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so you're watching al jazeera live for my headquarters in doha. i'm fully back. people also ahead, long queues and mistakes had covered 19 testing sites. australia struggles to stay on top of record numbers of infections. so molly, as president calls for the suspension of the prime minister in a growing dispute about elections and in spain, warning bells, those sounded as more and more people leave rural areas for the city. ah, thank you very much for joining as south africa is beginning 7 days of mourning for nobel peace prize, laurie a desmond tutu who's died at the age of 90. he rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid during white minority roll, a series of events, her being planned to mark his passing, including

a state funeral on january the 1st julian war for reports from cape town. as news broke of the death of their beloved bishop desmond tutu tributes poured in from across south africa and around the world. his legacy will be his love for all people. oh, i don't know whether have you come across his writings. he has always said that god is not god of christians, god is god off or people. so his main legacy is his love for all gods people. and he believed that every one is created in the image and he used to it, it would. beautiful image of god, and i've carried it myself personally in my own ministry. yeah. he loved people. america's former president and 1st ever black leader, brock obama called to to a mentor, friend and moral compass. pope francis expressing gratitude for his service to the

gospel and queen elizabeth remembering his warmth and humour, the elders, a group co founded by desmond to to express their devastation. president sir, over, i'm opposed. calling the archbishop, a patriot, who gave meaning to the biblical saying that faith without works is dead to, to continuously challenge the status quo on issues like race, homosexuality, and religious doctrine. he also never stop fighting for the people of his country, which he dubbed the rainbow nation at the city's saint george's cathedral, known as the people's cathedral and powerful symbol of south african democracy. locals laid flowers as they bid farewell. friends, family and faith leaders flocked to his cape town home to mourn the loss of their loved one. this has been a long journey and we have all being praying that his makeup takes him because he is given as 90 years of his life. and he was,

are very frail in the end. and so we, as the family really make peace with the fact that we're shoot, let we cannot expect it man was given so much of his life to be there for his daughter. speaking of the hope she has for a future generation of leaders, the young people who are leading the movement to save our planet in this country. the young people who are speaking out against economic injustice, the young people who are speaking out about access to education. i see, i see those leaders as the country prepares to say good bye to this visionary leader and moral force. those closes to him will pay their respects in both the tribal casa and christian traditions. join wolfe al jazeera cape town,

south africa. well, cape town, city hall and table mountain have been late. i've been purple to honor desmond tutu . they'll remain late until his funeral. purple is linked to the archbishop because it was the color of his clerical robes. condolence books have also been made available across the city so that everyone can share their attributes in an address to the nation. south african president cl ramp wholesale called to to a man of extraordinary intellect and integrity. we have lost the person who carried the burden of leadership with compassion, with dignity, with humility, and with such good humour. we are comforted and the knowledge that he has left an indelible mark the lives of millions of people who had the privilege and honor of knowing him. like many of his time,

he was a witness to the bravest injustices and most intolerable cruelty that our country has ever witnessed. all tributes have been coming in from around the world. the u. k. prime minister has said he's deeply saddened to hear of the archbishop steph boys, johnson called desmond, due to a critical figure in the fight against apartheid. and in creating a new south africa, who will be remembered for his spiritual leadership, an irrepressible good humor. the daughter of slain civil rights leader, martin luther king junior, bernice king said she was saddened at the death of a global sage human rights leader and powerful pilgrim on earth. she went on to say that we are all better because he was here. and you, as for, as in joe biden, praise desmond tutu for his moral clarity, saying, we're heartbroken to learn of the passing of a true servant of god and of the people. we send our deepest condolences to the

people of south africa who are mourning this great loss with the co and a virus pandemic now. and hundreds of us flies have been cancelled for the 3rd day in a row. airlines say they don't have enough staff to get planes off the ground as covered 19 infection surge due to the highly transmissible on the con, variant in new york doctor's report is an increase in the number of children needing hospital treatment. half of the admissions are younger than 5 who are too young to be vaccinated. my can has been falling developments from new york. there's been a roll on a thick test fried so canceled people book on another one, then those flights get cancelled. or we're talking about a massive amount of lights, just the stay alone, some 700 flights within the u. s. were cancelled as many as 1400 were delayed for

