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a very tight race. ah, thank you very much for joining us. governments around the world are scrambling to contain the spread of the army con variant of covered 19. several countries have recorded their highest daily infection rate since the pandemic began. france husbands non essential travel from the u. k. by anyone who is into french, citizen, or resident, the u. k. has reported a record number of infections for a 2nd day in a row, at more than 88000 france has reported almost 61000 cases. south korea is rein straightening a stricter social distancing laws just 6 weeks after seeing it's able to quote, live with covered 19 and in africa, the delta, an army crime variance have driven infections by up to nearly 83 percent. the world

health organization says they are fewer dest sent in previous spikes, where we challenge begins our coverage with this report from london. the, the 1247 year a staar from london, brought its usual, bustled to paris. but soon, these trains may be most the empty from saturday, france is limiting, travel to and from the u. k. so only those with compelling reasons. french nationals, residents and their families all arrivals have twice late truck drivers. they are exempt. it will say salary general cubic plastic damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type in the next to slow down and reduce as much as possible the arrival of on the con, various cases in our territory. so much during this time we vaccinated the booster shots, but for the 2nd day running the u. k. has logged a record breaking number of new cases, 88000 on the cronies, spreading through this country faster than any previous various forest. johnson's government is focusing on vaccine boosters,

as it principal weapon that and urging people to think about where they go and who they see. we don't want to make your choices for you about your social life. well closing things we all saying is people should be cautious and they should think about their activities in the, in the run up to, to, to christmas on the streets of london's west end. those i spoke to didn't seem overly concerned. just got off to project, get it okay. i mean, i thought you just go to live with you can't keep shutting yourself, hawaii or forever. have you any plans or preference? no, i haven't. i may just go to the states and ask mary poppins. trying to stay safe, but still trying to live a normal life. but plenty of others are changing their plans at this to staff shortages because of infection and businesses bring again,

this is canceling performance. if restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, losing booking. and unlike before, when they have government financial assistance to help them cope with this, this time, their own, their own, sorry say one and 5 hotel cancellations at the moment it's people ship against their christmas parties. is people not working from home and not traveling? james, bainbridge runs the white heart hotel and 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 what kept us going and it's been well worth it if it was to stop now will not happen. that's a wasted. what's the point of getting this far as far as we have that all be taken away and for businesses to them fail? it's all so very familiar. another wave of infections, businesses in trouble. again, another christmas in doubts cove. it is the unwanted gift we can't get rid of, reach helen's out. his era london, us present. joe biden has a americans to get their booster shot as quickly as possible. his worn that only

con, we'll begin spreading rapidly and says that the best protection against the new variant do steps we've taken round is not yet spread as fast as it would have otherwise done. and it's happening in europe. but it's here now. it is spreading, and it's going to increase for i'm vaccinated. we're looking at a winner of severe illness and vaccinated for themselves. their families and the hospital will soon overwhelm. but there's good news. if you'd raxon a 100 booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death period. in while the un secretary general says flawed vaccine policies have contributed to the threat posed by the new variant. the step, the g vector hoarding, the step, the g, a vaccine national. these are the step, the g eviction diplomacy. these new value is demonstrated by you.

and so my hope is that companies understand that from not one, we need to have an equitable way to address the damage or we will all be victims of it. while africa is the lowest vaccinated continent in the world, as you can see from the light colors here on this map and is still struggling to get doses through the you and backs. kovacs keen on the 20 african countries have managed to vaccinate more than 10 percent of their population. while growing vaccine hesitancy is also a concern, as nicholas hoc reports from the car seneca, 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 for they'll go blind?

