is why we ended this round of talks in vienna. we're going to be consulting

very closely and carefully. we will our partners as well as russia and china, and other very concern countries with like israel and the gulf countries, but the window is tied wheat and then you guys want to talk about how they don't want around to be building up its capabilities. while the, the talk straggling, i'm going to carry on about how the bite in ministration is in a different situation to the trumpet administration. he says, you know, trouble ministration. isolated the us, but now blinking says we're in a different place and even russia and china actually frustrated with what iran is doing or not doing. and these talks, iran has some very important decisions to make, make in a day or not. something we've often heard is, one of the main goals of the bite and ministration is to get russia and china on board with us. the problem with this is framing though, with statements like, and this is why we ended this rather talks, and we enter as the russian ambassador treated this. there's a technical break. viviana talks which will resume next week and opportunity for each participant, including around the u. s. to consult with

a capital to think how to proceed further, taking into account the positions of other counterparts. so none of this book, elliptic sands of, of talks on the ropes from, from the russian or bass relieved thanks very much for washington, chevrolet county, join me now. some analysis on this is treated parssi, executive vice president of the quincy institute for responsible state crossed, enjoy this by sky from rest in virginia. so it's important that the negotiations are continuing bought. the u. s. and the europe hands on not going to accept iran, revise documents on us sanctions, or to runs proposals on, on its nuclear commitments. how entrenched are their respective positions thank you for having me. i could, 1st of all, we have to recognize what happened in vienna this ron is pretty much what was expected. the iranian came in with harsher physicians, the or europeans in the united states, rejected them. and now they're going back to the table. this was what was expected

to side would be citing each other out. what is probably going to not only did a schedule and next round, it didn't need to collapse, but that next round is likely going to be next week. and as a result, it's happening very soon. so despite the fact that there is a sense in europe and in washington that the iranians are driving me seriously not well, at least the next on is happening very soon. he could have gone after christmas. so that's the positive thing, but i do think that both sides are going to have to show greater flexibility and perhaps not play so much of the blame game that we just heard about in your package . it is not constructive, it is not what will help bring about the type of a change that is needed. the u. s. has legitimate concerns about what the bonds are asking for, but what the volunteers are asking for parts of it is also the gentleman because not only did not lead to the of the us and sanctions relief efforts were quite inadequate, even during the obama years. but now it's even more problematic because the united

states is so divided politically that there's no one that has any confidence that the united states is going to speak to the deal if you will call begin wednesday 2020. i just ignore the important point side. is there even a recognition there in washington that iran was not feeling any sort of financial economic benefit from the nuclear deal of before the u. s. before washington withdrew from from the agreement on the donald trump? no, i don't think there's sufficient recognition that there are major problems with the sanctions relief process and it's gotten much worse and the morning did get benefits. obama? yes, but it was not where it could have been. any part of the reason is simply because the united states is not particularly experienced in this been sanctions, and it's far more experience than imposing sanctions. more sanctions that is important that our united states never get lifted. so you have got one element,

but now there's another element which is the uncertainty about where the united states is going. and that is creating even greater problems because even if the sanction lifted today and the deal is revived, european companies are likely not going to go back into yvonne until they are feeling far more confident that the new situation is a stable one. and there the 2024 election is a major, major factor. couple of days after the negotiations resumed iran sorted, enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges that it's for the plant. now any sort of any sort of enrichment at this point was banned under the 2015 deal. how does that nuclear expansion? how does that sort of activity affect the timeframe? so the talks well, 1st of all, what the iranians are doing there is highly problematic just as much as the law are not responding to pressure in the matter that the united states warranty on the

spot. neither is the united states responding to the volume pressure and the manner that the wind was hoping. and i am worried at both sides and i invest in too much on their course. it instruments and not realizing that were actually brought about agreement last time was greater flexibility and concessions from both sides rather than coercion. but what the vitamins are doing in this plan is creating a problem because from the american side, there are arguments that appoint will be reached soon. we don't know exactly when in which the non proliferation value of the deal starts to diminish significantly from the american perspective. so it isn't helpful, the run is me, think that they're putting more pressure on the wrong is, but the opposite may also end up being true, which is that the us side ends up coming, coordinate politically, and result cannot act at all. and then we will see the dio collapse all together. thank you very much. just a par, see from rest in virginia. thanks again. thank you so much. in the news,

