or venezuela's defense minister relating me to padre said the armed forces were obliged to befriend that country from irregular groups, but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. ah, dozens, fear dead after more than 30 tornadoes tear across the central us rescue workers called the wreckage for survivors. ah, and hell am i, he, dean, this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, the case for a minister, warren's washer will face massive consequences. silver, any escalation crane? as the g seven's top diplomats meets a 3rd and final referendum. now the counts begins. forces and pacific territories.

me. caledonia, had their se on seeking independence from france. tourists are back in the united states that be enough to help businesses financially of a cover from the pandemic. ah . g 7 foreign ministers of warrant of massive consequences for russia, if it's invades ukraine. the statement comes on the 2nd and final day of meetings between delegates of the world's richest democracies. in the u. k. city of liverpool, the british foreign secretary says g 7 nations calling our united driver, calling from moscow to enter the gresham. she also said, this is the last chance for terran to save the 2015 nuclear deal. we have sent a very clear united message to vladimir putin from this g 7 meeting.

and we want russia to stop. it's aggression with respect to ukraine, and we have very clear that there would be severe consequences if that incursion took place. this is about deterring russia from taking that action on the subject of iran. there is still time for iran to come an agree this deal. and it's the last chance, as i've said, but there is still a chance for them to do that. and i would dutch iran to come back to the table with a serious offer of life and re challenge in liverpool. i will read the g 7 position on russia. chase is dynamic at home. well, i think that where as we just heard from this trust,

lots of talk about massive consequences and costs are russia, if it does invade ukraine. again, very little specifics about what those might be. so we still don't know whether a germany is willing to threaten russia with canceling the north stream to gas pipeline. if it goes into ukraine, we don't know whether the us is threatening russia with expanding it from the swift financial transactions systems. we don't know what can i make penalties there might be central. so i think we, we assume that those specifics must exist somewhere and that they have been conveyed to proof and in some way the white house that said that when put in and biden has the conversations that the other day that the pizza was told that the u. s. is willing to do things to russia that it didn't do in 2000 or 14,

with the annexation of crime in as that is referring to the big economic sanctions, sanctions that russia might find more painful. but, you know, russia has come out with a list of its own red lines that it says that once the west, to about a or here to once the offer of, of nature, membership to be rescinded from georgia and ukraine. now these are things that the u. s. and g 7 nations are very, very unlikely to check and see to the white house. it says that it hasn't offered russia or any such concessions. and the g 7 says it is up to ukraine to choose its own way in the world. so i think with the world at the moment is still waiting to see exactly what's gonna happen with russia and ukraine. ok, we'll re challenge or lie from liverpool. we'll re thank dozens of people are

feared dead in the us after a series of tornadoes swept through 6 states. the extreme weather system has been active since friday, leaving a trail of destruction stretched more than 320 kilometers. president joe biden says it's likely to be one of the largest tornado events in us history. the state of kentucky is the worst hit. how did your castro is in the city of mayfield? and we are trapped. please 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 where 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 got to do our best as it gets dark. and through the next days 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 of 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. we'll 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 you're home to the past, wedding a home knew what he worried grammar. everything's gone from that from from that, that baptism old 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. heidi jo, castro al jazeera mayfield kentucky. protests are expected in austria, over croon of iris measures, a partial lockdown for vaccinated people has been lifted for those who funds yet received their job. so aren't alone in to many businesses and venues. but as those

protests grew, the some good news ahead of the holiday season, the owners christmas markets is free opening. it was shot for 2 weeks to help control wasn't cove with 19 infections. those jabari is in vienna. this market has over a 150 stalls, and one of the business owners here that i was speaking to earlier said he is now a 3rd generation of pastry maker who is at this christmas markets. and he remembers when his grandfather had a saw here and this is really something he's never seen before. he was talking to me about how they were closed for the 1st time completely last year because it covered this market usually goes from november 12th until december 26 this year. they close to from november 22nd until today. so they had about 10 days earlier in november they were open. but today, this business owner was telling me that even though they reopen, there is not

