coded 19 that says millions of americans travel ahead of the thanksgiving holiday this week. rosalind jordan is lifeless from washington d. c. so rosalind, how can, how much concern is this about the public health given this is the, the biggest travel day of the year in the u. s. and cases of already been resign rising the fall and that's right. a public health experts are generally telling americans to a use all of the precautions at hand get vaccinated. wash your hands, maintain social distance, wear a mask whenever and wherever possible, in order to protect the more vulnerable to protect those who have not yet been vaccinated, either because they're too young, or they have a pre existing health condition, or thereof, you know, have some other reasons why they're not vaccinated, but because the travel levels are coming back to a close to what they were 2 years ago at thanksgiving time, there is a concern that cases are going to be a spiking of that we might be at the beginning of a 5th serge of new coven cases here in the united states. just in the last 14 days, cases are up about 25 perce

texas worth $17000000000.00 construction set to begin next year with operations to start in 2024. rosalind jordan joins us live from washington, d. c. so was the, what more we learned about this? well, this is the uh, sunken facility for samsung in the austin, texas area. austin, of course, is the capital of the state of texas. and that facility that samsung has had in that city has been there for about 25 years. this facility is going to be much larger. it's going to be located in a small suburb about 30 minutes away from downtown. it's going to comprise some 5000000 square meters, and it should hire between 1502000 people. once the plant is open for a business. now this is also going to bring about $6000.00 jobs in related construction and so re cost. during the construction period, but in a state of 29000000 people, that's a drop in the bucket. that said, this is the single largest of foreign investment in the state of texas as history added bank. so good on a promise that to both a state officials and federal officials have said about trying to bring manufacturing back to the united states. s

does not recognize the taliban government as rosalind jordan reports from washington. when the afghan government fell to the taliban in august, the u. s. relied on its military and on cutter to evacuate, americans and afghans at risk. nearly 3 months later, washington and doha, are formalizing a collaboration born out of crisis. cutter will establish a u. s. intersection within its embassy in afghanistan to provide certain costs for services and monitor the condition, security of u. s. diplomatic facilities in afghanistan. the 2nd agreement formalize is our partnership with cutter to facilitate the travel of afghans with us special immigrant visas. the last of the u. s. embassy officials left cobble on august 31st . so it's been very difficult for the state department to get passports and visas to us and afghan citizens. now, country officials and cobble will fill that void more important. they'll act as a go between for the taliban and the biden administration. the cutlery, foreign minister says the agreement will help advance another u. s. cutter priority supporting

a call to action to protect those who thought they knew the risks that came with their jobs. rosalind jordan elders, era, washington, colonel, man, you can always catch up at any time on our website. it is that is al jazeera dot com ah top stories around to 0. the new and potentially more transmissible variant of corona virus has continued to spread with cases now found in more than 10 countries . health officials around the world say on the crone which has been called a variant of concern is likely to be far more prevalent than that president of south africa where the variant was 1st identified says it could be linked to a stock rise in infections and criticize the imposition of travel vans we are deeply disappointed by the decision of several countries to prohibit travel from a member of sodom, african countries including our own following the identification of the army corn variant. this is a clear and completely unjustified departure from the commitment that many of these countries made at the meeting of the g. 20 countries in rome last month. cases have now been found him on 10 countrie

thanks so much. rosalind jordan. now the powerful head of a sudanese paramilitary units has been made the deputy head of the new sovereign council. i'm at ham than the gallow retains the position he held in the recently dissolved council sedans, military ousted the civilian government, 2 weeks ago. the stablished a new routing buddy sco live to have a move in, in cartoons a. how are people digesting the news of the new appointment by of the gala? yes, well people have been protesting since the decree came out that the sovereignty counsel will be made up of general abdel for the hon as well as that glow as well as of the military members. they've been protesting against the whole formation of the sovereignty council. now they believe that this is a step further in the military take over, especially because members of the forces of freedom and change coalition. the coalition that represented the protest movement have not been included in the sovereignty counsel. now we've seen protests on thursday when the announcement

i'll state department correspondent rosalind jordan has spoken to one of the earliest victims of what's become known as havana syndrome. cia officer mark palmer, romulus, went to moscow in 2017, for meetings with russian intelligence officials. paula morales never thought he'd come back to the us with a career ending traumatic brain injury. it's been 4 years of a 247 headache, which is, you know, not always a painful, physically, but just in from a mental health perspective. it's pretty, it's pretty debilitating. so while i've gotten better now, because the treatment i received at walter reeves, national, intrepid center of excellence, starts on the world's leading traumatic brain injury programs. i'm still not there yet. i'm still suffering. paula marolla says he woke up in his hotel room, dizzy ears ringing and suffering. a neverending migraine, a year earlier. diplomats at the u. s. embassy, and havana reported similar symptoms. at 1st, the u. s. government considered the cases anomalies, but 5 years later, at least 200 u. s. government officials and some of their relatives are strug