the 19 big business in place that was thousands of pixels, millions of dollars and non refundable token weed. demystify the world crypto help him to call on al jazeera. ah, he was president joe biden warns of the surgeon cases of the on the kron variance saying it's critically important for people to get vaccinated on vaccine. we're looking at a winners bureaus in death. ah, and i am elizabeth veronica and this is al 0 alive from dough ha. also coming up at least 27 people of fear dead after a fire broke out in a building in japan. rescue operations are underway in the philippines after it was

slammed by one of the most powerful storms, the sierra and relief and gratitude and haiti. after all, the american and canadian missionaries kidnapped and october, a released ah g 7 nations, a warning, the alma khan variant is the biggest current threat to global public health is calling for better coordination among countries to fight. the corona virus 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 effected. it's here now, and it's spreading, and it's going to increase for own vaccinated. we are looking at a winter of severe illness and vaccinated for themselves, their families and the hospital will soon overwhelm. but there's good news. if

you're raxon a 100 booster shot, you're protected from severe illness and death. now the u. k. has reported a rec hall number infections for the 2nd day in a row, and more than 88000 wales of closing all night clubs to help flow the spread. and france with a band non essential travel from the u. k. by anyone who isn't a french citizen or resident or challenge reports from london. 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'll say salary capital cubic plus can damage. this is the framework that will be put in place, which will allow us to further type the net 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 vaccinate 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 turn to christmas on the streets of london's west end. those i spoke to didn't seem overly concerned. i just got off the tip which i get it. i get, i mean, i thought, you know, you just go live, you can't keep shutting yourself, hawaii,

or wherever have you can with 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 when business is suffering again. it is canceling performance if restaurants, cafes, nightclubs, losing booking and unlike before and 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 should be going through christmas parties. is people not working from home or 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 not happened. that's a wasted. what's the point of getting his foot as far as we have for that or be

taken away from businesses to them fail? 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 rory, talents out to 0 london. and the un secretary general says floor vaccine policies have contributed to the threat posed by the new variant. the step, the g vector hardening the step, the g, a vaccine nationalism or the step, the g eviction diplomacy, airframe these new values is demonstrated by you. and so my hope is that companies understand that from not one, we need to have an equitable way to invest the pandemic, or we will all be victims of it. now the us centers for disease control as recommending americans choose all the corona virus vaccines over the johnson and johnson jab. the cdc says

a single shot as less effective and though it was made by montana and pfizer and, and rare occasions, leaves the faithful cases of blood clotting. at least 9 people have died from clots . and the us out of the more than 200000000 fully vaccinated americans, 16000000 have received the j and j jet that moving onto the news now and u. k prime minister bonds, johnson is under more pressure after a surprise by election defeat. the conservative party has lost north shropshire for the 1st time, and more than a century or earlier this week, a 100 m p from johnson's own party voted against his plan for stricter corona virus measures. the opposition accused the government of playing politics with public health to japan. now where the media there is reporting at least $27.00 people, a fee, a dead, alter a fire in a category clinic, psychiatry clinic closet in osaka, police reportedly investigating suspected often victims were thought to have

suffered from heart and long failure with joy. now by michael pan, he's the president of the she gets a news agency that's an independent japanese news, 18 his line. joining us live from the capital toko, very good to have you with us on al jazeera. so firstly, you in japan, what more you hearing about the fire? oh, well, the fire itself broke out this morning in japan time, and it was actually extinguished by the firefighters just about 30 minutes after it broke out. so it was not a very long event, but it happened on a very, in a very narrow building on the 4th floor of an 8 story building. and presumably, although the details have not quite been clarified yet, but what would appear happened is that the smoke from the fire on the 4th floor probably succeeded the people who are working in the top 4 floors. and that's

probably why the death toll is as high as it is. and we're also hearing from local media that it might have been someone who was being treated at the clinic itself, who brought a flammable liquid into the building. what kind of measures are in place? what kind of security measures are in place and building consciousness in japan to stop such incidents? generally speaking, there are no security measures in japan, and i'm in japan is one of the safest major industrial societies to live in. and you know, people can walk into most buildings will doors are not usually locked and the type of building this was kind of an older office building. generally speaking, you can just walk off the street straight into the elevator and go up. we don't

know exactly who the man, the suspect was, but he appears to be an older man, may be in the sixty's. and he was believed to have carried some sort of lighter fluid and maybe let it. but these details still need to be fully confirmed by the investigators so far. we're only getting bits and pieces of the report. a sure. and i understand what you're saying about japan being an incredibly safe society. i was also reading that there was a prominent austin attack in 2019 i believe in kyoto and animation studios. so our incidents such as beads, quite unusual. bear then they are it's not that they never happens. there are occasional like goes the serial murders, but usually they're done by a knife rather than like guns, which they would usually be on in the united states in other countries. and there are, there have been a couple of prominent arts attacks the most prominent one is the one you mentioned,

