this at all, were the lady that is old mother law, really short documentary from 14 of hostile and synagogue bureau, nikia, lily, and believe completing my he seniors at didn't give to ambient medical man who plants vow bombs and a west africa direct on al jazeera. ah saw africans pay tributes to the anti apartheid icon. archbishop desmond, to so many of them hailed as the nation's moral compass. ah, and come out santa maria here and jonah with the world news from al jazeera somali, as president says, he has suspended the prime minister after trading accusations over

a hold up in the parliamentary elections. israel's cabinet approves plans to double the number of settlements in the occupied golden heights and flash floods trap thousands in a dozen brazilian towns after 2 near by dams bursts ah so south africa has begun observing a week of national mourning for the nobel peace prize laureate desmond tutu, has died at the age of 90 people paying tribute to a man who rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid during white minority rule. jasmine to shoot also the 1st black archbishop of cape town will details of archbishop 2 days a funeral being announced at a news conference in cape town. the reverend michael wieder, who is the current dean of saint george's, kathy jill is speaking days. oh. busy lagging state,

but that is still to be determined at a later stage. and then as i might have mentioned, the attribute was said, the good feudal, the requirements within the only conform mantle that will be on saturday, acts at 10 am in the morning and then more so national and local governments we of farm are really extraordinary. how cool weather arrangements and further details? well, no doubt the announce to the next day or 2. so it is an unfolding plan. it is a plan that artificial arts and some of the plans there being revealed forms ago. the week ahead and i said this morning for archbishop desmond to the family, to mila is outside the cathedral. in cape town,

i guess the scope and scale are befitting the man certainly, and we've seen people come out here to saint george's cathedral to pay tribute. but just some more detail on what will be happening throughout the week. the city of cape town, as called the archbishop, it's greatest resident and is trying to pay the best tribute it possibly can. it's lighting up the famous table mountain in the color, purple, synonymous with the archbishop, as well as the city hall. there'll be a number of memorials across the country, not just in cape town. and on wednesday, there'll be an inch of faith service in cape town. and i think this also speaks to just how inclusive archbishop desmond to, to was even a, despite that foundation in terms of the anglican fe anglican faith. in that many people looked to him as a spiritual leader. and also, as you said, a moral compass and somebody, a personality in south africa that really we as be described as

a guiding light apart from his activism, m, as, as i or, and also even his criticism around injustices and, and economic and social injustices in south africa, the funeral will be held at this cathedral on saturday morning, as we've just heard there. and we do expect the archbishop to ally and state on a friday. and what's been like there this morning for me to, with people coming by to pay their respects. i mean, it looks a little quiet behind you. i wonder if that's are a result of coded. perhaps people are certainly cautious, but we have seen people trickle in and out throughout the course of the mornings, flowers laying flowers just behind her, sir. some people wanting to go into the cathedral, which isn't possible at the moment, but the certainly covert being a concern. and that's one of the reasons you'll see that on wednesday, for example, you'll have limited numbers within the venue,

but large screens will be put up. so that the public can watch that particular service. but we have spoken to some of the people here who say they revere the, the archbishop and the role he played in society in terms of being progress of being inclusive. and once again, a, just the last of the generation of south african leadership that played a massive role in terms of the fight against a party in on her art only that, but following the dawn of democracy still addressed some of the issues that even attacking the government, the government, the african national congress in terms of its inability to deal adequately with social injustice, poverty and even violence. and so this is somebody was always outspoken and for that reason, people look up to him and i'm sure we'll pick, continue to see people coming through throughout the course of the week. as i said, a number of services and memorials taking place where south africans are expected

to mourn. archbishop desmond, to to include farming miller outside the cathedral in cape town. early we heard from reverently to story who was friends with desmond to do for 35 years. he says the archbishop was disappointed with post pato governance. she accused of failing to live up to the promises of liberation will. the interesting thing is he never lost hope during the struggle against apartheid. but the most, most depressed i've ever seen him was in recent years when the very movement and the people who helped to bring us liberation, betrayed the vision of a rainbow south africa. and have taken us down the road of corruption and greed, and, and avarice and vitality. that is what has made him sad. and he has struggled with that. he said to me, in a conversation or all that long ago he said, you know peter, we, we,

