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wants the international nuclear deal to be revive, but says us sanctions must go before any agreement. ah, we begin in the u. s. where at least 70 people have been killed by a series of tornadoes that rip through 6, mid western and southern states. dozens of people are missing, homes have been destroyed, and workplace is decimated. president joe biden says it's likely to be one of the largest tornado outbreaks new as history, and that the total number of dead still isn't known. while the extreme weather has left a trail of destruction, stretching more than 320 kilometers, as particle hain, our reports, one town seemingly wiped away in one evening mayfield kentucky where a candle factory with 110 people inside was leveled. a trapped worker took to facebook live to plead for help,

and we aren't shred to please give us some help. we're at the candle factory in may . you please bring us. she got out, but the governor believes the vast majority of workers did not. room was a lot alive at that facility and i pray that there. ready will be another rescue approval, they'll be another one or 2. but it, it's a very dire situation. at this point. the storms with as many as 30 tornadoes could be seen from space tornadoes that came down and stay down causing damage for more than 300 kilometers. this plane, i believe, when it's all said and done, we're waiting for the numbers to come in. will be a near 400 kilometer path length and very likely that this torina will be rated violence, which means e f, or e, f 5. i'm expecting winds peak wind speeds to be well over 200 miles per hour with

this particular tornado. and it wasn't just kentucky in amazon warehouse in illinois, a nursing home in arkansas destruction in missouri and tennessee states that expect tornadoes but not usually in december. the national guard has been called in, and the search has started to see if there are survivors trapped underneath all of this. still, the death toll is likely to climb from this unexpected, massive and powerful storm. well, let's begin. particle hang whose lie for us in washington dc potty. so these are some of the worst tornado seen in recent years. and president biden's been talking to several governors. what was even saying buffy? well, he has been talking to the governors and he got very early on a request from the governor of kentucky to declare a federal emergency that paperwork has been signed that will get more financial aid and resources flowing to kentucky. he said he's waiting for the other governors to ask and he will quickly sign it pretty rapid. actually the,

the way things go. it usually takes a couple of days. the president, as you mentioned, joe biden, he did as address the nation as presidents tend to do when you're seen damage of this scale, this sort of situation. and he said this is a time for americans to come together. this is a common refrain from the president, but he said this is something that the country can rally together to help the people who are impacted by this. he said that the federal government is going to stand by these, the hundreds of thousands of people likely who will have been impacted. and he also wanted to remind people of the personal cost that so many people are facing because of these storms. i monitor your situation very closely since early this morning. this is likely one of the largest tornado of rakes in our history. earlier today i call the governors of the states that admin experience severe impacts the stormy, including arkansas, illinois, kentucky, missouri as well as tennessee, and also spoke with minority leader miss mcconnell of kentucky governor brochure.

and i started off the morning together and, and he said i was watching on television while talking to mike. all of you have. and he, his comment was a, looks like a war zone. but worse, joel, i pray and i am sincerely me, this pray for those have lost love once and for those are uncertain of the fate of their loved ones and parties. so what sort of help then will the various states be asking from the federal government? well, they're going to need, obviously a lot of help. the national guards been called in kentucky and their job is going to be live actually brought in a couple 100 more. their job is going to be to clear the roads 1st and foremost because this was such a large swath of destruction, right. and especially in these rural communities, usually there's may be one road into town, one road out of town, and a, a semi truck that went over cars, trucks, trees, power, lines, trains of derailed because of the intensity of the wind. so they have to clear the roads, get the staff in there,

and then this is the gory job of going door to door. they are going to be listening to hear if there are any survivors trapped into that rubble, they're going to bring the heavy machinery. so they can remove some of that rubble, but the president talked about how precarious that is for the rescuers, because they're afraid that if they do something wrong, it'll collapse if someone was alive in there, then they will not survive the rescue attempt. so they're going to go door to door, trying to figure out exactly if there are any survivors. now, usually they give themselves $48.00, you know, maybe 3 days, and then they switch to recovery. at the death toll really hasn't climb to all day . we've been seen that never stay at 70. that's because it's going to take time to get these people in to go search for those survivors and to start counting the dead . but the federal government, what they do is they send in trailers because it's cold. this time of year it's not supposed to be warm enough to create a term tornado outbreak. so the cold front that created this is there now, so people don't have shelter. they're going to need to bring in these what they

