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a live update from kentucky. an international observers sound the alarm about the record levels of violence against women in kurdistan. and i'm far as smile with a sports news lie from our fif a era have studio on the day. how waterfront majesty not is upcoming. premier league game has been postponed due to a coven 19 outbreak. at the club. the league is dealing with a record number of cases all around the world's countries are seeing covey, 19 infections, and deaths rising again to record numbers. governments also trying to tackle the new i micron variant, though the delta variant does remain dominant in most places for now. so that said you through some of the latest news lines, we are getting this tuesday, south korea, 1st of all, which has had its worst day of the pandemic. 94 deaths on tuesday. the korea, disease control and prevention agencies that a record 906 people will also in

a series or critical condition, really the medical system. they are reaching its limit with the delta driven spread, leaving some people actually dying while waiting for a hospital bet. democratic republic of congo with the president is urging people to get vaccinated as infections rise and comes as health officials confirmed cases of the army, cranberry and the nation has one of the world's lowest vaccination rates. and we'll look more at that shortly. and in the u. k. politicians are questioning scientists . this is a live stream here about the army con variant of coven. 19 at prime minister bars, johnson announced what is believed to be the world's 1st confirmed death of a patient from that you variant that was on monday. and in the coming hours, parliament is expected to discuss and vote on possible new restrictions. off we go to london, start things off with poll brennan. ah, those will people queuing up for vaccines behind you there? oh, that's right. listen,

thomas is hospital on south side of the river. tens just across the river. actually from west mussa, where they ceilings i with the politicians and scientists is going on right now. we are an ambulance with huffman interior for the job by appointment 7 am this morning. and at one stage the queue is stretching all the way along the bridge. and it's now come down a little bit, but he numbers ephito humming yet. certainly ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. because he is so concerned about who wrote more corn is accelerating through the population. maurice johnson, the prime minister. yesterday he said that he believes that on the con pit become the dominant strain here in london. more than 50 percent of cases. he believe by today who i'm a con cases, the water population, it's really to be closer to 20 percent. so not quite as dramatic in the water population in the u. k. on the issue of what the government is doing about it, come to a crucial vote for crucial votes tonight in westminster,

in parliament for the, for different issues off my squaring monetary vaccination for and h s. staff. the other thing is, is daily testing as an, as an alternative to isolation. but the really crunch vote is about vaccine certification, essentially cove. it passports. and there is a sizable rebellion on the foot or underway among the conservative back benches. right? plenty happening in the u. k will be back with poll brendan throughout the days we hear what's happening in parliament there. i want to return to democratic republic of congo in some more detail now because the president seems to have quite a job on his hands when it comes to getting people vaccinated. got the charts from our world and day to year just to give you a little bit of context that this is daily confirmed new cases. the other day we're looking at a little over $200.00 cases a day, which doesn't sound like a huge amount, but down the balsam. it was a really bottoming out on just a couple of weeks ago. now,

vaccines is where it gets interesting. the you can very simply see here that africa as a whole is not getting vaccinated. this is the d r c, right in the middle there, that color, that badge color puts it in the 0 to 10 percent of people vaccinated. but it's much worse than that. have a look at this daily covert, dec seen doses per $100.00 people. that number up there is less than one person per 100 every day getting vaccinated. that is how low the ratio is. and when you look at it in these terms, which is, are the people who have received at least one dose? this number up here is 0.2 percent 0.2 percent of the population and democratic republic of congo has had just one dose of a vaccine. malcolm web now for us in nairobi to take us through some of these things. what is the story malcolm? is it a supply issue? not enough vaccines or it is a demand issue. people don't want to get them do

a few reasons behind this. i mean, firstly, the, the reason affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses. which countries of course, brought up almost all of the available debt to the beginning of this year. and it was only when donations start to trickle into, into poor countries, that governments were even able to start those vaccination programs. but that's something that affected all of this continent. and of course, if there are enough doses for government to give out to many people, then they're not in a position to start running public. a public awareness campaign to coach people to come and get that connected. thanks. but say that congress situation is worse even than the other countries in this content, countries around it because of a reluctance, because it hasn't been expressed by the political leadership by president felix difficulty and other health officials who themselves were very slow, the publicly take the dose of the vaccine,

