i guess with ah, ah, people pick through fields of wreckage out the tornadoes, tracking the whole community said the us leaving dozens dead. ah, hello, i'm adrian said again. this is al 0 alive from bo. also coming up. there will be massive consequences, full russia, the wells largest economy is worn washer of severe costs if it invades ukraine.

oscar says the west has gripped by raso phobia. the french territory of new caledonia votes against independence and a referendum boycotted by those who campaigned to break away floss. i'm jessica washington. it's the coastal indonesia were experts via the ongoing gold rush. putting children's health ah, search and rescue cruise looking through the rubble of entire towns lost a tornadoes, the tool through the u. s. leaving dozens of people dead and commodities in despair . the federal emergency management agency says that it's still hopeful of finding survivors, but the governor of kentucky says that it would be a miracle if anyone is found alive had wreckage in his state. there told there has risen to 80 officials expected to exceed 100. we'll saturdays by and whether left

around 370 kilometers of damage in arkansas, one person at a nursing home was killed when the building collapsed in missouri, 2 people were killed in tennessee. the death toll stands up for the damage is worst in kentucky where most of the town of mayfield is flattened. dozens of workers are missing. beneath a collapsed campbell factory. in illinois, 6 people were killed including 2 workers at an amazon warehouse. and in mississippi, thousands of homes are without electricity out 0. hydro castro has an update for us from mayfield, kentucky. the town of mayfield kentucky has been in a word leveled by the tornadoes. this is what remains of the once vibrant historic downtown area. we have overturned vehicles, every which way you look collapsed buildings. and in fact, where we're standing now. well, this apparently used to be a wall now,

just pieces of brick strewn by the tornadoes that hit late friday evening. this is a town that is just coming to grips with a level of destruction, has suffered the governor of kentucky, calling this scene what appears to him like a war zone. but this is not the most central point of concern for rescue workers at the moment because at the nearby candle factory in mayfield, that is where there is still a glimmer of hope that more survivors may be found buried under debris. more than a 100 workers were inside pulling a night shift. when the twister hit, a few found shelter in a storm shelter. some 40 made it out alive, but still another 40 are among those missing. and the hopes of finding more survivors under the meters of debris under the corrosive chemicals that have spilled according to authorities here. that hope is growing ever more slim. this rescue effort is also being hampered by a lack of power, a lack of water,

and just the cold weather that has now gripped this region. coming right behind that unseasonably warm weather that added fuel to the massive tornadoes that reeked havoc. not only here in kentucky, but across 6 u. s. states the head of fema and now and homeland security are going to be here in kentucky to day to assist in that rescue and recovery effort. president joe biden saying to he will likely visit this affected region g 7 foreign ministers of warned a massive consequences for russia if it invades ukraine. the statement was delivered on the final day of meetings between delegates of the wells, which is democracy. the g 7 in the british city of liverpool, russia, the military build up, their ukraine's border has dominated the 2 day talks. moscow has denied plans for a military offensive found to say this will re challenge reports now from level. so the chief of nations,

the united and cali on russia to de escalate to return to diplomatic channels and to abide by its international commitments. they also reaffirm ukraine's sovereignty is territorial integrity and the right to be trained to choose its own way in the world. there was a warning, a direct warning to rusher as well. not to invade ukraine, if it did so. it would suffer severe consequences. we can hear how this trust and u. k. foreign secretary put it earlier. we have sent a very clear united message to blood putin from this g 7 meeting. and we want russia to stop its 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. plenty of

generosity, but very little in the way of specifics yet. what are these consequences that russia might suffer? we just don't know yet. might germany prepared be prepared to cancel the nord stream to gas pipeline? for example, might russia be expelled from the swift banking system? could ukraine be given proper, offensive weaponry to counter a russian invasion? you have to assume that these specific that do exist somewhere that they have been conveyed to vladimir putin when joe biden and put in towards the other day. the white house said afterwards that the things that one's done in 2014, when russia alex crimea from ukraine, those things could be on the table would be on the table if there was an invasion. now that entails that any economic sanctions that are brought to bear would have to be a lot more painful than what russia has already suffered. fostering around nuclear deal was another big topic of discussion in liverpool. the british foreign

secretary says that the talks in vienna, iran's last chance to rescue the agreement 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. the french pacific territory of new caledonia has voted to remain part of france, pro independence groups which boycotted the referendum so that they plan to appeal the results of the united nations. cutty lopez hold on reports with her. a few new caledonia is remaining a french territory. although voter turnout was low at around 45 percent 96 percent of higher lenders who did vote rejected the latest bid for independence

