how widespread overland selma covariance is, scientists are urging caution from around the world. political observers argue his government has led a dismantling of democratic institutions. ah, this is al jazeera ah, just 11300 hours gmc for pm here in doug harm. come all santa maria, welcome to the news out with the army con variant, gaining ground in many countries around the world, the u. k. government as debating whether to tighten restrictions ahead of the holiday season. also in the news amounting death toll and hundreds still missing in the us. midwest soft a. dozens of tornadoes ripped through 6 states, the fight for water, her potential flash point in crimea between russia and ukraine. but it's the

millions of people stuck in the middle who was suffering and back where they belong . the bronsels have been in finally returned home after being looted by europeans in the colonial era. and i'm far as small with the sports news live from our fif arab cap studio. armando how waterfront majesty united next, primarily game has been postponed due to a coven 19 outbreak at the club. english football is dealing with a record number of cases with right around the world is tuesday countries. the scene covered 9 scene infections and deaths on the rise again, in some cases up to reco numbers government sol, so trying to tackle of course, the new micron variant. the delta variant does remain dominant in most places. for now, we're looking at the u. k. this our politicians of in questioning scientists about the on the crone variance prime minister bars johnson announced what is believed to

be the world's 1st confirmed death. all the patient with the new variance that was on monday. and parliament is expected in the next few hours to discuss and vote on possible new restrictions, poll brennan, covering events from london to day. but if dashava will, over again, isn't it? pull the idea of restrictions coming in around christmas time and behind you. plenty of people trying to get the vaccines and 8 am outside st. thomas hospital just across the river. take one parliament, whether a huge tears here this morning. again, for the 2nd day running for people getting that booster jobs now of my children to the cure subsided somewhat, but it's still sneaky around the grounds. inside the hospitals. and people are very keen to have that important booster shots because of the protection that the scientists say it will offer them only on the chronic baron. it's a busy day here, politically. we've had, as you say, politicians on the science committee and parliament's question in the chief medical officer. what was interesting was the chief medical officer st. still,

how little is known about the effects of the on baron to deal with him. this interesting is the predictions of it's exactly how many infections on likely to come from it. the official figures sales around 54000 people have contracts in her own virus in the last 24 hours for the you k, i help security agency you k h i say, but it's for the real number of new infections is actually close at 200000 a day. now to work on the basis that may be about one percent of those might be hospitalisation. that's a big number. that risk overwhelming the national health status on the basis that there is a doubling of infections every to every 2 or 3 days. you can see that we're going to talk about millions of people every day getting infected within a very short space of time. so that's the real concern. and then you've got to vote this afternoon, as you mentioned, and i think we're gonna talk about it about it. so i wonder about that whole britain in london, bear doing a great job as well against the young man and the young man with the make

a fine in the back on. thank you. poll with all this, talk about our micron. it is always worth remembering. the variance is not only new, it is comparatively small when compared with nearly every other variance. this is next strain, a dot org of bubble graph showing all those known variance of concern and interest . and just want to draw you to here is, 1st of all, all these at blue ones on the right hand side. those are the 3 different strains of delta. absolutely dominant n it has. and for a long time, it's only done here. see that small red dot, i've circled the bats is on the crowd at the site. of course it could grow a lot more as time goes on, but it's just a little bit of perspective to keep in mind. also the south african medical research council has just released its 1st study on i'm a chrome, a data gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the varying to pairing in southern africa and found that 2 doses of the fines of act same would provide 33 percent of protection against infection for my micron, but 70 percent protection against hospitalizations of the inference being that while i micron is perhaps more easily transmissible, it maybe isn't necessarily more potent or severe than other strains. shepherd am at

