i have a dream. my dream is that people may my daughter, the young people just have a full voice and don't feel targeted because of their race or ethnicity. ah. as the army kron barion gains ground in many countries, the u. k. government is debating right now whether to tighten restrictions ahead of the holiday season. ah, hello dan, i'm come all santa maria here in doha with the world news from al jazeera. there is a mounting death toll and hundreds still missing in the u. s. midwest. of the dozens of tornadoes ripped through 6 states, a fight for water, a potential flash pointed crimea, between russia and ukraine. but it's the millions of people stuck in the middle.

the suffering and international observers sound the alarm about the record levels of violence against women in kirk it's done with all of the world countries, the think of it infections and deaths rising again, some to record numbers as governments try to also tackle the new omicron barrier although right now the delta variant does remain dominant in most places. right now . you k parliament debating whether it will implement new restrictions ahead of the holidays. a vote coming in a few hours time. earlier, a committee held a panel with scientists to discuss exactly what they were dealing with with on a chrome. here's more from poll brennan in london, were increasing numbers of people are being infected with carved. the situation of the moment is that the official figures appear to be lagging behind what the health

authorities estimate the real figures are. at the moment, according to the most recent figures of yesterday, i'm 55000 new to run a virus cases infections. however, the health secretary said he just stood up in the comments on monday and said, the real finger record until you pay a 100000 patients every single day. now that's a real concern because by the mall of large numbers, even if on the con, proved to be less damaging than the delta variant, say, just one percent of those. hundreds of those 200000 need hospital teen, for example, as the doubling of the on the con, variance in infections proceeds that is going to put extraordinary and extreme pressure on the u. k. national health service. so there is grave concern among government exactly how to get a lid on the infections at the moment. they've been active with muscular and for

example, working from the recommendation to work from home. i'm not going further than that with a lock down at the moment and there is going to be a vote later on this evening in parliament about this. but i think the government is causing a real dilemma as to how to get people boosted and get a little on the on the con, infections in time for christmas. south korea has had its worst day of the pandemic 94 deaths recorded on tuesday. the korea, disease control and prevention agencies that are record 906 people were also in a serious or critical condition. medical system there is reaching its limit with the delta driven spread, leaving some people dying while waiting for a hospital bed. but the south african medical research council is just reached, its 1st released its 1st study on omicron data that was gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the very into pairing in southern africa. and it found 2 doses of the phase of vaccine would provide 33 percent protection against infection from amazon,

but it would give 70 percent protection against hospitalizations of the inference being that while our micron is perhaps more easily transmissible, it isn't necessarily more potent or severe in that study, at least we spoke to shibby and mad he about this director of the vaccines and infectious diseases analytics research unit in south africa. who explains what they know about the con sofa. what you do not want on the county tc antibody. evasive? so it comes as little surprised that a vaccine doesn't protect against infection that around with or just the to percent point estimate. i infected was another study from the united kingdom reach us all to the easiest way, far, far as the vaccine has read us as with anake of it, see him with short, ready, little protection against symptom at the tone of that smile. miss off about 2 to 5 weeks of the people if you do it, i was just sort of at seen by grand variety suit, a 3rd dose of the vaccine. i have that increase the effectiveness against on the crime. ronnie? good of you, jennifer bob, 7 to 5 against mildly now in south africa with

a 70 percent protection against severe disease. and that is most welcome. if we trying to prevent infections, we are going to be chasing our tail for dining mario because. busy the virus is going to come to you imitating are probably going to punching expediency anybody erase obedience even accepting through that i use in betsy. but if we trained to prevent severe disease and death, we've actually got the tools at place. definitely, as that seems as well as community repass, metro infection is actually assisting in protecting against severe disease and death yet. but i and just osby plays asian bright in south africa right now, is why jim compared to what it was at a time going to delta yet and dominate that. and the reason for that is another form of the immune system, known as cell mediate in a t, which is remaining relatively infect, despite the applications that are cutting into violence and that cell needed, that unit is protecting against of your disease of death and death. so we need to really decide what we're trying to achieve. might you might have your order if the

goal is protection against of your disease and death badly and pretending that you're never sustainable to lucia to being able to protect against infection until the news. and the governor of kentucky in the united states says that he's 74 people have been killed in the region. after fridays, a series of tornadoes more than a 100 still missing president joe biden is due to visit kentucky as well on wednesday. and the seniors reported j grey is there may fields kentucky. what's president button going to say? well, a lot of devastation call a lot of destruction here. things like this. the bottom side of the transport van, the wind so powerful. it knock this giant vehicle on its side. it also uprooted a line of trees in this neighborhood. you can see if you're pulled up from their roofs and thrown into yards on the house. this is the kind of devastation that

