in the world meets 2 arab women who become successful away from home arabs abroad, the activist and the entrepreneur on all jersey. ah. ready the 1st confirm dash from the army kron variant is reported in the u. k. it's expected to become the dominant covered strain in london within days. ah, i'm sammy's a them, this is al jazeera alive from dell hall. so coming up the i secretary of state is in jakarta, on the 1st leg of the tour of washington is asian allies for us not to take action against military personnel for a drones strike, which killed an aid worker in his family in afghanistan.

ah, and drumming home, their frustration and sudan returned to the streets denouncing the prime minister for signing a deal with the military. ah, british prime minister boris johnson has announced was believed to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the army cron variant of coven 19 cases are spreading with alarming speed. and it's expected to be london's dominance strained within 48 hours, poll brannon reports from the u. k capital 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 se 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 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 $1000000.00 jobs being put into peoples on every single day between now and the end of december. and that's never been achieved before. currently,

the chances managing around half of that. but the importance of trying has been emphasized by new modeling, which shows that in some circumstances on the chrome 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 mass and working from home and now also come into effect in england. passenger numbers on public transport have dropped significantly in many businesses or counseling the end of the parties. but there are determined pockets of political and public resistance to new restrictions. hadn't seen her last paper, i don't think the compliance of as high as it has been in parts not done. simply because we've had this dentist updated restrictions the christmas holiday less than 2 weeks away. it's going to be a race against time to avoid even more stringent restrictions full brennan, i'll jazeera london. the 1st case of alma crohn has been detected in mainland china

pharmacies in the city of tangent said the infected person had recently entered the country. and there's not displaying symptoms of being treated in isolation and hospital aging will host the winter olympics in february over nice to say the variance will post challenges. oksana peasy is a lecture at the university college london school pharmacy. she says the picture around on the crown is becoming clear, and 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 too soon to draw conclusions around severity of alma kron. however, even if it turns out to be half as severe as delta just due to the rate of spread, it's going to put a tremendous amount of pressure on the n h s, and disrupt her 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 or 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, 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. turning some breaking news, coming out of indonesian, our toonami warning has been declared after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6. the quite happened. undersea of flores island official

say the trema was shallow thing. you more details on that? soon as we get the, the us secretary of state entity, blink and says the in the pacific region needs to be free of coercion. lincoln is in indonesia, on the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia. washington is trying to count that china's influence in the region a stand off between beijing and other countries and the results rich south china sea has gotten more hence in recent years. we all have a stake in ensuring that the world's most dynamic region is free from portion and accessible to all. that's why there's so much concern from ne, a to the southeast asia. and from the con river to the pacific islands about asians aggressive actions. claiming open sees as their own, the starting open markets through subsidies to its state run companies denying the export. so revoking deals for countries as policies. it does not agree with engaging in illegal and reported and unregulated fishing activities,

countries across the region, what this behavior to change. we do to a solo is principal advisor at the pacific research center. he joins us on skype from costa, can balloon in malaysia good to have you with us. so the bring can visit, is it about countering chinese influence in the region? well, does this sound bytes us certainly sounded like it, but i think is a mismatch. all expectations on the part of the united states, and in some, one off a superpower contest with china. and it would of course, like to have, for some of these, some is asian nations to be and wings to take the american side. on the other hand, i think a lot of these asian countries, which are expecting, for example,

more american economic interactions, trade investments, and so on with this part of the world. so actually the united states is ready to roll out some should we say renew waves, all traded investments, reduce power the world. i think it's 8 to isolate china, may or may not. teen, you did the us lose ground to china in the asia pacific region because the trump era, especially the withdrawal from the t p. p agreement. well indeed, this part of the world, it's basically all about doing business about trading each other about well coming to foreign investment in the united states did very well on that front. should we say in the 1980 s and 19 ninety's. but since the last decade,

we saw in essence the slow but steady pull out of american investments in the region. it's traded the region has come to be, for example, 2nd place to china. so until it is able to restore its previous level economic interaction with the region, i think china was to have an upper hand when it comes to engaging the region economically. ok, so rivalry between the u. s. and china, what about the u. s. and russia is a coincidence that lincoln's visit coincides with a visit by a top putin aide to indonesia where the us and russia nowadays would have some hot spots around the world, such as the ukraine. but overall, i think the confrontation between these 2 superpowers is not as intense as that

