these people pick up to collect the signature, the, say, the re saying this is extremely important. so of is that they provide to the city or we need to take america to trying to bring people together and trying to deal with people who could look beyond ah a court in hong kong, convex apple daily newspaper found that jimmy lie and to others, the taking past in a bound vigil. ah, i money site, this is al jazeera life die hall. so coming up forest johnson, titans, england's covet restrictions, just hours, alt apologizing for video of his staff, joking about holding

a christmas party during last year knocked 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. we all want to to be safe online and facing criticism, mouth and leaks research document. instagram's chief tells us politicians the ap can help trouble teen. ah, a course in hong kong has convicted 3 of 8 pro democracy act fast linked to a vigil last year. they were convicted for unlawful assembly. among them is jail media tycoon, jimmy lie. they were among thousands who defy the karone of ours band and participated in the 1989 t hanniman square massacre last june. the convictions come as china cracks down on

descent in hong kong on the a controversial national security rule. tom grande's edison chief and co founder of hong kong free press. he says china is trying to raise the very memory of the 1989 massacre. it was initial session today about a 100 people killing of outside people in the public gallery waving. and shouting birthday to stimuli who turned 24 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, protested, calling for a heavy sentencing. as we know, last year's commemorative visual was banned on covey grounds. usually you would see 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 you have a wider crowd down on the memory of the 1989 massacre textbooks have been since the museum exhibits confiscated. the visual organizers have been put behind bars. and as you can see, the commemoration has been ban, let alone a monument to the gentleman massacre isn't the threats which stands on university 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 odd activists in jail, the only 2 i've been put behind bars only 2 of actually in convicted so far, but many more set to go to court. england is returning to tow into corona virus restrictions, as the only con variant. cast a shadow over the coming christmas period. the prime minister says face coverings

must be worn inside public venues such as cinemas. that's from a friday people up and asked to work from home if they can for monday and cycled vaccine policy boards. 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 . but they're big questions over johnson's authority. the announcement comes hours off to he was forced to apologize for video of his staff, joking about holding a christmas policy during loss. she has locked down. jonah hall, has the latest 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 covert 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 aah is chief of the season line, right? this is, this is recorded. inspection of policy with a business means it's not 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 is johnson was under extreme pressure to step up his response. and i can understand how infuriating it must be to think that the people who have been

setting the rules have not been following the speaker. because i was also curious to see that and the to pick up. i apologize. i apologize unreservedly to the offense that it has caused up and down the country and i apologize to the impression but it gave it barely took the sting out of the opposition attack for much the the queen alone, which she marked the passing of the man should be married to for 7 to 3 years. leadership sacrifice. that's what gives leaders of moral authority to lee the just the prime and to think he has the moral authority to leave off the purchase people to stick to the wrong. that question would be put to the test later at a news conference, baris 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 indoor 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 jona whole al jazeera london drug make a 5. it says a 3rd vaccine dose is effective against the on the chrome variance pfizer on its partner, bond tech say lab to show a boost shot offers increase protection. bozza has also started to develop on the

con, specific vaccine which should be available next year. people vaccinated with a 3rd boost generate a robust lever, long neutralizing antibody against the new highly mutated omicron variant. this is sir combe 14 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 seal mas children in east africa, bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, a group save the children, tract malnutrition, across the region. it says this year, more than a quarter of a 1000000 children in 8 countries may have died from hunger, has been

a dramatic rise in severe signs of malnutrition. much of the region has been affected by climate change. eastern kenya, some of the somalia and pulse of ethiopia have drowns on south sea. don has had 3 years of severe flooding, of course, mass displacement and severe hunger. the group says the deaths are preventable and is called on governments to fully fund response plans. greg graham is the head of humanitarian response for say, 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 of severe acute mount attrition . addition to climate crisis. which causes drought and flooding. we had the challenges of coven 19 and an impact it's had on economies and on health systems, as well as conflict in parts of the region. all of these make children that much

