so janet, you have, you made a short documentary by african filmmakers from molly, wanda, and cameron, desert library, the young cyclist and happy africa direct on al jazeera. ah, this is likely to wine, the largest turnage offering in our history. president biden says the number of lives lost in the full extent of damage is not yet known. papa tornadoes talk through parts of kentucky and other u. s. states. ah, hello, i'm darn jordan. this is out 0. lloyd from doha. also coming up the u. k. house g,

7 foreign ministers, warning russia over its military build up on the border with ukraine. voting is underway in the south pacific islands of new caledonia in a referendum on independence from france. i'm barons president says his country wants the nuclear deal to be revived, but says us sanctions must go before any agreement. aah! we begin in the us roughly 70 people have been killed by a series of tornadoes that ripped through 6th midwestern and southern states. president joe biden says it's like as a b, one of the largest tornado outbreaks and u. s. history and is promising federal help to all states affected will be extreme weather has left a trail of destruction stretching more than 320 kilometers as practical haine. our reports. one town seemingly wiped away in one evening mayfield kentucky

where a candle factory with 110 people inside was levelled. a trapped worker took to facebook live to plead for help and we aren't trans, please. ya, give us some help. we're at the candle veg, 3. it may be you please bring us. she got out, but the governor believes the vast majority of workers did not seeing an entire downtown, wiped out knowing the loss of life that occurred here. an muhlenberg, county, and everywhere else. this is, this is the hardest tornado event we've ever been through, and it's not just because of the property damage, but we lost a lot of good people. and we gotta do our best as it gets dark. and through the next days to make sure we don't lose any more. the storms with as many as 30 tornadoes could be seen from space tornadoes that came down and stayed down, causing damage for more than 300 kilometers. this path length, 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 keep 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. president joe biden spoke to the nation, calling for unity, promising the full support of the federal government and reminding people of what has been lost. imagine if you're home to the pat wedding, a home, do what he worry about. i mean, every these gone from that, from, from that, that baptismal photograph to the wedding picture to a picture of your oldest daughter in a ballet. i mean,

it is profound. it's just profound. a federal emergency has been declared in kentucky with other states likely to follow, and the national guard has been called in to help clear roads and search door to door looking for survivors. knowing the death toll is likely to rise. paddic lane al jazeera washington. very wealthy, the storm chaser who was following the tornadoes in tennessee, he described why the storms were so devastating. this is a pretty massive outbreak with not just a roll. strong tornadoes, but a couple of very strong, almost violent potentially tornadoes. and in the middle of december, this is not when we would be expecting something like a couple of towns that i was driving through last night with the tornado in my windshield did not have storm sirens going. and it wasn't a matter of whether they had power, electrical power to them or not. because there were still lights on these towns. it's possible somebody down there at the time that either a failure of their warning systems coming storm sirens or they just didn't have

them. and it's really concerning because we've got to be able to get these warnings out immediately. that's how we're going to save lives. you know, 5 or 10 minutes, even 15 minutes, there's just not enough time to take shelter from a tornado. it's in town. so there's an adrenalin russia. extremely stressful. it's, it's not, it's definitely manageable for someone like me. we're used to this. but for the general public, dis, this could be, this is life threatening, and this isn't, this is crazy. some folks that i've spoken to after tornadoes, not this case, but other cases of said they felt their life flash before their eyes. it's incredibly stressful. i mean, there's potentially a deadly, a deadly situation going on anywhere from a few feet to maybe a mile or 2. and it's coming at you it's, it's incredibly stressful and it can be scary at times because you have no control over what's happening other than your actions. you know, we can't control where this point a to goes. and if it's going to go over a town and destroy the town, that's what it's going to do. well, nbc correspondent,

j grey is live, press and monitor and arkansas j. so we understand there's been a direct hit on a nursing home in montana there where you are. tell us what's been happening. j yeah, don't. i'll walk you through exactly what the storm did here it came across the parking lot. you can see what it did to these cars, picked them up through them, ripped through them, and then a direct hit as you talk about right into the facility here. the nursing home with the wall ripped off the roof as rufus. well, the entire back half of this facility basically is gone at this point, left and crumbled brick and twisted metal shattered glass. here, one of the patients did die as a result of injuries from the storm. several others were taken to hospitals outside of the strike. so unfortunately, as you've been talking about this type of seen, this type of loss is playing out in communities really across 6 states, at this point, still unconfirmed. how many people have died. we know it. at this point 16 have

