ought to have i way way and denise to poor society is not interested in the individuality. the freedom, the spirit. don't the young person studio be unscripted on al jazeera. ah fire in hong kong, more than a 1000. 200 people are rescued from the cities world trade center. ah, what you noticed, there were a light from a headquarters in ohio daddy navigator also a heads. the leaders of china and russia are talking of the west pressures. moscow for it's true filled up on ukraine's border. omicron is pretty, i to rate we had not seen was any. phoebus variant, a warning from the w h o,

as it urges all countries to step up measures against the new ami kron variance. and new beginnings, germany's chancellor olaf sold sets out his government's 4 year plan. ah, hello, we begin with some breaking news from hong kong where police have just confirmed more than a 1200 people have been rescued from the cities world trade center after a fire broke out in the building. let's go straight to brit clinic. she's a journalist in hong kong, she's joining us on skype from the scene, a brit. so police guy saying everyone has been rescued. what, what's the latest update that you're hearing? that's right. police said had told us now that everyone has been wrong about the trade center, the building behind base. now at least 13 people have been taking the hospitals in

the fire. some of them under fire has been extinguished. as you can see, there is a promotion behind a we have seen at least one person taken out or on a rest. sure. but this happened during lunch hour during our there would be many people inside that building having lunch with their family. perhaps out something here in this area, it is one of the busiest stopping districts of it has a lot of pain and a lot of distress. so what, what's the cause of the fire? any more clarity on the investigation? it's not 100 percent. okay, what we do know is that the 5 broke house on the floor in the room for a sample being fired, but it's not clear exactly how that, sorry i was ignited in the 1st place in the me to room. what we do know is that there are reservations on the way you might be able to hear. i see some of those

renovation type placed behind me. but we've been told by i think that there will be a large scale investigation into what happened today and read as you're saying it's one of the most popular shopping districts. so how busy would have been particularly today and during the run up to the festive season. right. i mean it, lots of people who have been out by christmas kids they would have paid out christmas lunches. the big holly. it's always, it's a bustle here. it's always put above grade by, it's very much known as a place that you probably get, you know, something that you have fantastic mailed out for lunch. so it would have just been with people. so if you caught up on the play, how many people would have been impacted by this in my 50 years of reporting, and i've never seen so many sides winds up in one area responding to a single incident. so as i say, it was a lot of title and a lot of crescent people. okay, thank you. brit clinic reporting from hong kong. the chinese and russian leaders

are holding a virtual summit. she, jim, things meeting with waterproof income's at a time of rise and tension between both nations and the wes for life, katrina, you who's joining us from beijing. so is this a strengthening of ties of sorts between the 2 leaders and the 2 countries? hi darren, that's exactly how aging is putting it. they say that this summit wolf to enhance the already high level of trust between these 2 countries. and actually many on us that we've spoken to say it's much more than that. they said that the relationship between china and russia is the best and strongest. it's ever been that since 1900 fifties, at least. and it does appear that she and person have a strong personal report. they've met more than 30 times since 2013. and the strength of this bilateral relationship seems to be based on 2 things. one, it's extremely practical. these countries do a lot of trade. there's a lot of mutual investment. the last trade figure that i saw was $115000000000.00,

which is the unprecedented level of an unprecedented level of trade. china also relies on russia for loss of its energy, especially it's oil and gas. and there are also talks of more possible corporation when it comes to energy and possibly nuclear power as well. now, the countries are also even talking about working together when it comes to space exploration. when it comes to security, there's also increasing military cooperation. both countries conducted a several joint military exercises this year, and russia also supplies significant amounts of military supplies and get to china . so that's one thing that's very practical. the other side of it is that these 2 countries value each other enormously when it comes to the diplomatic side of things. both countries have been almost drawn closer together by this common criticism that they both received from the us, from europe, from nation and other western countries. russia under

a lot of criticism because of it's what many have called its aggressive approach towards ukraine. and similarly, china has also been the subject of criticism because of its approach to taiwan. now we've had russia reportedly repeatedly, sorry, support china when it comes a lot of its controversial policy, the domestic policies and john taiwan and hong kong and russia's also being a very avid supporter of china when it comes to its other foreign policy projects, including the belts and road initiative and person is the or in the sofa major leader to confirm his attendance at aging winter olympics and event that many diplomats in the west, including in canada, u. s. and the u. k. have chosen to boy called so no doubt. those officials also will be watching this meeting. many in the west do see this relationship, and they're watching as closely as potentially the full darcy, being

