man, made threats beneath the surface of the magnificent desolation is just teeming with life. these is the remote gonna take sanctuary. are now just 0. ah, us president joe biden warns of a search in cases of the omen chrome very and saying it's critically important for people to get vaccinated on vaccinate. we are looking at a winter of severe illness and ah, i'm hasn't seeka, this is alive from the house or coming up relief and gratitude in haiti after all the american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in october,

i'll release about the storm slams into the philippines. triggering floods and landslide and forcing hundreds of thousands for now the us ramps up the pressure on china, of which treatment of muslim week is in sion. janet i hello g 7 nations warning. the oma crohn variant is the biggest current threat to global public health. it's calling for better coordination among countries to fight the koran of ours. pandemic president joe biden says the spread of the variance in the us will accelerate into the new year. he says the unvaccinated will be worst effective, it's here now, and it's spreading. and it's going to increase for own vaccinated. we are looking at a winner of severe illness in debt and vaccinated for themselves. their families and

hospitals will soon overwhelm. but there's good news. if you'd raxon a 100 booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death of the u. k has reported a record number of infections for the 2nd day in a row, at more than 88000 to slow the spread whales will close all my clubs for december 27th. limiting holiday festivities and france has banned non essential travel from the u. k. by any one who is not a french citizen or resident, it is reported almost 61000 cases in the past 24 hours. worry challenge begins our coverage in london. the 1247 year a staar from london brought its usual, bustled 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 suddenly catalog. you bet. plus you damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type in the net to slow down and reduce as much as possible the arrival of a mac on 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 current is 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 the tip project. i get it. i get, i mean, you know, you just go live. you can't shut yourself a wife. forever. have you any plans for it? no, i haven't. i may just go to the states and ask me, popping. trying to stay safe, but still trying to live a normal life. but plenty of others are changing their plans at this to star shortages because of infection. when business is a suffering again, it is counseling performance. if restaurants cafe in nightclubs, losing booking and like before when they have government financial assistance to help them cope with this, this time, their own their own. sorry say one in 5, hightail cancellations at the moment. it's people that ship against their christmas parties is people not working from home or not traveling. james bainbridge runs the

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 what kept us going and it's been well worth it if it was to stop. now not happened. that's a wasted. what's the point of getting his foot as far as we have for that's all be taken away to businesses to them file. it's all so very familiar. another wave of infections business is in trouble again. another christmas in dance cove, it is the unwanted gift we can't get rid of rory, talents out 0 london or the un secretary general says floor the vaccine policies of contributed to the threat posed by the new varied the strategy vaccine hoarding the step of g. a. vaccine nationalism or the step, the g eviction diplomacy fight these new belgium 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 panoramic are we will all be

victims of it are the us centers for disease control is recommending americans choose other corona, vice vaccines over the johnson and johnson jap cdc says the shot is less effective than those made by mcdonough and pfizer, and sometimes leads to fatal cases of blood clotting. at least 9 people have died in the us, out of the more than 200000000 fully vaccinated americans. 16000000 have received the j. n. j jam. indonesia has started vaccinating children in an effort to keep schools open. jessica washington reports from jakarta in town grown on the outskirts of decanter. there was no this laughter and even a few tears as these children became part of him. 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 counter received the shot as the government's campaign to vaccinate those in the 6 to 11 age group begins this 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 dance. now, with the situation more under control and vaccines available for children, parents say they feel reassured, must be brought up. 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 fascination. 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 donors variant. now, in the face of the army, chrome variant, they're trying to scale up the vaccination drive. the philippines is in the mid to

the 2nd mass vaccination drive. why don't you go to court? people are now afraid of dividing stop. so they come here for the entire really the philippine government wants to have at least 54000000 people vaccinated by the end of the year monk, them children aged between 12 to 17 authorities in south korea. meanwhile, say they have no choice, but to reintroduce restrictions after weeks of soaring infections and calls from health workers to a pressure on overburdened hospital. we've seen a huge spike in the number of daily discovery 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 the unvaccinated. a similar strategy for many countries in the region. jessica washington al jazeera dakota. a japanese media is reporting at least 27 people

fear dead in a building fi in osaka, and happened in an 8 story structure in a shopping and entertainment area that victims were thought to have suffered from hot and lung failure because of the fire is not yet known now the remaining 12 american and canadian missionaries kidnapped by a criminal gang in haiti, had been released. people gathered at the christian aid ministries campus in puerto class, before a convoy headed to the airport. the group was abducted in october after visiting and wolfe and each near the capitol troy gathered. they were treated relatively well. i'm still waiting to hear the rest of their story. i'm sure they were treated supremely new wifi. it is hard even it's best. and i have not received any details. i think if there had been any severe problems,

any injuries or any losses that they had, we would have probably heard a she abernathy has more from washington dc. 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 experience 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. a kidnappings that become a major problem for a t n. a now has the highest abduction rate in the world. this year has been one of the worst, with nearly 950 kidnappings reported so far. but the actual figure is expected to be far higher with many victims, families, not telling authorities because of threats from gangs. the explosion in abductions

