as protective and aside from the public prostitution, despite the recommendations made by the truth and reconciliation commission for this former warlord, liberia has become the frontline of a drug war. it cannot afford to lose. he says it's a battle he will fight out of responsibility and killed for his past crimes and for his country. ah, hello, i'm barbara, sarah london. these are the top stories on al jazeera. the u. k. has reported the world's 1st known best from the on the con variant of coven 19 it spreading with alarming speed, and is expected to become london's dominant strain in the next 2 days. the u. k. has launched a massive acceleration and it's booster job program with warnings of a tidal wave of only 4 infections full. brendan reports now from london. the queue

trailed out of the hospital gates and down the street. the stark 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 sadly, these one patient has now been confirmed to die with all the crew. so i think the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus. i think that's something we need to set 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 governments 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 boost, the jap gives 70 percent protection against infection. you 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 counseling the end of the parties. but they're all determined pockets of political and public resistance to new restrictions. harden's faith, her last people i don't think that the compliance will be as high as a husband. impossible to answer, simply because we thought this into that basically no restrictions with the

christmas holiday. less than 2 weeks away. it's going to be a race against on to avoid even more stringent restrictions poll brennan, al jazeera london. the governor of the u. s. state of kentucky says the weekend tornadoes are now known to have killed at least $64.00 people, including a 5 month old baby. another 105 people are still unaccounted for. a series of powerful tornadoes tore through his state and 5 others lay waste to entire towns. president joe biden has declared a major federal disaster as rescue workers continued to pick through the wreckage. they say they have little hope of finding any more survivors. and the number of those confirmed dead in kentucky alone is likely to rise. for testers, in sudan have returned to the streets of the capital to rally against last month. the between the prime minister and the military security forces use tear gas to disperse crowds in khartoum. november's political agreements saw della handle

reinstated his prime minister weeks after the military detained him and seized power. sedans, largest civilian coalition has rejected. the 5 and a half 1000000 people are facing food shortages in 3 countries on the edge of the sahara as conflict and drought to make it harder to grow crops in booking a fast. so hunger is especially acute among children. the conference of abu dhabi has hosted is, was prime minister in the 1st official meeting of the 2 nations leaders. natalie bennett met the united arab emirates mohammed bins. a id after a deal to establish diplomatic relations was brokerage last year. under that then you as president donald trump, bennett says he's optimistic about the newly established friendship. after discussing regional issues, those are the top stories that stay with us al jazeera correspondent is coming up. next. i'll have another news update for you in just under half an hour. i'll see

you then. bye bye. ah ah. ours is up and the number of people living sounds now exceeds those living outside. when this milestone was reached in 2009 few people notice across the globe, cities are growing upwards and outwards at unprecedented speed. fundamentally

changing the way we live and why this could be a golden age of architecture, or time of unrestrained commercial speculation. how our well will look for generations to come is being decided daily and te, few of us are engaging with the debate in this supercharged world of instant communication, instant message, and instagram. we're too busy looking down. it's time for us to look up. ah, i spent over 12 years living in hotel rooms and is quite literally a suitcase. you and your tooth brush says also time for

reflection. all of the jobs i've done whole visiting huge mega cities. ah. when you're in a city like that, you're surrounded by architecture for the minute you open your hotel when done, check out the view and you come into the room to the moment you wake up in the morning and walk out on the street, see the customer my day job involve working with journalists who have had to come to grips with lots of new technology. so i kind of act as a human interface between this highly technical equipment and walk somebody's trying to achieve creatively. i kind of came to the phase where i said to myself, you know what, richard is time that you re invest some of your own creativity and got something

out of being in all these amazing places. i was always interested in composition and perspective. as far as i came out of studying on to college, and then came across some time. that's what i dunno. what, let's try doing time lapse is a beautiful combination. fill photography and filmmaking. time love shows the world in a state of alter reality. blue we can see how the world around you behaves and why you cannot see the naked eye.

time lapse is like magic. i i oh, all the places i've worked in recent years, nowhere has changed more rapidly than guitars capital a century ago, 12000 people. the population is now over a 1000000, fueled by the oil and gas reserves. ah, but if you look carefully, these bills, you will see the few are occupied. ah, despite this armies of foreign workers, labor, day and night to build more critics dismissed these newly minted gulf capital, as instance cities. oh, the inference being that they are mere facades,

a reflection of national wealth and pride in portrait from the west vanity projects for wealthy patrons and the overpaid foreign office in a country where nationals makeup just 15 percent of the population. these prejudices often reinforced for expense like me, by the fact that you seldom if ever meet to locals. it took a friend of mine from london to introduce me to fatma a young katara architect who offered to show me the less visible side of tow haws current development boom wanting. i've noticed harris versus billy's still. so what's the purpose of building all these buildings? you know, without anybody to move into that immediately different vision, building a brand image for the city, but it's also another patient for this population growth that we already see taking

