ah, you as president declares a major disaster in the state of kentucky as survivors of with tornadoes, pick up the pieces. ah, i'm hello, ma, his in this is al jazeera life from doha. also coming up, the u. k. prime minister raises the corona virus alert level in a bit to control a number of new only chrome related infections, man mars to post. these are wrong sense that she returns to court a keys to violate in pandemic restrictions. thinking outside the box, alice indians living in the occupied west bank, turns a solar power to improve access to electricity.

ah, you as president joe biden has declared a major disaster in kentucky and pledged aide for 6 states, devastated by a number of tornadoes on friday. a search for survivors continues, but the chances of finding any one alive or fading dozens have been killed, or kentucky is the worst hits area. heidi joe castro reports from the tone of mayfield. this is what the ne field candle factory looked like before the storm. this is what it looks like now. i saw on site a backpack that was left behind and a pair of shoes. and it represents that the tragedy of this tornado is reaped. on this area of kentucky, we learned of a telephone that was recovered. a cell phone that recorded 27. miss

messages. we've lost father's mother's brothers, sisters, sons, daughters and others, teens from department of homeland security and the federal emergency management agency or fema, are now on the scene. but the likelihood of finding more survivors diminishes by the hour. friday's tornado destroyed everything. it touched in mayfield. this used to be the historic town center. now it is leveled that was once a doctors office back there churches now nothing but rubble. this trailer was picked up in the sky and dropped here like a toy and people's personal belongings from their homes. their photographs of their family members, now litter the streets. david hargrove digs through what remains of his law. office volunteers are helping him recover client files. he didn't expect to also find this

. i've had this desk for since my daughter's been born and you know, all the things they draw for you and i had it under a glass. and that's the i found most of that. there's still no power or running water, but the recovery work is in full suite. 10000 people call this town home. i can't even tell what's what right now cuz saw piled up. it's like a like a war zone that happened here. and though it's unreal. oh, words came describe what i feel right now of my home town. the loss of life here is the greatest shock, knowing some of the ruin home belong to the factory workers who will never return. parts are heavy. as the clean up continues heidi joe castro al jazeera mayfield kentucky. william gallows is a professor of 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 a 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 present 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 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. we south africa, president serial number for her hands tested positive for cove. it 19 is office released a statement saying he felt on well after estate memorial service for former president f. w to clerk is being treated from mild symptoms. rum poser has been vaccinated against the corona virus. the u. k. government has raised its corona virus threat level officials or warning the spread of the omicron variances pushing the k bank

into risky territory. alert level forwards immediately affects existing rules and regulations, but to move to level 5 would spend more restrictions and will be triggered if the health service becomes overwhelmed. by minister boris johnson has urged people to get a 3rd vaccine shots. no one should be in any doubt. there is a tidal wave of omicron coming and i'm 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, but 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 chron emergency,

i'm bringing that target forward. by a whole month, every one eligible, aged 18 and over in england, will have a chance to get their booster before the new year. dr. barret spunk, omnia is from the university of se, exeter is medical school. he questions the u. k. government's approach to containing the virus they so a lot of confusion and concerns the way it was suddenly announced on a sunday i 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 mask work from home cancel parties, stop gatherings in pubs and restaurants. have your boosters have your seasonal influenza vaccine do? so it is multi month 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, the world health organization and the world bank. se the cost of health care pushed

more than half a 1000000000 people into extreme poverty. at the height of the pandemic. the w. h o . once governments to speeds up efforts to make health care accessible to everyone . it's encouraging the introduction of universal health coverage. in america's financial capital, people are slowly returning to work, but in smaller numbers than before the corporate 19 pandemic. and that means fewer customers for local businesses. kristin salumi reports from new york city. 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 at 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 deaths not has an impact on the entire neighborhood. fewer office workers means less foot traffic and less business for cover. one of 3, mid town 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 is office workers and tourism to combine. it's really everything. nearly

a 3rd of retail store fund here in manhattan, our bacon. these mid town partnership represent local property owners who are faced with more demanding as well as fewer tenants. many commercial off this is want to shrink the footprint they have. deb, it's lisa's turn. refers workspace goes, expand the open space, the amenities space in the offices. there's more room for, for flow. so people are on top of each other. more and more workers are expected to return as the delta, very theda and vaccination rates continue to entire. but coven may have changed this landscape forever. kristin, salumi al jazeera, new york, people in the northern ethiopian town of valley bella say to graham rebels, have we captured the region? just 2 weeks after government forces had taken back control?

