we've all, we need to take america to trying to bring people together trying to deal with people who can left behind blue the u. s. says is diplomats will not be attending the beijing winter olympics. china has promised the firm response. ah, don't o'clock. that is, how does your a life know also come and where we wanted vaccines? they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the, our table and south africa's president head south, the government's over, their failure to deliver on promises of coven, 19 vaccines for africa. gambia and

police via gas or protest as he refused to accept president the dumb of barrows re election and the by the ministration revives a policy that will keep migrants in mexico while that asylum cases are reviewed. ah, so us diplomats will not be attending next year's winter olympics and china, the white house confirmed the diplomatic boycott on monday, citing human rights atrocities and genocide and relating to the treatment of wisdom weakens and should jag, us athletes will still compete out the olympics. whitehouse cross one can be helicopters more from washington dc under pressure from some a human rights activists sand, even members of congress. the biden administration has announced on monday that it is participating in

a diplomatic boycott of the winter olympics set to begin in february in beijing. the united states saying that it is concerned about china's human rights abuses, particularly when it comes to the treatment of chinese muslims, known as wiggers. the u. s. has called the actions of china against this ethnic group, genocide. so the united states sending a very clear message, the white house press secretary confirming that no diplomats or official delegation will be attending the winter olympics. the by new ministration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 22002 winter olympics and paralympic games. given the peer scenes, ongoing genocide and crimes against a humanity engine, john and other human rights abuses. the athletes on team usa have our full support, will be behind them 100 percent. as we cheered them on from home, we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. this is the 1st time the

united states has sent a message or protested government policies of another nation. in fact, back in 1980, we saw the full boy cod of the united states athletes not participating in the moscow olympics. well let's cross to beijing, katrina hughes 20 by the katrina will move you glean from the chinese government. so this was her response. well, not a total surprise from aging. this has been discussed for some weeks now and trying to foreign ministry on monday actually addressed the possibility of the us announcing a diplomatic boy called accusing washington of political grandstanding political manipulation. and they said that this move went against the spirit of the games. chinese state media equally has released some, some articles and statements saying that this is an attempt by the us to contain china's rise. that this was reflective of a cold war mentality. and this will no doubt escalate tensions between the 2

countries which have been frosty for some years. but we did think that this was going to moderately improve. we just had a few weeks ago, a video call between president jer, bud. and she didn't paying where they addressed each other, at least it seemed on friendly terms. now we have begging, promising some some counter measures as a result of this move. although we don't have any details as to what that might be as yet. but let's have, listen to johnny jim at the foreign ministry in beijing commenting on monday on this to see what he had to say. sooner. you sure, you know, in the winter olympics held once every 4 years as a very oppertunity for athletes. the protectiveness of the beijing winter olympics will be athletes from various countries, not individual politicians. those politicians who clump a boycott for political self interest, just showing off and i can things up. nobody cares whether they come or not. and it will have no influence on dazing success in hosting the winter olympics. katrina china under the spotlight, of course, on various issues,

not least the tennis player pink sway in the week situation. as we talked about. lympics may be seen, i guess, as an opportunity to change perceptions. i think for china the olympics are huge opportunity in terms of the signaling to the rest of the world. we had the 1st summer olympics held by beijing in 2008, and that was, it's kind of big coming up party. there was a lot of international fans that many world leaders attended, including for me, you as president george bush. now we have the 2022 wind to games. the 2nd olympics that china is due to host. and this is really supposed to be a representative of china's new found political standing its influence in the world . it's role as a leader in the east. so this is no doubt going to hurt china's credibility. it's going to be embarrassing, especially if other countries do fuller suits. and in recent weeks we've had china's reputation when it comes to sports and human rights. certainly take