we know our theology. we understand that human beings are frail and fallen and therefore we shouldn't be surprised that this is but we are allowed to be very, very sad. and i think he struggled with that. he spoke out against them with the same strength and almost ferocity as he used against the apartheid regime. and he said to them, you are worse, you are worse because you could and should be different. we trusted you to be different and his words were strong. i warn you, i want you, he said you will bite the dust. and when he said that i remember him saying that to be about reggie. and we all know that he's prophecy looks like it could come true. because recently, the amc government has suffered some real setbacks. people are tired of their corruption and their inefficiency. and, and so i, but i,

i don't want to leave him on that note because while he was deeply disappointed with the, with the generation that it should have liberated us and, and stayed faithful to the values of that of that liberation. he had immense hope and confidence in the younger generation. on 2 other news, on somali as assistant information minister is accused, the president of staging and indirect qu, this is after the prime minister mohammed has sent roubles. house was surrounded by military and presidential gods. the president mohammed up the life our manager says he suspended the prime minister until corruption investigations against him are completed. the prime minister claims he's still in power. we tried to get a bit of clarity with mcbride and his, the strategic advisor for the san research, a think tank, focusing on politics and security in the one of africa. the president's

constitutional mandate expired in february, and he stayed on and tried a very similar power grab in april this year, which led to fighting in the streets of mogadishu and, and would have it probably concluded in his overthrow, if a deal hadn't been negotiated to produce elections for parliament and president by the end of this year at that agreement for elections expired these for the parliamentary elections expired today. the prime minister was planning to convene a national conference today to charge the way forward. and now the president has once again intervened. and has created a situation of real uncertainty endanger the hold up is that the electoral model that used to pertain in somalia, which was quite straightforward, it's been used before, was modified at the insistence of the incumbent president with

a number of changes that favored his incumbency. and probably his re election and the entire process now has come down almost to one of cherry picking where seat by seed. we are seeing rigging, we are seeing appointees, of the president intelligence officers from the national security service being essentially given seats. and these are the people who would choose the next. the next president protests in iraq of blocks, roads leading up to the federal court in baghdad. supporters of iran back she group filed an appeal against the electoral commission after suffering heavy losses in october election. the chef clerk, federal thought as movement one, the most safe federal court is considering this case. now he's ready. government is planning to double the number of jewish settlers in the occupied golan heights. the cabinet endorsed a $300000000.00 investment plan for the region with $25000.00 is ready is already

live. the golan heights was seized from israel, sorry, by israel, from syria in the 1967 war, and annexed in 981. the u. s. was the 1st country to recognize israel sovereignty over the territory. grammatical, honestly, the golan heights is israel. money, this is obvious. since 1981 israeli law was applied on it. it's be on debate from the fact that the trumpet administration recognized it, and the fact that the biden and ministration clarified there is no change in this policy is also of importance. after 10 years of the horrible civil war in syria, any sensible person understands a peaceful and flourishing israeli. golan heights is preferable than any other alternative. alright. tensions between settles and palestinian sailor, 2 days of violence in the occupied west bank bottoms, which began off for a settler. was shot dead by 2 palestinians early this month. the like what red

crescent says is ready. troops have locked down the area and injured more than $240.00 palestinian protests for support and also another night of violence in what's become in recent days, the most frequent point of friction in the occupied west bank is ready. troops sealed off the village of berker villages through rocks and burned tires. the military said shots were fired in the area. soldiers fired live ammunition, rubber coated steel, bullets and tear gas into the crowd. by sunday, quiet had returned. but after days of what people here cool, unprecedented levels of attacks by israeli settlers. local activist honey describes how on thursday night settlers descended from the nearby illegal outpost of homage vandalizing a cemetery. before moving on to the village itself, holmes was stoned with let's going out. the dozens of settlers were attempting to get into houses. arafat sala says this level of threat against the village is

something new. i don't know with an equal muscle. i've been sitting up till morning in case they come back and they're out of control. no government controls them, no army controls nor they attack you anywhere. earlier on thursday, thousands of settlers gathered in a mass rally at the entrance to homage to mark a week since the killing of yahoo demon man. he was shot as he left the post in attack attributed to the palestinian islamic jihad armed faction on sunday. soldiers continued to guard the entrance. israel was supposed to withdrawn from here in a 2005 disengagement plan that a religious seminary has operated with military protection ever since. since the shooting settlers have repeatedly fought with soldiers, as they tried to erect new structures, within whom esh they're calling to the outpost to be formalized once more. the military closures in recent days have happened when there been large numbers of settlers threatening the village. but villages we've spoken to say that the

