hello, this is tisa. if a law can get is this completed, we cannot lose hope. we know what to do, and we have the tools to do to get the last bill or pay for this to you on now to sierra ah poles open in the gambia and a tightly contested presidential vote will be live from the capital ban jewel. ah, hello, i am, sam is a dan. this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming out straight is plans to reopen the economy of being tested by a rise in the army krom variance u. s. president joe biden says he's crafting a plan to prevent russia from invading ukraine,

but moscow denies it's planning. an attack. and coping with rising prices in turkey is the country's currency slumps. the new lows. ah, paul's of opened in the gambia for the 1st presidential election since yet, had jama was ousted in 2017 incumbent? adam barrow is seeking re election. despite the promised to step down. after 3 years, he faced his opposition from former vice president was so no doubt bo, initial results of the votes are expected on sunday. like mid adriece joins us now from ban joel the gambia as cap thought. so. mad is the turn out me thing. expectations looks like the courtyard behind you. they're pretty full of people.

absolutely, and it's been like that for me since the early i was somebody since 6 o'clock. people who are on q 2 hours before election opened and that shows the enthusiasm, the focus to cast their bulk in this much and it's important because for them it's a milestone. i just spoke to one of the voters who sent to me that the difference between different election and the last one held in 2016 is in this election, you're working with without having to worry. looking over your shoulder, worry about intimidation, worry about arrest, worry about harassment whatsoever. so for them, this is a key milestone since gemini in 2017. and then they tell me also that they also want to express themselves in such a way that the politicians know, but they are in need of such things in their lives. so. busy the q here, what you see behind me is actually what's replicated in other parts of the gambia

body and flu season is very, very high. right. and when can we expect some results then? what basically results are expected, but let me show you the results i expected within 24 hours after the close of voting. now let me show you what is expected of water if these people have been showing up for hours now, 2 hours in fact, or more than 2 hours trying to vote when they come here. the voting official verify is that candidate to the president to the hearing of political party agents for their security is being provided. and then after that the vote having been verified, will come to this location here. this lady has the balance. they can do mine showing us that. so what is in there? these are called the models and this is the vote given to each verified voter. now,

after the voter comes to this lady and gets this motto, they walk to this rule were not allowed in there simply because the ballot boxes are met out in each candidate name picture and color. and because we are not allowed in there, we want the reason why we are not allowed in there is because they don't want us to vote at casting his ballot into somebody's ballard box. these boxes are 6 in number, each for every candidate standing in this particular election. so that's the process right now. and up to the end of voting voting closes at 5 o'clock in the evening. and the last person on q will be allowed to vote, even in the process goes on to 7 o'clock in the evening at the end of voting. these ballots will be counted and registered in the names of every candidate who won

certain number of balance. then they'll be taken to coalition centers. the results will be announced in front of part. your fisher's when they pick into coalition centers, results from other areas will also be brought in. and then they'll be put together for the actual electoral commission to announce tomorrow hopefully in the early hours of the day, there are $960000.00 registered voters. and we understand that most of them will participate, including diasporas, who have been living him out of the gambia. but you get to come back to vote. nice little show and tell them from the recent bon jill. thanks so much, i'm and i'm the new cove at 19 very and tell me chrome is gaining more of a foothold around the world a week off to south africa 1st identified it astray. leah is planning to go ahead with reopening its economy. despite the spread of the new variant, but with 13 suspected, i'm a crime cases detected so far in sidney states are also moving to tighten domestic

border restrictions. mass demonstrations and melbourne are also on the way against vaccine mandates. meanwhile, germany's reporting a further rise in new kind of virus cases, with nearly 65000 infections, imposing tighter restrictions including banding, unvaccinated people from most public places to avoid a 4th wave of comb with 19 the world health organization says alma crohn has been detected in 38 countries so far it's calling on nations to focus on preparing health systems. instead of imposing travel restrictions. in the defense situation today didn't be was at the beginning of 2020. we have 2 of, you know, what do we know what works? and so this is something that we had expected that nobody should mind being rounds about the variance. and so it's just something to worry about. certainly didn't want to see another barrier damage and better around the world at this stage. it's

certainly not working wanted, but we're not entirely surprised, and i think we're much better prepared. 200 doctor sun, jaya. seneca is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university. he says, the early countries reporting cases of con will better understand the new strain. well, it was wonderful that south africa was able to alert earlier, they discovered the very end. the realize the reality is that it was already would already have been in some places when that was an out, as we know from the netherlands, which found it 2 weeks earlier than the south african announcement. so yes, i expect us to see for the sprint community spread within australia and other parts of the world, but that may not necessarily be a bad thing because it will give us a lot of opportunity to understand how this variance works in highly vaccinated countries. this is a rapidly moving space, so i think it's not just australia,

