u. s. group of an espionage campaign against countries involved in the dispute. over fishing and mineral rights, the south china seas territorial dispute is seen as the next security flash point in asia. beijing's illegal reclamation and growing military expansion have angered other claim in countries like indonesia, vietnam, and the philippines, who are the q states of blatantly violating international law. but china's stands accused once again, this time by a global research group, which says it found evidence that the chinese government may be sponsoring espionage operations on several governments across se, asia. the group recorded future says it's been able to identify what it describes as 400 online servers located in southeast asia. communicating with an online infrastructure connected to chinese state sponsored actors by using a custom malware to attack governments and private organisation websites in the region. among the targets, our malaysia's ministry of defense and the royal militia, police, as well as vietnam's ministry of environment and central of

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u. s. christian group was missionaries were kidnapped in haiti, says the group escaped captivity and says 12 people travel through forests walking for 16 kilometers. the ohio based organization confirmed it was raising funds for ransom payments, but it's not clear if they were paid a gang kidnapped the group in mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 for each 1st. now the number of people killed in the strongest typhoon to the philippines. this year surged to $375.00. another 500 have been injured and at least 56. i'm missing the dinner. got islands were at the epicenter and of jamila. allan doug reports survivors a desperate for drinking water and food? this is central st. dinner, good island, a town which bore the brunt of super typhoon rice fury on thursday. what was once a thriving coastal community? now desolate? ma maritza and you're on the, you're to ring and have been living here for more than 50 years. a home the built to raise a family. this is all what's left of it live on very long for to like i own. when, when you know that they phone was very strong and we went downstai

u. s. christian group whose missionaries were kidnapped in haiti, says the group escaped captivity as 12 people travel to forest walking for 16 kilometers. a gang kidnapped the group in mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 ransom for each person. with that you are up to date with the headlines on al jazeera, the latest edition of inside story is next. ah, how can only crawl be stopped from spreading the very end of the covey 19th virus is infecting millions worldwide. many countries are imposing emergency restrictions . some are even returning to locked down, or is it enough? this is inside story. ah. hello, welcome to the program. i'm hash and i had bhalla, the global search in covey 19 cases linked to the army cranberry, and is forcing some nations to re impose strict lockdown measures. days before the holiday season begins, the netherlands was the 1st european country to impose a nationwide locked down on sunday. others are falling sir to try to slow the spread of omicron, france, austria, cypress, and germany have tightened. travel restrictions, some even cancelling christmas

u. s. missionary group has confirmed the release of fits american and canadian missionaries where it could not in haiti, they were abducted by criminal gang just outside the capital port au prince. in october, several of the hostages were released in recent weeks. the gang members had demanded a $1000000.00 ransom for each hostage. she returns he's joining us in washington dc . so what more do we know about how this came about? as for how it came about, it's not entirely clear. we knew that the f b, i were involved and the state department said that they were in touch of the highest levels of haitian government asian police were involved. and in fact, there was an interesting, interesting statement from a congressman in michigan some to some of the congregation. some of these missionaries were actually from michigan. and he said, i want to thank members of the hostage negotiation team for that diligence and securing the safe release of all the hostages. this was apparently a negotiated release, which was to be expected perhaps beyond that. we've never really had a breakdown of who have bee

u. s. christian group whose missionaries were held hostage for months in haiti say they were not released. they escaped the groups as the 12 hostages travel through forest. after slipping postcards on december, the 15th a gang kidnapped the group mid october. i went demanding a $1000000.00 for each person a blunder of epic proportions, those the words of the prosecutor to describe the fatal actions of the us former police officer who shot and killed a black motorist. kimberly porter pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, saying she meant to use her taser, but drew her gun and shot dante, right. john, 100 reports now from minneapolis. tragic accident or manslaughter. those are the choices for the jury. now weighing the fate of former police officer kimberly potter, i answer you realize this case is important and serious. and therefore gesture shall careful consideration. we will await your verdict. potter says she mistook her gun for her taser when she fatally and accidentally shot dante, right? prosecutors say she knew wrong from right and should have known left from right when she pulled th

u. s. christian group whose missionaries the kidnapped in haiti, says the group escaped captivity as 12 people travel through the forest walking for 16 kilometers. the ohio based organization confirmed it was raising funds for ransom payments. that's not clear. if they were, i should paid a gang kidnapped to the group in mid october and when demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. when they sent the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow and quickly left. the place that they were hel, despite the fact that numerous guards were close by. the jury's deliberating and the trial of a former u. s. police officer involved in the shooting of a black motorist. kimberley potter broke down in court last week while testifying about the death of dante wright, she has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, saying she meant to use her tazer, but drew her gun instead and opened fire. john hendern has moved from minneapolis. tragic accident or manslaughter. those are the choices for the jury, now weighing

u. s. christian group whose missionaries were held hostage for months in haiti, says that they were not released. they escaped the rope, says the 12 hostages traveled through forest after living pass guards on december, the 15th again kidnapped the group mid october and were demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. ah, your charges there with me. so hell, rommel, a reminder of our top stories, the restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea following a rise in covey. 19 infections, health workers, a warning of a major crisis as hospitals are stretched with new records.

