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a process coach calls a handley of clifford 19 testing at the 33rd africa cup of nations. a scandal. ah, so at least 200 people had been killed in villages in nigeria, northwest state of some far armed bandits carried out the attacks following as strikes by the military. on the high doubts early this week, president mahar du bahati says the army has been given more equipment to track down the criminal gangs on choose day. nearly $100.00 hostages, including women and children, were rescued in the same area. they were abducted by on groups and held for more than 2 months. so let's get the very latest from our correspondence interests in nigeria, capital boucher, and i'm a tell us more about what you know. well basically make a right now what's happening is search and recovery effort about 2048 hours since

the attack buddies are still being recovered. i, as i said yesterday afternoon at least 150 costs were recovered. some of them be too late to some of them, but beyond recognition and were buried in barriers. been just the attacks happen in at least 10 villages in them for a state, especially in ab, but do and of course local government areas. now the president said the attacks happened when retreating bended at times. those villagers, after they were forced off that base by military strikes in the region that has been going on for at least 3 years now. but the conflict is becoming more and more deadly. more and more sophisticated and more and more out of control as you secured force, i really, really struggling to deal with this problem. there are areas in the north west of

this country, why you can't even bear to trouble as an official despite the military escort. remember, jacob, who now the capital city here. it's a distance of 157160 kilometers. but people travel this old with hertz practically in their mouth, because this has become a kidnapped us, then keep nothing for ransom. it's now big business. it's a foster criminal, fastest growing criminal enterprise nigeria. so the situation is very, very tense and very dicey. what be no general public in the north west of the country asking for if not sympathy from the president is not condemnation. they want to see more action because this conflict has been going on for almost a decade. now. tell us more about what action that government is taking and more about the context of the ongoing security situation. what do you government over the past 3 years has deployed more truce boy couldn't to the region, but this conflict has grown even bigger and more deadly. since then,

the security forces have killed dozens or even hundreds of these attackers. but again, when you look at the different situation apart from the bandit with this conflict, if i stopped in a crisis because harmless capital. hi, this is talk to about grazing areas and it's about access to water. and then it grew larger. was when sutton community to set up their own visual and just to protect their community. and it was alleged that these videos like just one father, had to go into there has become the law. and if you look at northwestern, i did not even northwest, and i guess you're looking at why that aspect of the country. there are 3 cheers of government. you have the federal, you have the state, you have the local government. what we're witnessing in niger right now, the local government system, which is closer to the people, is completely collapsed because simply what the last ticket we've seen, how powerful state governance have taken over responsibility. human resources of

local governments, and much them with those of states. they appoint whatever they want at the local government level to administer. that is how corruption 2nd. and that is how they have killed of administration of the local level. and so we have a bust on government spaces and these spaces are be exported by criminals. like what is happening in northwest not yet right now. there are a lot of bushes there, a lot of forest that gives them cover and because there is no security presence in those areas, these criminals have taken over and even allocations by security forces. that is caching and because of the money that is being made in kidnapping for ransom. now let's go to the actual situation on the go. we've seen how thousands of students, school children have been kidnapped by these people and up to now, since of them or even hundreds of them are still be kept by them. now the government is desperately trying to address this problem. do they have enough resources? no. the resources are limited,

the government is fighting so many battles in so many places, like we said, $36.00 states, bad europe, $34.00 states, half military presence of in them dealing with crisis. okay. i would appreciate that. so i would address that update there from a preacher in nigeria, thinking me china has reported at 1st locally transmitted alma con cases in the northern coastal city of change in which borders beijing, health officials say at least 2 people there have been infected with the highly transmissible variant authorities have begun mass testing in the city of 14000000 people the winter olympic games due to begin in bridging it. nearby venues in less than 4 weeks. patricia you is in beijing and has more on china's latest cases. the main problem for chinese authorities is it for 70 to beijing. it's only about 3 hours drive away o one hour by high speed rail. there is