a lengthy period of time. so the problem is in effect, compounding at these figures have remain pretty constant over the past 3 days. airlines attempting to full the gaps as it were, getting more pilots, getting more staff. and of course, the airline industry as well, getting people to process passengers through airports, but as they do so, as they fool the holes, more people contract the virus, particularly versions of the new variant. so it is an ongoing situation. well, the only cranberry very, and continues to drive the vast majority of infections. and if we just take a look at new york state, for example, in the course of the past 24 hours have been over 47500 new cases recorded. the vast majority of the army kron variant. this is, in fact, a pandemic record. and what is significant about this figure is that we are talking about a state in which more than 80 percent of people have at least one vaccine shot. a

many of them have had of double shots plus the booster shot. so this just indicates how good army kron is at getting through even to vaccinated people. in australia, the most populous states, new south wales, has recorded its 1st death ling to be covered. 19 omicron variant testing sites are overwhelmed as estate recorded. more than 6000 cases for a 3rd day premier dominic parity has urged people who feel fine to avoid getting a coven 19 test. some people have had to wait more than 3 days for a resold on saturday. a sidney hospital apologized for wrongly telling 400 people. they had tested negative. all i speak to catherine bennett about this. she is chair in epidemiology at the institute for health transformation at deacon university, and is joining us from melbourne. katherine very good to have you again on al jazeera, you know, australia has been praised,

widely ford success in curtailing the spread of covey 19. and now we have thousands of cases in a country that a month ago. we're still intend on keeping the vice out. ha, how did we get to this? how did australia go from being a cove it free paradise to this mess? well we didn't actually really started to make the transition that makes the timing of omicron even worse in a way because it's striving you, we couldn't keep the virus up eva and the id was been out. vaccination rights were high enough and they were great. you know, eating 90 percent really vaccinated in 16, an older population that we would then be opening up all to some of the states already were doing that. states that already had delta still circulating, were planning to get back to 0 and had hospitalizations at manageable levels. mainly and unvaccinated people, victoria more than 90 percent actually vaccinated and i see you still. but other states was starting to then have their plans in place to open up and on across really shifted everything for the world. it has that vaccine escape quality. that

means that the way we put into vaccination might still protect me from going to hospital, but it means you're just dealing with such larger numbers of infection in the community, right? that not only do you have that have that race, that you will say it and re cases they will appear and being hospital battles. i think we're going to hospital for other reasons, taking virus with them and it's making a hospital system very, very complicated at the moment. i tried many stuff, right? testing techniques in new south wales, for example, a facing surging demand. people are being encouraged to take rapid am to gen, tests at home to manage the virus at home. what, why is testing an issue right now? we've really pushed testing numbers up to new south wales at some days was you know, well over a 150000 tests and you just can't keep that volume of tests up. and kate, the turnaround time short in terms of getting those results back. so it started to upload the system and on top of that,

some of the states that were trying to protect their own board is because i didn't have on the chrome circulating at that stage. they were asking that every traveler in today's state should have a p c r test before they leave. and so that was adding, you know, somewhere between 25 and 40 percent more people into the cues for p. c, a testing she a volume of infection in the community. the hosp travel requirements. yeah. any di, different states seem to have different protocols in phase when it comes to testing in isolation requirements. they doesn't seem to be a cohesive approach. what, why is that? well, they all agreed, all the states and territories agreed to one plan some time ago. now, you know, 4 or 4 months ago, but they're all different points because some had managed kate of iris out some hadn't, so the high falls we would progressively are going out. we get rid of our internal borders and, and then we would be operating as one country, but only one kind of long before that, that has, that happened. so different states and at dealing with serious levels of community

transmission and is still trying to go at this in a more traditional way with the current of ours, you know, doing focus, follow up, trying to track down cases and ask people to isolate where is the status that have been dealing with this for a long time and have large case number's life occurring, you southwell, they now resigned to having to suppress transmission as much as you can without attempting to follow up h case and why we have in the past. so i think all states will eventually coming to alignment, but it's, it's pros they say going through as a, they just to just take health systems, make sure everything's working so. so what's the solution then to ease the pressure on, on the health care system? well, i think there are other states now starting to pull back on the requirements for testing. we didn't states we're looking at using that. the red engine testing as an alternative, particularly the people who are already quarantining with a case. and those people could be asked to use rapid energy rather than queueing out. so if we take some of those measures, we could reduce our cues by a 3rd,

you know, most immediately. and i think we need to do that because people who are on, well, you don't know if it's covered, need to be tested because then people who might need that early intervention treatment if they are at high risk of serious illness. and i need to have a result quickly, so we need to get our choose shorter and our turnaround times children as well. thank you so much for talking to her catherine bennett from deacon university joining us there from melbourne and thank you for your time. and still ahead on al jazeera lockdown school closures and the loss of one or more parents. we look at the motional told corona virus pandemic is having on children in her room and the political instability that's leaving millions in east africa displaced and uncertain. ah