u. s. missionary group has confirmed a release if it's american and canadian missionaries cabinets in haiti, they were abducted just outside the capital porto prince. in october, several of the hostages were released in recent reached the associated press of calling on the if you open government immediately release of freelance video journalist detained 2 weeks ago, a mere amman kiara was arrested in the capital. i have about accused of promoting terrorism. the a p says the allegations are baseless. those are the headlines inside story is coming up next right here. and i'll just terrible, i ah, ah ah, ah, tensions of the west push russia and china closer together. their lead is hail, what they call a model of cooperation from the 21st century for the us and its allies is suspicious. so is this sort of a new cold war for global leadership? this is inside store. ah . hello or if the program i'm wrong, con the u. s. europe and their allies in the west often portray russia and china is threats to global peace. they cite examples including russia's troop build up along the border with ukraine. a

u. s. christian group whose missionaries were kidnapped and haiti says the group escaped captivity, says 12 people travel through forests walking for 16 kilometers. the ohio based organization confirmed it was raising funds for ransom payments. but it's not clear if they were paid again, kidnapped the group in mid october and would demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. when they sent the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow and quickly left. the place that they were hel, despite the fact that numerous guards were close by the former ukrainian president pet report a shanker, is being investigated over his suspected support of russian back rebels in east and done. thus. offices from the state bureau of investigations tried to subpoena polish and go on thursday. they accuse him of buying $7000000.00 with coley through state on companies, from areas controlled by the separatists when he was an office. but a shank. those lawyers describe the cases unique nonsense the state of novel and in

u. s. christian group whose missionaries were held hostage for months in haiti say that they were not released. they escaped the groups as the 12 hostages, travel through forests. after slipping past guards on december, the 15th a gang kidnapped the group mid october and went demanding a $1000000.00 for each person. when they sent the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow and quickly left the place that they were hell. despite the fact that numerous guards were close by a blunder of epic proportions, those of the words of the prosecutor to describe the fatal actions of a former police officer who shot and killed a black motorist. kimberly porter pleaded not guilty to manslaughter, saying that she meant to use her taser but to hug gun and shot dante right. john 100 has more from minneapolis. tragic accident or manslaughter. those are the choices for the jury now weighing the fate of former police officer. kimberly potter, i answer you realize this case is important and serious, and therefore to

28 states to restrict educational racism bias and the contributions of specific racial ethnic groups to u. s. history related topics. which becomes doubly shocking when you realize that the united states, as we know it, is a nation of immigrants, then they tracked 15 states that are trying to expand educational racism, bias in the contributions of specific racial or ethnic groups to u. s. history or related topics. there is the debate. there is the debate, nicole, that you and your collaborators started in conversation 2 years ago and continuing conversation. now, what happened? what was the impact of the project? well, the impact of the project has in ways good and bad exceeded everything that we could have possibly imagined. i think every journalist hopes that you will produce journalism that has a larger of societal impact and that gets people to really think and what this project was intentionally trying to do was unsettle our mythology about what the america is. what america was founded upon, you know, i don't have to tell your international audience that many americans believe in this

u. s. democrats are losing support from a key group of voters, as polls show that the hispanic population is shifting, the republicans will tell you why they're unhappy among all stories. after the break and ah, we've talked about the rising chance of civil war and america, and it could either be between the ab yachts and the have nots. it could be between the big coin states like texas or florida, between the non bitcoin states. but the rising tension is comparable because the rising genie coefficient as is found a spread between the very top and the and the bottom is getting extremely why many was full, the delta would be the sort of p i did. well, you're not going to get a car. sure. anymore, transmissible than delta and not what's happened. you got something which is popped up with more than 30 changes in that spike protein that we're all interested in. it's accumulated, all the mutations we've seen in different varies all in one bar. and that raises some very interesting issues about where did it come from in the 1st place. is it possible to get even more me what's going to happen in

