studio be unscripted on houses era. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter how you take it will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. so all micron may be on the rise and we may come to a point where it takes over. it will be the dominant variance a week after declaring it a variant of concern health x. but say all mc one will keep growing, but it's no reason to panic. will be reporting from south africa, where the government says it won't need to lock down to fight a case rise, blamed on any variant. the me mariam noisy in london, you watching al jazeera also coming up are going to be that proposals tapered by

iran cannot be rejected around top nuclei negotiate to tell al jazeera well, powers must accept his proposals that the u. s. accuses wrong of not being serious life on the front line. the struggle to survive in easton, ukraine with russian troops still hoist on the border. ah, it's been a week since the army cron very into the corona virus was declared a variance of concern in which time it's gained more of a foothold around the world. the world health organization is saying it's been detected in a total of $38.00 countries out from $23.00 just 2 days ago in the past few hours to easier also confirm to had detected its 1st case than bob weiss, as it now has at least 50 in the return to measure the 1st scene at the start of the pandemic and countries, a tackling on the con,

through height and travel restrictions, but health ex. but instead in says, the very wills continue to spread with calls on friday to concentrate on preparing health systems and being ready to adjust and develop existing vaccine before any point at which on the chrome becomes the dominant variant. as we're talking about all make on lead, it'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 dominant, very end remains delta. well, in the u. s. health officials are saying that vaccine manufacturer is already working on contingency plans, including the possibility of an on the chrome specific booster. how did your cost rise more in this from washington? fresh cases of ami cronner 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 was 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 where you have the, a 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 all micron. though she said that has yet to be proven. well, in south africa, the health minister, very saying the country will manage on the chrome without introducing any new log downs. the very it was 1st identified in that country. it's now driving a surge in infections with another. 16000 confirmed on friday for me to miller reports from janice bug. experts in south africa say the surgeon cove at 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 veterans would generally be in want transmissible. but most of the time,

they would be less to date. as we enter the 4th to wait 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 rented in 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 halting. 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 infection in the gated. we are hoping that in the coming weeks will be able to think of the reason 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's experts say the number of people dying from covert 19 has remained low because of vaccinations. and right now, one in 4 people tested for coven,

19 in south africa, are recording positive for me. the miller, i'll just 0 johanna. the book. ah. the wrong she's negotiators told out there that well hours working to revive the nuclear deal cannot reject. has countries dropped proposals, alibaba? the connie says that's because iran submissions were based on the original 2015 agreement. is that the european negotiate has, can provide their own draft for discussion. hashem has more from vienna after the 1st proposal, the 2nd proposal, the radians are now talking of the 3rd proposal that they would submit just after the what follows 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 a measure the following. thompson, 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 you wrong 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 live all the sanctions that to impose and re impose 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 for anyway, this is what are the bucket county had to tell us earlier today are going to be the 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. a. they did not want to ruin the nuclear document. old, the sanction which had 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 box came to an end of birth and rickie moore. or the u. official who told reporters dot the delegations would go back to the capital. the 4th to talk to the official is due to the governments that try to get new lines from debt and you directions in order to come back to vietnam. maybe earlier. next, next week, oh, we will have the whole exclusive interview with allie bethany connie airing at 0 force i. c t and t on saturday. well yes, actually i say,

i'm think lincoln is saying that iran doesn't seem serious about returning to compliance ones that washington will pursue other options. if diplomacy fails, what we've seen in the last couple of days is that are on right now. does not seem to be serious about doing what's necessary to return to compliance, which is why we, we ended this round of talks in vienna, that the window is, is very, very tight. because what is not acceptable? and what we will not allow to happen is for iran to try to drag out this process while continuing to move forward inexorably in building up its program. so we've set along that if the, the path to a returned to comply with the agreement turns out to be a dead end. ah, we are, we will pursue other options. we'll try to parse. he's executive vice president of the quincy institute. they're responsible, stacy states croft and says that all sizes to practice greater flexibility in the

