now to sierra, ah, holding the powerful to account. as we examined the u. s. whose role in the world on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah hello, i'm sorry, i'm to mozy. welcome to the news our lie from london coming up in the next 60 minutes, france to buy most travel from the u. k, which has reported a record number of infections for the 2nd day in a row. thousands of lea, that homes is super typhoon rice slams into the philippines. the strongest storm to hit it this year. tragedy in tasmania, after a gust of wind lifts,

a bouncy castle high in the air, killing 5 children. the end of school year celebrations, police in haiti say all the american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in october, have now been released. and i'm devin ashwin sports. the current of australia in the english premier league is fast becoming a crisis off of this weekend's matches have now been caught off of the only gone variant effect sport worldwide. ah, low welcome to the knees. our governments around the world are scrambling to contain the sprite of the army. kron variant of coven 19 several countries of recorded their highest daily infection rights. since the pandemic began, france is banning non essential travel from the u. k. by anyone who is not a french citizen or resident to cover the spread of the new variance. the u. k. has

ported a record number of infections for a 2nd day in a row. now, at more than $88000.00 of the situation isn't much better in france itself, which reported almost $61000.00 cases. south korea is reinstating strict to social distancing laws just 6 weeks after determining it would gable to live with curve at 19. and on the african continent it dealt and on the chron variance of driven infections up by nearly 83 percent. this is the fastest serge anywhere in the world this year. the well health organization says are a few a desk compared to previous spikes. or we challenge against our coverage in london . the 1247 eurostar from london brought its usual bustle to paris. but soon these trains may be mostly empty. from saturday, france is limiting, travel to and from the u. k. to only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents, and their families, all arrivals have to isolate truck drivers though, are exempt in. okay,

so to calculate noblesse can we come into this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further tighten the net to slow down and reduce as much as possible the arrival of a micron variant cases in our territory. so much, and during this time we vaccinated with the booster shots, but for the 2nd day running the u. k. has logged a record breaking number of new cases. 88000 or micron is spreading through this country faster than any previous various forest. johnson's government is focusing on vaccine boosters as its principal weapon that and urging people to think about where they go and who they see. we wouldn't want to make your choices for you about your social life. won't closing things, but we are saying is people should be cautious and they should think about their activities in the in the raptor took to christmas on the streets of london's west end. those i spoke to didn't seem overly sons. just took the mouthpiece to put jack

. yeah. get it. i get another, you know, of a smell. it just goes on to live. it's become clean, shut yourself, a wife for ever. have you cancel any plans of christmas? no, i haven't. i'm just going to say to nancy mary poppins, so i say much to trying to stay safe, but still trying to live a normal life. but plenty of others are changing their plans. add this to star shortages because of infection. when businesses are suffering again. it is canceling performances, restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, losing bookings. and unlike before when they have government financial assistance to help them cope with this, this time they're on their own. so the same one and 5 hotel cancellations at the moment it's people it should be going to the christmas party is people now working from home or not traveling? james bainbridge runs to white heart hotel in well, in north of london. he wants the government to think again, we've had

a lot of help and it's been, it's was kept as going and it's been well worth it if it was to stop. now, not happen, but so wasted. what's the point of getting his foot as far as we have flat or be taken away for businesses to them file? it's all so very familiar. another wave of infections business is in trouble again . another christmas in doubts cove. it is the unwanted gift we can't get rid of reach alan's how to 0 london. chris smith as a clinical ver ologist. an editor of the naked scientist podcast and radio shell joins us via skype. from cambridge, it's been a steep rise. the number of infections everywhere, but particularly here in london, the majority of which are on the crown. what would be the consequences of that being a 1000000 infections a day by the end of the month as public health professions officials of warned? well those predictions and they're based on the current rate of growth, both the new variance spread across the country, both here in the u. k. but also from evidence from other places where we've seen

