understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home will but you can use in current affairs that matter to years. ah . ready ready kentucky's governor says the number missing from the devastating tornado storms is not yet known. with more than 90 desk confirmed across 6. you estates. ah. hello, i'm darren jordan. this is out 0 live window are also coming up. there is a tiny wave of only cold coming. the u. k is to ramp up its boost of vaccine program with a warning from prime minister bars johnson of a new threat from the amok. wrong, very it foreign minister, m a g 7 meeting in england condemn russia's military build up. may 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 and 6 you at states are going through 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 had been killed in kentucky alone. a federal emergency has been declared in the 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 by 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 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 law. and victims of the tornadoes have been sharing their hiring experiences. many say it's still difficult to process what's happened back your 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. and 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 because it didn't fall down. there are

people who have 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. found business owners in the worst area said could take years to recover from the disaster. it worries them because it's wiped out everything. it's wiped out churches and wiped up businesses. it's like, you know, 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 built. we're going to have to rebuild a community. and i don't, i don't know how long it's going to take, but i know we're going to come back. how does your castro has moved out from mayfield in kentucky? the governor of kentucky says he is still hopeful that there can be survivors pulled out of this trouble. but we're 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. the scope of this disaster is so great in that it's not just hitting mayfield here, which is devastated. but it's the 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 rubble of that factory down the road. but that in these

thousands of homes that have been leveled that unknown victims may be there as well . we know, fema and the homeland security secretary. they're here to help to act 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. william gallows is a professor, meteorology at iowa state university. he says the path of destruction left by the tornadoes could be the longest ever. recorded. tornadoes form on any day where you have strong wind shear, which means the winds are changing their speed and direction as you go up in the

atmosphere. so on friday night we had very strong values of wind shear and the atmosphere which is pretty typical in winter. but the other ingredient we need is instability or a lot of energy that is supplied by having warm and humid conditions near the ground. that is often lacking in the winter, but as you heard in this event, the spring like warmth and humidity presence in this region to those 2 ingredients come together and allow for thunderstorms to begin to rotate. and the strong upward motion in the thunderstorm can concentrate the rotation to make it a spin very fast helping to form for nato's. we've gone 8 years in the united states since we've had an f 5 tornado, which should be the maximum strength tornado. they have not yet rated this very long track tornado in kentucky. but there seems to be some evidence that may be as intense as an f 5. and in addition, it is very rare to have the tornado stay on the ground. this long. if confirmed

that this path is about 370 kilometers long, it could set a world record for the longest renee to track, beating a record that has stood for almost a 100 years. with south africa. presidents, sarah, my porter has tested positive, recovered 19. his office released a statement saying he feels unwell after est memorial service for former president f. w. the clerk has been treated for miles symptoms from a poster husband back to the again, the virus. the british government has raised the current of virus threat level of warning. the spread of the american variant is pushing the u. k. back into risky territory alert level 4 won't immediately affect rules and regulations moves. level 5 would bring more restrictions and would be triggered if they were fears of the health system becoming overwhelmed by minister boys. johnson's urged people to get a 3rd vaccine shot. no one should be in any doubt. there is

a tidal wave of omicron coming, and i am afraid it is now 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. well, dr. bart pan carney as on the university of exeter medical school, he questions the u. k. government's approach to containing the virus. they saw

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 council parties, stop gatherings in pubs and restaurants. have your boosters have your seasonal influenza vaccine tooth. so it is multi multi multiple approach that is needed on

we crohn is may be a little bit vaccine, evasive. 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 booster works against delta as well as against omicron because we have more of it and a slightly below broader range of the antibodies. foreign ministers from the g 7 group of nations, a warning that russia face is what they're calling massive consequences if it invades ukraine statement came on the final day of talks in the u. k. city of liverpool, rushes, military build up near ukraine border has dominated the 2 day meeting. moscow denies any plans by military offensive, where we challenge reports now from little. so the chief nations, the united and cali on russia to de escalate to return to diplomatic channels. and to abide by its international commitments. they also reaffirms ukraine's

sovereignty is territorial integrity and the right to be trying 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 u. k. for integrity, re put it. we've sent a very clear united message to blood to 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 specific seattle. what are these consequences that russia might suffer? we just don't know yet. mice germany prepaid 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 to exist somewhere that they have been conveyed to vladimir putin when joe, by them and person told the other day, the white house said afterwards that the things that once done in 2014, when russia alex, yeah, crimea from you cried 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 has already suffered. i'm the ra nuclear deal was another big topic of discussion in liverpool. the british foreign secretary says talks in vienna are iran's last chance to rescue the agreement on this subject