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ah ah ah, they're watching al jazeera live from doha. reminder of our top stories this, our attributes are being paid to south african nobel peace, my story desmond to to, after he died at the age of 90, the un secretary general antonia terrace, described to, to as a towering global figure for peace staff shortages due to the corona virus, her for sale lines to cancel hundreds of us flies for the 3rd day in a row. and health officials in new york have reported an increase in the number of children being admitted to hospital. and now 2 other world news, somali as president, has called for the prime minister to be suspended,

seeing he plans to open a corruption investigation against him. the 2 leaders have been accusing each other of holding up ongoing parliamentary elections. the pool was supposed to be completed by last friday, but so far only $24.00 m. b 's have been elected out of the 275 seats, being contested. well, let speak to professor r d ismael. summer. tar. about this. he is with the university of minnesota and joined us by skype from minneapolis. professor summit, i thank you so much for being with us. on the somali president and the prime minister who have been trading these accusations for some time now over delays to, to the elections. how significant in your view is this latest development in their showdown? it's a major obstacle to the country. moving forward in the president's tenure lapse, last february the prime minister was appointed to carry forward the electoral process, but unfortunately the premise of himself,

it has demonstrated that he doesn't have the competence and the integrity to be able to run the election. so what do you have here remotely sure, are to individuals neither of who have the interest of the country in their heart. and that's where they look jeremy's, the president has a key, is the prime minister of failing to lead elections as we said. and he's now calling for a consultative meeting. does president for my child have support? does he have our lives? can he come up with a plan to dismiss the prime minister and perhaps appoint me, appoint him, appoint a new prime minister from the opposition? no, you see the, the prime minister has to be sacked by the parliament of the country. ah. and that all part there is no longer, no longer exist, it's tenure laps. that's why you have 2425 people in the lower house who have been elected and 54 senators who have already been elected. so the previous parliament that could have sacked, the prime minister is no longer there. so the president doesn't have the authority,

nor the constitutional means to be able to effectuate with his claim. or the president has done it to dragon's feet over the last year. am have, in order for the selections to take place to legitimately across the country. he has appointed a prime minister. he thought he could man and go over the last year or so of the new prime minister had decided to do some things in ways that also unconstitutional . so we have to figure heads who don't have their constitutional mandate, who are playing the country on its people as a political football. right? to figure heads out, who are camping on their positions right now. could it be that we have to parallel election process is now and how dangerous the situation would that be not to buy the loan process is cannot take place. luckily, because the international community, which has also fumbled the ball is the one that has been supporting on financing this process. so what made legitimate way out of this is that since the upper house,

the senate has been completely elected and that the 54 senators represent the different sort of it states in the country. they are the only legitimate authority to guide this process now. so it will be up to the chair or the chair of the senate to be able to act on the pieces of that responsibility and save the country from a co to causes that may unfortunately lead to a civil war. if these 2 individuals don't call back, if you like, professors summit i, you say the international community has humbled the ball. and it's true that traditional actors like the us or you have somewhat been absent. you know, where it could, the pressure come from. i think the international community look by the united mentions, the united kingdom and few others, the south africans and african say to both of these individuals, you no longer have that legitimate authority. if they are able to say that i have

absolutely no doubt these individuals who caught how to get into that job. i remember the american ambassador telling me what additional debt they were really to sanction the president of the country. he did not trade all according to the constitution. i think that's that's. thank you so much for talking to. it's always good to get your insight on the situation in samaria. ismael sam atara from the university of minnesota. thank you for your time. thank. well, political instability and violence have des space hundreds of thousands of people in east africa as part of our series. looking at recent events and the year ahead, al jazeera malcolm web takes a look at so don, somalia, and a few of you in 2021. protest is on the streets of su, don's capital cartoon in the morning and the military rule. and we have demands that include in the military rule and

a civilian government with competent capabilities. that's why we're out on the straits. the transitional government was formed after protests and did the 30 rule of omar alba here in april 2019. ah, but in october to don's army, overthrew that transitional government, dashing demonstrators, hopes of democracy only so much and do you should treat them both changing of god is very important. i mean symbolic, but the hard grass of building a democratic cultural audience secure for these that do not believe in unity, not having a judiciary that can do it without any not having a legislator free press. i think that is a very long short in the conflict in neighboring ethiopia, who i have been accused of mass rapes and killings of civilians. both government troops and rebels have make gains in recent month and then lost them again. the war

