addiction and persecution in kenya, almost every woman was it. mohammed a doll travels through his homeland to reveal how his people and family have been subjected to years of brutal discrimination. it's just typical of the way we are treated in a country where colo al jazeera correspondence. ah, a course in hong kong convicts apple daily newspaper found a gemini, ye ally, and to others ever an unauthorized vigil last year. ah, i money inside this is out. is there life also coming up or is johnson titans? england's covered restrictions just hours off, so apologizing for video of his staff. joking about holding a christmas party during last year's locked down. the impact of climate change in eastern africa and you report estimates more than a quarter of

a 1000000 children may have died from hunger. and we all want to you to be safe on ice in criticism off to elite research document. instagram's chief tells us politicians the ap can help trouble teams. ah, we begin in hong kong where a court has convicted 3 of the 8 activists charged oven unauthorized vigil last year. include jailed media tycoon, jimmy ly. they were charged for organizing, participating, and in slicing. others on kong, benz an annual vigil to mock the 1989 china tanner mon square moscow. citing the pandemic several pro democracy activists have been arrested since paging. impose the national security law last june. tom grundy is edison chief,

co founder of hong kong free press. he says, china is trying to raise the very memories of the 1989 massacre racial session today about a 100 people cuing of outside people in the public gallery waving and shouting, happy birthday to jim ally who turned 20 or this week already behind bars, awaiting security or trial outside court was alone, protest known as grandma longer shouting for democracy slogans and calling for the release of political prisoners and also lots of course, plainclothes, police and uniform police as well as probation protest. calling for a heavy sentencing. as we know, last year commemorative visual was banned on covey grounds. usually you would say a sea of people tens of thousands holding candles quietly in the city, the largest part. but today, these 3 po, democracy figures. the only ones who pled guilty were charged with convicted of on

the rise assembly. this case itself is part i would say a have a wider crowd down on the memory of the $989.00 massacre textbooks have been since the museum exhibits confiscated, the visuals organizers have been put behind bars and you can see the commemoration has been ban let alone a monument to the gentleman massacre isn't the threats which stands on university of hong kong campus. but it's been about a year and a half now of hong kong under the national security law. over a $120.00 odd activists in jailed and the to i've been put behind bars only 2 of actually in convicted so far, but many more set to go to cause england is returning to thomas a corona virus restrictions, as the omi called there and calls the shadow over the coming christmas period, the prime minister says face coverings must be worn inside public venues. sanchez, cinemas. from friday. people have been asked to work from home if they can,

from monday, and so called vaccine passports. proof of receiving jobs will be needed to enter big crowded veney's like night clubs. more than 51000 people tested positive in the united kingdom in the past day. and a 161 people died. health officials say omicron will soon account for half of cases . while they're big questions over johnson's authority, the announcement comes hours also. he was forced to apologize for a video of his staff, joking about holding a christmas party during last year's lockdown. janice hall has the story. deny, deny, deny has been the strategy at number 10 downing street over reports of a staff christmas party last year when they were banned under cobra rules. the government says no rules were broken, leaked video recorded 4 days later, during rehearsals, by senior staff for news briefing offers damning evidence to the contrary. i went

home, old and allan and ah, she's, she's mine, right. this is, this is recorded inspection policy with a business meeting. so she just, one of those involved has now resigned it recalled and perhaps eclipse to previous pandemic rule. breaches like chief advisor, dominic cummings, lockdown family road trip, the former health secretary mat hancock's office affair, and the prime minister's own failure to wear a mask on a recent hospital visit. at prime minister's questions on wednesday or his johnson was under extreme pressure to step up his response. i can understand how infuriating it must be to think that the people who have been setting the rules have not been following the mississippi. because i was also curious to see that

