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during talks aimed at reviving the nuclear deal. and germany's new chancellor on a shots priest harmon for the 1st time and warns russia and pay a heavy price if it invades ukraine. ah, or use president joe biden has visited kentucky where he swore 1st had the devastation caused by tornadoes that killed at least 88 people across 6 states. idaho walked through piles of debris and homes without roofs and windows in the city of mayfield, where he talked to locals. he said he'd never seen so much damage from a tornado and told officials not to hesitate to ask for anything more than a 100 people are still missing. and tens of thousands of without power. are going to get every single thing you need. and i'm going to make sure the federal government does what's needed at the state request for famous search and rescue teams are working here in kentucky right now for those lab power famous already for

our product. 61 generators. your army corps of engineers has a temporary power install teams to ready to assistive need it. the government's going to cover 100 percent of the costs. 100 percent of the costs are the 1st 30 days for all the emergency work from clary and everything. for every single cause, the federal government's going to take care of and it includes debris removal, cost of over time, and law enforcement, emergency service personnel, and shelter will speak to john henry, who's outside of the amazon warehouse in edward's vill, illinois, shortly. that was badly damaged. first, let's bring in hydro castro, she's in mayfield, kentucky. and heidi we heard from president biden. what do people react to how people reacting to what he's promising? a lauren, the families that have been devastated by this disaster. those who survived have

all have told me, they count themselves as lucky to have their lives because property can be rebuilt . but one gentleman who i just spoke with, whose house was destroyed, he says he's actually not getting any help from the government. contrary to what you just heard, the president promise it looks like this help may be spotty, particularly if people already had insurance on their homes. and this gentleman counted himself lucky and that his insurance will step in. but that actually disqualified him. he says, for some of the government assistance, so with the need so great, so many people out of home, thousands of buildings destroyed by these storms i hit on friday of last week. this process of rebuilding is going to be a big challenge logistically. and for each and every single person involved in the short term, how people coping of a managing to find somewhere to stay yeah,

many have found should temporary shelter with family or friends. we know the state governor has opened up the state parks in this world part of kentucky for people to stay in logic or camp grounds. you know, the storm hit at a time that was unseasonably warm. and that's another thing that's being looked at whether climate change may have made these tornadoes more bigger and more powerful . but because of the warm weather, it also means that all these families who are without power, without heat, it's allowing them to at least get through the next few days a little bit easier. but there are so many questions still left on answered as investigators look into the storm and as people are struggling to rebuild, i did your answer. thank you very much. speak to john henry, who's in edwards, phil, illinois, and there's a federal investigation looking into conditions at the implant where, where people died, what, what's happening with is right. the u. s. occupational

safety and health administration wants to know what happened in the 21 minutes before a tornado touched down and tore into the front of that amazon warehouse. that's how much time the people, the managers inside of that building were given. warning that a tornado was likely to strike near this site at 27 minutes after 8 o'clock eighty's, i'm sorry. 27 minutes after 8 p. m. local time. that is when the tornado touched down in the parking lot in front of that building. and then ripped into it, by that time the company had gathered most of the people deep inside that building into a pre designated tornado shelter. but there were 6 people who were not in that shelter, according to amazon officials. and those are the people who died. 6 people were killed, one was injured. and one of the bins, osha is likely to look at is whether those people should have been in the shelter. at that time. there were also some concerns from workers. some of the workers wanted to have left,

some of the workers had hoped the company would have shut down because of the threat of the storm. these are all things that osha is likely to look at an investigation that is supposed to take up to 6 months. so it will be a while before we have answers on this one. john henderson, thank you very much indeed. ah, you k as reported its highest number of daily coding infections since the start of the pandemic will then 78000 cases were confirmed on wednesday. for mr. maurice johnson insist the country's bush to roll out will be enough to fight the new will transmissible on the corner variant. but officials or warning cases and hospitalizations will reach new highs in the coming weeks. the doubling rate of omicron in some regions is now down to less than 2 days. and i'm afraid we're also seeing the inevitable increase in hospitalizations up by 10 percent nationally. we

