and camera, desert library and the young cyclist and happy africa direct on al jazeera. you want to help save the world ah, sneeze into your elbow. oh, the 1st confirmed death from the micron variant is reported in the u. k, where it's rapid spread will make it the dominant cove at 19 strain in london within days. ah, no, i'm darn jordan. this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up 74 people are confirmed dead in kentucky with more than a 100 missing where whole towns have been destroyed by the devastating tornadoes to

the u. s. decides no actions to be taken against military personnel involved in a drone strike. an up galveston was killed, an aid worker, and 9 of his family and tennessee, as president calls a constitutional referendum for july, exactly a year of the suspended parliament and says, elections will be held next year. ah, but his prime minister barak johnson, as announced the world's 1st confirmed death from the army kron variant of cope at 19 cases are spreading with alarming speed. and it's expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours for burn reports from the u. k. capital 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 the chronic could cause double the number of hospitalizations. the delta did a year ago. and the booster jap gives 70 percent protection against infection. new rules on wearing mass and working from home of now also come into effect in england . passenger numbers on public transport dropped significantly in many businesses are cancelling the end of year parties. but there are determined pockets of political and public resistance to 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 we've had this center that basically no restrictions with 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 will armor cronies thought to account for more than 70

percent of new infections in south africa where the president has just tested positive for coping. 19 silverman porter, self isolating, and cape town, while receiving treatment for what's being described as a mild infection. the president was fully vaccinated, said it's a reminder to all south africans to get their jobs. for me, the miller has more from janice book. it was shortly after delivering a eulogy at the memorial service for former president. f. w. to clack. when south african president solar m. a 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 of had close contact with from a puerto have been told to isolate, in a tweet issued by the president while thanking people for their support. he urged also the africans to get vaccinated. so far,

43 percent of eligible sub africans have received at least one jab while they is enough stock available, including booster shots, many people still reluctant to get a job. the government says it's trying to dispel misinformation and create greater awareness about the importance have been 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 prompting you for your order. a reason why we want to see, you know, from the, in the last week and average of 19000 south africans have been infected every day.

health experts say the surge 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 to reassure those already skeptical of been jabbed . for me, tamela al jazeera johanna's bug. and the 1st case of a micron has been detected in mainland china authorities in the city of jan gin, say the infected person had recently entered the country and is not displaying symptoms. they're being treated in isolation and hospital. beijing will host the winter olympics next february, and organizers say the variance will post challenges. south korea will use artificial intelligence to attract people infected with cobra. 19 from january, the pilot project will use facial recognition software, and thousands of c. c t v cameras. to analyze

a person's movement of their close contacts and whether they're wearing a mask official say to reduce the strain on contact tracing. but human rights advocates have res, privacy concerns. the governor of the us state of kentucky says at least 74 people there have been killed by friday, series of tornadoes, another 109 still missing the powerful storms tore through his state and 5 others laying waste to entire towns. i'll just here was hard is your caster reports from mayfield in kentucky? this house is among the few still standing in ne field kentucky, though it is missing a roof doors and windows. the cato family lived here for 11 years. now they're seeing what they can say. this is where the front door was. and then of course the upstairs. we won't go upstairs if that's okay. and, and then our dining room, not every home in this region has

a basement. but this one, fortunately, did, and the cato family had the foresight to offer shelter to some friends who live nearby. they came over just in time and a rush down the stairs likely saved everyone's lives. as soon as we got the basement, you just heard this huge bow, and that was just the, the whole house going up. so you were still in transition. we were still in transition, as in mother, what was your, what were you thinking at that? at that point in time, i was mentally counting heads. you know, i was like, are we all down here? all 12 people inside the house were unharmed. so one of those things were just very thankful that everybody's alive and well. this stuff can be replaced. you know, cars can be bought, houses can be done in, but people can't. it's fear the death toll from last week's tornadoes will surpass 100. people died in illinois, tennessee, and missouri. but kentucky had the greatest loss of life. 18 are still on

