this is not the way any family wants to raise their children. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise. it's actually feel as if you were there the. ready views of the scope and scale this destruction is almost beyond belief. joe biden promises to help communities devastated by some of the strongest nato's ever seen in the u. s. ah alon hasn't speak of this. is it alive from the hall? so coming up, the u. k. reports a record number of covey cases with the government warning. the comic con variance is set to drive a staggering search. there are several things we don't know. but all the things

that we do know is of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia, where a drought and recent fighting up cost 100000 people from their homes and we'll have all the action from the pizza, our top semi finals, algeria eliminates house nation cut off the scoring from a late penalty ah, or the u. s. president has visited communities hit by last week, severe tornadoes, promising to help them rebuild. joe biden says his government will cover the 1st month of clean up costs, describing the scale of the destruction as beyond belief. 88 people were killed across 6 states, and more than a 100 are still missing. how does your cast her reports from mayfield in kentucky?

this street in bowling green, kentucky once rang with the sounds of children playing young families lived here. but then on friday the tornado came and some neighbours sheltered together. they decided to get in the 1st house together. and unfortunately, the house was just a mileage for the grounds. 11 people died here. 8 of them were children or i don't know what it is. it's hard when somebody's gone and you're shot. you know what happened to visual as recovery worker. sift through the debris left in 6th grade all last week. super storm, leaving the landscape of devastation authority sphere. the final exam will be staggering. 9 year old aniston rack, lee climbed into

a bath tub with her younger sisters and her doll. this photo taken by their mother . 15 minutes before the tornado hit. aniston was killed. her sister survived one recounting to nurses what she'd endured. she said yes, i was flying around in the tornado, and i prayed to jesus to take care of me. and he spit me out in the tornado spit out into the mud. president joe biden comforted, stricken families, and toward the disaster area. wednesday, i intend to do whatever it takes as long as it takes, as long as it takes to support your state. your local leaders and friends, you recover and rebuild because you will recover and you will rebuild. jarrett thompson and his family survived by hunkering in their basement, got positive added to life can't be replaced with profit can you can rebuild. but it might take a while, which we have family friends and other people in the green that are setting up

center system with thousands of homes wiped away. the rebuilding process will be long and difficult. the healing even harder. heidi jo, castro, al jazeera mayfield, kentucky of the u. k. has reported its highest number of daily code 19 infections. since the start of the pandemic, more than $78000.00 cases were confirmed on wednesday. prime minister boris johnson says the roll out of boost, the vaccines will be enough to find the new more transmissible on the chrome varied . but health officials are wanting cases and hospitalizations will reach new heis in the coming weeks. the doubling rate of our micron in some regions is now down to less than 2 days. and i'm afraid i, 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 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 at the moment, the how big a threat. there are several things we don't know. but all the things that we do know are bad, and the principal one being the speed of which this is moving, it is moving in an 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 when we get to very, very, very large numbers will be quite a short on our prime minister boys. johnson is under increasing pressure over his

handling of the pandemic, and some from within his own conservative party are pushing fame to change his approach. and you, simmons has more from london as the number of infections from the on the chrome virus skyrocket. the reputation of forest johnson is diving. a 100 m. p. 's rebelled against his party in the house of commons on tuesday, night voting against new rules, which will be in cove. it passes a used night clubs, a larger venues. the motion passed through eventually, but not without damaged the prime minister and a prime minister's questions on wednesday. this is what the labor leader had to say . the british public, looking for a prime minister with the trust a mule 40 to lead britain through the prices instead, way bird with the worst possible prime as the worst possible thought. johnson tried to defend himself and did a knowledge that some members whose party felt that civil liberties would stay with

the new regulations. right? the way across europe, new measures are being taken to try to stem the level of increases in the on the chrome variant. but here in the u. k, there's a question mark over the prime minister's authority to try to get any further moves made to try and protect the public. and that's something that has a lot of concern about. the south korea is bringing back social distancing rules as record infection rates. they're threatened to overwhelm hospitals. the number of critically your patience is also at a record high. january 2nd gatherings will be limited, and restaurants and bars must close early unvaccinated. people can only dine out alone or get takeaways. new measures come to 6 weeks after restrictions were lifted under a so called living with coven policy. the u. s. is facing a double corona virus serge. the oma chron variant threatening to further stretch

