they were in the center taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's, defense minister belie the me to pay the, you know, said the armed forces were applied to the friends that come through from the regular groups that added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at that border with be investigated. lou, this is al jazeera. ah. hello, i'm adrian said again. this is louise. i'll live from doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. surely we have learned by now that we underestimate this by it or set out perio, the world health organization to live as a reality. check over all the chrome wanting that. even if the coven 19 period is

mild, it could still overwhelm unprepared health systems. we continue our white russian opposition leader svetlana chicken of sky tolls. i'll just say that she won't be intimidated into silence after husband's jail for 18 years. and a tech on one is an attack on all gulf arab leaders, stress cohesion of the summit. after mending a deep rift blocked canal, that solving crimea of water are becoming the latest flash point between you crate and russia. and i'm sorry, how much would the sports news live from our fi, fi of cub studio on the bill? how will the front i just see night is next? premier league game has been postponed due to coven my teen outbreak at the club. english football is dealing with the record number of cases. ah,

ah! we begin with the electron various corona virus, which the world health organization says it's spreading faster than any strain before is the w. a chose chief says that it would be a mistake not to worry so much about the new variant, just because there are indications that its symptoms are less severe. 77 countries have no reported cases of army kron. and the reality is that army cronies probably in most countries, even if it hasn't been detected yet, all micron is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. we're concerned that people are dismissing army chron micron as mild. surely. we have len, bye, and now that we underestimate this virus at our peril, even if our micron does cause less severe diseases,

the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared health systems around the world. countless countries are seeing cove at 19 infections and deaths. wising again to record numbers. the delta very remains for the moments, the dominant australian most places politicians in the u. k. one of the countries was hit by the pandemic, a considering whether to re impose instructions that they hoped were a thing of the past. let's go live now to london houses here as port brennan is across all of these developments, paul, the world health organization says then the on the kron variance spreading out an unprecedented rate. it's also concerned about vaccine inequity. yeah, on the rates, aiden, i think this is the issue that it's really concerning everybody around the world and it's the infectiousness of omicron, even if on average the symptoms create a caused by the alma kron variance are mild. there is still going to be a proportion, a percentage of people who need hospitalization. and given the sheer scale that

we're seeing of people who are being infected with the honor chron variance, then clearly there's going to be a large number of people who need hospitalization. and doctor ted ross was very clear to say that those countries which have unprepared health systems. and even frankly, those with prepared health systems are likely to be overwhelmed. the other thing that he touched on in his address to that news conference was the concept of vaccine inequity. he said, look, it's almost wrong that vaccines are being given to people who are at low risk of developing serious problems. boosters have been given to populations which have already received to japs and yet other countries hadn't had their 1st jobs. yet he highlighted $41.00 countries where the vaccination rates of less than 10 percent. and he said that if we end inequity, we can end the pandemic. meanwhile, poll there in the u. k, where parliament is debating corona virus measures of the country's recorded it's

worst daily infection rates since january. and these are just the official numbers as well. i mean, we know 59000 official new infections in the last 24 hours and they are infections which have been confirmed by reported lateral flow tests or confirmed by p c r t s . the other concerning total is the estimated 200000 new infections in the last 24 hours. and that's an estimation by the u. k. health security agency. now, with a micron having a, a doubling rate of every 2 days that 200000 could become 400000 the next 2 days, 800000 in 2 days after that and more than a 1000000 within a week, you can see how the concern is really raised, what's happening in parliament, the at the moment and with a vote do in the next hour, is pot politicians to sit deciding how best to tackle it. and there is some dispute within the ruling conservative party about the government's plans for extra restrictions. specifically about the idea of vaccine certification that people will

need to show that they've either been double jabbed or negative tests in order to go to a cafe or a restaurant. for example, there's a hard core of conservative m. p 's who are objecting to this on principle. i think the rebellion won't get traction. it certainly won't defeat the government because the opposition labor party is going to support the government motion on this. but it is a bit of a bloody nose for the government, and it's also an indication that there are pockets of resistance. despite the, the apparently overwhelming science al jazeera is paul brunner reporting live from london. paul, many facts. the south african medical research council has released its 1st study into the omicron strain. the data was gathered in the 1st 3 weeks, but the very end appeared in south africa. it found that 2 doses of fires, us vaccine provide 33 percent protection against infection from omicron, but 70 said a 70 percent protection against hospitalization. the inference being that while on the chronic,

