ah, if america held up a mirror to itself, what would it see in a sense, race is the story of america. what's working and what's not. lot of people are only talking about that. it wasn't at but half of the agenda. if america can handle multiple challenges on multiple frauds, we need to go back to school. the bottom line on al jazeera lou, the u. s. president declares a major disaster in the state of kentucky. as tornado survivors pick up the pieces . ah, hello, i'm hello, am i here? dean? this is al jazeera life, and doha. also coming up, south africa's president tests positive for coven. 19

a day after he delivered the eulogy at a memorial for f. w to clerk. the u. k prime minister raises the corona virus alert level in a bids to control the number of you on the chrome related infections. and spain's wetland cylinder threats made worse by a local farmers tapping into water supplies illegally to keep their livelihoods going. you as president joe biden has declared a major disaster in kentucky and pledged aid for 6 states, devastated by a number of tornadoes on friday. rescuers are still trying to find survivors, but those chances are fading. dozens of people have been killed. dance kentucky is the worst hit states i did. your castro reports formed the tone of mayfield. this

is what the mayfield 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 it, this tornado has 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 fridays. tornado destroyed everything. it touched in mayfield. this used to be the historic town center. now it is level that was once

a doctor's 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 in, you know, all things they draw for you and i had it under a glass. and that's the affair . most of them there's still no power or running water, but the recovery work is in full swing. 10000 people call this town home. i can't even tell what's what right now cuz saw powered up. it's like a like a war zone that happened here. and though it's unreal,

well words came describe what i for your i know of my home town. the loss of life here is the greatest shock. knowing some of the ruin homes belong to the factory workers who will never return. hearts are heavy as the clean up continues. heidi joe castro al jazeera mayfield kentucky, south africa's presidency. rum, a poser has tested positive, recovered 19, is office released a statement saying he felt unwell after a state memorial service for former president f. w to clerk. he's been treated for mild symptoms, rama poser has been vaccinated against the corona virus. the u. k. government has raised its corona virus threat level officials or warning. the spreads of the omicron variance is pushing the u. k. back into risky territory. alert level for

wounds immediately affects existing rules and regulations, but to move to level 5, bring more restrictions and will be triggered. if the health system becomes overwhelmed. prime 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 all micron 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 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 subs her barret spunk. hernia is from 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 do? 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. the world health organization and the world bank. se the coast 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 speedo efforts to make health care accessible to everyone,

it's encouraging the introduction of universal health coverage. the trillion state of queensland is now open to all back city to domestic travellers. for the 1st time in nearly 5 months, queensland shut its borders in july to the neighboring states as a way to cope cases. no more than 80 percent of adults. there had been fully vaccinated in the states as recorded no new cases. the covert 19. it's like we haven't been on a plane for a month. but just coming back and going to be fighting, walking on the plane plan. very good. like probably say, but like to play with joseph and america's financial capital. people are slowly returning to work,

but in smaller numbers than before the corporate team pandemic. and that means a few customers for local businesses. and as christina 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 what 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 cover. one of 3, mid town restaurants, owned by amy barrick. she says her business is back to about 80 percent of pre pandemic was 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 offices want

to shrink the footprint they have. it's lisa turns, as far as workspace does expand the open space, the amenities space in the offices. so 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 vary and fades and vaccination rates continue to entire, but coven may have changed this landscape forever. kristin salumi al jazeera, new york, south korea and astray leah have signed a defense still worth more than $700000000.00. so korea will supply a strictly with artillery weapons supply vehicles and radars. the largest defense deal between the street and an asian nation and comes at a time of heightened tension between his trailer and china. the delivery of an important commitment of our government that we might it's an important further

chapter in the defense industry story forestry as we continue to build as sovereign capability. and korea is an important partner in that journey, both in as security arrangements, but also in the building of our sovereign capability in defense manufacturing and in italy rescue workers are searching for any more survivors. in the rubble of several collapsed buildings came down on the owns of sicily. they've recovered 4 more bodies after digging for 30 hours. 7 people are no confirmed dead. 2 or so missing belgians came down after a ghastly exclusion on saturday. the tone of robin mussa still hurts on out to sara, thinking outside the box palestinians, living in the occupied west bank, turned to solar power, access to electricity and years after its la stance. as world cup host brazil