the with us now director of vaccines and infectious diseases analytics research units in johannesburg. and we thank you very much for your time. i hope i've sorta summed up generally what that research had said. what's your take on the research? is it good news? i certainly much more optimistic than what we actually expected, what, what we do know about on the crime. it keeps it and get body evasive. so it comes as little surprised that a vaccine doesn't protect against infection that around with our death at the same point estimate. i infected with another study from the united kingdom, which was also easy to find the vaccine as well as any of it which should get a little protection against some demette to come back. that's miles off to about 2 to 5 weeks. be off the people if you do it. i was just sort of at seen my grand babies that i was sort of at seeing that increase the effectiveness against on the car and on to the regional for 75 against mile didn't miss inside. definitely go be

about 70 percent protection against the disease and that is most welcome. i think what the report to what's. busy missing in the thought and out of the fight. now, as you mentioned, as it's expected to be $200000.00 cases. mcknight that kinda stuff like that right now. we've got about $20000.00 cases each day. the majority reaches armika applicant does 13 times less amount of testing than the united kingdom in south africa. right now, we probably closer to 200000 new cases. each state within 3 infections as we had a 3 infections. but that is not materializing introduction, member of cases of people being hospitalized. dian didn't go through the delta v 8 in when we were reporting 20000 you case at each state. what between 250 and 3 people that were dying of call with bank in south africa right now at the same rate of 20000 new cases each day. dowdy about your fact of the paper that the dying or

phobic 19. so do we not, luckily, should be a sorry to interrupt you? do we all my risky getting hung up on what type of variance it is when? in fact, we should just be using common sense, i, mosques, and vaccines. all the tools that we have to protect as many people as possible against all various. absolutely, and i think we need to be clear about what you're trying to achieve. if we're trying to prevent infections, we're going to be chasing our tail for banging model because. busy the virus is going to continue. mutating is probably going to continue experiencing anybody. you're very severe dns, even attempting to test out using vaccines. but if you're trying to prevent severe disease and death, we've actually credit to place that is that scenes as well as humanity through bus metro infection that is actually assisting in protecting against severe disease and death. and like a said, right. and if else, because asian brain and stuff like that right now, it's one give compared to what it was at a time going to delta of yet and dominate that. and the reason for that is another

home of the immune system don't sell needed. unity which is demanding relatively infect, despite that mutations according to the agents and at so me date that unit is protecting against severe disease and death and death. so we need to really decide what we're trying to achieve. might it might have other let it go protection against the disease and death other and pretending that we can have a sustainable solution to being able to protect against infection. right? should be mattie joining us from johannesburg to day. thank you very much for your time and your expertise on to other news on the governor of the us state of kentucky. and also that he 74 people have been killed in the region by fridays series of tornadoes that rip through 6 states more than a 100 people still missing a powerful stones, destroyed entire towns. president joe biden, due to visit kentucky on wednesday. embassy news report a j grey with us now from mayfield. kentucky a little bit more sunlight than the last time we spoke to you. j. what does

daylight reveal? no, come on. unfortunately, it reveals more devastation here. this is what a president will see when he comes to town. seems like this, this the undercarriage of a transport van, this massive vehicle pushed over by winds that also ripped up a row of trees in this neighborhood. pull them up by their route. you can see that here tossing them on to homes, homes that were shredded by the wind as well and 75 percent of this town of mayfield is damaged as a result of the storms. and much of that damage is severe. the recovery process is going to come, but only after the search is over here and it's still very much ongoing. there is still hope that they can find survivor somewhere pinned and all of the rubble here . and so teams continue to work around the clock though the clock is definitely an

