it said they died in combat with neighbors and family members in states. they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's, defense minister by the me to pay the reno, 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. ah, wealthy nations are criticized by global health leaders for giving copious 19 boosters to their citizens, while millions in poor countries are yet to get a 1st dose. ah, hello, i'm down, jordan, this is out as they are alive from also coming up allegations that work was prevented from leaving a factory before a deadly tornado storm struck in kentucky. the french, british,

and german ambassadors to the united nations jointly criticized iran, saying the situation on a new nuclear deal is at a great stage on beller rooster's opposition. leader says she'll keep fighting for democracy as a husband gets 18 years. jail for protests against president pushing? ah! the world health organization says the coven 19 on the kron various to spreading faster than any strain before it. the agencies criticising wealthy nations for offering vaccine boosters, while millions around the world are yet to get their 1st dose. it says there will be no end to the pandemic if this continues. meanwhile, in the united kingdom, infections and now doubling every 2 days. fullborne reports 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 alma khan variant, though, which is really worrying global scientists and health experts we have learned by now that we underestimate this virus at our pedal, even if or me cron does cause less cbs, this is the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems. in the u. k. m, a kron cases are 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 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 was 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 a large volume of individuals who are being infected every day in the population. that we're going to have very difficult for weeks ahead with castes in the community, which will, of course, cause individuals to need to still work in school. and then as cases to transfer into mrs. thomas, 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. but to some piece of approve new restrictions in england to curb the spread of coping 19, but has been considerable opposition from prime minister boris johnson's own party face coverings will be compulsory most indoor settings and there'll be changes to self isolation. rules are the prime minister's plan to introduce cobit passes for large venues was approved by majority. 98 of johnson's empties voted against it. it comes out to downing street, a strong criticism of alleged rule breaking. the south african medical research council has released its 1st micron study. the data was gathered in the 1st 3 weeks of the variant appearing in southern africa. and it found that 2 doses of the 5 vaccine would provide 33 percent protection against infection from army kron but 70 percent protection against hospitalization. the finding suggests that while on the

chrome may be more transmissible, it isn't necessarily more severe. well, the president of the democratic republic of congo hopes of vaccination push will help control rising infection rates there. the country has confirmed the 1st cases of on the tron. so far the government is administered. fewer than 5 percent of the vaccine dose is it's been given. a d. r. c has reported nearly 60000 infections and more than a 1000 deaths, since i'm demick again. well, malcolm web has more from nairobi on why the company's government is struggling to contain infections. firstly, the, the reason 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 at 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 not 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. we themselves were very slow to publicly take the dose of the vaccine. one of the 1st donations that congo received the 3000000 doses of the present vaccine. and many of those ended up being sent to other countries because they weren't used before they would expire. so this is mobilized very slowly, although now the well bank says that congress ministry of health, our staff has started to organize a program to distribute vaccines to the problem, to the provinces, to rural areas. but this is very late,

which is what explains why the vaccine rate is indeed very far behind other countries. now, allegations of surface that bosses, that a candle factory in the us state of kentucky threatened to fire stock if they fled to safety. as a series of tornadoes were approaching, at least 8 people were killed when the factory was flattened on friday. kentucky governor and bashir says a workplace safety review, but deaths will now be conducted on 0. how does your castro join us from paducah in kentucky? heidi, so we've seen these allegations surface that work as a factory. were threatened with being fired. what people there been saying that's right there and there were a 110 people at work at the candle factory on friday night. you know, it's the height of the holiday gift season. so they were rushing to meet the orders, and we were told that many knew of the possibility, the strong possibility of disastrous storms coming their way. and when they asked

to be loud out of work early for safety sake, they were told no, this is coming directly from our guest who was one of the workers. elijah johnson, thanks so much for joining us. you were at work when the storm had tell me how this folder for you came in. i am in the storm. so and so place around $930.00. we took show around 9 o'clock and we was there before. everything happened at 7 o'clock when those hours 1st came on while we was in the facility, we had to leave, it was so no, it was me, fortune. other people. if you leave and they said no, we approached management and you asked to leave, what did they say? what happened if you did leave? it says we left was will be terminated. and so what, yeah, what was going through your mind as you saw the potential of these storms coming? i was, i was scared on top of that bus straight because i couldn't leave because i needed

a source of income. and so finally, the storm strikes, what happened in the moment of impact? what it, when i hit when i hit people still on the floor when they came onto the, into the burn room hit so fast that people flew and took shelter and but they hand over their heads while they was fly from the when other tornado push, you into where we was, you were one of those. you tell me what, how it felt and what you what you sense at that moment. well, we was taken and they was taking roll call at 1st and then once they took roe call, after that he was standing up. he was dead and i was in my 2 stairs without so much when i already had my hands on my head and my knees under my stomach and wants to happen. the wall fell on my back. once i fell on my back. i was good but i was still hurt and because the weight of the walls on my back and my knees sprayed out because all the weight of it and certain people wasn't in tornado stances. so