perhaps more easily transmissible it isn't necessarily more potent or severe, should be up. mattie is the director of the vaccines and infectious diseases analytics research unit. he explains what exactly they know about on the chrome. what did you know, but on the quantity of empty body, the base of it comes as little surprise that vaccine doesn't protect against infection that around with or death to percent point estimate. i infected with another study from the united kingdom reach us all to release yesterday for to fly the vaccine as well as with any of it see him which showed very little protection against symptom at the tone of that smile. in this, after about 2 to 5 weeks, the of the people at seafood i was just over that seen by grand diety, sued a 3rd dose of the vaccine. i that increase the effectiveness against me for i'm wrong good of you. jennifer, on 75. against mildly, are in south africa with a 70 percent protection against severe disease. and that is most welcome. if we're trying to prevent infections,

we're going to be chasing our tail for dining mario because. busy the virus is going to come to you imitating. we're probably going to punching, experiencing anybody, erase obedience even accepting through that i was in betsy. but if we try to prevent severe disease and death, we've actually blended to that place. definitely is that seems as well as community repass, metro infection is actually assisting in protecting against severe disease and death death. right. and if else because asian bright in south africa right now, is one dim compared to what it was at a time going to delta v and dominate that. and the reason for that is the mother of the immune system, known as cell mediate entity, which is the remaining relatively infect, despite the applications, if our cutting into violence and death film you did that minute 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 other left, a goal is protection against of yet disease and death by the end, pretending that through the never sustainable it's to lucia to be able to protect

against infection. here as a secretary of state, antony blinkin says the conviction of the husband of baylor bruce's opposition leader was clearly politically motivated. he says, the harsh repression of st. hey, ticklish k and other opposition figures must end germany on the eve of also condemned the verdict. they can of ski was sentenced 18 years in prison for organizing mass on rest at inciting social hatred. he's been detained since last year. his wife's fet, lana, took enough sky round in his place in the 2020 presidential election will. earlier i spoke of svetlana in brussels, she said that she won't give up fighting for her husband at others wrongly detained in belarus. i was sure that i was prepared for such a tough sentence but doesn't have clicked. it was really stressful for me and the whole dave was i feel the stated by that it doesn't mean that i'm going to

cry the whole day long and defended only difficult, everyday job. united job will make a future release possible for my husband and hundreds, thousands, awfully bill or since have you been able to speak to your husband since the verdict or even during the trial last time i talked to him 14 months ago, the form and then the can communicate all the way up or sent small messages about children. i bought one dinner thinks to him, and his mother is the old woman and she was in prison today. she wasn't allowed in, but of course she's afraid that she will be able to see her son in law. i'm really sorry that i can't hardly talk show, because i'm in different country. my children don't know about the sentence

and i'm not going to tell them my younger daughter. she's 6, she receives presence, and the late was from godaddy. i think in the to some business trip. my oldest son live and understand the way his father. but i didn't want to ruin his hopes because i honestly believe to be able to meet the there. did he in the future? what do you intend to do now? atlanta? no. be continued all white. there is snow like a magician bottom. you can dress and you know, miracle happen and we will get rid of dictatorship. it's every day hot top joe, you have every day makes most tips or, you know, on the ground and on the international and really not to close the deal for really so why would be left person. so i'm continuing to be active up in democratic

countries. updated information about barrels region. european countries tool worked together with the usa, united kingdom, to put pressure, create multiple forms of pressure on the regime economically. politically, i will communicate to continue to compete with people on the ground version them to step into work and went into plan a victory and so on. it's invisible, but every day job it feel boss to get rid of this regime. governor of the state of kentucky says that it could take a week or more to know exactly how many people died and fridays tornadoes. so far, 88 people are known to have died across 5 states. more than 100 people though still unaccounted for. workers volunteers, members of the national guard, have been searching for survivors. looking for bodies al jazeera, heidi joe castro reports now from dawson,

springs kentucky. the worst hit state. the storm is cause more than 30 tornadoes. the biggest one perhaps more than one kilometer in width and traveling on the ground for more than 300 kilometers and love, this is what it left behind. this is dawson springs kentucky. another hard hit community, once a picturesque valley town with home surrounding it. now you can see it's just a gash in the earth. and it is difficult to imagine how the people who once lived here survived this event. we have overturn vehicles. the people fled from this home so quickly. you can see incredibly, the storm left the clothes still hang on the, on their hairs in inside the closet, but the rest of the home is utterly destroyed. this home has already been searched over by the rescue worker. you can see that by the green sign next to the door, the number on top seeing how many people were rescue the number on the bottom. in case there were any bodies found in this home 0 on both counts. meaning the people