identified of the ones that we know the age. the age range is 5 months to 86 years. and 6 are younger than 18. at the ruins of a collapsed campbell factory in mayfield, emergency crews continue to search for signs of life. this woman made it out, her boyfriend did not. the fact that i should staff should be right there with him is eating meal. i because he was right there. and i don't know what happened. hell, i got out and he didn't. i just don't know. as communities across the region begin, the difficult work of recovering dozens of families are struggling with the same grief. heidi joe castro,

al jazeera mayfield kentucky. you as president joe biden plans to travel to kentucky on wednesday. these also pledged aid for other tornado hit states as fast as possible. i want you to know that this administration has made it clear to every government, whatever they need when they need it. when they need make it known to me and we'll get it to them as rapidly, rapidly as we can. that's what we're doing here. we have to go beyond what is available to the federal government. us defense secretary lord austin has decided against punishing military personnel involved in a drone strike that killed 10 civilians. not gannons down capital, cobble and aid work of and 9 members of his family including a 2 year old child. died in the operation on august 29. an investigation found the strike didn't violate the laws of war, but mistakes were made happen 3 days off in iceland, soccer complex board following the taliban takeover. but my county has more and is

now from washington d. c. mike's of the pentagon, as always said this, don't strike, didn't break any laws, perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that nobody will be held accountable for the civilian debt. any yes, well, nobody's been held accountable by similar effects. events in the past, this doesn't appear to be any exception, but just to step back and take a look at the process here. what happened is that the pentagon called for a report by an independent commissioner that was the inspector general of the air force. he then produced a court report saying that it was a tragic mistake because he put it. he said that any accountability must be ascertained by the commanders at the top of the line. in this particular case, it's the member of the military chief of staff, the head of the chief of staff, along with the head of special forces. now these 2 generals have now reported back to the secretary of defense saying that they cannot find any accountability. so

would appear that the matter is closed, but there's been no direct confirmation of this fact from the pentagon as yet. there had been several news reports, but this effect, but no direct confirmation. let's listen to what the pentagon spokesman had to say . the recommendations were more about procedure and process and the secretary, we reviewed them as accepted them. and again, most of them are of classified nature. so we won't be talking about the specifics, but there was no overt recommendation made by either specific to accountability mike, so what happens next and in terms of recommendations and is, is this not the end of the case? what is what appeared to be that as far as the pentagon is concerned, this is the end of the case. they have concluded the investigation. they have found that mistakes were made. the inspector general who produced this particular report,

also advising several ways in which the conduct of trans strikes can be improved. that there are several measures that need to be taken. the pentagon says, yes, it is doing this. that whole issue of accountability was referred to the generals in direct command. they have now it is reported, told the secretary of defense that there is no accountability. nobody will be held to account, despite the fact that the pentagon had acknowledged culpability. and the fact by admitting it was a tragic mistake, but one has got to look very quickly, darren, at the history to this. and the last time any major investigation was carried out was back in 2016 following at drone strike in 2015 and couple. there it was found that $42.00 staff personnel had been responsible. they were removed from their positions, but nobody was held accountable. we've got a similar situation here where mistakes have been acknowledged. nobody is being held accountable. the pentagon drawing

a veil over the processes by which it came to this conclusion by saying, as we heard from the spokesman there, that the national security issues involved. this is the matter the end of the matter. as far as the pentagon sees it, and that is where we are present, where the congress chooses that to take it up. that's another question entirely. alright. my kind of life was there in washington dc. mike, thank you. lost morsels to come. you're not just here including desperate scenes and mexicans, government changes tactics to relocate thousands of migrants. i'm french president emmanuel macross strikes. i conciliatory tone after meeting hungry leader in budapest of the months of touch. walnuts, oh, hello there. let's have a look at the weather across north america and from the satellite image,

