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infections. nearly 1400 people who tested negative have now been told their results were wrong. somali as president calls for the suspension of the prime minister in a growing dispute about elections. and surrounded by water, thousands of people in northern brazil, a trapped after 2 dom spurs. ah, thank you very much for joining us. 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, vor, a series of events that being planned to mark his passing, including a state funeral on january 1st, gillian war freeport, 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, full or people. and i don't know whether i have you come across his writings. he has always said that god is not god of christians. god is god of 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 would beautiful image of god. and i've carried that 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 cyril rom, oppose calling the archbishop. a patriot who gave meaning to the biblical saying that faith without works is dead 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 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 may cut 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 him. 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. gillian wolf, al jazeera cape town, south africa. well, cape town, city hall, and table mountain have been lit up in purple, to honor desmond tutu. and now 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. ain't an address to the nation. south african president, sylvia lamar posts, i call 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 in the knowledge that he has left an indelible mark in 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 gravest injustices and most intolerable cruelty that

our country has ever witnessed. all tributes have been coming in from across the world. patrick gaspard is president and c. e. o. at the center for american progress, he says he's also a former us ambassador to south africa, and he says to, to will continue to influence human rights campaign. this. there are twin impacts that i see there's there's no doubt that he was the pioneer in restorative justice . the work that he did and the truth and reconciliation commission has been modeled and copied. and so many other places in the world. and it has advanced the cause of those who are most vulnerable in our society. so that's an important critical space of the occupy. clearly has clanging call for justice as it relates to race. but also gender equality as well. was terribly important. and some instances unique for

a man of the clergy. but i also add them important for my generation of activists. and those who have come after me to appreciate his ability to be critical of those that he had been in solidarity with an online ship with whenever he felt that they would be hypocritical, if he thought that they had straight away from their core democratic principles. he did not hesitate to call out those that he had did in the trenches with tell them they had had to live up to their creed, their code, and the better angels of their nature. that kind of moral courage and clarity is rare. particularly in political spaces is his ability to not be compromised by privilege. so extraordinary, and continue to be an inspiration to me and certain countless other activists. me the cone of iris pandemic now in a hospital in australia has once again apologize for errors with cobra. 19 tests,

another 995 people in sidney have been told there. negative results were in fact positive. that's on top of 400 wrongly detected cases on sunday. the state of new south wales has recorded its 1st deaf links to the omicron variant. testing sites are overwhelmed. premier dominic parity has urge people who feel fine to avoid getting tested early. i spoke to catherine bennett, who's chair in epidemiology at the institute for health transformation at deacon university, and she explains why australia is now struggling to manage the surgeon case. well, we've actually really started to make the transition that makes the timing of alma crohn even worse in a way, because the strategy knew we couldn't take the virus app. and the idea was went out, vaccination rates were high enough and they were right, you know, hitting 90 percent believe that finance now 16, an older population that we would then be ordered. some of the state 30 were doing

that. states that already had delta still circulating, were planning to get back to 0, and had hospitalizations with manageable levels, mainly and vaccinated people. victoria was 90 percent awfully vaccinated nazi you still. but other states were starting to then have their plans in place to open up and on the chrome really shifted everything for the world. it has that vaccine escape quality. that means that the way we put into vaccination might still protect people from going to hospital. but it means you're just dealing with much larger numbers of infection in the community. that not only do you have that have that risk, that you will say even rain cases. they will appear and be in hospital, but also people going into hospital for other reasons. taking the virus with them and making the hospital system very, very complicated at the moment as i tried many stuff, we've really pushed testing numbers up while some days was well over a 150000 tests and you just can't keep that volume of tests up and keep the

turnaround time short in terms of getting those results back. so it's not to load the system. and on top of that, some of the states that we're 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 days should have a p c artist before they leave. and so that was adding somewhere between 2540 percent. more people into the cues for p c r testing. so she of all human infection in the community, hosp travel requirement in the us, hundreds of flights have been cancelled for the 3rd day in a row. airlines say they don't have enough staff to get things off. the ground is covered 19 infection surge due to the highly transmissible omicron variant in new york doctor's report is an increase in the number of children needing hospital treatment. half of the admissions are children below the age of 5 who are too young to be vaccinated. iran has banned the entry of travelers from several european countries as part of measures to curve the spread over me. kron people flying from