that manifest, particularly south africa. the reason it's spreading so fast is because not only is it more transmissible, it appears that it's a better virus that infecting us. it's also able to infect people who previously would have regarded themselves as immune because they'd either got natural immunity from having caught current virus recently, or they'd been vaccinated. the fact that this means the entire population is basically available to the virus means that it can spread very, very rapidly. and although we've got reassuring data, clinically, the manifestations seem to be quite mild. most people are saying in south africa, for example, it's a mild illness. there will be some, for whom, despite our best efforts, it's not a mild illness. and under those circumstances, if you've got lots and lots of cases and a very spreadable virus, despite the fact that the symptoms of mild for the majority and only a tiny number will have a severe illness. if you have a very,

very significant number of people with the illness, that tiny proportion who are destined to get severe illness actually translates into a very large number. and that means what politicians and policymakers worried about because of it's obvious on would impact on health care provision. right. so it's because all this is happening in a very short space of time that even a fraction of infections result in hospital admissions, that could still overwhelm the health system. how does the u. k to the records of europe? well, what we're seeing are outbreaks of omicron in many countries, and i think the numbers isn't as well north of 60 countries now around the world are looking for this. the u. k is doing $1600000.00 tests per day of the countries and not testing quite to that level. so one has to be very cautious about comparing one country with another. it reminds me of back in march 2020. when the then belgian health minister maggie to blog quite accurately pointed out to no one across the you counts cove with the same way. we've got to be really careful how we

make those sorts of comparisons. but certainly based on the data that's flowing in other countries are also seeing rises and they're seeing only chrome become the dominant cause of the infections as it, as it is here in the u. k. and before long, it will account for the vast majority of the diagnoses we're making. what is the appropriate response when there is this slight delay in receiving the data? and particularly when you look at the, the rate at which this very interest spreading. can we be sure, i mean, testing capacity can't keep up with the spread. well, that the testing past is pretty good. i mean, if you think a year and a half ago, we were struggling to do numbers of testing that thousands. now we're doing numbers of tests in the millions, but really we, we treat patients not numbers in the health service, and it's really important that we don't focus so much on the cases as on the consequences. and this is the big unknown. this remains the elephant in the room. it's what we don't know is going to happen. and this is the big question. will

those people who catch this translate into severe disease? and if so, what fraction of them will that happen to? or will the vaccine status we already have and the enhance vaccination, delivering that today, nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 booster doses to adults in the u. k. will that lead to a high level of protection? so we do get cases, but we don't see them translate into consequences. we won't know that for another 2 or 3 weeks, probably at the earliest. so we're currently looking to other countries that are a bit further down the track south africa, foremost among them to see what their experiences. but at the moment, we all reassured that the illness appears to be mild. but the numbers are very big, and therefore we, we still do have the potential to overwhelm our, our ability to provide care. thank you for explaining that clearly christmas johnny staff from cambridge now elsewhere south careers re imposing straight

corona virus measures. amid a surging cases and hospitalizations gatherings will be limited to a maximum of 4 people as long as vaccinated it comes. as indonesia, president warns against complacency after the 1st on, the kron cases detected that now rolling out vaccines to children as young as 6. jessica washington reports from jakarta in town, grown on the outskirts of to counter. it was new, this laughter, and even a few tears. as these children became part of it. he just coven, 19 vaccination. dr. watson. this one think it was a little uncomfortable when the needle pushed to my own. but after that i felt ok. hundreds of students in greater to county received the shows as the government's campaign to vaccinate those in the 6 to 11 age group begins this week nichol. i feel a bit more brave to go and meet my friends. now. when the delta, very and spread through indonesia, from june to august, the nation experienced a surgeon child. now,

with the situation more under control and vaccines available for children, parents say they feel reassured, i feel it is safe, and now it is like preparing an umbrella for the rain doctor say it is an important step in making schools safer on the bottom. but the parents are very encouraging for their children to get vaccination. some children are brave, some cries, but we managed to vaccinate all these children with the many countries in the asia pacific were hit hard by the delta there. and now in the face of the army, chrome variant, they're trying to scale up their vaccination. dr. philippines is in the mid to the 2nd mass vaccination drive. why don't you go to port people are now afraid of desirous stop. so they come here voluntarily. the philippine government wants to have at least $54000000.00 people vaccinated by the end of the year. among them children aged between 12 to 70 authorities in south korea. meanwhile,

