perhaps he believed in the beginning that he was informed opinions, fighting politicians will now be under incredible pressure from their young people . that is one of the most of the things that come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not okay. it's a gray, it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a child swans the inside story on al jazeera. ah . wealthier nations are criticized by global health leaders for giving coven 19 boosters to their citizens on millions in poorer countries are yet to get her 1st dose. ah, hello, i'm geron. jordan. this is out as a red light from dough are also coming up allegations at workers were prevented from leaving a factory before a deadly tornado storm. struck in kentucky. the french, british,

and german ambassadors to the united nation is jointly criticized iran, sang the situation on a new nuclear deal is at a grave stage. and bella roosters opposition. leader says she'll keep fighting for democracy as a husband gets 18 years. jail for protests against president the question. ah, the world health organization says the coven 19 on the chrome there and to spreading faster than any strain before it. the agencies criticizing wealthy nations for offering vaccine boosters, while millions around the world are yet to have their 1st dose. it's, there will be no end to the pandemic if this continues. meanwhile, in the united kingdom, infections and are doubling every 2 days. full brennan 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 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 micron 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 bruce, the 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 on a chron 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 crohn's advance. that level of alarm was reinforced in testimony to 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 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 tonsils, 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, and british and bees of approved new restrictions in england. it's a curb to spite of coven 19, but has been considerable opposition from prime minister boris johnson's own party face coverings will be compulsory in most indoor settings, and they'll be changes to self isolation rules. while the prime minister's plan to introduce cobra passes for large venues was approved by a majority. 98 of johnson's m. p. 's voted against it. comes off to downing street, a strong criticism of alleged rule breaking. the south african medical research council has released its 1st on the kron 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 on the chrome, but 70 percent protection against hospitalization. so the inferences that while on

the con is perhaps more easily transmissible. it isn't necessarily more severe. the president of the democratic republic of congo, hopes of vaccination push will help control rising infection numbers there. the country has confirmed the 1st cases of alma crohn. so far the government is the minutes stood fewer than 5 percent of the vaccine doses. it's been given. the d r c has reported nearly 60000 infections and more than a 1000 corona virus related deaths. since the pandemic began with, malcolm webb has more from nairobi and why the congolese government is struggling to contain infections. well firstly, there's a reason that affected all of africa, much of, of other continents as well, was just a lack of doses rich countries. of course, almost all of the available debt 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 the vaccination program. 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 hesitancy expressed by the political leadership by president felix difficulty and other health officials who themselves were very slow to publicly take the dose of the vaccine, when the 1st donations at congo received the 3000000 doses of the aster, venica, 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 world 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. the us government is old enough advisors cobra 19 pill to treat 10000000 americans 5. the says this medication is almost 90 percent effective at preventing death. so hospital admissions and high risk people. the drug is known as pax, livid, and was tested on unvaccinated people. it must be given within 3 days of symptoms appearing. pfizer says the drug is also effective against on the chrome. now allegations of surface that bosses at a candle factory in the us state of kentucky threatened to fire staff if they left the building as a tornado approached. management denies the claims, at least 8 people were killed and the building was flattened on friday, kentucky's governor under, but she says a workplace safety review of the debts will now be conducted. audio, castro spoke to one of the employees who says he was threatened with termination if he left his house. 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 them 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 in, before you came in, i am in the dorm sort of place around 930. we took shelter around 9 o'clock and we was there before. everything happened at 7 o'clock when cyrus 1st came on while we was in the facility, we had to leave, i was told no, it was me watching other people would you leave? and i said no, see approach management and you asked to leave, what did they say?

what happened if you did lease? they said we left was will be terminated and they took off what? 15 of the yeah. what was going through your mind as you saw the potential of the storm coming? i was i was scared, scared on top of that frustrated because i couldn't leave because i needed the source of income. and so finally, the storm strikes, what happened in the moment? it impacts what it when i hit when i hit people still on the floor when they came onto the into burn room, hit so fast that people flew and took shelter and but they hand over their heads while they was flying from the when other tornado push it to where we was and you were one of those usual. can you tell me what, how it felt and what you what you said that moment? well, we was taken and they was taking roll call at 1st and then once they took roe call at that he was standing up. he was standing up. i was in much when there was much when i already had hands on my head and my knees on my stomach and was to happen.