u. s. foothold in iraq, no matter what the role is, a pro iranian onward group sounded this warning, and the mulatto hurtled. what the in her toilet in any u. s. military prisons in the country is considered an occupation model. we will go by asked number 51 of the when char, sir, which gives nations the right to resist any military prisons on valence the fore. we will take up arms and fight them along. as we did before, harry on the telephone, the conflict has escalated since the killing of an iranian commander class, him slay manny, nab or madden mohandas, a leader of iraq sci popular mobilization forces. and he as to june, attack near baghdad, 8th port last january. that triggered the iraq's house of representatives to pass a resolution demanding the old foreign troops leave the country. u. s. personnel, along with coalition forces used several military bases across iraq. since the u. s . led invasion in 2003 to depose saddam hussein. the foreign forces played a major role in the fight against i. sil, which occupied some parts of a rock before its defeat in 2017. now, with the resurge

u. s. and a group of $22.00 other countries, including many even states have condemned the taliban for a legit killings and forced disappearances of former members of the afghan security forces as follows, a report by human rights watch that documented the killings or the disappearances of $47.00 former military personnel and more than $100.00 government officials, the taliban says the incidents will be thoroughly investigated. and that is committed to granting amnesty to former afghans soldiers. rob mcbride has more on that joint statement from cobble all stems from the human rights report that came out last week. detailing the cases of more than a 100 members of the full, the security of forces of the previous administration. that since the takeover by the taliban have either been killed, it says or have simply disappeared. now it says says that these were carried out over a period of weeks that sometimes the taliban would have been using employment records to track down these form members. or in some cases it said, actually trick them into coming forward to claiming i'm the state only to id

u. s. christian ministry group says that ransom money was raised to pay for the release of american and canadian missionaries kidnapped in the country. but that they eventually escaped on their own groups as 12 people fled in the middle of the night, 2 months after being abducted, following an orphanage visit near the haitian capital user. their freedom came out last week, 5 others who were taken at the same time, had been freed in recent weeks. question a ministries, groups as funds were raised to be used as ransom. but they did not say if any of it was actually paid. the gang had demanded a $1000000.00 per person. when they sent the timing was right, they found a way to open the door that was closed and blocked, filed silently to the path that they have chosen to follow and quickly left the place they were hill. despite the fact that numerous guards were close by, well, now to the philippines, where the number of people killed in a strongest typhoon, take the country this year has surged to 375. another 500 have been injured and at least 56 are missing. but in remote areas, these figu

u. s. iraq. his prime minister muscle cousin is facing increasing pressure from army groups and their political wings, which are allied to iran. they reject any u. s. foothold in iraq. no matter what the role is, a pro iranian onward group sounded this warning, and the mulatto hurtled. what the in her to it in any u. s. military prisons in the country is considered an occupation, but we will go by asked number 51 of the wing chair, sir, which gives nations the right to resist any military presence on valence the fore. we will take up arms and fight them along as we did before. harry, on the telephone, the conflict has escalated since the killing of an iranian commander classroom sleigh manny. now bomb added more hand is a leader of iraq, so popular mobilization forces. and he as the june attack need, but that a port last january that triggered the iraq's house of representatives to pass a resolution demanding the old foreign troops leave the country. u. s. personnel, along with coalition forces used several military bases across iraq. since the u. s . led invasion in 2003 to depose saddam hussein. th

but from another angle. western human rights groups criticize u. s. companies sponsoring events, including air b and b, coca cola and general electric i from wellness, i'm joined by dexter roberts, he's a journalist and senior fellow with the atlantic council. he's author of the miss the myth of a chinese capitalism. dexter is going to have you on the show. let's start with since time this debut plan for us capital markets, like many companies wanting to go to the biggest capital markets in the world, ending up in hong kong because the span should we expect to see more companies, more chinese companies. choosing this route, whether out of the, whether being forced from one side or the other. yeah, absolutely. we're going to see a lot more. we already saw your recall earlier in the month. the announcement by d. t global, the ride healing company, china, china is right here in company. it's announcement that it was the listing. it's going to the list from the exchange in new york and list in hong kong, presumably. and we've got pressures like that, lik

u. s. and other group turf and of western nations, i'm sorry, have condemned the taliban for alleged killings and forced disappearances. a former members of the afghan security forces. as after a report from human rights watch, documented killings or disappearances of 47 former military personnel rob mcbride in cobble with more on this one. tell us about this joint statement. first of all, rob. that's right. it is a been signed by many countries. it's a been put forward by the u. s, but signed by the u. k. members of the e u at 19 other nation. so it is a broad ranging condemnation. all stems from this human rights report that came out last week, detailing the cases of more than a 100 members of the a for the security of forces of the previous administration. that since the takeover by the taliban have either been killed, it says or have simply disappeared. now it says says that these were were carried out over a period of weeks. at some times the taliban would have been using employment records to track down these former members, or in some cases it says actually trick them into coming forwa

