several clusters of covid-19 have been detected in queensland in recent days.entering a second full day of lockdown. let's discuss the path to recovery. cameron dague joins us exclusively from brisbane. wonderful to have you with us. how big of an impact are you seeing when it comes to these snap lock downs and the continued uncertainty around covid? cameron: what we have seen during the course of the pandemic is getting the priorities right when it comes to health care. if you can protect the people, economic growth and jobs come back. we restored all the jobs we lost during covid plus another 85000 and that has led australia. our economic growth for the financial year just closed was 13 times more than we anticipated just six months ago at 3.2 5%. what we do is we go hard and early. we have short, sharp lockdowns. we have done that on a couple of occasions and we have seen our economy rebound. we think that is the right policy for queensland and for the nation, and now, our economy is roaring back and we are helping the australian economy recover as a consequ

scott house knows upon the intelligence to queensland museum and he's in at amanda in queensland where the dinosaur was discovered, explains why it took so many years to properly identify the bones. each barn has to be removed from the enchanting matrix, the rock that actually surrounds the barnes. and that's takes a long time and then each bind needs to compete, needs to be prepared and compared to all the dinosaurs from around the world. and in, in queensland, in particular. and so we use digital 3 d technology to stand by and so that i can go and compare them in different museums and different collections. it's very difficult when you have a 200 kill. i've donna so by like the ones behind me that are, that he can simply just putting, you know, in a car and take them to another museum. so digitizing them using this new technology has taken many years to accumulate. and those comparisons have been done. and so it had a very long neck, very long tile. that sort of typical braun to sort. so bracky this or is look to it, but it was enormous. it was a titanic story. and and most of the st

so that means that the dinosaurs we find all across central queensland come in potentially come from different time period. so understanding what these animals where and how they lived eyes and just started even though it's taken 14 years for this part of south west brain, going to get their 1st big dyna. so it's just the start of some really amazing discoveries and understand this is a real community efforts and the owners of the property on which this done as was found, they set up their music, which i guess is where you are right now. yeah, that's right. i'm here at the mangan natural history museum, and this wouldn't have happened. we wouldn't be able to announce a new gigantic dinosaur spaces without them. and this is what's fantastic about west in queensland, these regional museums that a set up by a not for profit organization, that's the community building these collections by the people for the people. and it allows research to ok. they had to make sure that the collection was scientifically bona fide. and that's why queens i museum who has 150 year old rec order of dinosaur

new dinosaur species discovered in southwest queensland has officially been recognized as the largest ever found in australia and among the biggest on earth. hi, ross has a story. meat cooper, a long next plans eating dinosaur. it's around 30 meters long and up to 6 meters high. at the hip in rome, desert, more than 90000000 years ago, was only discovered by chance in 2004. when it teenagers stumbled across what he thought was a rock in yesterday and out back in the state of queensland, his discovery was the start of a journey to finding australia's largest dinosaur and one of the biggest room. this earth officially named australian heights and cooper answers. it's one of the 5 largest in the world and the only ones have not been found in south america. australia is one of the most difficult places to find dinosaurs. unlike south america, it's mostly flat and likes the mountain ranges and canyons where fossils are exposed. when rock is eroded, paleontologists had to dig deep to remove the fossil skeleton from a thick layer of sediment. h byron has to be removed from the interning matr

bones found 17 years ago or from an unknown species of dinosaur cooper. named off the creek in queensland where the fossils were discovered is one of the largest ever found. so hyatt has his story. meets cooper, a long next plant eating australia, tighten around 30 meters long and up to 6 meters high at the hip room desert. more than 90000000 years ago, but was only discovered by chance in 2004, when a 14 year old stumbled across what he thought was a rock, any australian out backs in the state of queensland. his discovery was the start of a journey to find australia's largest dinosaur and one of the biggest sharon, this f officially named austria the titan cooper answers. it's one of the top 5 largest in the world. and the only ones who have not been found in south america, australia is one of the most difficult places to find dinosaurs. unlike south america, it's mostly flat, and that's the mountain ranges and canyons expose fossils by eroding rock. paleontologist hard to dig deep, to remove the fossilize skeleton from a thick layer of sediment. each byron has to be removed from the int

