that my naive meets the women affected by s g m and those re shaping perception. do you think people will abandon the sir eventually, but to these take al jazeera correspondent, the conte. oh, a large fire breaks out at south africa's panama building in cape town. ah, hello, i'm emily anguish. this is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up mosque mandates. and vaccination drives is governments around the world grapple with surgeon cove and 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 are

killed as intense rain triggers. flash floods in our mon. ah, we begin in south africa where 55 is battling to contain a fire at parliament building. in cape town, the blaze is believed to have started in offices, but flames have spread to the national assembly building. the building is said to have suffered significant damage in part of the roof has collapsed. let's get more on his story from gillian wolf, who joins us on the line now from cape town. jill, what are you hearing on the ground? what's the latest there? hi emily. so i've just spoken to the spokesperson for the city fire services. it's telling me that there's extensive damage on the 3rd floor of the old assembly building. there have been no cause of the stablish yet. obviously that will be done when the flyers extinguish, but it's spread over to the national assembly and there's an active fire fighting.

5 present at the moment they're not being contained at the moment, but luckily. 5 there are no injuries at the building as it was empty at the time when they got the call. they got the call at 12 minutes 6 this morning. 5 70 firefighters are on the scene right now. to get to the scene within 4 minutes, there's medics on the scene as well. but luckily, no injuries have been reported because the building was empty because it was so early on sunday morning. but the situation is fluid. they are currently fighting the fire as much as possible and they've moved as many people the public away from the building until about fire is emily and julian was saying some peaches now of smoke billowing from that building. what is the significance of the area for cape town in south africa? more broadly? yes, the national assembly is, is super important to the democracy of south african, the fires that it spread. now it's an i clinic building and south africa because

it's where the members of parliament, they me, they debate off questions. the minister is where the, the president deliver. a to the state of the nation address, but it's also very significant because that's where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st president of. a new demarc, your new democracy. so it's, that's the place where he delivered his 1st address to the nation out. but. a also been addressed by many has a state in that building, including the former us president bill clinton and other world leaders. so it's really, it's a place where the nation watches the fall. what does it in action? and of course, it's a monument that attracts many children from around the world. ok, thank you very much for that update. gillian wolf live for us in cape town. thank you. now the light is done, the pandemic and 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 wales is being pushed to its limits will then a 1000 people that have the virus and a currently being treated in hospital in england, secondary students will have to wear masks when schools reopen after the christmas break a daily record of more than 162000 cases was recorded in the u. k. on saturday, largely driven by the army con variant and in bangladesh campaign has been launched to vaccinate $14000000.00 people each month. it's hoping to inoculate 70 percent of the population by a prob, sarah clarks reporting from queensland. now with the latest from australia the q that p c r testing center is a long waiting times for processing results can take days. rapid engine tests or rats are nearly sold of those that are available, a filling at high prices. every state in australia is now recording

a growing number of cases with one and 5 people in yourself. while testing positive at the moment does not appear to be any song that is abiding. the numbers which are being reported in terms of positive cases. clearly under reporting of the number of actual cases at bit. now that means that a lot of people get infected very quickly, so hopefully that means we get through the community very quickly. but really, to some degree, that's not really the way you should be doing it. the last way, the number of cases being recorded has climb to more than 10000 a day across astrology. and he says, well, there are 5 times as many people being treated in hospitals compared to mid december claims that recorded its highest number of daily cases since the outbreak began. so won't be a surprise at all if in the next couple of days we see a significant increase in, in cases as more, more samples of tests that are more people come forward to that won't be a surprise in the next few days. if we say i see a significant rise in cases with board is now open across all states except western

australia. the spread of current of bars is rapid with different generations mixing over the new year holidays. this is about tempering managing the spread. it's not about trying to stop it and, and it's, it's, it's an awareness this. while when you altima probably would be exposed to, to kind of virus anyway. this is now spit out that process. so it is really just trying to manage it, particularly while we're still rolling out the businesses to the people who are quite honorable. testing centers in some states were forced to close over the new year due to high temperatures. that's combined with a lack of rapid energy tests across the street area is putting the health system under even more pressure. but the failure of this is actually breaking the pandemic worse and causing potentially the infection to be spread much more quickly tomorrow . so we've got these gaps, we're just when we needed it,

we don't have these rapid edge interests, which is directly contributing to the chaos, but also the potential for increased transmission of the bar. so the community chaos that's unlikely to be voted with the holiday season. still under way, sarah clark, audi 0, queensland, australia. and in the day, barbara has more from london on the u. k. surgeon cases there. because we keep hearing it's largely due to this ami kron varian, which is really ripping through the population amounts despite the ongoing and successful booster campaign that the health secretary, such as job it has been on the air waves. in the last year i was hailing the success about which saw 132000000 vaccinations last year and many more ongoing every day around the country. it is not enough to stop a huge rise in cases we've seen on saturday,