and if you pick up, i apologize. i apologize unreservedly to the effect that it is caused up and down the country. and i apologize to the impression that he gave, he barely took the sting out of the opposition's attack. for much the, the queen size alone, which she marked the passing of the man should be married to for 73 years. leadership sacrifice. that's what gives leaders of moral authority to lee. i just prime minister think he has the moral authority to leave off the british people to stick to the wrong. that question would be put to the test later at a news conference, boris johnson announced new public health measures in response to the highly transmissible omicron variant. i know this will be hard for many people. they

include mosque, wearing in more indoors settings, guidance to work from home, where possible, and the use of vaccine passports in large public settings. it is for the public now to decide if they will listen things by making his statement and offering his apology in parliament bars. johnson will have hoped to move events on in a story that has the potential to do him great damage. the problem is that a new conversation may now emerge, one about the public's willingness to follow new measures in the face of the army, chrome variance, and whether this government has the moral authority to enforce the jonah how al jazeera london, finland's prime minister, has apologized for going to a club after one of the close contacts tested positive because 19 santa maria went on a nice house in helsinki on saturday. just alice off to have foreign minister confirmed a positive test. marine says the text message advising her to isolate was sent to

her work phone, which is left at home. south africa has reported nearly 20000 new corona, virus infections, a record since all mccomb was texted. not yet clear how many cases were the new variance and only a fraction of the samples of sequenced experts believe on the chrome is driving a new way with infections. and the rise in hospital admission drug make a pfizer says, a said vaccine does is effective against the on the con variance visor and it's pointing to bon tax a lab test, a booster shop office increase protection as a has also started to develop. and i'll make one specific vaccine which should be available next year. people vaccinated with boost generate a robust level of neutralizing up to body against the new, highly mutated on recall and very on. this is

a common for thing and a very positive message that we now have a plan that will induce immunity that is likely to protect from infection symptomatic illness and severe disease from now across the entire winter season. as we learn more about the ceiling, this children in east africa bearing the brunt of the climate crisis. a group save the children, trying to malnutrition across the region. and says this year, more than a quarter of a 1000000 children in 8 countries may have died from hunger. that's been a dramatic rise in severe signs of malnutrition. much of the region has been effected by climate change. east and kenya some the somalia and parts of europe have drought. well, south sea dawn has had 3 years of severe flooding. all this,

of course, must displacement and severe hunger. the group says the death all preventable and as cold on government to fully fund response plans. greg, ram is the head f monetary and response and save the children. he says, governments need to provide more funding to support families at risk. it is a horrible number to have over 250000 children die a severe acute malnutrition. addition to climate crisis, which causes drought and flooding. we had the challenges of coven 19 and an impact it had on economies and health systems, as well as conflict and parts of the region. all of these make children that much more vulnerable, that much harder to have the food they need. and when they are sick from severe about nutrition, fewer than half of them are getting the treatment they need across the stuff. in the very 1st instance, a child who does have severe acute nutrition needs mediate treatment. so what we

need across the monitoring system is adequate funding for organizations like say the children, local organizations, local governments, u. s. system. so that children who are sick, who are at risk of dying from simply not having enough to eat and the disease is it can come with that. that system needs to be funded. and we need to make sure the children who need treatment get treatment. secondly, we need to make sure that there's enough support to families so that they can afford no, there's enough money in the system, cash transfer programs so that families have enough to eat. in the long run, we have to not just worry about the impact of climate crisis in the long run. we need to worry about it today. it's not just temperatures wising over time, but we need to understand today the impact that it is having on families on children who are at risk. an explosion in central nani has killed 7 un soldiers and that's 3 critically injured. the convoy hits an improvised explosive device between

the towns of doing that and survive as an area link tom's grapes including al qaeda at stomach state. the secretary general strongly condemns his heinous attack. we are for sincere condolences to the families of the victims as well as the government and people of togo. we wish a speedy recovery to all those who were injured. the secretary general also calls on the maryan authorities to spare no efforts in identifying the perpetrators of the attack. so they can be brought to justice. mccaney fast as president raw cabaret house dismiss the prime minister and government to move follows a wave of protest last month. ever rising violence in the country. an attack on november 14th saw hundreds of fighters storm a camp in the north, killing dozens of police officers. and 4 civilians. following that ambush, president could borrow a pledge the forms, the military. new government must be sworn in over the coming days. still