on wednesday, still the thread of some what, whether it's worth that southeast of queensland, southeast of new south wales and victoria as well as that front sides across and still dealing with that cool air. 15 degrees in adelaide, some weather for south australia, but the bulk of the energy will move toward the tasman see on thursday and that will eventually find its way into new zealand. but for now, let's talk about the weather story on wednesday, just some showers of christ church. we'll get into a bit of that wet weather, but mostly contained toward the southern l says we had toward wednesday. okay, next for echo to asia pacific right now, and we've got some heavy rain. the bulk of the energy that was impacting q shoe has now moved out toward the pacific, but still hanging onto a bit of weather for a honshu tokyo, just some scattered showers for you. otherwise, elsewhere across china, rain toward the north, coming down to the yangtze river valley shooting just south of shanghai, beijing, you're going to get striped with some what weather on wednesday into thursday. and our southwe

teenagers stumbled across what he thought was a rock in yesterday and out back in the state of queensland. his discovery was the start of a journey to finding australia's largest dinosaur and one of the biggest room this earth officially named australian heights and cooper, kansas. it's one of the 5 largest in the world and the only ones have not been found in south america. australia is one of the most difficult places to find dinosaurs. unlike south america, it's mostly flat and likes the mountain ranges and canyons where fossils are exposed. when rock is eroded, paleontologists had to dig deep to remove the fossil skeleton from a thick layer of sediment. h byron has to be removed from the interning matrix, the rock that actually surrounds the barnes. and that's takes a long time. and then each bind needs to compete, needs to be prepared and compared to other dinosaurs from around the world and in, in queensland, in particular. and so we use digital 3 d technology to stand by and so that i can go and compare them in different museums and different collections. it's very difficult when y

staley, going into long town is the delta variance increases their launch parts of the state of queensland, including brisbin and puss or the latest to bring in tight restrictions for several days. they join people in sydney and darwin who are already living under a snap, locked down. stay at home, orders are in place except for essential activities. the delta variance is to record numbers of infections in russia's 2 largest cities. moscow registered $124.00 deaths in the last 24 hours. or 2000 people are being hospitalized every day. the city has impose new rules, forcing people to show proof of vaccination or a negative test to enter restaurants and bars. grace forgive people under the age of $26.00 and incentive of $180.00, and free into that data for a month, for their 1st jobs against coven. 19 and prime minister says it's a small, thank you. from the greek state. restrictions have been ease for fully vaccinated people, but it's about 33 percent of the population. graces, heavily reliant on tourism, and it's looking for ways to fully reopen its economy. after a year, italians will no

they're just making its way into queensland inland queensland as well into the out back. and also it's new south wales and i'm sure brace bring some showers there to get parts of new south wales. actually, i'm also got a little area flow precious, sweeping through the bytes. so some wet weather, the southern part of the far south of south australia that will continue to drift further eastward, knocking the temperature back in adelaide to around 13 celsius, wet weather, sweeping through victoria. and we're still in place as we go one through friday. but notice from new zealand, law she fine and dry now looks better ra liked latest spell of wintry weather, but still struggling to get just 9 celsius and christ. yes. but it will be last you dry while you drive a northern part. so bird japan as well over the next day or so. so wet weather, just around the eastern areas of horseshoe, in tequisha, joining up with a seasonal rains which are now to nothing a little further north with. so we will see some wet weather coming into shanghai as we go through friday. they will try to th

compete, needs to be prepared and compared to other dinosaurs from around the world and in, in queensland, in particular. and so we use digital 3 d technology to scan the buying so that i can go and compare them in different museums and different collections. very difficult when you have a 200 kilo donna. so by like the ones behind me that are, that he can simply just putting, you know, in a car and take them to another museum. digitally capturing gigantic, so called zones. and fossil sites lead on expected discoveries such as several of cooper's bones, having been crushed by all the massive dinosaurs, stepping on them and other skeletons being found in the same area. there was another one another side zach columbia. why? i moved on to that 1st mothers 3 years, and it's the most complete on a sort of science and it's still to be prepped a lot of it, but the preservation of that and the man of buying and one is quite extraordinary. it's taken 17 years to find an honors cooper and other species of dinosaurs. australia is one of the last frontiers for finding them, but it's false proving to