enemy. at this point, we know that they're bringing in reinforcements today to help with that. they're also bringing with them more canines, more dogs, and that's expected to speed up. the process is, well, look, this is a community that is wounded and struggling, but what you see in the last day or so as a resolve is well survivors here saying that those who have died won't die in vain . and so they're going to continue to push forward as best they can hear. that is j gray in kentucky for us that may feel kentucky. thank you. j. our own hi to j casters there as well in that hot hit town of may field. she has met some of the people, they're picking up the pieces. this house is among the few still standing in mayfield, 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 the people can 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 stay 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 hayden, 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. almost 30 minutes past as news on his what's coming up on the 1st stop of his asia pacific tour. the u. s. secretary of state reaffirms america's commitment to push back against chinese influence. also use medical firm reaches a $40000000.00 settlement in a price gouging case. the former owner though still faces trial and sport, a $380000000.00 settlement reached between victims of a disgrace for my doctor. and they say, gymnast, ah, iran's nuclear chief has rejected demands from the humans, international atomic energy agency to gain access to one of its sites. comes as talks continue in vienna, trying to salvage the 2015 nuclear agreement of to go. okay,

well i go to get the talks we had with the un nuclear watchdog chief, was sent it on the allegations. in addition to the issue of garage nuclear facility, we are still negotiating these issues, which are governed by other political considerations, let alone the psychological aspects under the maximum pressure policy, the issue of carriage facilities should be resolved within a broader package that includes other allegations level till cert, jabari in vienna, covering the talks and this is potentially a big problem as an adult. you were speaking to the, the head of the i am the a few days ago. and he was clear that turning round the cameras and having access, sir, we're, we're, we're, we're key. hey, certainly this seems to be a very crucial point. and not only these talks here in vienna, between iran and the remaining signatories of than 2015 nuclear deal. and the united states who is indirectly, as speaking with the iranians via the you. but it's also an issue with the i am the

nuclear watchdog that is policing. what is left of that nuclear deal? according to rating officials, there was a sabotage attack at this workshop. in carriage dots outside of town, where iranians produce centrifuges in june and at the time there were 4 i. e. cameras installed there as part of additional protocol of the non proliferation treaty, which iran abided by after signing the j. c p. o. a. since that attack to place, the iranians have taken off all those cameras. so they, i, e says they're virtually blind there. and as a result, they are not aware of how many centrifuges iranians are making, and where those centrifuges are going. which was a critical point for the director general of the i. e raphael grossi now the arraignment. say this is not part of the 2015 nuclear deal, specifically this workshop. and if the rain is want to give back a allow the i am vectors back into this workshop. they will have to be part of a broader agreement and that's what they're hoping will take place. here. the lead

negotiator of the deputy foreign minister was here said monday evening that add the diplomacy has to be a 2 way street. there's a lot of a discussion from the european parties saying that attacking each other basically saying that these talks aren't going anywhere. but the readings say that is not the case that they are making progress is slow. russia and china also seem to agree with the ratings. we've also heard from the u. s. secretary of state, anthony lincoln earlier on tuesday in asia, where he said that to they are you, the americas are considering alo, alternatives in case these negotiations go nowhere in this j. c p o no longer intact and cannot be revived. but there is a sense for the radiance, at least that the talks are progressing all those slowly. and that is somewhat of a good sign. and that this issue of the carriage workshop will be resolved as part of a larger picture when they feel this negotiation is federal dosage, bari, the iran nucleotide can be. and i think it also golf cooperation council lead is

amazing and saudi arabia for their annual summit, and the iran nuclear talks in vienna as well as the pandemic and the taliban takeover and i've gotten astound or expected to help the agenda. the last summit was held in january at the end of the blockade of katara after 3 and a half years. the us secretary state antony blinking says the asia pacific region needs to be free from coercion. lincoln's in indonesia, the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia, trying to counter the influence of china. there has been a growing stand off between beijing and other countries in the resource rich region . in recent years, florence louise following this one from quote unquote. today, the us as trying to reset its relations in se asia, this region was largely overlooked by former us president donald trump. but the biden administration fee, se asia as vital to its efforts to push back a rising china. now in his speech outlining the u. s. as in the pacific plans,