a loss of frequent commuting between the 2 cities and aging authorities are on high alert that anxious to make sure that there is no outbreak in the capital before the beginning of the beijing winter olympics on february the 4th. so as i mentioned, change residents have been ordered not to leave their homes until they are tested and then they cannot leave their city unless absolutely necessary. those who work and aging the work from home and all of those in aging, who have traveled to the affected areas in change and in recent weeks, must begin home quarantine. now this outbreak that we know so far with these 2 content on the con cases, the 1st locally transmitted a cases of the oma called variance have been centered around a school community. and this is really going to test china 0 tolerance approach to curve at 19. there are already about 40000000 people in china under severe lockdown in the provinces of sun, she in her non province. and these infections are continuing to spread to other areas as well. now this is really going to be

a test of china as current lockdown policy. it's not testing reactions here. and we're going to have to see whether this on the kron variance is going to spread here. what is concerning to authority so far is that they have not nailed down the origin of the virus. when it comes to these cases, intention, india has reported another $160000.00 new cases in the last 24 hours. 7 months high . cities have introduced restrictions including knight curfews is the country battles of surgeon amok. on infections, new delhi among bye, are among the worst it and the israel is reopening to all vaccinated foreigners despite battling a record number of infections. but from sunday schools will have tighter restrictions. stephanie decker has more now from west jerusalem. has kept his borders close to foreigners, for most of the pandemic, really close them again in november. but what it says now and it's, it's, it's interesting, really, because, ironically,

the numbers are all time high here in terms of daily infections. but what they're saying is that simply the spread is so among the community that travel in and out is not really going to make a huge difference. as of today, the borders are open to vaccinated, foreigners, i'm israel is really at pushing the idea that it is the vaccine. and the booster that is the best bet against this virus. they were the 1st country to to use a 3rd booster last year. they're now already administrating the 4th booster to those over 60 years of age, there's research going on whether this is going to be effectively administered to the entire population. but it is a situation where you have high numbers testing centers. i think as in other countries are, you know, really at breaking point. that's why it's also changed some of its demands in terms of p c. r testing. now if you have been exposed to someone with the current of iris, the american variant, if you are vaccinated, you only need to take advantage of test. also, they're cutting down on quarantine time whether you have it or not. because they

say simply, a variant doesn't seem to be as serious in terms of causing illness, particularly to those vaccinated. and also they don't want to have hundreds of thousands of israelis in quarantine when it comes to the economy. so i think, you know, this is how they're deciding to move for there simply isn't any proof at this point in time that closing borders and closing restrictions and increasing quarantined times, it's actually going to limit the spread of this variant or what most countries are seeing a rise in infections, the u. k is proving to be an exception. it's either 20 percent dropping during the case of since last week. and this is leading to colds for a new approach. for brendan has more from london. what we have at the moment is huge pressure on the u. k. schools and hospitals because of staff absences. part of that is because the staff themselves have got cove it another part of it is because they've been tested positive or somebody around them close to the test the positive

as well. at the moment, the restriction is that you have to isolate for 10 days, although after 7 days in england at least you can test and if you're negative, you can then go back to work with the education secretary, the man in charge of education here in england has said, is that perhaps that could be reduced to 5? what he says is that that would go a long way to reducing the kind of staff pressures that we're seeing here in the u . k. the government advising bodies to prepare for anything up to 25 percent of workplace absences. enough clearly going to put enormous pressure on workplace efficiency. whether or not it's possible is, is an open question. this is the education secretary. he was doing the broadcast round of radio and tv on a sunday morning. and so it's him expressing his opinion rather than setting government policy. it's really interesting insight into how the u. k. government appears to be thinking, and i'll give you more credit on the said, i hope we will be one of the 1st major economies to demonstrate to the world that

you can transition from pandemic to endemic. and then deal with this, however long it remains with us, whether that's 56710 years. so you can see that the government is not playing this wakeham old game anymore. we're talking about reacting instantaneously to sudden spikes, an infection rate that play the looking at a more long term process of how you can actually live with around a virus live with the potential variance that come with corona virus. and at the same time, keep the economy going. russian state media says a 164 people have been killed during days, a violent anti government protests in kazakhstan authorities. i confirmed the rest of more than $5000.00 people, including format security, which serves as chief. i carry mass him off, robin for us. your walker has this long queues for fuel and the food as the public comes to terms with reality. after the unrest. a picture is emerging of a power struggle within cassock, stones,