people in south—east queensland including brisbane must now wear masks when outside of their homes, and, western australia, has also started a lockdown. new zealand will partially resume quarantine free travel with australia and and restrictions in wellington. the travel bubble with some parts of australia will be open from july five, and restrictions and wellington will be eased from midnight on tuesday. research comparing facemasks for healthcare workers has found dramatic differences in their ability to help stop coronavirus infections. a study by cambridge university hospital has found wearing a higher grade mask known as an ffp3 can provide up to 100% protection from the virus, and our science editor as this report. for them vast majority of hospital staff across the uk, a key part of the defence against coronavirus is a surgical masks like these. you see them everywhere. the new study has questioned whether they offer enough protection when caring for patients with covid. it says that if healthcare workers instead where this type of mask, a ffp3, rate of infection drops. they disc

and this will push into southern sections of queensland as we get later into the week for new zealand, high pressure in place. so that translates into plenty of sunshine. wellington, 16 degrees, that's a few above average. the phase compelling story without uttering a single word. and knowing going can guide a symbol times informa, young convent, manatee, of life. witness through the lens of the human eye is what inspires the witness documentary on our era. ah, the welcome back and recap of our top stories on 0. israel parliament will vote on sunday on whether it's a new coalition government, the speaker of the class. they've told members they'll vote on a cost order quantity correlation corresponding nationwide and lead find the tommy bennet. they want to see the minister benjamin netanyahu has been in for 12 years. right when presidential candidate came to jamalia has raised allegations of irregularities in the country until the election left. when bible federal view is edging ahead, as coming from rural areas and hundreds of alleged criminals have been arrested around the world in

a small number of positive infections have also been recorded in the northern territory, queensland andtern australia. federal and state governments will hold emergency talks today. phil mercer is in sydney for us. just talk us through these latest numbers, they are worrying. latest numbers, they are worrying-— latest numbers, they are wor inc. , ., worrying. they are, in new south wales _ worrying. they are, in new south wales the _ worrying. they are, in new south wales the state - worrying. they are, in new - south wales the state premier gladys berejiklian is reporting 18 new coronavirus infections in the past 2a hours, which means the cluster of infections here in australia's biggest city now sits around 130. these numbers may not be significant compared to other countries but in the australian context, they are significant and alarming. sydney now is into its second full day of a two—week lockdown that was ordered on saturday. awfully —— also locally acquired cases have been reported in western australia, the northern territory and queensland and it's worth pointing out that in th

having an adverse impact on our seas and oceans. study by the university of the sunshine coast in queensland, australia has found that waters are already too warm for some species to survive in tropical areas. the research highlights that oceans around the equator are much less rich and marine life than in previous decades. pre swimming fish, species in particular have shown a significant decline. we report now from mom bus, in kenya. coral reefs of the coast are dying at record rates. scientists are monitoring fish populations and recruiting local fishermen to help conserve endangered species. the reef looked the great. it was at least there are still fishes here. jo, ann coworker and her colleague pizza will still be visit the room some way ne, coral reef every 2 years to check up on this fragile ecosystem. that is where the life of the ocean layer. so that is where you find the really loving life. i love reading for the defense, letting life in the most of the by doesn't play day, but i live in 2 sides. concluded that we have 244 declining partners in the last 2 or 3 decades. and that is

australia as well, brisbane added to parts of queensland that will be entering a three-day lockdown as the delta variant continues to spread across the region. hong kong also stopping flights from the u.k.. southeast asia extended lockdowns. we are on the hook first these headlines. the s&p 500 marginally lower. we cut down to president xi's speech later. u.s. futures are lower. we did see a bond rally, particularly on the long end of the curve overnight. you are seeing bonds lower in australia, as they digest this covid news. we continue to watch oil sliding as the countdown to the opec+ meeting, there have been reports that they might have to heed the calls and add barrels to the market. aussie dollar is under a bit of pressure, we do see a bit of risk aversion into the yen, 110 .51. range-bound on the renminbi. beijing, at the great hall of people, 20,000 people expected to attend the speech of the president as he unearthed communist party members. this is the big event leading up to the bigger event happening on july 1. so we will continue to what those pictures when president xi j