call week and up by almost a 3rd in london. but we are also seeing signs of hope, but the since we launched our emergency omicron appeal on sunday night, a great national fight back has begun. and people have responded with an amazing spirit of duty and obligation to others. and i will say that each and every one of you who rolls up your sleeve to get jabbed is helping this national effort. this is a really serious threat of the moment, the how big a threat. there are several things we don't know. but all things that we do know are bad, and the principal one being the speed of which this is moving, it is moving. and i absolutely phenomenal pace. and therefore, between the time that it 1st starts to really take off in a way people will be able to see. and the point or when are we get to very, very, very large numbers will be quite a short on your pink nation. president osler found alliance as scientists expect on

micron to be the dominant strain in europe by the middle of january. france is already seeing a spike in cases recording more than 65000 infections in the past 24 hours. that's all cases of came in. as the highest number of daily cases in 13 months on the line as warned that the block is still battling a high number of delta infections. manzona need for guess what i'm misty is this in baton. one should not forget, or it's always important to consider that this high increase in new infections is almost exclusively due to the delta variant. that's what worries me is that we are now seeing on the crown on the horizon, which is apparently even more contagious. if you look at the doubling of the number of new infections, that's just 2 or 3 days that's rapid. and science tells us that by mid january, we can expect damacom to be the new dominant variant in european south africa is also reported a record number of new daily cobra infections. almost 27000 new cases were detected

in the past 24 hours. health officials say the 4th wave is being driven by the on the con variant, south africa alerted the world, the new strain in november on the cross since been found in 77 countries. the scientists are still working to determine its severity while extensive real life study of the on the con, variant in south africa has revealed that 2 doses, 5 as vaccine provides 70 percent protection against hospitalization. the infections also appear to be less severe. overall, micro patience, a 29 percent less likely to be hospitalized compared to all the varies and vaccinated people make up to 16 percent of i. c u admissions. however, the new variant is far more transmissible. a non peer reviewed study conducted in hong kong, as revealed that only cron replicate 70 times faster than the previous delta varied . but it replicates less efficiently in long tissue, which scientists say could be an indicator of lower disease severity. due to sun is

nadeem ologist and senior next for green. mary university of london, she says, focusing on vaccination alone will not be enough to limit the spread of alma krohn . it's more rapid than any previous wave that we've seen, which means that they will be a very, very large number of cases by a very soon. and that of course means high impact in terms of pressure and hospitals and high impact in terms of severe disease. and if you just look at our, you know, the proportion boost at it, it's still a minority compared to the entire population. and that means that although they are more wonderful groups, somebody was boosted to day for example, but only have impact of the booster. and about $10.00 to $14.00 days, and that's about $5.00 to $7.00 doubling time. so by that time case numbers will be extremely high, even for people being boosted today. and of course many people don't have access to both. so so january a so we can deal with an exponential rise as rapid as this week. good boosters

alone and i think that's a huge mistake. the government is making still a head around reserve. everything old is new again in the netherlands, despite scandals fallen confidence annual elections. the same that coalition government is confirmed, arise rescue. hundreds of people saved when far breaks out in a home office. ah hello, thank you for joining in all eyes on typhoon right. as it signs into eastern portions of the philippines cuts across central areas, you know, i think we could see those winds with up to a $190.00 maybe 200 kilometers per hour. $2.00 to $300.00 millimeters of rain to be sure. so the risk of mud slides and line slides. another spot we're seeing a lot of rain days of rain really is for malays via the northeast spawn soon