mirrors, the growth of gangs across the country around $165.00 violent criminal groups believe to be operating in the capital, puerto plants, and many on now better equipped than haiti's police force. a facebook's parent company meta has banned 7 companies, which it says we're operating as surveillance for hire. it's sending warning. note says to 48000 people who it believes were targeted on its social media platforms by malicious activity, met us as politicians, journalists, and human rights activists were effected. connie gloria low is editor in chief of seen it. she says, cyber spine practices will continue unless governments and social media platforms take action for learning about us today, which probably means has been going on for quite some time. this is concerning because these companies who have been paid by governments opposition, leaders,

companies we, we don't know who they've been hired by exactly, but are spying on people to collect information including contact lists, private email accounts, all sorts of data that could be used to undermine whatever efforts they are making, perhaps to expose governments go after groups ethnic minorities in china. there's a whole range of abuses that could come from this kind of surveillance. the surveillance for hire business goes well beyond just facebook. it's something that happens across the internet using technology. in the old days, they would probably use penn paper and phone books. remember, when we used to call each other on phones, and now they're using digital technology. so unless the repercussion you have instances were, were governments, the u. s. government, for instance, today, banned some 40 companies from china because of some of the practices they were using with biotechnology to target muslim, bi norris that affects their business and it prevents us doing business with them.

so unless there's some sort of repercussion besides a ban, those practices and that's alice for hire is going to continue to happen. a still ahead on as a nation polarized sheila, a presidential election campaign comes down to a battle between the hot right and the far left and the u. s. releases or undocumented michael families from his detention centers and track them remotely. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with sponsored by capital airways. hey there, good to see. we don't often say this, but we're chatting about some cloud and rain through the middle east, so we'll pick up the story. there are some showers through the vans moving across iraq into western iran, and that's going to drop down some what weather for

a q wait. so we show the 3 day forecast here. really the next several days we've got that risk. we could even power up some thunderstorms as so we'll certainly be watching that carefully off the pakistan seems a bit cool here for the hor, at 18 degrees that is below average for this have the year off to turkey. really gloomy conditions here. low temperatures breezy in some spots that rain will turn to snow for people like places like honora over the next little bit. we have seen flooding across the congo. so this is force thousands of people from their homes as that flooding intensifies and still more what weather in the forecast for the democratic republic of congo spilling into congo on friday. further toward the south, some bursts of heavy grain can be expected zambia right through to the bob boys southern sections of most and be great through to eastern areas of south africa and a bit of a temperature divide here, they're going down in johannesburg, but temperatures are on the way up in cape town, getting up to a high of 26 degrees on friday, sir. oh, the weather,

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again, you're watching as a reminder of our top stories. us president joe biden is warning unvaccinated americans about what he calls a winter of severe illness and death. biden says the con, covered 19 very it will spread rapidly in the new year, and he's appealing for more people to get close to gems. domain 12 american and canadian missionaries kidnapped by criminal games, have been released. group was in october after visiting an orphanage near the capital facebook comparing company meta has banned 7 companies, which it says we're operating as surveillance for hire. mentors says about $50000.00 people would likely talk did include politicians, journalists, and human rights activists. i one of the most powerful tropical storms to hit the philippines. this year is now weakening. after slammed into the coast on thursday, one person has been killed while hundreds of thousands have been displaced in

southern and central regions. winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour, knock down power lines and rick, rudolph homes. heavy rains triggered floods and landslides. jemila alan doug report is the most powerful storm to hit the philippines. this year. a 100000 people have already fled their homes typhoon. why made land falling thursday and continues to batter the regions of his science and men did now put 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. dive 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 cipher 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. it has warned local officials to prepare for the worst. jim eileen dorgan al jazeera manila. uh you said it has voted to ban imports from china's jin chang, legion, and less produces can prove, forced labor was not used. it passed unanimously, despite opposition from companies who argue it will further disrupt supply chains. it's now to president bind, decided into law as administration is also now new sanctions against several chinese companies for their actions in j. u. s. and twos, china of committing genocide in its treatment of muslim league is their chinese embassy in washington called the action totally groundless. alan fisher has more from washington. so the u. s. senate has no confirmed jo biden's nominee to be the new ambassador to china. he is nicholas boncey as a veteran diplomat,

but the whole process was essentially on hold, because a number of republican senators wanted to push through that what they call the weaker force labor prevention act. now it passed through the house and it has passed through the senate by unanimous consent. and this essentially says that any individual or company importing goods from the jin chang, area of china, must be able to prove that there was no force labor involved in the goods that were produced. a number of human rights organizations have said that the mainly muslim wiggers are being used in force labor camps. now, the chinese embassy here in washington says those allegations are without foundation. and they insist that the measures taken by the senate will gum up the global supply chain. the simple fact is that that bill is now heading to the old resolute desk in the oval office, and joe biden is expected to sign it in the coming days. it hasn't been a good day for us china relations because we heard from the commerce department