have fema trailers. busy where people can live, where they can have water bathrooms, heat, and then they're going to try and brian water filtration system. so people can have water, they'll bring in food, and they'll bring in a personnel. so it's a lot that the federal government has to bring in the brain, cell phone towers, these portable cell phone tower. so with communications can be brought back up to speed. so there's a lot that they have to get to. and of course, it's gonna take time because again, the destruction was just so wide spread at pretty much ever. you look in this huge zone, things destroyed. and so it's clean, it's going to take a very long time. counting, the number of dead is expected to go up, but again, it's going to take days if not weeks to find out just how many people lost their lives to be storms. yeah. all right, practical home life. a stay in washington dc. patsy. thank you. well, john allen is an assistant professor meteorology at central michigan university. he says, communities have been entirely destroyed over a wide area. what you see with one of these events, you has stubbing

a branches, the trees, but look like they've been denuded of all boxes. the branches have stopped. what was a home? it's no longer there. the debris is scattered over maybe the course of a mile or more. and so you might just see a slab of warehouse was in this case, we're seeing that type of damage. the debris can be transported enormous def, distances events like this. we've seen the very transported hundreds of miles downstream. people's photograph checks, landing in people's backyards well and truly away from the event. and in having been relatively close to tornadoes like joplin, missouri, and 2011. the sense of just lost within the community the us to which direction to turn. i think it's one of the, the serious issues here. you know, if the emergency responders in this situation are going to be overwhelmed with already had months, is the pandemic and other element related issues causing,

causing people challenges. and now we've got this event where basically every way you turn those damaged is a 200 mile area. at least one tornado that is currently being cleared up. farm benefits from g. 7. countries have been urged to show unity against global aggressors as they meet in the u. k. city of liverpool, russia in particular, has been singled out by the us and britain for massing troops on ukraine's border. but funding consensus among allies may be difficult for me to pull really challenge prisons. foreign secretary welcomed her richwell counterparts with a broad band and coven conscious fist bumps the u. k. the u. s. canada, germany, france, italy, japan. the g 7 is a club of advanced economy democracies and their friends. and these meetings are a chance for them to affirm both what they're for and what they're against. we need

to defend ourselves against the growing threats from hostile actors. and we need to come together strongly to stand up to aggressors who are seeking to limit the bounds of freedom and democracy. have all their perceived threats, coven, china, iran, and more. it's massive, russia that is seen as the hottest issue with russian troops massed on the other side of the ukrainian border. that's clear. alarm from western democracies about the possibility of an invasion. what we have to do is deter russia from taking that course of action. i'd been very clear, it would be a strategic mistake for russia to do that. and what the g 7 meeting this weekend, the taking place is about is about a show of unity between like minded major economies. liz trust is rallying cry for what she calls the free. well, just like minded countries should step up that should unify that to stop the

introspection and drift and pushed back against perceived, aggressive russia and china. and they should do this using economics and technology . but germany is no stream to gas. pipeline project with russia is an example that true unity can be elusive. germany's the green party, foreign minister, and alina barbara, is against it. social democrat boss, chancellor schultz, is for it. and germany is not yet agreeing to threaten russia as the us and u. k. would liken with blocking nord stream to invade to ukraine, uniting the free well is easier said than done re talents. how does era livable not the u. s. is sending its leading diplomat for europe to russia and ukraine. current done freed will meet senior officials in kevin moscow the 2 days apart from the russian troop build up. the state department says don't free bottles, i push the progress on ending the conflict in eastern ukraine. suffer. so break