so we'll see whether weather for south western areas of queensland and new south wales. by the time we get into thursday is wet weather on the way for sidney. but the temperature sits at around 20 degrees celsius as we go into the weekend. but there is wet weather on the way and southern areas of australia will also see that wet weather in new zealand that things have dried up, particularly in the south island. this was a scene in canterbury where those rains have now stopped and the flood waters are starting to recede. we've got a clean up operation happening there. but so much of the south island things looking dry and fine. it's down in the south that we will have a few showers and in the northern tip of the north island. but these are going to dry up as we go towards the weekend for china. it's also a pretty wet picture that may you front looking pretty intense to bring wet weather to the east coast as well. anti one seeing some of that much needed rain there, but for the korean peninsula things are looking pretty fine and funny 29 degrees in . so to similar story fo

we still caught that disturbance draped over the eastern portions of queensland, diving down a lot of wet weather for new zealand, and also been windy around the capitol region. we've seen gusts in wellington about 85 kilometers per hour as we had towards sunday. i think those winds will back off a bit 55 kilometers is that heavy rain now pushes toward the north island. but the thing is with wellington. we're going to keep these brisk winds. on tuesday, we tap into a southerly wind gusts of about 85 kilometers per hour. that's going to kick down your temperature to single digits below average asia pacific looks like this. we are tracking that tropical energy moving up the pacific. now it's starting to steer further toward the east, so it's not going to have as big of an impact on tokyo as we thought. we're now projecting about 25 millimeters of rain sunday into monday. ok, next we're going to the sub continent. and our monsoon rains, we're getting a bit of a breather. we're still going to keep rain along the west coast of india, but the heaviest will be toward the northeast. the china

we got a few showers into that eastern side of queensland over the next day or so. want to shout into our southern parts of south australia. we can also expect to see little bit of weather just rolling across the southwest corner there. and that'll run across through the byte pushing his way over towards adelaide as we go on through the next day or so. may even see a shower or 2 to port varied. the wooden bull, eastern parts of victoria should be largely dry by this date. notice the weather weather. there's some heavy rain for a time. moving across the south solid into the north island of new zealand. rather windy to go some rather wet weather, continued central parts of china. big area cloud here, the plum rains continue to not a little further north. so some heavy downpours and that wet weather will garage. he make his way over towards the yellow sea. the china sea will love to see some flooding on this, of course, as it makes his way out towards the open waters. bryce guys, africa time across the cramp an inch. the knotty, dry and bright too. for a good part of j

named after the creek in queensland is one of the largest ever found. reporter: meet a longnecked plant eating dinosaur around 30 meters long and up to six meters high at the hip. it round the earth more than 90 million years ago, it was discovered by chance into thousand four when a 14-year-old stumbled across what he thought was a rock in the australian outback. his discovery was the start of a journey to find australia's largest dinosaur and one of the biggest to run this earth. it is one of the top five largest in the world and they only one to have not been out in south america. australia is one of the most difficult places to find dinosaurs, unlike south america, it is mostly flat, and makes mountain ranges and canyons expose fossils by eroding rock. alien colleges have to dig deep to remove fossilized skeletons from the thick layer of sentiment. >> hs to be removed from the matrix. that takes a long time. h needs to be prepared. we use digital 3d technology to compare them. it is difficult when you have a 200 kilo. reporter: capturing bones has l

they're still into queensland in van paso crease. i can also see some sherry rain for a time for much of australia as per usual will be large, dry should be lost, dry into uneasy in this we go into the middle part of the week, but really is going to be a rather cloudy one. with some showers from time to time, more of the way of heavy showers longest both of rain as the central parts of china . meanwhile, looking at some big down pools, spilling out of the sea, the east trying to see running across southern parts of the korean peninsula. q she's seeing some very heavy rain as we go on through tuesday. that'll make his way a little further. reese was for wednesday quite a few showers coming in to haunt you think, atoka could see some rather wet weather. quite weather coming, backing behind for the korean peninsula. and once again, northern china. the faint, compelling story without uttering a single word. no english can guide a simple informa, young convent manatee of life. witness through the lens of the human eye. if morton bias the

a few showers into queensland.hould be largely dry as we go into the middle part of the week but it's going to be a rather cloudy one with some showers from time to time. the downpours spilling out running across southern parts of the korean peninsula. seeing some very heavy rain as we go on through tuesday. quite a few showers coming in. tokyo could see some rather wet weather. wet again for northern china. >> a face can tell a story without uttering a single word. a knowing glance can guide us. a simple touch inform us. the unconventionality of life. witness through the lens of the human eye is what inspires us. witness documentaries on al jazeera's. anchor: here is a reminder of the top stories. in the first nato summit attended by joe biden, leaders have presented a united front against china. they said beijing represent systemic challenges to the rules-based international order and alliance security. israel's new government has begun work the day after parliament approved the eight party coalition. one of the