a report of 162000 new cases just in england. that's a new daily record. 154 deaths reported in the 24 hours to saturday just in england . very high again. so lots of people are asking why, in the circumstances it's so hard to get a cover test. many people a trying to get what they call lateral flow tests that you do at home. a quick result. it's very hard at the moment. there are shortages, government under pressure over why you didn't have contingency planning when i'm on the con 1st arrived. well, or johnson has now said that to school pupils in secondary schools when they return to school, after the holidays should wear masks in the classroom. that's in england, england was the only nation in the u. k. that didn't have that rolling before. they're saying it's temporary, but it's needed because of all my crime. it's going on now on vaccination drive in bangladesh, he can be in chandry in baca. fearful of the new. on the contrary,

and bunger those governors started major vaccination drive all across the country. it is targeting $40000000.00 people to be vaccinated by january this year, and it also wants to vaccinate 80 percent of the population by june this year. they by day, a good day by day people taking the vaccine has slowed down a bit. now the government is undertaking a major campaign to encourage people to take their job, jericho mothers with the high. the government also started a booster program for senior citizen and the front line workers. it has also started vaccinating school children from the age of 12 to 17 years old, josh joshua dom or the wife. today i'm here with my wife and my mom who's 60, to get booster shots. i'm a physician. we've already had to, and now we have to take a food dose of them by the leaders, by leather so far received on 100000000 doses of vaccine through unicef under caution agreement between the asian development bang bungles gunman and unicef. it

also received are the millions of those says through bilateral agreement, so far, only 29 percent of the population have been vaccinated. the challenge remains for government to get the vaccine from the manufacturers to the recipient, hands in the remote rural areas of bangladesh. to other world news now, the leader of molly's interim authority is calling for elections to be delayed. the transitional government had a great to hold the polls next month following a military coup in 2020. now it wants them to be held within 5 years. the west african regional block eco was, has imposed sanctions and officials. and it's promised more if molly's late it's don't produce a plan for democratic transition. fidelis bah, has more from the future. last thursday there was the end of the national dialogue, had recommended that elections, the presidential and legislative elections will be held between 6 months and 5 years. but then the countries that foreign minister had

a meeting with the media off the vehicle was a block, which is the regional block, the that the president of ghana. after the meeting, it brought capital national tv where the foreign minister now said that at the expect to hold elections in 5 years. because in previous times they had up to the complained about the lack of logistics. and also the fact that you take countries to go into syria violence because the continued attacks by an groups officially in the central and northern region of the country. so they're now saying that the because they only do that after 55 years so that you'll be able to hold elections because it will. the national dialogue that was had last week had been a boycotted by the position. who said that says whatever it was being fed is just a waste of time, and that they don't see elections happening. so on the looking a likely that ms. elections are going to go next month. so we're setting for the

functions as promised by the regional block because the hard trip in that, in this elections don't hold, that they're going to impose another round of sanctions against the transition committee members. and the effects, or the supporters as well. of the way gregor with a job, political and security analyst at an african security think tank company. he says, despite the criticism the from government has managed to bring him some stability in molly, this is by no means a got a government, a government that really was to transition like if it in the orthodox we, we know try to be i think this is this is the government that has very different view of what molly should be, how much they should be governed, and the world to be the one to do that, shoot all on on that vision. so it's meant to be seen if they'll be able to pull both the political cloud within,

within my lead international support to balance sides of international community that they use. and the government also within the region as well to be able to have some form of approval without overt covertly to, to guide this 5 year plan that they really know the government. the implant by marquiz to a large extent is step ahead of every, every one. you just have to look at how they able to change you guys on the, on the ground in a very incremental base teddy basis. so 1st of all, it was cool and then there was the intern government and then to look at the new moved, entering government came back to office despite all of the pressure within some part of within the region some, some constraints in the country. and of course, a very overt pressure from international community this to be able to maintain strong, hold onto power and keep some form of stab exactly political stability. still ahead

on al jazeera, with food prices at their highest level in nearly a decade. we look at how people in serbia struggling to make ends meet and recovering mexico is last treasures ancient artifact heading home centuries after i was stolen. ah, ah, look forward to burritos guys. with the sponsored my cattle airways. oh, hello. good to see. we have just been wallets with snow across western japan, particularly the southwest corner of honshu, 61 centimeters on the ground in january. that is good enough for a new record. and we're not done with the snow yet. we get these winds coming off the waters between korea and japan, some see effects, snow, and for the southwest of hawkeye. do we actually have

a snow storm warning in play here? so not just the snow falling, but it's going to be whipped around by those winds. so you're driving and that's certainly will reduce some visibility. ok, high pressure coming out. some sunny skies across central areas of china. beauty of a day and shanghai coming in at 14 degrees. as we go further for the south, this is really where the weather patterns gets to disrupt it. we've got this batch of what weather, fighting into the south china sea. we're going to keep our eye on that in the dates to come to see if it does have any impact for vietnam. blankets of rain across borneo top and bottom end of sumatra, but the rains lose a bit of intensity through malaysia and singapore. we have been dealing with some flooding in the indian state of time when they do, which and i getting a bit of a breather here. i think the heaviest frame will fall across your locker, and for now it is settled across northwestern parts of india and new delhi, your temperatures are lifting up with a high of 21 degrees on monday. that's it, sir. ah, the weather sponsored by katara, always a

