and salt, tick sanctuary on al jazeera, a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of on networks journalists on al jazeera. ah, if we end in equity, we end the pandemic. global. healthily does take aim of wealthy nations vaccinating people for a 3rd time while armico on the con spreads and millions left without their fuss. jap. ah, i'm mariam nemiah's in london in watching out his era. also coming up on the program. i feel to the stated by it doesn't mean that i'm going to cry the whole day long. sell on a chicken of sky hotels, al jazeera,

she's defiant as her husband is jailed in the latest crack down on the opposition in better with this allegations that work as were captain, a kentucky factory, as a deadly tornado or down also before rush johan ex crimea, in 2000 the fuji this canal provide is up to 85 percent of the prince of his water needs. should see now, it's virtually empty. we'll explain why it could be a major flash point between russia and ukraine. ah, welcome to the program, our top story. world health organization is criticized wealthy nations, offering vaccine boosters to their citizens, while millions of people around the world a yet to have their 1st dose. it comes as there are warnings. the omicron variant

is spreading at an unprecedented rate. here in the u. k. infections are now doubling every 2 days out. there is a whole brand and 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 mouth that we underestimate this virus at our podium. even if or me cron does cause less severe diseases. the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems. in the u. k. m, a kron cases and are 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 vaccinations, 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 in large volume of individuals who are being infected every day in the population. that we're going to have a very difficult 4 weeks ahead with cases in the community, which will of course, cause individual's needs stale work and school. and then after there's 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 in the past few hours, british empties of approved new restrictions in england to cut the spread of current of virus infections. but they found considerable opposition from promise of boris johnson's own party. a majority of and peace voted to meet face coverings, compulsory and most indoor settings. they also approved changes to the rules on cell fi installation, and cobit passes will be introduced for large venues. 5 minutes that describes the plan is balanced and proportionate in light of the new on the chrome variant. it also left or is johnson with a big headache,

$98.00 of his m. p. 's voted against his plan, for machination passes to enter, the new smaller numbers rebelled on 3 other votes. it's the largest number of his own party to vote against him as prime minister and suggest a big dent in his authority after a bruising couple of weeks, which have seen him criticized of alleged downing street rule breaking, will be on our ali as a communications adviser informer, a to u. k. cabinet minister, he says, the scale of the rebellion is a cause for concern. it is the say, the largest rebellion since last december, when he already had 55 mph rebel against him, with the close to double that number rebels and the thing, but will be worrying number 10. and the government, which the most is the breadth of the scale of this rebellion we've got right wing, tory and peas all the way through to jerry. we call been on the left and it just shows that there is a rebellion against against the government across

a low spot. spectrum's, all different factions within the tory party. you voted against this, and i think it's going to be a fairly sweet. let's not brochure. and some of his team tonight, the message, the variables of sense is that they want the government to listen to them. i think there is a feeling amongst the tory back benches that actually we're going to see majority bars. johnson hasn't really been listening to them. and that is obviously going to then impact his thinking as we, as we do with this new on the chrome variance. so i do think that there's going to be a change in tact. i think it's going to be a more collegiate approach to governing will the analysis of data from south africa is given the 1st indication of how well the pfizer vaccine is performing against the on the chrome variant. it appears to support indications. it's more easily transmissible. but not necessarily more severe in symptoms. 7 in 10 people who have had 2 shots avoid it, being admitted to hospital off to the very and emerged. this was down on more than 9 in 10 in the last wave of delta infections. data from south africa's largest

private health ensure also showed that predict protection from catching the virus had slumped from 80 percent. now offer just 33 percent. meanwhile, pfizer says it's covered 19 pill is almost 90 percent effective in preventing death or hospital admissions and high risk people. the drug known as plaques, livid was tested on on vaccinated people. it must be given within 3 days of symptoms emerging. pfizer says the drug does remain effective against the on the chron variant, are elsewhere the president of the democratic republic of congo is urging people to get vaccinated as infection. sore across the country. health officials are now confirmed cases of on the ground in the nation with one of the world's lowest vaccination rates. it's administered close to a quarter of a 1000000 doses, but this is only enough to have fully vaccinated point one percent of the population. cases in the d. r. c 1st peaked in june 2021 with more than 9000 in

a day. but testing rates low in the number of confirmed cases will be lower than the actual 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. health officials have described the rise as exponential and a key sign of the start of a 4th wave of the virus were algae. there is malcolm web is following these developments from nairobi and explains why the congolese government is struggling to contain the infections. firstly, the, the reason affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses rich countries, of course only all the available 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 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, 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. now, the development several companies of suspended operations in one of china's biggest and busiest manufacturing jobs as authorities try to contain a corona virus outbreak. their child young province is reported more than 217 locally transmitted infections in a days more than 50000 people are in quarantine, and some domestic flights have been suspended. health officials on high alert to control in factions with less than 2 months until aging host the winter olympics. over 19 restrictions of being extended in the netherlands by minister mot. rota says some schools will close early than planned for the end of the break. in an effort to limit the sprites and infections restrictions that have been in place since november 28th will run into the new year. they include the closing of restaurants, bars, non essential stores and other public places from 5 pm to 5 am. moving

