ration and the past to reparation is nelson, easy. one, namibia, the price of genocide, people and power on al jazeera. ah, kentucky's governor says the number missing from the devastating tornado storms is not yet known, but more than 90 deaths confirmed across 6 us states. ah . hello, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera alive from dough. are also coming up. there is a tiny wave of only cold come, but you k is to ramp up it's booster vaccine program with a warning from prime minister barak johnson, a new threat. and the on the chrome varied foreign ministers from the g 7 meeting

and england condemned russia's military build up, made ukraine while the kremlin denies any plans to invade. on the french pacific territory of new caledonia votes overwhelmingly, against independence in a referendum boycotted by separatists. ah, rescue teams in 6 us states are going to the trail of rubble and devastation left by dozens of powerful tornadoes. that struck late on friday night. officials expect more than a 100 people have been killed in kentucky alone. a federal emergency has now been declared in a state where around 30000 people are without electricity. the governor says the tornadoes destroyed everything in their path. we've now been granted the immediate federal state of emergency. it is rare. it was granted incredibly quickly. and we are grateful to homeland security to fema and the president biden himself,

the national guard has been deployed. we have over 300 guardsmen that are active. they are out in our communities. they are doing everything from going door to door, though many of these communities we will have doors anymore. they're going rebel to rebel, searching, hopefully for survivors, but otherwise to at least have certainty for families that we can advise them of their loss. well, victims of the tornadoes have been sharing their hiring experiences, many se still difficult to process. what's happened? my back door load in my face glass. so i went to the side to get away from that. and my son was here in the hallway and he was power for me. so he came back through when was was hard on early fail. and got here in the hallway. we got over our goal. and we were both price humming price. and that's the

only part that didn't fall down. there are people who gather here today who lost their homes is lost, loved ones. there are people who have not heard from their family and loved ones and had been so worried. we will just simply pull together and find ways to grief. celebrate to locate and to care. well, business owners in the worst hit harris said could take years to recover from the disaster. it's worrisome because it's wiped out everything. it's wiped out churches, it's wiped out businesses, it's wiped out homes. i don't even know you look around and you have so many people saying how can we help but it's almost like where do you begin? like we have to move earth to get all this clear before we can even rebuild. and when you talk about rebuilding an entire community,

it's not like 2 businesses having to be real built built. we're gonna have to rebuild a community. and i don't, i don't know how long it's gonna take, but i know we're going to come back. well, hodges at castro joins us live now from mayfield. in kentucky, heidi, i mean the destruction mayfield where you, i was just simply a pulling, bring us up to date on the search and rescue operation and is hope fading fast of a finding any more survivors. hello, darren. the governor of kentucky says he is still hopeful that there can be survivors hold out of this trouble. but we are going on more than 40 hours since disaster struck late friday night. and particularly add that candle factory, which is a few walks from here, downtown mayfield. we know that those minutes are taking by and the likelihood of finding more survivors realistically is diminishing. now, there is perhaps some hopeful news on the death toll. the governor said that there

may be some conflicting information, and the best case scenario, he said, may be that the death told that he originally gave at more than 80 in the state of kentucky, maybe 50. he said, that's the best case scenario, but that it likely will be greater than bad. the discrepancy in these numbers is because the scope of this disaster is so great in that it's not just hitting mayfield here, which is devastated, but it's hitting multiple small communities across this state and across 5 others in this part of the country. still the focus is gone, going through from home to home, what remains of them, because the greatest fear is not only that there are maybe people buried beneath the rebel in that factory down the road. but that in these thousands of homes that have been leveled that unknown victims may be there as well. yeah. and how do we know that federal response teams already on the ground there in mayfield? what have they been saying and what kind of hope can they bring to the to, to the recovery of right. we know,

fema and the homeland security secretary, they're here to help direct and oversee the disaster response. there are some 300 national guard troops who are in kentucky alone, as well, aiding in the debris removal and 80 in the traffic direction, and eventually going from house to house, looking for potentially more survivors or more victims. also, the state of kentucky has applied for a major disaster declaration, which is like one step up from the emergency declaration that has already been granted. the reason for that is not only would that allow more federal resources to help the local governments here, but now individual homeowners are business owners who lost everything. now they will have a way to reach out for help from the government as well. yeah, and you'd be mounted about talking to people high the in the town. what have they been telling you? because many people have simply lost everything. yeah,

