to 0 the. ready use a large fire breaks out south africans parliament building where we live in cape town with the latest. ah, hello, i'm emily. ang, when this is al jazeera live from also coming up mosque mandates. and vaccination drives is governments around the world grapple with surgeon code 19 cases. molly's interim government proposes delaying elections by 5 years, despite pressure from its neighbors to restore democracy. and at least 6 people killed is intense. rain triggers, flash floods in our minds. ah,

we begin with some breaking news. a large fire has broken out of south africa. parliament building and type town columns of smoke can be seen, billowing from its worried face and live pitches. the flames have also spread to the national assembly, building spikes, and cities. emergency services, the cracks have been forming in the buildings wall. we have the situation under control for now. we will be continuing with the investigation as to the cause of the fire. for now, the way it is running the same, the fire in the chances of the national council of province at the far end just started in the national assembly where we are on some business to say that it's a very said you must get a hold of them let's get more on the story from gillian wolf,

who joins us on the phone from cape town. hello there, jim. what are you hearing on the ground there? hi emily. yes. so i have just spoken with. i believe that it was patricia. she's a minister of public works and she tells me that fire. a war on the scene within 4 minutes, they are currently doing everything that they can to get the fire under control. they don't know what is the cause of the fire just yet, but they're leaving an investigation determined because she's speaking to firefighter team, the parliament security parliament police. now they've managed to be able to contain the fire there in the chambers of the national council of provinces. but it has spread to the national assembly chambers, and that's where they're busy right now, trying to get it under control. they've moved. everyone is far away from the parliament as far away as possible until that buyer is control. but you have to

understand the context of why these buildings are important. they're institutional to the democracy of south africans. now the national assembly of chambers where that fire has spread to isn't iconic building here in south africa, it's where the members of parliament needs and they debate and they ask questions to ministers. and it's where the president uses it to speak to deliver his state of the nation address at the national assembly. it's also very significant because it's the building where nelson mandela was 1st selected as the 1st president of south africa, the new law chrissy. and it's where he made his 1st address to the nation. also the country. it's the country that's been addressed by many other heads of states in that building. including 4 former us president bill clinton and other world leaders . it's also where the nation watches that democracy inaction each day. so what is

the key point in south africa in democracy and it's also a monument that obviously attracts many tier. so i'm told, as you heard partition that has a very bad day for the market. the for what it represents to the country and all it also comes off the heels of the archbishop desmond tutu funeral. that was held within the city of cape town just a day earlier. so we will be learning more as, as the day progresses about what we could have caused the fire and, and we will learn more. busy as they continue to work hard to contain the spread, and you very much for that update joulene wolf live for us in cape town. in the latest on the pandemic now in governments around the world are grappling with how to control surgeon cases of corona virus. the health system in australia is most popular, state new south wells is being pushed to its limits, more than

a 1000 people with the virus currently being treated in hospital. in england, secondary students will have to wear masks when schools reopen after christmas break. daily record of more than $100.00. 62000 cases were recorded in the u. k. on saturday, largely driven by that on the con variant and the bangladesh campaign has been launched to vaccinate $40000000.00 people each month is hoping to inoculate. 70 percent of the population by april can be a child who has more on that vaccination drive from deco. 29 percent of the population has been vaccinated in a major, dr. had received $20000000.00 vaccine last week from through unit several, rather under kohler segment bangladesh of a ship. so 400000000 dosage of vaccine, also under bilateral leg reminded, receive vaccine from other sources. but the united states in china has gifted a 1000000 doses of vaccines to bangladesh and recent times. now the government is

fearful of the new via ryan. so he just started a major drive, a campaigned rather, to vaccinate about 40000000 people by january this year. not the concierge major line though it is slowed down little bit, but in every hospital and clinic center, that is a drive. it wants to take it to the world level in a rural areas. the target is the gum and said is to vaccinate 80 percent of the population by the june this year now to some major challenge in the supply chain, getting it from the manufacturer to the recipient arms. but it is willing to take the challenge. it feels like it has adequate amount of vaccine. it even started a booster dose for senior citizen, about 60 and for the front line workers. now it also started to vaccinate children from 12 to 17 years old, mostly college school student. that program started from october. in the stallion stated, nissan,