britain, france. denmark and norway won't be allowed in t. ron, for 15 days, a similar ban imposed in november on travellers from 8 african countries has also been extended. thousands of belgian artists and event organizers have taken to the streets to protest against the latest govern 19 restrictions there. they accused the government of unfairly targeting the culture industry. most concert cinemas and theaters will be shut down under the new rules. on to the world news and somali as president has called for the prime minister to be suspended, saying he plans to open a corruption investigation against them. 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 in peace have been elected. out of the $275.00 seats being contested. abdi ismael, santa tar is a professor at the university of minnesota. he says the malice president doesn't

have the mandate to fi. the prime minister, the prime minister has to be set by the parliament to the country. and that part is not 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 had already been elected. so the previous parliament could have sacked, the prime minister is no longer there. so the president doesn't have the authority nor the institutional means to be able. ready to effectuate with his claim, what the president has done is to dragons feet over the last year and have in order for the selections to take place legitimately across the country. he has appointed a prime minister. he thought he could man and all. over the last year or so, the new crime is that have decided to do some things in ways that that was unconstitutional. so we have to figure out, we don't have the constitutional mandate who are playing the country. i mean people as a political football,

no to follow process is kind of take place. luckily because the international community, which has also fun, is the one that has been supporting on financing this process. so what made legitimately 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 states in the country. they are the only legitimate authority to guide this process. so it could be up to the chair or the court order, the chair of the senate to be able to act on the patient. so that's responsibility and save the country from could y'all to causes that may unfortunately lead just civil war? if these 2 individuals don't call back still ahead on al jazeera o warning bells in spain, as more people need rural areas for the city and the latest spider man movie that's only been showing in theaters brakes and box office record despite level of in

$1000.00 restrictions, ah, how low they will have a look at africa in a moment, but 1st to the middle east, and we see things turn rather unsettled this week across some of those gulf states . you can see this band of cloud pushing across saudi arabia to edging into guitar . we are likely to see rain by the time we get to the weekend. but 1st, further north of visit is a much dryer picture than it has been recently. temperatures are slightly below the average as they are for places like q weight, riyadh and dough. we've got a shamar wind blowing down, and that's creating quite a lot of hazy sunshine, but the temperature will pick up despite the wet weather moving. and if we have a look at the 3 day for data, we're going to have showers by thursday and we could see thunder re downpours by

friday. and that weather continues to join up with showers across a sudan some briscoe winds as well blowing. and it is going to dry up, however, for the northwest corner of africa, places like morocco. we will see rebecca seeing some sunshine for the south of this, that is an exceptional heat for places like nigeria, a buddha. in particular. it's further south that we are seeing that wes, her weather, in particular massive storms moving through botswana pushing into south africa. but by the time we get to choose a, they've skirted off and there'll be sunshine in johannesburg that to whether ah ah, they travelled thousands of columbus from time to pick berries. but do tie work as risen. exploitation in the forest swayed in one at one aisd. investigate one out of the room. ah,

you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elmo. lou. ah, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. reminder of our tom stories. tribute said being paid to south africa, no doubt. he spies, laurie desmond tutu, after his death at the age of mighty un secretary general, antonia a terrorist is fine too too. as a towering global figure for peace hospital in australia has once again apologize for errors with coughing 19 tests, another 995 people have been told there. negative results were in fact positive

bringing the total to $1200.00 and somali, as presidents ordered the prime minister suspension saying he plans to open a corruption investigation against them. the 2 leaders have been accusing each other of holding up on drawing parliamentary edge the sound you lead coalition in yemen is accusing who the rebels of using santa airport as a base to launch ballistic missiles, coalition spokesman turkey r mckee said sarabia has been targeted by more than 400 ballistic missile since the start of the fighting, a civil war began in september 2014 with the coalition intervening 6 months later, it attacked santa airport earlier this week. so i thought it was last dumb. these slides clear that the hootie militia are using the santa report that the 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 tall