a beating just last week. the women's tennis association announced that they would be suspending all tournaments in china as a result of the dealing of the handling of china's a china is handling of the case of punch. why the tennis star here now? she made allegations in early november, sexual assault allegations against a very high standing political figure here in china jungle lee. and since then, she has not been seen freely in public accept appearing in these are almost a kind of suspect. all of these, these videos put out by chinese social media. we haven't seen her speak freely, although she has had some conversations with the i or c and, and allegedly sent some emails as well. but she hasn't been contacted independently by the w t a and it doesn't seem like the chinese government is addressing her allegations of sexual assault against john guardian. so as a result,

we had this huge announcement by the w t. a. china has been struggling to try to recover its reputation. it's accuse the w t a and other bodies of politicizing sports and says that this really is taking attention away from the athletes and their achievements. and that is what the olympics should be all about as well. or drivers, roach, katrina, you the in b, g will attend now from michael swain. his to rights are the east asia program of the quincy institute. he says, a boy called squint force many change in china. i think it will have virtually no or 0 impact on, on their policies and chin john and or their policies in hong kong. although i think that the justification for this kind of an action by the united states or, or something somewhat lesser than that i would have said might have been better for the united states to have sent its china ambassador chinese m a u. s. ambassador to beijing. to the, to the event and him not make any statements at the event to just be there. but

that's, you know, that's a judgment call. but i think that you know, that they're not, they can't do that now. so they're, they're locked into a situation where they just have to go through the deployment of the chinese could take, they could refuse to send their own athletes to different games. it could take some kind of measures against the world tennis association or i guess other countries that were involved in this kind of a diplomatic boycott by threatening to not have their athletes participate. but these would be really, some of them, a very extreme measures, which i think would make the situation even worse for the chinese right now. they have to think about, are there going to be other countries that are also going to join this diplomatic way? or do they think that's inevitable or perhaps not? and there were no other countries that joined this boycott at the time united states announced that maybe we'll see more we'll see them coming on now. but so far know. and so there may be a, you know, the chinese may want to make sure that there are, there's not

a cascading event more diplomatic way, what's in this case. and so i would think that that would argue in favor of greater restraint on their part as opposed to threats or efforts to try to punish people with south africa's president has stepped up, his fears, criticism of the way countries have reacted to the new omicron variant of current of ours and so refers them made the remarks during a peace and security for him and cynical saying governments have also failed to deliver covey. 19 vaccines that they promised to africa from docker. his uterus huck the fight against the new omicron variant in senegal. starts here at a health center in downtown to car, where doses of the covey 19 vaccines are available. i should be, can the, it's not because we have a vaccine that we are immune. we need to keep protective measures and protect those around us. it's not over at a 2 day peace and security form held in the car on monday,

south africa as president, serial number posts are accused rich countries of creating health apartheid. i have personally really been disappointed in the approach that the rich countries have taken on the issue of vaccines. firstly, they hoarded to vaccines. they ordered more vaccines than their populations required. and when we wanted vaccines, they just kept, you know, giving us the crumbs from the table. and the greed that they demonstrated is something that is quite, quite disappointing. indeed, particularly when they say they are our partners. the pandemic overshadowed the 7th piece insecurity form held here which welcomed heads of state intelligence officers and military chiefs. usually discussions and the forum revolves around greater

military cooperation between western nations and african countries. but with western countries breaking their promise to supply vaccines in their unwillingness to wave patterns, to allow people here to make their own trust is eroding with some nation, looking at new partnerships to help the fight against cove it in africa, china and out it's sending 1000000000 doses of vaccines on the fight against arm groups in this a hell region. new year's president admitted that al qaeda affiliates are in some places better equipped than the security forces of some countries in west africa. following increased attacks. molly, seeking help from the russian mercenaries working for wagner, the private military company. but of way conflict, my lee have decided to go more and more for davis, if occasional for partnerships, we can work with china, we can, we'll give her russia also at the form delegates from western nations reiterated

