o e j select on al jazeera. ah, we know what's happening in our region. we know have them get to places that others are not as far as i said, i'm going on the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. mm. mm. south africa pays tribute to anti apartheid hero and nobel peace prize winner desmond tutu, recalling what's been described as his persistent fight for justice and freedom. archbishop desmond to do has been our moral compass but he's also been our national crunches. ah, i don't know about this and this is obviously a rely from doha. also coming up back in business, uganda lifts. it's covered 19 locked on paving the way for schools. barzon cinemas

to reopen marches in iraq to remember cousins, cilla mani. the powerful iranian general killed in the u. s. jones strike 2 years ago. and recovering mexico's last treasures, ancient artifacts are heading home centuries after there was stolen. ah, a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and peace. that's how south africa's anti apartheid hero. archbishop desmond tutu as been described during his funeral service in cape town. his ashes are being and tired of saint george's cathedral, but he preached against racial injustice for years. from under miller reports. ah, to people around the world, archbishop desmond tutu, was a champion of freedom and the fight against racial segregation in south africa to

others. he was simply a husband, father and grandfather. many of the messages we received have said, thank you for sharing him with the world. well, it actually is a 2 way street because we shared him with the wall, you shed part of the knob you held for him with awe. and so we are thankful among the speakers at saint george's cathedral, michael newton, who served as tu tuesday pretty for many years for the chief mama, my dear go about many times with your husband. for the owner. he cried. and in the life of our country, both post and prison,

he had my about the service for many was deeply personal. much of the proceedings down, according to archbishop to his last wishes, a plain pine coffin go on for the symbols of the church. while the eucharist server sent to the route to tis anglican beliefs and spiritual leadership. his activism against global oppression. and as the leading voice against apartheid laws in south africa was to the full, ah, bishop doesn't want to do too much without question a crusade in the struggle for freedom, for justice, for equality and for peace. not only in south africa, the country of his birth, but around the world as well. oh, while at times solemn, the service also celebrated the archbishop through his favorite hymns and scriptures. his last moments at saint george's cathedral, marked by

a final blessing. archbishop desmond tutu was loved by many, but coven 19 restrictions limited. how they would have liked to pay their final respects. instead, they participated in services at smaller parishes across the country. ah, clergy and bishops form a god of honor as a final good bye to a remarkable man, simply known as the arch. his ashes to be late in turd at the church. he called home for me to mila al jazeera. capetown, with uganda is reopening after one of the strictest locked downs in the world. schools will start up again after being closed for nearly 2 years and lifetime curfew is expected to be lifted. victoria gigabit reports the end of the look down means children in uganda will once again get to experience one of the most important

parts of their lives. education schools there have been closed since march 2020. shortly after the 1st case of coven 19 was confirmed on the african continent. some classes reopened in february last year, but shut down again 4 months later as the country faced a surgeon infections. analysts say the last 2 years have had a devastating effect on children and young people wise girls had your me closed will this long is a question that bond lives. nobody can ask even begun to self convert. it's been completely, there has been a huge increase in a child sex malaysia miller stations. ah. but see clearly in a greg lucy's or across the country reported. i had the been here cases awful child marriages paused, disclose, and cinemas are also due to open up in the coming weeks. much to the relief of people who work in the countries entertainment industry, a wasted way too long. not too late. we are scared of it. in tons of the most of

them but. busy yeah, absolutely, we're ready to live with. doesn't look like it's about to go away. ugandans. i've suffered a lot. the pastry us, rather than get you me nice. i'm quite with misty black and we'll filter you gun to impose some of the most strict and lengthy rules in the world to contain the virus . since the pandemic began, it's reported a 137000 cases of corona virus, and more than 3000 deaths. the president says a high vaccination rate means it's now safe for the country to reopen. but during his public address, he added that some measures could be reinstated, it cases rise steadily, victoria gate and be al jazeera, more than a 1000 people are now in hospital with corona virus. am eastern in states with the biggest population. new south wales has the highest number of cases since over. just over 18000 people tested positive, but that's down for more than 22000. on saturday mornings the states hospital