ahead on al jazeera while the u. s. house of representatives has banned imports from china's shin jang region. i've allegations to force labor and ester line command, beaten to death by his own colleagues, and pock storm is funny, lay to rest his ah look forward to brighter skies with sponsored play cattle airways. hello, good to see. here's your weather report for the middle east. we do have some activity moving across northern areas of syria, it rock into western portions of iran, but by and large things looking good. plenty of sun in the mix here. same goes for bucket st on at for the south in the north karachi, $29.00 degrees that the hor, $22.00. so the mornings and the nights bit fresh here. off to turkey in this situation here. fairly calm after that act of weather rolled across the la van,

still a few scattered showers hanging about. but as the day progresses on thursday, you will see an improvement in conditions central africa. right now we got to talk temperatures because these hope well above average, juba of 40 long. he's 35 degrees. i think it may set a new december record temperature that will come in the days ahead. so the average 30 to the record 36.2 saturday, we've got in for 37. so potentially record breaking stuff further towards south right now. and we do have some disturbed weather southern angola toward the northeast northwest of namibia. but really this eastern portion of south africa still that weather and we made power up some thunderstorms. so we look at the forecast for johannesburg. the risk is there for the next few days and some breezy conditions as well. that sure update. we'll see again. so o, with sponsored by casara, always fueling the debates, 90 percent of the world's birthday, geez, have come from of common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more

pressure on systems across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future 8. now, this is not our responsibility. people locked companies responsibly. we cannot lose hope. we know what to do and we have the tools to do. here. we must always play finish this screen on al jazeera lou. lou are watching out a 0 mind if i top stories or cell jail, media tycoon, jerry lie until all the pro democracy activists have been found guilty of organizing and participating in last year's bound chairman square vigil on cone

bound, the annual vigil to mall b. 1989 massacre sciences. the pandemic verses prime minister has announced to return to ty, set karone of ours restrictions to stem. the spread of the only covariance are shown to massaging people in england to work from home as mandating cove. at 19 pauses for entrance into public say the children says this year, more than a quarter of a 1000000 children in 8 countries may have died from hunger. charity says children in east africa bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, and his calling of goblins to fully fund response plans. you as president joe biden says, he will not send troops to, to friend ukraine from a russian frat president. vladimir putin is promising to follow up on talks with washington within a week. the to lead a spike by video call on tuesday about russia's trip build up on the border with

ukraine. the u. s. has worn moscow. it will face economic sanctions. if it invades that russia denies, it has any such plans. the united states is hosting a 2 day summit with more than 100 countries to discuss the decline of global democracy. some experts have criticized the guest list, claiming it includes governments with questionable human rights records. it comes emit asleep of state laws, restricting voting rights in the u. s. county health reports from washington. ah, the images are unforgettable. supporters of former president donald trump last january, attempting to overturn the results of the u. s. presidential election. it rattled a nation that prides itself on being a model for democracy. since then, many americans have come to believe democracy is under attack in the us and

elsewhere. it's no secret that there is democratic backsliding happening around the world. that's why you as president biden is holding a virtual summit this week to bring together more than a 100 countries to promote democratic ideals like voting and human rights. divide in administration points to threats to taiwan from china and ukraine from russia. as just some of the examples of how democratic governments are being tested, it hopes to rally global leadership to stand up even confront those authoritarian forces. but critics say the u. s. lacks the moral authority to hold such a summit. we directly arm and finance some of the most authoritarian and inch democratic governments around the world. the case that comes to mind over and over again is saudi arabia, where we continue to sell arms in the millions,