hospitals that are already struggling with a spike in delta cases. many are at a breaking point and facing critical staffing shortages, practical haine reports. one year ago to day many americans woke up with fresh hope. the 1st vaccines had been administered for some, it seemed like the beginning of the end. but now, one year later, more people have died since the vaccine was available. then before 500000 people, bringing the death toll in the us to more than 800000 and with the new i'm a crown variant that is more contagious officials or warning that another spike in cases is coming, but mostly for the unvaccinated. our booster vaccine regimens work against armor chron. at this point, there is no need for a variant specific booster. it's gotten so bad in the state of minnesota that hospitals took out this full page ad,

practically begging people to get vaccinated. writing were heartbroken, were overwhelmed. dr. kenneth home in late signed the letter. oh, they are disappointed. upset, angry, frustrated, saddened you take the entire range of human emotion, human emotion, and you will see it in our staff. and we have to remember to continue to continue to care for our patients. no matter where they come from, what their vaccination status is and the spike is having real world consequences. some universities are going back on line sports games being postponed or cancelled as more than 100 professional basketball football and hockey players have been diagnosed with cove. it the us secretary of state had to return early from his trip to asia after a reporter on his plane, tested positive is leading officials to urge people to paste precaution if we should be having public indoor masking. for everyone vaccinated or unvaccinated,

that is 90 percent of the counties right now. but only 8 states have mandated mask in doors, and several states have outright band requiring masks. more proof that in the us the pandemic is still a political issue. one that is having deadly consequences. go hain al jazeera washington. now there's been a breakthrough at the iran nuclear talks in vienna. iran foreign minister says you and cameras will be allowed to film at a sensitive size. the issue had been a sticking point during discussions to revive the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015 dosage up our 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 sticking points for the europeans had been iran's compliance with the international atomic energy agency. until now, as of last night, we reached a good agreement with the i e. a that could address some of the alleged concerns

about a runs peaceful nuclear program, and lead to continued mutual cooperation with the i a e, a 2 series of texts are being discussed in vienna. the 1st is the result of 6 rounds of talks of 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 un 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. but in june, 1 of the cameras was attacked and damaged iranian officials accuse 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 agreements with the i, yea, 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, again, we'll be able to monitor the production of centrifuge components. this is what the garage facility does. and the reason for doing this for the i, if you have a better handle on whether any centrifuge component might be taken away from garage to be assembled into centrifuges that some secret site. the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal have been meeting since april to try and get the u. s. and iran 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 resolved. it will be up to the

americans to put forth what they're willing to do to convince ron to return to for compliance door search avari al jazeera vienna. all right, still ahead on al jazeera, the russian and chinese presidents hold virtual talks as western nations pressure moscow. oh, rich troop bill dump on ukraine's border and bangladesh. marx, 50 years of independence from pakistan. we look at the progress it's made and some of the challenges still place. ah hello there. here's your headlines for the americas and i got to tell you it is not good news. so right off the bat, we've got some storms cool air coming off the rockies, meeting up with warm gulf of mexico air through the upper midwest right down to the deep south. severe thunderstorms,

the potential for tornadic outbreak in the upper midwest hall press play, see where these storms go. moving further toward the east throughout the day on thursday, some states like minnesota could see the tornado in december. for the 1st time. it's something we're watching carefully to the east. we see that activity through the great lakes region, but it's surge of warm air here. so toronto at 14, some goes new york, d. c. your temperature is way out of whack here. well above average to the deep south, once again seen some of those storms, arkansas, kentucky rate through, into tennessee, which of course we do not need. people are still picking up the pieces here. we see that rain through still moving across california, snow through the sierra nevada, you know, for b c's or mainland duncan and dodging this. but look at that cold air and alberta, edmonton minus 20. well below average central america, we've got our rain and the usual spots here, and i'll take you to south america. we're a very stormy pitcher as we head toward rio de janeiro on thursday with the hive 28 degrees. that's it. susan.

