to clamp down on protests, he said of protecting their countries against armed attacks with detailed coverage in the absence of any hard data on our widespread or virulent vialva. covariances, scientists are urging caution from around the world. political observers argue his government has letty dismantling of democratic institutions. ah, at least $84.00 people dead after more than 2 dozen tornadoes tear across the central us rescue workers come the wreckage for survivors. ah, hello that i'm hello, my kids in this is al jazeera mind from doha. also coming up the need for consensus

on how to deal with tensions between ukraine and russia, dominated discussions, foreign ministers from the world 7 richest nations rondo talks in the u. k. a 3rd and final referendum voters in the pacific territory of new caledonia, of their se, own seeking independence from france. i'm just to washington is the cost of indonesia were excellent fear the ongoing gold rush is putting children's health and rating. ah, at least 80 people have been killed in the us after a series of tornadoes swept through 6, mid western and southern states. the extreme why the system has been active since friday, leaving a trail of destruction stretching more than 320 kilometers. president joe biden says it's likely to be one of the largest or nato events in

u. s. history. the state of kentucky is the worst hit. how did your casual reports form there? and we aren't trans, please. y'all give us some help at the candle factory in may. you please bring us this woman is among the few to get out alive after a tornado flattened the candle factory were she and more than 100 others were working. it's unclear how many people remain trapped somewhere beneath this rubble . but as the search and rescue effort stretches in today to the governor of kentucky says, finding more survivors is unlikely. this is the hardest tornado event we've ever been through. and it's not just because 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 day is to make sure we don't lose anymore. may feel kentucky has lost more than just the factory and it's workers. it's also lost a church, a fire station,

a police station, and of course, so many people's homes. and it wasn't just kentucky, an amazon warehouse in illinois, a nursing home in arkansas, destruction in missouri and tennessee states that expect tornadoes but not usually in december. 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 tornado will be rated violent, 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. president joe biden spoke to the nation, calling for unity, promising the full support of the federal government. imagine if, if you're home to the past, wedding a home to where you were, i mean everything's gone from that from, from that that baptism old photograph to the wedding picture to the

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. heidi joe castro out a 0 mayfield kentucky and b, c correspondent, j grey has more from minutes in arkansas. it's overwhelming the damage here, the nursing home, the backend of its last and we'll show you that help you. we'll talk about federal help. we're starting to see some of that on the ground here. they're going to need it, not just now, but for a long time because of situations like this, you can see what the when did here, picked up the car through them. rip them apart, basically throwing bricks and other things into the front windshield. and then the assault on this nursing home, you can see what it did,

it ripped apart the wall and the roof. but the backend, as i said, is for the most part gone. if you look over the top of this thing, if we could get up over the top, you would see that it's just torn away. and unfortunately, that's the scene playing out. not only in this community, but communities across the entire strike. so one person was lost inside this building, several others taken the hospitals outside of the area that's most effective here. what we're hearing from those that were here that survived is that they did have good warning. they had like 20 minutes. the sirens went off and they were able to get out and into the hallway here, and that's what saved lives. if you look outside of this area in the neighborhoods that surround, it's dark now and you can't see anything but but coming in today, they're ravaged as well. you can see the homes that are really reduced to just rubble. you can see others that have the roofs torn away or walls torn away. and

what you saw throughout the afternoon with families, families here gathering what they could not a lot that you can pull from a place like this, gathering what they could from their homes. the cold front has moved through and now the temperatures are dropping. so you've got all these families not only here, but again across the entire region that are not only wondering how they're going to stay warm, but where they're going to stay for a while. it's a tough go. this will as he is a storm jason who was following the tornadoes in the state of tennessee. 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 in the town 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 the for nato goes. and if it's going to go over a town and destroy the town, that's what it's going to do. to diploma from g, 7 countries have been urged to show unity against global aggressors as they meets in the u. k. city of liverpool, russia in particular, has been singled out by the us and britain from us in troops on ukraine's border, but also meetings wrap up on day to find a consensus. some allies may be difficult from liverpool, where we challenge reports. britton's foreign secretary welcomed her rich weld counterparts with a brass 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 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 the course of action. i being 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 mind the country, it should step up that should unify that 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 book, 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 invade to ukraine, uniting the free world is easier said than done re challenge. how does era livable the u. s. is sending its leading diplomat for europe on a trip to russia and ukraine. current on fried will meet senior officials in kias and moscow over 2 days from the russian trip build up the state department since don't freed will also push for progress on ending the conflicts in eastern ukraine, iran's presidency for him. right?