you can see as one storm system pushes off to the east. we have another one rolling into western areas. and if we have a closer look at that, it's a very powerful storm pulling into northern areas of california, bringing some heavy snow. we could see up to 2.5 meters of snow heavy rain as well up to a 100 millimeters. and of course, that brings a risk of flash flooding, but by the time we get into wednesday, it's going to pull further south, going to clear out actually taken lot of that snow across into places like colorado . it's moving pretty quickly. if we take a closer look, we can see that edging across central areas. now, it is going to meet up with warm air rising from the gulf of mexico. and we do have the potential for storms to roll across places like kansas and missouri. we're seeing some sharper winds blow across eastern parts of canada if looking wetter, across the great lakes. but there is still a lot of exceptional heat around that southeast corner things have dried up and cleared after those severe storms. cause havoc here,

but we are going to see the temperature come down rather dramatically in places like minneapolis in the days to come. it's going to feel rather bitterly cold. that sure update. ah, ah, to inculcate a culture of knowledge, openness, imperialism, world wide. i've to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity, the shape, tomato, ward for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation and owner translators, and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bones of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and wild coaches. blue blue

ah, welcome back. a good reminder. the top stories here on the al jazeera, british prime minister bars johnson has announced what's believe to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the army crohn baron to cope at 19 cases are spreading with alarming speed and expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours the governor, the u. s. state of kentucky says more than a 100 people are still missing. following fridays tornadoes, president biden has declared an emergency and will visit the state on wednesday. and us defense secretary lloyd austin has decided against punishing military personnel involvement. drones strike, a killed 10 civilians, math, gestalt, capital, kabul, and aid work or 9 members of his family died in the operation. on august 20 1000000 offense, present him on your macros says he's willing to work together for europe with hungry, despite differences with the countries government issues of a l g

b t writes, and the rule of law have divided them, but mutual concern of a threat from russia formed a key part of talks with prime minister victor alban, and in barbara reports from the hungarian capital, the 1st trip to hungary by a french president in 14 years. and at the prime minister's office. the visitor didn't shy away from the big challenge that's causing ongoing tensions in europe for poncas co op at the queue. i think the what europe has gone through in recent weeks and we'll be talking about this in particular with our polish colleagues, allows us to reconsider a common organization who knew how to better prevent margaret close and protect her external borders and find ways and means with him of a more efficient cooperation between europeans on this matter. victor or benz government is challenging a ruling by the european court of justice that hungary broke you law by deporting refugees over the border into serbia. last week, the constitutional court ruled the government could apply its own measures,

but side step, the issue of whether you law had primacy or the hungarian law. that's an issue that's already created a class between brussels and poland. mccomb also joined a meeting of the so called visit grad group, the polish prime minister, along with his hungarian cheque and slovak counterparts. earlier mccomb met leaders of the opposition alliance that is challenging or been in next year's elections. but despite clear concerns, mccoy and other leaders have about issues such as l g, b t writes in hungary and media freedom. there was agreement on what all been called strategic autonomy settings mean short on on. we are a little in our opinion, there is no autonomy without a european defense industry or without our own energy capability, or rather without nuclear energy. and there's no autonomy without self sufficiency in agriculture have you not? i thought she both leaders have made it clear that they don't see on to i on a variety of issues. but the president mccall, this was really a chance to show the european union that when his country takes over the rotating

presidency in january, he'll be able to handle internal disputes. no big breakthroughs then, but a signal the you, you should be able to discuss the toughest issues without acrimony. how far that's possible in the new year is far from clear. nadine barbara, al jazeera budapest in denmark. a former minister has been sentenced to 60 days in prison for her policy is one in government and store burg order. the separation of under aged refugee couples when she was immigration minister, 23 couples are split up upon arrival. mamma jump jim has moved from copenhagen. this is the 1st impeachment court of its kind in nearly 3 decades, but it's also only the 6th impeachment court in this country's history, in more than 170 years and destroy 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 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 doi burg 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 it. miss soy berg, and that's what led to this impeachment, court, proceeding of ours is in mexico, are trying to reduce the number of migrants heading north to the united states. many are being moved to various cities, the promise of tempered jobs until our cases are heard in us courts. but as manual rapidly reports from mexico city, the long wait is often leading to frustration. and in some cases, violence ah, a migrant camp in acapulco, mexico. disoriented and exhausted, many seem unsure of why they're here or where they might be sent next. only settlement that early middle middle out that i was brought here and they told me they would give me a job. they promised me a dream, but it wasn't delivered. welcome. many at this camp or from central america, haiti, and elsewhere on the american continent. they were brought here by immigration

