where ever the, all i in the 1st can from death with the alma kron variance is reported in the u. k. it's expected to become the dominant coven strain in london. within days. the, i'm sammy's a dan. this is al jazeera alive from the hall. so coming up, the us secretary of state is injured cancer on the 1st leg of a tour of washington's asian allies. the u. s. not to take action against military personnel for a drug strike, which kills an aid worker and his family in afghanistan. for 8 months,

we have more time to me as an organization to be better. the golden globes is promising change at this year's was author. it was criticized for lack of diversity in ah, now the british prime minister barak johnson is an ounce and was believe to be the world's 1st confirmed death with the alma cron variant of coven 19 cases spreading with alarming speed. and it's expected to be london stolen and strained. within 48 hours, poll brennan 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 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 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. the 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 dropped significantly and many businesses are canceling the end of the 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 us . simply because we've had this tend to pay cindy 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. paul brennan, al jazeera london. the 1st case of alma crohn has been detected in mainland china.

authorities in the city of change in savvy infected person had recently entered the country and is not displaying symptoms. they're being treated in isolation in hospital aging will host the winter olympics in february, organized to say the variant will pose challenges. oksana pisec is a lecturer at the university college london school of pharmacy. she says the picture around our micron is becoming clearer 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 to seen, 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 end, a 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 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 has been on the sea earthquake, coff,

indonesia, the magnitude 7.6. quite frigate tsunami warnings in areas within a 1000 kilometer radius. it happened all floris island in the east of the country. trauma was shallow. us secretary of state anthony blink and says the indo pacific region needs to be free of coercion, lincoln as in indonesia, on the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia. washington is trying to count to china's influence in the region, a standoff between beijing and other countries in the resource rich south china sea has gotten more tents in recent years. because we all have a stake in ensuring that the world's most dynamic region is free from coercion and accessible to all. that's why there's so much concern from northeast asia, the southeast asia, from the meek, on river, the pacific islands about asians aggressive actions. claiming open seas 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 and a legal and reported and regulated phishing activities. countries across the region . what this behavior to change we do to florence louis is following developments from column for we've heard the brighten administration. talk about how it's rivalry with china is its biggest jo, political test of the century. and you know, this visit really is about in a way the u. s. trying to reassert its influence in a region that former president, donald trump, pat in a way neglected during his term and before the scene during the biden administration. important high ranking us official visit. we had us defense secretary lloyd austin, vice president kamala harris, visit southeast asian countries within the 1st year of 5 and taking office. u. s. president joe biden himself took part in regional summit. so in a way, anthony lincoln's visit to indonesia, malaysia, and then tylen after this is an extension of that now. and his message really is

very much in line with what the other high ranking officials have said that there needs to be freedom navigation here. and the u. s. really just trying to reassert and and, and assure sally's asian countries that it's remaining true to its values of freedom of democracy and, but the countries here can count on it to deliver on that. i saw no is the principal advisor at the civic research center. he says the us will need to improve its economic ties with south east asia if it wants to challenge china for greater influence. i think is a mismatch. all saw expectations on the part of the united states, because it is engaging in somewhat of a superpower contest with china. and it would of course, like to have some of this service asian nations to be and wings to take

american side. on the other hand, i think a lot of is asian countries which are expecting, for example, more american economic interactions, trade investments, and so on this part of the world, it's basically all about doing business about trading each other about well coming to foreign investment. the united states did very well on that front, should we stay in the 1980 s and 19 ninety's. but since the last decade, we saw in essence a slow but steady pull out of american investment in the region. it's a trade in the region has come to be, for example, 2nd place to china. so until it is able to restore it's a previous level economy interaction with the region. i think china was to have an upper hand when it comes to engaging the region economically. the congressional

committee investigating the january 6th capitol hill riots has voted to hold former white house, chief of staff, mark my, those in contempt. the vote was unanimous. 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 a drone strike that killed 10 civilians in afghanistan. the operation on august the 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 an eyesore attack at cobbler port following the county bond takeover. my cannon has more from the us capital. the

counted on commissioned a report from what he called an independent observer. the inspector general of the air force. he produced a 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 had now reportedly reported back to the defense secretary recommending that a no accountability be held against any of those involved in the trans strike. now the inspector general of the air force and 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 a 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 details about how this decision was reached. saying that this is a national security issue. all details of this investigation cannot be made public a 5 year long legal battle that wrong the world of us borders finally come to an

end. a $380000000.00 settlement has been breached between the victims of the disgraced former gymnastics team, doctor lowering the saw and the country's top gymnastics association. nathan was accused of sexual abuse by more than 300 women and girls. in 2018, he was sentenced to over 300 years in prison. among the largest settlements ever for a sexual abuse case. fil, ahead on al jazeera, 74 people confirmed dead in kentucky with more than a 100 people missing. whole towns have been destroyed by the devastating tornadoes and the un report blamed police for the death of 11 people during protests in columbia last year. ah.