c says his government is serious about the latest round of negotiations in vienna to revise the 2015 nuclear deal. he said it was part of willing to remove sanctions on to han and agreement can be reached. us says there was an intense conversation among the g 7 countries who united in their position on the nuclear talks. the pacific territory of new caledonia is voting and a 3rd and final referendum on independence from france. if not really rejected a breakaway in 2018. last year, the main independence parties are boycotting the referendum. they're worried, the pandemic will undermine, i guess foods. wayne hay is monitoring the referendum from to roemer in new zealand . this referendum as being held in quite a tent atmosphere, given those calls to stay away from the polling booths by the leaders of the pro

independence political parties. in fact, they have called for this boat to be postponed until late next year. of course, the french government rejected those calls in the vote is going ahead. so those pro independence groups have labeled this entire process undemocratic because of the conditions in the lead up to sundays voting. and also the conditions on the day. and it appears as if people are heating, those calls to boy caught the vert. we've had pretty good voter turn out in the 2 previous referendums. in fact, last year's votes saw more than 85 percent voter turnout. about halfway through the day on sunday, though, reports coming in suggest that the turnouts for this year's referendum is only about 27.75 percent at the same period last year. it was almost 50 percent. so we're seeing significantly lower numbers at this time around as we approach, or just after the halfway mark in voting on sunday. and again,

it's because of the cova 19 pandemic. according to those independence or proven dependence political parties, they say that this mode should have been postponed because of the pandemic. the 1st case, all cove at 19 was recorded in new caledonia in early september. then that was around the same time that campaigning for the referendum was supposed to start. and it really couldn't get underway in person campaigning any way because all the restrictions put in place by the government. and also, the pandemic has disproportionately affected the conduct indigenous population. most of whom support independent so they say that this is simply not fair to hold this referendum under these conditions. still ahead on sierra colson ends to induce, shoot to kill law after security forces gone, don't 14 civilians by mistake and environmental protests continue in service.

capital, despite concessions from the government. ah . hello there. we've seen some dramatic weather across europe over the past few days, with a rental rain causing flooding in areas of france and northern areas of spain. we've also seen heavy snow across much of italy and pushing into the balkans, and that thanks to waves of wet windy and wintery weather, pushing across the mediterranean from west to east. gonna remain rather unsettled here, but it does pick up for areas such as the iberian peninsula and france. you can see that sunshine coming back in. but on sunday we'll take a closer look at that southeast corner. we've read warnings out for strong winds across croatia. we're expecting heavy snow in serbia and it's going to be wet once again for much of grease. by the time we get into monday,

that low pressure is going to skirt off to the east, taking lot of that heavy rain to turkey and a bit of a winter mixed eastern areas of europe. but it dries up, as i said, for much of that southwest, but it is gonna get more unsettled up in the north. what will wintery weather on the way for much of scandinavia? it's bitterly cold as well. western parts of russia and those baltic states. now for britain, an island, it's wet and windy up in the north. you can see that rain moving in. but we are going to have some funny spells down in the south london, seeing the temperature sit in the mid teens, well above average for this time of year. ah, the end of the country with an abundance of results. rhode island walk indonesia whose firms forming we moved full to grow and froth. we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy. with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs.

invest, let part when to lose his growth and progress. invest indonesia. now, lou ah, this is al jazeera, quick reminder, all the top stories this are at least 84 people have been killed by tornadoes sweeping across the united states. dozens of people are still missing. president joe biden says he expects it will be one of the largest tornado vents. u. s. history talk diplomats from g. 7. countries have been urged to show unity against

global aggressors. as they meet in the u. k. says he own the liverpool, russia, in particular as being single, died from us in troops on ukraine's border and the pacific territory of new caledonia is 14. in a 3rd and final referendum on independence from france, it narrowly rejected a breakaway in 201820. 20 main independence parties are boy causing the votes. have been processed and the district of ne india following the deaths of 14 civilians who were mistakenly killed the indian army soldiers trying to ambush rebels. open fire on a pickup truck carrying coal miners last week. the operation, as we knew in coals for the repeal of a shoot to kill law, which gives soldiers immunity from prosecution. elizabeth per annum reports. hello my mom. i know i was calling yet, cries out to the graves of her 25 year old twin son,

