can comedy hill ethnic divisions and national tensions exist in both? yesterday. once upon a time in sarajevo on al jazeera with us president joe biden arrives in kentucky where search and rescue efforts go on days off. the tornadoes killed more than 80 people in the region. ah, i'm sammy's a than this is al jazeera alive from the hall. so coming up a break through iran talks in vienna, off the weeks of negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear agreement, ukraine's president follow me at the landscape, needs you,

lead it has concerns grow about russian troops, a mass that is border and saving the bees in africa, scientists say it's not too late. i us president joe biden has arrived in kentucky. there was defected state by fridays, devastating tornadoes, at least 88 people have been killed, more than a 100. a still missing across 6 states. biden is expected to meet some of the victims and state officials. tens of thousands of people are without power, as volunteers and emergency workers clear debris and did a noise investigation is underway into the collapse of an amazon warehouse that killed at least 6 people will speak to john henry, who's outside the amazon warehouse in edward's vill, illinois shortly, 1st spring in high d, jo, castro. she's in mayfield, kentucky. so what to expect patients like for jo biden's visit that

was saturday, the president helicopter actually just flew overhead a few minutes ago. this was his area survey of the town of the fields where we stand now and it is just utter devastation. home businesses, this downtown district completely widened by friday, tornado. the total death hole in this state of kentucky at $7048.00 people dying in a nearby candle factory where allegations have now surface from workers that bosses their refuse to allow them to leave prior to the storm. 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 ages, and we could have been gone. we could have been gone. everybody could. i guarantee you a good 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 was like, we need to leave me and we got kids and stuff at the house. we got, we got to take care of 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 heels i, yes, it 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 his grandma leg a cable say it helped me help him. and i couldn't help by the time because i was stuck myself. he was touching my leg at 1st and they just up 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, hold the law. kentucky governor has pledged to investigate whether the 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. if 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 still not sure of the woman he credits with saving his life survived. and there has been so many other stories of heroism that it emerged from this tornado. sammy neighbors rushing to one another, friends and family pull each other out of this rubble. and of course, this recovery effort is just beginning in this town of mayfield. it could be years before this entire town is rebuilt, but the community says they're going to help each other do it. we've seen many volunteers here helping donate things like christmas present to children whose entire houses are white away, trying to still give them a holiday. and it's those little things that people are holding onto, as they try to put one foot in front of the other. all right,

thanks so much. hi to jo castro there. let's take this now to john henderson. he's in edward's vill, illinois, and not just control over that candle. thank you. got also in illinois, the investigation going on into the amazon warehouse. where does that stand? that's right, jimmy, that's an investigation by the federal occupation, occupational safety and health admin stretch. and they say it's routine and incidence where somebody dies in the workplace like this, but that could take 6 months, but we're really get answers. what we do know about what happened here is that they started getting warnings at this amazon center about 6 to 16 after 8 o'clock b m local time. and within that period, they alerted employees. that was just about it. 16 after that was 11 minutes before the tornadoes swept through. here were told it touched down somewhere in that parking lot behind me and swept into the entry area. now most of the workers were

hunker down in a designated tornado shelter internally in that building and its somewhat hardened area. hardened with concrete, but not everybody could make it there. they didn't have enough time. and so those people who were killed, we are joke were in that front part of the building, one of them texted his girlfriend saying amazon won't let us leave. and she's concerned that maybe had he left, he might have been safer. another of the workers who was killed, their family has hired ben crump and noted civil rights attorney civil rights attorney. he was going to be looking into whether there is a potential for wrongful death action. so there are concerns that amazon might have done something wrong here. but there's also concerned that maybe the laws weren't strict enough. they don't require a really hardened tornado shelter much beyond what you'd have in your own home. so there's a lot to be looked into here. sammy. all right, thanks so much john. 100. now there's been a major breakthrough, the iran nuclear talks in vienna. neurons,

foreign minister says you and cameras will be allowed to film at the sensitive site . the issue has been a sticking point during discussions to revive the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015 above. last night we reached a good agreement with the i a that could address some of the alleged concerns about who runs peaceful nuclear program. and leads to continued mutual cooperation with the a to series of texts of being discussed in vienna. the 1st is the result of 6 rungs of talks. at the same time, other parties have agreed to have iran's newly proposed texts on the table, so as to achieve single, concise text from discussions and combination of all of these. corresponding doses . jabbar is the following. developments from vienna. hey, are on, is now in a position to tell the parties that are here in vienna negotiating how to return to