certain people got hit in awkward ways. and it was an awkward positions while under the under the weight. how did you manage to get out of their life? well, the person who left so much, but i don't know if you're still alive and not where you left off. but and i used, i used to check our leg was stuck in was my su off and i slipped through the little slip from the chair and wiggled out the crowd on software. a lady she was my team, lead. and once i crawled on top of her, i need to take the extra shows are i, she says she was good. she was wanting to make sure that i was out of there. and she did that multiple people from what i know. and you said she was in a, in a very dangerous position herself. yes, she was back with the wall. but the whole time she was just holding up the wall where her legs like in the what position assume a boat was sitting on the ground as a star, star star woman. just to do that. maybe they multiple multiple see there's

a more to learn. now, after all of it, we are so happy that you are safe and healthy at this point. but to think that you guys wanted to leave and get out of dangerous pass. but you're saying that the company would not let you the company denies that ever happened. they say that they did not try to fire anyone. what's your response to that is sad because it's so many people that passed away. so maybe we're still injured to this day and i'm not saying just injure like a scratch or in the day some people are missing legs. some people paralyzed for the rest of their life. and they got to say is that denied. they've just denied everything that we've tried to tell the news, which i tell the social media. they did not every situation. and i said is covered they but, and that's it. but i'm just saying that that they do. and this a lot of over all the things that just happened. thank you so much allies for your

time, for sharing your story and we're thankful. so again, that you did survive this just and again, there is an investigation, according to the kentucky governor that will be looking into this candle factory, but the governor says this type of workplace investigation is commonplace after any workplace vitality. and at this point, the state said it has not been able to verify any of the workers allegations against the company. and that for the answers to come from that investigation and may take as long as 6 months there. all right, so how does your culture life as the in paducah, in kentucky? heidi, thank you. now when a joint statement baffled to the united nations on the u. k. germany and france say iran's nuclear program is more advanced and it's ever been describing the situation as grave. un, security council has been discussing progress on salvaging the 2015 nuclear deal. none of the j. c. p. away talks have resumed in vienna. iran one sanction lifted in return for limits on its nuclear program. the only solution is the commitment of

all tortillas to the food effective and verifiable. implementation of j. c, p, o, a normal. notice as we have a stated time and again, obviously it all must be assured that all sanctions will be lifted. the u. s. t v not withdraw from the accord again and it did not abuse the procedures set out in the j. c. p. o, a vienna talks can succeed on de, through genuine political, real and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame, game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. we're convinced that if a ron pro approaches talks in vienna with urgency and good faith, we can quickly reach and implement an understanding on mutual return. we cannot, however, allow iran to accelerate its nuclear program and slow walk. it's nucular diplomacy

. i'm sorry to report that is exactly what appears to be happening at chase. c p. o talks in vienna for kristen, selena jones has live now from the united nations. kristen. so what's the humans message then to the security council over the rockville? yeah, well it's interesting, the european signatories to the nuclear deal clearly directed their comments out. iran accusing them of slow walking negotiations, but the united nations also had a message for the united states. it's calling on both sides to return to the deal. it's calling in the united states to come back to the deal. it was after all the united states, back in 2018 under president trump, that reimpose sanctions on iran. and essentially broke the deal. they're also calling on the iranians to return to its commitments under the deal, and a stop returned to compliance of eyes stopping to enrich uranium. and of course,

that's the source of europeans concerned that iran is getting closer and closer to a nuclear weapon. we heard that in their comments saying that agreements that were made during negotiations 5 months ago, the iran is now back tracking on that it's slow walking the process and clearly they're worried. but from the united nations, rosemary, to carlo under secretary general for peace building and political affairs should tend to sound a bit of a commer know tried to walk back the rhetoric i think, calling on both sides in expressing confidence to the security council that discussions between the secretary general and the united states and iran have indicated that both countries are serious about returning to the deal in essentially trying to calm things and get them all to do that. to encourage them to do just that yet. kristen and on both iran in the u. s. responded to that report.

