and that a complete supervisor. now people are buried. how will climate migration differ for those who have in those who don't have lot of country see, we will pay poor countries to keep refugees there upward with me walk lamond hill on al jazeera. ah, coven 19 infections and deaths serge in the us and europe with the french prime minister warning the on the con variance spreading at lightening speed. ah, ominous the forum and this is al jazeera alive from door ha, also coming up, damage and destruction in the philippines after a super typhoon kills at least a dozen people. i remember yelling, teaser taser teaser and nothing happened. the former minnesota police

officer who killed black motorists, dante right, breaks down as she takes the stand. and how young musicians in south africa, of reclaiming jazz, ah, covers cases and hospital admissions in the u. s. r. federation as the one to search continues. the number of infections has increased by 40 percent compared to last month. while the numbers in hospitals have risen by around 45 percent, many universities are going back to online teaching. and sports events have been canceled or postponed. experts predict the on the kron variant will soon become the dominant strain there. mccann is increasing rapidly and we expect it to become the dominant strain in the united states as it has in other countries. in the coming

weeks, we've seen cases of armor crown among those were about vaccinated and winston, and we believe these cases are milder or asymptomatic because of vaccine protection . well, and fisher has more from washington d. c. of course there was a big surgeon, vaccinations just as the vaccination started to come on to the market. and america was very happy with the way things were going. but no, it's just less than 40 percent that aren't vaccinated here in the us that still quite a significant number. and if you break those figures down, you will find that most of the people who aren't vaccinated identify as republicans . so it really doesn't matter what joe biden or the white house says, there are a lot of people out in the united states who say, we're never going to listen to what this guy's got to say. even though he seeing this could actually save your life, and if you break down the figures even more, you will see that the number of people who are dying tend to be in read states.

that is republican states. and the majority of those who are dying are republicans, and so that is a real wanna know, add to that, the fact that we're coming in to the christmas and new year break. remember a month ago we were talking about thanksgiving. how is a big travel day or people we're going to big family gatherings? nothing compared to christmas and new year. in fact, from to night, people are going to start heading off on their christmas and new year vacations. and that is a real worry for the white house and for the health experts, because they believe that this will lead to a search, which of course then leads to increased hospitalizations, which means that joe biden isn't kicking the but of the omicron variant any time soon. and frances, announce major public parties and fireworks will be banned on new year's eve. as colona, vice infections rise. their foreign minister john caustic says all citizens even vaccinated should take a self test. before attending social events, he said the on the cross train of spreading at lightning speed,

france has been reporting an average of $50000.00 new infections each day, or flights trains and fairies between the u. k. and from sold out on friday after the french government drastically was trip to travel. natasha butler has more from paris, pull the french government's decision to find all non essential travel between france, me, u. 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 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. i thought i would have made it work anyway. had i booked to train is late like this. i got this train by chances i missed that district. i'd probably i would have on my way to make it work anyway. wouldn't quickly change my train made 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 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 there, 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 and the u. k. has seen a record number of cars in 19 cases for the 3rd day in a row. more than $93000.00 infections were registered on friday. total case number of nationwide have increased by about 39 percent and just a week of the death rate remains relatively low. british researchers say the risk of reinfection with the on the kron variant is more than 5 times greater than delta . the study suggests protection for those who already had coded 19, maybe as low as line teen percent. the researches that imperial college london, se booster shots can provide up to 80 percent protection occur. few comes into effect and ireland from sunday to try and reduce on the cross spread, palms, restaurants, and all of the hospitality venues will have to close by 8 pm until the end of

january. the government is planning financial support for those affected and denmark will impose new restrictions as it to seize. recall to day the case numbers, theaters, cinemas, entertainment, parks and conference centers will or close from sunday. the government will also limit the service of alcohol. living onto all the news found thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel adjoining search and rescue efforts in the philippines after it was hit by one of the strongest storms in the world. this year, at least 12 people were killed of typhoon by swept across southern and central regions on thursday and friday. hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes. the storm is now easing and has moved into the south china sea island, oregon. as in the miller and says, the level of devastation is only now becoming clear. we are starting to be able to be in touch with our contacts on the ground. those who are in the province of city

go, behold, province in late the province. and the situation really is quite desperate people we've spoken to say they are in desperate need of water medicine shelter, you know, basic blankets and sleeping. that's many of the areas also have their hearts, but those spartley damaged some of the patients. they're also in need of basic food medicine and supplies. but again, the major issue here is that the traveling points, the transport stops the airports and the ports of largely been destroyed. the winter national airport is non operational. same with the other airport in city golf province. so a lot of the operations are moving eastward in the city, and this is where a lot of the rican lights are coming out. we've spoken also to the emergency response officials here or is we're still trying to figure out exactly what the death toll is. there are conflicting numbers coming out and they themselves admit