that they were going to impose sanctions on a number of companies, including a drone company. because according to the commerce department, they were acting not in the best us national interest. now if you add that to the, the, the investment band that was imposed last week, you can see why people are saying that relations between beijing and washington are that perhaps their worst in a generation the u. s. has reportedly released all migrant families from detention facilities. they are now being tracked with ankle bracelets. our white house correspondent, kimberly how can 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, our ice. i says in that 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. in the case of one crossing in yuma, arizona went to south western states. there is an increase of illegal 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. 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. as a governor of the us, state of kentucky says the number of deaths from friday's tornadoes has now risen to 75. with 16 people still missing, at least 5 others were killed on wednesday. in separate powerful storm system. with 20 different tornadoes were reported which meteorologist say is abnormal, for this time a year. more than 250000 homes and businesses remain without power across the 4 states. australian police have launched an investigation into the death of 5 children who are killed when a gust of wind swept up

a bouncy castle. they were jumping on police say 4 more children are in a critical condition off the falling to the ground for about 10 meters in the air. the children aged around 11 were celebrating their last week of primary school in the island state of tasmania. today that says, my new community continues to grief for the 5 children who sadly lost the lives yesterday. we will side continue to hope and pray for the poor children to remain in hospital that will be able to recover. the tragedy which occurred yesterday is beyond comprehension. it's devastating, heartbreaking. it's just simply and comprehensible. what should have been a celebration for the end of the school year turned into an unfortunate tragedy. for young children at hillcrest primary, or the e. u has again threatened tough sanctions against russia if it invades ukraine. european commission, president ursula vonda lion, says moscow must de escalate tensions and refrain from further question us

intelligence officials say russia as mu, tens of thousands of troops to its borders with ukraine. though moscow denies it has any plans to attack our concern related to russia's military build up on the eastern ukrainian borders. a well known position is very clear. we maintain our call on russia to de escalate tensions and refrain from any further aggression. we would like to be in a situation where relations with russia of russia, a good, but this is very much depending on the choices made by moscow. so let there be no doubt. if russia were to move against ukraine, the union will be in a position to take sanctions that could extract a massive cost. and in news just coming in, u. k prime minister boys, johnson's conservative party has lost the bi election in north shropshire as

parties never lost the seat. and the result could raise serious questions about his leadership. after a series of controversies, official campaigning. and sheila has drawn to a close ahead of sunday's presidential run off election calling suggest it will be an extremely tied race far right candidate. jose antonio cast finished on top in the 1st round, he's taken his left wing opponent gabriel burridge. but only by a slim margins are latin american antilles. seen him and has more from santiago. this was the last chance to alter conservative presidential candidates. jose antonio passenger had to convince jillions that he is the man of the future just by his past, which is so closely linked to this country to form a military dictatorship. however, he promises to restore law and order something that this country has not had for a long time. this, i mean more than 2 years of social uprising and upheaval, shake and drug violence and also an uprising,

an indigenous uprising and south central tele. oh, we are going to recover the state of law that we never should have lost and we will recover our economy and dignity because the left is only capable of promoting poetry that poverty that has dragged venezuela, nicaragua, and cuba into unbelievable misery would have held this rally and one of chillies, 3 wealthiest counties where he has wide support cash. it's a song to calculate who opposes same sex marriage, abortion, and what he calls a left wing cultural dictatorship. but he swung more to the center in recent weeks to win over those in san as a representative of chiles. patty, his opponent was 35 year old new left leader gabrielle body to held a simultaneous rally in a more middle class part of the capital. he too, has been working hard to fix the perception that he's tyrannical, especially since his political alliance includes the communist party. although he

says he's still the same former student leader that lead street protests apart, he's looking lesser formal, was offering a better future in a less unequal society. threatened gamino, s lampa al road is peace to find ourselves again as one children. we need social justice and not violence, and there is no clear away to have instability then to leave everything as it has. and bet is what jose antonio cast proposes. this race is neck and neck, and nobody that i know at least is daring to place a michael in the most competitive annex in this country has seen in more than 3 decades of scientists. in brazil estimates 17000000 animals were killed in last year. was five's in the world's largest tropical whitland fire destroyed about 30 percent of the pan to now wetlands which extend across parts of bolivia and paraguay scientists who described the damage to the ecosystem as apocalyptic.

bruce springsteen is reportedly $500000000.00 rich out to selling his entire back catalogue of songs to sony. music legendary us sing a song right to join the likes of bob dylan and poor simon in caching in on compositions from his glory days. the deal includes 15 times platinum album, born in the usa as well as 19 more studio. busy albums containing over 300 original springsteen. ah, this is just, you know, let's get around. now the top stories us president joe biden is wanting unvaccinated americans of a winter of severe illness and death in his woods by the says, the con, covered 1900 very, it will spread rapidly in the new year.