soldiers here to ensure the safety of those settlers. when it comes to protecting burka from attack, they say they're on their own. the shooting 10 days ago has led to reprisal attacks across the west bank, but it's here in berker, where the threat has been most concentrated and most constant. the village remains on alert. hurry for, sit al jazeera in the occupied westbank, just got to look at the world where the for you next and then peruse hidden pandemic. we're looking at the plight of thousands of children who lost a parent to cove at 19 and side by side, but very different agendas. a closer look at how the relationship between europe's pow houses, germany and france might evolve in 2022. ah hello. well, can see her world's weather report,

we're going to begin in australia toward the top and we've had this disturbance pretty much just stall out over this area ringing out its moisture. it is moving further toward the east impacting cans with a high of 31 degrees on tuesday, toward the southwest, so stamps years coming down in perth. but keep your eyes peeled on adelaide and melbourne in the days to come by the end of the week. look at is pretty close at 40 degrees in adelaide and perth only a high of 30, which is closer to where you should be for this year. after new zealand, we do see rain moving into the north island. some heavy falls around the capitol region. wallington has a hives 21 degrees. after indo china, the ne monsoon is throwing rain into central areas of vietnam. da nang could see about 50 millimeters of rain over the next 24 hours. it's not rain but snow that we have in western japan. this city is got $73.00 centimeters on the ground, and that's a record. it's never seen this much snow for the month of december. now, the situation on tuesday is that snow is starting to wind down across said japan,

still low temperatures. here are cargo shima high of 4, but temperatures have popped up across a korea. ne stuff, china, beijing at 5 degrees on tuesday, which is above average. that's it, susan. ah. in the country with the london so bristles wrote far and wide, indonesia whose firms for me we moved pool to grow and frock. 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 me pause when denise is growth and progress. invest in indonesia now. ah

ah. went out as they were these all the top stories this hours south africa observing a week of morning for the nobel peace prize, laureate desmond to 2, he rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of a party. during white minority rule, he was 90 years old somalis prime minister mohammed who, se ruble says his suspension is a violation of the constitution and the country's laws. president mohammed up the life of mojo accused the prime minister of corruption. both men been accusing each other of holding up parliamentary elections and flash flooding in northeast from brazil is led to the death of 18 people and is affecting more than 400000 officials say the site of bahia has received 5 times it's average rainfall for december

now at least $4000.00 men, mark villages have fled to neighboring thailand. as fighting between government and ethnic karen forces intensifies. the clashes were triggered by a military raid in lake joy in me and mars east last week. that town is controlled by the car and minority who want greater autonomy from the central governance. i his day chang, now from the border city of my saw in thailand with more we arrived in this area which is about 10 kilometers are further down the my river from minnesota. or on the way we saw an attack helicopter perry, a patrolling along the border. and we got out of the van. and there was the sound of gunfire. immediately. small arms fire, automatic gunfire. small percussive bangs that appear to be from mortars and louder bangs that are, that must be from heavier artillery to it. there's a slight lull at the moment, but so we were just speaking to the time military who are patrolling nearby. they said that sir,

they have been some hit on this side of the border. they've also fired warning shots across to the other side to try and stop anyone coming over here. but clearly the situation is very fluid. we've also just seen a group of villages from across the river on the mere ma side coming across. they say it, it's very unsafe over there, as we understand it. at the moment, there are various different groups belonging to the correct ethnic armed groups fighting against the myanmar military and the mere mar border force. one of the reasons they're fighting here is because the river is shallow. it's very easy to cross at the moment. no one's out there. the locals on this side, staying well within the boundaries of their houses at the situation remains very tense. with australia's most popular state, new south wales is recorded its 1st death linked to the army con,