hello there. we'll have a look at africa in a moment, but 1st to the middle east and we're seeing more unsettled weather pull across the event. wet and windy conditions set to intensify for turkey, as well as places like lebanon and syria. we are expecting the wet weather to pull across further east. by the time we get in to wednesday, we're likely to see some of the showers move across syria into western areas of iraq. and we could even see a shower or 2 in q wait. now for the south of this, it's a much dry a picture. temperature here have been slightly below average. it's feeling a little chilly at night and places like southern saudi arabia and catawba, 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. now 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 ah, on counting the cost, all rich countries ready to put the bill for a glow will accord and demick preparedness, hypersonic miss offer driving a new. all right, so what's the big deal behind them and solar powered vehicles we explore the cause, but a harnessing the stop. counting the cost on a z m ah revealing eco friendly solutions to come back threats to our planet on al jazeera. ah

ah welcome back to watching al jazeera time temporary kappa had lies. british prime minister boss johnson has announced what's believed to be the world's 1st confirmed death with the army crowded variance of cove with 19 cases all spreading with alarming speed. it's expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours. us secretary of state antony blanket and says the indo pacific region needs to be free of coalition on the tour of southeast asia to counter china's influence. about naming china link and alluded to paging. stand off with some countries in the resource rich south china sea, us defense secretary lloyd austin,

has decided against punishing military personnel involved in a drone strike that killed 10 civilians in afghanistan. i'm investigation found the strike did not violate the laws of war, but mistakes were made. human rights watch says, israeli police used excessive force against palestinian israelis during communal violence. early of this year. in may palestinian israelis in the city of lod rallied against the threatened takeover of palestinian homes and occupy the jerusalem. they were match with rival protests by jewish residents and the 2 sides got into running street battles as well as using excessive force. the report found israeli offices failed to act even handedly had a standing is ready for attacks. human rights watch also says public statements by senior israeli officials and paid to encourage discriminatory behavior. 10 laud residents were interviewed as part of the inquiry. the report sites many examples

of excessive force. one instance security forces, 5, fear gas and through stun grenades. officer a protest replaced, and israeli flag with a palestinian flag on public property. the governor of the state of kentucky says at least 74 people there have been killed by friday, series of tornadoes and other 109 people is still missing. the powerful storms tore through his state and 5 others laying waste 2 entire towns, al jazeera, as high. the jo, 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 a 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. 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, and i was donna 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. how you and bank reporters found columbian police were responsible for 11 deaths at protest last year. the violence took place at 2 rallies to demonstrate against police brutality. all but one of the officers involved is still on the job. and a sender amputee reports from bobo. tar. over 2 nights of unprecedented violin protest, 14 people died in columbus capital will go time. september 2020 demonstrations erupted across the city after a viral video showed the police spinning down and repeatedly tapering, an unarmed taxi driver. javier or donors who later died in police custody. an independent investigation requested by the mayor of buttah and supported by the united nations, found officers responsible for 11 of those deaths. look,

you're curio not really what happened then cannot be called any other way. it was a massacre, a massacre to happen before. any oper, tape or political order to stop utilizing firearms against the demonstrators. mother. the report details how officers repeatedly disproportionately and indiscriminately used live rounds on the protesters and how the national government and police failed to order them to stop. holding back tears the mayor of buttah asked for forgiveness. calling on president yvonne duke to reform the country's police and recognize the gravity of what has happened. o, fresco order is mass i once again asked forgiveness from the victims and the city. yeah, i totally see my part of political and institutional responsibility and were fulfill the reports recommendation thoroughly. the report blamed the countries justice system for failing to prosecute and punish the officers involved in the killings all but one still patrol the city. at this time president even duke called the

protesters urban terrorists. he hasn't responded to the report, but it's pledged to reform and modernize the police in the past. yet protesting columbia continued to be met by violence in april this year, the police response to anti poverty demonstrations was again brutal, killing at least 20 people, according to human rights organizations and making the need for real reform ever more urgent. i listen that i'm the i just see it with that chiles to remaining presidential candidates have taken part in their final tv debate before sundays run off election. conservative candidates. jose antonio cast is promising to be tough on crime and immigration left. this gabrielle bondage. wanted to raise taxes on the wealthy and expand social services cost. okay, mouth on top off the 1st round of voting in november and denmark,

a former minister has been sentenced to 60 days in prison for policies, while governments in store bug ordered the separation of under age. refugee couples, when she was immigration minister, 23 couples was split up upon arrival. her impeachment trial was denmark's 1st in almost 30 years. mamma jumped june reports from copenhagen allegro. this is the 1st impeachment court of its kind and 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 joy 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 in 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 joy burg 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. and sedan protest is once again back home, the streets of the capital a monday. there's anger over last month deal between the prime minister and the military security forces use tear gas to disperse the crowd, a political agreement. so de la handle korean stated his prime minister weeks after the military detained him and seize power. sedans, largest civilian coalition has rejected the deal to this year's president is calling for a constitutional referendum on july, the 25th. that's exactly a year after he's suspended. parliament dismissed the prime minister and seized broad powers co say it says it will follow public online consultation starting in january also announced new parliamentary elections to be held at the end of next year. yeah, much this shouldn't be. parliament remains suspended until the election in 2022 is held down the most to shot up and we will organize

a popular consultation on the 1st of january. preparations have already started for the electronic platforms and for the questions that will be asked, which will be clear and short of the nominees for the annual golden globe awards have been announced in los angeles. since it remains overshadowed by controversy. the ceremony will not be televised next month, off the criticism of the group behind it. she's accused of a lack of diversity and unethical behavior among judges prob 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 bud 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 and they 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 out best television series. snoop dog announced the nominees, including kenneth bronowski, 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. life 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 officers prime minister barrels. johnson as announce, wants believe to be the world's 1st confirmed death from the army. con variant of coven 19 cases are spreading with alarming speed across the u. k. it's expected to be london's dominant strain within 48 hours.