whiles and 93 percent of people over the age of 16 have received at least 2 doses of the vaccine, but it's still struggling to cope with case members. sarah clark has moved from new here in queensland on the situation across the country, victoria, which is the 2nd a 2nd largest dice. it also recorded plot big numbers in the 172 new cases and trade this and the decrease in delhi tie. somebody says christmas having said that the tissue numbers have also coincided with that drop. we had most testing centered across a victoria shop. they said we'd use the high temperatures, we have a strain teach degree. and that also was a case. 1 where we had some testing since 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 daily testing for some time, 3587. and i should know that that is because there are so. 2 many people traveling

across the border in the last few weeks with equations that has opened the border to trouble saying hundreds of thousands of people across the board to come here. we expect to see that number here in claims and to continue to ride 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 the symptoms, but there was a press conference held at his home and to billy as a result that have now concerned one of the people attending that press conference has tested positive philippines. government is timing restrictions in the capital after arrive in coven 19 cases last week. starting on monday in person classes, contact form and live performances will be banned in manila capacity will also be restricted in cinemas, restaurants, and other commercial businesses. more than 3000 people tested positive on saturday to other world news now and the leader of molly's intimate authorities calling for

elections june, next month to be delayed. the transitional government had agreed to hold the post in february, following a military coup in 2020. now it wants them to be held within a 5 needs. the western african regional blog eco was, has imposed sanctions on officials and its promise more if molly's latest storm produce a plan for a democratic transition. following these stories, fidelis and by whose live for us in a, bu, hello, there, fidelis, what's lead to be significant? and potential 5. you delay emily. last because the there was the end of the national dialogue had recommended that elections, that's presidential legislative elections will be held between 6 months and 5 years . but then the countries that foreign minister had a meeting with they needed off the vehicle, was a block,

which is the regional block, the that the president of ghana, after the meeting, it broadcasts on national tv, where the foreign minister now said that, that the expect to hold elections in 5 years because in previous times they had up to the complaint about the lack of logistics and also the fact that the countries to go into serious violence because to continue to pass by and groups, especially in the central and northern region of the country so they're now saying that need because they only do that after 55 years. so that will be able to hold elections because it will be national dialogue. that was had last week had been a boycotted by the position who said that whatever it was being fed was just a waste of time and that they don't see elections happening soon. so if those elections are delayed, what else can we expect in terms of reaction from the region,

there's been no reaction didio from the air, the original block yet. but we expect reactions as early as to day because in wendy or the transition at that's the military ouster to the former president a brought him back to back i cater from office in 2020. they had promised that in 18 months that they were hoard elections, which is supposed to be a february. and then in may, the leader of the call or a semi goiter, had them over to the transition government and also said he was still committed to the letter election timetable. but again, with the letter. so decision to hoard elections in 5 years. this is actually going to dipping tension between the country and the regional block because the original block had in 2020 or, or that the closure boy that would support other countries and also banned all the transition committee members from traveling out of the country. and when going back

to cuba, it made 2021. these the increase the sanctions to we also include the freezing of assets of all the transition members and the family members. so now with the it is, it's looking a likely that these elections are going to who would next month. so where, expecting for the functions as promised by the regional block because they had threatened that english elections don't hold that they're going to impose another round of like a sanctions against the transition committee members and the effects, or the supporters as well. okay, well let us know how that unfolds. it allison by light for us in a pager. thank you. still head on al jazeera. ah, the foaming music at nice and cleaning ties by day, the challenges facing venezuelans now living in peru and recovering mexico's last treasury, ancient artifacts heading home centuries after they was stolen. ah

hey, there your world, whether report begins right here right now in australia with an update on tropical cyclone seth and it is starting to weaken as it moves toward the south, but it is creeping closer to that border with queensland and new south wales. it's going to give us some dangerous surf in conjunction with high tide a. so there is the risk of seen some flash flooding. let's paint the colors on right now. they're darker the red, the higher the temperature look at this heat through the out back birds fil, at 45, you know, for western australia both for the northwest and the southwest, we've got that catastrophic fire danger alert coming off of that heat wave while high pressure the driver of the school bus. so cross sat new zealand that's carving out sunny skies and high temperatures in auckland with a high 28 degrees. not sun, but rain that we're dealing with for southeast asia. blankets of rain across borneo