your al jazeera when we come back. environmental protests escalated service company despite concessions from a government. and we look at why some routes and one south african province of pushing for independence more than the states. ah hello then let's look to north america and after 232 days without snow, the 1st flakes fell in denver. this was the scene there. you can see that snow falling, not just in colorado, but also in utah. now it has calm down across those central and southeastern areas for the main weather story. we have to head to that west coast. we've got another winter storm that's rolled into western parts of canada and the north west of the u . s. dropping heavy snow rain and bring you some of the stronger winds to places

like british columbia as well as oregon and into washington. now by the time we get into monday, it's going to trickle down further south to northern areas of california. we are expecting to possibly see some flash flooding about a months worth of rain could fall from sunday in some monday. so a very wet week for san francisco. it gets wet, a full os angeles on tuesday and wednesday before it does start to dry up. but across large areas of the us, we are seeing a lot of fine and why whether continue, especially for the eastern coast. we had some tornadoes wold across the southeast, but that system has pushed out to sea. we are seeing temperatures recover in new york and washington dc, and we are going to see a lot of a warm spread up to those central areas that sure update. ah, ah, inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness, imperialism, world wide. i've to reward merits and excellence and encourage creativity,

the shape, tomato, ward for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bones of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. ah, ah ah, we'll come back and pick them out about top stories here. this, our series of tornadoes has ripped through 6 us midwestern states. the governor of kentucky says more than 70 people have been killed in his state alone. dozens of fear dead that a candle factoring the town of mayfield off the roof caved him. he has president

joe biden as promised extensive federal aid for all the states effected. he describes the tornadoes as some of the worst seen in american history and warn climate change, making weather events, more intense. on the british, foreign secretary has called for western unity against authoritarianism and threats from russia and china. you case hosting juice and foreign ministers in liverpool along with delegates from southeast asian countries. let's return to our top story now. those u. s. tornadoes that killed dozens of people, and bc correspond that j grey is live for us in bonnet in arkansas, j. so we understand there was a direct it on a nursing home in monica where you all, what's been happening that yeah, it's been chaos sir. obviously people stand and trying to work through exactly what's happened here. all to walk you through what survivors say played out here, the store. moving from across this way across the parking lot, knocking down trees. it's dark back there now throwing these cars and tearing them

apart. and then as you talk about a direct hit on this nursing home, you can see it ripped away the wall a tor way. the roof here inside one of the patients died as a result of the storm, several others were injured. they've all been moved to hospitals outside of the strike. so this all took place when a cold front collided with the unseasonably warm temperatures across the mid west, and se, se barking this severe weather. now on the back side, it is getting cooler here tonight, and a lot of families not only here but across the entire region, wandering not only how they're going to stay warm, but where exactly they're going to stay at this point. so many have lost homes as a result of these just overwhelming tornadoes. all right, the j grey live us there in mana to knock and so j. thank you. now polls of open front independence referendum on the tiny south pacific island group of new caledonia. it's the 3rd time frenchwood territory will vote on the issue having now

he rejected the idea in 20182020. the main independence parties are boycotting the referendum, saying they're worried that holding it during a pandemic will reduce the likelihood of a yes vote. wayne hay is falling the boat and joins us live via skype from tauranga in new zealand. wayne's the prem independence groups. they're calling for people to stay away from the vote. what are the expect him to happen way? yes. well, those 2 previous referendum saw a very good turn out, and i think that's going to continue today for the 3rd and final votes. when it comes to those who want the status quo to remain to stay with france. but on the other side, the pro independence group, i think we're going to see a big reduction in numbers, going to the polls to cast their votes. and it's really because of those calls to boycott. the votes by those pro independence are political parties. you know, that should have been a day of great optimism, really for those who want independence a day of great excitement,

particularly when you look at those last 2 referendums. and the gap between the 2 groups was reduced quite dramatically over the course of those 2 votes. and so i don't think they're going to be able to get the numbers. if this boycott plays out the way it's expected to get across the line to get enough birds to get that independence vote. and oh, really comes back to the coven. 19 pandemic. proper campaigning hasn't been allowed . also, the indigenous cannot population. the overwhelming majority of whom supports independence . they've been very much affected by more than most by the coven 19 pandemic. so that's why those parties have called for the boycott, which the french government has said no to yeah, way. and what about new canada and his neighbors in the pacific? what have they been saying about the vote? well, the most vocal support, perhaps understandably come from some other melanesians countries. the likes of a lot to fiji pop when you guinea,