when the 1st donations that congo received the few 1000000 doses of the aster then vaccine, and many of those ended up being sent to other countries because they weren't used before they were due to expire. so this is mobilized very slowly, although now the well bank says that tongue as ministry of health, our start has started to organize a program to distribute vaccines to the problem, to the provinces, to rural areas. but this will happen very late, which is what explains why the vaccine rate is indeed very far behind other countries. slow distribution to prevention, rural areas, and a very low uptake, even in the city. so there is a question here, a question mark. if i can put it that way over the government's action, or perhaps we should say inaction. yeah, i mean the hell, thanks. say that it's been, it's been too late in the case of vaccination in terms of restriction. there's not,

there are many measures in, in place now. taking a p c r test is monday, 3 for international travelers and for domestic travelers. talking about a tiny proportion of the population that has to do so. the government says that people should be wearing moss, but in practice fairly happening, things like churches or market places where people gather in large numbers, pretty much running as usual. but the government also isn't really in a position to be able to bring in significantly strict measures or to even enforce them. and most people in hunger, of course, on low wages in an informal job struggling to get by simply wouldn't be able to absorb economic shock of any kind of more strict restrictions that would affect their livelihoods. in effect, the access to do income. and of course, having suffered because of the general global economic downturn caused by the panoramic last year. and earlier this year,

many commonly wouldn't be innovations. they would build the shock of any further restrictions in the state. so that was the government in a position that he so much he could really do the spread of kobe to him, killer of army kron which has now been detected in malcolm where keeping us across development in d. c. from nairobi today. thank you. right. joining us, chris smith, consulting virology to cambridge university. the presenter of the naked scientists podcasts on scott from cambridge and chris lee, wanna get into this whole issue of ami kron basically. now i'm going to show you as a graph here, and i sent it to you a little bit earlier. this is come from next strain dot org. just for some perspective, all of this, all of these blue dots. if we think of this, the whole pandemic that is delta on its own, this red blob here, red collection of dots. that is ami kron. it is chris, very small of the stage. now i know it can grow just as every other variant did, but does the panic? does the even the media coverage?

i'll put us in there as well. does it warrants the situation? will s one the clock back to last month to the beginning of november because that is when south africa 1st detected this barren. and at the time they had very low levels of current vars cases in their country as in a few 100 per day. oh, chiefly delta by the end of the month, but had grown to 15 maybe $20000.00 cases per day. chiefly only chrome, in other words, what the soul is of dramatic escalation in case burden, but also a displacement of the existing circulating dominant strain. chiefly delta. by this, i'm a chrome very that was accounting for 7580 percent of their cases. so that told them this is really transmissible. and because something is really transmissible, despite the fact that it doesn't actually translate at the same rate,

into severe consequences, people in hospital, people in intensive care, people, unfortunately losing their life. the delta does in sheer numbers terms. even if you have something which is ha, mortality rates of the other existing barons. if you get maybe twice to 3 times as many cases, you're still gonna have a worse outcome in terms of disease burden. because of the small number of people who can still becomes baby on. well, now that is what has prompted. well, data is policy makers, governments all over the world to say, right? we have to do something to make sure we showed up the system because of the other big elephant in the room. the uncertainty will this translate into severe disease in particularly heavily vaccinated countries. like say the u. k. u s. compared with south africa, a country where there's a relatively low level of uptake vaccine, 50 percent in some of the country. okay, so south africa's largest private insurance company actually is saying this new variant is not making up the most of the new cases in the country. as you mentioned,

they just have a little listen to this for us. immediate briefing on about an hour ago with south africa, top medical research council, through the surveillance done by the network for generic surveillance in south africa. and you can see, indicated in red on this talk, how the army kron variance is now dominating infections. and is responsible now for more than 90 percent of infections in south africa. displacing this green variance, which was the delta variant that drive the previous wife and the, the recent infections up to the advent of on the cron here in south africa. so when we hear that and where we hear what you just said as well, chris does it almost, i'll use this term loosely justify what governments are doing because a lot of people look at bars, johnson and such a job at the other day talking about you know, almost becoming the dominant variance and, and, and, you know, a tidal wave,

i think bar just bars, johnson said and, and it creates a bit of panic. certainly, that sort of talked us, but maybe it's better to her on the side of caution governments in many countries. and the many colors have been criticized heavily earlier in the pandemic because they delayed people said if you'd gone sooner, if you'd had a crystal ball, if you'd had a time machine, i'm being facetious there. but if, if you had gone sooner, you could have acted sooner. you could have saved enormous numbers of laws. and so i think there's an element of running scared here. but when scientists present data saying, look, we've got this new varian it very quickly, in a matter of weeks displaced an existing, very successful circulating, barren, and took a country from hundreds of cases a day 210020000 cases per day. a significant uptake in, in caseload, and it's coming here. what are you going to do about the young surprisingly leaders, events them faced with the unenviable choices to make about? what do they do today?

