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but they're trying to broaden the people to levy to go somewhere else, but the truth is nowhere else to go. so if you miss it online, caps it here with me. sandra gatlin on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah, hello, i'm emily anguish. this is the news ally from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes . health officials in the us sideline, the johnson and johnson corona virus jab rick hayes, his of blood clotting. russia, demands the u. s. and nato cease in military activities in eastern europe as tensions increase along its order with you crying. ron's chief and nuclear negotiated tells al jazeera major progress has been made. the u. s. on sanctions
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relief during the latest round of talks in vienna. and chaos in chile and alarming rising drug trafficking in violence is top of the agenda ahead of upcoming elections. i'm devin ash, with sports cove is 19 grips. the english primarily managers are divided over whether the season should be hosted with football season call. doesn't see any benefit in stopping the competition with we begin this news hour with the impact of the army cranberry him to round the world. g 7 nations, a warning. it's the biggest current threat to global public health. they calling for better coordination among countries to fight the pandemic. resident joe biden says this spread of the very end in the u. s. will excel right into the new year? he added the unvaccinated will be worst affected here, now is spreading and is going to increase for own vaccinated. we are looking at
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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. the us centers for disease control is recommending americans choose the 5 all mcdonough vaccines, instead of johnson and johnson's. it says the single shot is less effective and in rare cases can lead to fatal blood clotting. south africa, meanwhile, says it will dominate around $2000000.00 doses of the change i vaccine to other african countries over the course of next year. and in the month, the government is proposing new restrictions. their daily infections broke. another record on friday, with more than $11000.00 cases, detected. to get the latest. now on the u. s. situation let's bringing mike hannah, who's lived for us in washington day say, hello there, mike, what,
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what is the current current situation across the us? numbers have been increasing, haven't lang. yes, indeed. the numbers i'm fact devastating over the past 40 days as b name 40 percent increase in the number of recorded cases. at present, they are running around a $120000.00 cases being recorded each day in terms of fatalities. some $1300.00 americans are dying each day. these figures had been ramping up driven se health. the experts are by the delta variant. but now you've got the intro. introduction of the incredibly virulent of only con variant, which is taking seed in many parts of the united states. now the issue here as well as the amount of americans who are not vaccinated at just over 60 percent, have been fully vaccinated. that leaves sub 40 percent of americans who have not had any shot of the earth, the, the, the various things available to them. so this is
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a major issue in terms of the view of health experts and indeed the bite and administration which is continuing to plea for all people to get vaccinated. those who are vaccinated to get a booster shot, because those who are unvaccinated are continuing to drive this massive increase in the number of cases. and mike, as we mentioned just before, going to use the cdc is recommending pfizer and the donor, either johnson and johnson wise that can well, the cdc had advisory committees who been looking at the impact of the various vaccines as it has the time has passed. and they have now recommended to the cdc that j n j is not as effective, long as the other 2 vaccines that are available to americans. it's also recommended that there is a great, a health problem with the j and j vaccine saying that particularly in women,
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it's found an increase in very bad side effects, resulting in at least 9 recorded cases in depth. however, this being said, it is not recommended that the j j vaccine not be taken if that is the only one available. the cdc is attempting to stress that is preferable to take the other 2 vaccines really available in the united states. if there's an alternative to the j and j, but this has also created a slight messaging issue with some who are and vaccinated. now saying, well you are saying that we should not be taking this particular vaccine. so this is created its own problems. and in other parts the will they have to be no country indicators that have been recorded here by the cdc experts in terms of the inefficiency and the potential health hazards of the j. j vaccine. mike, thank you very much for that update on this news l m, i can live for us. let's head to denmark now and live to copenhagen,
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where mohammed at jump june has more on possible new restrictions. they're more, what's the latest on the measures? well, emily, there was a press conference that was held just a few hours ago by denmark's prime minister met to frederickson in that press conference. the prime minister said in record time, the rules of the game have again been changed. she said that because of the worry that's growing right now over the surge in cobra. 19 cases here in denmark, just today, it was announced that 11194 new coven 19 cases have been registered. that applies to the past 24 hours. and i should add that that is once again, a new pandemic record number of daily cases. every day. this week, there has been a new pandemic record daily number of cases. that's one. cause for worry then you