long one and top one. she pleads with them to come home for christmas. the brothers from altering village and mon districts were in this pickup truck last saturday when soldiers opened fire. 6 of the 8 coal miners traveling with them were shot dead once i had fired cape one cognac, let a search party when the minus failed to return home after we get, we get to know that the bodies out there. some of my friends though, so came along with me. we started, they said, but setting fire to tree, very close. and after that, i went on there and i was sitting there. and then we all, they all started fighting and i lay down and stayed there. following the ambush, another 7 men were killed when soldiers fight at protesting villages. another protest was killed the following day. india's hon minister said the soldiers were acting on intelligence that rebels were on the road, adding to the government regretted the incident a most good on. during the ambush,

awake and approached the location, it was signal to stop. however, it tried to flee falling, which the vacant suspected of getting insurgents was fired upon, resulting in the killing of 6 out of the 8 travelling in it. however, it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. but one of the 2 survivors told al jazeera the truck driver was never asked to stop by troops who fired from both the front and back new chairman cognacs on shore. when was the truck driver dotted and boosted enough, they were ambushed, they shot some people who didn't know anything, and it wasn't even at night or in the jungle. it was on the road in broad daylight . the killings had provoked protests against the armed forces, special powers act which gives the military extended powers in areas where rebels are operating. the law enforcement indeed, administered fish made and large parts of india,

7 northeastern states. soldiers have the power to shoot, to kill, arrest without warrant or destroy the suspect. buildings all with immunity, from prosecution, from us both and why us, why is that? that is, it is an example for him, you know, same indian citizen in these in the us. people will kill by on pause if we can on that we cannot tell it we have a 2nd us citizen. how does going to get until the north and civilian of the countries? government leaders say the army needs extra powers and regions were rebels operate . but as a week long morning for the villages of ordering goes on. motherland and migalia state lead as repealing to their government ally the bought a t a jumped the party to repeal the contentious shoot to kill law. elizabeth brought him al jazeera new daddy. at least one person is dead and several others missing after a number of buildings collapsed in the sicilian tine over revenue. so they fell

when a natural gas pipe exploded in a tone rescue teams and digging through the ruins to find any survivors exclusion damaged. at least 2 other buildings. there's been large protests and sydney and melbourne against croon virus vaccine mandates. this comes after straightly announced speeding up its will light a booster shots. then you only con variance has feel the sharp rise and cool with 19 cases. and 1500 infections were reported on sunday, protested to be back out demonstrating in vienna against the austrian government's plans to make cope with 19 vaccines mandatory. those who refused to get vaccinated face a fine of more than $4000.00 every 3 months. austria has a 68 percent vaccination rate. one of the louis in europe serve in protest is winode blocking roads for 3rd weekend. financial plans for lithium mining,

saturdays crowds, a smaller than past weeks after the government, early birds for some months. it's scrap blows that act to the said were purely designed to help mining giant. we tend to start operations in service west from balance l. graves on and storage reports men international highway that you see behind me has been blocked. 30 south of the in a row, and this part that goes to serbia's capital belgrade is actually one of the couple of dozen points that professors are blocking the least very moment across the serbia. for an hour this road blocks are taking place. although the serbian government met the main, the demands of the last week brought this and decided to reconsider do kilos that are helping the mining giant 3 or didn't off to launch lead your mine in west them, serbia. but some n g o's and some political opposition parties claim that main demand has not been

fulfilled. that real thin thought is banned from mining lead, yeoman's serbia, for good. that stands also for any company, not just real, didn't or little background. is that company, or think or discover demeanor old called your dad? it's in a valley or for either of you either in 2004 mineral jadarias contains lithium. that's been used for electric cars batteries. so the commercial interest is clear and big, but all local citizens, as well as green activists, afraid that lead your mining would irreversibly pollute the area. and that is the main reason that they said they are protesting or so it should be said that these brought this are widely seen as a big blow to president's wooldridge sir. be on progressive party, the ruling party in serbia, a head of the parliamentary elections that are scheduled for the april next year.