the wall fell on my back. it was, it fell on my back. i was good, but i was still a hurt and because of the weight of the walls on my back and my knees spread out because all the weight, all of it a certain people wasn't in tornado stances. so certain people got hit in awkward ways. and there was an awkward positions while under the under all the weight. how did you manage to get out of their life when a person he collapsed on my foot? i don't know if he's still a lab and not bagel out some off, but. and i used, i used to churn to our stuck you, while leg was stuck in to push marceau off and i slipped through the low slip from the chair. and i wiggled out now in a joint statement, ambassadors to the united nations from the u. k. germany and france say iran's nuclear program is more advanced and it's ever been describing the situation as gravy. the un security council has been discussing progress on salvaging the 2015

iran nuclear deal. none of the j. c. p. away talks have resumed in vienna, iraq, iran wants sanctions lifted in china for limits on its nuclear program. in the only solution is the commitment of all parties to the food effective and verifiable. implementation of j. c. p. o, a no more, no less. as we have stated time and again, obviously it on must be assured that all sanctions will be lifted. the u. s. b not withdraw from their court again, and it did not abuse their procedures set out in the j. c. p. o, a vienna talks can succeed already through genuine political will and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame, game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. were convinced that if iran 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 kristof salumi has mono from the united nations. the european signatories to the nuclear deal clearly directed their comments out. iran accusing them of slow walking negotiations. ah, 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 i want to stop and return to

compliance about 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. and thank 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 and to, to lift those sanctions to go back to the deal as long as iran does. and it's part in returning to the dealer while around said look, it's your fault that we're here in the 1st place. our people are suffering, we have to make sure things are okay. and again, it's finger pointing back and forth with the united nations, just attempting to keep everybody common and keep things moving forward. time for a short break carried out to 0. when we come back, scientists will on the ice and snow in the tickets melting at

a faster pace than ever before. plus before russia exclaiming in 2014, this canal provided 85 percent of the peninsula has to meet. as you can see now, it's virtually empty water as a weapon of war in the conflict between ukraine and russia, florida state. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored by capital airways. hello, your world's weather report begins in asia were in the sub continent, northeast monsoon given us what we would expect for a time on the do some bouts of showers, but heavier stuff really reserve for sure longer. and the more these gotta get you over to the philippines right now. as storm bry comes close, i think the worst of it will go through cbo. but let's remember,

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

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strain. it's warning they'll be no end to the pandemic. if wealthy countries off a vaccine boosters on millions wait for a 1st us government's approved, tighter. coven 19 restrictions. as new on the con cases, double every 2 days, face coverings will be compulsory most indoor settings, and they'll be changes to self isolation rules. covered passes, walks in to require a large venues. and the un security council is meant to discuss progress on salvaging the 2015 iran nuclear deal. western ambassadors and the situation is grave. iran's nuclear program, more advanced than ever. iran wants assurance is that sanctions will be lifted. now the us house of representatives is debating contempt of congress charges against former white house chief of staff, march meadows. on monday, a congressional committee investigating the january 6 capital riot unanimously voted in favor of the measure. meadows refused to attend the hearing last week. despite being subpoenaed as cross to shabba town seas in washington, dc shahab,

so was still expecting this vote on whether to hold meadows in contempt of congress houses likes to play out. then do we think when it's going to pass avenue, democrats control the house of representatives. they also have to republicans on the, on the select committee itself. the question then is, what does the department of justice do with this? when steve banum and other trump advisor was, was also held in criminal contempt of congress of the select committee investigating what happened on january the 6th did act pretty quickly in filing charges and its try will be next. jeff, it's slightly different by with my meadows because steve barton was a private citizen on january the 6th. so when he says he's claiming executive executive privilege the house and had a much better, better arg was saying, well, why does he have executive privilege? he's not in the white house, he's not part of the government. my mother is trump's chief of staff. so my mother's is argument is as you might expect, look, i'm, i give the, give the president advice. i should not have expected them to become public. i was, how am i supposed to give, give on vanish advice that anytime is going to vote quite often in the past. the

problem is that matters has already cooperated with the net committee by giving thousands of documents, text messages e mails. and the committee says, well, we want to do is ask you about stuff you already put in the public domain by giving us the stuff you didn't think it was executive privilege when you gave it to us. and what those texts emails show is that there were discussions and these with meadows. busy and some of some people he knew about overturning the election, but also on january 6 itself, the number of text emails from conservative figures fox news hosts, donald trump junior himself saying the president has to do something our father might for us to actually do something to call these protest off. it really shows an amazing amount of concern amongst those in the drum circle. and the question that the committee is trying to answer is why didn't from act to try and pull those protests back. was he trying to, trying to impede congress illegally by stopping his edification? so that's why they say he does have answers to it. also questions to answer.

