ah, you go to most of the next to your bed or your dog, utilizes in argentina now when people are just coming, you have met people before the car and other things will be here. expression close to the moral group. women will die. what do you guys think of the result? i am defending champions, france make it to the world cup final crushing morocco's dream to make football history. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm no mozy in london. you're watching al jazeera also coming up on the program. united states is always on africa. shoes joe biden makes his pitched african leaders as he seeks to renew ties with the continent and

counter chinese influence. ah, russia targets ukrainian cities with shells and drones, while the credit rules out said christmas ceasefire. and the mayor of a sample is sentenced to prison for insulting public officials is one of prizes urge one's biggest rivals. all the teams will cut, woke up final are decided it will be argentina versus france. the blues beat morocco to nail at the stadium in doha and the 2nd semi final with the match finishing just a few moments ago. hernandez and randall could one me got the goals, world co will now play probation in the 3rd place. i off the game on saturday, the honey for stadium. it ends a historic run from rural co, which became the 1st hour and 1st african team to make it to the last 4.

let's go live now to and richardson at the base stadium and he was just saying france of put an end to morocco's historic run tournament, but really an unforgettable performance from them overall. yeah, i think so, and i think really this night belong to that team and that play is that funds in particular regardless of the result, bear in mind only twice before as a team from outside of here south america reached the semi fall and was just to go back to 931, you know, i can stated it and i went south, created it in 2002. and really what you had here was a team leaning in. if it's being a home world cup for them, they have a ready made support based in capsule. little detail to the federation did come morocco making sure that parents and families around the place as much as possible surrounding themselves with a 1000000 culture language, food,

anything they could do to just give them an edge over some of their opponents all the way through the finals and this team that have made it to this historic night. it's the products of long term planning, happy accident that they have invested massively in the national center of excellence. there's a holistic approach to football in morocco. they also give a huge backing to the women's game in that country that hosted the women's african nations on the here and the national people to get into the women's welcome next year for the 1st time. so the front of the men team have done so well. it is. it's not just something that's happened. a huge surprise house, a friend, while they were confronted by an enormous amount of howling and whistling from inside the stadium. 99 percent of the crowd were moroccans, but they couldn't quite put the french off that stride. american defense that has seemed so so powerful throughout this filament france managed to get through it twice tonight on this scoring up just 5 minutes. but when the game was poised,

one nail, it could have gone either way. rocca really did see themselves proud that blockbuster final and back a versus messy france versus argentine is on that game. on sunday li sales stadium will decide who this is, will champions all, and he richardson at the obeyed stadium and know how thank you, andy. ah, now the u. s. president has announced a series of new punish ships with african countries that he says is crucial for global success. joe biden says the agreement, okay. the american companies access to a market value at $3.00 trillion dollars. biden is hosting african leaders in delegates in the last capital for the 3 day summit. washington is trying to count the growing, growing chinese and russian influence on the continent. this form is about building connections is about closing deal and above all is about for future or shared

future. we've known for a long time. good are for success and prosperity is essential to sure in a better future for all of us. not just for africa. johnny as now and got hello ok . assistant professor of history and pan africanist studies at lincoln university. it's been quite obvious that africa has not been a priority for washington for a number of years now. why re engage with the continent now? good. thank. first of all, thank you very much what, what you got oh, no rush i use, i used to africa. china is engaging africa. he, you know, the guy in many countries are like saudi arabia. we can see how it. busy

all organized by those respective countries. sure. and i forgot china, russia, africa, so africa, and then you see. and so i think that like you said in the beginning and introduction, america group been name for us. i oh well apologies that having a bit of bandwidth said trouble without gas that try and get back a bit later on. but obviously there is this summit taking place in washington where leaders and delegates have been invited by the, by the administration, the content moving up their priority list, if you like. but the aim here is to engage in partnerships around climate change, economic development, and security. as

a way of countering russia and china's growing influence on the continent where they have been trading partnerships and where they've been investing for a number of years now. so we'll get a bit more analysis on that story later on to want to move on. now because there is plenty more to tell you about with at least 4 people having died more than 40 rescued from migrant, capsized in freezing waters between france and england. search and rescue operations is still on the way it feared. the number of dead could rise and resume as reports from the search control center in dover. not for the 1st time refugees and migrants dying at sea. but more lives was saved and lost as fishermen pulled people to safety from the icy waters of the english channel. richard fight, it will vote with people on board migrants i was crossing and was sinking very, very near to where he was fishing. so amazingly,

got right in next to the, the sinking boat and managed to come alongside and safely get 31 people on board. this latest tragedy is once again down to people, traffickers, they're not deterred by freezing whether neither. it seems other migrants, general crossings is ongoing, humanitarian crisis and people traffickers have never been busier. at the same time, politicians are running short of ideas on how to stop them. it is not cruel or unkind. to want to break the stranglehold of the criminal gang who trade in human misery and who exploit our system and ours. i'm sure the whole house will show my sorrow at the cap sizing of a small boat in the channel in the early hours of this morning. and the tragic loss of human life, our hearts go out all the defects in less than 24 hours before these death. u. k.