the top and bottom end of sumatra, and we'll lose a bit of intensity in those rains for malaysia and singapore. not the rain, but the snow force chapin we're setting some new records here. so southwest honju the most amount of snow on the ground in january $61.00 centimeters. and there is more to con, but i think the area that will be hardest hit as we look toward monday. will actually be southwest okada, where we have snow storm warnings in play. they're looking good though in tokyo with a high of 9 degrees. that's it. caea ah, 2020 the year of locked downs and social distance saying you can't reach across the screen and get someone to re explore one of the global pandemic. biggest side effects loneliness, everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time ever highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique

ways of coping. control it being alone to get back to the episode of all hail the locked down on al jazeera. ah ah, hello, you're watching out there. i'm emily anguish are minor, vad top stories this hour. a large fire has broken out at south africa parliament building in cape town. these a live pictures and you can see columns of smoke billowing from its roof. a minister of public works says 5 crews have the situation under control doors. authorities a warning the hospital system and the surrounding state of new south wales was being pushed to its limits. more than a 1000 people are being treated for the corona virus. case numbers have more than

doubled since christmas. and the later of molly's internal authorities, calling for elections due next month to be delayed. the transitional government had agreed to hold the poles in february, following a military crew back in 2020, now wants to hold them within 5 years. ukraine's president says he, the main goal for this year is ending the war in the east. large parts of the region were taken over by russian, back to separatists almost 8 years ago. now tensions over russian troop movements near the border have led to threats between the u. s. and moscow. in baba we are not scared of any army on the other side of the border. that's the message from ukraine's president in his new year message, one clearly aimed at russia. and there was more defiance in my son, bookish, navigate shirley. unfortunately, we have not ended the war in the east of our country yet. this is our primary goal . that's why i say not yet, because next year will definitely be better,

according to ukrainian officials. there are currently around a $100000.00 russian troops near the border. western government say that concerned about a full scale invasion. the fighting and eastern ukraine between separatists backed by moscow and the ukrainian army started in 2014, a huge protest in the capital. kiev, led to the pro russian government being overthrown. the conflict has killed more than 14000 people, devastating ukraine's industrial heartland known as the dog bass and leaving civilians terrified to. earlier this week, the russian and us presidents had a phone discussion lasting nearly an hour and involving threats on both sides. why not? clear to the president that he makes any more moves goes in to ukraine. we will have severe sanctions,

will increase our our presence in europe with our nato allies. and it will be a heavy price to pay for the solutions. but our president immediately responded that if the west decides in this or other circumstances to impose the unprecedented sanctions mentioned, that could lead to a complete breakdown and ties between our countries and caused the most severe damage to relations between russia on the west. rushes worried by what it says is the west's rearming of ukraine, and it will be taking part in a series of meeting starting in 10 days time. it wants legally binding guarantees that any future expansion of the nato alliance will exclude ukraine and other former soviet bloc. countries, it's not clear at this stage, we're already compromise will come from the baba al jazeera at least 6 people have been killed after heavy rains in our mind. strong winds and flooding began on thursday, and the storm is expected to continue until wednesday. it's from 2 wanting to

people to stay away from dangerous areas where the present a jeff harrington has more on with just 3 months ago, the tropical cyclone. shaheen made landfall in northern oman, and it brought about 2 years worth of rain to mascot. so here we go. again, we're going to go in for a closer look. we'll see some of these solid bands of rain here in boss. got the drench the area in and around. so this time around, we picked up about a quarter of a years worth of rain, but the bottom line with this that is still too much rain too fast. and it's a bit of a one to punch here because this is a mountainous area. so you got all that rain falling high above it just rushes right down to the ground and the ground just cannot hang onto it. so that's when we see those scenes of flash flooding. now let's try out where this energy is going on sunday, because i think we could see more images of flooding emerge across the middle east, a potentially q way. look at this, the darker the yellow, the more intensive rain is also through eastern saudi as well. and southern

sections of iran, but that threat for iran not just sunday into monday as well as this energy moves more toward the north and also toward the east. now want appeal, i will give you a wider look because this is really something that we're going to be dealing with for the next few days, or this it transitions into southern sections of pakistan. the risk of also seeing some flooding here as well. so we look at the next 3 days in karachi and it really rainy forecast here. so about $10.00 to $20.00 millimeters of rain each day. but we need to remember these areas simply cannot deal with this much rain that fast. israel has launched a strikes in gaza, they reported to struct, empty fields and casualties have been reported. it's seen as a show of force after rockets fide from garza landed off the coast on television. it's not clear if the roku fi was intentional or a test launch age, it is mediating to defuse the situation. palestinian infections in guns that have been demanding the release of a prisoner on hunger strike. protests have been held in cities across