that this is really the most critical part, getting this information very fine and making sure that help gets to those who need it most. but you know, it is a communication and transportation issue at this point. and authorities and indonesia have raised the volcanic alert level on java island, fearing yet another devastating of option 48 people were killed when mount familiar interrupted. earlier this month, 36 are still missing. the countries geological agency says it's picking up more activity which could trigger an avalanche of lava and gas. flash floods and know that the wrong have killed at least 12 people and injured hundreds more. one person was killed off to being struck by lightning. one others drowns and find their homes . dozens of houses and it'd be, will have been damaged. the buses and trucks have been swept away. and more heavy rain is full cost over the next few days. now former minneapolis police officer kim potter has apologized in court for shooting and killing 20 year old black man.

dante wright potter, whose facing 2 charges of manslaughter, says she mistakenly fired, had gone, instead of had taser, video of the shooting set off launch protests across the us. john hendrick has moved from chicago. the fate of kim potter, the white police officer accused in the racially charged killing of a black man will soon be in the hands of a jury. members of the jury. in highly anticipated testimony in a minneapolis courtroom, potter took the stand in her own defense breaking down, saying she meant to pull out her taser with the former police officer who was a 26 year veteran, says she accidentally drew her gun instead and fired, killing 20 year old dante right? as he drove away from police, it's just one chaotic it and then i remember yelling,

teaser teaser teaser and nothing happened. potter was supervising another officer when he pulled right over for offenses. she says probably did not married a traffic stop. right. had expired registration tax and an air freshener dangling from the rear view mirror. both technical violations that are often overlooked. an air freshener to me is not just an equipment violation. and during the cove at times of the high cove at times, now departmental motor vehicles was so offline that people were getting tabs and we were advised not to try to enforce a lot of those things because the tabs, we're just not in circulation. then the stop went wrong, right? pulling away with an officer still dangling from his car. potter says the officer

had a look of fear on his face and she wanted to save his life. potter is charged with 1st and 2nd degree manslaughter. legal experts say that the prosecution probably has to prove that she acted with some degree of consciousness. if the jury decides that she acted unconsciously and didn't know that she was using lethal force, that's probably not enough for a conviction. 7 the shooting came when public interest in police killings of black men was at its peak in the midst of the racially charged trial of the white police officer who killed george floyd in neighboring minneapolis drawing protesters to the scene of the brooklyn center shoot over and over in a tearful cross examination, potter who had never fired a weapon in an arrest, apologized, you are focused on what you had done because you had just killed somebody you knew that gently force was unreasonable and unwarranted. what?

anybody laugh why you said i'm going to go to prison. i don't know whether that happens and whether dante writes life ended in an unfortunate accident or a criminal act. a jury will decide. john henderson, al jazeera chicago, still ahead on the bulletin talk and trade and turkey laid is a several african state for an s dawn bold business. the president added the wan movie live there with more and how properly giant emigrants financial was, are affecting china's real estate market, and the global economy. ah, ah, look forward to brighter sky's the winter sponsored my cattle airways. hi there, hope your weekends off to

a good start. high pressure continues to be in control across western areas of europe. so what that means is systems are going up and over the republic of ireland and the united kingdom that, that's on saturday. take your few days out, i'll put the colors on and look, we've got a cool pool of air london, 5 degrees paris for. and by light time, those temperatures will be sub 0, looked toward the east, the darker the purple, the lower the temperature, moscow minus 18. the 3 day forecasts will show us. we're locked into this bitter cold, just a high minus 21 on wednesday. that's almost a good 20 degrees below average. there is some warmth to be found. we have to go far south in seville, a hive $21.00 that's plus 20 wine on saturday. next, stop through the bulk in some cloud it's generating some showers. we'll see a quick dustin of snow for sarah eva with a hive to degrees breezy, not only across the adria, but also the aegean and the eastern med. we're. we're locked into this gloomy weather pattern. just a high of 6 degrees in istanbul, disturbed weather across the levant, and that energy over the eastern bed,

