The u. S. A. House of representatives, paul says a 1. 00 trillion dollars social spending bill, who is president joe biden, meanwhile, heads for his annual medical checkup, meaning vice president. Com la harris will make history and temporarily whole president ial power. European government scramble to take drastic measures as covert 19 infections approach new hives. Ah, that a Russian Security forces have cleared a makeshift camp on the border with poland. Officials, a hundreds moved voluntarily to a reception center. The western borders of belarus remain essentially sealed off thousands of my consent. Refugees, including children, had been stuck in freezing conditions at the border. Fort days i said bag has more now from healthcare on the polish side of the border with belarus. If people managed to cross the border, their face, this dense, ancient fries were standing inside. What the polish government says is the exclusion zone that they have created at the state of emergency. Now people are still managing to cross that border no matter how many forces poland has put under some 14000. But when they get here, they still face some great challenges. There are check points earned by military border force and police. And throughout this friday you can see signs that people have passed through very recently. Here is a thermal blanket on the floor. Next, just over there, we have her some medicine. We have some clothes that people have changed out of. And what it shows is that no matter how many forces and how many are, are Border Forces are on that, are on that border with better roost. People are still making it across, theyre determined to get into poland and the European Union. And across this forest, we could take, 020 steps in that direction or to the right of me. We found clothes, paperwork, medicines, thermal blankets and signs that people are continuing to make it through. Sometimes its spent a week, a few days, a number of weeks hiding inside the forest as they attempt to make it in to the European Union. Weve also heard from natos secretary general, who says the situation is deeply concerning. The situation out the border o belarus with polen, but also littering are and the latter is deeply concerning. The lucretia uncle. So shame use or Vulnerable People as means to put pressure on other countries or is cynical an in her main natal stands in full solidarity with all affected alice. We remain vigilant and stand ready to further help our allies do not meet of it. She is the commissioner for a human rights of the council of europe. She has visited the camps and says she was shocked by the conditions. The narrative is dominated by security. The debate, the cuban right of the fact that people have been in a way brushed away and forgotten. So the situation is the result of the risk of election by balance. Thats my job, bro. The debt, my job is really to look at human rights issues. And what ive seen in the last 4 days is not only concern unacceptable to have the kind of situation in front of the century at p and border in in mind message apart from a detailed report in, in my message, apart from a detailed report that you just mentioned is really to put human beings and to respect their human rights and also their dignity. The political does not counsel human rights obligations. And this is something we should not forget in this really complex situation. I met many of these people. I spoke to them, i heard their testimony story, i. Busy did to talk to a local hospital that is also doing extraordinary job in order to, to really help those people that are unique. It is also important to say that there are human rights defenders that are helping and trying to help. But the problem is that they cannot exit the border, the zone that is in a way, exclusion zone in poland. So it is quite extraordinary that the media does not have access to many carrion organizations, including you and red cross. This is something that should change you need thats a good cover developments. Now, all stories become the 1st country in western europe to re impose a full corona virus lockdown and you measure south on monday and will ask for a maximum of 20 days. Austria also making vaccinations compulsory from february dominant. Kane has more on the situation. The reality for many austrians is that it has been a sliding scale. Almost that one week theres been one set of restrictions. Then the next week, more restrictions. And now were into full lockdown. Clearly, the reason for this is because of the incidence of cove it in many parts of austria is in 4 digits more than a 1000 per 100000 of population will. That is a very considerable number. And full, many politicians and austria right now. Its too much and a neighboring germany all Christmas Markets in the state of bavaria have been canceled. The rate of infections across the countries in an all time high, a 3rd of the population hasnt been vaccinated on thursday, in peace in the lower house approved at the new restrictions. And the Health Minister isnt ruling out a National Lockdown is employed on a pink under london b. Unfortunately, weve reached a point where we can no longer prevent a lot of illness and suffering. Nevertheless, it is still largely in our hands. How bad the situation will become in the future, and above all, how long it will last. We have to turn the tide now theres really no time to lose my voice. And hunger is recorded its highest number of daily infections. There were more than 11000. 