. it was the 3rd and final referendum in the past 3 years. both are cited with france in all of them said that gov located on the city this victory is beautiful. is the beginning of something new in the french republic. and i'm proud of that. independence groups boycotted the vote. they say holding the referendum during coveted lockdown was both unfair and led to bias results. new caledonia is east of australia and is strategically important to france, which has a military base there. government leaders in paris feared and independent new caledonia would move closer to china. which has built economic ties and political influence on other pacific islands, lickety done in the caledonia, new caledonian, have chosen to remain french. they have freely decided to do so for the entire nation. this choice is a source of pride and recognition. this evening. france is more beautiful because new caledonia has decided to stay part of it. we've been with

a population of about 275000 and a weak economy. some analysts say having the backing of france may have given residence, a sense of security, which helped you get it. yeah. with vaccines and as well as the order i do so sure it measures and to boost gonna be doing g sir dis, health crisis. now, a new stage of negotiations will begin, while the territory will remain part of france. caledonian leaders, including separators, will have up to 18 months to negotiate with the french government and redefine a new status for the territory. katia, a little bit of the young al jazeera me astray, has announced that it will shorten the waiting time for cobit 19 boosters, hoping that it will tackle rising cases of the other crone variant. sundays

announcement was made. opponents of vaccinations and pandemic restrictions gathered for more protests in sydney and melbourne firmly in the minority. australia is one of the world's most inoculated countries with 3 quarters of its population. having received 2 shots, international tourists are returning to the united states. south of travel restrictions were listed, but in many cities, employees are still working from home and that means a few customers. and they can store fronts in places where the rent is steep. i'll just say was kristen salumi reports on how some of new york's most expensive neighborhoods. a coping 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 about 76 percent leased and are coming out of the panoramic now and about 91 percent leased. so really proving out 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 death not has an impact on the entire neighborhood. fewer office workers means less foot 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 combines it's, it's really everything. nearly a 3rd of retail store funds here in manhattan are vacant. these 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. debt is leases terms is 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 variance feeds and vaccination rates continue to entire. but coven may have changed this landscape forever. kristin salumi al jazeera, new york, in austria, a partial lockdown has been lifted for vaccination people. but those who aunt will

remain banned from many businesses and veneers. there is some good news i had of the holiday season. bo, vienna's christmas markets reopening. they were shot for 2 weeks. self control rising. cope at 19 infection. so just curious door. so jabari is there, this market has over a $150.00 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 soul 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 covert this market usually goes from november 12th until december 26 this year. they closed 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 protests and demonstrations 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 sound 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 source 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 vaccination in this country as it stands now, 67 percent of the population is fully vaccinated. the therapist exam rebel say that

they've recapture the unesco world heritage site from government forces. labella is a town in the old and i'm hot region. it's for it's the 13th century churches been while the prime minister has returned to the frontline from where he says he'll come on the fight against the rebels. i'll be all that returned to the battlefield from a capital at a suburb. a weather update, baxley on al jazeera, been a giant sapphire discovered in troika it said to be the largest of the phone. and we me to london, man who works with a legal gray area to disarm young people that are city when life crime is reco. ah hello there,

let's look to the middle east and that unsettled weather. i warn you about is going to pull across the levant in the days to come. you can see those wet and windy conditions working across the mediterranean. we are going to see that rain moving to places like israel occupied palestinian territories as well as lebanon and syria in the days to come. and i'm not rain is going to creep across into iraq. we're likely to see some showers in q 8 by the mid week for the south of if it is a much dry, a picture. it's feeling cool at night. and some of the gulf states like guitar and southern areas of saudi arabia, but it's largely fine. and dry and settled picture. now it's looking more settled as we move to the north of africa and places like algeria. but we are seeing that wet and windy weather move further. east strong winds expected across libya and we going to see the temperature in cairo. come down in the days to come across that central band of africa. however, there is still some exceptional heat, some storms rolling into eastern areas of kenya, we could see some flooding issues with that. and it is looking

a wessa to the west. the northern parts of angola, edging down into namibia, southern parts of what swanner. and it's a very let wet outlook for eastern areas of south africa with thunderstorms in johannesburg through the week. ah, ah, mother nature's gift of cold full landscapes. but strong infrastructure governance arising where investments are waiting to flourish. wake re tv, even supplied by condition to where beautiful possibilities are offered. lou

ah, again, this is al jazeera, let's remind you of the main nearest the saw rescue workers in the u. s. sifting through daybreak, looking for survivors off to subsidize catastrophic tornadoes. kentucky is the worst hit. it's covered, i says that it will be a miracle if survivors are found. g, southern foreign ministers of war, russia, of massive consequences if it invades ukraine. stipend came on the final day of meetings between delegates and liverpool when moscow's military build up via ukraine's border was discussed. a vote says in the pacific territory of new caledonia, a projected independence from from said a 3rd and final referendum. the turn out was little more than 43 percent. pro independence parties say that they will contest the results. libya's election

commission says that it won't publish a list of presidential candidates until it can settle legal issues. the announcement comes less than 2 weeks before a vote that's seen as a major step towards ending a decade of political turmoil. so far the process has been undermined by disagreements on voting regulations. and who should be allowed to run out of cirrus medic trader is in live tripoli. librium have mixed feelings about the upcoming elections. 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, were 12 days away from the schedule of elections. and the high national electoral