prime minister richie sooner had been talking about new measures to curb the channel crossings. but so far, every measure the u. k. government introduces, as failed, needs to be from the rates. that's the biggest issue that we've got the, my name is the people are making the journey from, can i? because there is no other way of doing it. you have to be on breast your style on the island in order to seek asylum, has no sense or entirely why you to find this item. so people have a choice, but to make this journey, i'm not the single biggest thing that the government could do in order to prevent people having to risk their life. here, dover, lightfoot, station they've seen is all before people trafficking across the channel. is it record levels 40000 this year? under the weekend alone? 500 risk their lives. tragedies are all too frequent. this time more lives will save the lost. but that isn't always the case. most november 27 lives were

lost in the channel. the highest number ever recorded. a diplomatic spac followed between france and the u. k. with the british saying the french should do more to stop the small boats from leaving their shore line. as the life boat crews will tell you, the crossings are ever more frequent and dangerous. andrew simmons, al jazeera dover. iran has been removed from the land commission on the status of women after a vote led by the us country has been heavily criticized for denying women's rights and for brutally suppressing a wave of protest erupted after the death of mass. i mean in police custody in september, james bays reports from un headquarters in new york. it was the u. s. ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield, who decided to draw up a resolution to expel iran from the u. n's main body, which deals with the rights of women. she argues that iran's action since the protest began following the death of mass armenian september,

disqualify it from membership of the commission on the status of women. but before the vote, iran's ambassador argued, the move had no precedent and was entirely the result of hostility towards iran by the u. s. and its allies. one member, a bullying member, natalia's for disobeying the un charter international law. intend to pursue. it's unlawful request would remove an elected member from the commission on the, on the base of on funded claims and fabricated arguments. the council now proceed to vote on the vote conducted using an electronic system, expelled iran. but out of the $54.00 countries entitled to vote 8 countries voted against and 16 abstained. despite this ambassador thomas greenfield told me a clear message was being sent to luck. a yes felt is a yes bolt. but as i've said before, and i'll say it here, this was the right thing to do. and this was the time to do it. and i think we sent

a strong message to the iranian government and we send a strong message to iranian women. the voters are further rebuke towards iran of the un following last month's decision by the human rights council to launch a fact finding investigation. but the u. s. is making it clear, it would like to see even more pressure in the coming months. james bay's al jazeera of the united nations, still half way on the program. there is and that soldiers out into the street declaring a state of emergency other protests. ah hm. hello, it remains brutally cold across much of northern europe at signs of some moderate coming industry go on through the next couple of days. we have high pressure and charge into our central areas. that's blocking off these weather systems that coal

bloss though, continuing across the british charles and the island of odd, but he's not milder air is trying to push him to southernmost past because getting squeezed at far south across. so mary's, if you open it, it does come in, we are going to see wind and rain molla conditions temperature slowly but surely starting to lift at the moment. lots of blues showing up on our chart. that's where the cold air is the allies farther south. that's where the warm reveries of cold temperatures falling away bodeo around 7 celsius to friday. but i'll tell me, come to saturday, london could get up to 6 degrees celsius early next week. we will be back into double figures that something to look for to. it will be cloudy, it will be wet, but at least it will be somewhat mild or the wet weather. the windy weather is now making its way across a spine of ports got into the western side of the mediterranean, heavy rainbow, grassy make his way across, nor the pos, whitley snow. on the northern flank of that is still some snow there into the northeast of europe. that wet weather will sweep as well a little further north was running into the co read. it will be snow there all the

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or come back the main stories now the teams for the well cut final are decided france versus argentina. blues beat neural co to neal at the al bait stadium. the 2nd semi final match. it ends his story, run up for morocco became the 1st our been 1st african team to get to the last 4. u . s. president is announced a range of new partnerships with african countries that he says is crucial for global success. joe biden is hosting leaders in delegates in washington for a 3 day summit. at least 4 people have died after a small boat capsized in the channel between britain and france. 43 others are rescued and brought to safety. in the u. k. a fishing crew spotted the dingey thinking in ice cold waters early on wednesday morning. or thousands of rail and postal workers are on strike across the u. k. demanding better pay and conditions. the latest figures show inflation has ease slightly this