00 new cases on friday, the highest to tallies, and the sound of the pandemic governments introducing new restrictions are, for example, booster shots will be mandatory for all health care workers. And masks must be worn in most indoor places from saturday to the us, where the house of representatives has approved. President joe bidens, social safety net and climate bill the bill back better bill is past 1. 00 trillion dollar bills bank. Better act with bank of the week debate and now goes to the senate for the democrats hold a very slim majority. Alan fisher keeping an eye on this one from washington, d. C. Its past and that is very important because of i guess, the amount of impact this bill could actually have on every day americans but it still has a long way to go. The republicans were very upset that this was coming to vote. Kevin mccarthy, the leader of the republicans, spoke for 8 hours on the house floor condemning the move saying it was going to add to inflation and add to the deficit. Nancy pelosi decided to push ahead with the vote on friday morning, starting with the words. I will be brief at the went through the vote and the got it passed by 220 to 213. So what will it mean . Well, the plan is that it will include paid family leave. It will increase the child tax credit. There is 555000000000. 00 to help fight Climate Change. There is free preschool for all to 3 year olds across america. It will increase medical coverage and also reduce price. Its now been speaking to some democrats. They say that this is a great move and the hope that all pushed through the senate and speaking to one republican analyst who said that the republicans dont want this to work a. But their biggest concern is that it actually will work. But were not there yet. It still got to go to the senate and got to pass there through a resolution vote, not the usual 2 thirds majority. That means that theyve got to go all 50 Democratic Senators on board to have already expressed concern about some of the things in the bill. So theyll be some negotiating and some horse trading. Theres a possibility then the things will get pulled out of this bill. It will go back to the house, but joe biden has put out a statement, says hes delighted that this has happened and he cant wait that the bill actually gets to his desk so that he can sign it. It would be the 3rd big domestic agenda item that joe biden has pushed through in a year, and he would be delighted with that politically and also economically for the United States. But hes got Something Else to worry about. A little more acutely. Allen effect, weve got some pictures that sir came in just before we came on air of a President Biden in his medicaid waving for the cameras. There hes off for his medical check up. What does that mean . Hes going to want to read to which is a hospital when a wealth that was the place where donald trump stayed when he had covered and with thousands gathered outside there. This is the annual thing that the president goes through. Joe biden, though will undergo a colonoscopy, so that means he will undergo or the operation the procedure, or under general anesthetic. And that means he has to sign over his president ial authority to the vice president. So that means for a very brief period and time come, le harris will become the 1st woman to president ial powers in the United States is not unusual. George w bush did the exact same thing. And if you read Stephanie Grisham book, she was donald trumps. I Communications Director for a long time. She said that donald trump also underwent a colonoscopy, but refused to sign over Many Authority to mike pants because he didnt want any one else to be president. So as a kind of routine thing. I and joe biden expected to be back at the white house in a couple of hours because hes got a big job to do. Hes got to pardon to thanksgiving turkeys. I kid you not. Hes back during that and then hes heading to delaware, where hell celebrate his birth the this weekend. So big day for joe bite, big c for camel harris and a big day really for the United States as well. And the turkey i i didnt, i still forget. Yes, exactly. Butter and jelly of the names of the 2 turkeys. Lets not forget, its a big deal for them. Wow. If they have any idea what else was holding on . I never thought wed discuss turkeys, colonoscopy, birthdays and turkey. Oh, lets leave it there for now. Shall we allen . Thank you. Right, lets move on a sudan now, where protest is again, out on the streets. This friday i, i, i calling for a return to civilian rule and condemning the killing of at least 15 people during protests on wednesday. Hey, morgan with an update from mccarter room. Now, whats the situation been like today . A processes are and i get once again are confronting with the security for specifically the police. Now, on thursday, the Police Issued a statement and held a press conference saying that they did not use live ammunition, but only use tear gas and the minimal amount of force needed to keep processes from destroying public property and police property. That is one of the statements over the past few days. That angered the processes further on friday afternoon, many after the friday prayers around a 1 oclock local time, thats around 11 g. Once again to the streets. Many of them heading to the houses of those who lost their lives on the pruitt in the