making a healthier world for you everywhere. ah . ready no official station, no general election in 15 years, bonds the occupied west bank is voting at a local level. and as a push for more inclusivity. ah, good morning done, harvey one, i'm come all santa maria with the world news from al jazeera, an economic lifeline has been reopened. as a u. s. government allows family members to send desperately needed cash back to afghanistan. also the tough task ahead for thousands of uganda troops as they joined the battle to confront the allied democratic forces. this is in democratic

republic of congo, and the traditional handcrafted gun making industry in india administered kashmir is under threat. ah, 9 am on a saturday in the occupied west bank where local elections are getting underway with around 400000 palestinians eligible to vote at the 1st polls in 2 years. but the leaders of fata and hamas remain at odds over when to hold the next general election. the last one was 15 years ago. we live with our correspond needed abraham in the occupied west bank shortly. first, a look at what these local polls might tell us about the bigger political picture in palestine. these women are running for the local council and our sita shamaya village. in the north of the occupied bank, the visiting potential voters to campaigned for the electoral list were than 6000

voters in the village are eligible to choose 11 council members. 20 percent of local council seat half to include women by law law. while women here are active in the campaign, photos of them were missing from the campaign. posters, in many villages, faces of women were replaced by pictures of flowers or other graphics because of conservative views. if he mil activist in the village has, she's pushing for a better representation of women in politics. literacy, we like a political will to advance women's rights. we are not there just to fill the female quotas high. we need laws that ensure that women are not being ignored. the walk local councils are responsible for basic services such as water, electricity, and infrastructure. they don't pass legislations or deal with national politics. local elections could improve day to day issues for palestinians, but many say they want a general election to choose their political leaders. it's been 15 years since

palestinians voted for a parliament because of political in fighting. 6 months ago the palestinian president mahmoud abbas again postponed their general election and didn't set a new date. the law through fraud. and it's really important to hold elections, to change the economic situation, laws and change the regime and of him. and now there are no indications that we're getting any closer to holding any parliamentarian or presidential elections. and this is a fact that her math has boycotted the local elections because the movement wants long delayed general and presidential elections. but some of that supporters are running for municipal office, while others planned to vote. the ruling party in the west bank already has wide support in these local elections. will lead to dead who is the head of pulls at the palestinian center for policy and survey research. he conducted the pool in some of the villages where elections are being held ill by lay barbarella in. people usually choose their candidates based on familial relations and not political affiliations. also into math is not running. we can't measure the popularity of

political factions based on those elections. half of the 1800 people pulled described the status of democracy in the west bank as bad or very bad. net ever made that report his life for us now in the village asserted, which is near ramallah and the occupied west rank morning. nita. 400000 palestinians eligible to voters. how much interest would you say there is because from your report i got the impression that they really want to be voting in a different election. indeed, they want to be voting in general and presidential elections. but in the mean time, all they have is that these municipal elections are local councils whereby there is a lot of emphasis, unfamiliar ties on relations between people and the services that are being provided. these councils do not have any say in the national politics. they don't pass legislations, so people are here yet eager to vote for in the general elections to choose their

own leaders to decide where their political path is going. they've been under occupation for decades now, and they don't see their political leadership hunting in any direction that is listening to the people's voices. so in the meantime, what they're, what's happening here is that people are voting in these local council elections, urine. so the, there are around 303500 people who are voting to day to choose 11 council members. and there. and we've noticed that among the 5 lists competing 2 of them belong to fetter. now, as we've said in the report, many of those villages that they're undergoing elections today have the wide support for faster. but it's also hard to measure how much that affects the bigger picture. because her mass is not running. and it's already happening in villages where the familial ties are very, very strong, local elections in the occupied west bank today. that's near to abraham in sort of

that. thank you, nita, onto the news in the world's leading. new clear inspector has told al jazeera iran needs to grow more access to its atomic facilities. if it hopes to establish some international trust, i just run of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. still going in vienna. the head of the international atomic energy agency wants surveillance cameras reinstalled and he says the iranians need to be more transparent about what they're doing. the ages he and he ran are trained to come to an agreement on or, or basically 2 things. one is the capability or the ability of the agency to return to one facility, one specific facility in iran, where we need to reinstall cameras or that need to be there. and it has been difficult to do this. so we have been talking about these and the other thing is how to address a number of issues which need to be clarified. the agency found traces of