i spoke with one gentleman who is an attorney here. he pointed out, down from where i'm standing, the hospital in which he was born. i that has been destroyed. now he owns a law firm on the other side of the street where he went to work every day that has been destroyed as well. i mean, this is not just physically, the town of mayfield that has been leveled, but it is decades of history of memories, of things that mean tangible memories and mean things to these people. and so they are, of course, grieving for the loss of their town. honestly, people's here are still in a sense, shell shocked. you know, it's only been 40 hours since the disaster and so much of their focus. it remains on finding whatever survivors there may be in that leveled candle factory. because this is such a small community of some $10000.00 every one knows each other. so there is no one

here that doesn't know someone who was at work when the building collapse. there's no one here who doesn't know someone who's missing. alright to hodge. castro life was there in mayfield in kentucky id. thank you. so africa, presidents, sir, i'm a poser has tested positive for cobra. 19 his office released a statement saying he felt unwell after a state memorial service for the former president f. w. declare he's being treated from mild symptoms from a poster has been fascinated against the virus. the british government has raised the corona virus threat level of warning. the spread of the electron verin's is pushing the u. k. back into rescue territory. level full weren't immediately affect rules and regulations. a move to level 5 would bring more restrictions on would be triggered. if there were fears of the health system becoming overwhelmed. prime minister boys, john smith urged people to get a fun shot. no one should be in any doubt. there is

a tidal wave of omicron coming and i'm afraid it is not clear that 2 doses of vaccine are simply not enough to give the level of protection we all need. but the good news is that our scientists are confident that with a 3rd dose a booster dose. we can all bring our level of protection back up. a fortnight ago, i said we would offer every eligible adult a booster by the end of january to day. in light of this on the con emergency, i'm bringing that target forward. by a whole month, everyone eligible, aged 18 and over in england will have a chance to get their booster before the new year. so let's bring in doctor barret pan carney i. he's a senior clinic electra at the university of extra medical school. he joins us via skype from bath in the united kingdom back go to happy back with us. so you heard derb, burress, johnson, they're saying

a tidal wave of micron is going to hit the country. was he saying this now? and how worried is bars danced about just how fast this variant is spreading. they so a lot of confusion and concerns the way it was suddenly announced on a sunday, a pre recorded message. and i personally feel that prime minister johnson has once again got it wrong. let me explain why. prime minister johnson continuously continuously continuously keeps on talking about one thing only, which is boosters, boosters and boosters. if you were to take the advice from any scientist, any scientist worth their salt will tell you that one way to keep the infection numbers down case numbers down is a multi layered approach. the multi layered approach with prime minister johnson just doesn't want to do is where your mask very properly, where a good quality mosque work from home counsel parties,

stop gatherings in pubs and restaurants. have your boosters have your seasonal influenza vaccine do okay, so it's multi month multiple approach that is needed. ok, we'll come back to the boost as in a 2nd but, but the u. k. we know has raised its cobra level from 3 to 4. in your experience briefly, is this going to be enough to slow the spread of a micron given that scientists believe it's more transmissible than the delta variant? it's very difficult because already we've got an exponential rise in case numbers, and this is why i'm feeling depressed that we're not talking about masks and stay at home and cancel the parties and, and bars. johnson seems to be, as you say, putting his hopes on speeding up the booster campaign. how much more protection will the booster job give against on the chrome? because we already hearing that on the cron might be able to evade vaccines to some degree. yes, indeed. so only kron is maybe a little bit vaccine,

erase, save. however, what the boost is, do is produce a large amount of those antibodies, also a slightly more diverse range of antibodies. and therefore, we can say that that boost works against delta, as well as against omi crime, because we have more of faith and a slightly blue, broader range of the antibodies. let me just get a final thought from you. i mean, how much risk is that to the u. k. population. but without the booster, we could see many more hospitalizations, even deaths from amazon because that's like of them to put the national health service at an h. s. and a serious strain going into christmas. indeed indeed, so whilst we know that in south africa, the, the, the infection is not so severe, we just don't know if it will or will not be severe in a older age population in the u. k. and therefore, we have to try to carefully,