been confirmed. but as we've heard from the governor of kentucky, he believes, and that state alone, there may be 7200 who perished in the storms. so it will process. so of recovery of, of sifting through seems like this is taking place in all of those communities. this one as well as they try and piece together who's been lost and, and how all of this took place. yeah, jan as you're saying a number of states across the midwest and the south have been hit by the swarm of tornadoes. what else have you been hearing? yeah, yeah, as you just heard earlier, it's unseasonable. it is, this isn't the time of year. yeah, we usually see tornadoes in an area that is familiar with tornadoes, but usually in a spring time, what i'm hearing from survivors is 1st stunned disbelief. i, i think most are still in shock,

as you can imagine. and then in small towns like this 11500 or so, everybody either knows someone who was affected or, or a friend or a relative of someone affected. and so it really strikes hard. this was caused by a cold fraud, really colliding with unseasonably warm weather. now we're on the back side of it, and so the temperatures are dropping. and you just got dozens of families across the region. not only wondering how they're going to stay warm, but where they're going to stay long term, or the j grey life or the in monitor in arkansas, j. thank you. now talk to them at some g. 7 countries have been added 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 marketing troops on ukraine's. buddha, but finding consensus among our lives could be difficult from liverpool out as it was where we challenged report prison storage. 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 matched 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 the course of action. i've 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, they should stop the introspection and drift and push 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 bad books 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 like with blocking nord stream to if it invade to ukraine, uniting the free world is easier said than done retail. and how does era livable

mean all the us is sending its leading diplomat for europe to russia and ukraine. current done free to meet senior officials in kiev and moscow over 2 days. apart from the russian troop build up, the state department says don fried will also push for progress on ending the conflict in easton ukraine. stanford break here in al jazeera, when we come back, environmental protest escalated service capital, despite concessions from the government, ah, and life the teen items. we'll look at a celebration of southern decades of therapy and culture in the u. k. more of them stay ah, ah, look forward to skies with sponsored point cutoff airways.

hello, there have been a change in the weather across east asia, in particular from maine land china, things of turn, colder, and wetter. thanks to a cold front that's blowing its way down south and further east bringing a lot of that rain to central areas like woo hand. we've seen some exceptional heat recently in places like beijing and shanghai where the temperature is well above the average for this time of year. but it has turn cooler without the cold air blow down, bring the temperature down to 4 degrees in beijing. now it is going to pick up slightly in the days to come, but you can still see that it is rather chilly there. if we look at the 3 day for beijing, we're going to be touching up to 7 degrees with plenty of sunshine around. despite that, it's the northeast corner that sees a really wet windy and wintery, whether that's going to blow across into japan is going to get very wet for western areas of hon shoe on sunday, by the time again to monday, it's gonna turn rather wintery up in a condo, but toko escapes that saying rather dry though, the temperature will die down now was a go to south asia for india. it's looking

a lot dryer than it has recently, a few showers pulling into the east and into southern areas. but we'll see the sharper thunderstorms, effectual lanka in particular for the south west. but the further north we go, the dryer and finer it remains. oh, with sponsored by casara, always informed opinions. there was a need, fabulous federal government to take action to really facilitate a peak right in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on al jazeera. if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america what's working and what's not? a lot of people were only talking about that. it wasn't at the top of the agenda. if america can't handle multiple challenges on multiple fronts, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera. mm mm

ah, welcome back. a group come out of our top stories here. this our series of tornadoes as 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 factory in the town of mayfield. after the roof caved, the president joe biden has promised extensive federal aid for all the states effected. he described the tornadoes as some of the worst seen in american history . on warm climate changes making, weather events, more intense. and the british foreign secretary has called for western unity against authoritarianism and threats from russia and china and new case host in g 7 foreign ministers in liverpool, along with delegates from southeast asian countries. no voting is on the way and the independence referendum on the tiny south. pacific island group of new