got out of here on their own and are live. but this is just one of the thousands of homes that have been leveled because of the storm. and that search and rescue effort continues today with national guard troops and others on the ground going through that painstaking work. scientists to put out another report card on the arctic saying that it should ring more alarm bells about our warming planet. the finding show last year, summer was the longest snow free period in the arctic eurasia region in more than 20 years. and it was the lowest recorded sea ice volume in a decade. all of this is crucial because changes in the arctic impact weather climate and the ocean resources worldwide will. earlier on tuesday, the un confirmed a new record temperature in the arctic over the summer when a siberian town saw 38 degrees celsius. the world meteorological organisation says the arctic is heating up more than twice the global average will satellites keep

track of each melt season from 1981 to 2010. this was the median ice ice edge, the area still frozen at the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. last year had the 2nd lowest amount of ice cover in the satellite record. that level of melting has enormous effects on permafrost along the arctic coast lines. though it zilkey is president of the institute for governance and sustainable development in washington dc. he thinks the arctic report card needs to shift its focus to solutions. what happens in the arctic does not stay in the arctic. there are tele connections from that part of the world throughout the global weather system. and the arctic is right now losing its reflective sea ice. and that is adding a tremendous amount of additional solar radiation to the global weather system. when we lose the rest of that sea eyes, which is

a great white shield reflecting heat back in the safe and the space safely, we'll add the equivalent of 25 years worth of warming. and that will be stabilize the entire global system. so we need to go from this great report cards that the u . s. is put out on the arctic every year for the last 16 years to a report card that also includes solutions. what should we be doing to save the arctic and thus save the global weather system? and there are strategies. but the 1st thing we need to do is slam on the brakes are global warming. and this means cutting methane. this is the super pollutant and the single biggest and fastest way to slow warming in the world. if you cut the other super pollutants which include the hfc refrigerants,

black carbon and trump is very goes on. that package can cut the rate of arctic warming by 2 thirds is some of what we have coming up on the program signed, sealed, and celebrated the traditional ruler of an old african kingdom formalized as the return of stolen treasures at a post mortem study on former nfl player phillip adams finally had a brain disease possibly caused by hits taken on the field. ah, a danish fuel supplier and c o have been convicted of selling jet fuel to serious government bunker holding sold a total of $172000.00 tons of fuel to syria. worth around $101000000000.00. a danish court says the company is guilty of breaking sanctions, imposed by the european union in 2011 at the start of the civil war in syria. the gulf corporation council as finished its summit in saudi arabia with leaders

declaring that an attack on one member is an attack on all. the gcc has stressed cohesion after mending a deep rift and at a time of regional concern over iran, their last meeting held in january. so the end of the blockade of cutter after 3 and a half years, julius from jetta in saudi arabia is colored by taffy. professor of communication that our final university is also a columnist, the saudi newspaper on. no har, good to have you with us. professor has a new era of pragmatism come over the g, c. c. are they really that united? i believe so until the crown been so the base went out to get in each country one by one days before the summit. that's held consolidated stand. i'm concept of

what's going on and i'm the wards around us. sufficiently visual trish to our security and be independent. what do they see? the the, the threats coming from the summit of course coincides with the ongoing talks between iran and world powers aimed at salvaging the the nuclear agreement cited 20153 of the gulf states. i'm on q 8 and casa, have maintained ties with 10, ron. the others have now the other united now, in their approach to iran. i hope so. i mean, we don't know what happened to be behind close doors. communicate all the statement came out so that each member of this council understand where the threat comes from. there is no other straight

then from iran at the moment. and of course it's militia around asia. and especially the evan has belie, independent. i was going to ask you about yemen. how united are they in their approach to the war atm? and at the moment the stuff is clear because all these countries supported the initiative for b, m and, and they all condemned the tax on the on many use themselves. and they also supported you and resolution security council resolution to do a 16 and all the initiatives, including the gulf initiative to end the war in yemen. so i don't see