meanwhile, should have opened the senate. there's been this vote on the debt ceiling. tell us about that and why it's important. yeah, i mean it's around moment where the republicans didn't take the opportunity to try and twist the knife as they usually do that, that ceiling is the amount of money the u. s. is legally allowed to borrowed and you at any one time, but it's actually to pay the bills that they've already accrued through through policy over many decades, years from tax goes by whatever. i mean, this is the money they just have to pay, and the republicans are really weaponized that in recent years they chose not to do it. this time, there was a deal that was made between the leadership and the senate, between the republicans and democrats to not have another vote until 2023. it seems actually that the republicans insisted on him on when i'm dollar figure for this. so they're increasing the density by 2 and a half trillion dollars, which the democrats say will, will keep them until after the november mid terms. so no show down this time. but the republicans are not somewhere above. and is there anything in particular there will be a show down next time in 2023. and that will be

a time when the republicans are perhaps even more powerful because i have actually have one or both houses of congress should have. thank you. now the u. s. is condemning the conviction of the husband of bella, luce, his opposition leader as politically motivated, said hey, 2nd new sky has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for organizing my thumb rest on inciting, social hatred. he lost his campaign to unseat president. alexander lucas shanker, head of last year of the election that was arrested. his wife's that lana ran in his place, but lost many observers say the vote was rate of speaking and to sky. i said she will not give up fighting for her husband and others, wrongly detained in bella was 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 the whole dave was 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, for hundreds, thousands, awfully bill or since last time i talked to him 14 months ago for vanity is going to communicate with $0.04 small messages about children with what we thinks and sec and said his mother is rather old when she was there in the prison today, she was allowed, but she is afraid that you will be able to see your son in the morning. i'm really sorry that i can 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 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 in his hopes because i honestly believe to be able to meet of the there did he in the future. now malta has become the 1st european country to allow limited cultivation and possession of cannabis. a personal use parliament has approved the law which allows adults to possess up to 7 grams. i'm go up to 4 plans, smoking cannabis and public will remain against the law. and there are fines up to $600.00 for those court consuming the drug in front of a child in bonnie and she is the member multiple parliamentary, promoted the bill. he says the law provides a safe way for people to obtain cannabis. what we did. it was a measure of harm reduction in the response to the realities we have around us. you know, when we meet people all the time and the critic criminalized because they make it

personal use of it. and we decided that we have to stop. this criminalization of people who are not criminal, but it does well of that all choice does i decide to make use of candidates? of course, as a government we incentivize, and we tell people to make heads choices. but if an adult decides to make use of canup is for his own personal use, then he should be provided with a safe and the regular route from where he can or she can obtain the kind of new report on the arctic says alarm bells about our warming plan, it should be raining louder. finding show, last year, summer was the longest snow free period in the arctic your racial region in more than 22 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 ocean resources around the world. meanwhile, the un confirmed record temperature, the aunt took up a summer after a siberian town hit $38.00 degrees celsius. the world major logical organization says the arctic is heating more than twice a global average. well, centralized, keep track of each mount season from 981 to 2010. this was the median ice edge, the area still frozen at the end of summer in the northern hemisphere. the 2nd lowest volume of ice cover was recorded last year. scientists say that rate of melting and significant effects on permafrost along the optic coastline. but better with z. okay, is the president of the institute for governance and sustainable development in washington d. c. he believes 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 destabilize the entire global system. so we need to go from this great report card 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 a strategy. well, the 1st thing we need to do is slam on the brakes for 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 transfer, it goes on that package can cut the rate of arctic warming by 2 thirds. access to a water canal is adding to tensions between ukraine and russia. for decades, the north crimea canal in southern ukraine supplied most of the peninsula water. but that stopped in 2014 and russia next crimea. and it's now facing a di water shortage. so it could turn into yet another flash point between the 2 countries. char stratford reports now from colon chuck in ukraine. 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 san back 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. pulse of the denise river. the can now 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 serve as 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 that land access. and that, of course, would mean, for example, taking over key port cities like commodity all paul. so that's a huge strategic 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 laval

as relatives on the peninsula. she hasn't seen them the 6 years. that is latina kirk was overseas literary, the al serra, you as a war, can separate a child from its mother. it can be so difficult to cross to crimea. the young cat, jobless on this side, because he can't work at the plant any more. my deceased husband was there, my son worked there, we could afford neath and decent fuller. all the changed when crimea was closed. the kremlin denies its planning to invade the ukrainian mainland, but securing water for crime is estimated. 2.4000000 people, the majority of whom are russian means that may change. charles drop al jazeera cullen shook sudden ukraine. ah,

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