whole transition out of it, studio b unspent takes on al his era. it was supposed to be a refuse, but south korea's brothers home was allegedly the scene of torture. great. and even murder one. 0, one east investigates the crimes. and those set to be behind them on al jazeera blue. the netherlands announces a stop locked down in london declares a major incident while protest as in central cities rally against corona virus restrictions. ah, alarm down jordan, this is out of there, alive from de also coming up. people in hong kong vote in the 1st election since sweep insecurity. laws came into force. now all candidates vetted by beijing. i want to see anyone in santiago, chile where to presidential candidates with raggedy opposing views of the future

for this country are nearly tied up for holidays. presidential elections and algeria around our cup champions for the 1st time. and not that beaten is yet with 2 goals. in extra time with the surgeon corona virus cases linked to the on the chrome there and just pushed european governments into urgent action. the netherlands will impose tough lockdown measures from sunday, non essential shops, bars and restaurants, and other public places will be closed until mid january at the earliest. and ends in some of the thought summarized in one sentence, the netherlands will go into locked down again from to morrow. the netherlands will be locked down again, falls. that is unavoidable because the 5th wave coming at us with the i micron very closely mit. meanwhile, the united kingdom has confirmed more than 90000 new cove. at 19 infections,

london's mer has declared the surge and major incident. ne barker reports turbo charging england's booster. dr. chelsea football clubs home graham, stanford bridge has become a makeshift vaccine hub. only cons now dominant in the british capital. this is a race against time to protect people from serious illness and safeguard the national health service and businesses bracing for new restrictions. it's really important londoners understand how serious things are the best thing lenders can do is to get both vaccines and the booster. they provide extra layers of protection. the really bad news is those in hospital, the vast, vast majority unvaccinated. that's why it's so important to get both the vaccines and the boost the job with cases doubling every 2 days. health experts warm the vaccination effort. nice to reach people who haven't had a single dose. that's an estimated one point. 3000000 in london. many millions more

across the country analysis shows poor younger a more ethnically diverse communities. our lease protected the more people to get sick. the more critical services could soon be in trouble. there currently somebody star that one london hospital trough through a, down we covered and away from work that they've had to drop in extra help from elsewhere. just a mom, the hospital's accident and emergency unit. and so that's a possible risk of a certain number of people ending up in hospital suffering with the omicron variant . and the country's national health service could soon be overwhelmed. and it's a darkening pitcher across europe. islands introduced an 8 p m. curfew and dutch health experts were advising tougher measures there. germany, meanwhile, designated france, denmark of the u. k. high risk zones with the possibility of mandatory quarantine for travelers in the french capital. children as young as 5 are now being given

a 1st dose of a covey 19 vaccine. the government there is said to be considering making vaccines mandatory was starting to know more about alma crohn and the details of so bring a study from imperial college london finds no evidence of omicron having lois severity than the delta variant. the risk of re infection is 5 times higher than delta, and the variant can evade pri immunity given by previous infection or vaccination. but we do know that serious illness can be averted with a 3rd dose, making this our 1st and vital line of defense. he's barca al jazeera london, british police say several officers have been injured after ronnie's against new cove at 19 measures turn violent in london. thousands moss were sent to the city, blocking streets. these were the scenes near the prime minister's downing street residence early this week. you k, m p, 's approved new measures to stop the rapids,

spread the virus. this includes requiring coven passes for large venues, and making mass compulsory in some indoor settings. and several people have been arrested during ronnie's against coban 19 restrictions in germany. the protest took place in frankfort and dusseldorf, the government approved of vaccine mandate for health workers early this month. it's considering expanding this to the general population. i'm thousands, have been demonstrating in spain against the government's decision to introduce vaccine thought people are required to show the documents for venues and nightclubs in the us. president biden is considering further measures as cases rise. he'll address the nation on tuesday and is expected to take steps beyond his so called winter plan. hospitals are on the significant pressure new york state. just recall that its highest number of infections in a single day. alan fisher report it's the start of the biggest travel window across