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will have the on the cron various cases. they account now here in denmark, for one 5th of the number of cases in the past 24 hours, 2550 new on the kron various cases have been registered, and there are over 11000 on the kron various cases. overall. here in denmark now, once the prime minister and the health minister finished speaking the proposals that they made for new restrictions, new covert 19 related restrictions. went to the epidemic committee here in parliament. they voted on those proposed restrictions and they have now been approved. let me just list a few of those restrictions for you. this means that theater is cinemas, entertainment, parks, museums, art galleries, and other gatherings faces will be closed starting sunday at 8 am local time for a period of at least 4 weeks. also there will be measures taken to limit the number
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of people in shops and restaurants, and it's going to be interesting to see how that happens because right now this is a time, it's just days before kristen. people are out shopping, they are out gathering with their loved ones. so it really goes to show that they are, they really want to make sure that these new measures are in effect. they can stop the spread of both cobra, 1900 and the on the kron variance emily mohammed. it sounds like a pretty bleak festive season. how much concern is there across denmark about the corona virus? well there is a lot of concern because of the fact that on the chronic variant is spreading here so rapidly as well. as you said, this now seems to be a blue christmas season, but we also must remember that denmark is a country that is the focus of a lot of epidemiologists because they have been able to develop very sophisticated sequencing and testing techniques that rapidly detect new emerging variance and
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then they are able to very quickly adjust health policies within the government affecting the country. now the prime minister in her remarks earlier today said that what's happening here now is not going to be a complete shut down like the country experience last winter. but they do want to make sure they try to get this under control. there are other measures that have taken place. now in the last few days because of the concern about the army kron variant. on the one hand, you have the fact that the danish health authority has approved marks covered 19 pill treatment for those with severe symptoms. and then you also have what happened is that boosters are now available for people who are over 40 and the time for which that was going to be available has now been short. and so instead of waiting 6 months now, the time is only 4.5 months because they really want to make sure that people are able to get that 3rd job at a time when cases have been searching so much. emily certainly is a dynamic situation. thank you for the update. and mohammed jumped him live for us
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in copenhagen. okay, let's get the latest from for me to mila now, on the impact of the army kron from johanna spoke. exploits in south africa saying that while they do recognise global daughter, that this recommendation may be premature in that south african daughter shows no adverse effects based on studies in south africa. we're currently health workers are taking part in a study around a boost shot of the j and j vaccine. and they say that we know adverse effects and there aren't any alarming signals to indicate that perhaps they should put j and j on hold. in fact, health experts say that in the coming days, they may make an announcement around allowing booster shots of join j and j to the general public. they've also said they've always known that there are certain risks around vaccines, not just j, a j, specifically blood clots, but these are very rare. and that essentially the benefits of the vaccine,
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even that one shot of j j outweighs the risk. and so still urging people to get back to native, even with j and j, while america, the cdc, specifically may be saying, let's rather look at an all tentative instead of using j and j. so for the moment, south africa and saying, or experts, health authority saying that they are confident the daughter they have at hand and will continue using the batch vaccine in the country to europe. now in france has been non essential travel from the u. k. for anyone who isn't a french citizen or resident natasha butler has more from parents, pull the french government's decision to find all non essential travel between france in the you. k from saturday has caused a lot of disruption and disappointment for people in both countries who are hoping to spend some of the holiday season with family and friends. so lot of people have had to cancel their trips. others have been scrambling to try and get a plane or