more of all, that much harder to have the food they need and when they are sick from severe a few 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 media treatment. and so what we need across the monitoring system is adequate funding for organizations like say the children, local organizations, local governments, un system. so that children who are sick, who are at risk of die 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 that 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 rising 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, marty has killed 7 un soldiers and left 3 critically injured. the convoy hits an improvised explosive device between towns of dwayne and savari. it's an area link to armed grapes, including al qaeda and slamming state. the cane of foss as president, rock cowboy has dismissed the prime minister and government. the move follows a wave of protest last month. i've a rising violence in the country. an attack on november 14th saw hundreds to find a storm, a camp in the north, getting dozens of police officers and full civilians. following the ambush, president cowboy, a pledge reforms to the military and the government must be swooning. over the coming days. nicholas hack has been falling the story from deca. this announcement comes as no surprise there was an ultimatum set by the opposition. asking for change in the leadership in burkina faso or else there would be more protest. there

were protests just 2 weeks ago calling on the resignation of prison, hawk mach cowboy. and it seems, with the dismissal of this government critic say, it's him deflecting responsibility for the uptake of attacks just 3 weeks ago as security forces came under attack from groups affiliated to al qaeda. and when it came turned out that the security forces had gone 2 weeks without food ration. there was uproar and national condemnation. there's been an increase in attack in the north of the country. the president has since a dismiss 30 or so a higher ranking officers replacing them with younger ones. now, with this announcement of the dismissal of a prime minister is expected that a new government will be announced. a much smaller one to 33, a member of cabinet, and this will be done before sunday, when ricky fosset will celebrate it's independence day. but there is

a sense on the streets that not enough is being done by the leadership of burkina faso. and specifically the president to tackle the deteriorating security situation with millions of people displaced and in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. still ahead on al jazeera us democracy, somebody will tell you he's no advice. why some critics say that america has its own challenges. ah hello, good to see, here's your weather report for the middle east. we do have some activity move in across northern areas of syria, iraq into western portions of iran, but by and large things looking good. plenty of sun in the mix here. same goes for pakistan. that's where the south and the north karachi $29.00 degrees at low hor,

$22.00. so the mornings and the nights a bit fresh here. off to turkey and the situation here fairly calm after that act of weather rolled across the 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 at 40 bungie 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 his 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 wet weather and we may power up some thunderstorms. so we look at the forecasts for johannesburg. the risk is there for the next few days in some breezy conditions as well. that trap they will see again so ah.

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telecom jimmy lions who are the pro democracy activists have been found guilty of organizing and participating and last year's bands. yemen square vigil on kong, bound the annual vigil to mark the 1989 massacre. pandemic versus prime minister has announced to return to tyson current of ours restrictions to stem the spread on the con there or is johnson is urging people in england was home and as mandating, coven going to save the children, says this year. more than of course, have a 1000000 children and 8 countries may have died. charity says children in east africa bearing the brunt climate crisis and his calling on governments to fully funded response plan ah, is ranking military official in india is mall at least 13 killed in a helicopter crash. the aircraft came down to short of his destination, which was

a military trading college in the southern state of thomas noddy defense chief general pepin ro at his wife and 11 others were killed. one person survived and is being treated in a military hospital who de bhaskar is a retired indian navy commodore. he says general pepin routes had many unique skills and finding his replacement will be difficult. my change is that the government will soon appoint another cbs big forward b o that had been entrusted the 1st cbs, which will be in decoration and to and got a joint mis among the 3 armed forces, the army air force. and maybe i'm, the final objective is to have a camera general time spent the last 2 years working very diligently to 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 law 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 need for one element to be able to get either connie got either dropped off of each surveys and also have an interface when both the indian, you know, we have a very, very distinctive profile. i've also the indian political establishment. so you need, i think, next entity in terms of the human skill set that the next cbs will have to acquire

a month long sci fi between the pakistani taliban. the government ends on thursday, but the information minister says all our groups must surrender before talks can succeed. families of children who are killed by august owns taliban say they're angry at what they describe as the mainstreaming of arms groups. a solid bunch of aid reports from check data. but you want to give me my name. he asked the taliban, can your children? how can you talk to them? this is johan at protest against have government decisions to talk to the markets. funding dollar bonds of her son was among the $132.00 students killed at an army public school by the on group in 2014 by 7. say the arkansas taliban said it was intervention for the military operations in tribal areas in may will such as it gets a blood though shawna is now angry at the bucket. finally,