that nuclear deal. that it's done, everything they've asked of them. that's been asked of them by the international atomic energy agency. the i. e. a said that since june, they have not been able to access for cameras that they had at this workshop in carriage, which produces centrifuges for iran's nuclear program. they ran in said there was a sabotage attack on june 20th and damage one of the cameras. and since then they've taken all for offline since then for nearly 6 months now the i. e, a director general has been trying to get the iranians to allow i e to replace those cameras. now, iranians were asking the agency to condemn the attack, and that is what's happened now after this all this time. the agency has finally acknowledged that this was an act of sabotage and the radius of certified who will allow you to replace those cameras. but there is a point or that is going to be important here. and that is that the video that they will be recording of everything that happens in that workshop will not be handed

over to the agency as is procedure. now since february of earlier this year, a, the rain in parliament passed the law that iran will reduce his commitment to the agency because a nuclear scientist, moss, and barclays, other was assassinated in november of last year. they said these acts of sabotage are aimed at trying to get iran to come to the negotiating table in a weaker position. and they would, they have actually managed to do is really put iran in a much stronger position according to the officials there. so now the main issue here has been that there was a lack of access, according to this agency and carriage at this facility was one of the seeking points that was stalling these nuclear talks. now we reach a point where i, we will see really what the main issues are if there are any other than the technical aspects of returning to the j. c. p. away until now all the parties were saying, including the americans. that's the way news. we're not being forthright with giving their right amount of access to the nuclear agency, which polices the nuclear deal of 2015. so now with this announcement which was

made in toronto, it, we will expect it to be some kind of movement along these talks, which resumed after a 5 month break on november 29th. due to the fact that there was a new administration in teheran, after abraham racy, was elected in june. so now we're going to see in the coming days, what this means for the negotiations moving forward. and certainly, the iranians will now be in a position to say, we have given you everything you've asked for now it's time for you to do the same . the ukrainian president is meeting his german and french counterparts to discuss rising tensions with russia, followed the muse zalinski is in brussels for the use eastern partnerships summit, france and germany are the main brokers for peace between ukraine and russia. moscow has amassed a 100000 troops on its ford stoking fears of a possible invasion. natasha butler has more from paris. well, according to the elite, say the french present, a man or mcgraw,

met with ukrainian or president vote amazed lensky on the sidelines of summit. in brussels, the 2 leaders discussed the situation in ukraine and their concern over russia's military build up on the border. we know that us intelligence officials have warned that the kremlin could be looking to attack ukraine. micro also brief lensky about a phone call that he had had on tuesday with the russian leader vladimir putin. while the 2 liters were then joined by the new german chancellor, olaf sholtes the 3, then committed to trying to find a durable and peaceful solution for the crisis. they all said that they were committed, of course, to a safe guarding ukraine's territorial sovereignty. and they all said that they wanted to try and work to revive peace talks between russia and ukraine along the lines of the normandy format, in which france and germany would act. as mediators said,

i had an al jazeera as the number of corona virus cases. his new record in the u. k . the prime minister comes under fire, and hundreds of people are rescued from hong kong world trade center. ah. and away we go with your weather story for the middle east. hello, everyone. good to see you. we have a bit of activity rolling across the levant areas of the rock and we may see some showers across saudi into kuwait. and another area we're watching is voc that we show you the 3 day forecast, the risk of some showers thursday. i think the better bet will actually be on friday and your temperatures well above average for this have the year. next up, we're going to pakistan plenty of sun here, a bit of instability rolling across some parts of the country,

but nothing major. where we are seen a lot of disturb, whether it's for turkey, really ra conditions here, low temperatures, this stumble, 6 degrees. we have got the rain. and we've also got the wind and we're seeing that spread further toward the east tribes on had a beautiful day on wednesday. that changes on thursday. equitorial countries through africa. no surprise are storms here. round lake victoria through democratic republic of congo, congo guy bon rate through into camera room, actually a bit more dry and camera room on thursday. and then we've got a lot of what weather botswana inches in bob way that eastern portion of south africa. i want to show these temperatures, could take you a few days out because it's a different story. temperatures going down in johannesburg. this is by saturday cape town all the way up to 27 degrees. so feeling it more like summer. ah, do you want a bank that puts the partner back into partnership? need bank business banking is here to creepy with