protests on wednesday and from their onward many sets of barricades on main street in order to north an on demand 2 cities that are just across the mile from auto city where we are right now, now police has responded to the protests and the barricades that theyve set up their fight, tear gas at a protest as many of them have fled. But the chase is continuing between the police and protests as many who have been speaking to over the past few minutes. Say that the police are still firing, tear gas at the processes. Some of them are being chased into neighborhoods and with the barricades been set up as barriers to slow down the Security Forces. But the chase them going and they see that this amount of violence is interior gas, residential neighborhoods, chasing down processes when theyve already moved from the main street is, is a force that is not necessary if what theyre trying to do is just simply open the main roads for a resumption off traffic and a resumption of life around the capital hudson, whether its in the city of what of them are under man or how to, how to north. So again, many people have lost their lives over the past a few days, especially on the printed protests on wednesday, but protested that they will continue to demand the military. Hannibal power was the 1000000000 rule and they will continue to demand that Prime Minister. The maam duke and other senior political figures who have been arrested release and that there was the ration of the civilian government is complete. Hey, morgan keeping us across developments in sudan that i thank you hipaa. In the news, a head canadian troops help with rescue efforts and what could be the countrys most expensive Natural Disaster we would like actually to hear like a video from her or Something Like a really, really proved in so yes, that shes a, shes all right and everything is fine and growing holds from well tennis plays over the whereabouts of chinese tennis style and ch way ah look forward to pearly to skies with sponsored my cattle at ways how i once again welcome some of the la cant the international forecast. Weve got size that when she was returning to ne, in parts of china over the next couple of days for the time big. It is largely tribe that this flabby area of high pressure, just keeping things settled, that will be some fog and frost to watch out for. As we go on 3 sash day, increasing our wet weather, pushing into a western parts of china running right the way up towards the yellow sea. And metal continued to strive its way a little further east, which as we go on through sunday. And here comes at snow at when she makes coming down towards beijing 8 celsius in the heat of the day on sunday afternoon. But will widespread snow into that Northeast Corner of china, pushing across into the far east of russia and into north korea. It will be heavy at times and will cause some disruption, say, some heavy rain recently across southern parts of indo china. More lively showers, just making the way into southern areas of vietnam, tyler and seeing some wet weather or the scattering of showers there across malaysia and on into indonesia. But nothing unusual. While the more unusual as to whether we have across a Northern Plains of the of india, we are going to see some, a wet weather continuing across southern parts of india, more heavy downpours coming through here, but not quite as wet as recently. Ah, the weather sponsored by katara always in the country with an abundance of results. Trade are and one, indonesia, his friends for me, we moved full to grow and fraud. We balance for green economy, blue economy, and the Digital Economy with the new job creation law, indonesia is progressively ensuring the policy reform to create quality jobs, investment. Let it be possible in his growth and progress, invest in here now. Ah ah, on al jazeera, these are all top stories. Poland has accused bell roofs of continuing to help Asylum Seekers cross into e u. Territory of despite the battle russians clearing a makeshift camp on the polish border on thursday, austria become the 1st country in western europe to re impose a full coverage 19 lockdown. New measures will start on monday. In the us house of representatives has approved president jo bidens spending bill the 1. 00 trillion dollar billed bank. Better act now goes to the senate where the democrats hold a slim majority. U. K. Government says it will designate all of hamas as a terrorist organization. Home secretary, pretty baton, announced that move in washington dc on friday. May remember she was forced to resign as burkins International Development secretary and 2017. After Holding Secret meetings with senior israeli officials, hamas says the decision is biased towards israel. More from ne fokker in london, breach of hotel makes his key speech over in washington in a few hours time. The intention is to prescribe the entirety of half a mass as a band terrorist organization. The United States has done that. The European Union has done that in the United Kingdom is now a following suit. Its military wing, though, has been designated as such since 2001 by the British Government and our massive already commented on the u. Case impending judgment by saying that they feel that its biased towards israel and potentially undermines the other dimensions to hamas as well. Yes, of course the organization does have a military wing that we know all see well about it does have a political