secretary of state antony blank and said the u. s. will work with its allies and thoughtless to defend the rules based order. he was forthright in his remarks saying, countries are concerned about china's actions. and he listed some of these which include china using his, its economic strength to punish countries and policies that disagrees with. and china laying claims to large parts of the south china sea countries across the region. what this behavior to change we do to that's why we're determined to ensure freedom with navigation in the south china sea, where beijing's aggressive actions there threatened the movement of more than 3 trillion dollars worth of commerce. every year, lincoln stressed that the u. s. is not trying to make countries choose between the us and china and for many countries in the region. there is a balancing act involved. china is a very important trade partner. but many of also traditionally looked to the us to provide security in the region. some analysts say that for the us to deepen its

ties in the region, it has to have been effective economic strategy. and lincoln seemed to acknowledge this. in his speech, sayings us will identify opportunities for us companies to operate here, as well as for more foreign direct investment to flow into the region. and taking questions from the presbyterian got engineers, you trip. second group link and accused republican party leaders of pudding, america's global interests. serious risk. lincoln says the senate has confirmed just 16 percent of president, jo biden's, ambassador nominates means washington is like and crucial representation in many embassies. kimberly hancock is our white house correspondent with more on this. that's quite a number, isn't it? kimberly, thinking that we're nearly a year into the pond administration now. there's so few confirmations. yeah, it's not a new problem. each successive administration accuses the other of blocking their

nominations. in the senate, what makes people so concerned is the high number we're seeing some would say even unprecedented, that really limits the government's ability to do its work abroad. and there are number of reasons why this is occurring. the 1st is that we know that the by the administration has been a bit slow to make some of these appointments and part of that has to do with the process that's become more complicated over time. there are ethics investigations that have to take place. there are security clearances that have to be secured and that's even before it goes up to the senate for approval. one of the other problems is of course, the opposing party typically tries to slow down nominations, usually over unrelated policy concerns. this again is no exception and on the committee that would at least give the 1st stage approval for these nominations. that is evenly split between democrats and republicans. republicans using their power to slow these down, just as democrats did for republicans in the previous administration. the other

thing that we're seeing and this is a little bit unusual as the fact that given donald trump's administration had so many political appointees as ambassadors, we saw the by the administration dismissed them on day one. typically there is often a grace period that allows for some of these nominations to take place in these transitions that didn't happen this time around. now, why is this a problem? well, what this means is that the 2nd in command abroad is doing the work of 2 people and doesn't have the full diplomatic access to meet with heads of state, etc. and so that really harm's not only us interests, but all the also the interest of the countries abroad that are looking to get in here with this white house. really, how could white house correspondent, thank you very much. now the north crimea canal. this is in southern ukraine, used to supply majority of the peninsula water name that stops in 2014 after russia annexed crimea. ukraine built dams on the canal saying would only allow water to

flow when russia ended its occupation. the air is not become a potential flashlight between chef and moscow is child. stratford. reports from contract in ukraine. bland is flat and bleak as you look towards crimea. the peninsula onyx by russia in 2014. this is ukrainian government control territory. villages are now almost deserted. nearby is the north crimea canal, which used to be the peninsulas, main source of water. when russian forces invaded activists will to sand back down to try and stop the water flow and force the russians out. ukrainian government then built this dam closer to russian control territory before russia antics crimea in 2014. this canal provided up to 85 percent of the peninsula as water needs. as you can see now,

it's virtually empty. ukraine says it will only release the water when russia's occupation and a russian military post is visible on the horizon less than a kilometer away. moscow is transporting water from mainland russia over the coach, straight bridge, and digging wells. but rationing has reportedly got worse since the arrival of tens of thousands of additional russian troops in recent months. on the sphere, the russian army may be planning to push nor to take control of the canals and parts of the denise river. they can now it's hugely important to crimea. it boggles the mind to think that the russians, when they illegally annex crimea, they didn't think about how they would serve as the territory, especially with water putin's main objective. and if he were to. ready go for another line, grab would be to create that land bridge between russia and crimea. ready because it is so difficult to service that territory without that land access. and that,

of course, would mean, for example, taking over key port cities like commodity all paul. so that's a huge strategic land, grub, crumbling signposts, or reminder of life before the collapse of the soviet union is past soviet built industrial plants is in russian control territory. many ukrainians used to work there but left when the russian military arrived 70 year old laval as relatives on the peninsula. she hasn't seen them the 6 years. that of which you live with him or is off as a war can separate a child from its mother. it can be so difficult to cross to crimea, the young jobless on this side because he can't work of the plant anymore. my disease husband was there, my son worked there. we could afford nice and decent food. all to change to crimea was closed. the criminal denies it's planning to invade the ukrainian mainland.