there good will and intentions. but countries such as south african senegal, say that's not good enough. vaccines made in africa for africans is what they want . almost a quarter of a 1000000 africans are reported to have died of the virus so far. the message here is those death were preventable if only victims had access to vaccines. nicholas hawk al jazeera de car, france will close night clubs and titan, social distancing rules in response to the macro variant. prime minister john caustics says the countries now in its 5th wave of the time demick. but he believes high vaccination rates and the re, introduction of some restrictions will prevent the need for more lockdown. curfews . while the mayor of new york city is announced, plans to make her 19 vaccinations, compulsory for all workers in the private sector. it is the most sweeping current of ours related measure of any state or big us city. still diblasio said that

children age between 5 and 11 will soon need at least one vaccine dose to enter restaurants and faces. i describe the actions we're taking today as a preemptive strike. get ahead of this problem before it deepens and use the thing that works. vaccination, we can talk about all the other tools and we will. but the vaccination is the central weapon in this war against coven. it's a one thing that has worked every single time across the board. on a strategic level, it's the reason new york city is back in so many ways. that's the reason we can avoid shut downs and restrictions a south african crew members suspected of being infected with the alma chron variances. among the 17 cases of the 19 detected on the u. s. cruise ship. it left new orleans in the last week of november and made stops and believes honduras, and in mexico for returning to lead here another rebels in ethiopia lose control of mortar tree. but they don't seem to be too worried and you

erosions it into these largest volcanoes, and per the search for survivors. ah . and away we go with your headlines for the americas. hello, everyone. thanks for joining in that stormy weather is mostly dissipated. much cooler air across the east right now. we're talking low temperatures. to us, the other day d. c was about 20 now here. 5 degrees on tuesday, but still that thread of stormy weather through the avalon. so st john's looking to see wind gusts of about 90 kilometers per hour here off toward the deep south, still some lingering showers, coastal sections of texas, louisiana, stretching into the florida panhandle. though i think tallahassee will escape this with just a cloudy day on tuesday. got some shower,

siding down the pacific coast here, san francisco, us angeles. look to stay dry. i think the best bet of seen some showers will be in san diego. central america right now. we got some rain coming at ya. nicaragua, costa rica, panama sim, goes through belize and guatemala waldo. nothing major. top end of south america. we do have some downpours to be expected here, especially along that east coast of brazil. rio de janeiro hive. 25. next are a ticket or patagonia painted on the colors here. the dark of the red, the higher the temperature cause. watch what happens commodore a river davia 31 degrees on tuesday, but by wednesday you're getting up to just a high of 15 degrees. that's it, sir. ah, from the al jazeera london broker sent a conversation. really erase the by, by the super power with no, hey,

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africa's president as again criticized sweeping travel imposed on his country because of the comparative saw rosara also accused western governments of fading to deliver code. 19 backseat new york city will soon make it 19 vaccinations. compulsory for all workers in the private sector. it is the may sweeping terrain of arch related measure of any state told b. u. s. sir is state news agency says it air defenses of reacted to an is railey attack on a port in the takia province on the mediterranean coast. the report quoted, a military soil saying a fire broke out at the port after the attack, but nobody was injured. israel regularly launch his strikes in syria, but rarely confirms its operations for dameion police. if i'd tear gas to disperse supporters, we're losing presidential candidate who's refusing to concede defeat. the electoral commission declared incumbent adama barrow. the widow with 53 percent of the votes would address reports now from bundle. this is the moment opposition support

a safe peace, quiet t i guess as they gathered at the home of acquisition. you deep anita, who said, you dabble the tense kind of happened at dublin hall just across the street from the united states embassy in the set of quinn bay area. support his claim that kennedy was robbed in saturday's presidential election and they would back doubt incumbent item a battle as again, been declared precedent. his 1st arm came after the oppressive $22.00, a former lead, a jump mot barrel to step down. they rigged the election. the results are worse than what was announced during yard jamie's reign. even she didn't defeat the u. d. p. with this margin. witnesses say this kemesha began after stone was cast at the police with and responded with t, i guess and arrest incidents like this have been reported elsewhere. witnesses say