to or other headlines and the excel better rationale position. lead us foot on a chicken of sky or is told al jazeera, she is devastated off to husband was sentenced to 18 years in prison. sir. hey, dick. a new sky was found guilty of organizing mass on rest and inciting, social hatred, charges he denies. he was detained, a protest last may, as he prepared to run against alexander lucas shanker in the countries presidential election. his wife, who ran in his place, says she is still shocked despite preparing herself for the verdict. i was prepared for such a tough sentence, but it doesn't affect it was really stressful for me and to the whole div course i feel to the stated by it doesn't mean that i'm going to cry the whole day long. i understand it only difficult every day job united job you'll make a future release possible who my husband and hundreds thousands offer. a better sense

to how new ski has been handed, one of the longest jell times in modern better. russian history has support to say the charges were fabricated and politically motivated and follow more than a year of mass protest against president lucas shanker. many of the demonstrations ended with violent police crackdowns last year's election has been globally condemned, is fraudulent, but so not that on it to kind of sky is says, her focus is now on the couples. children, my children. i don't know about the sentence and i'm not going to tell them my, my younger daughter, she's 6. she receives presence latest from godaddy, thinking that he's on a business trip. my oldest son live and understands why his father. but i didn't want to ruin his hopes because i honestly believe that we'd be able to meet a be there. did he nearest future?

or now to latest developments in haiti, authority say more than 60 people have been killed after petrol truck exploded. dozens of others were injured in the blast and the city of cap patient. several houses reportedly caught fire as a result of the explosion. so a truck over ton while being driven around midnight local time. governments declared 3 days of morning. the latest disaster to strike haiti this year after the president was assassinated and an earthquake heal more than 2000 people. you got an opposition need. a bobby wine is accused police of assaulting his party members and placing him under house arrest again had a campaign rally for local election. he says police and military offices of bought him from leaving his home and mcgary north of the capital compiler. bob saw turn politician came 2nd, january's election, which returned president, our him, a 70 to power for 6. tom vote was marked by a crack down on opposition. figures you're watching. al jazeera ally from london

still add on the program to far right groups. a sued over january's insurrection at the u. s. capital and will tell you about the whole tuesday. the oxy has ever known you dates on the impact of climate change includes rain, there's only ever been snow. ah! hello, welcome to our world's weather report. all eyes on storm rise as it moves closer to the philippines. us 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, mud slides and line slides, a big concern, give you a bit of a wider look right now southeast asia. another area of concern is that the ne monsoon steering bouts of heavy rain into malaysia call them poor has a height 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 i want to 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 weather for new zealand. we'll talk about that in itself. 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 an extreme heat wave coming, northwestern portions of australia could hit 50 degrees in the days to come. and here is all of that. what weather in new zealand over the north island, but now starting to side into that south island. christ church has a high of 21 on wednesday. ah. story, that determination and joy. hey,

with janet you had a me a short documentary by african filmmakers from miami. wanda and cameron desert library. the young i think a direct on al jazeera lou . ah, welcome back. watching al jazeera life from london to look at the main stories. now, the world health organization is criticized wealthy countries, offering vaccine boosters to their citizens,

while millions of people around the world are yet to have their 1st dose, the husband of the exile, better russian opposition it as well on a chicken office, guire has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, sorry to kind of ski was found guilty of organizing mass on rest and citing social hatred and authorities in asia. same woman, 60 people have been killed offer petrol. truck exploded. dozens of others were injured in the past. in the city of cap patient, a governor of the u. s. state of kentucky says it could take a week to know exactly how many people were killed in friday's tornadoes. so far east $88.00 people are known to have died across 5 states, including $74.00 in kentucky alone. more than a 100 people are on accounted for workers, volunteers, and members of the national guard have been searching for survivors and looking for bodies. heidi joe castro brings us more from mayfield kentucky. this is the candle factory here where 8 bodies were pulled out of the rubble, the company,

spokes person for mayfield consumer products has said, 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 finding. so he is cautiously optimistic that there are no more 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 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 concerned and allegedly wanted to go home, but were told they say by their managers, that they could not, and they could be fired if they did. so this is an allegation that the owners of

may feel 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 jobs for people here. there are thousands of homes and businesses that have been leveled. yes, we find some rescuers, some, some cleaning crews and 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. a washington dc city government is suing too far,

right groups involved in the storming of the u. s. capital. on january 6. it's filed a civil lawsuit against the organizations known as the proud boys and the oath keepers . they want to recover the costs of the police deployment on that day, medical and paid leave expenses, as well as damages for salt and emotional distress. she harbor tansy has more in this from washington. it seems once again to be really going off of these groups financially. we saw the same law that's being invoked here in d. c. b infection. virginia, as, as regards to charlottesville, right, wing protest. all right. frankly, where they went off to the proud boys near keeper's and said, look, you know, you have to be financially responsible for the damage and the injury cause that's very similar to the argument we're getting this started actually, it's a lot of dates back to the 900 century, when you know, after the civil war went when, when these laws were kind of use to help break the ku klux kind of ease normally. so it's really about yeah,