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collapse of an amazon warehouse that killed at least 6 people. iran's foreign minister says un cameras will be allowed to film at the sensitive nuclear site. the issue had been the sticking point during negotiations to vienna to revive the 2015 landmark agreement. the ukranian president is me, think you lead as in brussels at the eastern partnership summit. it also made with the french and german leaders, the disgust rising tensions with russia. the u. k. has reported a record number of daily current, a virus cases. since the pandemic began, health officials have confirmed more than 10000 infections from the army. kron variant people must now show proof. they are double jabbed, went to certain venues. the restrictions were approved by parliament, despite dozens of politicians from the routing party, opposing them. prime minister bars johnson has dismiss,

call for his resignation. anderson's is following developments in london. as the army, kron rate of infections skyrockets, boris johnson's reputation is diving rapidly. and it's not just at the public health situation that's done that it's a, it's a quite a long story. all of a series of scandals known as sleaze, which is involving a allegations of corruption and also at the bought shop over the parties during last christmas, which apparently have, according to many sources, a breached covey regulations. but during that prime minister's question time, boris johnson was tackled by the labor leader. and i'm told that you are too weak to lead. and there is a reason for the allegation simply because a 100 are members of his party in parliament are voted against his government on

tuesday night over these are moves at to actually cause more restrictions. and. and now the question is, can he, can he be trusted at when this situation gets worse, to actually introduce the measures than a needed or needed? or when his policies are so reliance upon the triple booster jap, the booster jazz being the way he's planning to try and control this outbreak of infection. police in hong kong of confound hundreds, have been rescued from the cities world trade center after a fire in its 1st floor. at least 13 people were taken. the hospital brick plant has more a t cal, a panic in one of hong kong, busiest districts, dozens becoming trapped in a well known shopping center after a fire broke out during lunch time rush. oh,

there was thick smoke billowing out of the world. trade center in causeway bay by fight is trying to reach dozens of people stuck on a podium and the roof with the 38th story. skyscraper, hundreds of others becoming trapped inside, while fumes filled a dining area. eventually, all 770 were rescued. oh, firemen discovered a heavy smoke lock. the fire scene was heavily blocked. the time of arrival. so, to a fireman of, we found it, or it is one of the reason may need to the distress tudor occupants inside the building authorities say the fire started in the meet room on a lower level of the building. an investigation is underway into exactly what caused the fire. the manual alarm and sprinkler systems had been disabled on the 1st 5 floors because of renovation works. the fire department said it was only

alerted to this after the fire had broken out. this all happened at a popular shopping area in the run up to the holidays. some of those who were trapped would have been out with their colleagues for christmas lunch. it's cause plenty of chaos and distress. and there will be many people demanding answers. brick clinic al jazeera hong kong agencies are launching a joint appeal, saying more than 8000000 people in afghanistan are on the brink of famine. and more than a 1000000 children under 5 could die. it's estimated 75 percent of all government spending was funded by international donations before the tiny bomb takeover. rob mcbride traveled 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 afghans from this one district who now rely on their weekly rations from the world food program to get by

mohammed sharif is taking supplies back to his wife and 6 children. oh dear for shallow, her thoughts fidela. it's very important to us. if we didn't get this ada, we'd go hungry, so we're grateful. the liver, dear rupert, with warnings that half afghanistan's population of nearly 40000000 and now going hungry hospitals in kandahar city are seeing the results, the list stance. the one was 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. 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 affected 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 as drive away collect supplies. this will be enough for their 15, extended families until the following week or the, you know,

we've had to drought 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 can to afghanistan, former south african president, jacob zoom. his lawyers are appealing. a routing setting aside is medical peril and ordering him back to jail, the 79 year old to serving a 15 month sentence, full contempt after defying a constitutional court order to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. the obligations day back to his time in office for me. the miller has more from johannesburg. jacobs whom i was supposed to have testified before a commission of inquiry into what has been terms state capture in south africa basically, corruption. he did appear that inquiry, but on 2 other occasions either wouldn't answer the questions and on the 3rd occasion left abruptly. and he was in order to return to that commission,