government and military for something, negotiations without punishing the culprits of that attack. so get the bose if she those are the how do i forget everything? they say 80000 people have been killed. you're not the only one. i sympathize with everyone. but how do i forgot my dad? sorry about miss up kelly. do you this is wrong. they are criminals. how can you forgive murders? the goblin says the state has the right to talk, but the group will have to, in its words, bow, it's head before the constitution. in addition to releasing a large number of its prisoners, the biggest one he thought of bonds demands reported the include opening a political office in the country, reversing the merger of tribal areas with the northern k p province. and the enforcement of its version of islamic law and buckets fund or move. and while let me go see ations that are underway, law enforcement team said they are carrying out operations against what they call criminals and terrorists. this is not the 1st time the government is talking to the

pakistan taliban or t t p. but simultaneously a database is being established to make sure they have the details of the sympathizers, the supporters and the factors which belong to the group. now by guests on special security department says it's implementing a research based strategy to understand trends of terrorism. this new process is helping the police to carry out hundreds of targeted operations across the northern k p province, which is a border with a lot of on crime and terrorism has a lot of nexus. also, they do not have any lead mentored or a structured organization. they keep moving from one, dennis group to the other and we've been able to get and then give a guideline to our feel units. and they are now going for target operations. but buckets on highest court is not convinced the strategy to hold talks, isabel port out. it's already some prime minister in ron hahn and the judge of asked him quote, are we going to surrender once again?

he was told you brought those guilty to the negotiating table, all the group individuals. and you know, the groups that have to surrender before any rock and the government maintains the pockets time you thought about have safe havens across the border. in earnest on the latest, the slide was brokered by the gun tyler bond that used its influence with the pockets timing thought of on mobile cush school with the sun seek of the other. we are acting as an intermediary and we can only try. we will continue to do it so that the talk should reach to a fruitful and in between the 2 brothers or eg foods. as the murky talks that are under way, shall hon. shows us the steam, who are sons, blood on his shoe, victims of the buckets, tiny lavonne, demanding justice before making deals with who they see as murderers. solomon job of era chucked up northern buck, a son. the us house of representatives has voted in favor of banning imports from

china as weston sion john region of a face forced labor consents its parts of washington's pushback against beijing's treatments 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. the un says at least a 1000000 week is all being held in county extremism centers, engine jung, and to lunch force, labor is rife which facing has denied. adrian's, as is a senior fellow in china, studies with the victims of communism, memorial foundation, he says, action on the issue of important goods made using force. labor is long overdue. 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 was 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 shinji. cotton is huge. it's very hard to divest from it. companies now are 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 and new documents that leek last week to show young papers show that she jumping himself and other government lead us in beijing

likely could chung, i actually behind the schemes. and this is a major, major concern, a major human rights violation on an industrial scale. the united states is hosting a 2 day summit with more than a 100 countries to discuss the decline of global democracy. some experts have criticized the guest less claiming it includes governments with questionable human rights records. it comes amid a slew of slate, state laws, restricting voting rights in the us. can we help 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 him the u. s. and

elsewhere, it's no secret that there is democratic backsliding happening around the world. that's why u. s. 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 as summit. we directly arm and finance some of the most authoritarian an 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 re foundation. the guest list for the summit has also raised eyebrows. countries like india and israel has been invited to attend. they've been criticized internationally for their authoritarian responses, kashmir and the palestinian territories. meanwhile, turkey and hungry, both nato allies are excluded. it does not mean that we are invite that every one we're inviting 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,

to 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 help it al jazeera, the white house i had of instagram as calling on politicians to help regulate social media platforms with new laws specifying wants, expected as in missouri, is testifying before us senators, who a, scrutinizing the photo sharing apps, impact on children leaks, 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. i want to assure you that we do have the same goal. we all want teens to be safe online. you know,

that isn't going away and i believe there's important work that we can do together, industry and policy makers. now 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 safety. how to verify edge, how to build an age appropriate experiences and how to build parental controls. psych 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 instruments made leading up to this hearing today are 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. aah on their feed 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 in lower than back to the platform. ultimately, i think it's incumbent upon governments to look at how it is we can better structure. ah, the incentives behind companies like facebook on that rely upon this toxic business models to railings. advertising, japanese billionaire has become the 1st fee paying space tourist to visit the international space station in more than a decade. this is the moment the hatch was opened and you suck. who miss our entered the officer and was greeted by the stations crew. the flight to got from a cosmo joy, i'm in kazakhstan on wednesday the tourists will spend 12 days in orbit. ah, this is out there. are these your top stories.