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a lot can get is with we cannot lose hope. we know what to do, and we have the tools to do good act. we must always pay for the stream on al jazeera ah, tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes is typhon re make to land full in the philippines. ah, hello, i'm emily angland. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up. the omicron variant and tensions with rush hour are on the agenda is your pain, latest mates in brussels. press freedom at risk reporters without borders say at least 46 journalists have been killed. this ca, doing their job. and bangladesh celebrates 50 years of independence. but to
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some, the split from pakistan remains a painful memory. ah, we start with some breaking news rescue operations are underway in parts of the philippines that have been hit by one of the strongest storms in the world. the c, tens of thousands of people are being moved to emergency shelter in the southern in central pines of the country. officials say about 10000 villages are in the projected path of the typhoon. shamella alan dugan has more from manila what we're seeing basically, whatever dates that are made available at this point, i just snippets of what's actually happening at the moment. um, no, typhoon ry made land for on char go. island. you know, i don't tourist destination on the eastern part of them in, in our region. and it is
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a slow moving typhoon. which means that it's going to batter a lot of the coastal and agricultural community in this part of our, of, of, of, of the philippines. and we know that a lot of the 8th, usually already pre positioned in a country like the philippines with more than $7000.00 islands. but again, the fleeting restaurant people operations, if there will be. and additional response teams that will be coming from different areas will really depend on areas that are hate. the most of this is quite a waiting game for the national government can be sending aid from the law and the regional networks acquisition to help out with emergency the strongest storm to ever hit a global record is fighting a on in 2013. and since then, we've seen efforts to institutionalize an emergency preparations, disaster response. but as you see at this point, as mentioned previously, the big issue here is that now there is a difference when he comes to disaster landscape because of the pandemic. you know,
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i'm, when we, when the government conducts on rescue any of evacuation efforts, that means that residents are evacuated in temporary shelters, like public schools. and you know, i'm open the government facilities, but then they can't really say too long because of the mini mom health protocol required by the philippine government. so what happens then? 2 residents have lost their homes in many of these areas so, so that, coupled with the economic recession, which means that you know, a lot of these areas are rural areas that are already badly hit by bike when bank or r last will smoke, will most likely suffer against to the u. s. now 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 times. high wind warnings are in place from new mexico to up in michigan. have already whipped up just in kansas, making it dangerous to drive the storms come as president joe biden visited
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communities hit by last week's devastating tornadoes. how did your caster has moved 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 neighbors shelter together. they decided to get in the 1st house together. and unfortunately, the house was just a mileage to 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 6th grade all last week. superstore, leaving the landscape of devastation. authorities fear the final death toll be
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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 had 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,
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which we have family, friends and other people in the green. they are stepping up in our 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 for the northern illinois officials are investigating 6 deaths at an amazon warehouse. john, hinder and explain. a federal investigation is looking into what exactly happened in the minutes before a tornado tore through the front of his 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. twist or touched 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 and damage side of the building. that's where 45
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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 says it will take 6 months to complete the investigation. countries around the world are recording the highest closed 19 daily infections. since the start of the pandemic, it's largely driven by the delta, an army con variance is now a rush to administer. booster shots south korea's re imposing a series of restrictions as the number of critically ill patients heats a record. heim, one doctor, we spoke to described the chaos in hospitals. i think it's almost a situation like a mass casualty event that's happening day after day after day. some nurses are
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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. critical care directors are now talking with medical emphasis about ah, which patients to lead into their i use and which patients? because they have to allow to basically die because they're just simply is not real in. i used to absorb all of the critically ill patients, right? now, me, while you're a pain laid is in brussels, are talking about the threat posed by the new variant. france says it's now banning all non essential travel from the you came and across africa both the delta and all me. chronic strains have driven up cases by 83 percent. that's the fastest search anyway in the world. the seeing. meanwhile, the african continent trials as the lowest vaccination region in the world. as you can see from the life of colors,