what motivates to say? right, well, the both sides claim that they want to return to the deal and both sides of course, blame each other for not being able to get there. you know, the united states ambassador, linda thomas greenfield said that it the united states is prepared to, to lift those sanctions to go back to the deal as a line, as long as iran does. and it's part and returning to the deal of it, like the europeans accused iran of, of making maxima, lis demands, and slow walking the negotiations. while around that, look, it's your fault that we're here in the 1st place. our people are suffering, we have to make sure things are ok. and again, it's been finger pointing back and forth with the united nations. it just attempting to keep everybody. com and and keep things moving forward. all right, kristen salumi life was there at the you and kristen,

thank you lot also to come here and al jazeera, including the fight for women's rights international observers. sound the law about reco levels of violence and congress don't on back where they belong. the bronze of banana finally returned home after being looted by europeans through the colonial era, mormon states. ah and away we go with your headlines for the americas. hello, everyone bases our mainland get a duck and dodge mostly this next system that's reserved for the pacific northwest and northern areas of california. as we're going to pick up the weather store right now, nother round moves in after los angeles was drenched through the top peaks of the sierra nevada. we could see upwards of 200 centimeters of snow on it. to show you

this, we've got warm air coming up from the gulf of mexico. it's bumping up those temperatures . kansas city 22 degrees is very likely to be a new record. they've got cold air coming off the rockies. the 2 are going to clash and sparked some storms, upper midwest, right down to the deep south as we get later into the week. okay, for wednesday through the east there's some of that activity popping up. we've got some c and dozed, c, and do snow for cape breton island. now for the carabiner usual scattering of showers at southern mexico believes and tourists nicaragua, also through the caribbean, but there will still be plenty of sun to be found. storms come in and go in through the top and of south america, but this a corner toward the southeast of brazil. that's really where the bulk of the activity is. so paulo rio de janeiro put a lay gray, which has a hive 23 degrees, but sunny and coma, dora, with a high of 22 on wednesday. ah,

ah, co cater culture of knowledge, openness, imperialism worldwide. and to reward merit and excellence and encourage creativity . the shake amount award for translation and international understanding was found to promote translation on a translators and acknowledged that road and strengthening the bones of friendship and co operation between arab islamic and world coaches, hulu. lou ah, welcome back to come out of the top stories here. this. the world health organization says the pope is 19 on the con there anticipating faster than any

other strain. it's warning, there'll be no end to the pandemic if wealthy countries off a vaccine boosters while millions wait for 1st. but you can governments approved to cope with 19 restrictions as new on the con case is double every 2 days. face coverings will be compulsory in most indoor settings, and they'll be changes to self isolation rules. coping bosses will also be required to launch venues on the un security council. less meant to discuss progress on salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. western ambassadors say the situation is great in iran's nuclear program is more advanced than ever. ron wants assurances that functions will be lifted. now the us house of representatives is debating, contempt of congress, charged against former white house chief of staff, mot meadows. on monday i congressional committee investigating the january 6th capital riot unanimously voted in favor of the measure. meadows refused to attend to a hearing last week despite being subpoenaed as cross to shall baton see whose life was in washington dc. actually have. so we're still expecting this vote in the

house whether to hold meadows in contempt of congress. how is this likely to play out? do we think it's an interesting one because when the house voted to hold, steve bannon and other trump advisor in contempt. the department of justice went down has to deal with this active pretty quickly in charging battle with contempt. but as a big difference, is the battle was a private citizen on june on january the 6th. well, as was the chief of staff of the white house, he's claiming executive privilege. that is the idea that if you are the advisor in the white house, how you're expected to give advice to the president. if advice will become public, the committee in congress and say, well that doesn't really count in this particular case because you have already given us thousands of documents and we just want to know about those documents. you gave us which showed that those people in trump circle was certainly were messaging meadows himself saying trump has to do something. he has to stop this green, donald trump junior from sun. so what that turn at the gross got his why did trump

not do anything? was he trying to impede the certification of the election, which would be, which would be a crime? so these are the 2 arguments that will go to the this will definitely puff and the coming hours are, and then it's up to the department justice a to see well, is it different from the baton case because of meadows position as chief of staff. i shall, meanwhile, over in the senate, there's been a vote on the debt ceiling. tell us about that and what's important right? don't, don't get the funny ideas. and this is a one off fast track deal between the republicans and the democrats. and you may remember from time to time we have, we have this bit of excitement in d. c, where it looks like the, the, the, the governments might default on its depths that as it reaches a debt ceiling. and then congress has to vote. you're going to raise that even recent rates and higher this time around it. we're not going to get that value one more day before the before the us devil of money that it can borrow anymore to increase its debt to pay for bills. it's already accrued. maybe one more day left.