it's he gray people's liberation front says it's launched several cancer offensives . the group has targeting the roads linking gus, sheena and labella. in the am hora, region communications have been cuts in the conflicts own. that's made it hard to verify reports from labella, which is home to h u. n. world heritage site. there are no reports of fighting. and abby are mads offers says the prime minister has headed back to the front lines. the government is also reporting more gains against the rebels, but the rebels dispute. this critically turnville is a professor of peace and conflict studies at oslo new university college. he says, reclaiming some other towns in the region may be more strategically important to the t p l. f labella doesn't hold any military pretending significant assets, 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 because and 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, to wreath grad to john's. and now to push back on the government offences 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 intensify things over the last couple of days. and that might indicate that they are possibly heading to

earth's the state. government controlled west to grow, for instance. but again, that's too early to say. fil, a heads on al jazeera, the french pacific territory of new canada, dounia overwhelmingly against independence in a referendum. but we caught it by separatists years after the last world cup coast, brazil struggle to find the use of the stadiums for the events. ah hello, dave is good news to come for europe. weatherwise over the next few days. we've got milder and more settled conditions, particularly across western and south western areas. we had to rental rain, caused flooding in northern parts of spain and southern areas of front. but look

that the finer and dryer weather is back. there'll be lots of sunshine for spain and portugal. now we've got a band of rain that is looming to the west of portugal, but that's going to shift further south taking the wet or whether to the canary islands. by the mid week, it winds up nicely across much of italy as it does to some of the balkan countries . we are going to see some heavy snow push into bulgaria. and a lot of that wet weather moves from greece across to turkey in the days to come with us flooding rains are expected to be rather intense. now the heavy snow continues from much of russia for finland as well, and we are going to see it remain bitterly cold for those baltic states and a wintry mix continues to push into norway. we are going to see those conditions either cross sweden, the temperature will recover slightly in stock and a similar story for denmark, copenhagen seen a temperature at 7 degrees celsius. now for britain, an island, it's milder in the south. we are seeing some of that heavy rain in the north with

some strong winds in northern scotland. ah, in the country with an abundance of resources. all in one moment we move to grow and froth. we balance. reno economy, blue economy and digital economy with the new job creation lot, indonesia progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs. invest, let people bring loses and programs. and, and now, lou ah,

this is al jazeera, quick reminder over the top stories this arm. you as president has declared an emergency in kentucky after tornadoes devastated the region. this will allow for more funding and aids to reach a state for more than 60 people have died. the british government has raised its corona virus threat level unders, encouraging people to get booster shots. it's morning the spreads of the omicron variances pushing the u. k. bank into risky territory and residency to grow and rebels have recaptured the northern ethiopian town of valley. bella. 11 days after government forces said they taken it back, rebels targeting the rude lincoln guess. sheena and labella. in the m horror region . the latest trial deposed miramar. liter uncensored, she has been adjourned until next week. so she is accused of violating pandemic restrictions. she was already sentenced to 2 years in prison earlier in the summer,

in a separate case. well, let's get more from tony chang. he's following the case from bank coke. tony it, what more do we know about this trial? it appears to be delayed. again, it has and this is really a process which is dragging out. they were expecting the chief witness to they to be the former senior minister from mandalay. or the 2nd most populated city in myanmar that he didn't turn up. the defense said that he had been served with a subpoena for, but he hadn't been allowed to leave the prison where his polk currently being held . he was a supporter of a uncensored, choose some someone would say, some would say an ally or the police, the prison service denied there. none the less, he wasn't there. the judge adjourned the case until next monday were uncensored. she was going to be appearing anyway because there are more trials against her.

we're expecting a verdict for another case which has brought been brought against her for violating telecoms laws. i hate having to walk, he talk is that we're not authorized to be used with a mere mom. but i think really what we're seeing here is the death by a 1000 cuts the, the military gender, which is ruling which myanmar which overthrew uncensored chin who earlier this year has launched just pile upon pile of cases against her. they did immediately after the judgment last week where she was sentenced to 4 years reduced that to 2 years, which they said was on humanitarian grounds. but clearly their intention here is to tie her up in all sorts of cases on all sorts of grounds. and just keep her out of the public eye. that said, i think kim, the many people accept that. that is what's gonna happen. a new generation is gonna keep protesting against her the, the overthrow of democracy,

amir mar. and we've seen that in the last week with demonstrations in many cities across the country and me martini, just give us a sense of what that the more global picture is in myanmar because a human rights watch reports is now alleging that the military are blocking humanitarian needs from reaching millions of people indeed, and this is a really major problem according to human rights, whatever. and we've seen this since the military cou, a lot of people continuing to protest. we've seen a civil disobedience movement which has effectively shut down the whole country for the, for the last 10 months. there has caused enormous problems for the economy, for the infrastructure, things like transport within the country of all, but effectively shut down human rights watch actually say that before the, the qu, they were a 1000000 people who were dis deemed to be in need of assistance that number,