but the whole world is being very cautious in the next 2 weeks and the gathering as much data as quickly as possible. the one, the standards. and so far from what we've seen, we know that this is a barrier that can impact people who are being fully vaccinated with at least 2 doses and sometimes 3. but we haven't seen much in the way of increased hospitalization so so it may well be similar to delta or potentially more in pictures. so if that is the case, a lot of highly vaccinated countries can continue to open up in the way that they were doing before. the u. s. is warning, it's prepared to take action against russia, or if it invades ukraine. the number of russian troops has been rising along the border of the kremlin says it's nothing to worry about. crane believes russia could mountain offensive. as soon as next month, us president joe biden was asked about the crisis by reporter,

a with a, with as crossover now live to bernard smith in moscow. so 1st of all, what does putting one out of this meeting with by then? do we know russia wants an agreement, a legally binding agreement, that nato is not going to admit ukraine. and that nato is not gonna put missiles on ukrainian territory. massage that could target russia. the problem russia has,

is that nato expanded eastwood's when the soviet union collapsed. most eastern european countries joined nato for what they viewed as their own defense. if purposes, russia does not want to see that expansion continue. the problem for vladimir putin is, is not really up to russia who joins nato is up to nato's members to say who join. so it's hard to see that flood that joe biden will give putin this guarantee that said, ukraine's application the membership, the nato has been on the table since 2008. and there's probably no russia to admit it because nato's charter says, if one country is attacked than the other members of nato must come to its defence . while nato countries do not want a face to face had on conflict with russian forces. sammy, now how is the russian position evolving on other issues that might come up, especially those important to us like cyber security issues,

afghanistan and so on when the 2 leaders last met in june, it was again off the back of this troop build up a spring summer time to build up along the border with ukraine, couple of months later by the boot and how that 1st face to face summit, this war. and if it goes ahead in the next few days we'll, we'll, we'll probably be, we'll be over a video link. but by not ministration, i said it was a stable and predictable relationship with russia that sort of the best they can hope for. and there are significant issues that they want to continue talking about cybersecurity. because there are complains that russia allows hackers to activate on its territory. those that hold you put plan ransomware and computers and for people to buy millions of dollars so that computers are unlocked. again, there are issues over libya where both countries are on different sides of the fans,

syria, where they about different size, their issues over iran, and the situation in afghanistan. so lots of other things to talk about as well as ukraine. all right, thanks so much bernard. smith, moscow, the v o p and government says it's pushed to grow and rebel fight is out of all their positions in the far region. fighting is now said to be limited to the area between the towns of batty and desi. spin, no comment from the rebels of video obtained vile just pays to show to drive the forces retracing north, the government recently launched the counter offensive off the ground fighters advanced towards the opium capital. either samara johan us was the merriam is an international relations lecturer who specializes in the home of africa. he says it's in the government's interest to appear as if it's making gains that the c p l f is shown. it's not so easy to defeat. they've been pushed out many, many times and they have come back to strike again. and so, you know,

this is just not very credible kind of information because i mean bottles are one, but the water may not be one. this is a situation that is still evolving and, and the propaganda water is also extremely heated. so it's hard to believe what is being told by the government because the government has been taught to lie a lot to ground places will never because it's and it's essential crisis for them. and so, you know, this is, this is just not the end of it. i mean, they can lose battles like it will not work for you. and i mean, you know, i'm in

a few months ago, they were, it was, we were taught completely theater. and then they reached the rate watcher, one shot in combustion, and they reached all kinds of places. and so this is, this is, this is part of, i mean this is just, i mean media campaign by the government to try to revive it. sounds viable viable. but really not far from or stella had on al jazeera gannons government accused of tying to down play a deadly outbreak of yellow fever and residence of the city of nazareth to take action as its ancient heritage is threatened. ah

hello there, let start in south east asia and a brief pause in the wet weather. hadn't lasted long. for indo china, you can see the rain clouds pulling into vietnam and cambodia as well as southern parts of thailand. some more wet weather on the way here and the rain is going to pick up as well across parts of indonesia. potential java, for example, is what is borneo that wet and windy weather moving into brunei and it's more wet and windy weather on the way for eastern parts of the philippines. you can see it swirling and it's going to pull up into the north. and we could see some flash flooding here. that was we moved down under to australia. the flood threat remains across the east, thanks to those storms and showers that continue to plague that eastern coast. now it is going to get wetter here. as we move into the new week for the south of australia, we've also seen showers a cold front has caused some chilly mornings here. but further north it is looking a lot dryer. those heat wave conditions extending out to the east, so hot and dry for per it is going to get wet though for sydney. those stormy