marquis can see them preparing to launch a drone that she 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 santa international airport by the hudy's to pharaoh. now where at least $10000.00 children have lost one or both of their parents took her on a virus, leading many poor families without their bread winner is being described as the hidden pandemic. marianna sanchez report from lima. when antoinette of i years lost her 34 year old husband to coven 19 last year, she had to move into a small room at her in love with her 3 children and all her belongings. now she works nearly 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, a 16 year old son looks after the smaller ones you're gonna think off on i usually make $10.00 per day, but sometimes there is no working. and sometimes i only make $7.00 in a day, a gun,

hardly enough for food and medicine. she says their life turned upside down. like for most poor families who have lost their bread winner to the pandemic. more than 200000 peruvians have died of corona virus. b 2 has the highest per capita death rate in the world. official government figures would the number of children who have lost one or both parents to the disease and about 10000. but the lancet medical journal says, one of every 100 miners has lost a care giver. a total of more than $99000.00 children affected locally and i have families added to the shop they already have because of the confinement they like face to face glasses. they have stress and anxiety. it's a critical situation and one in april, the government rolled out a grants plan is nearly $50.00 for each child, but families have to apply online, and for many that has proven difficult to bother young aberdeen,

everything is virtual 1st. they told me the information was missing, then that it had already been paid. i feel like they're lying to me. but with every thought, the government says by june, only 3000 children were receiving the pension. children not only think of this is having loss of parents most are poor, and it is unlikely they will receive psychological help to overcome what for many has been a traumatic experience, and limits is the evidence. lima, constantly cry. but any of you don't want your condo, it's been so shocking. i never imagined losing my husband and especially shocking for my children. my daughter christ calling out for her dad, my little son cries in the sleep cove. it analysts say it is still early to understand the scope of the problem and don't, don't know if we are facing an incredible challenge that we do not seem prepared to assume. we are a country in morning, and we are talking about a whole generation marked by the loss of their parents. it's yet another great

challenge paused by the coven, 19 pandemic, the united nations children's agency. unicef says that while the majority of children may not get physically ill from the disease, their lives will forever be affected by the un sanchez. i'll just see that lima beetle rescue teams in northern brazil are trying to reach people trapped by major flood waters lapse after 2 dams. best following weeks of heavy rain are swollen rivers flooded towns across a state of bahia. as alexander amputee reports, some residents have each buena ne brazil resorted to piloting jet skis to help flood his families, reach safer grounds. others like this men peddled an inflatable mattress to reach his home. water flooded this and other towns across the state of by year after 2 dams collapse, following weeks of heavy rains that had already displaced thousands and sunday

afternoon residence having buena surveyed the damage point them a look good a lot though man, it's crazy by the bridge it looks like the ocean that our waves, almost 2 meters high. we feel sad thinking about our families. our responsibilities are debt, but you can't play with gods well out. or it does say they evacuated. thousands of residents from 67 towns still under flash, floods, warnings, while rescuers on thing is we're trying to reach trap. families springing basic supplies are much very said to see our town like this. it's bad. he said, i never seen anything like this in my life. but yes, governor, we castro said some 400000 people have been affected by the flooding. has to be the width is v. i've received a lot of videos of people putting themselves at risk, trying to save vulnerable people, the elderly children, throwing themselves into the water, up to their necks, using floats. this strength, this unity for life will help us rebuild the unprecedented rains 6 times greater

than the historic average have continued unabated since mid november. more than 4000 people are now homeless, while the least 18 of died since the start of an emergency that could continue for weeks allison and under the officials in the philippines say it could be february before power is fully restored to areas devastated by typhoon rye at least 378 people died when the powerful storm slammed into central and southern regions last week. 60 others are still missing. the u. n says is horrified by reports of mass killings in myanmar ride schools have accused the military of carrying out a massacre. after the charred remains of 30 people were found in chi, estate witnesses say civilians including women and children were rounded up and shot. tony chang reports, trucks burn at the end of a dirt track in kaya state,