wing as well as govern the gaza strip since 2007 and elections that you there. But it also has a social Services Wing as well that has been responsible over the years for funneling large sums of money into grass roots projects. Were talking about clean water, project schools, orphanages, even providing rent relief for peoples whose houses are destroyed during a st. Railey as strikes and the concern is that given this potential blankets bombs, this view that the entirety of hamas is a terrorist organization that it does potentially have the negative impacts on undermining the work of a mass and affiliated grass roots organizations on the ground. Lets say from osama honda now who is a senior representative also mass in lebanon. He says, and i does not pose a threat to the u. K, in this decision, will only work against londons interests at philistine. Everyone knows that we are defending a few point rock defending our lives and according to the international law, we are freed on fight against that you mission. And instead of hoping that your passion for violations against the palestinians, this minister created a problem with the philistine ends. Another time if shes talking about the convenience of tag rich and she is totally wrong and shes lying. But if she is talking about the capability of different things, i was, i guess, i mean, i have to ask her whether she is. Im going to stop in the british cabinet. Or, i mean this time is, i mean, if you want to get more problems for the posting, and i mean it is what i got. This is done by here and we will continue this in the portal and i think it is. I think mostly it will effect on the people who are in princeton supporting the front seat, is she want to prevent them from doing that . She want to prevent maybe the politicians for talking to her mask because she understands as a supporter forties and everyone knows that shes a support for if you decide to do that, i believe she will not do anything but for the procedure. So now the question, the big question will be, what the british politicians will do, what they will say when someone is watching a guess, what i believe the benefit of it. It says check in on the flooding in north america has major highways and railroads remain closed in British Columbia after flooding and landslides, damage, roads, and bridges. The Canadian Armed forces are assisting with the provinces Flood Recovery and has been flooding over the border to into the United States. Gabriel at is on those there for assume us in washington state. Gabriel. Yeah, thats right. Were right here at the border right behind me is the canada and on the other side of that border as abbotsford, canada, thats an area that has been hit very hard from this, a flooding disaster and a, theyre actually the Canadian Army is starting to build a 2 kilometer long levy because several of the dams are the, excuse me, the dikes have broken, continuing to flood farm, land and homes on the other side of the border there at the city of a 150000 people habits. Ford that has been really at the center of this British Columbia flooding emergency. This border area here between canada, United States would normally be very busy, but the border is closed because of the flooding. A lot of the highways and roads have been closed as a try to clean up this area and, and try to get this situation contained a little bit more. This is sue mass, the city in washington. And its a town of only but a 1600 people and about 80 percent of all of the homes here have been damaged by flood water. This is kind of the main street through town. It would normally be pretty busy. As you can see, its pretty much deserted because most people in town. As soon as they were told this flooding and a storm was going to hit, they left town and havent come back yet. This is an area that is accustomed to flood emergencies. Theyve had several in the last decade, but every one here tells us this is the worst that they have ever seen. Some climatology, this are pointing to Climate Change is being a key factor in, exacerbating this. And its really having a lot of a cross border ramifications as well. The main train line, the Freight Train line that runs through the western United States up through western canada has been completely shut down as well. Because the train a has derailed because of the storm run off water just simply went right over the Railroad Tracks and knocked over and derailed all of the trains. So this is an area where theyre still trying to clean up, but its going to take a quite a long time. That is Gabriel Alexander with an update on the flooding in washington state. And gabriel, farmers in india now celebrating after Prime Minister in the red ramadi, announced his government is revoking 3 controversial laws. Have been protesting against the legislations for a year now saying that in danger, their livelihoods poverty without, without report her gender core is finally relieved. She is volunteering at a Community Kitchen in the outskirts of new delhi where she has been protesting with thousands of other formulas. She says its been a difficult year for home. Good me. It was hard, but they turned off. I want to supply electricity and olds to come and go. They did everything they got to make our life difficult. But we have finally won me foremost began protesting, soon after in just parliament, past 3 agriculture laws. They see a feeble, big corporations and leads them was off. While some rallies ended in violent confrontations with police 7 rounds of talks between Farmers Union and the government failed to end the standoff until this sudden announcement, but Prime Minister marines remotely withdrawing the 3 controversial laws is my unique anthem in the Parliament Session starting later. This month, we will complete the constitutional process to repeal these 3 agriculture laws, gone on no problem with a Credit Rating this victory. But see the announcement as the 1st step, almost set up these temporary structures last year when they decided to camp out until the government roll back to 3 laws. They said they only pack up and go home once the parliament officially revokes them. They also point a critical issue. The Prime Minister failed to mention the 700. 