they say is now risen to 14400000, including 5000000 children. they so say those people are in desperate need of sustenance, of shelter. oh, very basic things. they also say that the world has a responsibility to a $109000000.00 has been pledged by the world for aid to myanmar, after they say only 18 percent of their has so far been collected by the united nations. and that is desperately needed and that is likely to be one of the things on the agenda for you or secretary of state antony blinking when he visits this region later this week. ok, tony chang there. bring as the very latest from bangkok. tony, thank you. south korea and australia have st. a defend, still worth more than $700000000.00. south korea will supply australia with artillery weapons and supply vehicles and read ours is the largest defense deal between australia and an asian nation and comes at a time of height and tensions between australia and china. the french specific

territory of new caledonia has voted overwhelmingly against independence. president emanuel macro has welcomed the referendum results, but pro independence groups of boy concert the false plan to appeal the results at leon nighted nations, cassie lopez, hurry ann reports with her. a new caledonia is remaining a french territory. although voter turnout was low at around 45 percent 96 percent of fire 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 again, only 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 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. liquid union. 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. rubin 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 to which helped you get it or yeah, with vaccines and as well as the or do i do so sure. it couldn't 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 a new status for the territory. cutty, a little bit of the young al jazeera. there are reports, a palestinian man has been killed by israeli forces in the occupied west bank. it happens during the early morning, reeds in the russ ally in area in nutler city. the 31 year old man died of a bullet wound to the head. people in palestine are turning to renewable energy sources and the beds to get rains tight. israeli restrictions palace, city is don't have access or control over the majority of lands in the west bank.

some are trying to install solar panels on rooftops to overcome the challenge with abraham reports. this is the largest power plant to be occupied to a bank. it has 20000 solar panels and is now generating electricity for 3 palestinian institutions, including this hospital and ramallah. before switching to solar energy hospital manager save a peat $1000000.00 a year in electricity bills for the past 2 years. that electricity has been free of charge for dr. henley, but when the panels are covering all of our needs over the tricity as a hospital, it's part of our social responsibility to use in the tricity that we're generating and, and reduce our dependency on israel and 90 percent of the electricity used in the occupied westbank is bought from israel. the rust comes from jordan and through renewable energy sources. local palestinian initiative aims to install more solar

panels in the west bank to grease reliance on green energy from 6 percent to 70 percent. what is really restrictions are complicating this process. israel prevents palestinians from developing the majority of land in the west bank, installing solar panels and school rooftop was one way around it. but access to lands is not the only issue, even when electricity is generated. it's not easy to transmitted from one location to another fella stand on the operates on low, low voltage and medium voltage grids. we don't have any transmission network that would enable us to do a large scale project. so we had to size this project both in terms of availability of land and the capacity of the grid to carry and evacuated. the power produced here 10 of thousands of palestinians live off the grid international organisations provided them with solar panels. now they are the only source of power. it's hardly enough to generate electricity for basic needs and only operates during sunlight.

even though the electrical grid is meters away. by the way, communities here cannot benefit from it. it's part of the israeli electricity network and serve the league and it's really supplements in the area. the palestinian energy authority says investment in solar energy is relatively new and it's still way down by bureaucracy. there is a gap of coordination between these institutions that's been established in the law that slowing down the process and the create kind of bureaucratic procedures in a place where the sun shines more than 320 days a year. solar panels could solve the electricity problem, but it is the israeli occupation that's preventing the palestinian goals of energy, self reliance. deborah, him al jazeera, be occupied by bank with less than a year before the world. can't this increase in focus on the legacy?

the tournament will be for cutter. organize the say, some the stadiums will be turned into community facilities. it's learned lessons from other countries that have struggled to find a post tournament roll for their world comp facilities. and it's smith reports from the brazilian city of my mouse, the even football, my brazil. it was always going to be a challenge to make full use of a $40000.00 capacity stadium built in a jungle city that can only be reached by air or river. for games are played here in the 2014 will come, local government is still paying back the $160000000.00 construction loan to the federal government with little return to show for the investment much we're going to buy all the legacy is very small and we bought a transport awards, haven't started, but us security has improved. god, hospitals have not been expanded or renovated. several areas within 3 tourists and

there's been no progress with us. it's frustrating for the population and the now the amazon, as serena host, my now says seat in brazil, division hosted some concerts. am to qualify for the capitol will come. most of it came, went out that 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, the posts around $73000.00 a month to operate the stadium according to the management. this month, they'll take in half that well the c p. s. and which dodge is important to think about how to pay for the stage from the beginning, going so that it's not feasible for the government to encourage football school, the growth of local sports. because the objective of a workup is to bring visibility to the local sport, visit b, o,

to cope with the heat and humidity of a city not far from the equator. the stadium was designed to be as airy as possible . and it's an impressive piece of architecture ah, but there is little danger of funds overheating. and here, even when the local team managed to salvage a draw in this guy, unit smith al jazeera manhouse. ah, this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the u. s. president has approved an emergency disaster declaration in kentucky. after tornadoes devastated the region. joe biden has also pledged aid for several other states for more.