clashes have happened between supporters of the governing party and the main opposition of having to do so. i'm not be happy with that. no, no, no wrong. none of the them here, i'll provide it was the vanity that hit our on those entities. hopes of gumby as post election period would be hit free one dash by these incidents. now even the position of opposition leader, we'll say no double regarding the outcome of this election, suffered a setback on monday, one of the candidates who attended a meeting in his house while the results of the elections were rejected. cold and congratulated preston, adam about election. observers from both the african union and european union found no major problems in the electoral process. oh, are the candidates like holly for some have already conceded defeat st. gubbins

half spoken? why do we'll get the will be, would it is not my prerogative to imply that would, is their voice it did that was, is that it is forced accent and decision the police of issued a statement vowing to deal with troublemakers. i'm with some opposition supporter saying they won't back down. it could be attempts to post election period for the gambia committee agrees al jazeera but june, the gambia. it the open government forces had one more battlefield victories against rebels from the north to grant people's liberation. frontal t p l f appears to be retreating and, and hara and afar regions which neighbor to grey, where the rebels based soldiers loyal to prime minister abbey of met. have now taken back the towns of dessie and composure. their strategically important because they sit on a national highways, but a spokesman for the to grand forces confirm they have withdrawn saying we left north show can boucher and dessie as part of our plan. there was no organize unit

to liberate these towns and the residents know it. and abby's generals know it. things are going according to our plan on to sit on where thousands of returns of streets, maintaining protests against october's military takeover and a subsequent deal that reinstated the prime minister. they say that abdullah hm doc betrayed them by agreeing to a government dominated by generals. if morgan reports now from call to it started with a few 100 people in different parts of the dance capital cartoon. but soon the numbers swelled to 1000 protesters. returning back to the street to voice their condemnation of a deal find between the army leader general at them for the hyper hahn and prime minister of the lamb duke. last month. the agreement came afterwards, hamlet and military takeover in october. placing ham built under house arrest for nearly a month ago, the deal has a lot of things that have begun could be interpreted in favor of audit bombs or

against sticks. but the problem is it was signed by someone who doesn't have a right to sign it as someone who doesn't deserve it, work go, come, took just not represent those on the street. and the military cannot be trusted. that the takeover saw the dissolution of the 2 year transitional government, which was shared by the military and the civilian coalition, known as the forces of freedom and change. they were presented the protest movement that led to the overthrow of sedans. long time president obama to bushy other regents around the country also came out in protest of a deal, including the state of casela in the east. therefore in the west and just the estate which neighbors houghton ah scared monkey are going to bring her home. the army can't be possible guzman, because they are the ones who come and kill us. they can't be the same ones to come and rule us to. we're coming out against the army chief behind and his deputy, and with a very common affinity. they should not use their bullets and tear gas on us and our children. let em use it in rule. the army should be in the barracks. if they

were wearing civilian clothing, they could have stood with us more like a family from various parts of the incident with none of the can with across the mile. thousands gathered in front of the presidential palace on monday to voice their anger at the military and the deal . security forces use tear gas to disperse them. since the takeover medical workers say at least 44 people have been killed and nearly 300 injured yet more protests are scheduled for the coming days. many here they, they won't stop until their demands for a full civil in government is meant to guarantee student transition to democracy. he but morgan august 0 hutton leader, the nato allies, the u. s. u. k. france,

germany, it's lee of held joint phone call about ukraine. a statement says they agreed that the united front is needed to confront what's seen as russian hostility build up of russian forces on the border rates, fears of a possible invasion, which the kremlin denies a controversial trump. here a policy keeping migrants in mexico while they wait for the u. s. asylum cases to be processed back. it comes off to the biden administration, reach to deal with mexico. but even though there'll be exemptions, in some cases, she would rights advocate so worried that mary chandry reports desperate for on says these migrants have been waiting for months for their applications to be processed. they're searching for safety and a better life. there's up a little knacker, there are people like me, you can go back because we have suffered a lot of violence in our country. we haven't journal law. and if we go back, we will die. we have decided to wait and see what happens and see what decisions the u. s. government will take us president joe biden suspended the remain in

