for example, is only a month and a half global experts in discussion. tell us something about the impact on the climate change is having all the fathers that you worked with. voices from different corners. when the wells are empty, people fight for programs that open your eyes to an alternative. you either have collage i have in my voice on al jazeera ah, if we end in equity, we end the pandemic. global health leaders take aim of wealthy nations vaccinating people for a 3rd time while all may crohn's brides and millions left without their 1st job. ah, hello, i'm sorry, i'm noisy in london,

you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. i feel to the city, but it doesn't mean that i'm going to pry the whole the long. that loaner chicken of sky hotels, al jazeera, she's defiant as her husband is jailed in the latest crack down on the opposition in bella rose allegations that workers were kept in a kentucky factory as a deadly tornado. poor down boss who rush johan, excuse me, urgency this, come out, provided 85 percent of the principles of age should see. now it's virtually empty and we'll explain why it could be a major flash point between russia and ukraine. ah, hello, welcome to the program. our top story. world health organization is criticized

wealthy countries for offering vaccine boosters to their citizens, while millions of people around the world yet to have their 1st dose. it comes as there are warnings, the omicron variance of the corona virus is spreading as an unprecedented right here in the u. k. infections and now doubling every 2 days. algae. there is pull brennan, reports on this now from london. in europe, the jobs are going into people's arms as fast as they can be unpacked. more than half a 1000000 booster shots were administered in the u. k. in just one day. fall short of the 1000000 a day, the government's aiming for. but the race to reinforce immunity is gathering pace. it's the extraordinary infectiousness of the on the con variant though, which is really worrying global scientists and health experts. we have learned by now that we underestimate this bias at our pedal. even if or me cron does cause less severe, this is the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared. health

systems in the u. k. amok. on cases now doubling every 2 days and with more than 200000 possibly infected every day, the number could pass a 1000000 within a week, long queues again at vaccination centers, up and down the u. k. as the government's booster jap program continues apace with the dilemma facing the politicians on that side of the river is whether the jobs alone will be enough to slow the progress of the arm across variance. scientists have never seen. never seen a coven 19 very as capable of spreading so rapidly. so we have to look at what we can do to slow only cons. advance down. that level of alarm was reinforced in testimony to a u. k. parliamentary committee. we are concerned with the enlarge volume of individuals who are being infected every day in the population. that we are going to have a very difficult for weeks ahead with cases in the community,

which will of course, cause individuals to need to still work in school. and then for those cases, to transfer into admissions office, the world health organization has, again raised the issue of vaccine hoarding and warned the world's wealthy nations that giving boosters to low risk groups while others are yet to have even one dose of vaccine is dangerous. w, joe is not against boosters. we are against inequity. if we end in equity, we end the pandemic when it comes to deciding which options to reduce the infection rate. the advice from the w h o. do it all, pull brennan, al jazeera, london, or british m. p. 's are voting on the introduction of new corona virus measures. in england, in the past couple of minutes, they approve the use of coven passes to enter night clubs and other venues. regulations making face mosques,

compulsory most indoor settings have been approved, and these also unanimously approved changing the rules so that those who have been vaccinated who come into contact with suspected only crohn cases, no longer have to self isolate by municipal johnson's plan. also includes the introduction of coven passports in some venues. he described the rules as balanced in proportionate light of the spread of the army cron variance. the debate is happening a difficult time for prominent bars. johnson as questions mount over downing street policies during last year is locked down and that's really continuing to plague his leadership. what analysis of data from south africa is given the 1st indication of how well the pfizer vaccination performs against the mac on variance . it appears to support indications, it's more easily transmissible, but not necessarily more severe in symptoms. 7 in 10 people who had 2 shots avoided

being admitted to hospital author the very emerged, but it was down on more than 9 and 10 in the last wave of delta infections. the data from south africa, the largest private health insurer also showed that protection from catching the virus has slumped from 80 percent. it now offered just 33 percent protection. the study was based on more than 211000 positive test results. 78000 were attributed to me crohn, but those cases were not confirmed. meanwhile, pfizer says it's covered 19 pillars, almost 90 percent effective in preventing death. all spittle admissions and high risk people. the drug known as pax, livid, was tested on the, on vaccinated that must be given within 3 days of symptoms appearing. pfizer says the drug does remain effective against the only con variant. what president of the democratic republic of congo is urging people to get vaccinated as infection sore across the country. health officials have now confirmed cases of the only con