wanted to shop for time into we're still friends of queens, barbara for much of queensland, much of australia does the settle and sunny could see one or 2 showers just to the south of perth as we go on through friday. honestly, the weekend maybe just brushing through the by using over towards the southeast corner as you go on through sandstone font size of that cooler where to started to set in to tasmania. as we go on through sas, they wet and windy weather coming in here could see some wet weather just around for just around the western pulse, victoria, maybe even to a little bit of a southeast of a south australia wet some windy weather will make its way across new zealand as we go through saturday on into sunday, brightest guys come back in behind. got wet weather, making its way across japan at the moment to some dry weather will grassy come back in. but not before we see the next batch of cloud and raised some heavy downpours links back to a seasonal range and we all succeed, some very heavy rain making his way across a good part of taiwan who's living in a war zone is a risk not worth

i knew dinosaurs, species discovered in southwest queensland has officially been recognized as the largest ever found in australia and among the biggest on earth. also the titan or southern titan dates back to between 92 and 96000000 years ago. it took painstaking excavations and the use of new digital technology to scan and compare its massive bones with those of other species. those headlines these continuous here and algebra after all, just a world goodbye. the news . ah, [000:00:00;00] i the i i wish i could eat in the day if it's not going to be open. and when julie failing can one us to factor in a clinic and a little late we took even from special needs. they are not the, the little kids can smell is only the only really good for you, necessarily know ness can look like like, i don't know those at all were yesterday it the way it was. a lot of the one is about it is always going to allow yeah, yeah, because we can't do that because we need to do a lot of july legal and leg was we be so i mean like any medical fees, that's what i was in . no, no, no. i ready. and you said you would h

things are looking wet across parts of queensland. torrential rains have fallen. we could see more.tinue to affect the coast of new south wales. inland -- inland, things are looking finer and dryer with plenty of sunshine. in new zealand, we see unsettled weather conditions, severe, heavy snow. we have a westerly wind blowing across the south violet, dumping lots of snow in the southern apls. -southern -- southern alps. some sunshine, managing to break through. it is a wet picture for east asia, with japan seeing much of the wet weather from the remnants of the typon. ♪ >> with a bang, energy and change came to every part of our universe. ♪ more small, it continues. >> change is all around us. ♪ shaped by technology and human ingenuity. we can make it work for you . . and your business. -- we can make it work for you and your business. ♪ ♪ barbara: a reminder now of the top stories on al jazeera -- the ethiopian government has declared an immediate cease-fire in the tigray region. the people's liberation front says that now controls the region's capital after ethiopian government ap

we've got a developing weather system across queensland that spring, some really wet weather to western areas of brisbin. we seen some flash flooding here. we could see more where those rains aren't particularly heavy. and it's a similar story for new south wales, both century and along the coastal area. we are going to see quite a bit of rain, but we've seen severe weather in new zealand. this was the scene in wellington, the state of emergency was declared. they had the worst title storms in. yes. now that weather is expected to ease, but we've got that polar wind blasting up on wednesday bringing plenty of snow icey conditions as we go into thursday that does these things do dry up for the south island, but things remain pretty wet for the north island with 12 degrees celsius in wellington . ah! for some a rowboat is a mechanic along or even that self driving train of the apple. but androids today can be over the humanoid. robots like me, will be everywhere. al jazeera documentaries, next laid on the weird and wonderful world of robot that learn think, feel, and even trust. i feel li

so that means that the dinosaurs we find all across central queensland come in potentially come from different time periods. so understanding what these animals where and how they lived eyes and just started. ah, this is all just here. these are the top stories vice president comma le house has one to migrate from central america considering the dangerous tract to the us. not to come. he's met guatemala as president and others leaders to discuss the spike and migration or next stop is mexico committee. hawker has more from guatemala capital. there is an acknowledgement from comm, la harrison. she spoke alongside the guatemala president at the national palace that she believe the reason people are making the desperate journey is because they feel they need to really harm or they can't satisfy basic needs. and that's why both leaders worked in a, in their bilateral meeting to discuss how they believe that they can encourage people to stay where they are in their homeland. they. and now that there would be an effort to combat not only human trafficking smuggling, but also the corruption