which was in the animation studio and toto which killed many, many young promising artists. and as one of the great national tragedies in recent years. but yes, these things do happen in japan from time time, but not on a regular basis. something like happened today is maybe a once or twice a year, sort of event. it's not, it's not something you read about every day mr. pam with that can very much for your time and bringing us the latest on this. that is michael pan, live in tokyo. thank you. now one of the most powerful tropical storms to hit the philippines. this year is now weakening after slammed into the caused 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, knocked down power lines and ripped roofs of homes. heavy rains triggered floods and land slides. well, let's speak to our correspondent german island build and now she's joining us live

from the capital. the manila jimmy, what do we know so far about the impact and the rescue mission? well unfortunately, elizabeth, many here in the capital, manila and other areas are not getting enough information to figure out the extent of the damage of type one, right. almost 24 hours since it's 1st made land fall in. so to go in chicago island, for example, many of the areas hit since then actually have lost power communication lines. so there are very little information coming out from provinces like late there, for example, saudi go, behold, province. and even earlier at the press conference by those who are part of the national disaster risk management office, they themselves admit that this is quite critical. at least 800000 people have already been affected. 100000 b ma. hundreds of thousands of people remain evacuated and the day for and is still

in the areas of below and province, which is expected to leave the philippine area of responsibility by tomorrow at there on saturday morning. but again, the most critical part here. now according to the government is to figure out how to send preposition aid and military responders from different countries from, from different parts of the country to areas that they are most needed. and of course jamila, the philippine administrations have so much experience of this because the philippines is no stranger to typhoons. but how much is the, the pandemic complicating the disaster management efforts at the moment? well as you know, elizabeth since 2013 and spies for how young happened, which is the strongest storm to ever hit on record where more than 7000 people died and left millions more displaced. the philippines was able to in a way, institutionalize disaster response operations. but the pandemic has made

that difficult. for example, all of those who have been evacuated residents from many communities can not really stay in evacuation centers in temporary shelters for too long. that's because of the government's self imposed minimum health protocol because of the coven 19 pandemic. that makes it very difficult to provide social dis, than seeing in february shelters like schools for examples. that's one and also many of the areas hit since last year. for example, around this time. fife, when vom goal these areas are causal and agricultural communities that continued the ferry, the brunt of last year's devastation. and of course, the impact of this recession, it's, which has been seen as the worst in decades for the philippines. so many of these communities worry not just about survival now, but how they can actually go back to working again because they fear that many of their farm lands their boats for fishing have been destroyed. and they are now very much dependent on aid from the philippine government coming to thank you very much

for that for now. that is, that show me that i'm in vogue on with the latest live and then a thank you. mouse to the head on al jazeera, the u. s. rams office pressure on china over it's treatment of muslim week. isn't sion, jang and a nation poll, revised to lays presidential election campaign comes down to a battle between the handwrite and found that ah hello great to see you. 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 while 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 as actually bang on where you should

be for this out of the year. but wow, to high temperatures, best weather on the continent, iberia. look at this warm pocket here. 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 turkey, gloomy conditions, and for sun, that rain is going to turn to snow. so uncle, here's your next 3 days. nothing. major. a few centimeters accumulation, but your temperatures here are below average for this have the year or in 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. okay, that's a look at your world. weather will see you soon. ah. in the country with an abundance of results i want to be here.

first moment we move to grow and frog. we balance real economy, blue economy, and the digital economy with the new job creation law, indonesia progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs. this. let me pa going to lose his growth and progress in here. now, lou ah ah, watching on to 0 me, elizabeth for on i'm a reminder of our top story is the found. u. s. president joe biden has warned on vaccinated people face severe illness as the alma called variance spreads. health

officials have recommended americans choose 5 or more journey vaccines instead of johnson and johnson. because of rare cases of clotting u. k prime minister balls. johnson's on the increasing pressure after his conservative party last to buy an action for a seat at his house for more than a century. being interpreted as a vote, a backlash against a series of controversies. and at least $27.00 people, the fear dead after a fight in a psychiatry clinic in osaka, local media say police. the investigation suspected alison victims report to have suffered from heart and lung failure. now a missionary group who kidnapped and hated 2 months ago have been released. the group of americans, canadians that included children were taken captive in october after visiting an orphanage near the capital portable prince. 5 of the missionaries were freed in the past few weeks for the final 12 set free on thursday. if not clear, if