u. s. and a group of 20 other western nations of condemned the taliban for suspected killings and false disappearance as a former african security for service. this is offer report for human rights watch, documented the killings or disappearance of 47 former military personnel and more than a 100 government officials from brian has more on that joint statement from campbell all stems from the human rights report that came out last week detailing the cases of more than a 100 members of the full, the security of forces of the previous administration. that since the takeover by the taliban have either been killed, it says or have simply disappeared. now it says says that these words were carried out over a period of weeks that sometimes the taliban would have been using employment records to track down these form members. or in some cases it said actually trick them into coming forward to claiming i'm the only to identify themselves, give themselves away, and then to be targeted. now, these allegations are not particularly new. we have had a number of allegations of human rights abuses of potentially wa

support for capital punishment among people in japan, despite criticism from human rights groups and former u. s. president donald trump was heckled at an event when he declared he had received a coven 19th booster shot. he dismissed the hecklers as a very tiny group while on stage with conservative talk, show host bill o'reilly in dallas. got it. okay, so weather forecasters here in europe aren't offering much hope of a white christmas for most parts of the continent, but temperatures are still cold enough to live in the senses of those brave enough to go for a winter swim in switzerland. thousands took part in a traditional pre christmas dip in frigid waters. oh, baby, it's cold outside, but for some geneva that means it's time for a swim. the brave bared their skin in record numbers at this year's christmas cup. after last year's event was cancelled due to the pandemic, over 3000 signed up for a chance at glory and frozen toes to certain moral, pre gone, manifest. this is certainly the biggest winter swimming event in the world. i saw the phenomenon of getting together and releasing your joy.

u. s. has sent its 1st group of asylum seekers back to mexico after a controversial trump. here a policy was reinstated, president joe biden suspended the remain in mexico program on his 1st day in office . but then a lawsuit forced him to put it back into effect. human rights advocates have raised safety concerns about those being forced back into mexico. amera chattering reports desperate for answers. these migrants have been waiting for months for their applications to be processed. they're searching for safety and a better life. their proposal. now, there are people like me, you can go back because we have suffered a lot of violence in our country. we have internal law, and if we go back, we will die. we have decided to wait and see what happens and see what decisions the u. s. government will take us president joe biden suspended the remain in mexico program, cooling it in humane, but a court order has forced it to be reinstated form the president. donald trump used to the policy then known as the migrant protection protocols to send more than 70000 asylum applicants b

u. s. or the u. k. daniel group you came to was that was president put in speaking earlier today, like to reach out now to hire ted whittaker, for he is a green member of the european parliament and he sits on the foreign affairs committee. sir, thank you very much for your time. i don't know if he had the opportunity to listen to that sound bite that we just played from president vladimir putin. he does not see nato as a force for good for him. this is an existential threat when you listen to what he say, do you think his rhetoric is justified? the resurrect that president putin has been employing is very interesting. because he seems to imply that russia wants to reverse the developments of the last decades. when he talks about poland and other countries being integrated into nato, it, it seems as if he wants to pursue a policy to reverse that, to change that historical result. and of course, that is not acceptable. and it's, i think it's, it's also a very, very interesting that even though the immediate pressure

u. s. says that it will provide 7 global aid groups with an additional $580000000.00 to fight cove. at 19, later on tuesday, president biden will announce plans to provide 500000000 free, rapid home test kits for americans. the restrictions on gatherings and businesses in south korea following a rise in coven 19 infections, their health work as a warning of a major crisis. as hospitals. a stress with you reco daily cases on the head of the high national elections commission and libya says he's dissolving the electoral committees and ending that work presidential. a presidential election was scheduled for december 24th rebels from ethiopia to glide regions say that they've completely pulled back from am hata and the far regions in the north. but to gray people's liberation front says that it's a strategic withdrawal aimed a piece. they won't be inst, national community to put pressure on the government to halt its military operation and to cry. i'll just there is priyanka groups are reports after weeks of making advances, a significant setback, one that could alter the course of a fe