steering that rain rate into their concentrated rain sumatra. java jakarta? seen some thunderstorms with a high of 33 degrees. you have a batch of rain running into southern sections of japan, q shoes, southern honshu, western areas upon you. and then it's all about that cold air rushing in. it's going to make its way all the way to japan, so by saturday, tokyo just has a high of 8 degrees and from low temperatures to high temperatures. i'm going to take das trailer this few days out. this is on sunday. we're baking in the heat for western australia. some spots may hit 50 degrees by the end of the weekend, but back to the here and now on thursday, a few showers coastal new south wales, more inland through queensland, and for new zealand. that what, whether really starting to taper off the intensity the south island sunspots over the last few days have had their weather stay in about 7 years. but the worst of it over the,

the 20th century, 1st genocide, though it has set the blueprint for the holocaust, is too often overlooked. then will come in very everything. but for some reason, they refuse to bury these people. they want, sorry to be taught over a century on the injustice, echoed down the generation and the pastor, reparation is not an easy one. namibia, the price of genocide, people and power on al jazeera lou ah, monday top stories are now to 0 years president joe biden has visited kentucky. the state worst affected by fridays, devastating series of tornadoes across 6 states,

at least 88 people have been killed, and 100 are still missing. and the u. k is reported its highest number of daily code infections of the pandemic, or the 78000 cases were confirmed on wednesday. and scientists in europe say on the kron will be the dominant variant in the you are the middle of january has been a breakthrough at the iran nuclear talks in vienna. aaron's far mr. says un cameras will be allowed to film at a sensitive site. this you had been a sticking point during discussions to revive the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015. docile to borrow reports from vienna. this is the 7th round of negotiations between iran and signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal, as well as the united states. and one of the main thinking points for the europeans had been iran's compliance with the international atomic energy agency. until now i saw last night we reached

a good agreement with the i e. a that could address some of the alleged concerns about iran's peaceful nuclear program. and lead to continued mutual cooperation with the i a 2 series of texts are being discussed in vienna. the 1st is the result of 6 rounds 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, iran says the i e a will now be able to allowed to have cameras at one of its sensitive sites. the director general of the us nuclear watchdog has had some serious concerns about the lack of access to what was taking place at a workshop just outside to her on where centrifuges are being made useless. but in june, 1 of the cameras was attacked and damaged iranian officials accused israel of sabotage . then iranian officials took all 4 i. e cameras, offline, and refused to allow inspectors to replace them. now,

with this technical agreement with the i, e a, there is hope that the talks here in vienna will get the push. they need to move forward. in a practical sense, it means that the i, a e, a again, will be able to monitor the production of centrifuge components. this is what the garage facility does. and the reason for doing this is for the i a e, a, have a better handle on whether any centrifuge component might be taken away from the garage to be assembled into centrifuges at some secret site. the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal have been meeting since april to try and get the us and iraq to return to the agreement, which was aimed at limiting iran's nuclear program. in exchange for economic benefits and sanctions relief, while the u. s. is not directly talking to reigning officials here in vienna. there seems to be renewed optimism about the 7th round of talks. and now that the main issue between iran and the i e seems to be

a result. it will be up to the americans. for 4th, what they're willing to do to convince ron to return to for compliance. dorset safari al jazeera vienna, the ukranian president, his making his german and french count fonts to discuss rising tensions with russia . government lensky, and brussels. the use eastern partnership summit, france and germany of the main brokers for peace between ukraine and russia. there are 100000 russian troops on the russian border with ukraine. sturgeon is a possible invasion. german chancellor shawls says his country is open to constructive dialogue with russia. but warn moscow that any further aggression against ukraine would have a high price shirts made the remarks in his 1st speech to parliament. it's becoming chancellor last week. don't it? kane has more from ballad in terms of foreign policy priorities. mister schultz is pretty clear for him right now. it was important to stress that in eastern europe,

and specifically with a message to moscow that any violation of ukraine's territorial integrity will be challenged by his government. and by the rest of the european union, this is what he had to say to german politicians in parliament. he defended from terry to any violation of territorial integrity. we'll have a high price and we will speak with one voice here with our european partners and our transit atlantic allies. domestic policy is also very important for mister schultz and his colleagues around the cabinet table. but the one pressing issue is move that covey is, and how to deal with cove is we know that mister schultz, his preferred resolution is to get as many vaccines into people's arms as possible . whether that be 1st and 2nd, vaccines or the booster vaccine. but we also know that mister schultz believes that there should be some form of mandatory requirement. he's going to give members of parliament of free vote, not on party lines of free vote about what they should decides and that should come