between us and china. you saw you heard, for example, bring trends rather strong rhetoric against china just now. but other than, for example, ukraine, you've done here. similarly, strong rhetoric against russia. ok, we'll leave it there. thanks so much for your analysis. thank you. the congressional committee investigating the january 6 capitol hill rise has voted to hold former white house, chief of staff, mark meadows in contempt. the vote was unanimous but must still be approved by the full house of representatives. meadows refused to attend the committee meeting last week. despite being subpoenaed us defense secretary lloyd austin has decided against punishing military personnel involved in drug strike that killed 10 civilians in afghanistan. capital, the operation on august 29th killed an aid worker and 9 members of his family, including a 2 year old child. an investigation found the strike did not violate the laws of

war, but mistakes were made. it happened 3 days after and i still attacked cobb laugh for the following baton. bomb take over. my canada has more from the u. s. capital the counted on commissioned a report from what he called an independent observer. the inspector general of the air force he produced the report acknowledging that with snakes were made in the drone strike describing it as a tragic mistake. he then recommended that no action be taken. however, that decision should be left to the commanders. the top command is in the line of command, that is a general in the military central command and the head of the military special forces unit. so these 2 then looked at the circumstances they have now, reportedly reported back to the defense secretary recommending that no accountability be held against any of those involved in the tro. strike. now the

inspector general of the air force had also recommended that certain methodologies be changed in terms of conducting these drone attacks. the pentagon says this is now being carried out. they are not giving any further details and did not even directly say that nobody is being held accountable for the strikes. this is what the spokesman for the pentagon 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. the secretary of defense has ruled according to the spokesman there that there is no accountability. he accepts the report from the 2 senior officers who investigated specifically whether accountability should be established and to whom . but you hear the key word there and that is that they do not want to give clear

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it's largely fine and dry picture. the wind picks up across southern parts of the red sea as it does for coastal areas of egypt and libya. we could see some dust storms and that cold air is going to bring the temperature down in cairo. by the time we get to wednesday. not further south of this is a lot of exceptional heat across those central areas of africa, but it's not as wet as it has been. recently, we have to move further south to find the wet or whether it's going to be rather wet for johannesburg. with thunderstorms here, it drives up in cape town, but it will remain cloudy for the wetter. where that we have to look to southern areas of mozambique that sh, whether update. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always killing the debates. 90 percent of the world's refugees have come from a common impacted country. the climate emergency is putting more pressure on cities across the world and amplify your voice. it's not really the future rates now. this

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blink, and says the pacific region needs to be free of commotion is on a tour of southeast asia to county. china's influence us defense secretary lloyd austin, has decided against punishing military personnel involved in a drug strike that killed 10 civilians. enough camera san, an investigation found the strike did not violate the laws of war. the stakes were made. the governor of the state of kentucky says at least 74 people there if been killed by friday, series of tornadoes. another 109. people still missing the powerful storms, tall through his state, and 5 others laying waste 2 entire towns, al jazeera, as high v. joe castro, 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. it's 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 in sex or younger than 18 at the ruins of a collapse. 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 be right there was eating me alive because he was right there. and i don't know what happened, how i got out and he didn't. and

i did donna as communities across the region begin, the difficult work of recovering dozens of families are struggling with his dame. grief. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky and sudan protest. so once again, back on the streets of the capital, a monday, his anger over last month's deal between the prime minister in the military security forces use tear gas to disperse the crowd. political agreements. so i've de la, handled reinstated his prime minister weeks after the military detained him and seize power sedans, largest civilian coalition, rejected the deal. have a morgan send this report from the protest. once again, protesters are out on the streets interested in east capitol, autumn on other cities and the country, their 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 ham tubing 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 there 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 cruise to dance transition. that is one thing that 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 finance transition to democracy, which started when former president dominant sure was asked that in april 2019. we'll continue without the military empower french president emanuel my call says he's willing to work together for europe with hungry despite differences that the country's government issues over l g. b t writes. and the rule of law have divided them, but mutual concerns about threats from russia form the key part of talks with prime minister victor audubon. nadine bother 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 pasco hope of the queue. i think the 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 organisation. how to better prevent margaret close and protect her