covers about 75 percent of this small town. and it's the kind of thing that's going to make it so difficult 1st to get through the search process. but then also to start the recovery here. look what we're seeing and you may, here's a truck pulling by fan, is more trucks moving into the area and starting to pull away some of this debris where they and that the sun fully up. now they're really getting to work. and this is a process that does continue from a clock, but if we, when you got the sunshine, there's a lot more that you can do here. just looking at another truck pulling by with more debris there. and it's a process that it's going to continue. you know, once they get through the search and rescue and recovery mode which is still very active, then they can in earnest, begin to pull out a lot of this debris and move on. but there's just so much here that it's, it's come all going to take a lot of time. we know today more teams are coming in to help with the search. there is still

a hope that they will find someone alive tend underneath. all of this rubble here, and that's what's driving the teams if they continue their work. they're also bringing in more canine for dogs to help with that process which should speed things up, but get but again, up again. but this is again. busy just going to be a very difficult, very time consuming process. and then once they're through that, it's going to take a long time to build the places like this back from all che, you have reported on plenty of natural disasters and events like this across the us . if you've seen anything like this before, it just seems to be something quite different about these pictures. here's the thing and then i think joplin the tornado, there was a lot, but like this one in the sense of just the raw power and destruction. but this involved tornadoes that stayed on the ground. some estimates are for hours across

for states, massive funnels that are just ripping apart everything in their path. i can tell you over the last few years, it seems like the tornadoes have grown in intensity. and in staying power, you know, we used to see tornadoes that would dip down, affect the community, and be swallowed back up into the clouds. it seems like there are more long form tornadoes on the ground, and that was certainly the case here. know this. in comparison over the years that i've been doing this, this is certainly one of if not the most severe i've thing ok. j grey on the grounds may feel kentucky there after the tone a to thank you. j. also our own. hi. did you caster isn't my field kentucky? she met some of the people trying to pick up the pace. this house is among the few still standing in may field kentucky, though it's missing a roof doors and windows. the cato family lived here for 11 years. now they're

seeing what they can say. this is where the front door was. and then of course the upstairs. we won't go upstairs if that's okay. and, and then our dining room, not every home in this region has a basement. but this one, fortunately, did, and the cato family had the foresight to offer shelter to some friends who live nearby. they came over just in time and a rush down the stairs likely saved everyone's lives. as soon as we got the basement, you just heard this huge bow, and that was just the, the whole house going up. so you were still in transition. we were still in transition, as in mother, what was your, what were you thinking at that? at that point in time, i was mentally counting heads. you know, i was like, are we all down here? all 12 people inside the house were unharmed. so one of those things were just very

thankful that everybody's alive and well. this stuff can be replaced. you know, cars can be bought, houses can be done in, but people can't. it's fear the death toll from last week's tornadoes will surpass 100. people died in illinois, tennessee, and missouri. but kentucky had the greatest loss of life. 18 are still on identified of the ones that we know the age. the age range is 5 months to 86 years. and 6 are younger than 18. at the ruins of a collapsed campbell factory in mayfield, emergency crews continue to search for signs of life. this woman made it out, her boyfriend did not. the fact that i should stay should be right there with him is eating me alive because he was right there. and i don't know what happened. hell,

i got out and he didn't. and i just data 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. i sion authorities say more than 40 people have been killed after a petrol truck exploded. it was in the city of k passion. dozens of houses were also reportedly set on fire as a result of the explosion. a caught in bella. ruth has sentenced, said hyde to con of sky. the husband of been a bruce is opposition leader to 18 years in prison. he was found guilty of organizing mass unrest and inciting, social hatred to confiscate does not denies the charges. he's been detained since last year, as he prepared to run against. alexander looks shanker in a presidential election in august that year. what happened was that his wife

svetlana, she could have sky iran in his place in that election. grab a break on al jazeera when we come back, why democratic republic of congo is struggling with its vaccination drive back where they belong. the bronze, as have been in finally returned home after being looted by europeans in the colonial era. ah, hello your world whether report begins in asia, we're in the subcontinent. ne monsoon given us what we would expect for a time on the do some bouts of showers, but heavier stuff really reserved for sure longer. and the more these gotta get you over to the philippines right now. as storm right. comes close. i think the worst of it will go through cbo, but let's remember, it has been days of rain for central portions of the philippines. the ground