nuclear material in places that had not been declared before. full interview is coming up on talk to al jazeera with the i. e, a chief rafael grossey. that is at o 830 g m t that tomorrow sunday dozen people have been injured in an explosion in the lebanese port city of tyre. this was late friday evening in a palestinian refugee camp in the country itself. security forces have now launched an investigation. people in the united states can now send money to family members in afghanistan involving financial institutions controlled by the taliban and the akani network. both groups are otherwise subject to you as sanctions, but this money is a lifeline for many afghans with global robin, it's as making up to 4 percent of g d p. last year. it comes as the well banks as done as have agreed to transfer $280000000.00 to yourself and the world food

program to provide nutrition and health services in afghanistan, you and warning, nearly 9000000 afghans of facing famine. this winter is rosalyn jordan, following the sun from washington. the fact that some 9000000 people are facing the prospect of famine, which is of the most serious level in a country that is suffering from food insecurity, is very much the impetus. but this decision by the us treasury department, is a very narrowly crafted decision. people here in the united states can send money to individuals in afghanistan. and they can do so through us banks, which then may be engaging with financial institutions controlled by the taliban, or the ha connie network for the express purpose of putting that cache in the hands of individuals inside afghanistan. the money can't be used for ra,

nonprofit organizations, humanitarian a, our charity, a groups, for example. it also cannot be used to give to people who were trying to set up businesses. this is strictly to give people the ability to buy food and medicine to acquire of fuel to heat their homes as winter is closing in, in afghanistan. and some thoughts here from a hot shop a he b who is the founder of rise to piece say, piece building policy organization. he was also from a u. s. counter terrorism advisor, enough dentist on told us is still a lot. busy more work for the town to do before it can be recognized by the us. there are options in terms of the u. s. is discussing and i think from our realistic perspective we're looking into the us of interest at the end and the actions that a taller one, not the fancy wars, but it's a hard decision. i think kind of the pulling out of an honest on it was a big decision to make before buying ministration the same way,

recognizing the tall one. i don't think it's going to happen soon if it, if it did that, think it's going to take a whole, international or collateral will take different nations and regional efforts. but the tall one has to 1st deliberate actions that you are a little quieter, and they're not going to use that on us on to attack the u. s. soils and allies. i think that is the 1st question that needs to be 1st resolved in order for the us to make a decision. but we're talking about millions of africa and uncertain about the future of their country and do ask ones who are, who are able to exit. i've honest on your little path limbo, do or just for example, we had interviewed one ask one family that it did well. i was able to get out of honest on but how can i help my family at this situation? i think this general license 16 and this exact that afford a will allow that person to wire money to his family orient,

launched on right now under this protection. protect a world where the next and then the high court in london, koreans. the way for the wiki makes found the julian, our phones face trial in the united states in an investigation begins in mexico up to more than 50 microns kills. when they are overcrowded truck over ah hello there, there's more wet windy and when she weather to come for europe over the next few days. and of course that means more snow. now we had the 1st snow of the season fall in berlin in germany. and in vienna, austria turned into a bit of a winter wonderland. and there's more of that to come as these waves of unsettled weather push across from the west to the east. so it's gonna feel cold and frosty in the southeast, but it is going to be rather mild to turn rather mild across western areas and to

the north west. we are going to see some temperatures pick up in london and paris. but let's have a closer look at the intense wintry mix that's on the way for the balkans is going to push across from italy wet and windy weather here, very wet as well for grease. but by the time we get into sunday, that's going to push off towards turkey. now, behind it, things are gonna start to dry up. we're going to have spells of sunshine before the i barian peninsula. we've seen some very heavy snow across the north of spain. we'll look at that, and it's going to turn milder as well for the north west. if we look to britain, an island, we will have some showers, but we'll also have some spells of dry weather with sunshine. and if we haven't looked at the 3 day for london, we are going to see the temperature pick up. touching 13 degrees on sunday, rather cloudy through to monday, but it will be dry. that sure weather update. ah, in the country with an abundance of resource rate,