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it's struggling to get doses into countries though the un through rather un, back to coven kovacs game, is also the issue of vaccine hesitancy, with some people choosing not to get the shots for a variety of reasons. nicholas hock is in the deca and says, the lack of vaccine take up is causing concern. it's worrying because right now here in senegal, we've seen our 1st case of armor crohn. but this could just be the tip of the iceberg. there might be many more that are going under texted, and many more that just are simply are not going to get tested or not making their way to their health centers. there's the added issue of people not wanting to get vaccinated. i mean, the fear of the vaccine is spreading faster than this new variant, and this is having that disastrous consequences. while a couple of weeks ago we saw heads of states, the south african president president said, i go and others calling for more vaccines to be delivered in africa. the biggest
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challenge yet is to get those vaccines into those arms. there's this spread of miss information. we met a doctor who works at an emergency ward in senegal, here, who does not want to get back to needed. doesn't believe in the vaccine, simply because the patent that these pharmaceutical companies, the producers have, has not been waived. he says, as long as there's no vaccine produced in africa, i'm not going to get vaccinated. that's as a result. there's more than 200000 doses here in senegal, that has been destroyed 200000 more that are going to expire by the end of the month. and a 1000000 in nigeria that has been destroyed already. and natasha butler is in paris with more on the ban of all non essential travel from the u. k. the french government has announced a new restrictions on travel between the u. k and france. effectively, all non essential travel will be banned from saturday. now, people, french citizens who are in the u. k, will be able to return for fraud,
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but they will be extra restriction on their movements. all people will have to have a p c l test before they leave the u. k. and then again, once they arrive in france and then they'll have to corn teen and the length of day point team will depend on whether or not say all the vaccinate is of course you can imagine this is going to cause a lot of disruption schools in france break up on friday and we're going into the end of year holidays here. the year holidays, the christmas festivities. a lot of people on both sides of the english channel were hoping perhaps to spend that time with family and friends. but what the french government is saying is that they are asking people to really postpone anything that's not essential till later to make their trips later part. for the safer point . they say they are watching the situation in the u. k. very closely. indeed. and they are very concerned particularly by the on the crowns of variance. european leaders meeting in brussels for an a year's summit where they will be discussing
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the only cron variant, which is driving up those infections. tensions with valerie about migration place, as well as the security situation with ukraine will also feature 100000 russian troops troops. i thought to be amassing on the border with ukraine, taking fees as a possible invasion regarding russia. the main point here is to act as a deterrent because what we would want to avoid it all cost is a heightened military situation in ukraine. and this is a potentially best obtained right now with very clear a painful economic sanctions on russia. if they were to escalate further, that gives unofficial kind of discussion. there is no question within the counsel that there will be very clear response if russia attacks the border. so what is clear to russia is that we're watching closely and nothing is going unnoticed. what is clear is that we as
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a european union will not abandon ukraine socks. i'm still ahead on al jazeera as school fair in australia tends to tragedy. as a children's bouncy castle is blown away and from trash to treasure the artists in gaza who have turned a rubbish dumb side into a laser center. oh, look forward to brighter scully's, the weather, sponsored by kettle airways. hello, thank you for joining in. here's your weather update for asia and a lot of ground to cover after a super typhoon ride made that landfall eastern philippines, cutting across central areas now off toward the west. and brett, so princess are now looking to pick up more than $300.00 millimeters abram. we'll see those winds were brought to a 175 kilometers per hour. let's track out where this is. go and right now it's going to slide into this south china seas. so here we are on saturday,
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we're taking into indo china right now, but with a particular focus on vietnam saturday into sunday as this approaches the coast. looking to make another landfall, a south of da nang, north of hotel min city. and bert going to be talking about to renshaw, rain here, and very powerful winds, but of course, nothing like we've seen in the philippines over the last little bit as we head toward northern areas of china, korea, that cold air, really, russian in here, that's also given us some c and do snow for western honshu and ho cato next few days in that south korea well below average and will end as south weather report in the sub continent. now things fairly dry across india. no major weather alerts sock about just in the north west, some fog for a punjab and roger stan, but the heaviest rain will be for sri lanka on friday. that sure other update see again soon for the weather, sponsored by katara always in the country with an abundance of resolve.
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la rewan, italy here, his terms forming. we moved full to grow and fraud. we balance for real economy, blue economy and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs, investment likely pa, going to be his growth and progress in either media. now, ah, the you want to 0, i'm emily angland. reminder of our top stories. this rescue operations are underway in the philippines that have been hit by one of the strongest stones in the world.