a lot of people here and that's because they are not there either vaccinated or they don't have a p c r test. they cannot enter or they're just not vaccinated. and that's one of the issues the government is having here the far right party, the freedom right party has said that they are holding protest demonstration every weekend for the past 3 weekends. they're against the mandate that the government wants to put in place making vaccinations mandatory for everyone above the age of 14. as of february 1st, that still has to go through the parliament, but it's likely to pass the opposition to that is that people don't want to be told what to do here. they feel that it is not the government's position in place to do so. from monday the stores will reopen. and then from next week, the restaurants will also reopen as well. but of course, all of that will be for fully vaccinated people. and they're hoping that that will increase the number of vaccinations in this country as it stands now. 67 percent of

the population is fully vaccinated from the process had been held and several of the strangely as largest cities against cope with 19 vaccine mandates. the demonstration from sydney and melbourne, follow the government financing and acceleration in booster shots. 3 quarters of australia, 26 mill 1000000 population for you, not cases, but around 1500 new infections have been reported. as the new owner, con, variance spreads international tourists. the guns returns the united states that travel restrictions have been listed with in many cities. office employees are still working from home as lead to less food traffic and they can't store fronts. or once considered, i rent districts like midtown manhattan in new york. but as chris's salumi now reports, things seem to be putting one vanderbilt. a new high rise named for its address,

rises directly above grand central station in midtown manhattan. some of the most expensive real estate in the world. the $93.00 story office tower offers this spectacular view to the public from summit one vanderbilt plus all the latest amenities for corporate clients who according to senior vice president jason hacket, have flocked here despite the lingering pandemic. from an office building perspective, we've got the premier address in new york, we went into the pandemic at about 76 percent leased and are coming out of the panoramic. now what about 91 percent leased? so really proving that there's demand for class a high quality office space which we have here at summit one vanderbilt. of course, not everyone can afford the rent here. no doubt the view is much different down there at street level where office vacancies remain up. rents are down in this part of town, and 2 thirds of office workers have yet to return to their deaths not has an impact

on the entire neighborhood. fewer office workers means less food traffic and less business for kava one of 3 midtown restaurants owned by amy batek. she says her business is back to about 80 percent of pre pandemic levels. the neighborhood people carried us over, but to get us back to 100 percent level of the numbers we need to see to, to be open. ah, is office workers and tourism to combine it's, it's really everything. nearly a 3rd of retail store funds here in manhattan are vacant. the east mid town partnership represents local property owners who are faced with more demanding as well as fewer tenants. many commercial offices want to shrink the footprint they have. deb, it's lisa firms. as far workspace goes, expand the open space, the amenities space in the offices. so there's more room for, for flow. so people aren't on top of each other. more and more workers are expected

to return as the delta various feeds and vaccination rates continue to inch higher . but colvin may have changed this landscape for ever. kristin salumi al jazeera new york still ahead on al jazeera coles fernand to induce shoot to kill long after security forces gum. don't 14 civilians on the stake. plus, i'm just to washington is the consul indonesia where x, but fear the ongoing gold rush is putting children health rating. ah, ah, look forward to brighter scully's, the with sponsored by cuts on it weighs. hi there. we've seen a change in the weather across east asia. thanks for cold front, the blown south and east across much mainland china, the korean peninsula, on woods to japan. so it's tough rather wintery for northern areas of japan with

heavy snow in her cargo and horseshoe. and that's going to bring the temperature down in tokyo in the days to come. but it does remain rather sunny and dry and remain sunny. and why in places like beijing and shanghai, the temperature is going to pick up again in beijing over the next few days. we'll see similar story in shanghai though it is going to be cloudy from when stay. but there is no rain about as we move to india. it's been a lot dryer for much of south asia. in fact, we've seen some showers pulling into the south stronger storms expected to move into south western areas of sri lanka. but for that west coast of india, this is where we're seeing the heat temperatures him on by and go are sitting in the mid thirty's. so much of the north that is a dry picture. it's a little bit cooler. we are going to see bit of a wintry mix blow in from afghanistan into northern areas of pakistan and onwards to northern areas of india. by the time we get into tuesday, but we'll be fine and dry in new delhi with

a high of 23 degrees celsius. that should weather update the weather, sponsored by katara ways, ah, mother nature's gift of cold full landscapes. but strong infrastructure governance . arising where investments are waiting to flourish, way great tv, even supplied by tradition. and were beautiful possibilities are offered. lou ah,