political elite. in protests. this week, anger was directed at independence, has its dance, 1st president 81 year old, nor so 10 as a buy of old man get out. they taunted with those protests turned violence in mattie, as a boy was removed from the powerful position he still occupied chair of the security council. now his loyal associate carry maxime off, fired from his role as chief of national security, has been charged with high treason. marriage certificate mother by a hand picked cassey jermarta took i have as his successor in 2019 but did not relinquish power. both men played a leadership role attending international meetings together. as recently as last month we're that has now changed. we now enjoy the talk. i it era

like it, this guy is want to be in charge because he's not going to put he's shown man in charge for maybe it's own government in charge. so he got to read over all the people were hanging over for the tri regime. the swift deployments of c s t o security forces. $3600.00 russian lead troops is a clear sign. tokai of has moscow's backing. they are now helping to strengthen his position in north. so turn the capital renamed often as at by of state media. no longer mentions his name. intimate blackouts have made it difficult to gauge public reaction. i finally reached a political activist via telegram. he didn't want to be named just informational

chairs. but i know last because we have a lot of rumors. it was, it was out of her as with his drilling lead and there's an hour shift. all the stories and deliveries are based on this lack of information. rumors, unofficial propaganda. those rumors only adding to the uncertainty that dominates life in kazakhstan, robin forest, t, a walker. how to 0. still a head heron out, 0 frozen to death in pakistan. we have the latest on the snow storm, which $22.00 mentors did not lie. a rerun election in the venezuelan se sabrina becomes a battlefield between government and opposition. ah

look forward to brighter skies. the winter sponsored my cattle at ways this world weather update begins in southeast asia. hello, everyone, thank you for joining and concentrated rain continues to fall over sumatra. we've seen flooding in the northeast, but now the area of concern is towards the south. same goes across java as well. the ne monsoon not given us a lot of rain for vietnam, but still a few showers across the coast. it was a foggy and misty start to the day for many areas of central china. and we do have some showers in between the gang, see, and the pearl river valley pretty much will call it whoo. han break down to grey lynn and closing in on hong kong on kong has a have $21.00 degrees on monday. we press plot, pause on his snow across japan for now is a fairly quiet pitcher for the korean peninsula, sol, 4 degrees doesn't sound too bad, right? but the next 3 days shows us your temperatures, both by day and night will be below average. and we could throw in some snow or flurries later on in the week. now speaking of that ne monsoon, again,

it is going to steer rounds of heavy rain into sure lago. so that threat of flooding is certainly here, but it will stay dry and tamil nadu. janai has got a high 30 degrees, few showers, though for a careless state and toward the northwest where it has been very soggy. things are starting to dry off new dell. he's got a hiv 19 degrees. that's it soon for the weather, sponsored by caraway's. ah, a selfless act as human bravery in 10000 precious pieces of literature, rescued from being burnt to ashes, besieged, sorry ah, there meets the buzzing women and men who risked everything to save their written heritage. ah beloved looks on out his era. oh,

the me again, what's out there? a reminder about top stories is and the nigerian government says the death toll from attacks in the northwest has risen to at least 200 bandits attacked villages in some far states following strikes by the military on the height of china has reported its 1st locally transmitted on the cross cases in the northern coastal city of energy in which borders beijing, the winter, live against juice begin in capital and thereby venues. in other 4 weeks, the russian state media says 164 people to be killed during days of violence. anti government protested because it's done already that confirmed the rest of more than $5000.00 people, including the former security services chief cutting madison bridges have been