say they have no choice, but to re introduce restrictions after weeks of soaring infections and calls from health workers to ease pressure on overburdened hospitals. and we've seen a huge spike in the number of daily duke havoc cases. but also we've seen a significant increase in the number of critically ill patients. now authorities say they will focus on administering booster shots and targeting b unvaccinated. a similar strategy for many countries in the region. jessica washington al jazeera dakota or africa trails has the lowest vaccinated continent in the world. as you can see from the lighter colors here on the map, it's still struggling to get doses through to the un backed kovak scheme. only 20 african countries of mice to vaccinate war than 10 percent of that population. growing vaccine hesitancy is also playing a part in this, as nicholas hoc reports from the car. a precious and life saving vaccine,

free of cost. and yet, no one at this coven 19 vaccination center in downtown to car, wants to take it. some passer buys, asked nurse been to jello if the vaccine will make them sterile. others wonder if it will give them a heart attack? or if they'll go blind up despite her assurances, the vaccine is safe and could protect their lives. people don't trust her. there was so much miss information. so much nonsense. talking about coven vaccine, just like talking about politics. and has become an issue that divides people. let's make this clear we need to get vaccinated to protect ourselves and our loved ones. it's the only way among those refusing to get vaccinated is t, v, pundit and emergency, dr. bucher and young while he treats patients infected with cove at 19 young is famous for his postings on social media. near argues that as long as the western pharmaceutical companies refuse to wave patents, so that vaccines can be produced locally. they not be trusted or used on africans.

lucas. it's not a vaccine, it's a product being tested on people. that's why people are getting sick. despite to vaccine, too much fear misinformation and not enough vaccines means that only 10 percent of africans have been vaccinated. nigeria, home to 200000000 people is only inoculated. an average of a 1000 people a day. in senegal, more than 200000 expired doses, have been destroyed, is where the coven vaccine is being stored. it needs to be kept between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees celsius. the challenge is to get those vaccines and remote health centers, where the ambient temperatures is around 40 to 30 degrees celsius. also it's a race against time for health workers to get as many people inoculated before these doses expire. for nurse jello. the new variant is spreading faster than we think, partly because of widespread misinformation. this vaccine hesitancy has

a cost perhaps barely visible for now, but she fears a wave of infections lies ahead. nicholas hawk al jazeera de car watching and he's our ly from london still had for you on the program. the u. s. release is all undocumented migrant families from it's detention centers using ankle bracelets to track them instead. bruce springsteen sells the rise to his entire music catalog to sony for a reported half a $1000000000.00. and for england, with our own worst enemy on day one of the 2nd ashes tests against australia ah rescue operations on the way off to parts of the philippines where i one of the strongest storms in the world. this year, typhoon rise, strengthened to a category 5 storm before making landfall in the southern philippines. the tourists

island, sir gow in city gout del norte. a province was hardest hit. sustaining winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour. close to a 100000 people have fled their homes and as it moves to the central philippines, official se around 10000 villages are in the projected path of the typhoon. shemelle alan dougen and miller has more on the rescue efforts. it is the most powerful storm to hit the philippines this year. a 100000 people have already fled their homes typhoon. why made land fallen thursday and continues to batter the regions of his science and men de now click on the coast. guards are rushing to evacuate. hundreds of residents, after incessant rains flooded their communities. the young and old men are forced to leave their homes with only the clothes on their backs. didn't scare me what they can with many hoping any damage will be limited and they'll be able to return

home soon. the philippines is no stranger to natural disasters. it is constantly battered by storms and volcanic eruptions. dave, when a young in 2013, holds the record as the strongest anywhere in the world, it killed at least $7000.00 people and displaced millions more. since then, the government has institutionalized emergency and disaster response. but even in a country long affected by around 20 storms each year safe when right comes at the most precarious time. those evacuated can stay in temporary shelters for too long because of cobit 19 restrictions. while those in coastal and farmland communities say they are already bearing the brunt of an economic recession and fear that the typhoon could obliterate whatever livelihood they have left. the philippine

government has pre positioned aid and military as 1st responders across the country . but the typhoon is expected to impact so many provinces, yet as warned local officials to prepare for the worst jamal alan dorgan. i'll jazeera manila in australia. 5 children have been killed after a gust of wind swept up a bouncy cancel. they were jumping on lee say 4 more are in a critical condition. after falling to the ground from about 10 meters in the air. the children aged around 11 was celebrating their last week of primary school in the island state of tasmania. the events that it occurred to die in davenport, in tasmania. i just shattering die of just unthinkable. heartbreaking and young children on a fungi out together with their families. and it turns to such horrific tragedy.