in the next few weeks. months he want whatever measures are agreed on to have teeth, may be people who don't have vaccines, might be find that's for the future. but for now it's pretty clear he thinks coded and dealing with his top priority. germany has expelled to russian diplomats over the murder of a chechen man in berlin. after court found the crime was ordered by the kremlin. a russian citizen has been sentenced to life in prison for carrying out the murder. tony can, gosh, really if any was shot dead at close range in a park on august the 23rd 2019 and he's arrested a russian suspect later, the same day authorities had the killer entered germany on a fake, french issued passport accomplish government has been announced in the netherlands after the longest negotiations in the country's history, 273 days. but the new government has been formed with the same parties,

despite the previous government being forced to resign over child care benefits, scandal sent us and reports from the hague. that voters have to wait 9 months to see the same faces from the same parties, announcing a new government acting prime minister, margaret of the center right favored a party promised a new start with the democrats, christian democrats, and a small christian party. no longer the exact same coalition was forced to stab down earlier this year. after almost $50000.00 parents were wrongly accused by tax authorities of child care benefit fraud and investigation. found that some were victims of racial profiling natasha dpi, was forced to pay back nearly $120000.00 and lost her job, her house, and suffered from strokes con, on mentally ex, not need. i think it's in, you mean, i don't understand how this is possible. they have done this to us in not only to us, but to so many people feel how is it possible that the same people who did this can still be there?

so it's not that how long it in their coalition agreement to parties acknowledge the 1st thing they need to do is to restore trust. a recent survey showed at only 16 percent of dutch people still have confidence in the government strategy to tackle the gulf. it been demick, riots broke out in several cities in response to restrictions. why didn't you decide if we want a new government with a new face? this is not my, i should not run. i should not, of course i'm, i'm always responsible for everything which is not going well and it's absolutely equate showed the child benefit scandal. of course it happened on my watch. it was not my personal doing, but absolutely true. i was prime minister when that happens from minnesota. understand you're, you're here again, you're the new prime minister. yes. but we step down as a government and january the 40 elections and march and my party won after 9 month and at times painful negotiations. the new government looked very much like the old one. and although the 50 page agreement promises ambitious plans and

a new approach, many wonder if it will be enough to restore confidence in politics. the new government has allocated billions for far reaching climate policies to build new houses and improve the education system. i would say we have a leader as chip problem in the netherlands. or, for instance, our prime minister positions himself explicitly as her political manager, an he declined to show any moral leadership on important issues. say what the rule of law is, what the significance of loneliness is in the cove it's pandemic. and so it's only managing pressing problems, but no vision, but the voter will most likely lead his forth cabinet is optimistic, the new government that took so long to build will bring change. although some worry it might not live long enough to fulfill its promises. step, fasten elgin's era. the hague. international committee of the red cross is warning of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia, which is again in the grip of drought,

is forcing families to leave their homes in search of water and grazing land for cattle, which are again be report waiting for water, severe drought in somalia central gal good at region means people are reliant on humanitarian aid to stay alive. the drought combined with recent fighting between the somali national army and armed fighters has been a disaster for this region. a 100000 people have had to leave their homes in girl and moved to make shift camps on the outskirts of town. about on the soccer tra, i'm 50 years old and i've seen many droughts, but this one is the worst. the fighting has also forced people to flee. these things have all come at once. intense shelling damage several buildings in girl, including its main hospital and other hospital was destroyed in a fire. towel call become we're looking for a hospital, had a lot of patients admitted when the disaster happened and the entire hospital