month. but more industrial action is likely nurses, ambulance drive as teachers and border force. agents will also stage strikes this winter. a teen ball bazemore from london when they actually saw the 2nd value of a 48 hour strike by the rmc, the rail, maritime and transport union bear on strike over conditions and pay. there is more industrial action later in december. and at the same time, employees of royal mail have gone on strike as well. that's affecting normal delivery. they've already told people that they'll have to send christmas cards early, for example. and then on thursday and unprecedented strike starts by nurses in the national health service. now the union, the royal college of nursing, met the government earlier in the week. those talks collapsed with the union saying it was clear, the government weren't going to talk about paid now in scotland. a strike was

actually called off by now. he's off to a renewed pay off the opposition labor party is saying that the government on the receipt tonight should actually get round the table with nurses representatives over pay. the government says it is simply sticking to what's recommended by an independent pay body. at the moment. public support in general for the strikes is still fairly strong. it around 60 percent, the government says that they're making their mitigating be effective strikes, but it's up to the union's basically to call the strike. so if it doesn't look like that's going to happen, if samples may, i said his prison sentence is unlawful and political off. he was ordered to spend nearly 3 years in jail. for insulting members of the turkish supreme electoral council could say that conviction, which also includes a political bond, is an attempt to remove him from office. he's seen as a strong potential challenger to the turkish private worship type on elections next year. hello. this court case

has proven there is no justice left into care. this case is laid by people who do not want to bring the values such as justice and democracy took here. in fact, this is a case which was shamelessly influence and decided by the people who claim ownership of everything see themselves as the state and the nation to bus crashes in nepal. i've left at least 29 people dead at me. 17 were killed when a bus returning from a party crashing of the capitol catlin do. 22. others were injured. rescued by local villages and security forces, and another 12 people were killed when they're both fed off a mountain highway make on monday. your grains government is saying it's forces shut down, 13 russian drones that were launched towards the capital cave washing shells of all theatre regional administration building and the recently retaken city of harrison

bosher has been targeting ukraine's critical infrastructure for weeks even millions of civilians without regular access to power water and heating in sub 0 temperatures. meanwhile, the kremlin has a christmas cease. fire is not on the agenda or challenge has more from keith. it looks bad, of course, but it could have been so much worse. thankfully, no one was underneath the drone when it was shot down and crashed into this key building early on wednesday morning. spit lana cleared up the damage in her father's flat just across the way. i thought it's a good morning because we had a life that does go off, it can be removed under faith. it's not a big deal. it's a stoicism full of experience for months. russia has targeted ukraine, cities and power infrastructure. but stoicism does not mean apathy is that makes up pretty much angry grid. this time the attack was a failure to put a liaison,

preliminary information. all 13 drones were shot down by ukraine. an ad defense mal, it's well done. i'm proud of you here. citizens and we are grateful to the defense and don't ignore the sirens. but previous drain strikes, particularly when paired with cruise missiles, to be more successful. since mid october, russia has damaged every one of the cranes and the russians trying to choice is this. they call them karen's, but despite russia and iran denials there, why be believe to be the iranian maid shaw had 136, and it's smaller version. the 131 trying to 0 was given rare access to recovered examples being studied by ukraine's military intelligence. the sabres below. thank them some additional assets. yes. these, you know, the more damage to us are russia uses in most of the most of the city. and there was head of 1120, around the gun,

almost not keeping his real identity secret. with actual told me what's inside them despite the drones assumed iranian origins, almost all the components of foreign, some or even ukrainian talisman canada. this is kind of the back fence canada. so that's interesting because it shows that despite being on the sanctions, iran is still managing to get hold of components like this. some suggest brushes, use of imported drones means it has diminishing stocks of its own precision missiles. but he crane knows it can't be complacent. despite the destruction, you see here it was a lucky day for key if 100 percent of the drain shut down, no deaths and no injuries. but he's to say the next on this happens, they'll be so fortunate. and that's why ukraine is making better ad offense. one of the most important requests is making of its friends and allies, rory, talents out to 0, give through is required a nationwide state, the agency of the mass protest, demanding acidly, the petro castillo,

be fried tanks and military personnel. patrolling streets is widespread. demonstrations. continue. former president is currently in detention charged with rebellion and conspiracy. after trying to dissolve congress last week earlier hearing to decide whether he would stay behind bars was postponed. marianna sanchez has moved from outside the jail where the former president is being detained. were outside the jail, were from a precedent faded august. he has been detained. there's a small group of protest i are. they were waiting to hear from the judge with hearing has been changed for thursday. in the meantime, just a letter where he said that he's read a quote on the inter american commission, right? i have to look after he's a state of emergency in all the country. and

she has to send her ministers, a dialogue to the school to make good area, especially in the south that a paper and my wife and whole school. the situation has gone much worse. a tried to take over the air for dave, a lead up. the prosecutor's office on the television station. so president, you know what they want to ask for calm and happy send her ministers to begin a dialogue with these protesters. it's been a decade since a convent opened fire. it's sandy hook elementary school in the usa of connecticut, killing 20 children, and 6 staff members. tragedy spot great demand for gun control. yet the death toll from school shootings keeps climbing. parents of victims have been turning the grief to advocacy. my name is nicole hartley and the co founder and ceo of

