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a milder version of the virus. i think that's something we need to say on one side . almost 80 people confirmed dead in the us tornadoes on. i've been likely to rise as crews picked through the whole through whole towns reduced to rubble. ah, so drilling hold frustration people ensued on return to the streets denouncing the prime minister for signing a deal with the military and spain. this vanishing weapons, the drought of the water theft that environmentalists say a sucking the life out of a world heritage site. mom found how much was sport a drama, an embarrassment to add the job for the champions league around of 16. u. f. a. have been a 4th to re do the fixtures that following a technical error during the original draw all the details later and the news out. ah,

we begin this, these are in the u. k. where climate is devoris. johnson has confirmed the world's 1st known death from the oma con variance of cove at 19. it spreading with alarming speed that is expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours ounces heroes poll brennan reports the queue, trailed out of the hospital gates and down the street. the stock warning of an imminent tidal wave of omicron prompting a massive search of vaccine uptake at hundreds of vaccination centers across the u . k. the prime minister visited a vaccination center to see the work 1st hand and broke the news of the you case. first on the kron related death on the chrome is producing hospitalizations and se one patient has not been confirmed to die with on. so i think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus. i think that's something we need to say on one side

and just recognize the sheer pace a which it accelerates through the population. the mission to offer millions of booster jams by december 31st, was he $42.00 military planning teams deployed across every health region, extra vaccine sites and mobile units extended clinic opening hours to allow people to be jabbed around the clock and at weekends and the training of thousands more volunteer vaccinate us, hitting the government's target would mean 1000000 jobs being put into people's arms every single day between now and the end of december. and that's never been achieved before. currently the, any chance is managing around half of that. but the importance of trying has been emphasized by new modeling, which shows that in some circumstances on a chronic could cause double the number of hospitalizations that delta did a year ago. and the booster jap gives 70 percent protection against infection. new rules on wearing masts and working from home of now also come into effect in

england. passenger numbers on public transport have dropped significantly and many businesses are canceling the end of the parties. but there are determined pockets of political and public resistance, new restrictions. hobbins feed her last paper. i don't think that the compliance will be as high as it has been impossible to answer simply because without distinctive but basically no restrictions. the christmas holiday less than 2 weeks away. it's going to be a race against time to avoid even more stringent restrictions pull brennan al jazeera london elsewhere in the world. the 1st case of on the corner has been detected in mainland china. beijing will host to winter olympics and february organizers of warner. the very will posed challenges more countries in europe, a re imposing restrictions that they hoped were behind them, including norway were infections and hospital admissions, or at record levels. while alma crohn is thought to account for more than 70 percent of new infections in south africa, well as a 4th wave president sewell,

rama poser, as tested positive cove at 19 as alger serious for me to mila reports from johannesburg. it was shortly after delivering a eulogy at the memorial service for form of president f. w. to clack. when south african president sodium pasa fell ill. he is one of more than 18000 people in the country who have contracted coven 19. in the past 24 hours the day, the government says the president is suffering mild symptoms and is being monitored . those have had close contact with from a parser, have been told to isolate, in a tweet issued by the president while thanking people for their support. he urged all south africans to get vaccinated. so far, 43 percent of eligible sub africans have received at least one job. while they is enough stock available, including booster shots, many people are still reluctant to get a job. the government says it's trying to dispel misinformation and create greater

awareness about the importance of being vaccinated. but many other countries in africa have not had the same access to vaccines. just 70 percent of africa's more than 1000000000 population has been inoculated against corona virus. oh, really? oh, sure. you order. a reason why we want long from in the last week and average of 19000 south africans have been infected every day. health experts say the serge could be driven by the new army, kron varian. but although they say it's highly contagious, preliminary data indicates it may not cause severe illness. and while the

government may be directed by science, a fully vaccinated, but ill president may do little reassure, those already skeptical of being jabbed for me to mila al jazeera. johanna's book, oksana physic is electra university college london school to pharmacy. she saw the picture around on the corner is becoming clearer, but it's not particularly good. we are certainly on track for it to replace delta here in the u. k. in coming days and weeks. so globally, i imagine that effect will also take place, just based on, on how quickly the doubling rate is occurring. we have had one death in the u. k, thus far. so it is to seem to draw conclusions around severity of alma kron. however, even if it turns out to be half and severe is delta just due to the rate of spread, it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the chest and disrupt health care delivery. to