actually some of it was very well, we think it will be ok, so they have to do something. and actually what people perhaps on, on recognizing is that the elephant in the room at the moment in many countries remains delta, right? in the u. k, we got 50 or 60000 cases per day of delta, and you can probably comfortably double that because half the time we just don't know they're there because half of the time people don't have any symptoms. yeah, chris, just quickly, i want to, i want to get one to you before we have to before we have to move on. you know, there's so much focus on government mandates and covert passes and mandatory vaccinations and only things does a lot of it or should a lot of it just comes up the common sense some personal responsibility keep wearing a mask, keep thinking about what you're doing. limit your traveled thoughts of things that will help you're talking to the guy the started a radio program called the common sense corona bar directly. yes. i think really common sense is what, so, unfortunately not as common. common as we wish it was really,

it does come down to the fact that at the moment it's very early days, people are being cautious. it's easy to row back from an overcautious response, and course there are costs, but hopefully we will learn in the next 2 or 3 weeks. really what the outcomes going to be in south africa presenting some really very reassuring data. so my hope is that that will be translated to other countries like the u. k. where we can see the actually it's not the threat it could be. and as a result, we'll be right back on, on some of these measures and, and accept that this is the natural progression of this virus is, is symbols down to become endemic entity that we expect it will. chris, for some common sense on cove it. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it . my pleasure. 15 minutes past this news. here's what's coming up on his 1st stop of an asia pacific for the us secretary state reaffirms america. commitment to push back against chinese influence a you and report claims police for the deaths of 11 people during process in

columbia last year and in sport will hear fraud straight. he has both test hero as a team gets ready to take on england in adelaide. ah, onto the news in the governor of kentucky and the united states has at least 74 people have been killed in the region by fridays series of tornadoes. more than a 100 are missing. the powerful storms tore through the state and 5 others laying waste 2 entire towns. in some cases. president joe biden is due to visits kentucky on wednesday. everything news report a j grey with us now from mayfield kentucky at about quarter past 4 in the morning . tell us more, jay, about what you've been seeing. no, well, pitch black here except for the television lights that are lighting this area up.

no power obviously to this area and so many across the region. what, what you're looking at here is the underside of a transport van, this massive vehicle tossed on its side by the winds that also ripped these trees from their roots. and there's a row of these trees down here in this neighborhood, falling on homes. and this type of destruction devastation. it's just seemingly everywhere here right now, look, the search effort continues in. it's still very much a rescue mission. they're bringing in more troops, more dogs to sort through areas like this one and see what they can find. they're also obviously looking to find those who are missing and some who they assume are victims. there will be more victims here according to not only those search team. so, but officials as well who are again trying to do what they can to help these communities . the recovery effort though really can't begin until the search effort has ended

here. we do know that among the victims here in kentucky, the age range is from 5 months to 86 years old. so that gives you at least some indication of where this community is as far as what's last and it's generations that have been killed as a result of the storms here. something but unfortunately is playing out across the entire strike zone 6 states just quickly. j. joe biden heading to kentucky on wednesday. i mean, not a huge amount he can do physically when he's there, but what has been his taken? what steps have been taken at by the government? no yeah, they are sending in help. we've seen the national guard obviously on the ground right after the storm said, but we're also seeing now federal help agencies moving and fema the director of fema is on the ground here and other agencies. and you also see some of the

religious organizations moving in to help as well. talking to the governor of kentucky. what he says is that they've had such an outpouring of support and volunteers. people just packing up tools are moving in that, that he's having some problems trying to figure out where they can be best serve what areas need, what type of services and getting those volunteers into those areas. of course, he also says, that's a good problem to have when you have other problems like this, the real problems that they're dealing with. jay gray in may feel kentucky. thank you so much. j and our own heidi's, jocasta, was also in my field kentucky where she has met some of the people trying to pick up the pieces. 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 state should be right there within 80 mill. i because he was right there. and i don't know what happened. hell, i got out and he didn't,

and i was gonna 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 still in the u. s. and a 5 year long legal battle involving gymnastics has come to an end. a $380000000.00 settlement has been reached between victims of the disgraced former dr. larry nasa and america's top gymnastics association. now, so was accused of sexually abusing more than $300.00 women and girls. he was sentenced to more than 300 years in prison 3 years ago. it is among the largest settlements ever for sexual abuse case. and we'll have more on that story later on in sport, about 20 minutes from now. you a 2nd visit and any blinkin says the asia pacific region needs to be free of coercion. lincoln's in indonesia, the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia,