a potentially growing threat to western interests as well. ok, thank you so much. katrina, you're reporting from beijing. well, the world health organization says the new on the crohn very into spreading foster than any other strain before it. it says there'll be no into the pandemic if wealthy nations continue offering booster as while people elsewhere haven't even had a single shot. warning comes as a vigil was held in washington for more than 800000 americans who died from over 19 over in the u. k. health officials say infections are doubling every 2 days. while brandon 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 virus at our peril. 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 on a chron variance. scientists have never seen. never seen a coven 19 very capable of spreading so rapidly. so we have to look at what we can do to slow, only crohn's 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 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 jo 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 through energy calling on the united states and iran to move faster to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. ambassadors at the security council have

described the situation as grave. kristen salumi reports from the united nations. a stern warning from the european signatories of the iran nuclear deal to ra needs, to act fast. if it wants to salvage the agreement, even the us to choose between the cut ups of the g. she buey and the fear and comprehensive deal for the benefit of the iranian people in nation e rounds, continued luke, the escalation means that we are rapidly reaching the end of the road, talks of resumed in vienna after a 5 month hiatus. but western nations say iran is backtracking on earlier agreements and adding new demands. the u. n. is express concern about the countries refusal to allow inspectors to make unannounced visits to, to nuclear facilities. the u. s. left the deal in 2018 under then president trump,

under president biden, washington wants back in, but only if tehran upholds its commitments mixed 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, ron's ambassador blame the us. vienna talks can succeed already through genuine political, real, and good faith negotiations. engaging in blame game or flying artificial impatience is not constructive. the rhetoric in the council chamber was strong. both iran and the united states say they want to return to the deal. and the un says that's encouraging. but clearly, members of the international community are concerned that iran is closer than ever to a nuclear weapon. and time may be running out. kristin salumi al jazeera,

the united nations, the u. s. sectors they'd, antonio lincoln says, his country remains committed to a multi $1000000000.00 fighter that deal with the u. e. despite reports of dubby, once out to wall street journal reported the united arab emirates wants to cancel the purchase of f, 30 fives and drones because the security requirements, they include stringent measures against chinese espionage. still ahead on al jazeera, on the brink of famine, we report from southern afghanistan were hunger, crisis is unfolding. and donald trump's former chief of staff is found in contempt of congress for refusing to cooperate with the capitol hill riots investigation. ah, we've been talking about it the last few days. hello everyone. tropical cyclone

ruby. so i wanted to show you when it made land fall over the island of new caledonia, wind swept drain. that visibility knocked down smooth into the southeast and weakening. let's talk about the precipitation in australia, some coastal showers for a new south wales, nothing major. but what is, is this extreme heat wave? we're going to see bacon in the heat for western australia. some spots could touch 50 degrees over the course of the weekend. now for new zealand, we're going to see ruby move toward the north east. some parts of the south island over the last few days have seen their heaviest rainfall in 7 years. but things now starting to wind down here where they are picking up is for the philippines. we've got typhoon bry move in in eastern portions and is going to cut across central areas and at landfall we could see those winds up to a 190 kilometers per hour. $2.00 to $300.00 millimeters of rain. truth be told, maybe even a bit more and i think sebu is going to see the worst of it after northern areas of china. right now, we do have some disturb weather, colder air rush enamel,

talked about that in a sec. here's at batch of what, whether a q shoe southern western portions of honju, and we're going to see some snow showers of our whole kato, on thursday, was cooler air move in it. that's it. ah, indonesia, the country with an abundance of results for the trade already won indonesia whose turns for me. we moved full to grow and frank, we balance for green economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs. invest, let be part when denise is growth and progress, invest indonesia. now, lou

the me hello again, the top stories on al jazeera, this, our hong kong police have just confirmed that more than a 1200 people have been rescued from the cities world trade center, after fire broke out in the building. at least 13 people have been sent to hospital . the chinese on russian leaders are holding a virtual summit. she jumping meeting one, recruiting comes at a time of raising tension between both nations on the west. the world health organization says the code 1900 on the call, and variance is spreading faster than any other strain before it. it's warren, there'll be no end to the pandemic. if wealthy nations continue offering boosters, the expense of poor country agencies are launching a joint appeal, saying more than 8000000 people and i've got to stand on the brink of famine and

more than a 1000000 children under 5 could die. it's estimated that 75 percent of all government spending was funded by international donations before the taliban take over. rob mcbride travel kandaher and the south of the country, which is suffering food shortages. from early morning this food distribution center, they start lining up some of the thousands of africans from this one district who now rely on their weekly rations from the world food program to get by mohammed sharif. he's taking supplies back to his wife and 6 children. push out. let us, let us. it's very important to us. if we didn't get to say, we'd go hungry. so we're grateful. with warnings that half afghanistan's population of nearly $40000000.00 and now going hungry hospitals in kandahar city are seeing the result. the listless dance. the one was sometimes 2 babies per