incredibly saturated cannot hold on to that moisture, so land sides and mud slides will be a big concern. here. also the ne monsoon given us bouts of heavy rain through malays. the i call them pour over the past 24 hours. scooping up half a month's worth of rain, so flooding, also an issue here. batch of rain running across the river valley. will hon, right through to shanghai system. sherry days for shanghai in the days to come disturbed weather western areas upon shoe wintery mix for western hawkeye, and then we got cold air punching in across the northern areas of china toward the northeast as well. so i show you a 3 day forecasts in beijing. yep. those temperatures are coming down by the end of the week. we've got just the high of one degree. the average is 4, but hey, look at this, at least it's wall to wall sunshine on friday. enjoy, that's it for me to said, ah,

ah, mother nature's gift of cold full landscapes. but strong infrastructure governance . arising where investments are waiting to flourish, with even supplied by tradition. and where beautiful possibilities are offered. move aah! on al jazeera, these are the top stories. this our, the governor of kentucky in the united states as at least 74 people been killed in

the region from friday's series of tornadoes. and there are more than a 100 still missing government to try to tackle the new on the chrome variant of covered 19. but delta remains dominant in most places for now. and right now the u . k. parliament is debating whether it will implement you restrictions ahead of the holidays. vote coming in the next few hours. in the south african medical research counselors released its 1st study on underground if on 2 doses of the funds vaccine would provide 33 percent protection against infection in the varied at 70 percent protection against hospitalization. speaking of pfizer, they're not saying one of the experimental drugs they're working on that can reduce hospitalization or death from coven 19 in high risk people by 89 percent. as, as, as a 2nd study reveals that pax love it, as it's cold, also cuts down severe illness and those that average risk, by 70 percent, the drug there must be given within 3 days of showing symptoms. packs lovin was

tested on unvaccinated people. scientists say it appears safe in both studies, which included nearly 3 and a half 1000 volunteers. some good news there. now, the president of democratic republic of congo is urging people to get vaccinated as infections. rise comes as health officials confirmed cases of the on the con, very. they're d. r. c has one of the world's lowest vaccination rates, malcolm web in nairobi now and why the congolese government is struggling to contain infections. firstly, 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 data to the beginning of this year. and it was only when donations started 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 aren't 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. 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 typically and other health officials. we themselves were very slow, the publicly take the dose of the vaccine. one of the 1st donations that congo received the 3000000 doses of the aster 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 congress ministry of health 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. philippines president rodriguez total had dropped his candidacy for a seat in the senate. detect announced that bid back in november, president's term ends in june next year, with the constitution preventing him from seeking a 2nd time. your secretary state antony blinking says the asia pacific region needs to be free from coercion, blinking then indonesia, the 1st leg of a tour of southeast asia. the trying to count china's influence. there has been a growing stand up of course, between beijing and other countries. in the resort rich region in recent years, while taking questions from the media during that trip, lincoln also accused republican party leaders of pudding, america's global interest. serious risk. lincoln says the senate has confirmed just 16 percent of jo biden's ambassador nominees, meaning washington is lacking crucial representation in many embassies. kimberly, how could i white house correspondent with more than this one you was saying last out? kimberly that it's not necessarily unusual for this to happen,

but for the state department, it does really hobble their ability to do the job. yeah, it's not unusual. we hear this from each previous administration, but what is different this time is sort of the scale of it in terms of the numbers . and there are number of reasons why this is occurring. first of all, is that what we saw with the previous trumpet ministration is that a lot of the ambassador post were political appointees. and other words, they might have been friends and not necessarily qualified. and certainly didn't show the same political ideology as the biden administration. and so on day one, joe biting dismissed, i a lot of ambassadors that left a higher than average number of vacancies. but the other problem that there are is that exists as the fact that the process for confirming people is much more difficult than it used to be. in previous years or decades. there's ethics investigations that need to be conducted. security clearances that need to be

secured, make sure there are no business complications or ties and that's before the senate foreign relations committee can even look at this and then the senate vote on all of this. so this is kind of the problem is in the process is getting harder and harder and as a result, what we're seeing now is of the 186 vacancies, about half have not been filled. now here's why this is a problem. what we know is that the 2nd in command at these embassies abroad ends up kind of filling that role. so in other words, doing 2 jobs instead of one. so that really slows things down. and the other problem is they don't have the same authorities. in other words, they haven't been appointed by the president. they haven't been a, in any way confirmed by the senate. and as a result, they don't have the same diplomatic access to the heads of state. these respective countries and the problem is, is that hurts american interests. and it also hurts the countries that are hoping to get an ear of the president. so this is the challenge and what we're going to