barrington nation with one of the world's lowest vaccination rates. it's administered close to a quarter of a 1000000 doses that's only enough to fully vaccinated point one percent of the population or cases in the democratic republic of congo 1st peaked in june 2021 with more than 9000 in a day. but testing rates are low and the number of confirmed cases will be lower than the true number of infections. they dropped right down again by september and stayed low until last week when there was a sudden jump of hundreds of new cases. alpha officials have described the rise is exponential and a key sign of the start of a 4th wave. i'll just there is malcolm web is following developments from nairobi and explains why the congress government is struggling to contain infections. firstly, the, the reason that affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses. which countries of course,

almost all of the available. this is at 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. but say the congo 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 who themselves were very slow to publicly take the dose of the vaccine when the 1st donations that congo received the 3000000 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 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, which explains why the vaccine rate is indeed very far behind other countries. ah, the x are better rational position to fet, non a chicken sky, or is toll now to 0. she's devastated after husband was sentenced to 18 years in prison, said hey, chicken who's ski was found guilty of organizing mass on rest and inciting, social hatred, charges he denies. he was detained. a protest last may be prepared to run against alexander lucas shanker. in a presidential election, his wife who ran in his place says she is still shocked. despite preparing herself

for the verdict, i was prepared for that. i should top sentence, but it doesn't affect. it was really stressful for me and to the whole day because i feel to the stated by it doesn't mean that i'm going to cry the whole day long. i understand that only difficult every day job united job, you'll make a future release possible who my husband and hundreds, thousands offer a bill or since well to how new sky has been handed, one of the longest jailed times in modern bell. russian history is supposed to say the charges were fabricated and politically motivated of follow more than a year of massive protests against president lucas shanker. many of the demonstrations ended with violent police. crackdowns, last year's election has been globally condemned, is fraudulent, but sit on it, you can of sky. it says her focus is now on the couples. children,

my children don't know about the sentence and i'm not going to tell them my, my younger daughter, she's 6 she receives present late, was from her daddy thinking that he's on a business trip. my oldest son live and understands where his father. but i didn't want to ruin his hopes because i honestly believed that we'd be able to meet now be there, did he and the nearest future haitian authority and saying at least 60 people have been killed. off to a petrol truck exploded. dozens of others were injured in the blast. in the city of capitation, several houses reportedly caught fire as a result of the explosion. it's for the truck over turn, while being driven around midnight local time. a government declared 3 days of morning. it's the latest disaster to strike haiti this year after the president was assassinated and an earthquake killed move in 2000 people. you found an

opposition leader bobby wine is accused police of assaulting his party members and placing him under house house arrest again out of the campaign rally for local election. he says police and military officers of bard him from leaving his home in mcgarr and north of the capital camp parlor pop. star term politician came 2nd. january's election, which returned the present. urine was 70 to power for 6 term vote. was marked by a crackdown on opposition figures a governor of the us state of kentucky says it could take a week to know exactly how many people were killed in friday's tornadoes. so far, at least $88.00 people are known to have died across 5 states, including $74.00 in kentucky alone. more than a 100 people are still unaccounted for. workers volunteers, and members of the national guard have been searching for survivors and looking for bodies. let's go live now to hide, jocasta, who's in mayfield,

kentucky where a candle factory actually collapsed and there were many people inside. and now heidi come these rather shocking allegations that employees were threatened with firing. if they were to, to try and leave before the tornado hit. that's right. now, this is the candle factory here where 8 bodies were pulled out of the rubble, the company spokesperson for mayfield. consumer products has that all remaining missing workers have been accounted for. and the governor of kentucky said that can, can they have, are dogs here have not indicated further findings. so he is cautiously optimistic that there are no more vision in this site. but there are allegations that the state of kentucky will be investigating, as in the case of any workplace, they tallies when this super cell of storm hit on late friday night here in