sandra, her promise, which is an organization i helped launch one month after the shooting as sandy hook elementary school where my youngest son, dylan was killed. dylan was a very beautiful and joyful little boy. 6 years and he loved to cuddle and make gigantic purple dots and eat garlic bread and carrots and red delicious apples. and he was, he was really the center of our family. he was just pure love. a lot has changed in 10 years since the sandy hook shooting a movement has been born. this is a movement that is stronger than the gun lobby. and there has been significant change at both the state and federal level and also at a behavioral level in communities where we know that we can prevent these acts of violence. if we know the signs and learn to take action to intervene, the more significant barrier that we face is apathy and hopelessness, and people thinking, nothing's going to change. this is just an inevitable part of american life. and

that's a notion that i completely reject. you can't just passively be a bystander and say someone else is going to take care of this, or it's not my problem because we have an epidemic of gun violence in the united states in, sooner or later, it will impact you if it hasn't already. whenever i hear about mass shootings, i am re traumatized and i think back to 1214 when it's a school shooting, it hurts that much more. and then once i get through that, i just double down on the work because i know i need to work harder and faster to reach more kids and stop these tragedies from happening. i. i have real difficulty reconciling the fact that it's been 10 years since my son was killed times become quite warped. and while i'm proud of what my organization been able to achieve, all i really want to have is that day have never existed. and then i have my son

back. the u. s. has opened his space for sub command to touch base in south korea. it's expected to optimize the use of its satellite and other space based assets. as no career has been on a rack or smashing one of missile testing this year, unit kim has the story now from sol. o u. s. troops in south korea, harold, the launch of a space arm at was on air force base south of sole following a similar ceremony in hawaii, 3 weeks earlier. it will be america's eyes in the sky, tracking miss l activity in north korea, a near real time to detect, disrupt, and destroy a one among the nearly 70 ballistic missiles. north korea has test fired this year, is the so called monster missile the hoss on 17. it puts the entire united states within reach and could have the capability of sending multiple nuclear warheads to

multiple destinations. as north korea wraps up with military ambitions be a development intercontinental ballistic missiles submarine launch, ballistic missiles, or indeed nuclear testing. washington, sol and tokyo are strengthening their military cooperation. but experts in sol say that the vision of u. s. space. horses, korea is wider. it aims to reach across the greater end up pacific region, and that means monitoring and acquiring intelligence on china at the shangri la dialogue and singapore. earlier this year, defense secretary lloyd austin, described the asia pacific as a priority theater for washington. calling for a rules based international order on north korea. analysts q don't. yup, says increasingly polarizing global geo politics, exacerbated by russia's war and ukraine is leaving middle powers like south korea to choose aside. i should, if you consider

a muscle flying from china to the u. s. mainland, you have why in the middle and south korea is the closest point to china, even more so than japan. the details of u. s. space forces. korea, such as its size are not yet known, nor how it will work with souls newly launch space operation squadron under its air force. eunice kim al jazeera soul, with omaha from the provisional results in fiji, national election, foreign minister, frank by the mariners party as strongly with more than 45 percent of the vote. his rival is also a former cooley there. with many seeing the pol as a test of fiji democracy and less a voter turnout was the lowest in a decade though. why in hay reports as they went to the polling stations, voters in fiji echoed the concerns of so many others around the world. the cost of living crisis and rebuilding the economy after the coven $19.00 shut down. these

government is doing so much for the people they are giving was fears, food vouchers, even the lot of things the government has done, people are just really nervous about how things are going to turn out and am excited also on for the possibility of change that nervousness was because the election was largely a choice between 2 men with a history of interfering in the democratic process. prime minister frank bind him at armour, lead a military coup in 2006, and has been in power ever since. as with the previous vote in 2018, his main challenge, it was another former military man. cit, vinny rumble cab, who led to cooper in 1987 before being democratically elected as prime minister. given the collective history of the 2, there's been plenty of apprehension in fiji about what could happen after this votes. i accepted a mighty peep might be maybe my congratulated mr. cherry october. ah, president,

house and office. and i hope we can do that though. we cannot live forever with them are blue forever. as bonnie madame a went to cast his vote in the capital zuba. he was in no mood to discuss with the media whether he would respect the outcome i haven't gotten into. so reporter for master list of them. lastly question. but a question. thank you. this year fiji found itself at the center of a geopolitical tussle between china and the united states and its allies, australia, and new zealand. while fiji cheered the pacific islands forum begging launched a diplomatic offensive, attempting to sign a regional security and economic packed with pacific countries, which was unsuccessful. any military intervention after this election would again test regional relations and potentially add to the economic concerns of fijians. wayne hey al jazeera ah.