see more of is as secretary of state antony, blanket and others even here at the white house, highlighting this, saying that republicans are pushing back in the senate blocking these. and the more noise they make about it, eventually this problem does work itself out, but certainly there are a lot of interest that are hurt in the interim. kimberly how come to the white house correspondent? thank you. kimberly, look at the southern ukraine now with a north crimea can now use to supply the majority of the peninsulas. water needs at all. stopped back in 2014, russia, annexed crimea. ukraine built dams on the canal and said it would only allow water to flow when russia ended occupation. that area now become a potential flashpoint between kids and moscow. the child stratford reports from colored jack ukraine. bland is flat and bleak as you look towards crimea. the peninsula antics 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 san baghdad 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 is water needs. as you can see now, it's virtually empty. ukraine says it will only release the water when russia's occupation ends. 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, 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 service 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 gland, 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. it is literally because the dorothy slippers assa, you as a war can separate a child from its mother. it can be so difficult to cross to crimea, the young pat jobless on this side because he can't work at the plant any more. my deceased husband was there, my son worked there, liquid afford needs and decent father. all that changed when a crimea was closed. the criminal denies it's planning to invade the ukrainian mainland, but securing water for crime is estimated to point 4000000 people. the majority of whom are russian means that may change. charles, dr. al jazeera colon shook sudden ukraine. iran's nuclear chief has rejected demands from the u. n's international atomic energy agency to gain access to one of

its sites. talks continue though in vienna trying to salvage the 2015 nuclear agreement models to global i go to get the talks we had with the un nuclear watchdog chief, was centered 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 gulf cooperation council leaders psy gallery in saudi arabia for their annual summit, and faith light fixtures here from re out as the iran nuclear talks, the pandemic and the taliban take over in afghanistan, top the agenda there. last gcc summit was back in january at so the end of the blockade of cutter after 3 and a half years turkey's foreign ministers announced steps being taken to normalize ties with armenia, margaret cover. so you said did turkey and armenia will appoint special on voice and restart charter flights between the 2 countries. their relationship is long and

strained over the mass killings of armenians under the ottoman empire, nearly 20 cent, early 20th century. i mean, he claims it was a genocide to turkey, rejects or his more from cynical celia she's in assemble turkey closets, border to armenia in 1993 during the 1st carbajal war in order to show solidarity with us our bay, john. and since then, for nearly 30 years, the border was close for the land locked. ne, we're, which is our mania following to 4 to day 4, to 4 day war of a curveball, azerbaijan won a victory over armenia and gained a regained control of the territories that at the lawson de nineties. and following that turkey's presence, our dance said that if most of steps are taken, a turkey can reopen, it's a borders or a border with our mania. actually, the, the good will also came from the armenians side as well because they opened their

air space for the turkish airlines flights and route to buck you. and we heard a couple of months ago, turkeys presidential spokesperson saying that in 1993 white to key is shut. the border was because of the car about conflict. but since it's over now it's time to normalize. so we heard the turkish foreign minister himself saying that and normalization will be underway and both sides will be pointing. special representatives are mutually and we heard to our minions side. it confirmed this a by the foreign minister spokesperson and armenian foreign ministers. spokespersons sad that are mania is ready to normalize with turkey without any preconditions. and the says and a government plan falling more than a century after british troops stole lead treasure the people of benning city in southern nigeria have arisen to celebrate 2 of the been in bronze of the heading, however, and have received a royal welcome. as under chappelle rebels,

lou signing on behalf of his people, the traditional ruler of the kingdom of benign puts pen to paper, to write a historic wrong. ah, did i please? oh, so from which we removed from his brothers in nigeria, president mohammed who bihari has issued a directive to his government. oh, ah, a bronze, cockrell and a king's bust. the 2 works of art whose return is being celebrated. they once decorated beneath palace commissioned by ancient kings to remember their predecessors. the city was attacked and the palace ransacked in 18. 97. the king

had refused to recognize britons claim on west africa. while 2 items are being returned. 900 pieces remain in the british museum in london, and the people have been in city or waiting for their return and are chappelle al jazeera. ah. how falsely are these of the top stories? the u. k. parliament is debating whether it will implement new cove at 19 restrictions ahead of the holidays. slide pictures from westminster. now they'll vote in the coming hours. earlier i select committee question scientists about the only current variance hold brennan with mo, from london situation of a moment. is that the official figures appear to be lagging behind what the health authorities estimate, the real figures are at the moment come to the most recent figures of yesterday either and 55000 new to run.