kentucky. inside the now level, the building were a $110.00 workers. now the way this an unfolded was there was initially a false alarm, another tornado warning earlier in the night. and many of the workers afterwards, voice concern and allegedly wanted to go home, but were told they say by their managers, that they could not, that they could be fired if they did. so this is an allegation that the owners of make your consumer products denies, but it is something again that will be investigated now talking to people who live here in a field. this is a very rural community. there aren't that many employment options and this place has been described as sort of a last resort type of job where people here. so again, a lot of allegations to be looked into, but also a lot of stories of iraq rescued when that happened. and that catastrophic storm

hit neighbors helping each other workers, even inmate's from a nearby jail. that were part of a program that they were working inside the candle factory. they also helped people pull people out of this trouble alive. mariam now a major federal disaster already been declared in kentucky and the governor has said that the number of the casualty tow won't be known for many weeks because the level of destruction people now who have survived in desperate need of food, water, and shelter. how is the relief operation going? that's right, it is very painstaking in that when you just drive through this devastation zone, it is unimaginable how they have to go from house to house. there are thousands of homes and businesses that have been leveled. yes, we find some rescuers, some, some cleaning crews in some communities, but others it's, it's still a ghost town because such is the great challenge i had here. there is still no

electricity here in mayfield. there is no running water. and so there's also concern for those thousands of displaced families where they will go, especially at night here when the temperature drops below freezing and there is no heat. now, the community has certainly come together with donations and volunteers. president joe biden is also expected to be visiting here in person tomorrow to assess the damage. but this is something that is going to take not just months to recover marion, but perhaps years for these communities that were essentially wiped away by the superstore. thank you very much. id, joe castro, 20th staff from mayfield, kentucky. watching al jazeera life from london still have for you on the program. america's top diplomat goes on a tour of the asia pacific controls a furious response from china. ought to stay. the aunt takes ever no new dates, while the impact of climate change includes rain that has only ever been snow.

ah. with a warm surge of air. hello everyone, that's for the united kingdom in to the low countries central portions of europe as well. we've got a bit more thicker cloud cover there, so that's put in a bit of a cap on those temperatures. but enjoy it while you can. here's the 3 day forecast for london. this temperatures fall to below average. by the time we had toward the end of the week, want to take you where most of the action is right now. round the g and the eastern med, a lot of activity here. really soggy weather pattern, his wall. so it stumbles, going to be locked into this rainy pattern for the next few days. windy on wednesday could see those gus, about 40 to 50 kilometers per hour, was found. we go, things are fairly calm across. so the balkans italy temperature is

a bit lower here, a bell gray just a high of 2 degrees and we have that activity around those eastern shores of the black sea. next stop, iberia and things are drying out nicely here across northern areas of spain, the southwest of france, where we have seen some pretty extreme flooding a high of 15 degrees in lisbon. on wednesday. we're going to in this weather report in north africa. right now we're in a, stretching all the way from algiers, right? through to cairo. temperatures are below average and we got that winds coming off the mediterranean. so that's limiting your temperature. that sure weather update see later. ah, ah, co cater culture of knowledge, openness, pluralism, world want us to reward better to excellence and encourage creativity. the shape tomato wants a translation and international understanding was formed to promote translation and

owner translators, and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bones of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and world coaches. lulu lou ah, welcome back. main stories now. well, health organization is criticized wealthy countries for offering vaccine boosters to that citizens all millions around the world a yet to have their 1st dose, husband of the exile of better rational position. he does that on a chicken off scholar has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. said, hey, dick, i knew sky was found guilty of organizing mass on rest and inciting,

social hatred. the governor of the usa, of kentucky says it could take a week to know exactly how many people were killed off to friday's tornadoes. so far east, 88 people and i to have died. asia pacific region needs to be free of coercion in a val reference to china. and c, blinking is an indonesia on the 1st leg of the tour of southeast asia. he's trying to count to the influence of china, which is advanced its interest in the resource rich region in recent years. laurence louis has more on this now from quality lumper. the u. s. his trying to reset his relations in southeast 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 that the u. s. will work with its allies and partners 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 strengths to punish countries with policies. it disagrees with, and china laying claims to large parts of the south china sea countries across the region. want this behavior to change. we do to that's why we're determined to ensure freedom of 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. think and 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 it's ties in the region, it has to have an effect his economic strategy and lincoln seemed to acknowledge this. in his speech, things the us will identify opportunities for