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the me watching else there with me in the line and the reminder of our top stories, the sour corona vas cases and hospital admissions in the us are accelerating. the number of infections is increased by 40 percent compared to last month, while the numbers and hospital have risen bar around 45 percent, and france was announced. major public parties and fireworks will be banned on new year's eve. as couple of us infections continue to rise there, the country is reporting an average of $50000.00 new cases each day. more than 18000 soldiers and emergency personnel adjoining search and rescue efforts in the philippines. the countries cleaning up all typhoon rice, what the cross southern and central regions on thursday, killing at least 12 people. now,

the turkish president of hosting african leaders for the 2nd day of an economic summit talk to strength and trade between the regions are continuing and as bull as one of the negotiations to deepen military high school exports between $230.00 in africa worth $25300000000.00, president treasure added. the one is looking to triple that number. while son, of course you and who is joining us live from as don bowl. we see the growling influences of turkey and africa, especially with turkey, selling more defense equipment to african nations. so how important is the summit to that relationship? the others about this is the 3rd partnership, summer in the 8th. and now it was the african year before the liver to other which were halted by the mac as well, but mainly asked for what the truth is. 40 minutes for the truth, it turned to african solutions to africa. problems.

a also aim for a free trade agreement between the african union members place and turkey, which group, which would be a win win situation for both sides. but let me rephrase that. like those as turkish president is speaking right now for the opening ceremony. he said that it turkey is against turkey, is ignoring any kind of small or oriental as george towards africa, any kind of colonization. that's why turkey is after partnership type model, a lation with turkey has let me phrase summarize it like this through. he had just 12 embassies in africa in 2002, and now it's 43. so it shows the importance that sure to give it to african countries. and to the summit, we are expecting the 5 year joint action plan that will be signed by the member

states member who are here, which will be focusing on industry, trade, or military corporation education. factoring the women's situation and rights in african countries. and many other subjects than turkey is also willing to assist african countries in counter terrorism operations. so he has military presence in somalia in 2 ways. hm. is there a within a, within the concept of united nations and turkey is also present in molly and some other places in africa with the european union, with the united nations issues mission. so we will be hearing more when there is a joint dresser in a couple of hours. all right, for them. thank you very much for that for now. that cynical, c o 2, with the latest in a stumble. thank you. the united states says it's prepared to talk to russia about as demands to curb nato activity in eastern europe. moscow wants nato to limit new

membership and restrict activities in former soviet countries who as president joe biden national security adviser says consultation with european partners is on the way. the u. s. is increasingly concerned by russia's military build up on the border with ukraine. we have been clear as the united states and just yesterday, the 30 nations of the nato alliance were clear in a statement that came out of the north atlanta council. were prepared for dialogue with russia. we've had dialogue with russia on european security issues for the last 20 years. we had it with the soviet union for decades before that that has sometimes produced prob, progress sometimes produced deadlock, but we are fundamentally prepared for dialogue. russia has now put on the table, its concerns with american and nato activities. we're going to put on the table are concerned with russian activities that we believe harm our interests and values. but russia's, deputy foreign minister was quoted by news agency in the fax saying the u. s. and

nato was so 5 objecting the ideas and that their response wasn't encouraging. bush in the storm, he will say, washington and his nato allies knew to immediately stop by gil hostile actions against our country, including on scheduled war games, dangerous encounters on maneuvers of military ships and planes, and end the military absorption of ukrainian territory for my job. while china's 2nd largest real estate developer ever grant has been officially declared in default by credit agencies, the ramifications of this will be felt by homebuyers and millions who rely on the sector for employment and as katrina, you reports from sergio. there are fears about how all of this will impact the global economy. it's called fairy land, but it feels like a ghost town. the ever grand project is just one of hundreds in china stalled because of the real estate giant's financial troubles. it's more than $300000000000.00 debt and has defaulted on to overseas bonds. okay. yeah. retired

farmer, mrs. song lives close by and has brought a granddaughter here to play, to the hey kristie that it's such a shame. it looks like it's a nice place. building began in 2017, but no one knows if it will ever be finished. this theme park is meant to be the highlight of a sprawling new development called ever grand cultural tourism city. the grand plan involve luxury apartments, hotels, and restaurants. lot of the companies build started piling up construction ground to a home work stopped in august abandoned materials and machinery, a left where a grad castle entrance was supposed to be. the security guard says he hasn't been paid in months a summer. your job. what can i do? i just wait and hold. my salary will be paid. he's one of the thousands of employees, contractors and customers, or money by ever grad chinese creditors are suing the developer for or did you