system could reach a critical phase. the health minister assigned the public health order reducing isolation rules for sti from that means they can go back to work early. a set of clocks in noosa in queensland and she's got more on the situation in australia. victoria, which is the 2nd a 2nd largest dice, it also recorded piping numbers in the 172 new cases and traded the decrease in dallas taste others in christmas. having said that, the tissue numbers have also coincide with that drop. we had most testing centered across a big choy shot. they use the high temperatures, we have with strain degree. and that also was a case where we had some testing finish close and therefore it was a drop in the south wells numbers the previous days. we've had 20 to 23000 cases where i'm in queens that we've had the highest number of dial it takes time,

3587. and i should note that that is because there are so many people traveling across the border with dani in the last few weeks with a claim that has opened the board to troubles. so explained hundreds of thousands of people across the board. busy to come here, we expect to see that number here in claims and to continue to ride. 1 as a result, and on a side note, the prime minister potentially exposed to a positive type last wednesday. he said at the moment monitoring your symptoms, but there was a press conference held at his home in through billy as a result that have now concerned that one of those people attending that press conference has tested positive fans has reported more than 200002 covered 900 infections for 4th day in a row. it's not the 6 country register more than 10000000 cases. since the pandemic began some cities including paris and mil, have made a compulsory to wear a face mask indoors and outside. but the government times to relax its isolation

rules from 10 days to 7 phone just over a week. nationals and the united out of amity won't be able to travel abroad if they've not been vaccinated against covered 19. and new rules will also require amenities. who are fully vaccinated to have a booster shot if they want to travel. the policy goes into effect on january the 10th, but the foreign ministry says it will not apply to those with medical or humanitarian exemptions. protests to being held in cities across iraq to mock nearly to 2 years since the fascination of iran tub general customs cilla money. he was killed in the us. jones strike in baghdad, along with a leader of the iranian back to popular mobilization forces. president donald trump ordered southern monies killing, saying he was planning an imminent attack on us interests, mom or dad. go ahead as more from the iraqi capital, thousands of iraqis got out of here nearby dodged green soon to modify the

2nd anniversary of the killing of iranian commander possum sleigh manny and obama. dim hunt is a tub commander of iraq. soon. popular mobilization forces 2 years ago by an american john attack and they say that they are demanding the clarity in the investigation. they say that there hasn't been transparency in the investigation. meanwhile, the demand immediate withdrawal of all u. s. troops and iraq. they say that any u. s. military presence in the country will be resistance that have been leaders of the political parties, pro iran, political parties that they spoke here today, threatening to take matters into their own hands. they say they will take up arms again and resist the military presence of the us troops in iraq.

thousands of come from other iraqi, a province is to join the protest here. they're blaming the government for what they consider collaborating with the us a troops. they say that the government should implement the resolution passed by the parliament in january 2020, stipulating that old foreign troops should leave the country. and they say that they will continue protesting until the government responds to their demands that an elkin on is an iraq analyst. and he says pro iranian factions on losing support or challenging an accumulation of many defeats, most recently the major electoral defeat, that the parties that are affiliated with these groups in the early election last october, which also led them to another crisis where they failed to convince the leader of

the suggest moving to create a consensus government wisdom instead of a majority government. and then they last and other about where their appeal, which was rejected by the supreme court, where they claimed the elections where rick, so the accumulation of 50 defeats is what pushed them to signify. their strength and presence on the streets as though preparing themselves for a 1000000 protests and remembers of the assassination of some sort of money. and i'm this, the government has been struggling a lot and managing some type of test on my should. these groups are not a coaching, be the political system with, with the government for the 1st few weeks ago. it was a very same groups that most reports for the talk, the house of the finest or what the government can do now is just wait for the government to before. and because they know it's a current government. although a lot of sources claim that this i just movement might push for a problem this,

