in the past are reparation is not an easy one. namibia, the price of genocide, people and power on his era. the news. ready the scope and scale this destruction is almost beyond belief. joe biden promises to help communities devastated by some of the strongest tornadoes ever seen in the us . ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is al jazeera alive from doha. also coming up, south korea re imposes social distancing rules. as the number of new coven 19 infections and severe cases increases bangladesh. much 50 years since its

independence from pakistan. and algeria eliminates host nation pata in the arab hub, semi fun santa scoring up from a late fee. ah, we begin in the u. s. where a new storm system is sweeping across the midwest. tornadoes in the states of nebraska and iowa have cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. i, we know warnings are in place for an area stretching from new mexico to michigan. gas have already whipped up dust in kansas, making it dangerous to drive these latest storms come as president joe biden visited communities hit by last week's tornadoes. a ca, people were killed and hundreds more, still missing but,

and promised to promised to help the communities rebuild. as hydra castro 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 ground. 11 people died here. 8 of them were children or i don't know what to say, man. is retired when somebody's gone and you're shot, you know what happened to visual as recovery worker. sift through the debris left in 6 days 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 survive by hunkering in their basement. got positive added to large, 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. meanwhile, an investigation is underway at an amazon warehouse in illinois, where 6 people were killed by a tornado safety authorities looking into whether the company did enough to warn work about the storm john henry and explain a federal investigation is looking into what exactly happened in the minutes before a tornado tor, through the front of this amazon warehouse center. what we know is that between 8 o 6 and 8, 16 pm on friday night, managers at this plant were alerted that a tornado might come through at 827. that's just what happened. a twister touch down in that parking lot in tor, through the front of the building, killing 6 people,

and injuring one. the occupational safety and health administration is looking into whether anything amazon did contributed to those deaths. over here you can see the on damage side of the building, that's where 45 workers huddled down in a pre designated tornado shelter. osha will be looking into why those who died were not among them. some drivers also complained that they were asked to shelter in their trucks is one said, that just turns this van into my casket, osha's as it will take 6 months to complete. the investigation with south career is bringing back social distancing roles as the record number of critically ill patients threatened to overwhelm hospitals. you infection rights are also at a record. heim, the lightest measures come just 6 weeks after restrictions were lifted under a so called living with car. the policy from january gatherings will be limited, and restaurants and bars must close early. let's bring in doctor alice tan,

who practices at miss metty women's hospital in. so hello there. dr. thanks for joining us. so this whole living with cove and policy hasn't really worked hasn't yes, unfortunately, since november 1st we've seen a huge spike in the number of daily new covet cases. but also we've seen a significant increase in the number of critically ill patients. and also in the number of das, unfortunately, november 2021 marked the deadliest month for south korea, for the entire duration of her condemning. i answer that is what forced us to impose restrictions again since loosening restrictions starting november 1st talked to health care work as a warning of mayhem in hospitals. what's the current situation across the health care system? i think it's almost a situation like

a mass casualty event that's happening day after day after day. as some nurses are describing what they're seeing as almost a we're like situation i in terms of the number of admissions that are coming in every day. i and this is very, of course, significant and to concerning, not just for the care of, of it patients, but now we are concerned about the effects on all critically ill and all hospitalized patients for any disease draft create a critical, critical care directors are now talking with medical emphasis about ah, which patients to lead into their ice use and which patients. but they have to allow to basically die because they're just simply is not room in ice used to absorb all of the critically ill patients. right now it is a very, very severe situation and certainly sounds di,

wool like situation is strong words. what, what does this all say about the effectiveness of vaccinations? given that 8 percent of the population in south korea is double jabbed. right, so unfortunately we have seen a significant effect of the waning of immunity, especially in people age 60 and older. in november alone, there were more than 43000 cases of breakthrough infections. and that's compared to 5 months ago in june, where there were only a $116.00 breakthrough infections. many of these breakthrough infections occurred in community dwelling seniors, age 60 and above. and unfortunately, these were the people who are hit the hardest with covet in terms of developing severe disease and also eventually dying of the disease. and so this is why we are expanding and accelerating our booster campaign, trying to get a 3rd shot into the arms of as many eligible people as possible. of course we've

expanded eligibility recently, so basically anyone 18 and over if 3 months have elapsed since the 2nd dose, you are eligible to get your booster. and that's what we're trying to do is booster up the country as fast as possible. thank you. as always for speaking to us, dr. alice tan from the ms. medi women's hospital im so appreciate your time you came a mile has reported its highest number of daily infections since the sound of the pandemic. more than 78000 cases were confirmed on wednesday. prime minister barak johnson says the roll out of boost of i fame's will be enough to fight the more transmissible omicron variant. but health officials warn the situation is only going to get worse. the doubling rate of on the chromosome 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 a bad, and the principal one being the speed of which this is moving, it is moving it 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 at the very, very, very large numbers will be quite a short on all this comes is the prime minister barak johnson is under increasing