much of a straight font and dry one or 2 on shore showers there to central and northern parts of queensland, but for the most part it does look settled. he comes to a cold front live and that will continue to drive its way further eastwards. we'll see that pushing towards victoria as we go on 3 monday. cool. a southerly winds coming right in across the southern oceans then. and that's where we gonna see that snow just started to push into the fall, se, as we go into next, we have the shower, say continue across the new zealand, and whether, whether they're for the north island as we move into the early part of the new working week, wet weather now in the process of making his way across taiwan. this little storm try one continues to drive its way up to ward, but not quite hitting japan, those heavy showers. they will continue for taiwan. some showers a possibility into eastern parts of japan as well. but for much a central and southern china is dry. the o welcome to portal your gateway to the very best volunteers there. an online content that you may have met. a new program, the 5th through

so it's just a line of thunderstorms and coolish weather through queensland. but coming into the west side coming into purse in particular is a very active call from. that'll bring or to increase the feel of coolness any by $8900.00 degrees, but with wind and rain, it'll feel rather less than that. that's present west australia during monday. where's the sun comes out elsewhere? and this whole us dive down towards news into the full cast and you see this not particularly, but it may be not unusual admittedly, but this very strong winds in the northwest. always south found that north north albany particular looked wet during sunday with windy weather in wellington there is some improvement on monday, mostly wouldn't change and a rain lessening the on counting the call to focus on nigeria to recessions and for years growing and security and unemployment boil companies packing up and leaving even the thread of piracy in the gulf of getting little good. just what nigeria needs to do to confront its multiple challenges. counting the cost on al jazeera. oh, you want

now he didn't have the virus, but he's playing transferred in queensland, another state and that state required him to go into temporary hotel quarantine where he picked up the alissa curious strain of the covert bars and took that to the mine where he worked in the northern territory, the concern for that particular situation is that he worked in amount of 900 people and for 7 days it seemed he had coated without realizing. and those $900.00 people have all gone to other parts of the country. and so this is because these are the 4 cases that are in the northern territory, the community cases in the northern territory that until now hadn't had any community transmission on the days. so that's that look down. ok, sterling was celebrated for its initial response to the pandemic. now we've got these outbreaks happening, did that early success? maybe get the country a false sense of security? it may have, obviously a trailer was banking on this very strict quarantine that it had in place for new arrivals and had very strict caps on arrivals. and obviously these 2 cases have both been lakes

in the floating laugh. jonty horner is professor of astrophysics at the university of southern queensland. he says this launch is another win for china space program. it's incredible. the advances that have been met and i think china has, in the last 12 months or so really put itself front and center in space exploration . it's doing some remarkable things. and i think the thing that should come to me more than anything else is how successful it's being at the 1st attempt of doing everything we have. just last month. the arrival of china is mission tomorrow, which is the 1st time anybody's taken alonda and all the relevant together on the very 1st mission and go all of them working at the same time. fact. it's only the 2nd time to wonder the romance and how it work. but just seen it really well getting everything right. and the 1st attempt, which is incredible, but certainly the ban on us people, a lot of people interacting with people in china, poses challenges for research and challenges for ration. it is part of the reason that there was so much confusion concern when they rocked, re e

they'll be a few showers still into queensland inland parcel crease. i could also see some shabby rain for a time. for much of australia, as per usual will be largely dry, should be lossy dry into these. in this, we go into the middle part of the weight, but really it's going to be a rather cloudy one, with some showers from time to time, more the way of heavy showers longest. both of rain is essential parts of china. meanwhile, looking at some big down pool, spilling out to the sea, the east china sea running across southern parts of the korean peninsula, q shoes, sinks and very heavy rain as we go on through choose day. that'll make his way a little further east with for wednesday. quite a few shell is coming into hong sheila think atoka could see some rather wet weather, quiet weather coming, backing behind for the korean peninsula. and once again, northern china. the fame gala story without uttering a single word. and knowing gone, can go a simple informa young convent, manatee, of life. witness through the limbs of the human eye. by a witness docu

