but in this occupied palestinian city boys are also close to watched vice really forces at times shut up and often arrested. a delicately told tale fumed over 5 years of a coming of age in a place where even a child's imagination is evidently restricted. the skies above had brought a witness documentary on a chest. eda ah vladimir putin on shipping the whole virtual talks. while western nations pressure moscow over its true build up on ukraine's border. ah, you're watching l 0. lie from headquarters in ohio daddy navigator also coming up. new beginnings, germany's chancellor aloft sold sets out his government's 4 year plan,

including how it'll win the battle against club 19 pull to safety, more than a 1000. 200 people are rescued from hong kong world trade center plan. just how close did nasir get to the biggest and brightest star in our snowbirds system? ah, hello, we begin with the focus on the relationship between russia and china, president vladimir putin and she's in ping have just concluded a virtual summits. the meeting comes up as friction in both countries, relations with the west persists. yes, they've got a good laugh said the close coordination of russia and china as actions on the world stage. and the responsible joint approach regarding resolving current world problems became a significant factor in the stability of our relationship. katrina, you has more from beijing fading,

says the summit will only serve to enhance the already high level of trust between these 2 countries. and it's true president she'd been paying and cited putin already have a very strong personal report. they've met more than 30 times in the last 7 or so years. and this relationship, the strength is built on to foundations. i think one is economic. these countries do a lot of trade with each other. there's a lot of neutral investment. china relies on russia for a lot of its energy. it's oil and it's gas. and there was a work together in terms of other projects as well. russia participates in china is built in rhode initiative that you are talking about working on space exploration as well. and other, another aspect of this relationship, of course, is also political. this meeting is coming at a time when both countries aren't coming under increasing criticism from the west, the us europe, new, so et cetera, for the policy is both abroad and domestically. of course,

russia is undefined because of its massive true build up on the border with ukraine and china as being heavily criticized for its increasing military activity this year around the self rules island of taiwan, which paging claims as its own. and we also seen him in the future in support. china repeatedly when it comes to a lot of china is a controversial policies at home when it comes to young hong kong, etc. a lot of this, a lot of its behavior, which other countries have criticized as human rights abuses. and of course, we've had recently, many western countries announced that they will diplomatically boy caught the winter olympics. china's big events that, that they're holding and will open in february the u. k. u. s. canada st. have announced among other countries that they will not send any officials. and yet we have russia, vladimir putin say that he will delightfully agree to attend. and he's so far the

only major leader to say that he will, germany's new chancellor lost souls, has urged everyone to get vaccinated if the countries to win the fight against for a virus. he warned that his administration will have no red lines when tackling code 19 saying they had no time to waste. germany is currently grappling with its biggest waves, infections in the panoramic. so far. all bunker is the berlin director of the political consultancy, ref moose, and global. he says, show since made it clear that tackling the pandemic is his priority. even when they just announced the coalition agreement 3 weeks ago. the 1st statement, all of shots made as the just nominated chance larry was not elected by that time. the 1st and most the highest priority will be unsettling, the coroner damage. and of course, we have a lot of other countries in europe who are taking straight measures, leg austria with a straight lock down. and the debate here is ongoing, and everyone is half out expectations actually, that shows and his government can,

can cope with the, with the pandemic. the interesting aspect which is underestimated here is that he is not coming into into the government, into the seat as chancellor from the opposition. right. so usually you have a democracy that you have an opposition and the leader of the opposition then comes off the lecture and becomes the new chancellor or the social is always near. for the last years, you have been the vice chancellor of germany for the last 4 years. he had always been in very good cooperation with chancellor merkel. and that i think also made this specific transition those special because it was super smooth. it was very calm. you could hardly see that the government was leaving office and the new government took up and there was no friction. the current of iris pandemic is top of the political agenda in germany as you've been hearing, and the united kingdom as well on the crone infections are now doubling there every

2 days. but as paul brennan reports bringing back title restrictions is proving to be a political headache for prime minister boards, johnson 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 severe diseases. the sheer number of cases could once again overwhelm unprepared. health systems. in the u. k. m. a kron case was 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 cron 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 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. andrew simmons is in london with more denmark and the u. k. seems to be the worst worst in sense of, of spread of this variant right across the board. so that there is a real concern that the rest of your has to keep going as it is with increased measures. but as they do this more and more there's a debate about whether the measures are too authoritarian in the u. k. it's pretty ironic that it's the conservative party that wants to go against what it calls