no farmer, despite her assurances the vaccine is safe and could protect their lives. people don't trust her. then why do they love so much misinformation so much nonsense. talking about coven vaccines is like talking about politics, 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, an emergency dr. bob walker and young. while he treats patients infected with coven . 19 young is famous for his postings on social media. near argues that as long as a western pharmaceutical companies refuse to wave patents so that vaccines can be produced locally. they should 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 in 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 nursed yellow, 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. in other world news rescue operations are underway in part of the philippines that have been hit

by one of the most powerful storms in the world. this year, tens of thousands of people are being moved to emergency shelters in the southern and central parts of the country. officials say about $10000.00 villages are in the projected parts of the typhoon. jemila alan, dog and reports. it is the most powerful storm to hit the philippines. this year. a 100000 people have already fled their homes. typhoon roy made landfall and thursday and continues to batter the regions of his science and men de now, on coast guards are rushing to evacuate. hundreds of residents, after incessant reigns flooded their communities. the young and old men are forced to leave their homes with only the clothes on their backs. residence carry 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 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, typhoid right comes at the most precarious time. those evacuated can stay in temporary shelters for too long because of coping 19 restrictions. while those in coastal and form and community say, they are already bearing the brunt of an economic recession and fear that the typhoon could obliterate whatever livelihood they have. left the philippines raiment has pre positioned aids and military as 1st responders across the country.

but the typhoon is expected to impact so many provinces. it has warned local officials to prepare for the worst jamila alan dorgan al jazeera manila. the remaining 12 american and canadian missionaries kid, now to buy a criminal gang in haiti have been released. the group was abducted in october after visiting an orphan age near portal prints. 5 others who were taken with them were freed in the last few weeks. the final 12 were discovered by the authorities on thursday, on a mountain north, her capital, the gang known as $400.00 mooresville, had demanded $1000000.00 per person in ransom is not yet clear. if this was paid shebra tansy as more 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 the haitian haitian media, se sum, i'd always experienced weight loss in that time and in captivity. and then we switch to the reports. we got from the u. s. at least these, these missionaries came from all over the over the u. s. they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup. and their report stay that those who knew the missionaries and were part of the congregation of the missionaries from 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 or a member of 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 release that was negotiated. apparently we knew that the f b, i was helping facilitating in negotiations as well. still ahead on al jazeera tragedy in tasmania, after a gust of wind lifts, a bouncy castle high in the air, killing 5 children at the end of school year celebrations and jail for doing their job report is with that border says a record number of gen this apparently detained. a hello. thank you for joining in. here's a look at the americas headlines that were tracking much cooler air left behind.

after those storms have swept across minneapolis, just a high of minus 5 degrees. let's go into the east right now or new york here. temperatures will come down in the days to come. we'll drop you back to single digits toward the south. could see some storms fire up here as we look toward arkansas, tennessee, and also kentucky. it's certainly something that we're going to be watching over the next few days. things have quieted down for the west coast across california temperatures dropping in denver as well, 6 degrees, and a lot of activity popping up in and around close to dallas, that should say. now for western canada is about a cold blast of air across a alberta saskatchewan into manitoba. so when a peg will take a look at the next 3 days, free look at this minus 18 the high on saturday. that's 10 degrees below where you should be for this time of year. heaviest frame will be a long dad's caribbean coast for central america, just driving in to the coastline there. and for the top end of south america, we've got our storms really flaring up from the pacific coast of columbia rate to

the atlantic coast of brazil. and for patagonia sunny commodore riva davia. a hiv 23 degrees on friday. ah. so one of the fastest growing nations in the world news won the cause of needed to oakland and development school international shipping companies to become a middle east. and we'll trade and money skillfully knocked out 3 key as of 2, both filling a prominence. connecting the world, connecting the future, won the cost cutters gateway to whoa trade. blue.

ah, you're watching al jazeera alive from doha reminder of our top stories. francis bonnie most non essential travel from the u. k, which has reported a record number of covey. 19 infections for a 2nd day. south korea is also reinstating strict to social distance signals after surgeon case rescue operations are underway after soc super typhoon ry made landfall. on the eastern side of the philippines, tens of thousands of people are being moved to emergency shelter in the southern and central parts of the country. and the remaining 12 american and canadian missionaries, kidnapped by a gang in haiti, have been released. 5 others were freed in the last few weeks, the group was abducted in october. after visiting an open aid, she had a capital portal crates to chile now where official campaigning is drawing to