who have supported the coal to try to get this boat postponed until late next year that we know now that of course is not going to happen here in new zealand. the government keeping a very close watch on what happens in new caledonia today as well. it's a bit of a tricky situation for the new zealand government, the prime minister jacinta rodder and has very good working relations with the french president of manuel macro. um, but i think there will be within the government some unease about how this boat is playing out and the conditions that it is being held up. and perhaps in a pointed to that, we saw a statement from the new zealand minister of foreign affairs. and i am who are leading up to this referendum saying that while this was a matter diplomatically for. ready the french and new caledonian authorities. new zealand does have a proud record of self determination. so there's no doubt the new zealand government and governments, all of the south pacific countries will be watching the spot better very closely. alright, so wayne, hey, live us there in toronto in using and wayne,

thank you. that's a small but increasingly vocal push for independence in south africa. western cape province support as argue, the national government is dragging the province down. but some critics say the idea is racially motivated to discriminate against poorer communities. for me, the miller report. oh, colleen penny hasn't had a job for more than 5 years. he runs an advocacy group for the unemployed. here in south africa's western cape province, about 29 percent of people don't have jobs. the national average is nearly 35 percent aaliyah's unhappy with the government's policies, the liberals addressing the issues that covered exactly, unemployment. the liver loads good luck with those who are in bed wetting environment outside. the with the forum has thousands of members who support a call for the western cape to secede from south africa. the province has the 2nd

largest economy in the country, though supporting an independent cape say, a corrupt, national government is draining its resources to aid poor provinces. so effectively the people of the western type never get the democratic will always excluded from the system. they never get the government, they vote for and, and the consequences of that are all quite significant because the so africa is being badly managed and running to the ground. the people of the western cape are then suffering the consequences of government. they didn't select a one, they called remove the ballot box. south africa is made up of 9 provinces. 8 of them are governed by the african national congress. the opposition party, the democratic alliance has run the western cape since 1999. all the parties not supported the call for secession. it has pushed for a federal system. the cape independence party says recent polls suggest 58 percent of western cape voters. support the move for cape independence. but that fick has been disputed. those opposed to the idea,

say it's racially motivated and discriminates against the largely mixed race and black, often poorer communities in a province with a more prosperous white minority. i cannot support anything which seeks to create a false thought with the beneficiaries of a particle store own the land and old believers or we can on of economy control a can't be allowed to happen. these people are seeking to gay to things. am austin, race vs, observing slavery's. i'm honestly, i can also political. sufficient is a very good idea, but not in, not in terms of the difference of the using cape john, the capital of the western cape as great economic disparities often defined by race . critics say the chances of succession are low, any of you, the pool position by those living in the western cape has little merits and will go nowhere and that it lacks constitutional backing. but this isn't the 1st time they've been called from groups of people for their own nation states, with in south africa. and rather than being viewed as wishful thinking,

it means they'd be an expression of anger against the governing african national congress. but neither mila al jazeera south africa palestinians have been voting and municipal elections, choosing representatives for more than a 150 village and local councils across the occupied west bank. it was a rare chance to vote for palestinians comes as anger grows over the counseling of parliamentary and presidential elections. early this year by president mahmoud abbas hamas which governs the gaza strip, boycotted saturday local vote due to the respondent. iran president abraham raise. he says his government is serious about the latest round of talks in vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. he said, if world powers are willing to remove sanctions on terror on an agreement can be reached. us says there was an intense conversation among the g 7 countries, while united in that position on the talks will the head of the international atomic energy agency spoke to our correspondent dorsal jabari in vienna. rafael