an extent that will cause another significant crisis. if we can't get our boosters roll out accelerated and we have a human resource problem around that here in the u. k as well. mr. will absolutely help in terms of reducing hospitalizations, but boosters alone will not be enough. and we do need to look at other ways to break trains of transmission because of the vaccine that we have currently available are just not as effective as in the face of our micron is compared to other variance. it is very likely that we will see a future restrictions here in the u. k. as a result of the rate of spread, i can't see it being blunted by boosters just because of how many we would need to deliver in a very short amount of time. the astronomy in state of queensland has reopened its internal borders to the rest of the country for those who are fully vaccinated. as

we are hot reports, the state of lashley shut itself off for 5 months at home. finally, for the holidays, pure joy for these loved ones as they re unite in the state of queensland in australia after having been separated because of the pandemic. welcome. hi, miss harris. this is miss my son and daughter. know you had been england for 5 years and i was planning to get married in 2020, and grace we were all going, but of course we couldn't do that. so they got married in september this year. and we now welcome home after foggy. so we thought you saw it, but not every one is so lucky. unlike domestic travelers, international travelers into the state of queensland will still require 2 weeks of quarantine. diana ward lives in a bordering state and hasn't been with her family all year. it's been about 8 months since i saw my family, and luckily i can get back for christmas, but my brother is still overseas and can get back into queensland. official say all

travel in the state will get easier once the vaccination rate goes up to 90 percent . we haven't been on a plane for either a month. i just coming back from the father wilbert. these families won't need screens to stay connected this holiday season. just time to hug and kiss. face to face. leo harding al jazeera, kentucky's governor says that 64 people are confirmed have died and fridays tornadoes, but more than 100 are still unaccounted for. here as president joe biden, who plans to travel to the states on wednesday is declared a major disaster in kentucky. it's one of 6 states that were hit, rescue workers are again picking through, twisted, wreckage left behind and ruined towns like mayfield, but have only scant hope of finding any more survivors. just a few more facts about those we've,

we've lost our 18 are still on identified. i'm of the ones that we now the age the age range is 5 months to 86 years and sex or younger than 18. help keeps pouring in from all over the country. thank you to everyone how we feel you love fridays. tornadoes are among the worst on record for this time of year. the u. s. national weather service received reports of $37.00 tornadoes across arkansas, illinois, kentucky, mississippi, missouri, and tennessee. kentucky is the hardest hit with the highest number of casualties so far. one tornado hit the states and stayed on the ground for more than 300 kilometers. pretty much destroying all of mayfield. this was

a candle making factory in the city. it was flattened, at least 8 workers were killed there. in illinois, this is what an amazon warehouse there looked like from above before the tornadoes struck and now it's been partially destroyed. 6 people were killed, several of us are still missing at in arkansas, a nursing home collapsed. dozens of people were trapped. at least one person was killed. i want you to know that this administration has made it clear to every govern whatever they need when they needed, when they need to make it known to me, it will get it to them as rapidly, rapidly as we can. that's what we're doing here in kentucky, react to go beyond what is available to the federal government life to mayfield kentucky out as their us hydro castro is. so that we saw the governor of thought

kentucky, quite emotional after updating the numbers of deaths. and that casualty number has been fluctuating throughout the day id. what's the latest? that's right, and part of the reason for the fluctuation is because the chaos has been spread. so far, a half dozen cities really that look like me, field where i'm standing now that it's been hard to get a hard number. but we did get confirmation from kentucky's governor, that the dest hole in this state alone stands at 64 at the moment. but there are a 105 people still missing and the governor said he does expect the number of dead to rise, some likely to come from this class candle factory. that's just down the street from where we are now. there were 110 workers inside the building when the storm system struck late friday night. many people were able to get out alive, but there are at least 8 bodies that were pulled from the rubble and is still an

untold number of workers. who are missing. here though, we're in the middle of downtown mayfield and you were seeing people trying to make the best of this devastating situation. neighbors coming out to help each other home through the wreckage business owners trying to salvage what they can. and now president biden will be visiting mayfield among which the places help visiting in kentucky on wednesday to further the that consoler. and she's and see that the federal resources are applied as they should be. you've been speaking to people in the area as they begin to clean up the damage. what they've been telling you well, we met a remarkable family this morning, adrian, to parents and their 4 children who were inside their home during the tornado. they just, they had invited some neighbors to come because they had a basement. they knew their friends didn't,

and they told me they got down the stairs and just the nick of time because immediately they heard that boom. and when they emerged from it, where they were sheltered, they saw that their house no longer had a roof. today their back on this side, try to salvage what they can removing it, but those the tokens of the life that they had here, they can't live here anymore. and that is the realization of all these families and people were coming baths, mayfield city to assess the damage they're asking themselves, not only how can they recover, rebuild the how can this whole entire community that has been essentially raised by this disaster, a whole community gonna needs to be rebuilt al jazeera. how does your customer live in mayfield, kentucky? heidi many thanks. his wants has some of what's still a head this. our honoring fallen soldiers on a trip to australia. south korea's president says that agreements been reached in principle to formally and the korean rule. thinking outside the box,