struggles find a use for the stadiums. boots for the events, ah, ah, look forward to brutus goes through with sponsored by cutoff airways. hello there. let's have a look at the weather across europe over the next few days. and it's looking much finer and dryer across southern areas in particular for that south west corner. and that's going to come as a relief to places like northern spain and southern france where we've had severe flooding caused by torrential rain. now the flood waters remain, but it does clear up rather nicely. we'll take a closer look at the iberian peninsula. we're going to have plenty of sunshine coming in for spain and portugal. that band of rain is going to ease down towards the south. taking the wet weather to the canary islands by the time we get to wednesday. but for much of italy, it's a dry, a picture to keep up in the north and for the balkans. we are seeing that wintery

mix pushed farther to the east with a heavy snow in serbia. it's going to 4 heaviest in bulgaria. by the time we get into choose day, some strong winds still affecting parts of croatia, but much of the wet and windy weather swirling off to the east. now farther north, it is a much milder picture across central parts. we are expecting some heavy snow. however, for south eastern areas of germany and once again we got that wet and windy weather pulling into western parts of norway. but the scandinavia is getting milder across sweden and denmark, with temperatures picking up slightly in the days to come. ah, the weather sponsored by katara always do you want to bank that puts the partner back into partnership need bank business banking is here to equip you with a team of experts to partner with you and navigating your new normal and to create relevant business solutions to guide your growth. so in an if

a changing business world, do you want a bank that takes your money order bank that takes your money seriously. search need bank big picture business banking? ah, lou. the me. this is al jazeera and quick reminder all of the top stories. this r u. s. president has declared an emergency in kentucky answered. tornadoes devastated the state. this will allow for more funding and aids to reach a region more than 60 people have been killed. the government has raised its code of arms, threat level and is encouraging people to get this to show its warning, the spread of the on the chrome variances pushing the country back into whiskey

territory. i mean, it's trillion state of queensland was now open to all vaccination domestic travellers for the 1st time and nearly 5 months, please, and shelters orders in july to states. that's a week to current cases. the leases trial of me and mars the poor leader. wrong sense, which she has been adjourned until next week. she's accused of violating pandemic restrictions, which she was already sentenced to 2 years in prison. earlier in december in a separate case. and human rights launches published a report, seeing me and mars military leaders are blocking humanitarian aid. so i chang is following the situation from bangkok. this is a really major problem, according to human rights. what we've seen this since the military cou, a lot of people continuing to protest, we've seen a civil disobedience moving, which is effectively shut down the whole country for the,

for the last 10 months. but there has caused enormous problems for the economy, for the infrastructure, things like transport within the country of all. but they take typically shut down human rights, which actually say that before the, the qu, they were a 1000000 people who would be deemed to be in need of assistance. that number, they say is now reason to 14400000, including 5000000 children. they so say those people are in desperate need sustenance of shelter, of very basic things. they also say the world has a responsibility to a $109000000.00 has been pledged by the world to aid to man. but they say only 18 percent of that has so far been collected by the united nations. and that is desperately needed and that's likely to be one of the things on the agenda for us secretary of state antony blink when he visits this region later this week. and ukraine around

a 1000 people march through the capital to protest against mandatory vaccinations and restrictions for unvaccinated people. doctors, teachers, and government employees are required to be fully immunized, accessed public transport. and commercial centers is restricted for those who aren't innoculated against corporate 19. just more than 32 percent of the population has been double jobs. ukraine reported more than 5000 new cases in the past. they that was considered one of the most important wetlands in the world. the union, a national park in southern spain, as a unesco world heritage site, under refuge from migrating birds and endangered animals. but as natasha name reports, the park is suffering from years of water theft by farmers and no adroit with every season a different diana emerges. spain's 57 year old national park is nature's tableau

of wetlands beaches dunes and pine forest ecosystems scientists called the wetlands one of the most important on the planet. yet these days it's the dry season year round at this unesco world heritage site. you can see that it is nothing an integral to state now because they know what the so all they species are finding on some can visit those which should be a perfect fit in the say that half or so it broke handy. i mean tobin 3000 seasonal pods used to dot the wetlands today. there are less than $100.00 the world wildlife fund or w w. f says this part is surrounded by 1600 hector's of illegal strawberry blueberry and raspberry farms. the farmers don't have a permit to use water from an awkward for, to irrigate their berries,

to preserve the ecosystem. the w w f says the water theft must and, and farmers, residents, and tourists need to conserve water. 10 years of lower than average rainfall and a drought declared last month, have exacerbated the water shortage. the farmers union in the province says barry farming provides 102000 jobs and instead of blaming them for streaming water resources, the government should complete a project to divert water from another basin. in a 2nd demo, comfortable with it yet, which i told on the dental on you, we're fed up with the way we've been portrayed over many years. we've been dedicating our lives to this. if we want to leave something here so that it is completely compatible and so that our children can carry on doing this to restrict water use, the spanish government sealed illegal wells and purchase farm land around diana