billions of dollars, to a government that who stated goal. he's not to support that democratic. we foundation the guest list for the summit has also raised eyebrows. countries like india and israel have been invited to attend. they've been criticized internationally for their authoritarian responses in kashmir and the palestinian territories. meanwhile, turkey and hungry, both nato allies are excluded. it does not mean that we are invited that every one were invited were giving a stamp of approval on every democracy is a work in progress. divisions over the 2020 u. s. election. continue led by former president trump, who has still not accepted the results or his defeat. democrats say that sentiment has motivated republicans to change voting laws in some states to restrict access to the ballot box and potentially manipulate future votes.

given the divisions over what democracy looks like in the us and abroad, the democracy summit will be a task for president biden. will he be able to push world leaders some with their own authoritarian tendencies to take meaningful action to change? kimberly held him al jazeera, the white house, he was house of representatives, has voted in favor of banning imports from china as weston sion john region of forced labor concerns. policy. washington's pushback against beijing's treatment of muslim weakness, which the u. s. says amounts to genocide to become law, it needs to pass the senate and be signed off by president joe biden to you and says at least a 1000000 week is all being held in counter extremism centers. in sion, jain and sledge force labor is rife which beijing denies. adrian's ends is a senior fellow in china's studies with the victims of communism. memorial

foundation, he says, action on the issue of important goods made using force. labor is long leverage. you some voices say that the, by the end, ministration has some interest to delay this. some voices also say that the state department is interested in a more targeted approach rather than a blanket ban of goods mate and change young that create a rebuttable presumption that companies basically have to say if we want to import anything made from january 1st, have to prove that it's not made with forced labor, which is actually the proper way to tackle this. companies have long tried to look the other way. they were not sure what to do about this because dependence on change, your cotton is huge. it's very hard to divest from it companies now or gradually realizing the problem is not going anywhere. and they will have to look for a tentative supply chains. and i believe that has started because companies realize, sooner or later they will have to find a tentative, but it is going to cost more money. so they've not been in

a hurry to really try to push the issue. the forced labor situation is, is really vast. firstly, you have the internment camps and one of the main strategies of aging is to push people from the internment camps after they've been brainwashed, and re educated, involving some torture to put them into factory work. and a lot of that involves textiles. now a new documents that leaked last week, the she young people show that she jumping himself and other government lead us in beijing, likely could young i actually behind these schemes. and this is a major, major concern, a major human rights violation on an industrial scale. the highest ranking, military official in india is among at least 13 killed in a helicopter crash. croft came down just short of his destination, which was a military training college in the southern states of tunnel, nor the defense chief general been ra, his wife,

11 of and one person survived. and a military with a boss guy is a retired in the navy commodore. he says, general bip and ross had many unique skills and finding his replacement will be difficult. my sense is that the government will soon appoint another c, b s big forward b doc that had been entrusted the 1st previous which was the integration and due and got a joint mis among the 3 armed forces, the army, air force and navy. and the final objective is to have had to come on general, look, i've spent the last 2 years working very diligently work. this is a complex task. it's a huge task. and this has been a setback in terms of the individual who is chosen by prime minister,

moby. and that he died in this very, very tragic matter. that general drama had finished a very successful daniel as the army chief. and then he was appointed as chief. and stuff. so today the government of india has the option of choosing an officer from the army slash maybe slash apples. there is also, i think, a me for the element be able to get the economy. got either dropped off of each service and also have an interface when both the indian bureaucratic, which has a very, very distinctive profile as also reagan political establishment. so you need, i think, next entity in terms of the human skill set that the next few years will have to acquire the funeral of a sri lankan man who was beaten to death in pakistan, husband held in his home country