conditions are gonna move back in by the time we get in some monday. now what you hop across the tasman see to new zealand, we're still seeing that heavy rain put into western areas of the south island. it's going to move up north as we go into monday, knocking a lot of that warmth out of christ church. ah. on counting the cost all my drawing puts oil and stock markets into a spin, and the global economy baffled through another. cobit set back with a green hydrogen hats, but clean energy of the future. and the billionaires broadcast isn't big bucks. india's i p o, p, counting the costs on al jazeera blue, investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe. on al jazeera lou.

ah, welcome back time to recap those headlines now. paul's of opened in the gambia for the 1st presidential election since you had jamie was ousted in 2017. adam barrow is running for re election despite the promise to step down to 3 years. australia is planning to go ahead with reopening its economy despite the new variance spreading in the country. mass demonstrations in melbourne. no already underway against vaccine mandates. u. s. president joe biden says he's going to have talks about the rush. you crime crisis with russian president vladimir putin, washington's warning, it's prepared to take action against moscow if it invades you crime. now turkey is

president, his outlines government plans to salvage the economy after the value of the turkish lira sank to a new record. lo, project high above the one says low interest rate loans and employer incentives will boost production. but high inflation is pushing up the cost of goods, making manufacturing more expensive. so them costs out of reports from assemble. this is a new routine for ali who owns the score market and assemble. he has the frequency update the prices on many goods as the turkish lira continues its free for its laws that these 40 percent of its value against the dollar since the number on it says a suppliers increase the prices. he has to do the same according to the chamber of agriculture, the difference between producers selling prices and what people pay for goods and supermarkets. rows 9 fold in november. the government accuses supermarket chains of

stockpiling and manipulating prices. shamae, this takes us juice, for example, it was $29.00 lira before the latest price increase. now i have to sell it for 41.5 . our customers are reacting, even some of them get that. it's not us, but the economy in the country present register for john argues high interest rates are behind all the countries economic problems. he says he asked the central bank to curb interest rates so that companies can borrow for less and buy boosting growth and exports. turkey can become europe's new china. the government says at assessing a new model for turkey is economy, but the experts warn it's may fail as the country is suffering chronicler. high inflation and relies on foreign funding and energy resources. he can almost like professor ruskin say, the policy is highly unusual and it's not working. how can you kiss me?

is it the children's future? most citizens, wage workers creating jobs by production is good by any means, but it needs a plan and priorities. inflation is pressure is rising, so turkey should switch to a conventional economic policy. the law says add on has re shuffled 3 treasury and finance ministers and 5 to central bank governors in a year. and that honored investors to get a job to do full to us a good despite the phone investors fund managers see a grateful intentional here. the uncertain cease and other risk factors. stop them from coming. we need to bring down both economic and political risk premiums by proving it's under control. present, sorry, on that party, has governed turkey for 2 decades and ahead of an election scheduled for 2023. he has promised all economic problems who will be sold in the next 6 months. but right now, many people say their biggest challenge is the rising price of food, fuel medicine and other essential goods. and they're waiting to see whether the

government can en turkeys, currency crisis. so you know, because all the answer is double yellow fever and ghana has caused the death of at least 35 people over the past 2 months with dozens more suspected infections. the government is trying to secure 400000 doses of vaccine from the world health organization on our child re reports. waiting to be examined by a doctor. these patients are here to protect themselves from yet another deadly virus. yellow fever has killed dozens and gone as west gunshot district, but health officials here say, despite the rising number of cases, deaths are slowing down. wherever we identify cases in the community. you go in there to look for making wiki search, and we have fox news. girls who are not protected again, the disease. yellow fever is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito

symptoms are mild and can develop up to 9 days after exposure. but about 15 percent of those infected develop serious illness that can lead to potentially fatal bleeding. and organ failure. cases have been detected across a white age range from 4 months to 70 years. with women accounting for more than half of the cases in garner. there are concerns, the government is down playing the number of those infected and not all cases are being reported. you got the numbers and then you also look at what is on the ground . it appears all the cases are not reported simply because of the lack of integration. and for the health people need a lot of time, not a full mouth. oh, the gun telephone and how to go to port. there are also concerns about sure teacher vaccines garner is trying to secure 400000 doses from the world health organization