national park. we have to go together with a farmer, improved then by domains balconies. young is super pronoun i'm, you should be still reviews, wasn't consumption because i b, m here though young are in good health resource important for pharmacy in the future. for generations. the people and the park have co existed. if the future means less water, life may change for both, for the worst. natasha game, l g 0. well, the province, spain, and el salvador, thousands of demonstrators are protesting against the government, the colon for an independent judiciary and the keys presidents. now you kelly of becoming a to tater. it comes days after the us imposed economic sanctions on the kelly's chief of staff for corruption. people in the northern ethiopian time of the beta say to dry and rebels, we captured the region just 2 weeks after government forces had taken back control

the t grind people's liberation front sentence loans, several kinds of offences. the group is targeting the roots, thinking, gushing and loudly bella, in the i'm 100 region. well, communications had been cut in the conflict, so in and that's made it hard to verify reports from lally bella, which is home to a u. n. world heritage site. there are new reports of facing and point minister i'll be, it's also says he is headed back to the front lines. the government is also reporting more gains against the rebels, but the rebels dispute this. well, critically drawn, vol is a professor of peace and comfort studies that also new university college. he says, reclaiming some other times in the region may be more strategically important to the us. labella doesn't hold any military pretending significant assets, but it is a very symbolic it tall as it is a well known unesco world heritage site. and so it nationally,

it is available. so in that regard it is a drawback, obviously is that the government lost control. it, but there are other towns like 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. and 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 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 intensive fight things over the last couple of days. and that might indicate that they are

possibly heading to earth's the state. government controls resty guy, for instance. but again, that's too early to say. natalie bennett says become the 1st is really prime minister to make an official visit to the united arab emirates. he met crime prince mom had been voted on the young to discuss deepening ties and economic and regional issues. the u. e established formal diplomatic cube ties with israel last year. israel has been urging regional powers to oppose the nuclear talks with iran. and people in palestine are turning to renewable energy sources in the bids to get around tight israeli restrictions. palestinians don't have access or control over the majority of lands in the occupied west bank. some are trying to install solar panels on rooftops to overcome this challenge. the abraham reports. this

is the largest power plant in the occupied 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 paid $1000000.00 a year in electricity bills for the past 2 years. that electricity has been free of charge for dr. henley, but up in solar 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 reduced out dependency on israel and 90 percent of the electricity used in the occupied west bank is bought from israel. the rust comes from jordan and through renewable energy sources. the local ballast indian initiative aims to install more solar panels in the west bank to increase 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. with access to lans 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 evacuate the power produced here. tens of thousands of past indians live off the grid. international organizations 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 operate during sunlight. even though the electrical grid is meters away, better when communities here cannot benefit from it. it's part of the israeli

electricity network and serve the illegal israeli 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 these really occupation that's preventing the palestinian goals of energy, self reliance, him al jazeera, be occupied by bank with less than a year before the fif worldcom in cutter. this increasing focus on the legacy, the tournaments will leave behind, organizes phase. some of the components with these stadiums will be donated to

developing nations. the others will serve as community facilities. as learned lessons from other countries, like brazil, that has struggled to find a post tournament roll for their world cup facilities. bernard 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 jumble city that can only be reached by our all river. for games are played here in 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 for the job. iowa, the legacy is very small and we follow transport awards, haven't started, but as molig security has improved, god, hospitals have not been expanded or renovated several areas within, through tourism, but there's been no progress. it's frustrating for the population and the

now the amazon, as serena host, my now says seat in brazil, division that posted some concepts and to qualify for the cancer will come for most of it came, went out that doesn't even come close to filling the state and 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 was c, b as in which dodge is important to think about how to pay for the stage from the beginning, so that it's not feasible for the government to encourage football school. the growth of local sports has the objective of a workup used to bring visibility to local sports because the visa, because the cope with the heat and humidity of

a 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 law, but there's little danger, funds overheating in here, even when the local team managed to salvage draw in this, give me just 0 minutes with less than 2 weeks to go until christmas. hundreds of people in greece are getting into the fest of spirits. they're taking part in the annual charity santa run 80 kilometer race circles. the cities olympic park was no need for any reindeer or slaves on a sunny day in a capitol. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. the u. s. president has declared an emergency in kentucky after tornadoes devastated the state. this will allow for

more funding and aid to reach a region. we're more than 60 people are believed have been killed.