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again, you're watching a reminder of our top stories this out us president joe biden has pledged to do whatever it takes to help communities hit by severe tornadoes. last week, he's been visiting the worst hit state of kentucky. iran foreign minister says un cameras will be allowed to film at a sensitive nuclear side. issue had been a sticking point during negotiations, indiana to revive the 2015 in ra nuclear deal. the u. k. has reported its highest number of daily covey 19 infections since the start of the pandemic. more than 78000 cases were confirmed on wednesday. scientists say oma crohn will be the dominant variant in europe by the middle of january. the european union is stepping up its covey 19 vaccination campaign for children aged $5.00 to $11.00 spain, germany, greece hungry, and croatia began giving jabs to those in that age group. on wednesday,

other nations will follow in the coming days. the push to vaccinate younger children has been led fresh urgency by the rapid spread of alma chrome of the european commission president ursula on the lion has warned. the block is still battling a high number of delta cases. manzona need for guess what i'm listing is 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 rapidly. and science tells us that by mid january, we can expect damacom to be the new dominant variant in europe. or ukraine's president is urging the european union to post new sanctions on russia to help ease the tensions between the 2 countries. one of them is the landscape was speaking in brussels at the use partnership. it use eastern partnership summit of france and

germany are the main brokers for peace between ukraine and russia. there are a $100000.00 russian troops on the border with ukraine smoking fears of a possible invasion are the leaders of china and russia say that countries will increase bilateral trade and step up cooperation in energy and security related matters. she jumping and let me putin held the 2nd video conference in under a year. but as katrina, you reports from beijing, some in the west view, that deepening ties with suspicion. this is it is a virtual summit and show of solidarity. the presidents of china and russia, she didn't ping and vladimir putin spoke for more than an hour on wednesday, hailing their close ties. voltaire the roll has undergone unprecedented changes. and upon double in the last entry sign, a rotten religious, how wisdom the term of versa. storms as low as the deep historical traditions of

friendship and a mutual understanding have allowed us to take our relations to the next breakthrough level. trade between china and russia exceeded 115000000000 dollars this year. a new high. the leaders pledge to increase corporation on energy. beijing already relies on moscow from much of its minerals, oil, and natural gas plants underway for nuclear power stations. they're also coordinating on efforts to further space exploration and scientific innovation. chinese analysts say the relationship is now stronger than it's ever been, they'll, milan was ads or as, as the 2 countries support each other in their core interests. for example, when it comes to china's core interests, those are territory integrity and sovereignty development and security. the meeting comes as both nation's face mounting criticism for their policies at home and abroad. russia for a mass buildup of troops on its border with ukraine and china for increasing

military activity. new taiwan, a self, rhode island, dating claims as its own, common interests, as well as color grievances have brought china and russia closer together. both face rising tensions with the u. s. and its allies, as well as accusations of human rights abuses, and both hasn't every support each other on the international stage. officials in washington have under schooled a growing military threat from birth, russia, and china, putin. and she, you say they'll work more closely when it comes to security. they have conducted several joint exercises this year. moscow provides bating advanced weaponry, including fighter jets and missile defense systems. u. s. is now completely focused on great power competition after they left afghanistan. so there is a short window of opportunity i think that both moscow amazing see before the u. s . military kind of gears up for this great power competition. and they are trying to explain that the leaders are known to share a good personal bond. several countries have declared diplomatic boycott. sedating

2022 winter olympics. but vladimir putin has confirmed his attendance. the only major leader to do so, so far. katrina, you out is irritating. the international committee of the red cross is warning of a major humanitarian crisis in somalia. which is again in the grip of drought, it's forcing families to leave their homes in search of water, victoria gate, and be reports 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, a move to make shift camps on the outskirts of town, about on the market. europe, 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 one of your for the 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. they had not heard the news. people will suffer. a lot. humanitarian organizations are doing what they can, but demand grows along with the population of the camps for a limited supply income of the law. the recent clashes that occurred in korea have had a big impact on people's lives and 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 camp long after the drought and the fighting is over. victoria gate and b algae. there are a former south african president, jacob zoom as lawyers are appealing a ruling setting aside his medical parole, and ordering him back to jail. he was sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court after defying a court order to give evidence at a corruption inquiry. but just after he began his sentence, he fell ill and underwent surgery. the united nations has condemned colombian security forces for human rights violations during a crackdown on protests earlier this year, dozens were killed in the demonstrations between april and july, which began over proposed tax hikes. the you and high commission of human rights is