mexico program, cooling it in humane, but a court order has forced it to be reinstated. former president donald trump used to the policy then known as the migrant protection protocols to send more than 70000 asylum applicants back to mexico, where they were forced to wait for months. human rights groups reported several cases of kidnapping, rape, and torture. but the white house says improvements to the scheme will give asylum seek legal representation. this program is hasn't demik was imposed under it has imposed unjustifiable human costs, pulled resources and personnel away from other priority efforts and failed to address the root causes of a regularly regular migration. deeply flawed, under guidance from mexico. the us will now provide cobit 19 vaccinations and exemptions such as for those with physical and mental health challenges. the 1st migrants are expected to be returned from the state of texas and california. this

shelter is preparing for a massive influx of people from open, but under, but at the minute we are preparing to increase capacity at the shelter. we had a capacity of 150. now we want to have a capacity of more than $200000.00 migrants because we believe that they'll be immobilization to woodson, northern border. while there is deep concern about the return of the policy, some remain hopeful. they can still begin a new life with their families. and it's really hard to be racing and now again with the migrant protection protocols. but i think it is a really good thing because we have the hope to get another opportunity to wait and see if they let us cross into the u. s. and be without families. the mexican government has said it's committed to maintaining the health and safety of asylum seekers. as the new program gets under way these migrants are hoping those promises are kept. her marriage or 3 to 0 person has repatriated the body of

a sri. lankan factory manager who was killed by a group of workers who accused the blustery, going to camaro was attacked by hundreds of people before he was set on fire. on friday, protest centurylink, his capital of colombo. as his body arrived back home, like his own prime minister says, more than 100 people have been arrested. the death toll from entities is volcanic eruption has risen to 22 with many more injured and others still missing more seismic activity and rainfall. frustrating such efforts to ruin wolf as us ah. scouring through the rubble ploughing through volcanic debris that has now begun to harden the hope that these rescue workers might find survivors is diminishing by the hour. even for the lifeless bodies recover beneath the rubble, a sense of relief among emergency crews and deliver to me. thank god, we found the bodies of these victims and retrieved them. answers for loved ones in

this moment, or better than news. those who survived are still coming to terms with their ordeal . ha, it at 1st i thought it was a bomb explosion, and all of the sudden it was scenario erupting and spooling volcanic ashes. suddenly it was all dark like it was going to destroy the earth. of my children were scattered around. my husband was not found, and i was waiting for him. and then we fled to the evacuation camp. job as large as volcano unleashed a thunderous plume of ash high into the sky on saturday, raining down of thousands of panic, people below and swallowing up entire communities in its path. mounts the mirrors, spewed more ash on monday, forcing rescue teams to retreat in their search for survivors. waterways around the volcano, polluted with ash, now appearing as streams of dark sludge and with more rain on the forecast,

there is a chance a new river of hot lava could spew, further affecting rescue operations. images from above show the scale of the devastation down below. desperate people salvaging all they can from their wrecked homes. indonesian authorities have advised locals not to travel within range of some mirrors. crater. many of the survivors and hospital have severe, burns, some with up to 80 percent of their bodies burned. most people are complaining about having difficulty breathing and feeling dizzy. some of them have medical histories, like hypertension, with not enough space to tooth, the injured families pack mix of shelters as they wait to hear from relatives. while at the volcanoes, observatory, officials are searching for any sign of new activity and sending out warnings as far as guzman as having mercy. the status of manchester sheryl is still at level 2,

which means that at this level the people need to be more vigilant because the potential threat is still there when they go there was by then. what many people still wonder why they weren't warned early enough? the for saturday is devastation drilling wolf out or 0. ah. again, i rec, log with headlines here now to sierra and viewers has announced a diplomatic boycott. obey james winter olympics accusing china genocide. latrete which are muslim weakness, merkel athletes will still compete in the game. china described move with political manipulation for the youth is more on china's ref. well, not a total surprise from bathing this has been discussed for some weeks now and tennis . foreign ministry on monday actually addressed the possibility of the u. s. announcing a diplomatic boycott, accusing washing.