which he refused to do, and instead thought a legal order to avoid appearing at the commission of inquiry. this was taken to the constitutional court who found that he had undermined the rule of law. he was supposed to have testified, and this is why you was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. he'd get, he was given a specific amount of time to add himself over. and that eventually did happen at the 11th hour. but going back to the current situation he's facing, it again goes back possibly to the former president's relationships with key political vigorous way in this instance. the one now former commission of correctional services allowed for jacob zoom, a medical medical role. and now the court has found there was an awful because the commissioner at the time bypass the parole board. and this is why it said he should

return to jail habitat, destruction, climate change and growing past the sides use are threatening africa's bes. that's according to scientists. in canyon who say the crucial role as pollinators of crops and wild plants is that risk. but there is hope i forgot, could avoid the destruction of be seen in north america and europe. malcolm web reports from the miranda in kenya. the other caught a trees on james worries, farm we're under producing by about a fish. he says he didn't even know until he joined the research program here in kenya disorder. that's when he learned about pollination and about the crucial role of pollinating insects. and i love become more, do move more like having a 100 cows, but only one book. it can't handle all the skulls. if you have countries, but without enough pollinators, the flaws will be there. many multiple initial will take place,

so your produce will be reduced. as part of the research project, james started keeping b's on his farm and then not visiting the cottage flowers, they're busy making honey. james cells expert said the pollination short food shows there's something wrong with keeping peace can help. scientists say that the pollination gap has been effectively closed and that the because the trees and now producing their maximum harvest, they're right next to the beehive. researches say that the bees themselves facing some grave threats. the un program of spraying locust that is played east africa over the last 2 years added to an already increasing use of chemical pesticides. farmers use them to help me growing populations, demands of food be they're also threatened by destruction of their natural habitats to make way for farm land and growing cities, changing climate posies,

new threats. the scientists working here at africa, leading insect research center say there's a lack of data compared to other continents. samples of pollen grains from b hives can help filling some of the picture as can samples of food crops. in them, they found pesticides that are banned in other continents and signs of over the years. they're also keeping in studying dozens of species of wild bees which play a greater role in pollination, but more vulnerable than the bees that a cap to make honey, they will let in scientists, michael latter says the destruction of bees caused by intensive agriculture in europe in the us or it could be avoided in africa to that we would be able to learn from the mistake that have been done before, and use more agro ecological approaches to sustain these ecosystem services, and to have a sustainable production. and also

a sustainable increase in production, and i think there, there are lots of solutions. many small hold farmers are already practicing them. james is one of them. the scientists say, be keeping on a farm can offset the destruction of natural pollinators. protecting the rest of the ecosystem will take more. malcolm web al jazeera miranda can yeah. nasa has confirmed its parker solar probe, which is all between the sun is touched it for the 1st time. on a recent fly by the probe 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 lecturer at the department of physics and astronomy at university college london . he says it's a significant moment. the sunny so ball of gas 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 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 effect they the end of part of the solar system on the earth. of course, the corner of the sun is what we seen the thought on solar eclipse. for example, that i took, i know very, very thin and very beautiful actually looks like a flower. when i have seen several solar eclipses, and the it is very hot, is about 2000000 degrees, which is hundreds of pounds halter on the surface of this on. and it's still not very clear why the temperature is so high holiday gas, these temperature, there are magnetic fields. in astronomy, in general, when you have a complex and situation, it magnetic fields are always seen balls, magnetic fields, informational planets in the formation of stars, on, in the atmosphere of the sun,

in the madness of the earth as well. so these magnetic fields are kind of particle accelerators that increase a they, they the speed of atomic particles and also makes it shifting that, that grown up. we still don't know on the space. probably parker space pro is going to give us more idea what, how this happens. ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines now. u. s. president joe biden is in kentucky. the worst affected state by fridays, devastating tornadoes and in illinois and the investigation is underway into the collapse of an amazon warehouse that killed at least 6 people. john hendrick has more from outside the white house. the investigation is a standard thing that the occupational safety and health administration does. it could take up to 6 months for them to come up with any conclusions they're going to look at whether.