draconian measures when they're really light weight measures. and there's a real, a difficulty about where it moves forward. it has to be said that if birth johnson has his hand, this time that he's been told that he'll, he, he has been selling m p. 's that he will bring parliament back after the recess. the christmas recess starts at the end of this week. he will bring the parliament back if he wants to go for further measures. he really is in a bad position. not only that, but with domestic politics as well. a string of so called slee scandals and a row over christmas part is last year busting, locked down rules in government buildings, including downing street investigations going on as to whether or not these parties did actually breach the regulations. so he's in a bit of a mess, and as he is in this mess, that danger of army kron numbers rising. is there for all to see

police in hong kong have confirmed more than a 1000. 200 people have been rescued from the city is world trade center after a fire in its 1st floor. at least 13 people were taken to hospital. brick clinic as a journalist in hong kong, she says the fire broke out in an electrical room. here rescue operation the more than 1000 people trapped in the world. prices have been rescued. some take into hospital with injury with smoking relation issues as well. we understand that the fire broke out in a meter room on the 1st floor from then holding pool to life was not clear exactly how the fire started their renovation on the way. now this happens in one of the busiest areas in hong kong with the popular shopping area. and many of the people who have been out for lunch with the holy in the lead up to the holiday season. so this has caused a lot of public, and a lot of the agencies are launching

a joint appeal saying more than 8000000 people and have gone to stand on the brink of famine. and more than a 1000000 children under 5 could die estimated that 75 percent of all government spending was funded by international donations before the taliban take over. from mcbride, travel to kandahar in the south of the country, which is suffering food shortages. from early morning at 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. oh dear. 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 population of nearly $40000000.00 and now going hungry hospitals in kandahar city are seeing

the result listless, dance the one will sometimes 2 babies per bed nurse lie loma and her staff are treating twice as many cases as normal under 2 motor most of these mothers on 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're seeing 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 sweet 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 takeover. 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 with the bat and now it's where they like their neighboring villages facing the long winter ahead. public bride al jazeera, kanda afghanistan, still ahead on algae 0 less. people had died at the facility than what it was. if

people would let them go. workers in the u. s. a. they were prevented from leaving a factory before tornadoes struck in kentucky and strong rhetoric from iranian and us diplomats on the 2015 nuclear deal. and they tried to revive the agreement. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored play cut on airways, the philippines is bracing for a typhoon. right. hello everyone, let me get you the later says it fans into eastern portions of the country cut straight through central areas and those winds at landfall. i think we'll be whipping up to a 190 kilometers per hour or $2.00 to $300.00 millimeters of rain expected, so mud slides and land sides. a big concern. the ne monsoon steering periods of heavy rain in simulation, this is impacting quality poor,

concentrated rain over sinatra and java could see some jolts and bolts for jakarta . with the high of 33 degrees. batch of rain running across the yangtze river valley out toward the east china seas, wyoming into southern sections of japan. will pick up the story. there is plaguing q shoes, southern horseshoe western portions as well. and then we've got some snow showers for her cargo, and we're also going to see some cold air rushing. and that will eventually make its way to tokyo, as we head toward saturday, just the high of 8 degrees, so that is below average. next, stop or go into the sub continent. and once again, that ne monsoon, a few shower re periods for tamela do. but i think the worst of the rain really for this eastern portion of sher longer. so back to town on the do it's going to be a dry a few days for tonight. your temperature locks in to about 30 degrees. that you're up the season. oh, the weather sponsored by casara always. do you want a bank that puts the expat back into expertise? need bank business banking strikes?

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chancellor elect sholtes has urged everyone to get vaccinated if the country is to when to fight against corona virus is warned to his administration. we have no red lines when tackling the pandemic saying they have no time to waste. hong kong police have confirmed more than 1000. 200 people have been rescued after a blaze. fire broke out at the cities world trade center. at least 13 people were taken to hospital staff at a candle factory in the u. s. state of kentucky. se 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 states governor saying he'll investigate the allegations out zeros. hydro castro reports from mayfield, 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 elijah 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, then 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 were like, we need to leave me and we got kids and stuff at the house. we got, we got to take your family and he was like, well, you can leave what you going to be terminated and was like what? even with the weather like this, and he'll say 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 sound himself trapped in debris. then came the screen. it was a security officer. it was on my leg and his grandma, my leg, a cable said help 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 the company was negligent in the way that 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. that is such a gamble to say leave. 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. ra johnson says after emerging from the collapse factory, he could think of only one thing. i thought a crack because i thought my brain is at all my phrases. he is still not sure of the woman he credits with saving his life. survived heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky. the us house of representatives has voted whole donald trump's former chief of staff and contempt of congress. mark meadows failed to appear before committee investigating the capitol hill right of january. now up to the attorney general to decide whether to formally charge meadows, she have a chance. he reports from washington, d. c. the full version of the house of representatives, finding mark meadows and contempt congress was a foregone conclusion. and the democratic control chamber scenery. 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, mothers have given the committee thousands of documents. they said 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 presidential adviser give honest advice to the 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 environment open. 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 is given no cooperation, the select committee. the penalty for being found guilty of contempt to 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 as an assumption that the