australia because we move east things are looking fine and dry plenty of sunshine coming through for queensland. and it's, it's the story from new south wales, a few showers, kissing the coast there. but victoria, sing lots of sunshine, but cooler here we could see some frosty starts to the morning as well. for tasmania got for the wet weather. we have to move across to new zealand. and this was the scene was wild weather occurred in oakland. we had a tornado touched on suspected tornado. it's a really strong wind heavy rains affecting areas there. and that weather is going to work its way down to the south island as we go into monday. but further south, the sunshine does come through and we'll have 11 degrees in christ church. the global pandemic, social unrest. a world under locked down brought to a need by the buyer. but now we have a window to like the path to a brighter future. coming to you live from doha. we bring together leaders from all corners of the globe and across all sides chalk away out of the join at the top, you can on the forums powered by bloom. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, h

and things are looking wet across parts of queensland. we have had some flooding to the west of brisbin where those torrential rains fall and we could see more and showers continued to effect the coast of new south wales. but inland things are looking a lot finer and dryer with plenty of sunshine and we hope across the tasman sea to new zealand. we've seen really unsettled weather conditions, severe gales and heavy snow. we've got a southwesterly wind blowing up across the south island, and that's dumping lots of snow on the southern out as we move into when say those things do ease, the cloud will remain, but temperatures pick up into the early teens with some sunshine managing to break through and it's still a very wet picture for east asia with japan seeing much of the wet weather from the remnants of typhoon champagne. ah, a faith compelling story without uttering a single word, the convention manatee, of life. witness through the lens of the human eye. on $20.00 o be the hero, the world. ah marsha, in. ah, me. this is al jazeera. ah

the deputy premier of queensland saidwe have been saying for months and months and months now that hotel covid into our country and into our communities. the government has said that they are planning on keeping the hotel quarantine in place until 2022. and today they made the following changes in an attempt to secure it. for mandatory post quarantine testing, for return travellers and close contacts, 2—3 days after travellers have finished their quarantine period. further, we will be, we have agreed to ensure we are accommodating international quarantine residents or other high infectious risk quarantine residents from other low—risk residents. we agreed for mandatory vaccination and testing all quarantine workers and oil workers directly and indirectly involved in manage quarantine, including workers involved in the transport of quarantined individuals and the reasons for that regarding recent experience i think is fairly self—evident. but long term the plan from the government and other experts is vaccination. but as we've heard earlier the vaccine rollout in australia has been very l

restrictions to a less extent in queensland and western australia . will be significant. it is probably too early to put a number on it but -- number on it. haidi: you tends to link the performance for the handling of the virus situation to the political ruling. despite controversy over the g7 attendance and activities in the u.k. that did not play out well when it comes to the borders still being closed but him going on trips, despite that we are seeing the latest opinion poll seeing the primary vote is unchanged but the prime minister's increased by three percentage points approval rating. so he is for now managing to maintain support. shery: it is interesting. we have seen a lot of criticism in japan about the slow vaccination rollout but now that they are having faster vaccinations a nikkei poll shows approval for the government has increased. still, many are not happy with hosting the olympics and 37% of the population says they should postpone or cancel. so more japanese are willing to get vaccinated if vaccines become available. so interesting

the universe city of southern queensland, he says the columbia disaster is part of a much bigger global problem. the long term concern, he says the plastics break up so i can remove them from the beach from the city is in fact it will in impact on the food chain right from father point them and do a blanket and then the actual a lot of many marine species that form the basis of the whole food chain and then from the concentration can occur. the disaster is actually been going probably for a lot longer than people realize decades. this is just a long line of problems that have occurred as we have used plastics. very durable plastics for a use industrially and domestic use. but unfortunately, we're not recycling these plastics at the right that we can keep them out of the sea wise and the water wise. so yes, it is a very obvious incident, but it's part of a much bigger problem. the density of mice. plastics is light in the water, which means i tend to flight not sink and this is where moraine life can absorb them as, as part of the food chain. so i mean removing the as many of the plastic

hello, nice to see we have had some thunderstorms toward that se, australia, new south wales into queensland as well. and some of these have been severe, but the bulk of that energy now off toward the tasman seats. now on friday, here's our weather pitcher just some showers skirting toward the se, but look at this disturbance. i'll move your head now towards saturday because we're going to see a brush up against new south wales is going to pick up the winds and we do have a bit of rain to come as well. so we look at sydney, we could see wind gusts on saturday, up to 75 kilometers per hour, expecting about 10 millimeters of rain. now that same disturbance is going to swing wet weather 1st to the north island and then the south island of new zealand. and here we go on saturday, we're going to have a big impact. forgive spend, want to show you the 3 day forecast here because look at this wind, us could approach 80 kilometers per hour. the winds will ease on monday, but we'll see them pick rate back up on tuesday for se, asia, it looks like this will get some spells of sun in here. but then we'v