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a train before those restrictions come into force. and we've been speaking to some of them here at the cross channel train terminal in paris. lot. i would've made it work anyway. had i booked to train it was like this, i got this train by chances i missed that restrictions i'd probably i would have on my way to make it work anyway. wouldn't quickly change my train or maybe i wouldn't want to. i wouldn't want to spend christmas by myself for people that i have to take the train to come to paris, whatever. and it's unfortunate and inside, but the same how many people are just trying to get a hold of what's going on and kind of have to have empathy for that. even though if it comes to the point of impacting people's lives, you know, in a negative way, but it's been 2 years up. this has been dragging on so you know, it sucks, but it is what it is. well, the reason for these travel restrictions, according to the french government, is because they say they've been looking at the situation in the u. k. with a lot of concern. they're seeing the high number of cov infections there. and particularly the spread of the army corn
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a very now even though there are registered cases of on the corner here in france, the government says that what they need to do is try and slow down is transmission . and this is just one of the ways they are trying to buy time time for people to get their a booster, a dose of coven vaccine. they are all they've also approved vaccination for 5 to 11 year olds across france. that will help to they say the government, a warning, the next few weeks ahead could be very difficult. indeed. we know already the doctors are saying that i see you beds already filling up an outbreak of corona virus in a prison. in southern thailand has provoked riots by inmates around 400 of been involved in the unrest which started on thursday. as 5 were leasing cells, destroyed, prisoners demanded better access to medical care for those to be symptoms. 3 men who tried to climb over a prison law way injured by robert bullet through the world news now in the you in
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human rights council is calling for the establishment of an international commission to monitor alleged abuses in ethiopia. the u. n says it's receiving credible reports all sides in the conflict, committing to be human rights violations. up to 7000 people have been detained since last month. the nation wide state of emergency announced on to november is leading to significant human rights concerns on a very broad scale. notably, the state of emergency authorizes the arrest search and detention of anyone suspected of supporting that the great people's liberation front and the aroma liberation army designated paris groups in may 2021. this excessively broad provision has led to mass arrests and detentions of thousands of if your parents, including united nation stuff, and according to the committee to protect journalists at least 14 journalists, most of those arrested are ethnic to grants. malcolm web has more than
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a story from nairobi. some express concern is european union, the code for this extraordinary session of the un human right council is going on. right now we've heard that some of the biggest economies in the you have actually been quite reluctant to other members of the you that are the driving force behind this. the u. s. state department has been outspoken about this issue as well. just last week. we were saying it was concerned about report that to gray and forth is committed abuses in the horror region to be p a. p and the government itself and some of the allies that's very much against the setting up of an international commission to investigate right to be described. what it says in the neo colonial takeover of the human rights commission of the human rights council to try and interfere with it with its own sovereignty. it says that it's capable of
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investigating the, the disease and delivering justice domestic leave it right to say that in spite of promising to do that before it's failed to do so today. plenty morehead, on the news hour, including the u. s. rams up the pressure on china, over the treatment of wages and she's young. we look at how lebanon's economic crisis is leading to a dramatic rise in child abuse. and in full, at the time the screws on england during the day 2 office 2nd to actually use washington has announced it's ready to discuss security proposals put forward by moscow cern russia has demanded a legally binding guarantee that nato would cease its military activity in eastern europe and central asia, presidents let me put in, raise the demand for security guarantees in last week video call with mr bar and
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the us remains concerned over rushes tray build up of at least $80000.00 soldiers on the ukraine border. washington describe some parts of the draft proposal as unacceptable and wounds. there will be massive consequences. are there any aggression on ukraine to break this? oh, damn for us, that's bringing john herbs. he's a former us ambassador to crank ukraine and is currently the senior director of the atlantic cancels eurasia center. he joins us from virginia. thanks for being on the news. our john talk us through what exactly russia is demanding. and is this just about limiting the expansion of nato? moscow's objective is to make sure that it has control over ukraine's foreign policy. and that it has ob nato's agreement to limit his activities are near russia and territories that were part of the soviet union. and the,