very to cove. at 19 testing sites across australia have been overwhelmed. in some cases, a prominent libertarian cbi is also admitted. it's sent out a negative covey 19 report to close to a 1000 people when actually their results had not yet been determined. and that was any day after another laboratory apologized for informing more than 400 infected people. that they were negative. in the u. s. hundreds of flights of been counsel for 3rd day in a row airline say they just don't have enough staff to get their planes off the ground. as more and more people are infected by the, on the con, variance in new york, doctors reported an increase as well in the number of children needing hospital treatments, half a below the age of 5, and are too young to be vaccinated. more from my counter in new york, there's been a roll on a thick, tess 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 a 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 cron the 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 ami crohn is had getting through even to vaccinated people. our current of ours deaths in peru, i've left at least $10000.00 children without one more freedom. both of them parents being described as a hidden pandemic. and as with many poor families without their any bread winner, marianna sanchez has this report now 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 looked after the smaller ones. jo, are they gonna think of? and i usually make $10.00 per day,

but sometimes there is no working. and sometimes i only make $7.00 in a day, gone 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 put 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 classes. they have stress and anxiety. it's a critical situation and went on in april, the government rolled out a grants plan of nearly $50.00 for each child, but families have to apply online,

and for many that has proven difficult. over here among 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 by my family thought. the government says by june, only 3000 children were receiving the pension. children at change, the sadness of 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 davida and so lame a constantly cry, but i me of you them won't come down, 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 his sleep cove. it analysts say it is still early to understand the scope of the problem. and dawn right now, and 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 flushed flooding, and ne and brazil is led to the deaths of 18 people rescued teams still trying to reach those who are trapped as deluge came after 2 dams burst following weeks of heavy rain, swollen rivers flooded towns across the state. of bahia asunder and p at he has the support. 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 appoint them. i look good a lot though man. it's crazy by the bridge, it looks like the ocean that are 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 $67.00 towns still under flash, floods, warnings. while rescuers i'm being is we're trying to reach trap families, bringing basic supplies, or mac. it's very sad to see our town like this. it's very said, i never seen anything like this in my life. but yet, governor re castro said some 400000 people have been affected by the flooding. you'll have to give them width is viewed this. 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, well, at least 18 of died since the start of an emergency that could continue for weeks. allison and under the officials. and the philippines said could take until february, a part to be fully restored to where is devastated by type in right. at least 378 people died when the powerful storm slammed into central and southern regions last week. rescuers say at least 60 others are missing and about a 119 cities remain without electricity. germany marks the end of year this year with angle, the michael stepping down as chancellor, after 16 years. her success all shall send his party of signal, the return of more less leading politics across europe. but the regions of power

center france is hoping to keep the balance as it is. john hall reports from berlin and purse. ah, it was the end of an era in germany and gala merkle, 16 years as conservative chance the defined by economic strength, stability, and european leadership in her place came a shift in tone and direction. if not pace, a quiet man from the centre left him, accomplish it civilly take this guns from the hola, sholtes, and promises more merkel style stability, but with an accent on social justice. his offer of respect for the working class, one voters back from the populist extremes, his vision to turn germany into a manufacturing power for the carbon neutral age. there is not just a change in style and communication, but this is going to be a domestic transformation. monumental task that they have set out for themselves.

but in terms of foreign policy, it's not going to be simply an in we're looking government. because the world situation doesn't allow for that for a country in the middle of europe with no country has more neighbors. as in this, and so there's going to be a global agenda and there is more of a human rights based approach to foreign policy. so 2021 ends with change here in germany. the sense of the social democrats signaling the possible revival of the left across europe. while in france 2022 brings an election in which president emanuel mack cronies, hoping things stay more or less the same. for him at least, a few months ago. the deal seemed to be done. my call was going to fail. marine le pen the far right candidates in the 2nd round, and he would say it was going to be the winner. as in 2017. now it's far more complicated because the far right is split between 2 candidates. and the 3rd

candidate has emerged. the right wing, traditional right wing, valero, because, and so the game is far more open, that it seems that the axis of french politics has moved to the right, dominated by issues like immigration, and to succeed. micron will have to move with it. but like previous power, couples with political differences. think coal meter, all she rec, schroeder, that's no reason to think sholtes and mccomb can't see eye to eye on europe and the world. joe, to hold al jazeera at paris. ah . how fast they are. these are the top stories south africa is observing a week of morning for the nobel prize piece prize. laureate desmond tutu, amana rose to prominence in the 1980s as an opponent of parties during white minority rule died at the age of $95.00 minimal asthma from cape town. what is key

is, is just really the u military that the archbishop, oh, is described by in that he didn't want a big show around his parsing and even he his death. but it could simply can't be avoided.