at this time of year, it just breaks your heart. the governor of the state of kentucky is saying the number of deaths from friday's tornadoes is now we're into 75. with 16 people still missing. further west in iowa, a truck driver was killed overnight in fresh storms. i, when warnings a car in place for an area stretching 2000 kilometers right across the country, from mexico to canada. on wednesday, more than 20 different tornadoes reported. figure meteorology essays, abnormal for this time of year. 6 the u. s. is reportedly released or migrant families from its detention facilities and is now tracking them through ankle, bracelets and white house correspondent. kimberly how kit has more on the story. this is a campaign promise that the u. s. president made that he would deliver a more humane immigration policy. certainly he set out to make some changes, but a lot of the immigration policy under the trumpet ministration remains in place in

terms of the statement coming from the agency task with overseeing all of this is known as immigration, customs enforcement, our ice. i says in it statement is committed to ensuring that all those in our custody resided safe, secure, and humane environment. and under appropriate conditions of confinement. ice is continuing to make nimble operational changes at its facilities in response to shifting conditions along the southwest border. now terms of those shifting consist, conditions, ah, that means sharp increase a, in the case of one crossing in yuma, arizona where the southwestern states, there is an increase of illegal immigration, or undocumented migrants entering the united states of about 2500 per cent from one year ago, i'm add to that what we should also point out is when it comes to the conditions of confinement. the media hasn't been allowed to see these conditions and they were heavily criticized under the trumpet ministration,

accused of keeping people in cages. the early pictures under the bygone administration didn't look any different. ah, and so they to stop letting the media go in to take tours. and so we don't particularly know how much this is differing from the previous administration to. now, what we do know, however, is that there are at least try to keep families together. so that's what this announcement is, is that families will no longer be held in these detention centers, but they'll still be used for individuals. the last 12 american and canadian missionaries kidnapped by a criminal gang in haiti of been released, a group was abducted in october after visiting an orphanage near portia friends. 5 others who had taken with them were freed in the last few weeks. the final 12 were discovered by the authorities on thursday, on a mountain near the capital. the gang of $400.00 mulatto had demanded a $1000000.00 per person in ransom. it's not yet clear if this was paid. 80 has been struggling with

a huge spike and kidnappings and other gang related violence. this year jabber chancy has moved from washington. we've been trying to piece things together from reports, from haitian authorities haitian media as well as, as well as those in the us. you know, the missionaries and the picture we have is around 10, 10 am g m t. the remaining hostages were found in a mountainous area about 2 hours south of puerto prince v. they were found by locals who alerted the authorities haitian media as they went then they were taken in, they were given medical tests to haitian haitian media, a suffix i'd always experience weight loss in that time and in captivity. and then we switched to the reports. we got from the u. s. at least these, these missionaries came from all over the over the us. they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup. and the reports there that those who knew the missionaries and were part of the congregation of the missionaries for michigan received a call from someone or

a text message rather early this morning from quite someone connected to the situation. telling them that all the, all the missionaries were now free. and we have this interesting quote from michigan congressional member, remember congress saying i want to thank the members of the hostage negotiation team for the diligence and securing the safe release of all the hostages. so this was apparently then a negotiated release. we don't know whether, whether that $17000001.00 for each $1000000.00 for each hostage was actually paid. but this was a, a release that was negotiated. apparently we knew that the f b i was helping in facilitating in negotiations as well as soup widely because it is a symbol of haiti's. freedom and dignity has been voted on to the united nations intangible cultural heritage list. each homage supers prepared and eaten on the 1st of january to mark katy's independence day. origin reserved for slave owners. patients took ownership of the soup when they gained independence from france in 18 for the