bed nursed, lie loma, and her staff are treating twice as many cases as normal that need to moderate, most of these mothers aren't producing milk and they don't have the money for how did milk. so most of these babies are around one year old, but they weigh less than 4 kilograms. that's about half the weight they should be. so what we think is a feeding tube going into the stomach in the bed opposite the even tiny a features of baby. sure reefer just 6 weeks old and with a feeding tube trying to increase her weight from an emaciated 3 kilos can to her province is one of the worst effected by foods scarcity. but here as much of the country, it's also been hit not only by conflict, but the 2nd poll harvest in 4 years. it went almost unnoticed amid the turmoil of

the taliban take over. but this past year, afghanistan has suffered a severe drought affecting crops and livestock. it means this winter was always going to be tough in terms of food supply, but it's been made far worse amid the current upheaval. back at the food distribution center, the people of quite a bad village now is drive away, collect their supplies. this will be enough for their 15, extended families until the following week or the year that we've had to drown. and if no work, what can we do to situation? we go really bad and now it's where they liked the neighboring villages facing the long winter ahead. public bride al jazeera, kanda afghanistan, stafford, or candle factory in the us state of kentucky says bosses threatened to fire them if they left work. as a tornado approached, a charge denied by management. at least 8 people were killed when the factory was

hit by the storm. the state governor says he'll investigate the allegations out there with hydro casts are reports from mayfield's with christmas approaching worker as of the mayfield consumer products candle factory were rushing to fill holiday orders, despite fridays ominous skies. 20 year old olaja johnson says he felt nervous when he clocked in for his shift. and worse, after a tornado alarm sounded an early warning. the 1st alarm came all around saving and going on eighty's. and we could have been gone. we could have been gone. everybody could, i guarantee you could have been less people that died at the facility than what it was. if people would let them go. he says he and 14 other workers asked a manager if they could leave. we went to and we was like, we need to leave me and we got cases done at the house. we got, we got to take her, our family. and he was like, well,

you can leave what you're going to be terminated and was like what? even with the weather like this and heels i, yes, we've been with the weather like this is going to be terminated. when the 2nd tornado alarm sounded about an hour later, the $110.00 workers present were directed into a hallway and told to brace. then with a roar, everything came crashing down the walls. the ceiling. johnson found himself trapped in debris. then came the screen. it was a security officer. it was on my leg and it was grab my leg, a cable say it helped me help me help me. and i couldn't help by the time because i was stuck myself. it was touching my leg i 1st and they just stuck. a female supervisor was pinned with her feet against a collapsed wall. johnson says she pushed the wall back, allowing him to escape through a narrow opening. so when i made it out, when i made it out, she was still down there, holding up the wall. kentucky governor has pledged to investigate whether a company was negligent in the way that it handled the storms,

but he emphasized the state has not verified the workers allegations. representative for the candles factory says workers were not pressured to stay with . we believe that we could do anything differently. you know, in hindsight, of course, i think all of us would do something differently. this is such a gamble to say leave, you know, to the last thing you do says don't get in your car, you know, that's what experts say more than a 100 people remain missing in kentucky and in surrounding states. and it's feared the death toll will rise. johnson says after emerging from the collapse factory, he could think of only one thing. i thought a crime because i thought my friends at all my phrases that he's still not sure of the woman he credits with saving his life. survived heidi joe castro, al jazeera mayfield kentucky. us politicians are voted to raise the federal debt limits within hours of the treasury deadline. the vote avoided a major credit default. it raises the boring count by 2 and

a half trillion dollars. republicans offer just one vote in the house and no votes in the sun in the us house of representatives has voted to hold. donald trump's former chief of staff and contempt of congress, park meadows failed to appear before the committee investigating the capitol hill riot of january. the 6th. it's now up to the attorney general to decide whether it's a formerly charge meadows. she returns he reports from washington. d. c, the full version, the house of representatives, finding mach meadows, and contempt the congress was a foregone conclusion, and the democratic control chamber to read. it has become clear that the committee is offering to main questions. did the president try to impede congress and certification of the election results? and why was the old trumps? are slow to criticize the protests. as of the seriousness of their assault on congress became clear. it took several hours for trump to release this message. this was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people. we have to have peace. so

go home. meadows has given the committee thousands of documents. they show that if trump himself wasn't taking the right seriously, at least some in his circle were potent, has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate someone is going to get killed. indeed, a number of members of the press. a number of members of this body member, a member of the president's own family, all urged the president take action because they understood that the president of the united states had a responsibility to call off the mob. despite handling over so much information. meadows refuses to give an in person deposition to the committee, he claims executive privilege arguing as the president's chief of staff he should be allowed to withholds of information. otherwise, how could any president adviser, give honest advice to any president republican respect? that argument had accused democrats of engaging and a which on,