the us for millions christmas and new year holidays start here. and the threat from the con variant hasn't kept people home, but has given them some warning. i'm very concerned about it because the fighter for inside the lobby on the plains of who cooper testing lines are back to some people waiting hours to get checked out. my brother woke up not feeling good with a fever, and i got a text during lunch saying that he got it. so this place is always open. the ve the and is know at least 40 states, places like connecticut and michigan are seeing significant surgeries and hospital admissions. new york state has seen its highest single day reporting of infections since the pandemic began 21000 new cases on friday. a record experts are predicting will soon be broken on here. it's going to start to spread much more rapidly and beginning of the year. and the only real protection is to get your shots. meanwhile,

a federal court is reinstated the bite and ministrations vaccine mandate for big companies. that means workers at companies with more than $100.00 employees will have to either be vaccinated or undergo weekly testing and appeals court saying the government must be allowed to respond to cover dangers. as the evolve. some republican states oppose the idea. it's a measure which is now almost certainly going to end up being argued at the supreme court. for the white house though, it's a small victory in a sea of much bleaker news island fisher. i'll just, you know, washington in northern chile, passenger, and border crucial, has tested positive cobra. 19. the infection was detected on saturday, just a day after the ship became the 1st dock in the port city of kimber in 21 months. all a 1000 passengers and crew ever personally, been barred from getting off the ship. now, hong kong chief executive is urging people to vote in the 1st legislative elections

and sweeping changes were imposed by mainland china. kerry lambs defended the reforms. 20 of 90 lawmakers will be elected by popular vote and all candidates have been vetted at least 10 people have been arrested for calling for a boycott. i do have said very target for this general election of the legislative council. one is to ensure patriots administering hong kong. and i think that objective has been met through the design of the candidate eligibility review committee. so all of the 153 candidates could meet this requirement. and you can see that they actually come from a very diverse background, was very different opinions on the range of issues. so let's bring in bridge kennet, who's in hong kong for us. but so just remind us why this election is being seen as so controversial. well there, and this is the 1st election held in hong kong since paging overhaul the electoral

system. so that only chinese patriots run the city and it drastically reduce the number of directly elected to the city legislature. it's a 1st election held without a proper opposition since most of the democratic camp is in jail in exile or has quit politics. but taking requirements for the big question is, how will this lack of representation from the pro democracy camp this lack of political diversity impact, voter turnout? will it put people off from from costing that balance today? recent paul do suggest that both to turn out will be down on recent years. but chief executive kerry lamb struck that off in an interview with try to say media saying that it wouldn't necessarily mean anything if both to turn out was low. but there are clearly authentic devotees around at least 10 people have been arrested for sizing others because it's like a boat. and the hong kong government threatened the wall street journal over it's reporting all of this election. and also activists abroad has been issued

a arrest warrant for encouraging others to protest the vote today. yep. reach out to say there are periods of its low voter turnout. so what's the mood there amongst people in hong kong? the, i'd say that the government have been in pain to urge people to come out and vote today. public transport is free today. residents who receive text messages urging them to come out and vote. there are billboards all around the city and local records. say that the government spent around $870000.00 us dollars on advertising, on television, but on trend and as i say, billboards and posters a little around the city. but there is a heavy police presence. this is the 1st a city wide pole to take place, since paging, intensified is cracked down here in hong kong last year and introduce that controversial national security lower in the city as well. so there is a renewed sense of ease here is this all patriot selection takes place. all right?

brit tenant the in hong kong, brit. thank you. now there a desperate appeal for food and water off the typhoon ride, devastated parts of the philippines. at least 49 people are dead and hundreds of thousands more have been forced from their homes. rescue workers off dr to reach remote areas where dozens of people are still missing. military and other security forces have joined the efforts in the worst affected region. jamila alan dugan has been falling developments from devout city siphoned. right. first made landfall in the philippines on friday, but until now there are still many areas, many communities in at least 4 provinces that remain cut off. we've spoken to military officials here in diversity who told us that they're doing the best they can providing assistance, security, transport, and reconnaissance flights. the local government officials who need to assess the damage in many areas. the cover president rodrigo,