negotiations. what is positive? is it not only did they schedule an 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 isn't a sense in europe and in washington that the iranians are dr. seriously enough, et cetera. well, at least the next one is happening very soon. he could have dragged off 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 will, will help bring about the type of a change that is needed. the u. s. has legitimate concerns about what the bonds are asking or what the yvonne is are asking for parts of it. it's also the gentlemen because not only didn't leave the, the us, the 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 stick to the deal if it will complicate wednesday 2024 lebanon's president is saying you hopes the resignation of the countries information minister will end the dispute with saudi arabia. george co di, attributed diplomatic crisis off to make comments about saudi's role in the war in yemen. it led to a band on lebanese imports, on the recall of the saudi ambassador, in a 100 reports from bay route. 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 mccaul 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 track now it's 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 at the tar remove, for what they allege is political bias efforts. to limit his jurisdiction in the case, are now under way prime minister, and as you may add to 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 faced amazingly on the system and lebanon, and the political system. second, what have taken place between lebanon and the gulf and disputed offer, especially, we need the best scenarios in order to be a healy on, on, on the healing. 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 than a for their elders. eda beirut much marcella had on the program. it can be as unique voting system and why the electoral commission hopes it doesn't lose its marbles and to he is living in a tent because i lecture his salary couldn't meet a bells or pay cause it britton's academics to walk off the job. ah hello there for a stray year. the extreme heat continues across those central and western areas. those heat wave conditions are stretching across to the east however, but puff is gonna remain clear dry and very hot. the temperature about 10 degrees

above average here and for alice springs, and that heat is expected to last well into next week. it will start to cool down from next weekend. down in the south, however, we are seeing showers continue, but for the storms we have to head to that southeast corner. it's going to clear up in sydney on sunday, but we will see thunderstorms return on monday and it's going to be rather wet and stormy. next week for much of the northern and eastern areas over strategy and i was the hop over the tasman. see, it's a washout for western areas of the south valley. we've got a warning out for heavy rain here that's going to last through to sunday. and that rain pushing across into eastern areas is going to be wet for christ church from the start of the week. still within showers up in the north island. and as we head over to south east asia with sun within the showers, across much of indonesia and malaysia, it's very dry for indo china for a change all the way from vietnam to thailand. but we got heavy rain for java that she weather update.

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look at main stories this our now a world health organization is saying the new corona virus variant or micron has been detected in 38 countries. in a weeks, as the highly tasted strain was 1st declared, a variant of concern. iran's chief negotiator is told al jazeera that well power working to revive the 2050 nuclear deal can't reject his country's draft proposals . this is the secretary of state accuses daron of not taking the talk seriously and 11 and the president to saying he hopes the resignation of the countries information minister will put an end to a dispute with saudi arabia. george chord dice triggered a diplomatic crisis after making comments about saudi's role in the war in yemen or ukraine's defense minister saying that russia could mount a military offensive on his country as soon as next month warning there could be more than 94000 troops waiting across the border, a large number of them occupied crimea, which was annexed by russia in 2014 others,

amassing near the dumbass region. this is the area of ukraine's danielle galvan squadrons, which is under the control of russian back separatist. a conflict is making it difficult for ukrainians to access medical care or to see their families trips that once took less than an hour can now take up to a day because checkpoints are limited and the crossings frustratingly slow. charles stratford reports on this. now from nova trotsky, they stand in the cold waiting for instructions from a ukrainian soldier. this is one of only 2 places where people can cross the more than 400 kilometer front line in eastern ukraine. i think that's when 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 controlled

side to collect their pensions, 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 dun misc 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 and the government controlled side can carry out the life saving operation. he says she needs user research for more than i'm 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 in my wife you as they say,

hope died last but it's so difficult. the terrible of this happens to us at our age the checkpoint is only open twice a week. red cross trucks pass carrying tons of aide around 3000000 people you and expects to need humanitarian assistance next year. and that's on both sides of the front line. soldiers tell us the his 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 far agreement. signed in 2015. mchale has just arrived from separate, is controlled on 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 complex started open 7 and a half years ago, cha, stuff that al jazeera mobile, trotsky, eastern ukraine. now some things about to nice and the news that laos and china starting to operate a 6000000000 dollar high speed railway linking the country's train line runs more than a 1000 kilometers. china funded 70 percent of the project under his belt and road initiative. and the laotian government has borrowed money from china to build it. trains travel, a 160 kilometers per hour and pass through 10 stations. antony nelson is a senior director of the east asian pacific practice at o bright stone, which group and says the high speed line will help china's ambitious plans to develop travel links with a large swathes of se in asia. that's the theory is that you'll be able to reach