all in one moment we move to grow and froth. we balance rena economy, blue economy, and the digital economy. with the new job creation law, indonesia progressively ensuring the policy reform to create all the jobs. invest palm springs and programs. and now, oh, the me on out of the are, these are the top stories, this our palestinians in the occupied west bank head into the pulse with a local election. local poll used to launch political careers,

but it's been 15 years now since there's been a general vote in palestine due to political infighting. leading nuclear inspectors told al jazeera iran needs to grow more access to its program. if it hope to establish trust talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, feel ongoing in vienna. and people in the u. s. can now send money to dentist on using financial institutions control by the telephone group is otherwise subject to us sanctions. this money is a lifeline from any actor. also the you in warning, 89000000 a facing famine. this, when you get to the soldiers across the border into democratic republic of congo last week, taking pass in a joint operation to track down gunman from an armed group known as the allied democratic forces. the people on the ground though there was hope and unease about this partnership, or from malcolm web over the last 10 days, the people of this small board of town in democratic republic of congo have seen thousands of uganda and troops crossing you can,

his army says it in congo to hunt down an armed grave called the allied democratic forces abs, which is blamed for killing thousands of civilians in this area. over the last 7 years. you got an army has been accused of meddling and looting minerals in congo several times since it 1st invaded 25 years ago. to be honest, we did not celebrate the arrival of began to troops crossing a border, but we hope they can help deal with the insecurity that we've been facing for a long time. the adf fight as a hiding out in forest to the guns and tanks and armored vehicles have struggled to advance on the muddy road. so they brought in great as to repair them. uganda and major general clans, him of hunger, is commanding. the operation come. we only want it if you don't have machines to look for boys, you don't have

a machine is the route for day one is we don't have machine is got the and by the only thing we have is our gun fight radio. you can the government claims the adf for 3 suicide bomb explosions in the capital can paula last month. the adf is the reason the from uganda. but his fighters have been hiding in the forests of congo for more than 20 years. and opperation is the latest in a series of failed attempts to defeat the armed group. since some of the roads are impossible, ugandan commanded to walk to meet that congo lease counterparts. they say that joined military operations, concluded, of course, going to new. so more homeless people need to understand that we're facing a situation of terrorism in which we must unite our forces with others. adf is part of an international terrorist movement. some of their tax are claimed by isis in the presence of fighters from different countries like you conduct somalia and

tanza. nea confirms this investigator said the adf has been in contact with iso and other regional armed groups. the extent of any collaboration isn't clear about the adf, political and business. interesting, congo, i'm, you can the have been more apparent including cocoa and tim, the export, congolese soldiers repairing the ways to. it's just the start of what you can does on corners. army say will be the end of the adf. everyone he's tried before, has failed. malcolm web out, his era flooding in south sedans, effective 70 percent of the northern state of unity. you instead of mission visited the city of been to venture to assess recovery operations. that's crisis inspecting as many as 850000 people with the u and warning the flood waters could take up to 50 years to evaporate naturally. strongly. the e u has warned russia to scale bank. it's military build up on the border with

ukraine threatening will sanctions if troops were to invade the european commission . president us that of angela made the comments during a joint news conference with germany's new chancellor. she says the block wants to improve relations with russia, but it's hostile stance towards its neighbors is undermining european security. the about, we want de escalation from russia and the cessation of all aggression against its neighbors. it should respect the sovereign rights of nations. otherwise, the european union would be looking to intensify its sanctions and also to take other measures across economic sectors and financial sector. and nato secretary general young stolen and the rejected russian demands to revoke a commitment to ukraine. the country would one day become a member of the west, a military alliance. ukraine is not the natal member, so the security guarantees does not apply for ukraine. but at the same time, you're praying this a honey value partner over a thought on all it,