but securing water. the crime is estimated to point 4000000 people. the majority of whom are russian means that may change. charles profit al jazeera calon shook sudden ukraine. tougher look at it will weigh with jeff. hello, welcome to our world's weather report. all eyes on storm rise as it moves closer to the philippines. let's remember over the last few days, nonstop brain for central areas of the country, the ground saturated and cannot hang on to any more moisture. so mudslides and landslides, a big concern, give you a bit of a wider look right now. se asia, another area of concern is that the ne monsoon steering bouts of heavy rain into malaysia call them poor has a high of 32 degrees. next stop, northern areas of china, cooler air will filter in here in the days to come for beijing. 6 degrees for now, some disturbed weather western areas. upon chew into hole kado, we're actually we'll see a bit of

a wintery mix there. few things our point out in this next map we're keeping tabs on tropical cyclone ruby as it moves toward the se, diving down a lot of what, whether for newsy. then we'll talk about that in its sac. but for australia, it's really that southeast corner of it's going to be see the bulk of the wet weather put the colors are now the darker the red, the higher the temperature we've got in extreme heat wave coming, northwestern portions of australia could hit 50 degrees in the days to come, and here is all of that wet weather in new zealand over the north island, but now starting decide into that south island. christ church has a high of 21 on wednesday. and you for that, jeff fin, the news ahead, the fight for women's rights international observers sound the alarm about record levels of violence and care get started at a football and giant get to supersize tribute in his home town. faro will have that, and the rest of that i spoke to little later ah,

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lou. ah, your on the news are near it out as they are. these are our top stories. the governor of kentucky in the united states has at least 74 people have been killed in the region by fridays series of tornadoes. and there are still more than 100 people missing talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal with iran, a continuing in vienna. but iran's atomic energy chief is rejected. the demand from the u. n. z nuclear watchdog, which wanted access to one of toronto nuclear sites. and our top story cove at 19 the u. k. prime minister announcing what to believe to be the 1st confirmed death of a person who tested positive for the army con variant. and coming out of the u. k. parliament expected to discuss and vote on possible you restrictions. let's look at

covered elsewhere, democratic republic of congo, somewhere. i want to go into a little more detail. we don't hear a lot about it very often, but the president seems to have quite a job on his hands, trying to get people vaccinate to bring up some charts here from our world and data just to give you a little context. this one, 1st of all, just showing daily new cases. at this point, we're looking in the realms of 200 odd cases a day, which doesn't sound like a huge amount, but it was obviously a lot lower only just well a few days ago, really. so that steady cases, vaccinations, though, is the big concern here. this is a global map of people who've received at least one dose d r c, right there in the middle of a continent where vaccination rates we know are low, but that sort of light beige color puts it into the tend to dash 0 to 10 percent of populations having one shot of vaccine, but it's actually much worse than that because is this chart shows a number of people or,

of doses administered per $100.00 people every day. that number up there, it looks high on the graph, but it's not even one. it's not even one person per $100.00 people every day getting vaccinated, which means on our final chart, a share of people who received just one dose. that number up there is 0.2 percent only 0.2 percent of the population of d r. c has received even one vaccine malcolm web or corresponded in nairobi. keeping an eye on developments in d asi today. what is the problem here? malcolm? is it supply not enough vaccines? is it demand not enough people want vaccines or is it a little a both definitely a little of both. i mean no. the whole continent was effected initially by a.