. save, do you think people misunderstand what's going on in the gulf right now? definitely, it's very apparent that all they see is the sort of, i just sort of the crust of, of the city cross of the society. the misunderstanding is not entirely surprising. when i look at these cities, i find it hard to see beyond the tower. oh, things might not compete the do buys mega structures. they do try the i nevertheless, as they are meant to, ah, it to me skyscrapers made little sense in the bills. economic justification is based solely on the price of land. and there is no shortage of that here. amazing, i think anyway, historically people have lived in one or 2 story houses. and judging by how m to

the towers are showing little information to change is like, you know, as mac in the heart of the old town gives a sense of on how look like before the discovery, boylen gasped, now it too is marked for redevelopment. we select somebody who then worked with selected. it's all you architect, they teamed up to basically come up with proposal for the area. for all these neighborhoods have long since been abandoned by the original owners in favor of the less congested suburbs becoming home to do hard migrant workers. how many years i was being sent out for 2 years. i know 40 years past it. part of a group trying to document pass before there's none of it left in a city less than a 100 years old. is it always obvious what should be preserved?

oh my goodness, wow. why is this in for me to this is one of the houses that i like to refer to as an endangered house. i think we're starting to lose big portions of the older parts of the city because of the plan development because of the fund urban regeneration projects. and this is an example of a chance to rescue some of these building. do you remember this kind of architecture in these buildings as a small child wants to hear? my great grandmother's house was very similar to this one. it was a courtyard house with rooms around the courtyards the i'm from the way that you design now architect here and can fire tend to be very, very nice in this tells you about these different architectural elements that you find more about. the ornamentation, but i think there's much more to learn from

a house like this, for example, the proportions of the one or the sort of colonies around the courtyard in order to get enough shape. things like that that we should extract as lessons that we can use despite the improvement in doha circumstances, since the discovery of oil and gas, some things remain unchanged. the hot weather can make this an inhospitable environment. in climate change is only like you to make it more modern buildings. i cannot afford to ignore this project like michelle. this upcoming right now does so many architectural lessons that we can learn here, which we can call contemporary, which are really traditional. however, they do respond to the context very, very well. i really respect the fact that i did not find the need to have another fully glaze elevation. therefore,

the building requires i have the same time the elevation together with the poetry that is engraved on it, gives the character to the area to do you think there's a common story that the region is trying to tell to the rest of the world with the resources that it got it hands on right now they're trying to develop a solid basis with being built today's not just for me or for my younger brother's assistance, but it's for future generations to come. ah, the sheriff's, $900.00 homes offices and shops ain't to recreate. the closeness communities of the 1930 s at a cost of $5.00 and a half $1000000000.00. it's a substantial gamble on loring people back from the suburbs or something the towers have failed to do.

a. the popularity of jo hawes recently rebuilt soup shows that there is a strong sense of nostalgia to the old town. i spend so much time here looking through my lens of buildings that it's easy to forget that this is all about people. a town perhaps because it's a nation built on immigration, understands clearly the competition for human resources. a competition not only with his fellow wealthy gulf states for the wider world. ah, there are precedents for to attract people. the competing city states, aubrey masons, italy use their wealth to glorify thy cities with painting and culture

to be successful, we sometimes have to 1st appear to be sent out by depicts the human form remains controversial in this part of the world. the beautiful buildings suffer. no such drawback. i guess seen from this perspective katara ambition is not to create an instance city, but an eternal blue mood . london is on the face of it just such a metropolis. it became the 1st truly international city of the modern age. more than 2 centuries ago. oh,

but today it too is being radically redrawn are the global economy neighborhoods that were once the home of the british elite or today 2nd homes or the international super rich. creating a central call, which increasingly feels to me like a ghost town. at the same time, london is seeing record growth. its population jumping more than 800000 in 2013 a highest increase since world war 2. the residential property market also rose 20 percent in the 1st 6 months of 20. 14, driven to a large degree by foreign money across the city. new buildings are rising fundamentally reshaping the skyline. these changes have not been without controversy, but from a time lapse photographer's perspective,

it is exhilarating. i spent 6 long weeks in this hotel in 2012 for the summer olympics. and i say long weeks because to wake up every morning to a bowling. i been aching to photograph as for all that time, but knowing that working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, i simply wouldn't have the energy old inclination to can she asked to work and i made a mission in the back of my mind that wanda i'd be back from