this is alex is a real quick reminder, all the top stories. this are g 7 foreign ministers of warned of massive consequences from russia. if it's invades ukraine, britain's foreign secretary also said this is the last chance to her on said 2015 nuclear deal. dozens of your dad's in the us after a series of tornadoes, that trail of destruction across 6 states as an joe biden. this promise in full support of the federal government. and sunday protests have been held and australia's largest cities against corporate 19 vaccine mandates. demonstrations in sydney and melbourne for the government announcing an acceleration in booster shots . libby, his election commission says it won't publish a list of presidential candidates until it can settle legal issues. the announcement comes less than 2 weeks out from the votes. shuttled for december 24th,

the pool was seen as a major step 2 and in a decade of instability for the process has been undermined by disagreements on voting regulations. and who should be allowed to run by the trainer has more from tripoli. librium have mixed feelings about the upcoming election. i mean, libyans, in general, across the entire country, are sick and tired of the political divisions. they're sick and tired of the violence and the conflict, and they want to, they want the country to move forward. now the un, the international community have painted these presidential elections as something that will unify the country. but what we're seeing on the ground is that the political atmosphere is extremely divided more divided than ever before. we're 12 days away from the scheduled elections and the high national electoral commission has yet to publish a list the final candidates. so who's running, who so maybe need a chance to be able to,

if the presidential election move forward, need to know what kind of policies, what kinds of positions do these candidates have? and that's yet to be clear who's running for president. and we have to also look at the front runner candidates, right. so you have prime minister needs to be us the current prime minister, who when he got into the position, signed a promissory note, that he wasn't going to stand in these elections. you have called me for half to the world. police have to and he's been sentenced to a military court and western libya to that. you have safe and get that the 2nd son who's wanted by the international criminal court. so, i mean, you have these candidates, you know, 33 candidates that are the front runners that shouldn't even be standing in the election with the, with the issues in terms of the political atmosphere. terms of the legal conditions that would allow these electrons to move forward. it's looking more and more like

these electrons are going to be postponed. fords have been counted in the french pacific territory of new caledonia. early indications point to an overwhelming vote in favor or from meaning parts of france. this was the 3rd and final time jane voted in reference to decide whether or not still become an independent country. merrily reject to break away in 20182020. the main independence parties, however, appeared to have boy accosted the thought concerns it was being held during a cove with lockton. the murder rate for british teenagers a sore to its highest level in more than a decade with knives being used in many of the crimes. the youngest fix, who was 12 years old, the crisis has prompted one londoner to start a campaign for youngsters to hands over their weapons. for safe disposal and warning, fierce may find some of the images in the farkas report. distressing. foreign

paul puts on his stamp rest the head of another night, reading the british capital of weapons. this is what he's collected in the past 2 weeks. all the blades are illegal to carry, but easy to get hold of on line. we're talking about bone tissue. nerve damage, frowns, gained a big following on social media. me where teens eager to get rid of their weapons. no questions asked see, help, understand. man got topic. i don't want you get me a 17 year old boys reached out on instagram, wanting to hand over a blade in it. foreign operates in the legal grey zone, not condoned by the police, nor actively discouraged. he knows more the most about what knives can do. so i stabbed on to if occasions, 9 pounds each occasion. so to me. m how kathy math class person, if you and, and we made the 17 year old who's noticeably relieved to be handing over his knife to some one. he feels he can trust your barbecue. now her umbrella listened on a picket. it is going to get this border properly. for me, it was never really

a county is more personal beef is more like little situations of a groups or of people and they're willing to prove themselves. you don't wanna die in at la regencia you on that i. so the teenager he just handed over his knife, said something very powerful to us. he said that there are 2 types of londoners. there are civilians like me. and there are young people like him who live in a constant state of war, simply because of where they live a more often than not the color of their skin. please say children as young as 10 a carrying a deadly arsenal of weapons. the violence fuel by a toxic makes of poverty and online rivalries. this year, the number of charl victims is that its highest since 2008. the year, 16 year old ben kim seller was stabbed to death on a london street by a group of teenagers. his family has kept his memory alive through this education

center of wish more could be done to stop the situation to stop these young keach getting involved in north crime. successive governments have to try to come up with a quick fit that they don't work in the to be a long term plan in place of 5 or 10 year program to sort of start and educate people bookkeeping. cowen or you give, the police responded with a series of serge operations. but the numbers quickly rebound several of prisons. police forces admit they're fighting an uphill battle. we've seen a decade of sterility and cuts to policing, to youth services, to education. and a chronic can do investment in mental health services, children services and drug treatment. and that's what's really resulting in the spike. however, we are making really meaningful effort to rebuild community policing so that we can proactively prevent crime in our communities. so we're not just simply talking about flick knives or short nice. i mean that is a, as