burned down this morning. a number of people arrived yet thinking it still exists that they had not heard the news. people will suffer a lot. humanitarian organizations are doing what they can. the demand grows along with the population of the camps for aid that's in limited supply. income along the recent clashes that occurred and grilled, have had a big impact on people's lives. health facilities, including key referral, hospitals, had been destroyed or partially damaged. key water infrastructure has also been damaged. as a result displaced, people are desperately in need of water, food, shelter, and health services. agencies have scaled up efforts, but say more support is needed with their livelihoods destroyed. many of the displaced will continue to stay in the camps long after the drought and the fighting is over. victoria gate and b algae 0. well, the dozen people were taken to hospital in hong kong after

a fire and saw that it cities, world trade center, about 300 people were trapped on the roof when the fire broke out in a machine room and moved to scaffolding, surrounding the building. but kenneth has more from hong kong, etc. cow, 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. wow, there was thick smoke billowing out of the world trade center in causeway bay. fi fight is trying to reach dozens of people stuck on a podium and the roof of the 38th story. skyscraper, hundreds of others becoming trapped inside, while fumes filled a dining area. eventually, all 770 were rescued. all firemen discovered a heavy smoke lock. the fire scene was heavily blocked. the time of arrival. so through a fireman of we refunded the of it is one of the reason may

need to the distress through the occupants inside the building authorities say the fire started in the meter 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 caused plenty of chaos in distress. and there will be many people demanding answers. rick clinic al jazeera hong kong on thursday, bangladesh will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its victory over pakistan is fight for independence. was one after 9 months of war at the government estimates about 3000000 people were killed in a conflict. the country now was to tell the world of 50 years of progress and

development. i'm the chevy, repulsion, data. i am on a mac. do so mom. this landmark speech in march 1971 by shack. maggio berman popularly known as bung bundle inspired the bengali people. and what was, than is pakistan to rise up and prepare for a war of independence. lock the head of your t. o. since we have given blood, we'll give more of it. but in charla will free the peoplesoft, his land on the struggle. this time is for emancipation. the struggle this time is for independence. soggy, not on a song. when bung with as became an independent country, 9 months later, longer bundle became its fast precedent and later prime minister or you bali now in his late seventies and a farmer, freedom fighter visits the bangladesh liberation war museum with his family. he does not one the next generation to forget the sacrifices that were made. one

longer than i am now, my life. we love, but bang and do. and he is the one who inspired us to go to the war and fight for our independence with our life so that we can live in a free country. we have a sheed many things and we're happy about it. but deal on another former fighter survive several bullet loans 50 years ago, but says his disappointed bangladesh is still not fully self reliant. love what are older, fidel managers, hello. we went to war to liberate ourselves from domination and become independent . since then, the nation has developed a lot and has changed a great deal, but so much more needs to be done with that. we are truly a self reliant country. during the 9 months conflict in 1971, nearly 10000000 bengalis took refuge in india. suffer a lie, young physician left the you care to join the liberation war and set up a fil hospital in india who fought for democracy. but

equality alley we have a cheap hutchins who lead you who live longer? who do i suffer from honda? but we have no democracy, we have no war bad. so to cities and dizzy autocracy, we dealt with them or police, he will to freedom of his speech without the equality. a country is meaningless. once termed a bottomless basket case by former us secretary of state, henry kissinger, bangladesh now has one of the fastest growing economies in the world. and is scheduled to officially become a developing country in 2026. by let us ha ha much over the past 50 years. but the nation is still very polarized between 2 main rival political parties. for many desperation, for democracy, free and fair elections still remains

a major challenge. bangladesh has defied many expectations since it's about 50 years ago, but is facing more obstacles on the political front. it's over population and the effects of climate change. sandwich audrey al jazeera, darker, and keep in mind you can catch up any time with all the stories were reported on. on our website, the address of that is al jazeera dot com, and that's updated throughout the day out there, dot com. ah . or one of the top stories are now to 0. u. s. president joe biden has visited kentucky where he seen 1st hand the devastation caused by tornadoes that killed at least 88 people across 6 states in the city.