they're called me for another term, but they are dealing with the messages here. they know it's not really something, but they're actually trying to do what we're actually attacking them for. and forces are the us forces of the always claims to do the main messages here that they do. they still enjoy a powerful fan base across the country. it's messages to the suggest moving that they want to be a part of the a consensus government this majority government. and the electoral defeat is a great reflection off of their extremely decreasing of large across the country. they can get hundreds of thousands of people protesting, but they will never be able to whitewash or what shall way the memories of the lexical violence that a committed against civil society, activists and, and, and i activist them both as there is a since october 2019 still, i had on al jazeera, ah, musician,

by night cleaning tires by dave, the challenges facing professional venezuelans now living in a room. and it's wrapped for plastic packaging in france and you know, bands that are being used to cover most fruits and vegetables. ah well off the wet his day of the year, doha just yesterday, there's more rain to come, possibly on and off overnight tonight and during sunday, but it's focus, i think would be further north and possibly bahrain is inside a saturday. and then he concentrates really in iran during sunday. we're a title turning to snowboard is quite significant. rain that hits in some places possibly the years was on average, but it is not a typical, it just hasn't been seen for

a while. the same time the cold air has come across the black sea means more significant snow for eastern turkey. and possibly georgia was rein. training of the south of that running through the la venzano, it is now the effect northern parts of egypt once more. and what happens across iran is the rain keeps getting eastwards, the ground gets higher, the air is colder. be a lot of snow for afghanistan and northern pakistan. the same time, by the time you get to choose day, significant cherry rain on its way through mom, leaving behind that shamal shamal is a fairly cold and brisk northerly wind. so tensions at max 19 in q 8, only 70. not a dusty one. your notice, but the sun has returned and when we see next rain, who knows? ah, the coveted beyond wells. taken without hesitation,

fulton died for the power lines al weld logs. new babies were dying. i did it, not your bad wish. it's neglect and babies to deck people and power investigates. expose is and question the school. the use and abuse of power around the globe. on al jazeera lou. ah, he watching our da 0 reminder of our top stories. this our archbishop desmond tutu, has been described at his funeral as a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and peace. the anti apartheid hero died last sunday. at the age of night. uganda is

reopening after one of the strictest locked arms in the world. schools will start up again after being closed for nearly 2 years. and i time curfews expected to be lifted on january. the 10th protest have been held in cities across a rock to mark nearly 2 years since the assassination of the senior iranian general awesome ceremony was killed in a u. s. jerome strike in baghdad. along with the leader of the iranian back to popular mobilization forces, the leader of molly's interim authority says elections, which was scheduled for next month should be delayed. the transitional government initially agreed to hold them in february, following a military coup in 2020. it now wants the polls to be held within 5 years. the west african regional block echo was as imposed sanctions on officials on its promise more if molly's leaders don't produce a plan for a democratic transition. sedans,

military leader has called for unity warning that the country faces existential threats. general abdel fata alba hands televised address was to mark the countries independence day, but been ongoing protests against the military takeover which he led in october. i know, come to the corner, you mean you're all aware of the difficult situation at all countries going through and the magnet sheet of the challenges and crises that threatened the entity of the homeland and they are in fact, existential threats. that cannot be ignored and can only be confronted with full awareness impure actions and a sense of belonging to the homeland and putting its interest above any other interests. united states has blocked ethiopia, marley and guinea from a duty free trade program over the ledge. human rights violations and recent crews, the african growth and opportunity act, or ag one, allows sub saharan african countries to export certain products to the u. s. and avoid certain taxes. if you'll be as trade ministry, you says it's saddened by the decision and has asked the by the ministration to