00 farmers who died during the protests and their demand to government guarantees them a minimum price for their crop. More the view tom tom, the 7 states are heading into critical elections early next. Heated the writing on the wall. He relies, unlike many of the people who are around him, that b j. B would not have a very easy passage in return to this, which is very crucial state and could return of his party to power in 2024 depend largely on how they do in the u. B. And he wanted to retain. Youll be a total cost and best and youll be as important. So its one job for that matter. Movies announcement comes on the day of one of the biggest festivals for the sick community, which has been on the forefront of the farmers filter. And while that made it mostly for going to demonstrate, as they will continue, that they did the promise to hold pre planned rally and will observe the 1st anniversary of the project later this month in the middle. Ill just see that you w demonstrations have been taking place in iran to demand improvements to the water supply. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the central city of its for hon. The banks of the now dry river. Many who attended our farm is demanding the government let the river run without to version us 10 south. Serino ends as joined a growing number of people concerned about the safety of the chinese tennis star puncture way she hasnt been seen since. She accused a high ranking chinese politician of sexually assaulting her homer chandry reports pangs wise, one of chinas most successful tennis stars. Shes a former doubles world number one, winning the french open and wimbledon. But she hasnt been seen in weeks. Now the United Nations on a growing number of her fellow players, are speaking out. We would like actually to hear like a video from her or Something Like real real prove that. Yes, that shes, shes all right and everything is fine. Ah, yeah, its a very strange situation and though we really want to hear song, some news, im really sad about a, i dont know what to say. We had to talk in the morning for half an hour. Were talking about this and i really hope shes okay and really waiting for some news from her. Shes defeated top plays including venus williams, his sister serena express support, the sh. Why . Saying, im devastated and shocked to hear about the news of my peer punch. Why . I hope she is safe and found as soon as possible. This must be investigated and we must not stay silent. Shy, disappeared after accusing a top Chinese Government official of sexually assaulting her. The heads of the globe Womens Tennis Association has questioned that centricity of an e mail released by the Chinese Government this week, said to have been written by the missing 35 year old. The letter says she retracts the allegations and she is quote, resting at home. This case has not been reported by the Chinese Media and any online discussion as it has been censored or removed. Or to respond to the mounting questions. Chinas Foreign Ministry spokesman had this to say, will you please you . Ive not heard of the if you raise well, this is not a diplomatic question. The us is threatening a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming beijing lympics sites in chinas human rights record. The head of the well Tennis Association has also said hes prepared to cut lucrative Business Times with china. If tennis sto punch, why remains missing her married child 3, which is there a couple more stories for you thailand. Bringing in its Holiday Season with the annual festival of lights known as lloyd grotto and celebrated during the full moon of the 12 month of the ty luna. Calendar, people are gathering around lakes and rivers to pay respects to the goddess of water. The sea is celebrations though scaled down because of the panoramic. Speaking of lunar p, parts of the world got to see the longest partial Lunar Eclipse and nearly 600 years. The best shoes were in north and south america, also in australia and northeastern parts of asia. Nasa, as the partial eclipse went on for more than 3 hours and 28 minutes the longest. One thing by the world, since the Printing Press was invented way back in 1440. Ah, but how fast they are, these are the headlines on al jazeera that a Russian Security Security Forces have cleared a makeshift camp on the border with poland. Officials, a hundreds of migrants and refugees moved voluntarily to a reception center. Thousands of people, including children, had been stuck in freezing conditions at the border for days. Poland and the European Union accusing deliveries of helping Asylum Seekers cross into you territory