the therapy himself also surveyed the devastation through a reconnaissance flight over the province of city. go and he himself admit that it's going to be very difficult for the government to provide that much needed to many of these areas. before that they fall in struck over a 100000 people were able to evacuate from their homes and to look for safety. but men here believe that millions more have been affected. we also spoke to civilians who survived to see they were grateful. they were able to connect and recharge their phones to tell their families in many other communities that the survive. but they are much more fearful about what the future holds. that's because many of them have not just lost their homes. they have lost their livelihood as well. lot more so to come here now does their including flash floods kills at least 12 people in northern iraq. we look at why the government's being blamed and turkey host african leaders to more than 30 countries and

a bit to boost economic and military tides more. oh, hello there. let's have a look to north america, and once again, it's coastal areas that has seen the dramatic wintery weather. we've had a winter storm blow into western canada. you can see that snow moving very quickly across central areas, bringing temperatures down. it's gonna be bitterly cold here. and a lot of that wet and windy weather moving down across washington, oregon, seeing a lot of heavy rain and edging into northern parts of california. but for the south of this, it's a much dry, a picture, the rather chilly at times and across those central areas and the midwest. it has cleared up nicely. we've got a bit of a brisk wind blowing in. and i love that snow is gonna edge over to eastern parts of canada. so some heavy snowfall could back in the days to come. but of course at

east coast it does dry up nicely for new england. i'm from new york city. we're going to have sunshine coming through the temperature in washington dc dipping down slightly thanks to that cooler, but plenty of sunshine around. it's in the south west seeing once again some severe storms affecting places like mississippi, florida. we could see some flash flooding here from mexico. wet weather in the east watch. that weather is going to intensify, edging down into the yucatan peninsula. it can be very wet here, but it's looking rather fine and dry across the caribbean. ah, the bond counting the cost m r n 8. all that is changing the world of vaccines. not just the coven, 9 thing, big business in place, that thousands of pixels millions of dollars and non refundable token weed. demystify the world of crypto ot helping to call on al jazeera

with bold and i'm told stories from asia and the pacific on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back and kicked him out of our top stories here at this hour, the netherlands would impose a 4 week locked down from sunday. corona virus infections are surging across europe . london's mer has declared a major incident in response to arise and armstrong cases on con, chief executive, carry lam, researching people to vote in the 1st legislative elections. since beijing impose sweeping security laws, candidates have been vetted to ensure only those north. china can run and thousands

of people are in desperate need of food and water on the typhoon. ry hit, the philippines. at least 49 have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced. rescue teams are trying to reach remote areas. indonesia mount sarah moore has erupted for the 2nd time in 4 weeks. huge clouds of smoke and ash i'm blowing from the volcano. $48.00 people were killed early this month after so mary erupt, it without warning. 36 are still missing. blabbing urge to avoid the danger zone on job or island. experts fair the increased activity could trigger an avalanche of lava. a more heavy rain is forecast in northern iraq after heavy floods at least 12 people have been killed in error bill and hundreds more had been injured. many were caught by surprise of the countries experiencing a drought interrogation to report in the suburbs of her bill. a clean up operation is under way to rent your rain caused flash floods here in people's homes and businesses are badly damaged. cameron,

a more says flood water swept through his property in the middle of the night, had been via harbor my son called me last night and told me to come here because there was a flood. thank god, with fine. the most important thing is that we're safe. everything else can be fixed. the water level reached around one me to 80 is that the flood started around 1 am local time when most people were asleep. but every one got out alive. molly puma? this is my aunt's house. 2 people lived here and they had 2 guests who were disabled when the house was flooded. one of the residents tried to save the disabled people . the force of the water meant he wasn't able to and they drowned. we removed 3 bodies from half a matter of mud. iraqis have been hit by a succession of extreme weather events. they've enjoyed repeated droughts in recent years, but of also experienced intense floods made worse when torrential rain falls on sun baked earth. the government's accused of being too slow to adapt to climate change

and that widespread corruption has led to years of under investment in the cities infrastructure. it's left areas like this ill prepared to deal with flooding or gar garcia huffman. this has happened because of government neglect and the absence of a solid plan. this is the 3rd time this has happened to us. there's no sewage system or anything that can save us from danger. it will take weeks if not months, for homes to dry out and be repaired and many say they're worried about more floods in the future. victoria gay to be al jazeera, jolene lettering presidential candidate, gabrielle borage, has edged ahead of his competition. and the final polls leading into sundays election far right candidate jose antonio cast initially held a very now and lead in the polls or latin america editor lucille newman. as more from santiago o, the left a former student protest leader who in february terms $35.00, the minimum age for running for president board again?