our life from london watch will sell to come on the program. we look at the gambia as you need voting system and why the electoral commission hopes it doesn't lose its marvel. and in sport, manchester united, you inter manager says he's open to keeping the job beyond this season. ah, governance president to saying he hopes the resignation of the country's information minister will put an end to dispute with saudi arabia. george co di, triggered a diplomatic crisis after making comments about saudi's role in the war in yemen. this led to a band on lebanese imports and the recall of the saudi ambassador then hold reports from bay would. it's an announcement that's supposed to help open the door for negotiations with saudi arabia and other gulf arab states shall be done. one of

them's was he lebanon's information minister george credit, his comments calling the war and yemen. a saudi aggression triggered the worst deterioration in relations in years for weeks credit he rejected calls to resign. he now explains why he changed his mind. right. if i don't see him, i do have a french president. manuel mccall is heading to saudi arabia on an official visit. what i understood from the prime minister who i met 3 days ago, is it france wants to use my resignation to help open dialogue with saudi arabia. french president manuel macross has been urging gulf states not to isolate lebanon . it's believed he wants to use the resignation as a bargaining chip to convince saudi arabia and other states to restore economic and diplomatic ties with lebanon. the government invaded tract now is basically a corporation where the french and the iranians called the shots. and it seems that for the government in order to be able to, to succeed, to, in order to be able to ensure the implementation of the reforms that are being

asked for by the international community. there must be some sort of an involvement of gulf money. there is no guarantee the resignation will be enough for saudi arabia, which has said, it won't engage with a government controlled by the iranian backed, has below. but it could help. and the political crisis in lebanon is backed by, has been locked, which along with its allies, paralyzed the cabinet for weeks. they want the lead judge investigating the 2020 explosion. api reports taught the tar remove for what they allege is political bias efforts to limit his jurisdiction in the case are now underway, prime minister, and as you may after, who took office in september, promised to repair ties with arab gulf states. but it has been a difficult balancing act with political power in lebanon in the hands of has bola, there was a problem that amazingly on the system and lebanon,

and the political system. second, what have taken place between lebanon and the gulf and the spirit offer, especially, we need the best scenarios and all that will be a really odd on the eating. a saudi ban on all imports from lebanon is adding pressure to an economy already in free fall. a gesture of good will, may reverse such measures, but repairing a relationship with a traditional ally is part of a larger geopolitical struggle with iran. then a, put their elders either boot or french present. manuel micron has met kat us inertia. tammy been hammered a fanny in dough harm. they discussed ways that france and kat are, can strength and ties including through economic defense partnerships. earlier matt con, visited abbey darby, where he signed a deal to supply 80 french made fighter jets to the united arab emirates. now at least 12 people a believe to have been killed in an attack on a village near a bill in northern iraq. kurdish regional government is blaming i. so for this and

says most of those killed were members of the security forces. in 2017 iran declared victory over ice hill after reclaiming all territories. the group had held for several years, but they have continued to launch sporadic attacks in the country. now ukraine's defense minister saying that russia could mount a military offensive on his country on his country as soon as next month. warning that could be more than $94000.00 troops waiting across the border. a large number of them are unoccupied, crimea, which was annexed by russia in 2014 others, amassing near the dumbass region. this is the area of ukraine's danielle and hans queens, which is under the control of russian back set protests. or the conflict is making it difficult for ukrainians to access medical care or to see that families trips that once took less than an hour. now take a day because of checkpoints and the crossings being frustratingly slow. charles stratford reports to us from nova trotsky. please stand in the cold waiting for

instructions from a ukrainian soldier for this is one of only 2 places where people can cross more than 400 kilometer front line in eastern ukraine. i think that's why i think we haven't been able to freely come and see our relatives and friends for more than 7 years. both sides make obstacles for us. i'm using my ukranian passport and they now say it's not enough for me to cross. i have to go on line. i've been trying for 3 days. many of the elderly and infirm came to the ukrainian government control side to collect their pensions. sure, only around a $100.00 a month. the 1st separatist checkpoint is around 3 kilometers down this road. now before the conflict started in 2014 the journey chime from the town of done this to here was around 30 minutes. but now because of the complexities of traveling across the separatist controlled region,