there has been this deal. it's a 2.5 trillion increase in the debt limit and the democrats think that'll get them through the new november mid term elections into 2023. so this is the last time to radically, we talk about the u. s. in enormous economic peril, at least as a result of a debt feeling. but yes, this means that that feeling will be raised in to 2023 till also the november mid term job. thank you. now the us is condemning the conviction of the husband of better ruth is opposition, leader as politically motivated, fair have to kind of ski has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for organizing math unread, then citing social hatred in order to campaign to unseat president. alexander lucas shanker had of last year's election that was arrested. his wife's, atlanta ram in his place. but last monday observer say the vote was ring was speaking to her to 0, atlanta to come to sky. i said she was not give applying for a husband and others wrongly detained in that a race. i was sure that i was prepared for such

a tough sentence, but as a matter of fact, it was really stressful for me and to the whole day. of course, i feel the stated by it doesn't mean that i'm going to cry the whole day long and the said that only difficult, everyday job united job feel make a future release possible for my husband or hundreds, thousands, awfully bill or since. last time i talked to him 15 months ago for me since then we can communicate with $0.04 more messages about children with what we thinks for him. and his mother is the old man and she was there in the prison today. she wasn't allowed in, but of course she was afraid that she would be able to see her in the morning. i'm

really sorry that i can't talk to you. because i'm in the country. my children don't know about the sentence and i'm going to tell them my younger daughter. she's 6, she receives presence and the late was from her daddy think that he's on business trip. my oldest son living understands the way his father. but i didn't want to in his hopes because i honestly believe that we were able to meet of the there did he in the future now woman and carcass darn of long suffered discrimination and violence and its male dominated society. international observers say it's not like you to get better pointing to last month's elections, which saw fewer female politicians when seats zane was robbie as more from a capital biscuit, and just a warning fears may find some of the images used in his story to study. what's in

a name for alton? couple over an artist, single mother and survivor of domestic violence, legally giving her children her last name was a chance to bring her family closer together. 3 marriages left her with 3 children and 3 absent fathers. she says it felt like the natural thing to do a bow. oh my dear to 7, my children, especially my eldest son, was very disappointed to have some one else's last name, a person who's an absolute stranger. so for all of us, it was about having the same last name. it was just cozy family happiness, some joy. and i never thought that it would become a big fight a month after posting about it on facebook. alton received a court order to appear before a judge, the summons or response to public complaints in kyrgyzstan children take their father's name and alton had violated longstanding legal tradition in a system that overtly favours men. public attacks on women in broad daylight, brutal beatings in the street, even incidents of humiliation and torture of viral videos like this have become

a near daily, occurs. shocking examples of the abuse of women rights workers say it's common to the extent of being normalized. still get the emotion. there was a case when a representative from a law enforcement agency said it, of course a woman will be beaten if she has a long tongue. can you imagine that a police officer is saying that what will happen? how can we think that victim should and can make a statement and law enforcement will act on it? that it is an indicator of how such cases go as at one of the only organizations of it's kind lawyers work free of charge with women involved in bright kidnapping, enforce marriages, raven domestic violence, as well as narcotics and people trafficking. some lawyers have represented the families of victims of the most brutal murder scene here in recent memory. this guy, still, he didn't even stop at kidnapping that girl. he killed her. we're all human beings . shouldn't women not even be protected against murder?

shouldn't they feel anxiety? if the future is about young girls crush didn't fear that to morrow, they could be treated this way. force marriage is a crime. why? it is vital work but only scratches the surface of a nation wide problem. raising public awareness about women's rights and gender based violence in kurdistan is a challenging task to say, the least activists are often threatened and have even come under attack, hulu. purest non civil society, though vibrant, has to a degree, been forced underground activists. academics, filmmakers, artist musicians, meeting behind closed doors at invitation, only events in undisclosed locations. alton says so many women have asked her for help. it's overwhelming for just one person. so despite threats, disruptions and violent assaults by counter demonstrators at a women's march last year, she will continue raising her voice to stay in the public. i know civil rights activists like her say violence against women is a nationwide concern that demands

a government response. but with fewer women in the next parliament, the uphill climb has just been made steeper. zane basra v o 0 bishop. not more than a century after british troops stole their treasure. the people have been in city in southern nigeria have a reason to celebrate too many bronzes are heading home. and a royal welcome awaits a thousands of other artifacts to remain in museums in europe and the u. s. under chappelle levels. good signing on behalf of his people, the traditional ruler of the kingdom of beneath puts pen to paper to write a historic wrong. oh my goodness is ivy's odo walls of which were removed from his brother's in nigeria. as president mohammed who bihari has

issued a directive to his government, oh, ah, a bronze cochroll 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 recognise britain's 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, suffolk of the top stories here on al jazeera, the world health organization, says the coven 19 omicron vera, and to spreading faster than any other strain. its warning. there'll be no end to

the pandemic if wealthy countries of vaccine boosters while millions still wait for 1st dose. 77 countries have no.