trying to counter china's influence when a growing standoff between beijing and other countries in the results rich region. in recent years, we all have a stake in assuring 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 to southeast asia, and from the me con river to the pacific islands. about visions aggressive actions claiming open seasons there, all the stores, open markets through subsidies to which they run, companies denying the export. so revoking deals for countries as policies. it does not agree with engaging in illegal on, reported a non regulated fishing activities. countries across the reason why this behavior to change. we do to florence louis following this one from colombia to they are florence. how significant is the sort of intervention from antony blinking? well, it's a significant the u. s. wants to reset its relation to the southeast asian nations

. it wants to reassert its influence. here, this region was largely neglected by the previous administration under former president donald trump. the biden administration sees a se, asia, as fighter to its efforts to push back a rising china, and in a already this year, we've seen several high ranking us officials visit. we had us defense secretary lloyd austin, vice president pamela harris visit inc. southeast asian countries. president joe biden himself took partin, regional summits, and anthony lincoln's visit really is an extension of that strategy. he was very forthright in his remarks. he said, countries in asia are concerned about china's aggressive actions. he said, and he listed some of those actions, including punishing countries using economic, using its economic might countries whose policies it doesn't agree with laying claims to large parts of the south china sea. and lincoln said the u. s. would work with its partners and its allies in the region to defend the rules based order.

florence, all of those political visits you mentioned in addition to antony blank and now i guess this constitutes the u. s. have it to asia as they talk about, aside from political visits, are we seeing any concrete action on that? so the u. s. strategy is about term ensuring that the indoor pacific remains free and open. and it's going to do that. it says by strengthening deepening. it's ties militarily and also economically. so militarily, we've seen the u. s. conduct freedom of operation, freedom of navigation operations quite regularly in the south china sea, much to china's annoyance, and lincoln says the u. s. now wants to deepen or strengthen connections with existing treaty partners. i'm including japan and korea. now earlier this year we saw the u. s. reach a new cic trilateral security pipe with australia and the u. k,

which will give us trailer access to nuclear pilots, submarines. now on the economic front, there isn't anything concrete as such, but lincoln did say that the u. s. now wants to identify new opportunities for u. s. companies to operate in the region as well as for more flow of direct foreign direct investment into saudis, asian countries. thorne, sorry, a little bit. thank you. in the news ahead, the u. s. medical son reaches a $40000000.00 settlement and a price gouging case, but its former owner still faces trial. until you are time magazine named avon musk, a person of the year and sport. a jain to football is given the supersize tribute in his hometown. far i will have that and the rest of the day ah

hello hope your week's off to a good start further, whether story for europe. it's a good news, bad news type scenario. so let's start with the good news and it's all about the warmth through areas of the united kingdom. central areas. talk more about that in a sec. but 1st, where all the action is and we can find that toward eastern portions of greece, western turkeys, cypress, and the levant. we've got bursts of rain to be expected here. so a saki weather pattern. and then those winds through the a g and could whip up to 75 kilometers per hour was found. we go things fairly quiet for the balkans. now we do have a shield of snow cutting across sophia bulgaria. but again, italy just a few showers. it is drying off across areas of northern spain. in southwestern france where we have seen flooding and look at these temperature, seville 21 degrees. so on that theme of the warm so we're getting that warm air from the atlantic. so london above average, the low countries, central parts of europe, bit of a cap on temperatures because of that cloud cover. then we've got

a plume of moisture running into western areas of scandinavia on tuesday. those winds are lowering temperatures across areas of libya and also egypt. so cairo in the days to calm your temperature will slide to 18 degrees, which is a bit below average for the sum of the year. okay. amount of time. ah, he's done with john, i guess with

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delta remains dominant in most places before. now, the governor of kentucky and the united states says at least 74 people have been killed in the region by friday series of tornadoes with more than 100 still missing . and the u. s. secretary, state antony blinkin as the asian pacific region needs to be free of coercion, lincoln's in indonesia, the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia. washington trying to counter the influence of china. us defense secretary lloyd austin has decided against punishing military personnel who were involved in a drone strike, but killed 10 civilians. and i've got some that operation on august 29 in cobble killed and aid work and 9 members of his family, including 7 children. an investigation found the strike didn't violate the laws of war. but the military made mistakes my canada with more from washington. the counted on commissioned a report from what he called an independent observer. the inspector general of the .