authorities enforcing a strategy of relocating migrants to various mexican cities. relocating migrants is one of the most recent policy changes by the mexican government. mexico is also re adopting old policies like the controversial migrant protection protocols, which force us asylum seekers to remain in mexico while their cases are heard. in u. s. court room, mexico's president has defended the changes. i'm saying he's focused on ensuring a more orderly flow of migration. nancy rama is did. it's a program that will allow us to continue to care for migrants. that's what we're going to do. but experts argue the mexican government's strategy of containing migration is unsustainable. ah, violent confrontations are becoming more common like this one in the outskirts of mexico city on sunday, where riot police tried to corral a migrant caravan and incidents involving large scale people. smuggling are also on

the rise. last week, a truck carrying as many as 200 migrants crammed into its cargo space, flipped on its side in southern mexico, at least 55 people were killed. nose meat, understand brown is those boys. those lay last at that equals migrants have always been exposed to dangers, like sex trafficking, organ trafficking, et cetera. but what is happening now? the government's rhetoric is about protecting migrants and creating order. but the reality is they are living migrant safin for themselves under vulnerable circumstances. i would say the government is re victimizing migrants with o u. s. and mexican officials say they're committed to addressing the root causes of migration and to protecting migrants. but international human rights organizations insist countries in the region must do more to guarantee that migrant rights are not violated. manuel rap below al jazeera mexico city. it's in his,

his president has called for a constitutional referendum for july 25th. exactly a year after he suspended parliament dismissed the prime minister and seized broad powers. guy said says it will follow public online consultations starting in january. he also announced new parliamentary elections to be held at the end of next year. yup. gully must be suddenly a b, parliament will remain suspended until the election in 2022 is held. done view most the shot that we will organize our popular consultation on the 1st of january. preparations have already started with electronic platforms and for the questions that will be asked, which will be clear and short. min incident protested where once again back on the streets of the capital cartoon. on monday, this anger, last month's bill between the prime minister and the military security forces used to gas to disperse the crowds, the political agreements. so abdullah hm doc reinstated, as prime minister weeks after the military detained him and seize power. sedans,

largest civilian condition, has rejected the deal. he been morgan sent this report from the protest. once again, protest as are out on the street in the fit in east capital hub to them and other cities in the country. they're voicing their rejection to a deal that was fine between prime minister handled and the army on november 21st. after nearly a month of prime minister have been 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 there was a protest, the say they're rejecting the deal because it keeps the military in power during for students 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 at the deal. they will continue to take to the streets, 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 dominant sure was also an appeal to my team. will continue without the military empower emmy occupied westbank. palestinians are turning to renewable energy sources to get around is ready restrictions. some are installing solar panels on rooftops to overcome a power crisis. need abraham report. this is the largest power plant in the occupied by 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 p t $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 the solar panels are covering all of our needs of electricity 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. 90 percent of the electricity use in the occupied westbank is bought from israel. the rust comes from jordan and through renewable energy sources. the look of 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 on 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 grades. we don't have any transmission network that would enable us to do large scale projects. 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, 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 operates 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 serves the illegal israeli sacraments in the area. well, the palestinian energy authority says investment in solar energy is relatively new and still way down by bureaucracy. there is

a gap of coordination between these institutions that meant established in the law that slowing down the process and the korea 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. neither abraham al jazeera, the occupied west bank. ah, di brokercheck of the top stories here on al jazeera, british prime minister, boris johnson as announce. what's believe to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the army? kron variant of cove at 19 was strange. extracts to the dominant in london within 48 hours. 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 recognise the sheer pace or which.