southern myanmar. after the fires have died down or the video showed charred bodies in the record, only $38.00 people got few including women and children, reportedly rounded up and executed around the village of mo, so oh, by the mere mon military. among those missing 2 workers from the charity save the children who had been distributing aid to internally disposed people in the area there burnt out vehicle confirmed to be amongst those, destroyed a written statement from the charity said save the children, condemns this attack as a breach of international humanitarian law were horrified of the violence carried out against innocent civilians and our staff who had dedicated humanitarians supporting millions of children and need across myanmar. further south, close to the board with thailand, attack helicopters, an aircraft scene operating in areas where tens of thousands of civilians are trying to escape the fighting men. mars military seeming now to be in

a full offensive against armed ethnic groups. along the border with thailand, i expect that we're going to see more of these kind of atrocities because the myanmar military ah, when it faces resistance ah, doesn't have any breaks it can, you know, operate it to kill anybody that it was because it will not be held accountable by military command, there is no breaks on the car here. and thousands more refugees of now fled into thailand in the past 2 days. this is a growing humanitarian crisis that thailand doesn't want. in the past, refugees had been pushed back into myanmar when ty authorities deemed the situation to be safe. that now looks like a policy that'll be difficult to justify. tony ching al jazeera. these early government has approved a plan to double the number of jewish settlers in the occupied golan heights. a cabinet has endorsed $300000000.00 planned for the settlements. israel annexed the

golan heights from syria in 1981. a move not recognised by most of the international community now to spain, where they are growing concerns over people moving away from small towns. it's led to a gulf may out to a movement rather aimed at pressuring the government to offer better services in such areas. to attract families, natasha go name, visited pat the county in the catalonia region. oh, wanted people to relocate to the picturesque town of pride, 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 had her 7 year old daughter love arrived in january i recall on live with thing male was i lived in big city and foam is the 1st time but her. i'm very happy i may be because it was my to him. may i'm feeling good. hey, i don't know, but i hope it will be for 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 at him if kately. hi, tim mason. i prefer to have more kids cuz then i have more friends present. get as if i to me ram me. 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 capitols 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 the running frontier, gallagher that i think of the home by that are so that i either rather here you can have a childhood that you will remember all your life. the kids are on the street alone relate to people from old age. we have mountains and education is high quality luncheon a man isn't in them in more prevail fen hm. who and her daughter are now part of the 1st population boom in pratt dakota. since 2015, 13 people have moved here in the last year. the advertisement campaign seems to be

working. natasha, her name l. t 0 pratt to compton spain. the superhero film, spider man, no way home has taken in more than $1000000000.00 at the global box office. it's a new record for the block buster. the 1st film to reach that milestone since the start of the pandemic. and is the 2nd movie in history to reach sat mark despite many feet as being closed or that capacity reduced because of crone of ice restrictions. jasmine simpkins is a house and film critic with hip hollywood dot com. she says the film industry knows people are excited about going back to the cinema. you know, i think how we would spend doing very, very well behind the scenes. you know there cobit protocols on sets and then even on screening, having journalists come and see the films they've really, really been doing a great job of keeping people from getting the virus and making sure that people that are coming to see the films and being on sat are vaccinated,

so i think they knew that they had all their, you know everything, their checks and balances all and their ducks in a row rather when it came to even getting the film shots. and i think at this point, they noticed that people were going back to the box office and it was just time it was time to, to see what this film was going to do and put it in the theaters as opposed to going to our streaming platform ah, again, i'm fully betty ball with the headlines on al jazeera south africa is beginning 7 days of mourning for nobel peace prize, laureate desmond tutu, reside at the age of 19 a series of events have been planned to mark his passing, including a state funeral on january 1st, $22.00 rose to prominence in the 1980 s as an opponent of apartheid during white minority rules. we have lost the person who carried the.