external borders and find ways and means over more efficient cooperation between europeans on this matter. victor oberon's government is challenging a ruling by the european court of justice. that hungry broke a law by deporting refugees over the border into serbia. last week, the constitutional court ruled the government could apply its own measures, but sidestepped the issue of whether you law had primacy of a hungarian law. that's an issue that 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 at leaders of the opposition alliance. that's challenging or been in next year's elections. but despite clear concerns, my call and other leaders have about issues such as l g. b t writes in hungry and media freedom, there was agreement on what all been called strategic autonomy. harrington, green chart on omi are 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 efficiency in agriculture. not both leaders have made it clear that they don't see eye to eye on a variety of issues. but the president, my call, 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 policies, while in government. in good story, virg ordered the separation of under age refugee couples. when she was immigration minister, 23 couples were split up upon arrival. i'm a jump june reports from copenhagen. i've said 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 and more than 170 years. inca stolberg was given a 60 day jail sentence by this impeachment court. i'm miss joy burg 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 mr. wellborn initiated this policy, you had a syrian couple, one of the couples that had been separated here in denmark. they complained to the country's 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 joy burg 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, the european union is imposing sanctions on the wagner group, a private russian military contract, or the e u and u. n. accuse it's mercenaries of cementing violence and committing human rights abuses in ukraine. the middle east and africa. a people involved with the wagner group have been hit with travel bands and an assets freeze. the groups said to have

links with the russian government. the kremlin denies that the nominated for the annual golden globe awards have been announced in los angeles as it remains, overshadowed by control. the sea ceremony will not be televised next month after criticism of the group behind it, which is accused of a lack of diversity and on ethical behavior among judges. prop reynolds reports after waves of criticism for lack of diversity and its membership and ethical lapses. the movie critics who choose the golden globes film and tv award says it's changed its way. we changed our rules, bylaws, added a new code of conduct, and restructured our governance. we also have 21. you members, the largest and most diverse, now a 79 year old history. a los angeles times investigation of the hollywood, foreign press association, a tiny, but influential critics group showed it had not

a single black person among it's less than 100 members and other minorities women and l g b t q. persons were under represented as well. they were slammed for their lack of black members. they were slammed for their token reform and promises and their questionable conduct and standards in regards to accepting money or accepting trips or accepting gifts for in exchange for a favourable vote. amid a fierce backlash, the u. s. television network nbc dropped its broadcast of the globes for 2022, hacked or tom cruise return. his 3 trophies, hollywood collectively shown the organization. the h. f. p. a promise to add 13 new black members, but wound up with only 6, including travail anderson a well regarded writer and critic who will sit on the powerful credentials committee. ne, brought him in to help diversify the membership of the

h. s. p. a interval is a by mary trance person. so i ary helpful, but are the changes enough? it least they're trying, but they still, they got a long way to go. and a broader question is hollywood as a whole embracing diversity. and last, hollywood is now starting to get hollywood has shenanigans. hollywood has shenanigans. they start, they get it when they get called the out best television series. snoop dog announced the nominees, including kenneth branagh, autobiographical belfast. we can do this a different way. king richard starring will smith and jane champions the power of the dog were best dramatic picture, as well as licorice pizza matters even more than enough in steven spielberg's adaptation of west side story,

in the best comedy or musical category. without a broadcaster for its awards ceremony, it's unclear how influential lease choices will be on the all important oscar awards that follow in march. and whether the golden globes itself will survive. rob reynolds al jazeera hollywood. ah, and let's take a look at some of the headlines here now jazeera now, british prime minister bars johnson has announced, wants, believes to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the amok. on variant of coven 19 cases is spreading with alarming speed across the u. k. it's expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours. has been an undersea earthquake off indonesia. the magnitude 7.6 quake has triggered synonymy warning.