hang, i was told to that as being this huge, huge building for me actually fits and couldn't quite meet the shod, became europe's tallest building as a photographer to capture something new. something that the wells biggest to wells told us a lot of best is always part of the story as well. the category own skyscraper has drawn a mixed reaction from the press. one commentator described it in graphic terms as having slashed the face of london forever. not because it defends richer sensibilities to have a foreign own building dominating the skyline. but because of a perception that it changes the character of london a straw poll of

commute is down on london bridge suggests a sharp division in people's attitudes. what do you think about the shawn chart? i don't know is a bit bit of an eyesore, to be honest with you. only one of the by finding you know how to play with her. according to the local council, only 11 residents wrote in 2 objects to the sean ah, look over london from the 72nd floor viewing platform. it's hard to believe it was so few. the only meaningful intervention was by english harrison's the body task with preserving the countries historic science. ah,

ah ha. to the effect this new landmark, we have an old one and pole cathedral. a $16000000.00 inquiry decided in the shop favor, and it went ahead enthusiastically, supported by london's men. for me, what makes this all the more significant is that it fits the vanguard of 236 tall buildings said to transform london over the next decade. and there has been almost no public debate about this radical reshaping of the city. new london architecture, an organization who sponsors read like a who's who of the building industry has put together an exhibition,

detailing exactly how london will know if all the proposed building go ahead. what opposition has been to these types of buildings will have been comments princeton's from some people that we don't want. something i do by on the 10 course is very different. we have a lot of historic buildings and we need to insert a new tool, buildings into that historic environment should impose dictate london's planning in the future. i think using some polls as guideline is a pretty good way of stopping buildings in particular historic areas. but i think we've also got to look at places where not just where we can't build to a building place is where we can because london is growing huge the at the moment with 8300000 people. and by 2050, we're going to be more like 13000000 say we've got bill lot more housing a lot more places to work more retail also things like that we need to do to meet that grave. and part of that is to build toll abilities. craig dead ovens and

ah, last time london skyline was very radically redrawn during the cities bombing in world war 2. and paul's famously survived as a symbol of national resistance. ready it's icon twice. i even belt on the ashes of the great fi of 1666, which bind a fad of a city to the ground. it's architect, sir christopher wren, who knew a thing or 2 about building and longevity. right. architecture has its political use, established the nation, joyce, people and commerce, and makes the people the native country architecture aims at eternity. ah,

great cities need great buildings like to define themselves. i suppose was there for these fronting skyscraper old, but name a table 100 meters and perched on top of that k tell. it was the tallest building in the capital until 1962 the sixty's london was essentially a low rise city. 6 stories was in practice, the limits for both victorian fleming and the amount of tenants decline before the invention of the elevator. so london spread out. no, i tell you the $1000.00 square foot plummeted. urban sprawl is no longer according to the developers. the only way is the

piano shot architect has described his building as a vertical 50, but with ken apartments costing up to $80000000.00 each. it's on like you to solve london's housing shortage. and this is m i 6, which you know from movies to referral is part of a golden generation of british architecture. we've had a profound impact on the cities of the modern world. the will population is rising and rising into phenomena rate. and most those will be overnights. so place making through cities, i'm being proud of your city and making recognizable architecture. i think it's happening all over the world. and i lost that does lead to mistakes and, and to inappropriate tall buildings. there's a lot to be said for the toll building. the tall buildings of new york creates the

busy pavement, the busy sidewalks. it's not just tall buildings, so it's density. and that's why you get such great shops, great sidewalks, great restaurants. do you believe the scientists are defined by the buildings around as well? it's churchill is great curve, told me that we build our buildings. now we may call building, then i'll buildings make how's it is can be organic by nature. should they be organic? i believe inevitably change in, ah, in city form and in architectural direction is essentially organic of off the sad cities, all the greatest work of art and their anonymous in a way that i am made collectively, which is extraordinarily, i can see the argument for saying are building shapers, but i am unsure that we shape our buildings. it seems to me that money is now doing

that. ah, london needs to expand, but skyscrapers. i'm not the only alternative. they raise issues like no other buildings. they shape our cities both visibly. and structurally, i think london as have little idea of how much these buildings will affect them. less perhaps the reason i'm finding more questions than answers if you want to know about skyscrapers, there's one obvious destination by happy coincidence, a time lapse, paradise. ready m, who stepped beyond the comfort zone, where assumptions are challenged, traveled to the ends of the earth, and further experienced the unimaginable and the people who live it.

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of kentucky at least 64 people including a 5 month old baby has been confirmed dead from the weekend tornadoes.