reconsider. the suspension of benefits is likely to affect ethiopian textile industry. the most is early forces of launched artillery and airstrikes in garza after rocket fire earlier in the day. they are believed of landed in empty fields and no casualties have been reported. it seen as a show of force following the launch of rockets that landed off the coast of tel aviv. it's not clear of the rocket fire was intentional or attest, launch egypt mediating to diffuse the situation more than 1000000 venezuelans, a flight to peru in recent years, i've been trying to escape poverty and political upheaval back home. but life in peru is just as much of a struggle. many of them are working for low pay and they don't have access to affordable health care unless sanchez reports. ah, a holiday gala far away from home uses sions of the road, a mo orchestra,

get free concerts to promote themselves. ah, the musicians are mostly business, will em migrants trying to make it in they do. but it's hard says lead viola, player ye at melissa. ah, although he's a professional musician, the only job he's been able to land cleaning car tires has increased injuries to his back. most venezuela migrants are willing to do any job and most without health care is the fear, the neil a thought in them out, i stopped eating some food to buy pills. one of my colleagues gave me part of his salary. so i managed to pay for $10.00 appointments, but for the most part, no one gives me a hand fee, but ah, more than $1200000.00 venezuelans are displaced in they do a national superintendency for migration says nearly 80 percent of them don't have health insurance or other benefits ah,

at the santa rosa parish on the outskirts of the capital, at least 50 per venezuelan families live on handouts cannot be in them, but most don't have money for food or a stable job. and many have health problems. the look here says that only migrant children under 5 year sold and pregnant women can have free medical care. the rest must have residence card, but the majority doesn't have one. just so the little has his her son, the stand will soon turn 6 and lou, his free health care. however, she says it doesn't make much of a difference to have a work permit. when i met her, my husband has the residence he card, but he works in an a formal job where he has no benefits. so we're simply up in the air without anything economist, he or c venezuelans have contributed to bidders g d p with 0.2 percent last year. but the challenge is continued to be great,

but it didn't walk in that. we're talking about an extraordinary situation for which we have to generate extraordinary norms. we are talking with the authorities, so that was the paperwork. is the door opener for these race, but a bladder? ah, nearly 30 percent of venezuelan migrants are professionals. that 9 out of 10 do not work in their expertise. among these musicians, there are security guards, cooks, street vendors, many say they hope they can soon play full time at for now. their contribution to peruvians is music that heals the soul. medina center, so to us, either lima biddle and his 6 people have been killed are for tropical cyclone slammed into or man strong winds. and falling began on thursday. the storms expected to continue until wednesday, people are being warned to stay away from dangerous areas. irish has become an official language of the european union. all documents published by the you will be

translated into irish making it the 24th official language, but around 800000 native speakers and it's a compulsory subject in schools. almost 40 percent of the population in the republic of ireland say they could speak the language to some degree. on a mac, lanika is from the camera anal goga, and it promotes the irish language world wide. e says the decision would ensure the language is kept alive. physically give a huge, huge boost to the language. there is no, there is no question, but that is increases the status of the language. from a practical point of view, it is creating am good, high quality jobs in the european union, which walks its way down to the school system, particularly through the, the total of a system. we would do a lot of work with top level students in terms of promoting the language. it is in used in the main domain, suburbia that centers the greatest number of gayety speakers is actually in the

dublin, dublin city and suburbs. and people who go both their lives, who did their lives, like you and be what is there in their language. if we go back to one of the mentors of european project in the district of europe license diversity then is languages like ireland haven't a huge role to play in that like language and culture in general wrote european union. and that is the point that we would be making. we do have a language, it is the oldest languages in europe. it has one of the oldest written history in europe. it adds to the entire fabric of europe, and indeed the world in general. and we would see that that language is entitled to, to it status is entitled to services that we as citizens of our system, the europe, that we are entitled to the same services as any other than the speaks any other language,