. if iran, there is still time for iran to come and agree this dale 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. lots more so to come here and al jazeera, including to grime rebels in ethiopia, report to jeff, retake him the ancient town of labella, more than a week of losing it to government forces on the fall carry london this year is rapidly becoming one of the worst she is for tea homicides. where following won't groceries organizational is spent on taking deadly weapons at the streets. ah, ah, look forward to really, to scully's with sponsored my cattle at ways hello there. the

weather is turning milder and why of course, much of east asia in the days to come to take it from mainland china. we've got high pressure. that's back in charge. within a few showers, however, rolled across the central to eastern areas, but it's largely fine and dry, sticky, full bathing and shanghai. we got sunshine here. we're going to see the temperatures pick up in the days to come. it's going to get warmer as well across the korean peninsula, a little bit, a cloud cover, but it's still looking rather fine and dry down in the south. the more wintry weather we have to look to the north east. and to tokyo, we've got snow storms affecting her chi, do that work. and when, who are the blowing in pushing off to the east, it is going to clear by the time we get to choose day, we'll see the temperature recover in support. but for tokyo, it is going to get colder. it escapes the rain, but that is due to arrive later on tuesday. now as we move across to south asia, it's a much more settled picture than it has been recently within a few showers across the southern areas of india. but the sharp,

a storms of be affecting sri lanka, it's going to be wet in colombo through to saturday. unfortunately, but across that west coast of india, there is a lot of warmth. it's very dry as well, with a temperature in one by sitting at 35 degrees celsius on tuesday. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always, ah, inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness, imperialism, world wide, and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity. the shake ahmad award for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and honor translators, and acknowledged the road and strengthening the bonds of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. blue with

ah, welcome back, a grammar about top stories here. this, our search teams are still trying to find survivors out. a dozens of tornadoes struck 6 us states late on friday night. officials expect a death total more than a 100 people in kentucky alone. so africa's presidents, sir, on porter as tested positive for coven 19. he's been vaccinated against the virus and has mild symptoms. he serves the infection as a reminder to all south africans to get their job and u. k. prime minister barak johnson's warning of a coming tidal wave of the army cranberry. the government raised the corona virus threat level and deserted people to get a 3rd vaccine shop. now, rather than say, to grind rebels of recapture the northern ethiopian town of labella,

just 11 days after government forces said they taken it back. it to grier rebels. people's liberation front say it's launch what it called. widespread counter offensive in numerous locations, including the road, lincoln, gaz, sheena and labella. in the m horror, region communications have been caught in the conflicts of making art to verify reports from the town, which is home to a u. n. world heritage site. there were no reports of fighting. ahmed's office says the prime minister headed back to the front lines, the government's also reporting more gains against the rebels. the de dispute was the 1012 lives from oslo new university college. he says, retaining some other towns in the region may be more strategic, important to the people that live a lot doesn't hold any military strategic, significant search, but it is a symbolic it tall as it is, a well known unit school world heritage site. and so it nationally,

it is available. so in that regard it is drawback obviously is that the government lost control. but there are other towns like just 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 read grad johns. and now to push back on the government, offensive against ticket and 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 controls vested guy for instance, but again, that's too early to say. south korea's president is on a 4 day visit to australia where he's due to sign a number of agreements aimed at boosting trade and security that include a defense deal worth a $1000000000.00. south korea will supply australia with artillery weapons, ammunition, supply vehicles and radar president, moon and australian prime minister scott morrison also confirmed a quarantine free travel bubble between the 2 countries. voters in the french allan territory of new caledonia, have voted overwhelmingly against independence. the referendum result hail by the french president was overshadowed by a boycott among those who campaigned to break away. cattle. episode on reports with a new caledonia is remaining a french territory. although voter turnout was low at around 45 per cent.