all eyes support your brains, territorial integrity and sovereignty, and nathan need one. those also provide support and political support and practical support. now the legal team for wikileaks found a jill in a song say they will try to appeal his latest set back at the supreme court. our sons lost a bid to stop extradition proceedings to the united states, where he'd faced charges for leaking military secrets. i caught in london overturned an earlier rolling. that ascent would be a suicide risk if he lost his sanctuary in the you. k. as in bob, a with warner from london. ha, for supporters of julian assange. it's a worrying moment. 2 judges at the high court in london have ruled the wiki leaks, found a can be extradited to the united states, to face espionage charges, as and his partner with whom he has 2 young children, was there to hear the decision. it's been almost a year since i stood outside court with our victory as the blocking of the

extradition for the past year. and the past year, 2 years and a half julia has remained in bell march prison. and in fact, he has been detained since the 7th of december 2010 in one form for another 11 years for how long can this go on? the decisions based on assurance is presented by lawyers for the u. s. government at october's appeal hearing, they said assigns wouldn't be subject to solitary confinement or held at a maximum security prison. they also said they had diplomatic assurances he could serve any prison sentence in his native australia. judges here effectively decided there was now no reason to believe assange would be a clear suicide risk, which the original ruling had found. the us wants a sense to face trial over the release in 2010 of thousands of classified military documents relating to the u. s. was in afghanistan and iraq. but amnesty international has denounced the decision saying the u. s. charges represent

a serious threat to press freedom. something echoed by his supporters. ricki lake was a organization of whistleblowers. it made it absolutely safe and secure for whistleblowers to her to bring the truth to the public. all he has done as tell the truth and understand donna's job right is upset their leads, but he has done his job to tell us what's going on. this decision is clearly a big setback for the campaign to free julian a science. but it's already taken years to get to this point and it could be a long time before we know definitively whether he'll be sent to the united states . the case has been sent back to the lower court, so a judge can refer the expedition to home secretary, pretty patel. but julian, the sound his legal team. so they'll try to lodge an appeal with a supreme court, challenging the american assurances that he won't be treated humanely. nadeem barbara al jazeera london

we'll start our current of ours run up in germany. we're a new law requires health workers to be vaccinated against cove at 9 seem. politicians are also considering making coven vaccines, compulsory for all german adults. the law could be debated by parliament as early as next month. south african scientists say there's no sign, the omicron variant is causing more severe cases of current of ice. a hospital data shows admissions, arising sharply, but patients are spending less time in care and deaths remain low. south africa reported more than 19000 new cases of coven 19 on friday, and 20 deaths. very promising sides, but largely ambitions. even those who had in husband are a mild, many of them at incidental. they came into the hospital for other reasons. other illnesses. and because when you have to be admitted,

you have to test that 1st and many of those who had come for other reasons after the positive that the united states remains the country with the largest number of new corona virus cases in the world. the cdc, the center for disease control and prevention says new code infections have increased dramatically this past week to more than 118000 a day. and the number of locally transmitted cases in china is also on the rise. 51 likely transmitted cases reported on friday, which was from 37 the day before. remember, china has a 0 covert strategy which involves mass lock downs, even when only a small number of people are infected with the violence. japan has hosting an international summits on global abductions and as long as use north korea adopting in detaining hundreds of its citizens. and 20 years ago, north korea admitted it did kit, not 13 japanese nationals. they were forced to train spies in japanese language and

culture. gang allowed 5 of them to return home, but said the others died. hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers from central and south america of blocked a crucial highway between mexico city and the state of quibbler. the groups traveling north to the us border. many began the weeks long journey without carrying any food or water. it's been an increase in the number of migrants trying to reach the u. s. in recent and elsewhere in mexico and investigations, beginning into the depth of 55 migrants and asylum seekers. as many as 200 were crammed into a truck when it overturned in the southern state of us, mama rap low is following developments from mexico city. a small roadside vigil in southern mexico residence from the city of dukes in chiapas state paying their respects to at least 55 central american migrants who were killed in a vehicle accident on thursday. the rescue workers a see the out pouring of support for the survivors of the crash has been massive