a crowd at times. preem today was done before dragging him into the streets and setting him on fire. stop at the factory where he worked, had accused him of destroying a religious poster. nelson and his reports from gunpowder pre owned a commodity of i did, i had worked in pakistan for 11 years. the last 9 in the factory where he was killed. his body was returned to his home country lanka in a sealed coffin, his injuries to horrific to allow an open casket that had been some of them. i hope justice will be done considering the mental trauma, my sons and i are suffering. i believe governments in pakistan and sri lanka will intervene to ensure suitable compensation and safety of sri lumpkins in pakistan. i hope no one has to go through this again with the notes. on friday, hundreds of men stormed the factory where he worked in the eastern pakistan, the city of cl, court reports indicate they joined his co workers who are angered by accusations

the factory manager committed blasphemy. by tearing down a poster containing the name of the prophet mohammed, the severely beat him and set his body on fire. the family is still in shock. his mother told al jazeera she brought up her 6 children alone after her husband died and was heartbroken that her youngest died this way. or 2 days after pre hunter's body was flown to sri lanka, his family held his final rights keanta and his 2 brothers had walked in pakistan for more than a decade. what been my mind all ruth, begin there. how we are supposed to that? then for every little boy, if i had their chance, let i hope you're in my life up here for there's a motion for emily. no dordy is really shocked. ah,

the killing has been widely condemned in pakistan and his spark protest like this in several major cities. members of the hard line, teary club bake pakistan party were reported to have been among the attackers in south pakistan's prime minister in ran con, called it a day of shame for his country, gil irig lark dollar. the business communities announced a $100000.00 for his family and he'll continue to receive his full salary. the shoe brutality of the marble tags difficult to comprehend the violence inflicted on preamp. the commodity of our dinner is hard to imagine. a post mortem reportedly found that his spine was broken in 3 places, his vital organs damaged and his body burned more than 90 percent. his brother says he has never seen such brutality in his life. it is beyond their tokyo, we're thinking it was normally one. 0, good wiley, are killing animal redondo there to kind of a way of playing with their mean well,

and, and whole the human can kill one human and rio. he's the human at the girls gone. felice in pakistan, have arrested dozens of people in connection with the attack, which the family hopes will never happen again. mila fernandez are 0 grandpa, her. she'll anchor the head of instagram is cooling on politicians, to help regulate social media platforms with new laws, specifying what's expected as emissaries testifying before us senators, who are scrutinizing the face of sharing apps. impact on children. linked internal documents have revealed. instagram discovered the platform negatively affects teenagers mental health. now i recognize in many, in this room, have deep reservations about our company. but i want to assure you that we do have the same goal. we all want teams to be safe online. internet isn't going away. and i believe there's important work that we can do together,

industry and policy makers. and we have a specific proposal. we believe there should be an industry body that will determine the best practices when it comes to what i think are the 3 most important questions with regards to you safety. how to verify edge, how to build age appropriate experiences and how to build parental controls. zach price is the digital director of accountable tech and says instagram's calls for an industry body won't make a difference from my perspective. a lot of the announcements instagram was made leading up to this hearing today. our cosmetic fixes to unfortunately, a system that's far more broken. and at the end of the day, we have to step back and ask ourselves, well how does instagram make money? and i think it's important to look at their toxic business model that at the end of the day, is about hooking users for as long as possible to run as many ads as possible on there for you to generate as much revenue as possible. so when they propose a simple fix, like taking a break,

i think they do that because they know they have the ability to hook users and lower them back to the platform. ultimately, i think it's incumbent upon government to look at how it is we can better structure the incentives behind companies like facebook on that rely upon this toxic business model surveillance advertising. ah, this is al jazeera, these, your top stores, jail, media tycoon, jimmy lie and 2 other pro democracy activists have been found guilty of organizing and participating last year's bounty on them and square visual. hong kong bound the annual vigil to mark the 1989 moscow. citing the pandemic britons prime minister has announced to return to tight a corona virus restrictions to stand. the spread of the omicron variance, or as johnson is urging people in england to work from home and his mandating coven 19 passes for entrance into public venues.