caledonia is the 3rd time the french ruled territories deciding on the issue. having narrowly rejected the idea in 20182020, the main independence parties are boycotting the referendum, saying, they're worried that holding it during a pandemic reduce the likelihood of a yes vote. will wayne hayes falling the boat and joins us live from tauranga in new zealand? wayne. so the pro independent groups when calling for people to stay away, what do we expect them to happen then? yes, we're certainly in last year's 2nd referendum. we saw a very high turn out more than 85 percent. so i would expect that we're going to see similar figures when it comes to those who are in favor of keeping the relationship with france. so in other words, a no vote to independence. but on the pro independence side, i think we're going to see those numbers significantly reduced on the previous 2 referendums. and as you mentioned, it's simply because they feel that this is the wrong time. these are the wrong

conditions under which to be holding such an important vert on the future. all new caledonia. and it's mainly because of the coven. 19 pandemic. new caledonia recorded its very 1st case. all covered 19 in early september. around the same time that campaigning was due to start a hit of this referendum. our restrictions locked down. so i had been brought into place, meaning that physical in person campaigning really was impossible. and those on the appro independence side say that that has adversely affected their message, their voice to the people who may be voting for independence to day. so that really pointing to the fact that this is the coven 19 pandemic. at means that this vert should not be happening today. it should be happening late next year, which is something they lobbied hard out for to the french government, but the french government said no deciding to continue with the student. find overt today. yeah. when and what about the new caledonia is neighbors in the pacific?

what have they been saying about the foot? will have had plenty of support as you'd expect, in particular from some of the closest name but neighbors. some of the other melanesians states, the likes of fiji von awhile to pop when you guinea. some of them have infect bets the coals to have this referendum per se burned until next year. some of the larger apply is in the region. jezzlyn for example, is in a fairly tricky situation. there are very good relations on a professional level between the new zealand prime minister jacinta rondon and the french president emanuel mack wrong. but i think behind the scenes there will be plenty of unease with and then you ceiling government about how this is all played out and the conditions under which this bird is taking place. and we perhaps saw it not to that in a statement issued by the new zealand foreign minister. and i am i who to in the lead up to this vote. as saying that while they respected the fact that this was a matter for the french and new caledonian all authorities, you zealand has a proud record of self determination. but it's also about geo politics and security

as well with the question being if in the unlikely event that i a vote to i go for independence is successful. what does that mean for new caledonia going forward in terms of security in the region? if france does pulled out altogether, who steps in to fill that void. so all of the countries in this region will be watching this very closely. all right away, hey, life was the in tauranga in new zealand. wayne, thank hill palestinians have been voting and municipal elections, choosing representatives for more than 150 village and local councils across the occupied west bank. it was a rare chance to vote for part of finance that comes of anger grows over the counseling of parliamentary and presidential election. earlier this year. by president bus i'm asked which governs the gaza strip boycotted saturday, local vote. due to the exponent need to abraham reports from near ramado local council. elections have been usually held on time relatively every 4 years. we have

local council elections in different cities and villages all across the occupied to us bank. but what palestinians say they want is general elections. they want to be able to choose the political leaders. the representative is with this team years. this boston is of last voted for parliament that has since became an active after the internal split between france and her mass. enjoining me here to talk more about those elections is dr. settle called the be the political science professor at the university doctor. we are holding these municipal elections. now, how political are they? they're not mainly political. the main motives for choosing candidates are not political affiliation. mainly it has to do with so many f in the ation. it has to do with a reputation of the candidate. that's why it's results are not indicators on any political balance of power. but it's

a reminder for palestinians that they haven't voted for general elections. do you see us getting any closer to that? it is good, but it's not good enough. it for issues and needs related to services of municipalities, but it does not serve the fact that we do not have. we did not have political elections neither for the be a lot of situations in order for the p is situations for more than 13 or 14 years. this election reminds us of the need for political action that to pursue young people are badly in need of. what do you think the main issues that passed indians want to, why would they want to vote in general elections? they want to renew the political leadership. they want to have more participation in the political system through election. they want to hold the

political elite accountable for whatever successes or failures they have in the last period. and more important, they want to bridge the gap between the public and the political elite in general. thank you so much. and palestinians were so close at having those general elections, but palestinian president blackmore that bass has postponed them 6 months ago. and this is part of the reason why ham asked us boycotted these municipal elections. they said they want these long delayed general and presidential elections held. iran's president deborah murray, c 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. the u. s. says there was an intense conversation among the g 7 countries who are united in their position on the nuclear talks ahead of the international

atomic energy agency. spoke to our correspondent door for jabar 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 war. 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