closed around sudan capital of cartoon to try and stop more protests against the military government. the main pro democracy group has rejected un efforts to get sued and transition to civilian rule back on track. un offer followed the resignation of prime minister, abdullah hum dog. he had failed to reach a compromise between military leadership and pro and the pro democracy movement. let's cross over to the wrong mom and valid life for that and they may bring a call to me. so tell us later, what is the latest situation st. yo will start the nick when i stand isa. that is a few meters away from the highway here on the man where most of the action takes place. almost every 2 or 3 days. this is the are by in the street. and shortly after an after now there will be action for, for sure, because we have seen signs of people gathering air thus where or so most of the

confrontations are most of the killings took place during the last couple of weeks . so this is an ongoing process, the protesters are adamant and they were, they are going to continue their action in this manner until they pushed the military out of power. at the same time that there are initiatives taken the initiative taken yesterday by the you announcing at that they are going to propose negotiations, national dialogue between the various parties. but so far a number of components of the political spectrum have refused to go to these negotiations. including the doctor's association, including the freedom of the movement of freedom, 4 or forces of freedom, a change including also the very people who are moving this action here. the movers and shakers, those committees, they call themselves the resistance committees. they said there will be no negotiation with the military. all the other bodies i mentioned said also the condition scenic one on for any any kind of dialogue in which they could

participate is that the military should be removed. at least the top generals, those top generals, they accuse of being criminals. they accuse of being behind the killing of an arm and civilians. on a daily basis he answered, and they said that there could be no negotiations with those types of people. we don't know so far how the you and is going to a go ahead to proceed. we don't even have to get the details of the proposal that the you and he's going to a table probably tomorrow or after to morrow. and that means that the situation is still as it is very complicated and no science of solution in the horizon. mo, thanks very much for that, ma'am. and rather in on the man at near caught you, i fly. the venezuelan stay to brain. yes. has become the latest battlefield between the government of nitrous montero and the opposition. a re run vote for state governor will take place later on sunday. it's the result of a dispute from elections in november, threats by reports now on what's at stake? yeah. it's the home, a former socially president award, charlie's

a place of enormous value for the government of nicola, my lord, that's why hold here. yes. how, what one's been when the foreign minister is hoping to become the new governor of readiness? hey, we are making a commitment together because we are going to govern together, right? we're going to govern together. you can't leave me alone. we're not going to walk away anymore. we're not going to disconnect from the people ever again. to be out of. yes, i kissed a copy of this sort of independence. he will feel while you are brought the power of the state to help him went on sunday. during last november's local elections in which the governing party won, in most states, voters in muddiness showed ample support for the opposition candidate to venezuela . supreme court, we true actively disqualified him and called for a new election after an apparent defeat of the governing party's candidate,

chavis' brother, chavis. now both parties have elected new candidates, said, who are you, is hoping to become the 1st governor of bad enough in more than 20 years, who does not bear the chavis last name. this is a massive demonstration from the people who are enough and we're going to win january the 9th. in spite of the differences we have, the government has all the resources of the state money resources coming from drug trafficking. even we have the people on with the people who are in us. we are going to win january the 9th. be assured, this would be the case. god is with us for election in november, when wanting toi by the european union for the 1st time in 15 years. your position ran divided and was unable to defeat the governing socialist party in most states. but in but enough, the situation with different is the will, the government was desperate to gain some credibility internationally to try to get

the reduction of some sanctions to be able to sit and be able to maneuver in some crucial offices internationally. but they still went ahead and dismissed the past election in burying us in spite of it all. they could the common inflection on whether elections are way out of the current crisis in the country. many will and have been struggling with a devastating economic crisis that has affected every aspect of their lives. this sunday voters embody enough will test once again the country's electoral system. their results will show whether the balance will help them in the fight for change. i will, i left a rock faces collapsed to onto boats in the southeast, in brazil, killing at least 7 people. the fire department says dozens more have been injured and several missing. the navy has deploy, dive isn't helicopters, official se, heavy rains may have contributed to the rock coming lead. the bodies of 9