and one way to try to carefully is to suppress case numbers suppressed them immediately. rather than just focus on take your boosters. thought about punk connie always good to get your thoughts. thank you very much and have a talking to our 0. thank you. thank you. lot still to come here now just here including to grind rebels in ethiopia, say they've really taken the ancient town of non bella more than a week off. losing it to government forces on a cool front end to india. shoot to kill off a security force has gone down 14 civilians by mistake on that state. ah! hello there. let's start in north america and we've seen devastating tornadoes cause tremendous destruction across 5 states of the u. s. the worst of that was in

kent's hockey. now that storm system cleared very quickly pushing off to the east coast, leaving behind a much clearer picture. now we are going to see some exceptional heat in central areas of the u. s. over the next few days, but it's going to remain rather settled for much of the weather action. we have to head to that west coast. we've got a winter storm blow down from british columbia, edging into north western states of the u. s. by the time you get to monday, it's going to be very wet and wintery for northern areas of california. very heavy rain expected. here we could see a month's worth in just 24 hours or more. and we are likely to see some flooding from that. so a very wet week for san francisco, the rain arrives in los angeles from tuesday, but further east of this is, is a much finer, dry a picture. it's cleared up along that east coast and we are seeing temperatures in new york and washington dc recover. now as i said, we are going to see an exceptional won't creep up from the south temperatures in kansas city. expected to reach 23 degrees by wednesday and that's well above the

average for december. we usually see it at about 6 degrees celsius. ah, ah, co creator, cultural knowledge, pluralism, world want to reward americans to excellence and encourage creativity. shay to model translation and international understanding was formed to promote translation, an owner, translators, and acknowledgement road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and cooperation between arab islamic and world coaches. lou lou

ah, welcome back. a quick reminder, the top stories here on the al jazeera search operations are underway to find survivors out. the dozens of tornadoes struck 6 you estates late on friday night. officials expect more than a 100 people been killed in kentucky alone. so africa, president of syria, my boss has tested positive for coping 19. he's been black snakes against the virus and has mild symptoms. he says the infection is reminded to all south africans to get that job. and u. k. prime minister boys johnson's warning of a coming tidal wave of the, on the con, there in the governments, raise the current virus threat level. i'm just searching people to get their 3rd vaccine shot for ministers from the g. 7 group of nations awarding that russia faces. what they're calling massive consequences if it invades ukraine statement came on the final day of talks. in the u. k. city of little poll,

rocha's military build up near ukraine's border has dominated the 2 day meeting. moscow denies any plans when military offensive for each olives reports from liverpool. for the cheese him 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 to 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, he cried. if he did so, he would suffer severe consequences. we can hear how liz, trust, you k foreign secretary put it earlier. we have sent a re, claire, united message to blood to mit putin. from this g 7 meeting. and we want russia to stop its aggression with respect to ukraine. and we are 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 prepay 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 the specific do exist somewhere that they have been conveyed to vladimir putin when joe biden and person told the other day, the white house said afterwards that the things that weren't done in 2014, when russia alex, you crimea from ukraine. those things could be on the table would be on the table if there was an invasion now. and that entails that any economic sanctions that are

brought to bear would have to be a lot more painful than what russia had already suffered. well, the wrong nuclear deal was another big topic of discussion in liverpool. the british foreign secretary says, talks in vienna, iran last chance to rescue the deal on the subjects. if iran, there is still time for iran to come an agree they steal 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. residents say to grow and rebels of recapture the northern ethiopian town of labella, just 11 days after government forces said they'd taken it back. the to gripe people's liberation front says it's launch what it called widespread counter offensives in numerous locations, including the road linking dash center and labella in the am hora. region

communications have been cut in the conflicts and making it hard to verify reports from the town, which is home to you and world heritage site. there are no reports of fighting. and abby ahmed's office as the prime minister headed back to the front lines. the government also reporting more games against the rebels, but they dispute this. so today john vol is from oslo. new university college, he says, reclaiming some other towns in the region may be more strategically important to the tpl. f labella doesn't hold any military st. attending significant such but it is a minute symbolic it tall as it is a well known unesco world heritage site. and so internationally it is available. so in that regard it is a drawback, obviously that the government lost control. but there are other towns like because now which might be more strategically important for t d f and for the military offensive, they are currently undertaking it is an intensive military campaign ongoing as we