a close. i had a sunday's presidential run off election. the voters polarize the country and polling to jesse will be an extremely tight race for right candidate jose antonio cast, finished on top. in the 1st found, his overtaken his left wing opponent gabrielle borage, but only by slim marching and spring in our latin america to tend to see a new man who's in santiago, forest. lucia. how unexpected was it that someone like cas could actually be within striking distance of winning the president in chile, where traditionally, voters are favorite moderate cabinets. exactly. i would say that 6 months ago, very few people would have read bad books. and when your pastor would have made it to the 2nd round of that he might very well even beat are his post rival. they are really nick and nick at this boy fighting for each and every vote for this past. for many people represent chillies pass. he is an also conservative,

defend our christian family values, he's against your portion against same sex marriage. he has also bowed to wrap down on undocumented migration. he has not been sprawl on environmental project. on the defense of the environment. i could give you a whole list of things, but perhaps most of all of these identity 5 with the past because we supported former dictator. i will still be new. she and in fact even voted for the return of democracy back in the late 19 eighties. but today, for many people, he represented law and order a shift away from the let you carry out that many people feel that is taken over this country. it's been 2 years of ongoing protest, lot of been associated with violence. we've also seen an uprising of indigenous uprising in south central julie, and of course, a huge boring abroad trafficking via, in many of the neighborhoods as much of the country. so those are the things that

he has been able to tap into to win over vote, especially considering that his main rivals have been weak on all of those points. it's arrival, gabrielle burridge. lucille is, is a complete opposite. any great came in a close 2nd. in the 1st round. how is burridge trying to win over undecided voters? but boy tried now was having his own final rally for the for the elections. precisely, a bill to hold those will have their serious doubts about him. will feel he may be just too far to the left. he is flying to he's been he and both house for that matter. i've been trying in their programs to move closer to the center precisely to appeal to those people that don't want radical changes in this country. he's wearing a jacket now he hasn't got as far so put on a tie. but, but he is trying to look a bit more presidential. remember, he's only 35 years old. is the youngest presidential candidate that julie has ever

had. in fact, he just came within a few weeks of not being eligible to run for the presidency because you have to be at least 35. and he was a student leader. he was very radical in that class. he is admitted that he made mistakes, but he's also running with the support of the communist party and for many people, that is a, a worry, some aspect he has tried to sort of diminish back in contact with the communist party. but in chile, remember, the communist party was part of the last and for left government, but this time the press there wouldn't be president pastor who sandlon you're past who, by the way is holding his campaign rally here in one of the 3 wealthiest counties in all of chile, he's constantly hammering that day rather than burridge would be a return to communism in this country. that does scare some people. lucy, i thank you very much for that miss in human life for a say in santiago the u. s. has reported,

he released all migrant families from its detention facilities and now being trach with uncle brace versus our white house correspondent, kimberly how kit has more. 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 trump administration remains in place in terms of the statement coming from the agency task with overseeing all of this. it's known as immigration, customs enforcement or ice. i says in its statement, it's 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. in the case of one crossing in yuma, arizona went to south western states. there is an increase of the legal immigration

or, and document migrant 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 trump administration, accused of keeping people in cages. the early pictures under the biden administration didn't look any different. ah, and so they to stop lighting 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 as well. 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 in australia. 5 children have been killed after a gust of wind swept up

a bouncy castle. they were jumping on. but he say 4 more are in a critical condition after falling to the ground from above, from about 10 meters in the air. the children h around 11 were celebrating their last week of primary school in the island of tasmania. the events that it occurred to die in davenport in tasmania are just chattering, though. they are just unthinkably hot breaking 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 associated price is calling on the ethiopian government to immediately release. a journalist, detained 2 weeks ago, used to take 6 statistics from reporters without boris show that dozens of journalists worldwide have been killed this year. victoria gayton b has more amir among kiara was arrested in the ethiopian capital,

addis ababa accused of promoting terrorism. he was working as a freelance journalist for the associated press. the u. s. based news agency is called the allegations baseless to other journalists who also arrested. they face up to 15 years in prison if convicted, violating the emergency lose brought in last month. the annual global round up our report is without buddhist paints. a bleak picture of media safety and freedom, particularly in ethiopia, the correspondent of the new york times. as been kicked out of the country, which was unprecedented since abbey, to office in 2018. there is this communication lot out. i am the northern part of the country and now you're just not able to do independent journalism anymore because only the official narrative about the war is the lug for generals. it's been a tough years for journalists around the world report is without buddhist says at least $46.00 journalists have been killed this year because of the stories they