the 601000000 people at least live in the association of a nation. i think there is a key distinction between the braking route of this project in laos and the other projects throughout the rest of the region where there are much more difficult situations in terms of completing projects. more pushback from local countries that are able to strike a harder bargain and so that the prospect of this fully realized regional rail network that extend baldwin. china is quite a bit farther off. whether i can do that fast enough to justify the cost would end with louse already has an enormous debt problem. losses on the company about 30 percent of the cost is real way, 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 april and gambia will elect the next president on saturday. the electoral commission says it's made all the preparations for a free and fair election algebra. ahmed address reports on this. now from the capital bond you election starts examined voting kit. i had of saturday's presidential election more than 7000 of them will be used in more than 1500 boiling stations across the gambia. we could of isn't really very, it turns, but it comes in, it says, if you could do this, what you want to do to turn in all is to make sure that the loses 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. our ballot 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 water takes the marble and then drops through this hole inside the ballard drum. the moment the marble gets in there, it hits a bell and makes a sound to the voter election. officials and party representatives present. and finally the ballots. i counted on this wooden plate. oh, the gambia 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 might be, this is thanks that already challenges every 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 will efficient, like, sorry to say, but in reality, sense, ourself is there just after that interest i would because just like i mentioned earlier and i am a consented with 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. ama degrees al jazeera bundle, the gambia, $50000.00 university staff. here in the u. k, as gone on strike are the pay pensions and precarious employment contracts. it's part of the best dispute between lecturers and some of the countries oldest institutions. we've barker reports solid, a,

some of the best brains in britain, an angry and on the street, paralyzing classes for more than a 1000000 students across the country. but many of those same students are on the picket line and solidarity with their lecturers, staff and $58.00 universities are involved, furious sharp pension cuts, pay freezes, and casual, short term contracts, $9.00 there, left some academics on the brink of poverty. you know, there are people, as you say, doing ph d's that's, you know, doing their doctorates doing their original research. i'm thinking, wow, i'm just getting to this pinnacle of my academic work has taken me 1520 years, whatever to get there. i suddenly smack in your face, this idea that you're going to be like an uber driver. you're landing up in his casual eyes and sector with potentially being sacked at any point campaign or say university is a hiding the full truth from fee paying students. actually, this is the dirty speaker that keeps you k higher education afloat. people from all

around the world come to study in the u. k and pay i watering amounts of money to do it. but the people who leads you pay higher education institutions would rather see mass disruptive industrial action every year than fix these basic problems. this is the voice of amy and english lecturer. in these universities are making a lot of money off of students. but they are not at compensating their staff and staff are having to live and really severely and insecure conditions. she doesn't want to appear on camera because she doesn't want what happened to her to undermine her future career balls, doing her postgraduate degree and teaching at a london university. she made $15000.00 a year and able to pay rent cost. she chose to live in a tent for 2 years and carry on teaching. the students never knew there been stories about cache i staff who've been facing homelessness. i'm definitely a lot of cash i staff have had experienced that not being able to afford, ah, rent,

and have had to couch server or do those kinds of things or they're stretched between and multiple different short and we're hourly paid contracts. the average salary of a university vice chancellor is $330000.00 a year. excluding bonuses and average electro salary 50000, but universities u. k. the represents the employees of the pensions dispute denies this a problem. we not corporate a big business with charities, almost all u. k. universities, charities, and we will try to reduce capitalization wherever we can. but of course, some of the people that we enjoy actually won't casual jobs because they have carries our way. if amanda mc has told us anything, is that people on the short term contracts with unpredictable hours, with few employment rights can quickly run into trouble if their employers suddenly, for instance, decided that jobs are expendable many of these lectures believe that they're being

forced to make it difficult choice between living precariously who giving up the career they love. the bulk of al jazeera london much worn every recovery, like air al jazeera dot com watches on live streaming now, as well. ah, screen headlines now. world health organization is saying the new corona virus strain on the chrome has been detected in 38 countries. it's been a week since the highly mutated variant was declared to be of concern after 1st being reported in south africa top us infectious diseases expand to be found. she says vaccine manufacturer is already working on contingency plans including.