s. so groups, pegasus tool being used to hack american official. now last week the u. s. congress department blacklisted s. so group and another israeli fir, mcandrew alleging the companies provide spyware to foreign governments intending to target journalist embassy workers activists and other back in november, apple filed a lawsuit against and a so group in its parents, company o s y technologies for targeting i phone users with pegasus spyware. so let's go ahead and dig deeper into this story as cybersecurity has been front center this year, with morgan wright, chief security advisor at no one and former senior advisor to the us state department, anti terrorism assistance program. now, morgan, i mean, it seems like this spyware, developed by and so group has been extremely controversial since that came on the feed. what do we need to know about pegasus and how it was used in this situation? so this peg us, the software is to zeros. it's uses 0 day exploits, entered, involved 0 touch infections. in fact, one of the ways they did this in this case base and a specially

u. s. support in combating the disease. he has a now's $580000000.00 to groups like eunice half as well as the world health organization to assist in getting shots in arms. he'll recall that the u. s. is already given were the 330000000 doses to a 110 countries in order to try and combat as vaccine inequality as part of the co vax program. but now the united states going a step further, knowing that it's not enough to supply the doses, but those doses need to be administered. so this is what some of that funding will work to combat. and as you're talking back, kimberly, as your point of view, as we're looking on the right side of the screen life pictures coming in from washington d. c. bow showing, some of the testing that's going on. and speaking of testing is going to be an issue that joe biden, we'll talk about later as a day, right. putting the focus on testing and vaccination rather than on restriction and locked out. it's a pillar of the president's winter strategy that he's updating as a result of the i'm a crime variant that is now counting for about 3 q

u. s. pro western campaign groups either early was about democracy then you know, some countries like columbia and some african countries and others that are very on democratic would not have been invited to this conference. so the proper way of understanding this is that somebody for democracy is just a catchy term or covering upwards, really about and that is developing coordinated strategies. and, but i think undermining the summit's intention really is the fact that the usa is in no position to convene a summit on democracy in the last year or 2. united states has intervened illegally to subvert democratic elections in numerous countries from bolivia to nicaragua, to honduras. and of course, in venezuela, where they even went so far as to recognize a fake president part of the ideology and how you were got to label and personify these countries is not done or cry, democratic not in order to justify some of the policies dealing with them, or will empire no deals with these aberrant countries here in a number of ways, you know, economically, financially, imperialism going on. and then the us

u. s . stepped up its commitments in the fight against alma cron pledging over half a $1000000000.00 to aid groups. meanwhile, in the u. k, some holiday celebrations a cancelled as the daily death toll rises dramatically. a surprise move 5 ahead of libya's electoral commission raises doubts about where the friday's vote will go ahead. and rebels in ethiopia say there, withdrawing from some territory, colon the world to pressure the government. and in sport, the president of african football confirms the carpet nations will go ahead as plant a commons. come after doubts have been raised that the tournament daily held in cameroon would be postponed, or even council. ah, we begin this news out with the latest on the pandemic. his case is serge rapidly across the world. this is mainly driven by the more infectious on the con variant, the number of daily deaths in the u. k. for example. well, that's almost quadruple the in just 24 hours. there were a 172 deaths reported on tuesday up from 44 on monday. it's too early to say whether that jump represents a trend or just as this is to go blip the us. well

the on group is based in eastern congo and has pledged allegiance, ty, so the u. s. and tyler bond concluded 2 days of meetings here and quarter where they discussed the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. the taliban has asked the us to unfreeze assets and remove sanctions. us is calling on the taliban to ensure the rights of afghans and form an inclusive government. the united nations says more than half of all afghans are suffering from acute food shortages. this winter, a sudanese security forces have used to gas against thousands of pro democracy demonstrators rallying and cartoon protest as continue to demand a full transition to civilian rule. videos emerge, showing police writing a hospital in khartoum and arresting an activist seeking medical attention. the red cross responded to the right saying hospitals should be protected. hundreds of people in the libyan capital protested upcoming presidential elections. they calling for them to be postponed until a constitutional referendum takes place. first round of voting is set for december 24th. the u. s. has offi

u. s. has called the actions of china against this ethnic group genocide. so the united states sending a very clear message, the white house press secretary confirming that no diplomats or official delegation will be attending the winter. olympics said by new ministration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the beijing 2022 winter olympics and paralympic games given the peer scenes, ongoing, genocide and crimes against a humanity engine. john and other human rights abuses. the athletes on team usa have our full support, will be behind them 100 percent as we tear them on from home. we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. this isn't the 1st time the united states has sent a message or protested government policies of another nation. in fact, back in 1980, we saw full boy cod of the united states athletes, not participating in the moscow olympics. if european government forces of one more battlefield victories against rebels from little feet to grand people's liberation, front or t p l f appears to be retreating and on t