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all of these objectives, these demands or completely inconsistent with international agreements that russia itself assigned an international law. the helsinki records which moscow so annoyed seventies, the parish charter that moscow signed in the early ninety's expressway, explicitly state. each country has the right to determine its own form of government, its own form of economy, its own international alliances, and friendships. and moscow is demanding. oh, they're the countries and it's debuted, give up the sovereign rights that they are threatening. ukraine was a major, major offensive. in addition to the war, they're currently conducting and done boss. as a way to intimidate the west united states ukraine into making concessions. so john, does moscow have any leverage then to make such requests? well, it has the leverage, comes with the willingness to use military force,
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but it's not clear how willing putin is in this case. right now, there are russian soldiers fighting in dunbar. so they're conducting a limited military operation, which has failed to achieve moscow's objective of forcing ukraine to pursue a different foreign policy. so it's out for ending to 70. 580-015-0000 russian troops into ukraine. and a conventional conventional military offensive. john a while he struggled. apologies, plays, go and plays gone all while he's threatening to do it. he's afraid of the consequences because our present bind has said that there will be devastating sanctions on russia. and there will also be a movement of nato forces are into the eastern nato members, the baltic states, poland, if moscow watches a major and us invasion of ukraine. so put that to think hard about the
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consequences of such a decision. in some ways that the u. s is entertaining rushes proposals, as we said in the graphic before speaking to you, washington has announced it's ready to discuss security proposals put forward by moscow cern. so what does that mean? well, i think there's use more to, to point that out. i think that is a concession that washington has offered, i think, was a mistake to make that concession because the troops or all the russian troops are threatening to invade ukraine in a major offensive. so this is a little gift to the kremlin for its policy of intimidation, and as of that semester left a sort of weakness. so what are we likely to say over the coming days and weeks when mr. pertinent mr. bride and had this discussion? oh i see, i think by you they put in we'll push again for us to agree to sit down and have these talks, the administration saying that there could be no such talks as long as russian
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forces or mass along the cranes border. i'm glad they put their condition down or but by agree to the concert in principle, or do a threat of those troops, they were encouraging moscow to see war. but i don't think they'll be so unwise as to give moscow more. well, it'll be interesting to say how it unfolds. certainly, thank you for your perspective there. john herbst, the senior director of the atlantic cancels erasure center, appreciate it. on the 7th round of talks to revive the 2015 around nuclear deal has ended in vienna. they use coordinator says they've established good relationships with new delegates from tehran and a great upon some of a runs k demands. let's go live now to dosage. barry who's been covering developments in vienna. hello. they don't say you've spoken to a runs chief negotiator. what did he have to say? well, as the chief negotiator alley buggery, connie was very optimistic about what's taking place here over the past week. he
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said that at the last few days been very, very difficult, but they've managed to get what they wanted. meaning that the 2 proposals, the iranian team put forth at the beginning of this round on november 29th, have finally been accepted by all other sites. and he also said that the most important thing that they've achieved so far is that they've managed to be able to come to some kind of terms with the americans about sanctions relief. that was, of course, one of the mean sticking points for the arena's before coming here. dead. they wanted this sanction lifted, that the u. s. had imposed on her on since leaving the deal in 2018 bar. connie told me that to add, they are now going through a process of back and forth to the with the americans via the, your peers, of course, because they're on, on the u. s. don't speak to each other directly. he said that they're now going through the fine prints about exactly which sanctions and how they will be lifted once said the radians are now coming back to it once they come back to the nuclear deal. he also said that the 2nd proposal, the iranians put forth about iran's nuclear program and what technical aspects of
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it they were willing to negotiate and go back into compliance under the 2015 deal has also been accepted by the europeans, which was one of the main obstacles them, which is why, according to the written official, these talks have taken this long to actually get to the point where all parties now are on the same page about how to move forward. so they are going to take a break for the next few days and they're expecting to come back later on in december to move the talks into a much more detail as stage, so just adore. so this is obviously very complicated story up. what's next, when they do come back later this month? well, i think it's gonna become clear that all the parties, including russia and china, are very adamant that time is of the essence. and of course, the coordinator of the talks here, which is the european union. and was at the spokesperson was very adamant that they don't have all the time in the world. this is of course, the 7th round that these meetings have been taking place here in the austrian