no, i got to, but i was, i see why, why did we become used to, you know, so much inequality. why did we allow it to grow before our eyes? never again. we will change it. on the far right, a 2nd generation german immigrant who supported chili's, former military dictatorship and believes that there is a global left wing conspiracy, etc. the noise we sent our commas. kelly will never be a marxist or communist country because we believe in freedom. this is kelly bought each when he became a congressman 7 years ago for the newly formed left wing political coalition that pushed for structural social reforms. i. he represents a new generation that took to the streets 2 years ago, demanding more equality in chile, which has won the highest income inequalities in the world than his symbol is this tree from what he used to imagine a better future critically from his home city of put that in us that overlooks the strait of magellan. agatha,

a single mother tells us she's not worried about his use. now, then began for lookin to note them. i feel that's what we need to be a new vision, new ideas, more support for young people to get ahead. but some moderates and investors are frightened of what it is alliance with the communist party. what is, has strange cause styled to look a bit more presidential has been recalibrating his program, but down to those that was mailed to him as been rateable. when he's not the only one who has been significantly employed in his profile, former class and cast is an old school to conservative catholic who opposes abortion in same sex marriage. his motto is, make chile great. again. he would expel undocumented migrants and his position on climate change is lukewarm. he would maintain chillies, unbridled free market model, and lower taxes had big business. but in recent weeks, he's reconsidered, allowing the military to make arrests without

a warrant during the state of emergency cast. biggest drawing card is, has promised to restore law and order with your money if it was still a most needs to security. but this was a peaceful country there. anyone could walk around as many hours get now it's not safer anywhere. cast represents the return of public order and respect for authorities, but each, the hope that dreams of social justice can come true symphony anthem blue will the loss since her different models confronts each other in the selection to generations with opposing visions of what she needs. but what her different ways of seeing life as well will we face convulsive times on medical dc. either one could become the next president of a country that has lost its political center. the very thing that for 3 decades seem to guaranteed chillies, reputation as latin america, standard bearer of political and economic stability. lucy and human al jazeera

santiago, migrants traveling through mexico are protesting in the capital to demand changes to immigration policies. they're all part of a large caravan heading to the us border. the mexican government has made a number of changes recently, such as relocating migrants to camps as an under rosemont lopez over door says he's focusing on a more orderly flow of migration. sidney's authorities and close bridges in the capital cartoon to stop people getting to the city center to protest. more mass demonstrations are planned for some day. at least 8 bridges are being blocked as well as roads leading to the armies headquarters. demonstrators are angry after the civilian prime minister made a deal with a military take of power in turkey has hosted the leaders of $39.00 african countries for an economic summit and the boosting trade links. one topic on the agenda was turkish weapons sales, including combat drone technology, and then concealed has more now from a stumble. turkeys president,

welcome to leaders of 39 african countries to 3rd turkey, africa partnership summit and a stumble. the 3 day event eventually getting a new way after being postpone twice because it's called it 19 health concern. african solutions to africa's problem was the summit. moto, with a common aspiration for peace, security, democracy and respect him and rights. in the last several years, i have experience showed that leaving the fate of all the world to the mercy of 5 united nations security council members. it's a mistake. it's a great injustice that the african continent with its population of 1300000000 people, is not represented of the un security council. it was a disgrace for humanity that every 6 percent of africa's population has been vaccinated against kopec 19 turkey plans to send 15000000 vaccine doses to africa. add ons aiming to triple turkey, $25000000000.00