basic 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 to 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 or for nuclear material in places that had not been declared before the facility he's talking about there is kara shuts out just outside of to ron, it's a workshop that produces central futures for a rounds nuclear program. and ad there in, 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 phone interview with the i 8, chief raphael grossey on talk to al jazeera at 30 g m t on sunday. protest as have been back out demonstrating in vienna against the austrian government's plans to make cobra 1900 vaccines, compulsory. those who refused to get back to nathan face to find a more than $4000.00 every 3 months. austria has a 68 percent fascination rate, one of the lowest europe and serbian protest as have been back out blocking roads for 3rd week and running, denouncing plans for lithium, minor saturdays crowds, a smaller than past weeks out of the government earlier about some scrapped laws

that said, securely designed to help the mining john re attentive start operations in the west of the country from the great onions, the rich report man, international hires that you see behind me has been blocked. 3rd started in a row, and this part that goes to serve as capital belgrade is actually one of the couple of dozen points. the professors are blocking the least very moment across the 3rd b, r. for an hour. this road blocks are taking place. although the serbian government met the main demands of the last week brought us and decided to reconsider do key lows that are helping mining giant 3 or pinned off to lunch lead deal mine in west serbia. but some n g o z and some political opposition parties claimed that main demand has not been fulfilled. the real thing is banned from mining lead human serbia, for goods that stands also for any company. not just seen. a little background is

that company or pinto discovered the minerals called your daddy's in the valley, or for either of you either in 2004 mean or the dotted contains lead deal that's been used for electric cars batteries. so the commercial interest is clear and big, but local citizens as well as the green, active it's afraid dot lead to mining, would irreversibly pollute the area. and that is the main reason that they data testing. also it should be said that these brought this widely seen as a big blow to president will teach sort of the progressive party, the ruling party in serbia ahead of the parliamentary elections. dr. scheduled for the abriel next year. but you can, government has granted 23 licenses to french fishermen allow them to operate in british waters. announcement came after friday deadline passed for london approved more licenses, but to have long been engaged in a post break that dispute of

a fishing rice. an exhibition has opened in london to celebrate artists love links with a caribbean life between islands highlights the contribution of communities. arrived after world war 2, jessica bolden went to take a look ah, 7 decades of art with a connection to the caribbean. life between island said tape britain is the 1st time a british museum with an international reputation is showcasing caribbean british are these, these histories, recent histories. we need to mind. and we need to show that significance to today. and we need to show how they've continued through autistic practices through today to walk through that history from the 1st artist arriving in the late 19 forties.

artists exploring the dynamics of living between 2 cultures. she ain't holding them up. she's holding on. looks at the strength, often expected of black women and points to the difficulties of maintaining her heritage while forging one's own identity. the black power movement of the sixties and seventies, documented by photographers calling out racism and discrimination. the social and economic life of immigrants recorded as they settled and became established in britain. if there wasn't that influx of people coming from the carbon, you would get the richness of pretty salt. we've got to bay, you wouldn't get the question of how pipe us british is today. filmmaker steve mclean provides a metaphor for the black

d as flora as they navigate life in britain. a bay in jamaica overflowing with foliage juxtaposed with failing hotels, illustrates the joy of living with natural beauty. amidst the reality of economic hardship. since 1st arriving to phil labor shortages more than 70 years ago, people from the caribbean have had a vast influence on britain. every aspect of british life has been enriched by 4 generations of people who came from islands across the atlantic. it's an important historic show planned before black lives matter and the black cultural renee silence, current events, giving the exhibition even greater impact. jessica baldwin al jazeera london. now 6 more civilians of experience travel into space on the 3rd commercial passenger missing by blue origin. owned by amazon found

a jeff bezos. they included 74 year old laura shepherd church and the daughter, a former nasa astronaut allen shepherd, who the new shepherd spacecraft is named after she was a special guest alongside the fi, paying passengers on a 10 minute flight. i will briefly experience weightlessness before touching back down safely in the us state of texas. more than 460 couples from various faiths of tie the knot and a mass wedding in northern india. the ceremony was organized and paid for by the government of the state of utter pradesh. each bride also received a cash payment of $460.00. ah, i took a check of the headlines here on al jazeera, a series of tornadoes as ripped through 6 us midwestern states. more than 70 people have been killed in kentucky alone. president biden's promising emergency assistance for all the 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.