security forces used unnecessary or disproportionate force. the president yvonne bouquet has defended police saying they've been heroic in tackling drug trafficking and heroism. bangladesh is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its victory over pakistan on thursday. it's 5 for independence. was one after mind, 9 months of war. the government estimates around 3000000 people were killed in the conflict. 50 years later, the country now wants to tell the world about its progress and development. tanveer cherry reports from baca. ah, let me do some mom. this landmark speech in march, 1971 by shak maggio berman popularly known as bung bondo, inspired the bengali people. and what was, than is pakistan to rise up and prepare for a war of independence lot let any of your t o. since we have given blood will do more of it. but in charla

will free, the peoplesoft is land on the struggle. this time is for emancipation. the struggle this time is for independence. probably not gonna help when bung with those became an independent country. 9 months later, bongo 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 they under my life. we loved bung upon though, and he is the one who inspired us to go to war and fight fine dependence with our life down so that we can live in a free country like we have achieved many things and are happy about it. but the along another farmer fighters survived several bullet lawns 50 years ago, but says his disappointed bangladesh is still not fully self reliant. love, what are all the fidel money the rest of the look. 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 law, young physician left the u. k to join the liberation war and set up a fil hospital in india who fought for for democracy or equality. alley. we have a cheaper huntington's hulu, who live longer. we don't suffer from honda, but we have no democracy. we have no war. we had so what was it is and disease or drug class he will to democracy will to freedom of his speech without the equality. he punches, bending, las once termed

a bottomless basket case by farmer you. a 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 le ledger much over the past 50 years. but the nation is still very polarized between 2 main rival political parties. for many of 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 it's facing more obstacles on the political front. it's over population and the effects of climate change. tanveer chaudhry al jazeera dhaka. ah, how arab hosts cotton have been knocked down after losing to algeria to one cutter

looks like taking the semi final match to extra time with a late equalizer heading home in the 97th minutes of stuff each time. but it wasn't enough. algeria sealed victory scoring from a penalty shortly after they were placed. denisia on sunday. in the final, on to al jazeera is andy, which is, has more on the nail biting semi final at 2 mamma stadium. well, it's our cup semi final between algeria and could produce the a very confusing phonology has to be said. algeria looked to be cruising into the the cup finals, they were winning one new 90 minutes, the polish referee decided they will be 9 minutes if it's on the spot, the not being very many delays during the game. in the 7 minutes of that injury, time mohammed one, sorry look to have become something of a national hero. if a castle scoring a late late equalizer, but it was still time even us about for even late to go from algeria bay school in

the 17th minutes about a time the referee kept on adding more and more time. the end result was that algeria one to one and they will go through to the final where they will play unique earlier in the day to be egypt for the very late goal of their own practice with an own go in the fit minutes and stuff which is time in their game so left with the not entirely satisfactory outcome of playing in the 3rd place, playoff against egypt on saturday. they freaked 3 consecutive semi finals capital in solomon since winning the asian company. got to the semi fund in the gulf cup lights from that year in 20. 19. earlier this year, they go to the last 4 in the gold cuff, in a competition that answered as a guest in north central american, also reaching semi font itself, something of an achievement. but cats are really would have fancy that chances of winning this tournament. they've got their full strength team available. unlike countries like algeria is european bass players on not available. and the have been

some concerns amongst those who follow cas off that will closely that since winning the asian cup. philip sanchez, the coach has stayed somewhat su, loyal to the quote of players and hasn't changed things up. now. he said a defeat like this will not derail the plans. he's had in place the last 3 or 4 years, but plenty to think about for him and his team as they build up to playing in that 1st well cut next year and trying to achieve as state today of getting out of the group station into the knockout rounds. ah, that's get around now the headlines on as you see a us president joe biden has pledged to do whatever it takes to help communities hit by severe tornadoes. last week. he's been visiting the worst hit state of kentucky, 88 people died across 6 states and 100 more are missing. i've been involved in responding to a.