a sort. we meet up with friends, friend, elijah, who's been collecting knives in a different part of the city. it's an unnerving hall of huge blades. i would say it's like, almost like a fashion this is where the weapons and up handed over a police station counter. this is a fraction of what's confiscated every month. foreign and elijah say they barely scratched the surface of serious but hardware and neve parker al jazeera london illegal gold mining and indonesia is raising concerns about its effects. on children's health, jessica washington reports from the islands of long bulk, dozens of babies is suffering from birth. defects potentially linked to hazardous chemicals used to process the precious metal in the hills as the court on indonesia, 30 meters on the ground. this is one of hundreds,

if unauthorized mine is dangerous work for these men finding just a speck of gold makes it worth high. yeah ma'am. and the high yeah. yes. is risky, because if we make mistakes, the grand can easily collapse. the gold rush into our 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 hardships. i think this is the risk we take to make a living. i've work here for around one year because i have nothing else to do because of current of our unauthorized mining is an open secret here. mine's not the hillside impossible to miss in villages like this across the cost on gold mining is part of daily life. people here depend on it for most oh okay. income and the machines use as part of the process of extracting gold. a convenience lee, right in front of their homes. these machines are the unrelenting soundtrack to

life here. mine is for mercury inside them to extract gold from the sediment. it's cheap and easy for us. i don't, i'm got any lucky or not. we have to use the purchasing go to how we make money. 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, busy and i'm really seeing when his father worked in the mines. he would process the goals here to research. and yeah, he used mercury to process the goals, researches from a local and g o, a looking into his case and all the children who they say maybe victims of mercury exposure among mascot, in the most kill minus keep mercury at home and use it in front of the children for newborns. the exposure is from the mother. they had been exposed through the breed

. the researchers say even children with no linked to mining, may bear the consequences of sickle tongues, gold obsessions, like nor india was born without. i've got, i mean people. i never imagined i would have a son without dice. the doctor asked me if my husband was a coal miner, and i said no. the researchers 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 type, but it takes time. the absence of change. it is children here who pay the real price of gold. jessica washington out to 0 sick or on an annual swimming race across home homes. iconic victoria harbor is back whole enough to being suspended for 2 years only half as the usual

$3000.00 women were allowed to compete and they all had to be fully vaccinated. it resumes after the city reported sierra local infections for months that have been processed in a district too. ne, cynthia, following that, that's the 14 civilians who were mistakenly killed by the indian army soldiers trying to ambush rebels. open fire on a pickup truck carrying coal miners in the remote state of knuckle and last week renewed cold scrap or reported. shoot to kill policy, which gives soldiers immunity from prosecution. elizabeth moran. i'm reports. hello, my mom. i know our con 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 auditing village and mom districts were in this pickup truck last saturday when

soldiers opened fire. 6 of the 8 coal miners traveling with them was shot dead once i had fired cape one cognac, laid a search party when the minus failed to return home. after we get, we get to know that the bodies are there. some of my friends, those who came along with me, we started this, had a bug sitting fire to the tree vehicles. and after that, i went on there and i was sitting there. and then we all, they all started fighting and i lay down instead of following the ambush. and now the 7 men were killed when soldiers fide at protesting villages. another protest was killed the following day. india's home ministers had 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 of equal approached the location, it was signal to stop. however, it tried to plead falling,

which the vacant suspected of getting insurgents was fired upon, resulting in the killing of 6 out of the traveling 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. 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 and these administered cush made and large parts of india. the northeastern states soldiers have the power to shoot, to kill, arrest without warrant or destroy the suspect. buildings all with immunity, from prosecution, i must go, i don't. why fi is that?

that is, it is an example for him in the north, in indian cities in indian. yes. people will get by on pause if we cannot accept, we cannot tolerate real 2nd does citizen how does gorman dublin doug until been awesome? oh, really begun group. government leaders say the army needs extra pals and regions were rebels operate but of the week long morning for the villages of ot and goes on . now the land and megalia state lead is a repealing to their government ally the bad at the a jumped the party to repeal the contentious shoot to kill your elizabeth param al jazeera new daddy. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines she. 7 foreign ministers of warned of massive consequences for russia if it.