grossey outlined the contentious issues that need to be ironed out. well, it was a wide ranging a discussion we, i specifically talked about the role of the i. e. but then we of course, talked about this, j. c, p o, a and raphael grossi was very much adamant that it is a deal that is very, very important and critical for their work. and they are not involved in the politics of this nuclear deal. they just want to verify what has been agreed to. he also talked about the issues that remain with iran. he admitted that iran is one of the, it's the country that as the most inspections of his nuclear program in the world. but despite that, he said there are still issues that they are discussing with iran. that is a cause for concern for the i. e a. and this is what he had to say about that specific those issues the ages he and iran are trying to come to an agreement on or, or based on 2 things. one these the capability or the ability of the agency

to return to one facility, one specific facility in iran, where we need to reinstall cameras that need to be there. and it has been difficult to today's show 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 a traces of nuclear material in places that had not been declared before they facility he's talking about. there is carriage that's out just outside of to ron. it's a workshop that produces central futures for around nuclear program. and ad here in said that they have the i. e, a had 4 cameras in that facility. and in june there was an act of sabotage which destroyed one of those cameras. and they blame israel for that. they said at that time that they are going to take all 4 cameras off line until there is an investigation. and there is some kind of a statement issued by the united nations and the i e. until that happens,

the ranges are not willing to open up again, inspections to that workshop. and the director general mentioned that this is one of the points of contention because they cannot determine what is happening in iran's nuclear program. if they don't know where the center features are going and how many are actually being made and you can watch the full interview with i a, a chief raphael grossey on talked to al jazeera, 30 g m t on sunday. protest as have been back out demonstrating in vienna against the austrian government's plans to make cope with 19 vaccines. compulsory. those were refused to get vaccinated, face a fine of more than $4000.00 every 3 bombs. austria has a 68 percent vaccination rate. one of the lowest in europe, protests was in serbia, had been blocking roads for a 3rd week and running denouncing plans for the mining am. lithium. southwest plans were smaller than past weeks after the government bound to some demands. it's grant laws that none to the said were designed to help mining giant re attentive stop

operations in the west of the country. now, the philippines is seriously concerned by allegations. it's one of several countries being spied on by china. a us based research group says malaysia and vietnam are also among the targets beijing denies. it's involving any state sponsored espionage campaigns. to melinda, the reports. now from manila, this south china seas territorial dispute is seen as the next security flash point in asia. beijing's illegal reclamation and growing military expansion have angered other claimant countries like indonesia, vietnam, and the philippines, who are the q split of blatantly violating international law. but china's stands accused to once again this time by a global research group which says it found evidence that the chinese government may be sponsoring espionage operations on several governments across se,

asia. the group recorded future says it's been able to identify what it describes as 400 online servers located in southeast asia. communicating with an online infrastructure connected to chinese state sponsored actors by using a custom malware to attack governments and private organisation websites in the region. among the targets are malaysia's ministry of defense and the royal militia police, as well as vietnam's ministry of environment and central office of the communist party. also described as victims of cyber intrusions or the philippine navy. the department of foreign affairs in manila and the presidential management staff, recorded future says all those con, she is, may be vulnerable to china's intelligence gathering operations we did seriously. and it, this gives us of situational awareness. we have measures in place to ensure our

security, the security of our vital systems. china is dismissing the report as at the same time, the firmly opposed to spreading false information for political purposes, misleading the international community, and instigating the relationship between other countries. the response to cyber attacks that the analysts say should be regional too slow, asked me don't have each and all 3 work on securing our cybersecurity. definitely china with big advantage, one diesel nerve with each one i see or should the forge a stronger cybersecurity boost and bake will be sure to walk home from foreign restless. this by china's denials their research highlight, beijing's growing strategic interest in government and private organizations across se, asia, and warrants that the cyber attacks are likely to increase in line with growing

political tensions. over control of this south china sea, jamal alan dorgan al jazeera manila ah type. okay, check out the headlines here on al jazeera, a series of tornadoes as ripped through 6, you estimate western states. more than 70 have been killed in kentucky alone. dozens of fear debit of factoring. the town of mayfield after the roof caved in. president biden described the tornadoes as among the worst in american history. and as promising emergency assistance for all states effected. i want folks from all the states, you know, we're going to get through this for you to get through this together and the federal government is not going to walk away.