speak for the last 23 days, the territory has shifted again and it seems to be that the t d f, the tactical retreat so week a week ago has managed them to regroup and to reach grant to john's. and now to push back on the government offensive against to get in held territories where it will take them. we don't know yet, this is on the western front line. we see the most intensive fighting's over the last couple of days. and that might indicate that they are possibly heading to earth's the state. government controlled west to guy for instance, but again, that's too early to say. libby as election commission says it won't publish the list of presidential candidates until all issues relating to the upcoming polar

resolved. the historic vote on the 24th of december as being seen as a major step towards ending a decade of political turmoil. but the process has been undermined by disagreements on just who should be allowed to run. malik, trainer reports from tripoli. librium have mixed feelings about the upcoming election. i mean, libyan, 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 election. and the high national electoral commission has yet to publish a list the final candidates. so who's running? who so libyan need a chance to be able to if the presidential elections 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 out of me debate 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 election. you have called me for have to the wallet, 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 elections 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 electrons

are going to be postponed. there been protests in the district of north east india falling. the deaths of 14 civilians are mistaken. they're killed by the indian army soldiers trying to ambush rebels. evan fine, a truck carrying coal miners in the state of naga. and last week there are renewed cools to scrap a controversial law, which gives soldiers immunity from prosecution. as with parent reports, i don't know my mom. i know our con yet cries out to the graves of her 25 year old twin son lan 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 was shot dead once i had fired cape one cognac, laid a search party when the miners failed to return home after we get, we get to know that the bodies had 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, and now the 7 men were killed when soldiers fide at protesting villages. another protest was killed the following day. and the 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 of april approached the location and it was signal to stop. however, it tried to please following which the vacant suspected of getting insurgents was fired upon water resulting in the killing of 6 out of the 8 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, and it wasn't even at night or in the jungle. it was on the road in broad daylight . the killings have 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, 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 are, why is that? that is, it is an example. what in the north, in indian is in india, in the us, people, i'm not, we'll get by on pause. if we cannot accept, we cannot tell it we have a 2nd us citizen. how does going to be in there until the north and civilian of the

countries? government leaders say the army needs extra powers and regions where rebels operate . but as a week long morning, for the villages of ot and goes on motherland. and madonna estate lead as repealing to their government allied the body a jumped party to repeal the contentious shoot to kill law. elizabeth brought him al jazeera new daddy voters in the french island territory of new caledonia, have voted overwhelmingly against independence. the referendum result hail by the french president, but it was shattered by a boycott among those who campaigned to break away ketchup as the young ripple it's still new. caledonia is remaining of french territory. although voter turnout was low at around 45 percent 96 percent of our lenders who did vote rejected the latest bid for independence. it was the 3rd and final referendum in

the past 3 years, voters sided with france and all of them said that girl, the kid. and you know this, this victory is beautiful, is the beginning of something new in the french republic. and i'm proud of it. independence groups boycotted the vote. they say holding the referendum during coven lockdown was both unfair and lead to bias. result. new caledonia is east of australia and a strategically important to france, which has a military base there. government leaders and harris feared and independent new caledonia would move closer to china, which has built economic ties and political influence on other pacific islands. because he didn't get it done. you know, you can, jones 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. 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 with vaccines and as well as the old to do so short, it could be measures and to boost the economy during this 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 and his janice for the territory. katya lopez with the young al jazeera people in el salvador, are again protesting against the government's bitcoin. currency policy essential american country became the world's 1st to adopt a crypto currency as we go 10 day and september resident night mckenna says it'll help el salvador solve its financial problems. but it's proven on popular with many

saying that now the trust nor understand bitcoin. sure lanka has put on show what it says is the world's biggest natural condom blue sapphire weighing 310 kilograms found that a gem pit 3 months ago. we've been named the queen of asia. international organizations are yet to certify the precious stem. ah, dr. quick out of the top stories here. such operations are under way to find survivors off the dozens of tornadoes struck 6 us states late on friday night. officials expect more than a 100 people had been killed in kentucky alone. we've now been granted the immediate federal state of emergency. it is rare, it was granted incredibly quickly and we are grateful to homeland security to fema in the president biden him.