started as a result of mistrust and unfortunately war actually worse and start mistrust and it creates its own grievances. but just like it started, i think even today, regardless of the shift in power balance in the butterfield from time to time, the conflict remains an effective style met, which necessitates a political solution. unfortunately, on both sides seems to be focused on the righteousness of their cause until we shift from this man. the country is likely to remain in war. neighboring somali has been inching towards in direct elections that have been repeatedly delayed, which lead to violence in the capital market tissue in february. selection of representatives by elders is due to happen in the coming weeks. but armed opposition groups in mogadishu say the whole process is already rigged. if the manipulation bad has happened to date continues during the process than i think you have a very significant risk of conflict already. val position has been quite opposed to

what happened and they've demanded some sort of recheck on this process, but it doesn't seem like that's been heated. and so if it does continued this way, then i think where we're at a very risky situation. the conflict between somalia is western backed government and the armed group al shabanni has dragged on. some analysts say the entire region is caught in a bigger geopolitical shift. the horn of africa is in, in crisis. and the middle east and gulf countries seem to have gone to an improvised reactive way of engaging with the crises in the horn. and in all of this, we really don't see the kind of influence from the european union, the u. k. or the united states that we, we have seen in the past few decades in this part of the world. they just don't seem to be the primary international actors anymore. across the region,

promises of democracy has been delayed. millions of people remain displaced by conflicts. malcolm web al jazeera, the sandy led coalition in yemen is accusing healthy rebels of using santa airport as a base to launch ballistic missiles, or lation spokesman took yell. malik, he said, found to re beer has been targeted by more than 400 ballistic missile. since they saw the fighting. the civil war began in september 2014, where the coalition intervening 6 months later, it attacked santa airport. earlier this week. shot i had $32.00 of the history done . these slides are clear that the hootie militia are using the center airport. there's a civil part, but also a military use. also on the slide, you can see the presence of the hootie militia on the tarmac at the top of the tar mark. you can see them preparing to launch a drone, as you can see on the upper right hand side. and you can see how it's being used

from santa international airport. this confirms the militarization of sun, our international airport by the hudy's boss. don't. in afghanistan, the taliban lead government has announced that afghan women should not be allowed to travel long distances without a male escort. the ministry for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice called on drivers to refuse rights to women, not wearing head scarves. it also asks people to start playing music in their vehicles since the takeover in august. the taliban has barge many women from public sector roles and limited girls access to secondary school. now, to spain, where there's growing concern over people moving away from small towns, it's led to a movement aimed at pressuring the government to offer better services. in such areas. to attract families, natasha, her name visited pat. bear county in the catalog region. wanted people to relocate to the picturesque town of pratt the comp done population

183 traffic and pollution for mountain fresh air crowded classrooms for a school of 9 students. there is no hospital police or fire department and forget about a 5 g network. when virginia benham, who responded to an advertisement to move here, she was lured by the job of managing this 9 room, hostile she and her 7 year old daughter love arrived in january. i recall among lever thank neil was i lived in big city and foam. is the 1st time that her i'm very happy i may be because it was my to him may. i'm feeling going hey, i don't know, but i hope it will be so many else. love can roam and play in the village without the safety concerns of a city, but she also has fewer playmates and a 30 minute drive to go swimming in the winter. get mad. i mean if cake like him,

let him i, i prefer to have more kids because then i have more friends. percent get asking frank, no ram. according to government statistics, half of spain's municipalities are in danger of losing their population. these are primarily towns of less than 1000 people. however, data shows this issue is not just confined to rural areas. people are also moving out of provincial capitals and small to medium sized cities. to reverse the trend this year, the european union gave spain more than $11000000000.00 for a re population program. the goal is to provide small towns with more basic services, high speed, internet, and funding for housing and job creation. i keep us in their infancy. i get a good that i think that one thing that i either valid here you can have a childhood that you will remember all your life. the kids are on the street alone

relate to people from all age. we have mountains and an education is high quality luncheon a man isn't an am in more prevail fen hm. who and her daughter are now part of the 1st population boom in pratt defroster since 2015, 13 people have moved here in the last year. the advertisement campaign seems to be working. natasha n. e l t 0. prior to comp doth speed an extreme cold warning has been issued for much of western canada. a number of cities are reporting record low temperatures with the coldest. reaching minus 50 degrees celsius forecasters expects the extreme conditions to last for several days. ah no again, i'm fully battle with the headlines on al jazeera south africa is beginning. 7 days of mourning for nobel peace prize, laurie a desmond tutu who's died at the age of 90. a series of events are being planned to

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