and hoping they are able to contain the outbreak before it becomes more widespread . homeric chaudhry arches era, the government in sri lanka raised the minimum wage this year, but many workers say they're still struggling to survive. are you an expert has been to study the government's efforts to improve what many say are appalling working conditions. and they'll fernandez reports from the capital, colombo, backbreaking 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. danilo and we on a daily wage we only have verse, 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 $5.10 view, 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 workers have to deal with hard working conditions. tens of thousands of women walk in crammed faces on production lines like this in factories throughout the country. those worthless stablished, industry leaders enjoy better working conditions. but literally a single mom who worked 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. how was given. i couldn't because i had a heart attack and an operation on the song that i could help me out. the opposite walkers form the back wall of the garment industry,

which on $5300000000.00 us dollars in 2019 the u. n. special wrapper. turn modern forms of slavery has spent the last week in chill anchor, looking into walker 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 bothered da silva told al jazeera he will come criticism or bar pro more all sent her you later. the buyers and the government and the international community. when they press these issues, i like the opposite these issues. because that didn't, they, employers are reluctant to break new things. walker rights advocacy changes are be made. let more needs to be done or the conversation about the law reform label

is geared towards how to make the work more flexible, help increase productivity, which is fine, make increasing productivity. everybody wants that right? but there is no talk about how to protect all because i was presenting findings to the u. n. in september 2022 workers like david it's likely to make little difference to their daily back survival minute fernandez. just the ra, colombo police in the u. s. arrested a couple whose son is accused of killing 4 of his school classmates. james and jennifer crumbly, have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. prosecutors in michigan say they bought a gun as a gift for their thumb. ethan mountain. they nazareth is one of israel's most significant palestinian israeli towns, but a growing number of residents fear its historical legacy on the threat. high false it reports from their nazareth, the home of jesus christ,

his long drawn pilgrims and visitors from around the world. the hundreds of years, its old city rang to the sounds of shopkeepers and crafts people. this century though no sounds have dwindled. a handful of businesses struggling on. but here and there splashes of color show signs of a fight back reson zombies at, annie decided to renovate an old warehouse with traditional measuring colors and materials and to work and live in the old city with emission. i'm telling it's not easy, but if me and another person and another one opens their, their work, their careers will start here. and they also find a house and live here. so they will need service. it's. it's like organically, it will open by itself, but it will take time. there are signs, it is beginning, young palestinian israeli designers and entrepreneurs have been moving in, inspired by earlier artists who left the mark. a bedroom ceiling bears the work of

one of many lebanese painters brought in to decorate fine homes in the 19th century . a few streets away, an 18th century treasure that is long been in decay. the sariah or palace built by local rule or die. her alma is now under the stewardship of the municipal government, but as being used in formerly by local activists. tiffany: enough, we saw there was a building like the sir. i are closed and neglected, and no one was doing anything with it. we had the chance to open it with a goal of turning it into a cultural center with a little money that we have something that will serve the community here. many here point to a restoration program 20 years ago is one of the reasons for the old cities emptying nazareth. 2000 with funding from the israeli tourism ministry was intended to prepare this biblical city for people visit. they say the project ripped up ancient cobblestones. remove the shops, wooden doors, replacing them with steel and more than stone. they say the disruption of all this

removed trade from the old city from which it's never recovered. its appoint at nazareth municipality now accepts where once there were 450 business is operating in the old city. now there are just 50 this beautiful architecture. one of them, this painstakingly restored restaurant. it seemed by many as a 1st step in the revival movement. it's owned by raisins, husband, who pines for the nazareth of his childhood, an intellectual and cultural center. i am sure it will come back because the city still have very much power and much very good. the positive energies people like but then many coming back to the, to the origin and to the, to the identity. actually, the old city is always been the heart of nazareth. now a growing group of residents wants to get it beating again. hurry full said al jazeera nazareth. now the entire coaching staff is left the troubled english county

cricket club, yorkshire, 16 staff members, including the director of cricket and head coach of departed. it's the latest development in the racism, scandal, and golfing. the clubs, yorkshire was heavily criticized for its handling over pulled the found form a flat fee was a victim of racial harassment and bullying. ah, i must take you through some of the headlines here and i'll just hear it. now. polls have opened in the gambia for the 1st presidential election since the job without that in 2017 out of my barrow is running for reelection decide to promise the step down. off the 3 years. i'm going to race is more from bundle. this is the opening of the vote in by july and what we hear from across the country, the turn out is massive and it's no surprise. this is the 1st election in nearly 30

years for gambiola where a voter will go and cast his balance without having to.