96 per cent of fi lenders who did vote projected 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 girl. okay, do you listen to 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 aesop, australia, and a 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. like kelly dounia in the california new caledonia ins 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 pretty 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 a good yeah, with vaccines and as well as the order i do so sure it measures and to boost they're going to be doing a dis health crisis now, a new state of negotiations will begin, while the territory will remain part of france. caledonian leaders, including separatists will have up to 18 months to negotiate with the french government and redefine a new status for the territory. katya little bits of the young al jazeera libya election commission says it won't publish a list of presidential candidates until all issues relating to the upcoming pole

a result. the historic vote on the 24th of december is being seen as a major step towards ending a decade of political turmoil. the process has been undermined by disagreements on just who should be allowed to run. malik traina, as more for 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 wants 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 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 election move forward, need to know what kind of policies, what kind 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 the election. you have called me for have to the wallet, police have to and he's been sentenced to a military court in western libya to that you have people 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 electrons to move forward. it's looking more and more like

these electrons are going to be postponed. the moderates of which, as teenagers, as saw to its highest level in more than a decade with knives being used in many of the crimes. the youngest victim was just 12 years old. the crisis was prompted one londoner to start a campaign for youngsters to hand over their weapons for safe disposal. a warning view as may find some of the images in the bark as 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. you know, man got confident on once 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 greys own not condoned by the police,

nor actively discouraged. he knows more the most about what knives can do. so i stepped on to the vacations 9 pounds each occasion. so to me. m, how kathy, math guys, person you and we meet the 17 year old who's notably relieved to be handing over his knife to some one. he feels he can trust that you're probably not here above with him on a ticket. if, if i get this both are probably for me, it was never really a gang, t 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 want to die in atlanta, didn't you need on the 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 mix of poverty and online rivalries. this year, the number of child victims is that its highest since 2008, the year 16 year old ben can cellar was stabbed to death on a london street by a group of teenagers. his family has kept his memory alive through this education center. or 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 i don't work in the to 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 scratched the surface of serious but hardware and neve parker al jazeera london

now with less than a year before the world cup, there's increasing focus on the legacy. the tournament will leave cut off the organizer. se seating will be donated to poor nations and the stadiums are turned into community facilities. it's learned lessons from other countries that have struggled to find a post tournament roll for their world cup facilities. aren't there as bernard smith reports from the brazilian city of menache? oh, even in football, mad, brazil, it was always going to be a challenge to make full use of a $40000.00 capacity stadium built in a jungle city. the can only be reached by air or river. ah, 4 games are played here in the 2014 world cup. local government is still paying back the $160000000.00 construction loan to the federal government with little return to show for the investment must venture viola. the legacy is very small and public transport wars haven't started, but as the molig security has improved, god, hospitals have not been expanded or renovated. i then several areas were entering

tourism proper. there's been no progress. it's frustrating for the population. oh, now the amazon is, serena hosts mouse f. c brazil's 3rd division that's hosted some concerts and a qualifier for the cancer will come the most of his games. and al says he doesn't even come close to filling the stadium even for a big match like this. this is a quarter final cup game and gate receipts. don't even come close to covering the running costs. it costs around $73000.00 a month to operate the stadium according to the management this month. they'll take in half that a call. the cbs, the wish target is important to think about how to pay for the stadium from the beginning. great. so that it's not and feasible for the government all to encourage football school stature, the growth of local sports. because the objective of a word cup is to bring visibility. the local sports was a visa

b. o. to cope with the heat and humidity of the city not far from the equator, the stadium was designed to be as airy as possible. 6 and it's an impressive piece of architecture. ah, but there's little danger, funds overheating in here. even when they're local, teen managed to salvage a draw in this game. units out there, man, house ah, type check on the top stories a on al jazeera, such teams are still trying to find survivors. after dozens of tornadoes struck 6 us states late on fighting.