pressure over his handling of the pandemic. and some from within his own conservative party are pushing for him to change his approach. and his simmons has the lightest from london as the numbers and sections from the on the chrome virus sky rocket. the reputation of boris johnson is diving a 100 m p. 's rebelled against his party in the house of commons on tuesday nights, 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 damage to 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, with bird, with the worst possible prime minister, the worst possible thought,

johnson tried to defend himself and didn't knowledge that some members of his party fell with civil liberties. were at stake 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 a you is stepping up. it's carver 19 vaccination campaign for young children, spain, germany, grace hungry and croatia began giving jams to those aged 5 and above. on wednesday, italy will follow on thursday. european commission that president is live and land has warned. the block is still battling a high number of delta cases, even as only con continues to spread. manzona denise ferguson. wood against misty

is as much in baton. seen that 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. what i'm, what worries me is that we are now seeing alma crohn on the horizon on, which is apparently even more contagious. i'm to him. 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 amok on to be the new dominant parent in europe. still ahead on al jazeera, a breakthrough in the vienna talks un cameras will be allowed to film at one of iran's sensitive we play a science. ah hey there, here's her headlines for europe in africa thursday, december 16th, we're going to see high pressure build toward the northwest. it's going to deflect

systems around. so as the situation on thursday, watch what happens on friday. there's a disturbance pulling into iceland, but wall to wall sunshine here. but if we turn flows, we got wind coming off the north sea that's going to drag temperatures down london just a high of 7 degrees that's below average for this have the year. let's go to where the action is. the eastern med over turkey locked into gloomy conditions. here it's wet and windy and it's stumble. and for some that rain will turn to snow. so we're looking at all correct. nothing major actually. just mostly flurries or temperatures are below average here for the bulk in some cloud cover draped over this area. if we look around the black sea eastern portion, some showers and snow over the higher ground by far the best weather on the continent, iberia seville, 21 degrees, seen a bit more cloud cover, roll in lisbon, 15 and porto a high of 17 degrees. when this weather report in africa right now, few showers, trying to sneak into northern parts of libya and egypt. but things will stay dry in

cairo with a high of 900 degrees, which is also a bit below average for this from the year mix of funding cloud on thursday. that's it. we'll see you soon. the frank assessments this crisis please continue to recon luca sion, even though perhaps he believes in the beginning that he informed opinions like the whole edition will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most types of things come out of this critical debate. do you think a should be facilitated? not sure. okay, i think it's a really simple question. let's give tommy a child wants inside story on al jazeera. ah ah ah

ah, hello you what you know, just 0. i'm emily. angling reminder about top stories this out in the us and you storm system is sweeping. the midwest. tornadoes in the state of nebraska and iowa has power to hundreds of thousands of april high wind warnings are in place for an area of stretching from mexico or from michigan. south korea is bringing back social distancing room fast the record number of critically your patients threatened to overwhelm the hospital. you infection rates are also at a record height and the you with stepping up its code 19 destination campaign through young children, spain, germany, grace hungry, and croatia began giving jobs to those aged 5 and above. on wednesday, italy will follow on thursday. your pain laid is

a meeting in brussels for a summit that will be discussing the only con corona virus variance which is driving up infections. they'll also be discussing mounting tension between russia and ukraine. french president emanuel microns been pushing to revive talks and in both both ukraine and russia. that's how sure butler has moved from paris. well, according to the lease, say the french present, a manual micro met with ukranian. president voted me as 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 criminal could be looking to talk to ukraine. micro also brief lensky about a phone call that he had had on tuesday with the russian lead vladimir putin, while the 2 leaders within joined by the new german charles the old f shoals. 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 safeguarding 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. there's been a breakthrough at the iran nuclear tolts in vienna. around 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. dosa jabari explains 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 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 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 agreement with the i, e a, there is hope that the talks here in vienna will get the push they need to move forward. and the 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, you have a better handle on whether any centrifuge component might be taken away from 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 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 for 4th, what they're willing to do to convince ron to return to for compliance. dorsey, of ari al jazeera piano for children in astronomy. i have been killed after a gust of wind swept a jumping castle into the air. play st for more aged about 11 are in critical condition after being thrown from about 10 meters time. they were celebrating their last week of classes at a school in the island state of mania. a number of the children had been taken to hospital and some are in a critical condition. this is a very tragic event in thoughts with the families and the ward school community. and also at 1st responders. there is no doubt that this has been a very confronting and distressing sign to bangladesh now,

which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from pakistan. prime minister shake his saying is presiding over a victory de pride in dot com. indian armed forces, taking part for the 1st time, forces sent in by new delhi to help on their she. gorilla 5 is defeated pakistan's army in 971 and estimated 3000000 people were killed in the year leading up to independence. tamya challenges has this update from deco. well, it's a national holiday that this started with $31.00 gun salute. and the parade started around the hour ago. aside from the indian military contingent, there are military contingent for 6 other countries, including the u. s. turkey, indonesia, baton, so all of them have actually signed a military contingent to celebrate vocation due to pandemic, not many other dignitaries could make at this time. it's a year long celebration, celebrating the 100 year centennial, the father of the nation for