palestinians living in the occupied westbank turn to solar power at its ford, mercedes not letting go, the hopes of spoiling max for stepan's party. following his made me for the one world time ah, in saddam protests us once again back on the streets of the capital called tomb. they say there against last month, the steel between the prime minister and the military security forces up and using tear gas to disperse the crowds, a political agreement. so abdullah hun dog, reinstated as prime minister weeks after the military had detained him and seized power. saddam's largest civilian coalition was rejected the deal which asked to say they don't want any concessions with the military. i'll just hear us have a morgan was out those protests once again, protestors are out on the street in the sudanese capital autumn and other cities in

the country. they're voicing their rejection to a deal that was fine between prime minister ham doke and the army on november 21st . after nearly a month of prime minister handle being under house arrest following a military takeover. now the protesters gathered here have made their way to the presidential palace and was there for about a couple of hours before they were dispersed by security forces. using your guys, you can still see the gas that has been fired by security forces. now the to protect the say they're rejecting the deal because it keeps the military and power during for us to dance transition. that is one thing they have been rejecting since the military takeover. they said that the revolution that they started in december 2019 was to lead to down to democracy. and the fact that the military stays at takeover and yet still remain in power is something that they reject. several have been injured already. 44 have been killed in the protest against the military take over more than 200 protesters have been injured since october 25th. despite that,

people here say they will continue to voice their anger a big deal. they will continue to take to the street to show the military and the world that they do not want to see the military incidents politics. and they want to ensure that students transition to democracy, which started when former president obama bush was asked that in april 2019. we'll continue without the military empower. 5 and a half 1000000 people in 3 countries on the edge of the sorrow of facing food shortages as comforts and erotic rainfall washed and poor crop yields. in burkina, faso hunger among children is especially acute al jazeera, katya lopez, haughty allen reports 9 mental sakina to suffers from malnutrition. her grandmother who was raising her admits food is scarce, and she struggling to make ends meet. ha, it's a crisis shared by thousands of families in burkina faso where more than one and a half 1000000 children under 5 are at risk of malnutrition. one line,

her mother died. i took the child to the medical center after the consultation. they told me the child was ill. the hunger problem is aggravated by fighting which is continuing, particularly in the northeastern town of dory violence linked to al qaeda and iso has killed more than 2000 people, mostly civilians since 2015 and more than a 1000000 have had to leave their homes. many have fled, unable to cultivate their land. some schools have become a safe haven for displaced children where they know they'll be given a meal. said that it was a lot of this year. we have received a 140 full displaced students from aries with high security risk. when they 1st got here. now they were traumatized and parents show indescribable sadness. children

a given amino him. so these are when you see the meet him with appears. you can sense just how relief they all similar many of these children have seen their families lose everything. their crops destroyed, their livestock hilt, and their home shattered and attacks. enough is one of them in here, i believe 5th. so nobody wants to come back to dory. no one and i spoke to a young man who told me i wouldn't go there even if i was given thousands of dollars. i want like 80 percent of working offenses employees work in agriculture, but violence and droughts are making it increasingly difficult to depend on it. there is much to worry about, but for thousands of families like seeking a two's. the immediate concern, the survival, cartier, locus of the an al jazeera, britton's prime minister, has repeated western warnings to russia's president that invading ukraine would have significant consequences for his johnson and ludovic who vladimir putin,

spoken by phone. in the past couple of hours, johnson told him that russia needs to deescalate, after messing troops on ukraine's border. vladimir putin and turn warned that britain, but warned britain that talks are needed to curb any nato expansion into ukraine, which rush of use as a threat. the european union is imposing sanctions on the wagner group of private russian military contractor, the you and you, and accuse its mercenaries of fermenting violence and committing human rights abuses in the middle east, africa and ukraine. asset freezes and travel bands are being slapped on 8 people involved with walked a group, it's said to have links with the russian government. the kremlin denies that danish and british cargo ships have collided in the baltic sea of southern sweden. one person was killed on the danish vessel. it capsized on his being towed to port floating upside down. another person's missing sweeteners investigating the

potential charges for negligence and c. drunkenness. in denmark, a fuller minister has been sentenced to 60 days in prison for our policies while in government. india store burg ordered the separation of under aged refugee couples. when she was immigration minister, 23 couples was split up upon arrival out his ear as muhammad jammah june reports formed. copenhagen. this is the 1st impeachment quarter of its kind in nearly 3 decades, but its also only the 6th impeachment court in this country's history. in more than 170 years in gustavo berg was given a 60 day jail sentence by this impeachment court. miss deut berg served as the immigration minister here in denmark from 2015 until 2019. she was known for her hard line stance toward immigration at the time, in this case, really all stems from an order that she gave in 2016, in which it steinberg ordered the separation of all asylum seeking refugee couples