many people decides to come via the russian border. and that can take more than a day. nikolai is a company, he's wife to separate his control. don't ask. he can't find a nearby hospital in the government controlled side. the can carry out the life saving operation. he says she needs user research for more than i am 80 years old and live bruce so much. i hope my children and grandchildren can live a better life. i just hope doctors can save my wife. you as they say, hope died last but it's so difficult, it's terrible. this happens to us at our age the checkpoint is only open twice a week. red cross trucks pass carrying tons of aid for around 3000000 people the you and expects to need humanitarian assistance next year. and that's on both sides

of the front line. soldiers tell us they have shilling a few kilometers from here every night. see, spar monitors with the organization for security and cooperation in europe. say both sides regularly, brake cease, fire agreement, signed in 2015. mchale has just arrived from separatist control. don't ask all my friends who want to leave, and most of my family have left some to ukraine or russia some to europe. many still there, miss what life was like before 2014. they wait for a seat on the bus to take them across. what's called no man's land feels they never imagined they'd be afraid of before these conflicts started on 7 and a half years ago, cha stuff al jazeera novel, trotsky, eastern ukraine un representative has been to ensure lanka looking into the working conditions that many laborers are forced to endure every day, some make only $7.00,

despite the long hours in heavy lifting. when l fernandez reports from colombo. back breaking work, long hours and minimum p, david has worked as a puerto or not army for 30 years here in better. she long as 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 to rhianna and i leave her alone. are we on a daily wage? we only have verse, no extra benefits of being a part of given the current situation. what we make is not enough. i mean, we're not blaming anyone, but with everything increasing and price, it's very difficult to manage then why? of these men appeared between $5.10 us cents 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 workers have to

deal with hard working conditions. tens of thousands of women walk in clam faces on production lines like this in factories throughout the country. those who work where stablished, industry leaders enjoy better working conditions, but never angelie. a single mom who walked for a leading company had a different experience. marley deck in that among antarctic, acted like they 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 operational disarm the deck of me at the opposite. walker's form, the back wall of the garment industry, which on $5300000000.00 us dollars in 2019 the un special wrapper turn modern forms of slavery has spent the last week and shall anchor looking into work. her rights. achieving target is who are serving 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 parlor da silva told al jazeera he will come criticism, go bar, promote rules and regulations, the buyers and the government, and the international community. when they press these issues, i like the oppressed in these teachers. because that didn't, the employers are reluctant to break loose things. what their rights advocate c changes are being made, but more needs to be done. or the conversation about an order for label 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 to play but days, nor talk about how to protect up on the cut over present his findings to the u. n.

in september 2022. but for workers like david, it's likely to make little difference to their daily battle for survival minute fernandez, or just zebra, colombo with the news. our life from london still had on the program, high speed rail across southeast asia, china's multi 1000000000 dollar international express. in all new experience, visually impaired football fans at the fee for our of com that's coming up in sport . oh hello there. let's have a look at what's going on in europe over the next few days. and there's more unsettled weather on the way where it's not windy and where it is. certainly wintery and denmark had its 1st taste of snow earlier this week. there's more of that to come. as these weather systems work their way from the west to the east and

that cold air is going to knock the temperature down in places like paris for example. but there is still a lot of mild weather to be found across the north. west from britain and island will have spells of sunshine and showers, but it does turn colder and frosty come sunday, the wet weather working its way in much of scandinavia. it's a wintry picture, we're going to see some heavy snow fall across denmark and into germany and poland as we go into sunday. and for the south, you can see across the out some heavy snow on the way. we still got that where the front bringing heavy rain to parts of greece and turkey, it clears out by the time we get into sunday. and once again we've got some nasty. 8 weather affecting the adriatic sea, some heavy snow falling across the balkans. we've got some warnings out for rain, sleet, and snow, moving its way into france and northern parts of spain and heavy snow expected here . but the further south we get, the more funny it becomes. we have got the temperature madrid slightly below average, but plenty of sunshine ah,

bond counting because all the drawn puts oil and stuff.