u. s. companies to operate here, as well as for more foreign direct investment to flow into the region. the washington d. c. c. government is suing too far, right groups involved in the storming of the u. s. capital on january 6th. it's filed a civil lawsuit against the organizations known as proud boys and the old keepers. they want to recover the cost of the police deployment on the day, as well as medical and paid leave expenses and at damages for assault and emotional distress. it is of the 6 golf corp counsel states have gathered in saudi arabia for their annual summit. the iran nuclear talks. corona virus pandemic, and the taliban takeover in afghanistan. top the agenda in riyadh. the final statement from the talks emphasized need for unity to combat all threats. a group consists of saudi arabia, cat, bahrain, kuwait, oman, and the united arab emirates is the 1st meeting since the end of the blockade on

cat are in january. talks ongoing in vienna, in an attempt to save the 2015 nuclear deal under which iran agreed to limits nuclear program and exchange for sanctions relief. the countries nuclear chief, as rejecting demands by the ends, international atomic energy agency to gain access to one of its sites for inspection mobile foreclosure. oh, the secure, the talks we had with the un nuclear watchdog chief, was centered on the allegations. in addition to the issue of garage nuclear facility were still negotiating these issues, which are governed by other political considerations, let alone the psychological aspects under the maximum pressure policy issue of carriage facilities should be resolved within a broader package. that includes other allegations that will to reco temperatures have been reported in the arctic circle in more warring evidence of climate change . first was the hottest stay ever known there at 38 degrees celsius in russian town

in june last year. that's 18 degrees higher than the monthly average was followed by the warmest arctic aut him. us scientists have also reported the 1st to have a rainfall at summit station high on the greenland ice sheet, where it's so cold that precipitation usually falls only a snow. the amount of thick sea ice which helps regulate see, and ad temperatures was the 2nd lowest since records began. and scientific, a growing population of beavers could be a problem because building dams can help for palmer frost. though it's l. k as an environmental professor, an author and also the founder and president of the institute for governance and sustainable development. he says, this is a problem for the whole world. 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 systems value to all the news concerns about possible russian invasion of ukraine haven't gone away, but water supply could be the next flash point between the 2 countries. decades. the north crimea canal in southern ukraine supply crimea with more than 80 percent of its water that stopped in 2014 off to russia antics the peninsula. that means the region is now facing a di, a water shortage made worse by an influx of troops. and as charles stratford reports from cologne check, ukraine says the tops will only be opened when russia leaves. the land is flat

and bleak as you look towards crimea. the peninsula unexpired 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

street 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 denise river. the canal is 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 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 arrived 70 year old live off as relatives on the peninsula. she hasn't seen them the 6 years. it is literally cooked over delivered asa as a war can separate a child from its mother. it can be so difficult to cross to crimea, the young but jobless on this side because they can't work at the plant any more. my deceased husband work there, my son worked there, we could afford neath and decent for all that changed when crimea was closed. the criminal denies it's planning to invade the ukrainian mainland, but securing water. if a crime is estimated to point 4000000 people, the majority of whom are russian means that may change. charged off of al jazeera colon shook sudden ukraine. or the century after british troops stole that trash at

the people of nigeria is daneen city. have a reason to celebrate to our wax known as benito bronze is heading home and they've received a royal welcome. andrew chappelle has mal signing on behalf of his people. the traditional ruler of the kingdom of benign puts pen to paper to write a historic wow. ah, you know, with my voice. oh, which will move from his brothers in nigeria, president mohammed, you bihari has issued a directive to his government. oh ha. ah . 6 a bronze, cockrell and a king's boast,

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 chappelle al jazeera ah look at the main stories now. the world health organization is criticized wealthy nations, offering vaccine boosters to their citizens, while millions around the world are yet to have their 1st dose groups. director general says the pandemic is going to continue until vaccines are equally distributed around the world. there are warnings the army con, very is now spreading at an unprecedented rate. army cronies.