a route to mac mailing 2 years since these fascination of senior iranian general gossum seller mining. he was killed in the u. s. joint strike in baghdad. along with and later of the iranian backed popular mobilization forces, donald trump ordered ceremonies, killing, saying he was planning an imminent attack on us interests. more protests are planned for later on sunday mahmoud abdel wyatt sent this report from back that thousands of iraqis got out of here nearby dodds green soon to modify the 2nd anniversary of the killing of iranian commander. awesome sleigh. many, an obama, dim hunt is a tube 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 protest 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 to to 22 p, letting that old foreign troops should leave the country. and they say that they will continue protesting until the government responds to their demands. and he's new. your message, pope frances has focused on social injustice, including the plight of refugees and displaced faithful. the pontiff called on people to achieve pace by focusing on a shared humanity. he said the images of marion, jesus reminded him of the many mothers and children playing more and famine. the pope also called for an end to violence against women, describing it as an insult to god's v. a mom called at n p in charity. the future, we do living an uncertain and difficult time because of d pandemic. many a fraction about a future, unburdened by the facial situation of a personal problems by the dangers coming from the environmental crisis. from the injustice season from cabinetry, economic imbalances. looking at mary holding her son in her arms,

i think of the young mothers and children fleeing wars and family waiting and refugee camps. there are lots was done. the money naturally. hundreds of migrants in refugees have made it to shore in sicily, after being rescued by a charity boat, i spent more than awake on board the vessel as it attempted to find a port that would allow the migraines to do some bog. those rescued were mostly from africa. nearly 6000000 people have left a venezuela to escape a humanitarian crisis. peru house more than a 1000000 of them bought as marianna sanchez reports from lima. many is struggling and doing menial jobs with no access to health care. ah, holiday gala far away from home uses sions of the road. a market struck give free concerts to promote themselves. ah, the musicians are mostly business, will em migrants trying to make it in video. but it's hard,

says lead viola player yet melissa. 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 dentist will and 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 paper. oh, more than 1200000 venezuelans are displaced in bay do. and national superintendency for migration says nearly 80 percent of them don't have health insurance or other benefits at the sun that also parish on the outskirts of the capital. at least 50 per venezuelan families live on handouts cannot be in them,

but i'm most don't have money for food or a stable job. and many have health problems. the low 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 dose. so the little has his, her son christian will soon turn 6 and lose his free health care. however, she says it doesn't make much of a difference to have a work permit. when i mean, how could i, my husband has the residence he card, but he works in an, a formal job where he has no benefits. so we is simply up in the air without anything economist, hearsay, 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 work. and then there were 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 rice, but a,

blair? 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. but for now their contribution to peruvians is music that heals the sol medina center. so to cedar, lima biddle, mexico has a wealth of ancient cities, terms and artifacts, and is long been a treasure trove for archaeologists. but many of its historical paces were whisked away and scattered around the world. now the mexican government is trying to get them back. as john holman reports lost treasures returned home after being recovered from abroad. the being shown often a new exhibition called the greatness of mix code. some of the pieces are on

display for the 1st time. this 1200 euro whoo 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 mits can governments mounted a big push to bring home the country's historical objects. more than 10000 have been recovered. christina talks to us from germany after voluntarily returning 27 figurines, that have been with her for decades. now me see anybody there, but again, it's assuming 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 quote to feels the same sample has promised comments 0 again, though the 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 of the recovered treasures had a circuitous route to broad, and it's tough to get them back using litigation. instead, the mits can governments 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, um, or i guess mexico's long been a paradise for archaeologists. and collectors with temples tombs, jewels and ceremonial objects to be found and sometimes wished away in if the momentum the wire cliff hinder. may he go? mexico was growing and a lot of people were looking at it from the 1940 to the 1970 s later. then, with the law of 1972, our institute had more tools to fight for 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 homan, al jazeera metzger city. ah, hello, are you watching out 0. these are the stories were following this hour. a large fire has broken out at south africa's parliament building in cape town is alive, pitches of columns, of smoke billowing from its rush. the minister of public works says via cruz had the situation under could.