thousands of people in argentina have protested against a possible deal to restructure that countries tense. the government is negotiating with the international monetary funds to pay back a $45000000000.00 debt. demonstrators say it's on payable, and argentina needs to focus on its own economy. more than a quarter of all p, live in poverty. palestinians voted in municipal elections for more than $150.00 local councils across the occupied west bank. on saturday. the election commission says just under 65 percent of eligible voters, fair ballots. but a key faction, boy quoted the poll. how much was anger down to parliamentary and presidential elections were cancelled earlier this year? president mahmoud abbas. yeah, here barba is a palestinian living in garza, a 26 year old who dreamt of leaving. and he finally trying to get ice and reach

europe when more abruptly between israel and cancer in may. this is his story. on the more of the a here you have bought a book. i was on yet, but a bach 26 years old, married with 2 children from the gaza strip. i thought of immigration after suffering a string of different jobs because of the difficult economic conditions of the siege. the restrictions we are ruled by 2 governments that don't care like, but my dad passed away in 2008 and i take care of my family and mother out of my family, rejected the idea so. but as everything went from bad to worse after the war, and may motley finally agreed with study, we reached turkey legally. and there we were met by a smuggler who took $3000.00 from each of us. and we agreed that we shall be 7 passengers on a safe rubber speed both. but on the day there were 15, including the captain with a small wooden boat for total fraud, but smugglers. they don't care what they just see was money must loyalty. the smugglers took 4 of us out, so there were 10 plus the sailor when they told us that after we reach

a hill and the giant see that the rubber boat will be waiting for us. but there was no boat either. we had no choice but to continue sailing it suddenly the waves were very strong and high. almost to meter and water was filling our boat failing. every one was screaming only. i looked at my friend abroad. hm. but he was frozen along with 2 others. on the boat flipped upside down and the 3 of them went down with the boat. they didn't expect to survive harlequin by dig ballasa that we spent 2 hours in the freezing water plugin. when i saw the turkish coast guard coming towards me there, i felt my soul had returned to them. then as they approached, i passed out when i woke up later on their boat, lou and when i grabbed the phone from one person of the dog and sent that voiced note to my mom, i would like to know messages. so my number again is i'm a good i blood hum has been eaten by the fish, mum though it haines to have the fullest without my bottle. i was in total shock and despair when me and i returned to gaza. but if i could emigrate again, legally, i would say that even if there were work opportunities in our country and we were

able to look at a future for a children who would never ever leave a vicinity of a ballade on the probab, letting the exile is bitter leo, but the reality in our land is worse level. other health experts have raised you. safety concerns about illegal gold mining in indonesia, dozens of babies are suffering birth defects, potentially linked to hazardous chemicals used to process the precious metal. jessica washington reports from the islands of lum book. in the hills of the cotton, indonesia. i'm acting up all of my 30 meters under ground. this is one of hundreds of unauthorized miles. it's dangerous work, but for these men, finding just a speck of gold makes it worthless. mother, la jolla, memorabilia. yes, it's risky because if we make mistakes, the ground can easily collapse. the gold rush into called thong started decades ago . and mine is say, it died down in 2018, but in recent months, hundreds have flocked back to the minds due to financial hardship. i think of this

is the risk we take to make a living. i've worked here for around one year because i have nothing else to do because of corona bar. somebody unauthorized mining is an open secret here. mine's not the hillside impossible to miss. and villages like this across the cotton gold mining is part of daily life. people here depend on it for most or all of their income, and the machines used as part of the process of extracting gold are conveniently right in front of their homes. these machines are the unrelenting soundtrack to life here. miners put mercury inside them to extract gold from the sediment. it's cheap and easy for us at olive garden. any lucky or not? we have to use it. purchasing gold is how we make money yellow. but living near dangerous chemicals comes with consequences. 5 year olds or in cannot walk or talk yet. he was recently diagnosed with microsoft really a medical condition where

a child's head is smaller than average, often impacting brain function. in galvan release in when his father worked in the mines, he would process the gold here too. and yet he used mercury to process the gold researches from a local and g o. a looking into his case and all the children who they say may be victims of mercury exposure among mascot, but most kill miners keep mercury at home and use it in front of the children for newborns. the exposure is from their mother. they had been exposed through the air, the breeze, the researchers say even children with no link to mining may bear the consequences of sickle tongues, gold obsessions. like nor injure this born without i've got, i mean people i never imagined. i would have a son without eyes. the doctor asked me if my husband was a coal miner and i said no. the researches are also conducting i q tests on local

children. they say the government must do more to educate people about the dangers of mercury, but authority say it takes time. it is a very serious concern and you cannot change the mindset within a minute because they already be very familiar with that. but it takes time. the absence of change it is children here who pay the real price of gold. jessica washington out 0. got on laura ship or church. the the daughter of america's 1st astronauts has travelled into space on board. the blue origin rocket ship. the rockets reached 100 kilometers above the earth before touching then 10 minutes later, thanks tourists were on board the spacecraft, including former n f l player michael strahan flight. those were done back at the training center here. and i gotta say it was sir tony real. how do you want to know that? but it was on.