were reporting. and nearly 500 are being detained. 65 are being held hostage. the most dangerous countries for media workers or mexico and afghanistan, followed by yemen and india. one of the reasons why there are so many journalists to turn these you're up to 20 person is memory because under deterioration of the situation in 3 countries, including jamar, a, china, and glovers reporters without buddhist says its findings are alarming bought. remarkably, the number of journalists killed this year is the lowest since it began counting 25 years ago. bought the number of journalists being detained is the highest. and in their absence, it says vital voices remain silent. victoria gate and be al jazeera goal, goal one. the speaker of tenicia is parliament has rejected the president's decision to extend a parliamentary fries for another year. guy said, call for a constitutional referendum. earlier this week. he said parliament would remain

suspended until you elections in 2022 apartments. speaker one, the only way out of the political crisis would be an immediate cancellation of the president, so called exceptional meshes. bangladesh is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence from pakistan. earlier prime minister, she has seen, i presided over a victory day parade in dachau, where india's armed forces took part for the 1st time bangladesh. guerrilla fighters defeated pakistan's army in 1971, and estimated 3000000 people were killed in the 9 month conflicts leading to independence. standby chaudhry is in dark out with more on the victory day parade and celebrations. well, it's a national holiday that they're started with $31.00 gun salute. aside from the indian military contingent, there are military contingent products. 6 other countries, including the u. s. turkey, indonesia put on for all of them have actually sunday 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 shit 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 india and bangladesh. guerrilla fighters to nation was instrumental in supporting bangladesh during the cold. why it was russia and india now, there is also a remarkable journey for the country within the last 50 years, placing various kinds of challenges, natural disaster, economic challenges. yet it has able to manage a 6 per cent judy big growth plate. now it is one of the fastest growing economy in the wall. it is a middle income country and set to graduate chad 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. ah, the opposition says there is no free,

unfair election, either diminishing a space for democracy and freedom of speech. and he pon set here, flower a synonymous with christmas in many countries, millions of them are grown every year in mexico waste known as the no che boy now and this holiday season produces are helping for bumper sales after business suffered in the pandemic john home and reports from mexico city. ah christmas is approaching him mckuddle day, a micah, one of latin america's biggest flower markets. and one plant in particular is the star of the show. the not ship when it takes its name from the spanish for christmas eve. it's endemic to mexico and it's color means it's become synonymous with the festive season. the government estimates that about $20000000.00 plants grown a year for a deep christmas isn't the same without it. we met her, she snapped up more than 10 bouquets. when appleautomotive

a pot from the fact that it's pretty and joyous, it helps the people that grow it. to me, it's a really important falla, that means a lot at this time of year. the us takes, could it quit, le thought you to and used it to control fevers and heart conditions. but it was when the us ambassador jo point set fell in love with it took several plots back to the u. s. that it really became popular now in english. the flowers cool poinsettia off the him, and it's all over metzger, city as the cap to comes back to life off to the worst of the pandemic. this is the city's main artery paseo de la reformer. and this is, it's hall, this is the most iconic monument, a mexico, the angel of independence. and it's a mock of how important the nazi where the flower is. it is a blanket of them all around the foot of the statue. and this is where they produced in the green houses of the such a miracle district on the outskirts of the city. perhaps it was inevitable. the egg

flores that sega flowers in english, is dedicated his life to them from may when their 1st planted, his livelihood rests on these plants, doing well. economic eslinger is practically, it's a year's income, and a lot of families depend on this. more than one half 1000 families, just insult yamil colker from work and they're hoping for big bounce in sales as met. screw continues to open up in christmas. crumbs. john homan al jazeera makes grocery. ah, there again, i am fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera, france is banning most non essential travel from the u. k, which has recorded a record number of covey, 19 infections for a 2nd day, and on the african continent, the delta an army chron. variance have driven up infections by nearly 83 per cent. the un secretary general says flawed vaccine policies.