a ransom was paid for all i gathered, they were treated relatively well. i am still waiting to hear the rest of their story. i'm sure they were treated supremely new. life is hard even its 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 she hypertonic. they have 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 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 u. s. they were organized by an ohio based mission regroup. and the report stay that those who knew the missionaries and it 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. now the us senate has unanimously voted to ban imports from china sion john region on this producers can prove that forced labor was not used. president biden has already announced new sanctions against several chinese companies because of the treatment of muslim week as engine john. the chinese embassy in washington called the senate bad, totally groundless, and diplomatic appointment was delayed to allow the week of forced labor act to pass on. fisher has more on that from washington dc. 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 jing jang 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 there was allegations are without foundation. and they insist that the measures taken by the senate will gum up the global supply chain. 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 seeing that relations between beijing and washington, or perhaps their worst in a generation. now facebook's parent company met her husband 7 companies that it says we're operating a surveillance for hire. it's an in warning notices to 48000 people. and more than a 100 countries who believe photography on social media platforms by malicious activity met us as politicians, journalists, and human rights activists were targeted with connie googly alamo, as editor in chief of c met. and she says, cyber spine practices will continue on this governments and social media platforms take action or 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 e mail 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 pen paper and phone books. remember when we used to call each other on phones, and now they're using digital technology. so unless there's a repercussion, you have instances where, where 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 prevent us doing business with them

from left or some sort of repercussion. besides a ban, those practices and that's for hire is going to continue to happen. now is training police investigating the deaths of 5 children who were killed when a gust of wind swept up a balancing castle. though jumping on, please say 3 more children are in a critical condition after falling to the ground from about 10 meters in the air. the children aged around 11, celebrating their last week of primary school. and the either state of has mania. the tragedy which occurred yesterday is beyond comprehension. it's devastating heartbreaking. it's just simply and comprehensible. what should have been a celebration to the end of the school year turned into an unfortunate tragedy for a young children at home, chris, primary i've a night. there's been an enormous app flooring, a grief, as well as support for those involved here in davenport,

across his mind. yes. across the country and indeed across the world. the north korea has commemorated the 10th anniversary of its former lead as death. the country observed 3 minutes of silence for kim jong il, his son and current lead a kim jong on was not seen publicly paying his respects like an all the years. now she lives presidential candidates have made last ditch effort to win or voters ahead of sundays run off and action polling suggests that will be an extremely tight race far right candidate. jose antonio costs finished on top. in the 1st round, he's overtaken his left wing opponent gabriel barge, but only by a slim margin. latin america editor lucy and human has more from santiago. this was the last chance to auto conservative presidential candidate for san antonio. pasadena had to convince julians that he is the man of the future. despite his past, which is so closely linked to discontinue former 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, church and drug violence, and also an uprising, an indigenous uprising in south central chile. a, we're 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. who held this rally and one of chillies, 3 wealthiest counties where he has wide support. cash is a song to catholic who opposed to same sex marriage abortion. and when he calls a left wing, punctual dictatorship. but he swung more to the center in recent weeks to win over those and see him as a representative of chiles. patty, his opponent was 35 year old, new left leader gabrielle body to help

a simultaneous rally in a more middle class part of the capital. he too, has been working hard to take the perception that he's too radical, especially since his political alliance includes the communist party. although he says he's still the same. former student leader that lead street protests at heart, he's looking less formal, was offering a better future in a less unequal society. threatened gamino law, our road is peace to find ourselves again as 12 ladies. 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 bet on just who my, who in the most competitive annex in this country has saved in more than 3 decades . now finally, this bulletin, b poinsettia flower is synonymous with christmas and many countries. millions of

them are grown every year in mexico, where it's known as the nazi winner. and this holiday season produces a hoping for bumper sales after business suffered in the pandemic. john holland reports from mexico city. ah christmas is approaching in mckuddle there her micah, when of latin america's biggest flower markets. and one plant in particular is the star of the show. the not cheap 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 plants had grown a year for a date. christmas isn't the same without it. we met her, she snapped up more than 10 bouquets. when uploaded a more far apart from the fact that it's pretty and joyous, it helps the people that grow it. to me, it's a really important flower that means a lot at this time of year. the us takes, could it quit, le such

a tool 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 us that it really became popular. now, in english, the flowers cool poinsettia after him, and it's all over mexico 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 hot. this is the most iconic monument, a mexico, the angel of independence. and it's a mark of how important the nazi boiler flower is that there is a blanket of them all around the foot of the start to and this is where they produced in the green houses of the such a mill code district on the outskirts of the city, perhaps it was inevitable. the egg of florida is that they got flowers in english, is dedicated his life to them from may when they 1st planted his livelihood rests on these plants. doing well, recommend this healing good is practically, it's

a year's income and a lot of families depend on this more than one half barrels and families just in such a mil coker for more. and they're hoping for big bounce in sales. as mets could continues to open up in christmas comes. john holman, out is eda metzger, city ah, anomalies of the brought him into however, the headlines on al jazeera u. s. president joe biden has want unvaccinated people face severe illness as the armor con variance spreads. meanwhile, health officials have recommended americans choose the pfizer or more dana vaccines instead of johnson and johnson. the cause of rare cases of clotting and the un secretary general says, fraud. vaccine policies have contributed to the threat posed by the new variant. the strength of g a vaccine harling, the 2nd g a vaccine there.