committee will be disbanded if the republicans re take the house of representatives in next november's mid term elections. she advertise the al jazeera washington. us politicians have voted to raise the federal debt limits within hours of the treasury's deadline. the vote avoided a major credit default. it raises the boring cap by 2 and a half trillion dollars. republicans offered just one vote in the house and no votes in the senate. hey, teens. prime minister has an ounce 3 days of national morning after more than 60 people were killed when a gas tanker exploded. but that's all is expected to rise as the hospitals and the coastal city of cap hatch and have been overwhelmed. julian wolfe's cause, the story. the one by one victim of monday's gas explosion are loaded onto the truck. as own workers is watching shop. the there is little comfort for this mother who weeps at the loss of her child. the wide

sheets cover the victims as they lay sprawled across the street. some too badly burned to be identified. i heard a loud noise around midnight. i asked one of my boys, what is it about why he said it was a large truck filled with gasoline right away. i left the place with my family and went the other way to the bridge. that's all i can say. a truck carrying gasoline overturn monday exploding into a fireball and golf in cars and homes in its path. 6 pedestrians reportedly rushed to the scene, collecting spilled gas as the country suffers from a severe fuel shortage. i received many calls, informing me about the fire and immediately the firefighters and police and alert, so they could interview. unfortunately many people died. but i want to congratulate our 1st responders because they put their lives at risk to control the fire and

prevent any further debt. on monday, the prime minister ariel on re expressed his condolences declaring 3 days of national morning with the local hospital stretch, then he has deployed field hospital to the area. it is the latest tragedy in a country that has already experience so much this year. gillian wolf, al jazeera, the us sector said anthony lincoln says his country remains committed to a multi $1000000000.00 fighter jets deal with the u. s. e. despite reports about w once out, wall street journal reported the united arab emirates wants to cancel the purchase of $35.00 don drones because a security requirement. they include stringent measures against chinese espionage. the u. n is calling on the united states under ron to move faster to restore the 2015 nuclear deal. baset or is it the security council describe the situation as grave? kristen salumi reports from the un. 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. a nation, iran's continued nuclear 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 un has expressed 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 on di, 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. kristen salumi al jazeera, the united nations frances reducing its military presence in northern molly. as the

government's accuses it of abandonment. the french flag was lowered or the ceremony and symbol to the loss of 3 french bases in the whole region. the troops were deployed in 2013 to help stop attacked by fighters linked to al qaeda. and i saw molly's prime minister says the threat is still their motto has become the 1st european country to allow limited possession of cannabis for personal use. the law allows adults to possess 7 grounds and grow a maxima for plans, but smoking cannabis and public will remain illegal. nasa has confirmed its parker solar pro, which has 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 dips. it's a discovery that could help further understand solar, whether the probe will continue until 2025. francisco diego is

a lecture at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london. he says that a significant moment the sony, so bowl of gods doesn't have a proper surface, a solid surface on the closest the space, but always going to be is about 4 diameter. so this on far away from what we see the surface of the sun. so you're not exactly touching the surface of the sun, but it is touching the darrell atmosphere, this funding thermal corona, which is what a lot of things happen that affect the, the end of part of the solar system and the air of course, the corona, of the sun is what we seen a thought on solar eclipse. for example. that's a kind of very, very thin and very beautiful actually looks like a flower. when i have seen several solar eclipses on the it is very hot, is about 2000000 degrees, which is hundreds of pounds halter on the surface of this on, on the is still not very clear why the temperature is so high house, get the temperature. there are magnetic fields in astronomy, general when you have

a complex and situation it magnetic fields are always in bold. magnetic fields in the formation of planets in the formation will start on in the atmosphere of the sun in the maximum speed of the earth as well. so these magnetic fields are kind of particle accelerators that increase they, the speed of supersonic particles on also makes it shifting that, that grown up. we still don't know, i'm the space probe a parker space pro. he's going to give us more idea of how these happens. ah, we can. the headlines on al jazeera, the chinese and russian leaders have held a virtual summit. she didn't things meeting with vladimir putin comes at a time of rising tension between both nations and the west. jessica, the lesser the closed coordination of russia and china's actions on the world stage . and the responsible joint approach regarding resolving current world problems became a.