learns? the government has stepped in to restructure the company's debt, but a bailout looks unlikely. now faced about the health of other heavily indebted developers, including kristen shimaya, has gripped financial markets. yeah, a lot of it is that it is just building building, building, taking out, you know, taking on as much credit as possible. aah. and did the leverage at the end of the day of these are developers. i was just astronomical. i'm and you know, it wasn't matched with the potential do actually megan our sales out into the future. ah, to be able to pay this back. something property sales around the country are adding to china's already slowing economic growth. they didn't introduce tighter regulations to control the mounting debt last year. analysts say it's trying to teach property, develop his lesson while also trying to shield the sector and broader economy for the crisis. a will affect the international economy, but not a,

not in a disastrous way. so i think with the slow down china's housing market, there is a weaker demand for commodities. and so that will put a damper on commodity prices. and china's economy slows down. doug can have a brother impact for or the global market, but that matches little to the families who have pulled their savings into every grant investments. like this unfinished park, there's little to be done. but wait, katrina, you al jazeera pseudo. the un human rights council has either read an objections from ethiopia to launch an international investigation and to potentially rule crimes. investigators say the received credible reports that all signs of committing violations in the year long offensive against to grind rentals more than a 1000000 people have escaped heavy fighting with the ports of mass killings, rape,

and other atrocities. the estimates are shocking. according to information at our disposal from november 2020 to june 2021. over 2200 survivors reported sexual and gender based violence to health facilities across the gray region. one of the one stop centers reported that the victims in over 90 percent of cases were miners and estimated that this is still the center had quadrupled since the complete iraq that a year ago. it is important to keep in mind that this figures are most probably an underestimation of the true extent of the sexual and gender res vines being perpetrated. while you t o p, as government says that one, cooperate with the investigation and accused the un body of being used as an instrument of political pressure. we hold our own council members,

though who fund bruce a bill stand again us shows cited in those. and the refuse bill is as is, you know, human rights by rejecting this is always you. i will leg to tell you that my government will not operate with anyone can resumes or maybe it will only to south africa. now, when musicians on a mission to revive jazz culture, music has been used for decades to tell the world the struggle against racial segregation, but fans of vision, i found it hard to access when artists were arrested or fled the country during the apartheid era. farming the miller reports from cape town, ah, sunday afternoon in the town to book a letter in cape town. it's in informal settings like this one back yards. that jazz musicians are reviving a genre of music that has

a long but sometimes forgotten history. co todd is a village divide that suits and the candidate does this shows you supply level across the railroad lines a closer wise because the really lines are the ones that separates communities. and there were, there were bugs from playing together and just need to bring back that culture and actually bring music back to where it belongs in the town. oh, both local and international artist perform at these events that the organizers say bring together people from all walks of life, racial segregation during a party for self african grades. like up to lay bram, you must be kayla and maria mckay about into exile abroad. i know they performed in europe and the united states using their music not just to entertain, but also to protest against their party government to day south african jazz has

both local and international influences in south africa's developed its own. so full style of jazz, creating a unique sound that's form part of its history and culture. and now the younger generation is working to make sure the style of music stays relevant. shifted was 1st exposed to jazz is a 5 year old by his mother who worked in the industry always firmly believe that you know, you, you, you play the sound of your immediate environment. you know, if you really through and in tune with what's going on. so it's absolutely natural to play this and found this way. the kyle studies didn't play classical music but tend to jazz in his late teens and plays all over the world. he says he finds the youngest audiences attending jazz events and africa as

a young musician and especially, you know, sort of knish jaw there is such as jazz even, let's call it what it is i think, you know, constantly trying to at, on one and, you know, battling with, with, with a question of relevance, but then also on the, to stick side. not, not to really not, not to engage with that question of being relevant or not, but producing music that in many ways can be timeless if, if, if needed. you know, the jazz is also popular at up market. been using cape town, but it's that venue like this one that jazz enthusiast say. there's a renewed appreciation and support for the genre which ultimately pays tribute to south africa's history. sent me the mala, 0 cape town, anti authorities inspecting a damaged prison, and after it was set on fire by hundreds of rising inmates. a couple of ours

outbreak of the facility provoked 2 days of unrest. prisoners had been demanding to access medical care for adults with severe symptoms. time prisons on a torres li, overcrowded and have struggled occurred the spread of the virus more than $87000.00 inmate tested positive so far. now, national day celebrations are underway in cutter. thousands packed dough has waterfront to watch the traditional parade fireworks and a spectacular light show will illuminate the capital letter to honor unification. a 143 years ago, in 18. 78. ah . hello again of elizabeth rodman doe. however, the headlines on al jazeera corona, virus cases, and hospital admissions. and the us are accelerating as the one to serge continues . the number of infections is increased by 40 percent.