european union and so illegal to use plastic to package most fruit vegetables in france, present and manual macro as called the move of revolution showing that the countries committed to phasing out a single use plastics by 2014 larger packs and chopped or processed food will be exempt from the ban. later this year, public spaces will be forced to have water fountains to reduce the use of plastic bottles. and elizabeth mccain is a french journalist and writer. and she says there's been a mixed reaction to the new law. it is a friendly because on the one hand, the french is very much aware of the need to reduce plastic use. those brought some pull to the general use of not using so much plastic and they complain about this at the same time. ah, the ones you buy the vegetables yourself, you realize that nothing has been calculated to find new ways of wrapping vegetables that doesn't sort of make them decompose too fast. in the case of,

i'll give an example that i've been through myself during your shop. i often buy and when to on and on, which i will love french went to the table and they were wrapped all the little plastic tray and wrapped in sort of thing. and now the plastic tray has been replaced in both of the, the, the, the cut off of the rule by a code baldwin. and you put those in the fridge and the, the, the, the, the, and i've, the moist, i'm soon the cold, bolts sort of melted them. and the whole thing is completely rotten. so then my by ziploc bags, which are made of plastic to put them because otherwise i can't keep them more than a day in my fridge on the, the sentence very what, where of that time they say they're all things that people will not touch because they can't keep them the same way and the, you know, when, as long as it's something like bananas, nobody chose something that you have to appeal. nobody cares. there's one implication. the other thing is that this comes right at the time of covenant. and quite frankly,

people were just happy not to have lots of people pulling the vegetables and trying them in spelling them and then, and then buying or not buying them. so it's, it's, you know, people do not exactly how to take it as plus and minus on this more than a 1000 homes have been destroyed by wild fires in the state of colorado and at least 3 people are missing. every snow's help to bring the fires under control. several tongues were hit for the wall for some thursday, with strong winds, fanning the flames. mexico has a wealth of ancient cities, tombs and artifacts. and that means it's a treasure trove for archaeologists. but many of the countries pieces have been whisked away and scattered across the world. now the mexican government was trying to get them back. john holman, as one last treasures returned home after being recovered from abroad, that being shown off in a new exhibition called the greatness of mexico. some of the pieces are on display

for the 1st time. this 1200, you're a woo relief came home from los angeles. these copper hatchets, which were used as money in southwest mexico, 500 years ago, also returned from the u. s. over the last decade, the mit can governments mounted a big push to bring home the country's historical objects. more than 10000 have been recovered. christina tossed was from germany after voluntarily returning 27 figurines, that have been with her for decades now miss yesterday. but guess if i don't feel sad because if i die tomorrow, my children won't have this problem and they will end up in a rubbish down, which is my biggest fear. the daughter on the call to feels the same sample has promised comments iraq and thought our laws were convinced that all the artifacts from every country should be given back to them. not just mexico for more than a 100 years they've been stolen. these are the pieces christina, inherited from her husband, who got them as a gift from

a mexican student many years ago. many the recovered treasures had a circuitous route to broad, and it's tough to get them back using litigation. instead, the mexican government relied on diplomacy good will. we've been very successful in receiving voluntary returns of these pieces because people really want those pieces to go back to their arm. or we guess metric has long been a paradise for archaeologists. and collectors with temples tombs, jewels and ceremonial objects to be found and sometimes wished to way if the momentous lonely radcliffe kindle may he cool. mexico was growing and a lot of people were looking at it from the 1940 to the 1970 slater. then, with the law of 1972, our institute had more tools to fight the pillaging and it went down. now the river vaults, facts flowing out the country seems to be reversed. what the exhibitions literature says is that when a countries are to fight for lost, erodes part,

the nation's memory. and thus, why the big hunt to find that these are like little bits of mexico's memory that are scattered around the globe. the return of some of them is celebrated by this display, which marks 200 years since met, code gained independence from spain. john holman, out 0 mexico city. ah, this is al jazeera, these are the top stories of funeral has been held for south african. archbishop desmond tutu is been described as a crusader in the struggle for freedom, justice equality and peace. archbishop desmond, due to has been our moral compass.