i hope the american people are paying close attention. i hope they see what happens when democrats get total power. they abuse it, they intimidate, they threaten, and they harass. it will not be up to the department of justice, decide whether the file charges it did so against steal. vitamin opened, he was found in contempt by congress. but bannon was a private citizen during january. the 6th, not an official white house adviser, and he's given no cooperation to select committee. the penalty for being found guilty of contempt of congress is within a month of the year in prison. but even that wouldn't force meadows to hand over any further information. donald trump, meanwhile, is fighting the committee subpoenas in the courts, and there's an assumption that the committee will be disbanded if the republicans re take the house of representatives in next november mid term elections. she returns the al jazeera washington. germany's new chancellor la salt delivering his 1st speech to parliament since being sworn in his angle marshal successor. so says

he will fight right wing extremism which he calls the greatest threat to german democracy. he says his government will spend the next 4 years fostering investment in innovation, not courtroom is a professor political science at commentary university. he says the new prime minister is likely to face a number of challenges. the 1st challenge would be to deal with rona virus. and he has 6 know that it's been this feature has been trail quite a lot. he has pointed carlisle to boss who is a, an eminent, legit and medical doctor to be the health minister. that's the screen size because laughter boss is not a manager. he's very much like, and i, especially if they take it, take me like but they have really sort of granted up and, and focused on the fact they are tackling corona virus. and that's going to be the main point. so it's going to be very much the following on for me and let me know about how to get behind was also a medical doctor as

a wing man, as an insult, discontinuing that size, but in the even more imminent. so the focus is around the glass and the 2nd would be to stable that shift. and then the focus will be to have a foreign policy that deals with that with russia. he will mention that, but he will go in the on that on the germans want to focus a foreign policy on economic they have, they don't highly dependent on the rest and that they do that quite a lot of stuff. and what about is frank? the mother within there's also the problem that while the green party and the liberal policy, the coalition, a very critical of russia and china, there are a number of people in his own party at the same time, aggressive party who would rather have a bit of an appeasement with busha frown says reducing its military presence in

northern molly as the government accuses it of abandonment. the french flag was lowered at a ceremony in timber to the last the 3 french faces. in this region, the troops were deployed in 2013 to help stop the attacks by fighters linked to al qaeda. and i saw molly's prime minister says the threat is still there. fighting between fishermen and herders in northern cameroon has killed at least 22 people, and for 30000 people to flee, some have shared stories of machete attacks and torture. the government says is that your ration is now calm, but is nicholas hack reports. there is concern, a shortage of water could lead to more violence. this is what's left of a once thriving market in the far northern region of cameroon, it was burned down in finding about access to water in the region. these mobile phone footage shows armed herders in cuz harry, looking for water points to feed their cattle,

fighting with fishermen and farmers unwilling to share their wells. 4 months after the end of a rainy season that brought little rainfall, people are willing to kill wine for a drop of water. this vendor says, this is a war fueled by lack of water spilling across the region. the government standing by doing little to stop the fighting at the local hospital, injured rival, herders and farmers get treatment side by side after days of violence. the situation is tense. the governor offers envelopes of cash, but for many, this is not enough. not allow some lesser joe. so overall the situation has become com again. shops have been gradually reopening since yesterday. and so far we have not recorded any hot bed of tension. we will continue to receive communities, associations and all those who want to make a contribution to the restoration of peace. paul journey odyssey was while come ruins, president sent his ministers to the region to mediate more than 30000 people have

fled to neighboring chad, where president mohammed address debbie is calling for urgent humanitarian assistance. the displaced left behind their homes and belongings, but brought with them tales of horror. i was tortured by 7 people from the europe community. i was seriously wounded on my back by machetes of our land, almost died in the bush. but fortunately, my relatives found me and helped me to cross the river, so i could be treated here, will be the conflict there has become very violent go, but i don't want to go back. not enough water and thirsty for revenge. this is a conflict made worse by changing climate with months to go before next year's rainy season. the people of cameron's far north fear the fight for water has only just begun. nicholas hawk algae 0. malta has become the 1st european country to allow

limited possession of cannabis for personal use. a law allows adults to possess 7 grounds and grow a maximum of 4 plans. but smoking cannabis in public will remain illegal. nasa has confirmed its parker solar probe, which is orbiting the sun has touched it for the 1st time on a recent fly by the prob, dipped into the upper atmosphere also called the corona. astronomers learned for the 1st time the corona has spikes, and dicks and the pro will continue until 2025. ok . hello again. the headlines on al jazeera, hong kong police have just confirmed that more than a 1200 people have been rescued from the cities world trade center after a fire broke out in the building. at least 13 people have been sent to hospital free clinic as a journalist and hong kong that has more from the sci fi approach house on the 3rd

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