circumstances, these families types, but one thing that is very well known is the community in queensland where we're living in the community is very kind of back that were making a great contribution in that community. and instead of striving government is taking this, this extraordinary approach are spending countless millions of dollars to the time them to ship them to christmas island, to hold them in detention there. pretty standard periods of time despite the distress of causes, despite the evidence that we had really decades of the mental hom that it causes into place children in that position to proofpoint. frankly, it is really the, it's, it's, it's an extraordinary situation and it's just too late. to the family and now entertain since i've not been to the center, but i've seen i've seen the images and i certainly read the reports about, you know, design it is a detention center with right awards. it's set up to the i will to have a higher level of security. and one of the recommendations of the human automation is made in this report is that it be clients, it's not suitable for

but and that'll run up to was at east side of queensland. still pretty cool in the mornings for rep will be getting up to about 23 on monday. so the west got wet weather for some parts of w way. the weather bag, energy and change to every part of our universe. more small to continue the change all around the shape. my technology and human ingenuity can make it work for you and your bill. ah, the ah, open back you're watching. i'll just hear a time to recap our headlines now. it's the 3rd and final day of the g 7 summit in the u. k. in the hours ahead, 7 world leaders are expected to outline planned. panko climate change is ready politicians all to hold a vote of confidence on a new government that could unseat benjamin netanyahu. it's an alliance of the 8th parties that includes the right the left hand for the 1st time, a palestinian israeli. pompey, algeria is electro commission says more than 30 percent of voters, took part in parliamentary elections. leaders of the recent month long protest had called for a buyer call. in iran, campaignin

long reef since 2015. selina award is a marine biologist and senior lecturer at the university of queensland. she says the great barrier reef needs urgent attention. very bad news for astronomy or of course we have not wanted the great barrier reef on the danger list, but also not terribly surprising. given the threats to the great barrier at the moment, the starting government has not been taking action guy need to on climate change. and whilst they can't solve the problem themselves, obviously they do need to take stronger action. so they could certainly say that coming. and whilst we've had great improvements in the funding for water quality on the great barrier reef and including new money in the most recent state government budget, we really need to do more in that field as well. that means making very definite decisions on climate change. not heading towards supporting the fossil fuel industry in this country and new coal mine guest development. none of those things are going to help climate change, but also taking as much action as we possibly can on improving water quality for the gr

undress helwig, a seni electra and electro mechanical engineering at the university of southern queensland. he's conducting research into the impact of micro plastics in waterways . good to have with his address as an expert. how concern to you about the situation here is this an environmental disaster? this is a continuing process where we're leaking plastics into the ocean and river range waterways. and yes, it doesn't impact the food chime, the long term concern. he says the plastics break up. so i can remove them from the beach or from the city. is infected will in impact on the food chain right from farther point them and do a blanket and then the actual la bio, many marine species that form the basis of the hall for china and see how the concentration can occur. the disaster is actually been going probably for a lot longer than people realize decades. this is just a long line of problems that have occurred as we have used plastics. very durable plastics for a use industrially and domestic use. but unfortunately, we're not recycling these plastics at the right. we can keep them out of

australia because we move east things are looking fine and dry. plenty of fun shine coming through for queensland. and it's, it's the story from new south wales, a few showers, kissing the coast there. but victoria, sing lots of sunshine, but cooler here we could see some frosty starts to the morning as well. for tasmania got for the wet weather. we have to move across to new zealand. and this was the scene was wild weather occurred in oakland. we had a tornado touched on suspected notice a really strong wind heavy rains affecting areas there. and that weather is going to work its way down to the south island as we go into monday. but further south, the sunshine does come through and we'll have 11 degrees in christ church. ah. but it goes from one is a home was kept was what rooms were made, it turned into a nightmare of a rest in georgia by johnson footballing legend, eric kent introduce his cloud. your temporary, one of the special few stood up for their beliefs. whatever that cost football rebels on al jazeera. oh a welcome back is a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera, iran's hard line