i haven't get off to these groups financially. these groups also, many of you members who've been charged tables are facing federal criminal charges . but this is really, i think an attempt to try and try and neutralize some of these groups as they all seem to be making some sort of come back in some areas. certainly locally around the country. frances ambassador to the united nation says that talks to bring iran back to the historic 2015 nuclear deal. on nearing the end of the road. as pessimistic assessment came as the un security council discussed the slow process of the talks, which is still ongoing in vienna. we are working tirelessly and in good faith. we'll all partners in vienna to deliver a deal to saver and restore the juice buey iran as walk back up thought compromises reached after many weeks of challenging negotiations while at the same time presenting additional maximilian demands. we are nearing the point where

he runs escalation of its nuclear program. we left completely hollowed out the g. she buey. the diplomatic door is firmly open for iran to a dealer. now, iran, as to choose between the cups of the g shebaway, an affair, and comprehensive deal for the benefit of the iranian people and nation. iran's continued nuclear escalation means that we are rapidly reaching the end of the road . a crescent romeo lying on his voice from the united nations and yoke. the united nations also is express concern about ron's behavior, particularly the lack of access to nuclear facilities. that was something that karla talked about as well and how that makes it a challenge to i get a clear picture of actually what's happening there and to i returned a confidence to those involved in the deal. but i think the carlo and the united

nations attempting to be a calming voice in these discussions, calling on both sides to come back and i am sounding a bit more optimistic, frankly, than the europeans did. i speaking outside of the council chamber saying that the secretary general has been in contact with both united states and iran. and both have indicated that they're serious about returning to the deal. and or crimea canal in southern ukraine use is used to supply most of an inch as water or not stopped in 2014 after russia annex crimea. ukraine built dams on the canal saying it would only allow, was it to flow when russia and its occupation. as charles stratford reports from klein checked the area has now become a potential, flashpoint. 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 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. on the sphere, the russian army may be planning to push nor to take control of the canals and parts of the denice 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 the territory without the 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 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 has lucida cooked over the slippers. also 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 a comp work of the plump, any more. my deceased husband was there, my son worked there, liquid afford neath and decent food were all that changed when crimea was closed? the kremlin did noise it's planning to invade the ukrainian mainland, but securing water for climate as estimated. 2.4000000 people, the majority of whom are russian means that might change. charles trav at al jazeera colon shook sultan ukraine. malter is become the 1st european country to allow limited cultivation and possession of cannabis. the personal use off to

a vote in the parliament. the law allows adults to possess up to 7 grams of cannabis and grow up to full plans. smoking cannabis in public will remain against the law and there are fines of up to around $600.00. if any one is cool, consuming the drug in front of a child legislation backed by the prime ministers, labor policy face to face criticism from the center. right? opposition? medical associations on the church. well i your i spoke to owen bonnie, she who is a member of multis parliament who promoted the bill. he says the law provides a safe a way for people to obtain cannabis. what we did was a measure of harm reduction in the response to the realities we have around us. you know, where we meet people all the time and the critical criminalized because they make it personal use of us. and we decided that we have to stop. this criminalization of people who are not criminals,

but other swapped of little choice design decide to make use of scanners. of course, as a government we incentivize, and we tell people to make healthier choices. but if an adult decides to make use of cleanup is for his own personal use, then we should be provided with a safe and the regular route from where he can or she can obtain the can. that was to reco. temperatures have been reported in the arctic circle in more wiring evidence of climate change. first was the hottest they ever known there and the 38 degrees celsius recorded in a russian town in june last year. this is 18 degrees higher than the monthly average and was followed by the warmest ever arctic autumn. us scientists have also reported the 1st have a rainfall at summit station, high on the greenland, the ice sheet where it's so cold. the precipitation usually falls only as snow. the amount of thick sea ice which helps regulate sea and air temperatures was the 2nd

lowest since wreck was began and signed to say a growing population of beavers could be a problem because building dams and help for permafrost. that was l. k is an environmental professor, an author, an alter the founder and president of the institute for governance and sustainable development. he says, this is going to be 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 mark dick 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 c eyes, which is a great white shield reflecting heat back in the safe and the space safely, will add the equivalent of 25 years worth of warming. and that will destabilize the

entire global systems patching all out. so and everything else right here on our website, al jazeera dot com ah, a quick look at the main stories the sound. now, a well health organization is criticized wealthy countries, offering vaccine boosters to their citizens, while millions of people around the world, yet to have their 1st dose groups. director general says the pandemic is going to continue until vaccines are equally distributed globally. and there are warnings, the omicron varying to the crown of ours is spreading as an unprecedented rate on the grown is spreading at a rate we have not seen with any previous variant. we're concerned that people are dismissing army.