a year. trade link with african countries. the african union, it's help in combating terrorism is auckland, that you love. i love that. i believe that as long as we do not ensure the peace and stability on the continent, it would be an illusion to think of developmental and of course, investment and trade need a climate apiece and stability. we appreciate a partnership. i'll cooperation in these different areas and we have a legitimate ambitions to develop them further for the benefit of africa and turkey . military experts say african leaders are looking to buy weapons at cheaper prices with fewer preconditions demanded by other companies, such as the u. s. turkey is armed forces already have military bases in parts of africa in somalia, moral and tenicia. tenacious armed forces reported the 2 clear 1st celebry of turkish built combat drones in september. and gold and e. c o, p o,

or among the potential customers though the turkish loan credited with backing out heavy armor and helping win battles in libya and not a car of all 7 of the 10 fastest growing countries or in africa as well as turkey, china from the u. e, saudi arabia, india, all pay close attention to the business opportunities in the resource reach continent. but turkish says it's offering a partnership that is an alternative to what is called the old an exploited approach. otherwise, seen, i'm console the alto series symbol. but you guys briggs administer has resigned in what is yet another blow for prime minister boris johnson. david frost 2 negotiated britons exit from the european union, stepping down with immediate effect in his resignation letter. he said he had a number of concerns to increase the government's decision imposed stricter measure progress authorities in the western serbian town of las needs. a say there

scrapping plans to open a controversial lithium mine in the area. but mining giant reenter says it's not giving up on the project, protested, gathered in the capital belgrade on saturday to oppose. we are $10.00 to $2400000000.00 project in europe. the largest apartment in a do that was at the demonstration in belgrade. the brought us there was in front of the serve, the and the government have called on the authorities to cut dies with your team, lead your mining firm and demand new regulations to protect native though on the government of poor to remove the possibility of companies initiating mining projects for 3, we can in a row, thousands of people in the good and elsewhere in serbia, blocked main roads and bridges to oppose the a team plan to launch a $2400000000.00 mining operation in the country ought to do protest. serbian authorities, we do the controversial laws that activists said were designed to help move the

national why the company, i think the open mind and the local authorities in watson has the standard plan that would allow us to operate in mind. but for these group of people that's not enough. their demand is that the government of through the new all obligations studio organizers of the protests said, there will be no peace until exploitation of lidiam is a band. and there is the inter sent away from serbia. what you're witnessing now, do you think that just the parts of a much bigger problem as environmental? is there a saying they're upset as this to be on the government's lack of response to rise and pollution in the country. now serbia, faces and electricity shortage. and on the other hand, president that exam the voltage as you know, european union, please for countries to reduce or co do emissions and pledge to continue and even

expand coal mining for power brands. ah, algeria, i've been crowned arabic up champions for the 1st time out of beating to ms. yet to know it took more than 90 minutes for the young side to break. the deadlock magic burger was players will now focus on defending that 2019 africa title in cameroon. next month joint, i guess raska reports now from our bank stadium in the hands off algeria, an error comp time to, to add to algiers. we can croon and my a young team missing it's european bass players. but every bit hungry victory, algeria went into this game against him, his year after a hard win over host cutter. those sites peppered each other's goals. when do you

support a messy allie ward in a match, the turn hostile at times between these 2 north african rivals. but there was very little to separate them on the pitch until extra time, annex the substitute. whether quite clearly is british. it means so you'd, with the stunning strike to put algeria in front to noisy, it came close to equalizing. very nice cut back toys, just right then with the final kick of the gain. yes, cbre, he me run away with the to new victory foot algeria, he's yes, go you would ever say good g g area beef is president johnny cantino and cats. i was a me shake to mean been hammered out. funny resent the trophy to the winners. thank you a lot to play out there. several big, big critics that already voted for terms wanted to look over the survey because with jim on it all very proud of the or i'll just he boarded the farms need to be

proud of them. yeah. got was a big test but can saw it stadiums and in structure, but now the organizes will come their attention to the big one, the middle east 1st. well, with kicks of at this stadium in around 11 months time, trying to catch raska al jazeera albania stadium. ah, don't forget, you got the headlines here on al jazeera, the netherlands, and impose a 4 week lockdown from sunday. corona virus infections are surging across europe. london's mer has declared a major incident in response to horizon on the court cases. push police a several officers with an injured dr. gurani's events you cope with 90 measures turn violent in london through requiring coven, hosted to lodge the news making mos compulsory some in.