his last night it was known. we had 34 in your, in my grants here. and that there are people who are only carrying what they are wearing. unfortunately, right, no, not even their clothes are in good condition due to the accident, locals joining to the ne, healing materials, groceries and food authorities in southern mexico, say the accident occurred when a truck carrying as many as 200 people crammed into its cargo space flipped on its side scattering men, women and children across the road. more than 100 people were injured many seriously. although others say it could have been much worse. said the only thing, god, nothing serious happened. i only have a broken arm, but at least i am fine immigration policy experts say the accident reveals a clear case of human smuggling and is directly linked to the ongoing migrant crisis playing out on mexico southern border international observers or calling on

regional government to do more to protect the rights of migrants, the un saying more than 4400 have died in mexico this year. jean. and if this latest incident isn't a reminder for the world, for member states to agree on controlled and managed migration, it's unclear to see what is law enforcement from the state of g. opposite say, the driver of the truck carrying the migrants fled the scene. they say an investigation into the fatal accident is underway. and wizard up a little al jazeera mexico city. now people in haiti is stage new protests against the government over the rising cost of fuel acting president arial on reordered. the price increase off to subsidies with cut have seen severe fuel shortages and an increase in gang related kidnappings. following the assassination of president german noise back in july, leave 2 people killed and several others injured after

a tornado route through eastern parts of the united states. in illinois, the extreme weather caused a roof to collapse at an amazon warehouse emergency crews still trying to rescue dozens of people trapped in that facility. 2 people died in a nursing home. it's all in the state of arkansas or still in the us. president joe biden says he's very concerned about a supreme court decision to keep curbs on abortion in texas, but bite inhaled part of the ruling that allows abortion providers to challenge the state law. which benz procedures after 6 weeks, that law came into effect in september, it is the strictest in the nation. barring the procedure at a time when many women don't even know they are pregnant. on the title rules on gun ownership in indian administered kashmir, push traditional firearms manufacturers to the brink of closure. only 2 factories remain open in the region, which used to be a thriving hub for hunting rifles. elizabeth her on him as the support. nasdaq,

missouri was one of just 7 gunsmith left an indian administered kush meat. he works in this fact restarted by his father and 1953 when cush, midi guns were famous for the workmanship. they were mostly bought for hunting and sometimes self defense, but decades of violence and the region led to the indian government, limiting the number of guns manufacturers are allowed to produce. and more recently, a ban on new licenses being issued to gun owners. if there's more than $25.00 workers were employed in this factory, but now that we hardly make new guns, but most people come for repairs. our children are willing to carry forward the family legacy because there's hardly any money in the trade museum by the sidewalks as trademark wooden bots, like this made cush media guns, famous overseas juggle. just it takes 10 to 15 days to make a gun gun making needs a great deal of experience. most of it is handmaid, the rifle, but is made of all not wood with

a find finish and it looks beautiful. historians say the once thriving industry has become another casualty of the worsening security in the region. dr. turner, why do you do uncertain situation here? gun me goes, have come under tremendous scrutiny. you were, they were subjected to, jackson had esmond by the authorities, but they got scared. and as the armed conflict ridge, they abandoned their profession. the violence has led to the decline of many traditional war kitchens in the bush. me ready shall have athletics one of hundreds of workers who have lost their job. he now makes electrical equipment for a living. i thank you. i got on board for generations. my family was making guns in this neighborhood. there were 15 factories and all of the men here used to work in these factories. 13 of closed because of strict rules. so i had to open this workshop to provide for my family, then making as in my blood and it will never die. as eda smith owns one of the last 2 factories and is asking the government to lift its ban on gun licenses,

or that is i reward on the street as dying every passing day. the government's excuses that the security situation in the region is not good. but what have you got to do with that? the guns manufactured here have never been misused. they are used for hunting and not for vaught or god forbid for any militant activities. as the 0 brothers put the finishing touches on their guns, they say they hope they won't become the last of the regions gunsmith, elizabeth per annum al jazeera new delhi. ah. how fast they are. and these are the headlines, palestinians in the occupied west bank are heading to the polls for local elections . a local pulse used to launch political careers, but it's been 15 years now since a general election in palestine. duty political infighting, either headlines or wells leading new.