commission has yet to publish a list the final candidates. so who's running? who so maybe i 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 also need to be the current prime minister, who when he got into the position, signed a promissory note, that he wasn't going to stand in the election. you have called me for have to the police have to and he's been sentenced to a military court in western libya to that you have safe and get duffy duffy's 2nd son who's wanted by the international criminal court. so i mean, you have. 5 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, these electrons to move forward. it's looking more and more like these elections are going to be postponed. israel's prime minister natalie bennett, is on his way to the united arab emirates, sits the 1st official visit by israeli prime minister. the 2 nations established diplomatic ties last year. bennett is expected to meet the crown prince of abu dhabi during his son one day as it should comes as israel is urging key international and regional powers to oppose nuclear talks with iran. mark for the murder rate for british teenagers so sought to its highest level in more than a decade with knives being used in many of the crimes. the youngest victim was 12 years old. the crisis has prompted one londoner to start a campaign for youngsters to hand over their weapons for safe disposal. just a warning you may find some of the images and leave barker's report distressing. found paul puts on his stamp vest ahead 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 phones 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 soccer. got on one. you get me a 17 year old boys reached out on instagram, wanting to hand over a blade in it. foreign operates in a legal grey zone, not condone by the police, nor actively discouraged. he knows more the most about what knives can do. so i stabbed on to the of occasions 9 pounds each occasion. so to me. m how kathy, math guys, 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. you're probably not here. i'm from a listen on a ticket. if. if and i get this both are probably for me, it was never really

a gang team 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 a day. 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 of the, 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. and this year, the number of charm victims is at its highest since 2008. the year, 16 year old ben can 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. a wish more could be done to stop the situation to stop these young

keach getting involved in north crime, successive governments. i have tried to come up with a quick fix, but they don't work in they should be a long term plan in place of 5 or 10 year program to show of star and educate people bookkeeping. cohen or you give to 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 under 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 knives. 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 scratch the surface, the series, but hardware and need parker al jazeera london rescue teams and sicily digging through the rubble of collapsed buildings following our gas pipe explosion. at least 4 people are reported that several others are missing in the town. of rob noosa, but last damaged at least 2 other buildings. illegal gold mining it into these here is raising concerns about its effect on children's health. thousands of babies are suffering from birth defects that are potentially linked to hazardous chemicals for the use to process the precious metal. i'll just give jessica washington reports

now from the island of long walk. in the hills, of course, on indonesia, 30 meters on the ground. this is one of hundreds, if unauthorized mine it's dangerous work that for these men finding just a speck of gold makes it worth much. hi ma'am and hi. yeah, yes, it's risky. because if we make mistakes, the grant can easily collapse the gold rush. the intercom long started decades ago and minus say it died down in 2018, but in recent months, hundreds have flocked back to the mines due to financial hardship. and i think this is the risk we take to make a living 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 and villages like this across the cost on gold mining is part of daily life. people here depend on it for most or all income and the machines use as

part of the process of extracting gold. conveniently right in front of their homes . these machines are the unrelenting soundtrack to life here. mine is put mercury inside them to extract gold from the sediment. it's cheap and easy for us, i don't, i'm gardening. 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 are in cannot walk or talk yet. he was recently diagnosed with microscopically a medical condition where a child's head is smaller than average, often impacting brain function. busy and i'm really seen when his father worked in the mines. he would process the goals here too. and yet 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 brief the researchers say even children with no link to mining may bear the consequences of sickle tongues, gold obsessions. like miranda, who was born without, i got, i mean people, me, guy that i never imagined i would have a son without eyes. the doctor asked me if my husband was a gold 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 going to say no, you cannot change the mindset within a minute because they're already very familiar with that hybrid. it takes time. the absence of change is children here who pay the real price of gold. jessica

washington out to sierra to court on a state muriel service has been held in south africa for its last president on a part 8 f. w to pluck died last month aged $85.00. after being diagnosed with cancer, his government eventually bowed to international pressure. in the early 19 nineties, to release political prisoners and remove racist laws, president cerebral rum oppose a paid tribute at a heavily guarded ceremony in cape town. in many ways, the journey, our foundation was not unlike the path that the life of f w. do click followed, born into white privilege, as well as power raised in the ideology of ratio superiority, committed to the defense of an abhorrent and inhuman system. f w declare would come to play an important role in our democratic transition.

so lanka has unveiled, what it says is the world's largest natural blue sapphire. the giant gemstone weighs 310 kilograms and has been named the queen of asia. it was found at a pit 3 months ago and was certified by the national gem and jewelry authority on sunday max. the stipend has won his 1st ever formula one world championship, the closest title race. since 1974 was decided in a dramatic final lapse, prince louis hamilton took believe from the start and looked set to claim a record 8th driver's crown. but nicholas latifah, his late crash, brought out the safety car. the stop and use that opportunity to pit for new tires, an edge to head of hamilton, midway through the final lap, to win the title. ah,

it is teddy with a fellow, adrian finnegan. here in doha, the headlines i'll to syrup, rescue workers in the u. s. a sifting through debris, looking for survivors after saturdays, castro.