pumpkin soup is made with vegetables, planting, meat, pastor and spices. residents moving out of a town in southern ecuador, where a large sink hole has opened up a house, collapsed in our room at late on wednesday after the ground beneath it gave way local say, it's not the 1st time missing. coal has opened up in the heritage town. they blame illegal mining and fear more buildings could collapse. now official campaigning and sheila is drawing to a close out of sunday's presidential runoff. election with the last rallies being held. polling suggests a very close race in an election that is completely polarized the south american nation. far right candidate jose antonio, caste who finished top in the 1st round, each with $48.00 and a half percent off to gaining ground. in recent days, he has overtaken his left wing opponent, gabrielle burridge, but only by the slanderous of margins. or she's just point one percent behind that . 48.4 percent. that's now speak to our latin america added to lucy newman. who is

it a noisy posing rally of the far right candidate. josie jose antonio cast in santiago . unexpected. is it the cast could actually be within striking distance of winning the presidency? there were traditionally voters of favored more moderate candidates. lucille mariam, i think it was very, was very, very unexpected. indeed. right now i'm mad. his closing campaign rally. he's a hard to make another hour or 2, but already a lot of people here, he's been dealing with the younger voters that even hoping to be able to capture within the 1st round. now how can your cat, nobody would have believed that he could have been, as you say, within breaking it into the presidency, even 2 months with on a political roller coaster for the last 2 years. that of back in

a direction of a lot of the people a, in many ways, a civil back to the have a time when google a with those are the people that are you have a home, are here, a neighborhood where the majority of them will vote for him, lucille, what about his rival, gabrielle burridge?

he came in a close 2nd in the 1st round. how is he trying to win over undecided voters? in body could not be more differ from blog fan phone. your passcode was in the early fifties, but it is only $35.00, you just barely made it to the legal age to be able to run for the presidency at all to represent the new leg. he talks about import, bringing about pain for justice, but many people, as i said earlier, thought that the country with too much to the left he has been running with the communist party. that has been a hindrance in many ways didn't so now and for that matter, pass that would blanket move more to the political given to me, the even even monitoring on. then he's the only one that will be able to guarantee social piece of the hardaway holding up

a rally. all the other side of town in the lower income neighborhoods of the capital letters. our lovely, thank you very much. lou stadium and there are latin america editor, very colorful, and yeah, vibrant rally there in santiago, chile. thank you, lou. sir. you are with the news. our life from london still i have for you on the program. turkeys president raises the minimum wage by 50 percent, is another interest rate taught, you know, sends lira to a new love. look at white bro. as of mexico's not cheap, why no poinsettia flower business will be blooming this christmas. and in for me, the one mercedes withdraw their appeal on the rice result from the championship. decide that in apple ah

hello, great to see high pressure continues to be the driver of the school bus for northwestern europe. so let me show you sure we have dry conditions, but wow, we have a lot of cloud around, but that high pressure, it's deflecting system. so this toward the west, not going to impact you. we have several dry days ahead. we also got to talk about temperatures. i'm gonna put the colors on here. so the darker the blue, the lower the temperature london at 9 degrees. this actually bang on where you should be for the sound of the year. but wow, it's a high temperatures, best weather on the continent, iberia, look at this warm pocket here in seville 21 degrees. we're going to keep it going over the hex few days up to $23.00. not record breaking, but warm to be sure that to the other side of the mediterranean, this is where all the active weather is over at turkey, gloomy conditions. and for some that rain is going to turn to snow. so uncle, here's your next 3 days. nothing. major a few centimeters accumulation, but your temperature is here, are below average for this have the year or an endless weather broadcast right now for the top end of african,

we got some showers trying to sneak in to northern parts of libya here. same goes for egypt, but you know, cairo, you're going to stay dry with a high of 18 degrees. now come saturday, you'll see full on sunshine. so those conditions are improving. ok, that's a look at your world. weather will see you soon. ah. it's one year until the 1st we will, will in the middle east. so you see around the spot mazda 1st ever female secretary general leave, to share her journey, and discuss the route to cut her 2022. 0, now what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through here. douglas 0. we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. a copay to culture, of knowledge, openness.