victims of a snow storm in pakistan had been taken to the capital islamabad, where funerals have been held. 22 people in all died when they were trapped in their vehicles over night, tor again, b as this moon is line. the streets in islamabad is ambulances carrying the bodies of 8 members of the same family drive past friends of nevada, at ball or in shock. they say the police officer and his family were well liked members of the community. carrollton. good, and would you prefer lagrano? i still can't believe it. even after i heard about this tragic incident, the whole country is grieving along with the family. marvey dick pal was a very nice person. this is a kilometer stay up at albuquerque. your home or the book temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees celsius overnight on friday in the mountain town of murray. around 30 kilometers ne of his lamb, a bad thousands of people had traveled to the resort to see the unusually heavy snow, ignoring extreme weather warnings. some reportedly died of hypothermia,

after being trapped in their vehicles a. the night witnesses say others were crushed by falling trees. lord god, y'all can dojo hell, did it on board? some tourist died and cause trees fell on the cars and caused their deaths. i'm just back from the area on monday the armies doing rescue work, but the highway police and the army would have to spend another day completing the rescue work was for the traffic jams are badly available. the military's been called in to help whiskey, thousands of people who is still stranded, that bad weather is making their job difficult. pakistan's interior minister arrived in murray on saturday to see the rescue operation for himself. he promised that every one still stranded would be rescued soon. with all government rest houses have opened on the instructions of the chief minister of punjab. we are starting a helicopter service as soon as the weather clears, but still the weather is bad. if some people are strand in forests, we will rescue them. prime minister in wrong con says he is shocked and upset. he's

ordered an inquiry and is promising to introduce new regulations to prevent a tragedy like this happening again. victoria gate and b al jazeera and afghan baby lost during the chaotic evacuations. in kabul after the taliban takeover has been reunited with the family, 2 month old so hell of muddy was handed over to a soldier over barb wire in august. by the time his family made it to the other side to board a flight for the us, he'd go missing. there be weeks of negotiations with a taxi driver who found the baby. he's now been returned to relatives in cabal who are hoping to reunite him or with his parents in the united africa festival. a football kicks off in a few hours in cameroon, but k with $900.00 testing procedures set the africa cover. nations been described as a scandal by the beginning of us a team coach. 5 players tested positive 24 hours before their 1st game. the hosts of launched a major vaccination campaign. and friends must meet strict entry restrictions

before getting into the stadiums. sort of harder to this report that both teams are rising income are for the start of the african cup of nations on sunday. she wants to attend the game must be vaccinated and show a negative case. at 900. authorities have set up hundreds of vaccinations and through the course several host cities on the fed good as well as apart from the fact the vaccinated people will see the matches. they will be protected against the complications of the disease to protect their relatives and their environment. covered 1900 could end if the majority of people are vaccinated. the tournament has been used as an incentive in the football my nation to encourage vaccine skeptics and youngsters to get vaccinated. bonuses said who it is necessary to be able to have access to the stadium during the african couple of nations. so this is what pushed us camera unions to come here and you forgot to like, i don't know if all of the camera unions are vaccinated. we encourage all of the rest of the countries that are coming for the africa. come up with the camera with

strips of hosting the african camp in 2019 the stadium construction delays and security threats in some parts of the country. many countries in africa are experiencing their 4th wave of corona virus with the chrome variant causing an enormous challenge to come a re, less than 6 percent of its $27000000.00 population is fully vaccinated, while many simply don't want to get the job. infections continued to disrupt preparations for the african cup of nations. egypt has cancel training and delayed its players arrival to the tournament. and guinea has had to leave 3 players behind after they tested positive thoughts. camera in hopes that this vaccination campaign could be most successful yet while promising a safe to ha that a hide it onto their australia. government has lost its attempt to delay mondays,

deportation hearing for tennis number one novak joke, which he remains in a detention hotel in melbourne after being stopped at airport immigration. on thursdays he arrived to play in the east reading open. the 20 time grand slam champion will appeal against his visa cancellation. his lawyer say the australians gave a medical exemption for having recovered from hope of 19 last month. ah . so it is time for a recap of the headline to renounce zera and the nigerian government says the death toll from attacks of the north west has risen to at least $200.00 armed bandits attacked villages ins. i'm far est following airstrikes by the military. on the hide house i'm address is more now from a boucher what's happening is ah, search and recovery.