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the few officials say about 10000 villages are in the past with the countries around the world recording their highest cove and 19 daily infections driven largely by the army on variant. south korea is re imposing a series of restrictions while france band all non essential travel from the u. k. and the rise of army chrome is set to reach a highly at a meeting of european ladies in brussels. pensions with valerie about migration flows, as well as the security situation with ukraine will also feature. he says he had to press his calling on the 8th. you open government to immediately release or freelance video journalist attained 2 weeks ago. i made a mine, kiara was arrested in the capital at is alba accused of promotion terrorism the associated press coals. the allegations, baseless 2 of the journalists will also arrested a face up to 15 years in prison,
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if convicted of violating the emergency laws brought him last month. it's been a deadly year for journalists around the world of reporters without borders says at least $46.00 journalists have been killed this year because of the stories they were reporting on, and the only $500.00 being detained. that's a 20 percent rise during the past year, largely due to crackdowns on the media in the amount that was and hong kong. 65 reporters are also being held hostage. the most dangerous country for the media has been mexico and dennis done, followed by yemen and india. no fraud, jack is head. we've seen many waves of journalist arrests rising age for many journalists being detained in a pure journalist getting killed as well as 6 in africa. 2 of them were killed in somalia. 2 of them were killed in d r. c. and 2 of them were killed in a birth,
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and there are 3 regions really that most dangerous places for a generalized in africa, being the east free guy was the situation very poor in terms of security in somalia . for example, a press re done that for the non existent, g p, t or a situation, a slightly deteriorating, including for generalized grant legs as well. origin, with many rest of the general is janise king getting killed. and the region as well, where the situation is very of for journalism is very stepping back and the security situation is deter thing as well. in the tremendous conflict, conscious on the, on the journalists that we sent over to your when to the rest. it's just a few journalists don't still being detained. media outlets. i've been suspended the correspondence of the new york times. i've been kicked out of the country which was unprecedented to be took office in the 28th there is this communication block
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house in the northern part of the country. and now we are just not able to do independent journalism anymore because only the official not to develop the work load for general bangladesh is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from pakistan. earlier prime minister shake his st, presided over a very tree parade in dot com, where india is forces to pop for the 1st time you deli helped bung with as she willa fighters to face pakistan's army. back in 1971 can be challenged. 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,
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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 is indian and bangladesh. she guerrilla fighters to nation, was instrumental in supporting bangladesh during the cold war. it was russia and india. now there's also a remarkable journey for the country within the last 50 years facing various kinds of challenges, natural disaster, economic challenges, yet it as able to manage a 6 percent g d, p growth rate. now it is one of the fastest growing economy in the wall. it is a middle income country and set to graduate chair developing nation by 2026. and this is what the government wants to highlight in it's 50 year celebration. yet there are the challenges still remains. opposition says there is no free unfair election, either diminishing
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a space for democracy and freedom of speech. while pakistan's government has congratulated bangladesh on its golden jubilee, there's a mixed reaction from bangladesh is living in pakistan. thousands were left stainless, wednesday homeland became independent and can many life remains daily struggle. a summer pinch of 8 reports from karachi this time basically, his shop was a teenager been what is now bangladesh split to be from pakistan. some of his family members died in the violence and he blames pocket funds, government for actions that gave rise to bangladesh. nationalism. v had taken the larger portion of focus on actual what subjects are slaves? a lot of subtle and that's it. that's it. on december 16, 1971, because funny, general new jersey signed a surrender document and each pockets on became by devesh after a 9 month long, violent uprising indian soldiers in lori hundreds of thousands of people were
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killed. but 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 stablish 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 scrawling 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,
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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. despite government promises, nothing has changed for thousands of families here about a number of yeah, what i will look, this is our country. we have historically been goalies. we should we go, 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 have developed mutual ties . the government has been regulated bangladesh on the golden jubilee and invited the prime minister to visit pakistan. but when it comes to the war of independence, there are some wounds that even time can not heal. from a job down the road, karachi, 5 children in australia have been killed after a gust of wind swept up