a difference except that some countries have kind of relations with who would you like and they are using visualizations to bring them to the table that goes until the table add to the be set negotiation. so residents of the golf can a place benefit from a better security environment. following this summit. for that reason you do, david a success i hope so. there is a defense fact in training. there is unite unified center military center, andrea and soon we will have a renewal for training manual for eastern in the area between all the security forces, a 6 camp state. so it seems that they are moving in this direction. they want

to sort of defy their corporation where they're in a security or a 30, you know, security or not. no, let us not forget that it was here for 2 days ago and they met with all the point of ministers and it are supporting the security of the states. so there is kind of unify out stand against all the threats, especially from me. and i'm really good to talk to professor many thanks indeed for being with us professor, kind of. but after that, the united arab emirates has told me you ask that it's suspending talks on a $23000000000.00 deal to buy f $35.00 fighter jets. wall street journal reported that the emerald, he's wanted to drop the deal because of stringent security requirements. washington

that they had laid out against chinese espionage. there's been tension between the u. e and the u. s. over adobe's growing corporation with aging access to a water canal is adding to tension between ukraine and russia. for decades, the north crimea canal in southern ukraine supplied most of the peninsulas water. but that stopped in 2014, when russia annexed crimea. and it's now facing a di, a water shortage. so it could turn into yet another flash point between the 2 countries to 0 child stratford reports now from calon. chuck in ukraine. bland is flat and bleak. if 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 built a sandbag dam 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 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. only sphere, the russian army may be planning to push nor to take control of the canals, pulse of the deeper 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 in, 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 the territory without that land access. and that, of course, would mean, for example, taking over key port cities like commodity all poll. so that's a huge strategic land, grub, crumbling signposts, or reminder of life before the collapse of the soviet union is bast, soviet built industrial plants is in russian control territory. many ukrainians used to work there but left when the russian military arrive. 70 year old laval as relatives on the peninsula. she hasn't seen them. the 6 years. that is latino,

cuz over the live married asset, a, 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 neath and decent fuller. all the changed when the crimea was closed. the kremlin denies its planning to invade the ukrainian mainland, but securing water for crime is estimated 2400000 people. the majority of whom are russian means that may change. charles, dr. al jazeera colon shook sudden ukraine. alexey herana is a professor of comparative politics and care, mostly universe academy, rather and head all research at the democratic initiatives foundation. he joins us now. live a vice guy from key of good to have you with us, a professor who is at fault here. russia or ukraine?

susan, who was at fault, russia or ukraine, look ok. there was a peaceful ukraine until 2014 russia next crania, as you rightly pointed out, at the end, in, according to, according to international law that russia takes all 0 responsibility foods. boeing in civil case by directory. moreover, russia not on q by the standard today, but also and next and z declare that this is a part of the russian federation. so basically they couldn't been national law. they have all the responsibility and not, not ukraine. i would like also to point out said zone majority of a new habit as and the crash sions. but it is a native cranium as minority who are sunni muslim and crimea,

that does we're and asked strongly against annexation of crimea by russia. and when cranium does us, should ukraine continue to supply and water to crania crimea, and that leaves their zayus saying no because it's kind of left, but it's a dual fuel you crave to pressure the ration aggression. so that's important to understand. and unfortunately, after the annexation of crimea, russia increased the military presence in crimea. the problem is not that there's no enough water in creamy as it is enough water for that population. back to russia actually transformed gray mia into a huge military base which includes us and carry as which may

carry nuclear weapons. so it's really easy as austin. so professor for k b a. professor, how does this get resolved? how it can be dissolved at this point. again, according to international law, raso shoot, i withdrew from craig, mia, bottom because portal is playing imperialist game. it's very difficult to imagine. so the question how to resolve with how to resolve what the supply is? the question to rational supply water from russia. but what international community does should do, crania now is on the sanctions of in the national community. there's no investments from the vest from turkey from other countries because crania

is on the economic sanctions. it's not ukraine, which, but it uses sanctions. it's because of the ration the gresham and then the national community should here in bout zillow, civilians, ukrainian civilians and cranium to us who remain in kind of mia and who are suffering from the persecution of the russian ascetic dead in state. many cry meals, 1st of all, cranium to us are now in prison. and they are, inc, i'm young reasons, but also in rational broker. so irrational reasons that are many cranium to us. and one of the scenes how to improve the sedation east to keep international attention to what's going on in creamier regarding human eyes, their eyes of cranium to us and to prevent zuraw. so military escalation,

including the russia trying to find an excuse to.