a ship would uber, a man 50 years independence day. and the victory day of the day when the pakistan army surrendered to that allied force that his indian and bank, the she guerrilla fighters to nation, was instrumental in supporting bangladesh during the cold war. it was russia and india. now, there is also a remarkable journey for a country within the last 50 years facing various kinds of challenges, natural disaster, economic challenges, yet it as able to manage a 6 percent judy big growth late. now it is one of the fastest growing economy in the wall. it is a middle income country and set to graduate j developing nation by 2026. and this is what the government wants to highlight in its 50 year celebration. yet there are the challenges still remains. ah, the opposition says there is no free unfair election either the diminishing a space for democracy and freedom of speech. pakistan's government has

congratulated bangladesh on its golden jubilee and invited the prime minister to visit islamabad. but this mixed reaction from bangladesh. she's living in pakistan, thousands where left stainless ones, their homeland became independent and for many, life remains a daily strangle. some of inch event reports from karachi. with fish is shod. was a teenager been what is now bangladesh split away from pakistan? some of his family members died in the violence, and he blames pakistan's government for actions that gave rise to bangladesh. nationalism. we had taken the larger portion of pakistan. asia were subjects, our slaves over a certain that's it. that's it. on december 16, 1971 bucket funny. general new jersey signed a surrender document and each pockets on begin by the dash after a 9 month long, violent uprising indian soldiers in the lori, hundreds of thousands of people were killed by those who called for independence.

and those who wanted to stay part of the united part fun for this, the many pockets on hold india responsible when bengalis of the allies back west ferguson is not going to shave and indians the allies, it more than the been goalies. dunden intervened politically, socially monetarily de established the office of mac b by me and tell cut out that sentiment is fueled by political speeches by indian leaders visiting bangladesh for bangladesh. his freedom, the desire here was matched to their pockets. don forces carried out atrocities there in sprawling suburbs of karachi, the 10s of thousands who were forced from their homes have mixed feelings about the split of 2 buckets sun, 50 years on this place bank. she's in both countries, have struggled to find the state,

many and buckets on feel abandoned and left with no legal status sticklers bangladesh, she cannot get an education go to hospital or earn a living because they lack proper documentation. this might government promises nothing has changed for thousands of families here about a normally a modern will look. this is our country. we have historically been goalies. we should we go to our generations have been born and we demand identity cards. so we can at least earn a living in the last 5 decades pockets on the bank that they have developed mutual ties. the government has been regulated bangladesh on the golden jubilee and invited the prime minister to visit pockets on. but when it comes to the war of independence, there are some wounds that even time can not heal. sama majority of the characters, victims of a petrol tanker explosion in haiti have been buried at a 75 people were killed in tuesday's last in the capital of cape haitian. it's

believed the tanker was trying to avoid an oncoming motorcycle when it flipped on its side, causing fuel to still towards a nearby pile of smouldering rubbish, ignited and burst into flames. the u. n. has condemned colombian security forces for human rights violations. during a crackdown on protests earlier this year, dances were killed in the demonstrations which began over proposed tax hikes. the un high commissioner for human rights to says security forces use unnecessary or disproportionate force. colombian president ivan, do k, has defended police saying they've been heroic in tackling drug trafficking and terrorism. aah! says in sports news now and arab cap host casa,

i have been beaten to one in the semi finals by algeria. because i looked like taking the match to extra time with a light equalizer 7 minutes into the 9 additional minutes that had been signaled by the referee. but it wasn't enough found serious field victory scoring from a penalty in the 17th extra minutes that will face to nivia in the final on saturday. i'll just there is an richardson has more on the now binding semi final, through my sanction stadiums. well, they are a semi final between algeria and kid. so produce the a very confusing phonology has to be said. algeria looked to be cruising into the the cup finals, they were winning one nail 19 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 thought, injury time mohammed one, sorry look to become something of a national hero. if a castle scoring a late late equalizer, there was still time even us about for and even late to go from algeria of

a school in the 17 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 goes through to the final where they will play unique earlier in the day to be egypt for the very late go of their own. in fact, it was an own go in the 5th minute of stuff which time in again, the castle left with the nor entirely satisfactory outcome of playing in the 3rd place, playoff against egypt on saturday. they freaked 3 consecutive semi final capital in solomon since winning the asian cup. they got to the semi find in the gulf couplets from that year and 2019. earlier this year, they go to the last 4 in the gold cuff, in a competition that answered as a guest in know from central america and also reaching semifinals in itself. something of an achievement because i 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 are not available and the have been some concerns amongst those who follow cas off will closely that since winning the asian cup. felix sanchez, the coach, has stayed somewhat su, loyal to our score 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 for the last 3 or 4 years. but plenty to think about him and his team as they build up to playing in that 1st well cut next year and trying to achieve as stated a getting out of the group station into the knockout rounds. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera and these are the stories were following this hour in the us and you storm system is sweeping across the midwest. tornadoes in the state of nebraska, and iowa has cut power to hundreds of thousands of people. high wind, wind warnings rather are in place for an area.