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capital. they began in april of earlier this year after it was clear that there was a lot of non compliance not only on the part of the ratings, but also the europeans and the, and of course they americans that left. so as the spokesperson who is in charge of coordinating these talks had the following to say about how important time is here . we have found a lot of work ahead, a very complex task i had to say difficult, but because decision has to be taken. now it's time to take to focus on priorities to focus on what is the most important for each litigation to take decisions accordingly. and to go ahead because again, we don't have much time. there is an obvious sense of urgency in everything we do here. so we will resume, we will resume sham, and we will be, i hope,
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a hub in the final french of these negotiations. time is of the essence because the other parties involved in these talks say that iran's nuclear program is advancing at a very alarming rate. the way you say there are doing everything they can to be incomplete. transparency and compliance with the international atomic energy agency . and of course, that is something that continues despite this nuclear deal, because thereon is part of the nonproliferation treaty. but there is a sense that there's only a limited amount of time. they can have these meetings. and if there really isn't any kind of consensus on how to return to this nuclear deal, the next run could possibly be the last round here in de thank you very much for that update. dosa jabari live for us in vienna. thank you. to museums have protested on the 11th anniversary of the staff of the arab spring revolution. crowds rallied both for and against president said he recently announced the constitutional referendum for next july, a year up to seizing once per pallet,
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which his opponents describe as a coon high unemployment remains a problem. despite the revolution which started after a fruit salad set himself on fire in protest and police stopping him from working. a lazy evoke men has more from that can sense that what's happening in tunisia is an incremental return tool authoritarianism. which as you will remember, a 11 years ago, people were out protesting over a period of months between december 17th to january 14th, to overthrow the then dictates had been a lee. so the, despite all the economic problems, people want to stay on a democratic path. i what's happened is that police have held back protesters at the bottom of the avenue. at the, the end of bull gibber avenue is a lodge clock tower and they've been held there a they've been massing. yay!
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as they're saying, sort of at thousands of people. ah, they certainly brought sound systems that have been speeches. and in addition to the popular movement, have been a number of political parties who previously supported chi, psi aid. and they were trying to get you on to the avenue because traditionally, the vessel revolution involves a lot of speeches. i lot of year declarations from different parties, but today's been completely different. but these politicians from what's called the democratic lot have been prevented. and they all angry about this, the popular movement says that they all determined that she keep going with the protests. they say that they're going to have a states in. and that, that going to continue the protests until what they call chi sides coup d'etat comes to an end. and that they assured that teenagers back on a demo,
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a democratic policy, one small, still ahead on al jazeera, post johnson. the parties either as she grows on the british prime minister as he parties that is a crushing to face in a bi election. and in support, we'll hear from one of our dennis dance, greatest polling exports on her feet to the game. the women homeland. ah hello, thank you for joining in here. sure. whether, sorry for the middle east. forget to africa as well. so we've got some disturbed weather around the levant, also eastern portions of the rock, western iran. so some showers for a tater on that's also dropping down into kuwait. so few unsettled days ahead, extra go into pocket a little cool here we got a cool pool of air, especially toward the north la hor,
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17 degrees. we look at the next 3 days and you're temperatures lock in around there . you should be at $22.00 for this have the year. low temperature is also the name of the game across turkey. really raw feeling here with that when coming through the boss for is, there's that disturbed weather as we look toward lebanon, they root with a high 15 degrees. things are dried out actually across western portions. a democratic republic of congo seemed as for congo and cameroon. really the bulk of that, what weather is falling further toward the east? now we're going to the south in a really unsettled pitcher. here is some bursts of heavy rain botswana ensues. and bob boy, zambia as well into central parts of mozambique, some showers in store for johannesburg with a high of 17 degrees. but as we look further toward the south is a bit of a temperature divide. cape town, feel more like summer finally in the sunshine with a high of 28 degrees on saturday. that's it. caea. ah,
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