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a bouncy play. cancel that we're jumping on. please say 4 more aged about 11 are in a critical condition after being thrown from about 10 major time. they were celebrating the last week of classes at school in the island state of has mania out of in garza, highlighting the need to protect the environment by turning a dump aside into alicia, sent them. the initiative allows people to enjoy the beach for free, as long as they clean the show. you're not al, say it has more from on the story. it was his dream come true. 6 young people who live hearing cars. they got together and built the center near the beach. but what makes this place unique is the material used to built it recycled waste and they're holla and that and their friends, they're all artists. they say not only did they want to keep their feet in short line clean, they also wanted to create a place where people can have fun,
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why learning about the importance of recycling and protecting the environment. whether it's a level s, s, or initiative is based mainly on the methodology of joint leadership and community organization through which we employ the arts as a tool to educate people on maintaining the cleanliness of the c side. and because we don't have any funding, at 1st, we turn to use solid waste found in warehouses of companies and municipalities that represented a burden on them. this place was built by around 300 tons of recycled waste because they had no funding for their project. they began by collecting solid waste, such as wooden planks broken power poles, huge garbage cans, rocks and lots of tires. they recycle them all to build this entire place. it's a branch of the coal. see is ours. you can sit here and enjoy your time free of charge. as long as you clean around the show. i let her nat and their friends
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invite people to bring whatever is broken or not needed their homes act. that issue may as have been mccann and what distinguishes this place is that it brings together all groups of the society ages and different artists. and because it is free of charge, you can enjoy every part of the place in exchange for volunteering in any field. you want or even in exchange for old or broken tools and objects that have no value for you anymore. at the start, the idea was difficult for people to accept, not to throw garbage or even clean the shore, but now we have imposed this fact and it has become an example for many people and them. it wasn't easy to find a place where they can build this leisure center. boeing gases municipality heard about their plans. it granted them this piece of land near the beach. it was originally a dump site for garbage and other waste was juggling north of often were while over thought we found the details of the sea as ours initiative intersect with many of
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the municipalities goals, whether from community participation, community interventions in preserving the environment. reusing environmental materials. we found they played an exceptional role in creating a role model for young people, volunteers, and community activists to make sustainable interventions in community and environmental service. her. since this project was founded, it has become an example for others to do the same. but these young people say it's only the beginning of a bigger dream and they hope to show the world how beautiful garza can be in c, l, j 0. got them arab cap host casa, have been bait into one in the semi finals by algeria. cut nearly short,
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semi final match for extra time with a like a live site. it wasn't enough, found curious, sealed victory scoring from a penalty in the 17th. the extra minute. now thanks to via in the final on saturday, i'll just there is any, richardson has more on the now biting semi final l, so mama, stadiums. well, this are a semi final between algeria and could produce the a very confusing phenomenon has to be said. algeria looked to be cruising into the the cup final, they were winning one, neil, 19 minutes, the polish referee decided they would be 9 minutes if it's on the spot. they're not being very many delays during the games. in the 7 minutes of thought, injury time, mohammedans, sorry, look to become something of a national hero castle scoring a late late equalizer. but it was still time even us about for an 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
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to one and they will goes through to the final where they will play unique earlier in the day to need to be ages for the very late goal of their own. in fact, it was an own go in the 5th minute stuff, which is time in their game. the castle left with the not entirely satisfactory outcome of playing in the 3rd place, playoff against egypt on saturday. they've reached 3 consecutive semi final 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 entered as a guest in north central america and also reaching the semi finals in itself. something of an achievement, but a really would have fancy that chances of winning this tournament. they've got their full strengths available. unlike countries like algeria is, european bass players are not available and the have been some concerns amongst
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those who follow cast off will closely that since winning the asian cup. felix sanchez, the coach, has stayed somewhat su, loyal to the 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 the last 3 or 4 years. but plenty to think about the him in his team as they build up to playing in that 1st world cut next year and trying to achieve stay today of getting out of the group stage into the knockout rounds. ah, hello, you're watching al jazeera and these are the stories were following the selim rescue operations are underway in parts of the philippines that have been hit by one of the strongest stones in the world. the few officials say about 10000 villages are in the path of the typhoon shamella ellen jogan has.
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