. these were couples who, if at least one member, was under the age of 18, they would have to be separated. now stolberg said that she initiated this policy in order to protect under age girls and in order to stamp our child marriage. and she has maintained her innocence and all this from the get go saying that nothing about this was illegal, but in 2016 the same year that miss joy burn, initiated this policy. you had a syrian couple, one of the couples that had been separated here in denmark. they complained to the countries ombudsman after that complaint was lodged, then you had a commission that was set up to investigate this. now, just last year, this commission, they concluded that the order that miss deut berg initiated was, as they said, clearly illegal. since that happened, you had the danish parliament, they voted to try miss soy berg. and that's what led to this impeachment court

proceeding. south korea's president moon j and believes agreements been reached in principle to formally and the korean wall. it began in 1950 when north korean troops invaded the south with support from the soviet union. a u. s. lead force entered the war in support of south korea. then communist china joined and supported the north millions were killed in the fighting, which lasted for years. it ended with an armistice between the us, china and north korea. but south korea didn't agree to it. and so peace treaty was signed, so 71 years later, north and south korea a still technically a for b, j ken, as an affiliate professor at hancock, university of foreign studies. in a former south korean diplomat, he says the south korean president wound j in wants to officially end the war before leaving office. this is an agenda, the president when jane has been working with ever since 2018. when trump and kim joel were meeting, that's the time when president, when jane began airing,

the idea of introducing that declaration of the end of the war. and his term president james term is ending. this coming may after march presidential election in this country. so this is one of the legacy is he wants the stablished before he steps down here before he leaves his office for him. this is a very important agenda, but the thing is, the fact that this has not been materialized ever since. it's an introduction of the idea, it's a 1000 a, it tells us it's pretty much a daunting task. it's not a, in that a given results that we can expect. right now we have to remember at the present when jane had approval rating of about 40 percent. that's pretty high as the party present in korea. most of the presidents come in probably 7080 percent of proven rating at the beginning of their term at the you know, the 5 year term by the time they leave their office, the number drops around 20 or 10. but the number for moon remains around 40. that

means at least 3040 percent of people may actually support the idea. the latest trial of man laws to pose liter ong san sushi has been adjourned until next week. she's accused of violating pandemic restrictions. so she was sentenced 2 years in prison earlier this month in a separate case. human rights watch, meanwhile, has published a report say that ma'am maz military leaders, a blocking humanitarian aid. i'll just do as tourney. chang is following the situation from bangkok. 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 moving, which has 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 i transport within the country have all but effectively shut down. human rights watch actually say that before the, the, the qu, they were

a 1000000 people who would 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 sustenance of shelter, very basic things. they also say that the world has a responsibility to a $109000000.00 has been pledged by the world, the aid to myanmar. but they say only 18 percent of their 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 you or secretary of state antony blink. and when he visits this region later this week, we'll get to whether update backs to what the user continues. nobody's named for the golden globes, but with an industry boycott going on. hollywood seems unlikely to take much notice and can next year's world cup encounter produce

a breakthrough for arab teams on footballs. biggest stage, one that plays in the sport. ah, the hello there. let's have a look at the weather across the middle east, and it's looking more unsettled across the event. as we go into the new week. we've got wet and windy weather pulling across the mediterranean, bringing a lot of those wintery conditions to southern areas of turkey was in drenching downpours for cyprus, and a lot of fun. the storms expected to roll into israel that occupied palestinian territories. and it's going to be a rather wet week for bay roots in lebanon. as we go further into the week, we're going to see that wet weather skirt across to the east because he showers pulling into syria as well as iraq and possibly q 8 as well. no further south of this, it is a lot cooler. the temperature is slightly below average with some chilly nights for

the likes of southern saudi arabia could tar and the u. a was thing, a bit of a brisk wind kick about the red sea with some of the heavier rain falling around coastal areas. now as we move to north africa has been cooler here. we've seen snow across the mountains in northern algeria. it's going to get cooler across egypt over the next few days and cold air blowing across the mediterranean. the temperature will come down in cairo, but across that central bound of africa, we've got a lot of exceptional heat here. it's dryer than we expect it to be for this time of year. for the wetter weather we have to head to south africa and southern mozambique. ah, on this week's thrice a new method of cremation is helping him to tradition become more environmentally friendly. and we visit a danish community into a taken sustainability to new heights just over. ready there on the horizon is some

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