celebration of tradition like ah, good luck al jazeera was gateway insight into the diverse culture. so mommy calling 2 different couples with booking and led lights together to your wedding. so monday or tuesday. ah ah hello, are you watching al jazeera, i'm emily anguish. reminder of our top stories this our firefighters are battling to contain a fire at south africa, parliament buildings in cape town,

columns of smoke can be seen, billowing from its roof. the building is said to have suffered significance damage, and part of the roof is collapsed. authorities a warning the hospital system, and these rally in state of new south wells is being pushed to its limits will, than a 1000 people are being treated for corona virus case. numbers have more than doubled since christmas, and the later of molly's interim authority is calling for elections june, june, next month to be delayed. the transitional government had agreed to hold the poles in february, following a military crew back in 2020, and now it wants them to be held within 5 years. at least 6 people have been killed off the heavy rains in irma and strong winds and flooding began on thursday, and the storm is expected to continue until wednesday. it's prompted warning to people to stay away from dangerous areas where the percentage, if harrington has more on the storm. with just 3 months ago,

the tropical cyclone. shaheen made landfall in northern oman, and it brought about 2 years worth of rain to musket. so here we go. again, we're going to go in for a closer look. we'll see some of the 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've 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 que wait, 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 to pill out, 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 seen some flooding here as well. so we look at the next 3 days in karachi and a 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 israeli forces have launched a strikes in garza, they believe to have landed in empty fields and no casualties have been reported. it's seen as a show of force following the launch of rockets, atlanta off the coast of tel aviv. it's not clear if the rocket fire was intentional or a test launch, egypt is mediation to defuse the situation. global food prices are at their highest levels in a decade. many people are now struggling to make ends made in serbia rising fuel and power prices and making things even worse. lower but manly reports

this new year. many in belgrade, a choosing carefully, well, they personnel, food basket. and that because prices have food, vegetables alone or 20 percent on a year ago. we have to predict prices to get to the end of the month to go through the month without any day. we may have the most of the we don't eat what we want, but what we have here, we always pay on from that. i managed to put it together somehow to pay for utilities to pay for electricity to make it make the mini probably fail. awesome morgan was paid for you. according to the u. n. global food prices rose by 30 percent in the past year, hitting the highest level in almost a decade. that's because harvest had been hit hard in major exporting countries, including russia, the us, and canada. and that's due to bad weather disruptions to supplies to jacoby 19

factor closures and high energy costs are also to blame. in serbia, price is room by 7.5 percent, but food with more than double that oils and fat rows by 22.5 percent. better of more than 20 fruits, nearly 17 percent and meets by 14. and they start to, it seems to me that this wave will continue. it will not stop at the end of this year. on the contrary, i think we will have a new wave of price increases. and there are several reasons for that. the 1st is that all excise products will increase in january. there will also be an energy crisis on this madness with the prices of gas electricity, so on. in new them, the government kept the prices of sugar oil, flour, pork, and milk. but that will expire at the end of january of, you know, walk through objectively this freezing of the prices of these foods didn't have any

effect on stabilizing prices. it had a psychological impact on consumers and gave the impression that the government is protecting the standard of living. many here say price wise is exceed minimum wage increases and that's putting pressure. many people put food on the table lower than monday, august 0. it's now illegal to use plastic to package most fruits and vegetables. in frans president, a menu on the chrome has called the move a revolution showing the countries committed to phasing out single use plastics by 2040 larger packs and chopped or processed fruit will be exempt from the band and elizabeth moo. tae is a french journalist and writer, she says there's been a mixed reaction to the new law. it is a friendly because on the one hand, the friendship, very much aware of the need to reduce plastic use. those brought support to the general use. so sort 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 the shop i often buy and when to on and dice, which i will of french went to the table. and they were wrapped on little plastic tray and wrapped in sort of thing. and now the plastic trade has been replaced in both of the, the, the, the cut off of the rule by a cobbled one. and you put those in the fridge and the, the, the, the, the end of the moist and soon the called bolts sort of melted them. and the whole thing is completely rotten. so then now i buy ziploc bags, which are made of plastic to put them because otherwise i cannot keep them more than a day in my fridge. and on the, the center is very much aware of that. and 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 coded, and quite frankly, people were just happy not to have lots of people pulling the vegetables and trying them and selling them, and then, and then buying on, not buying them. so it's, it's, you know, people do not know exactly how to take it as plus and minus on this. nearly 6000000 people have left a venezuela to escape its ongoing humanitarian crisis, peru host more than a 1000000 of them. but as marianna sanchez reports from lima, many a doing menial jobs, with no access to health care. ah, a holiday gala far away from home uses sions of the road. i am orchestra,

give free concerts to promote themselves. oh, the musicians are mostly business, will em migrants trying to make it in they do 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 than his will. and my grants 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 to a national superintendency for migration says nearly 80 percent of them don't have health insurance or other benefits 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 a 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 to leave a little her says 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. well, i mean, 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're simply up in the air without anything economist, hearsay, venezuelans have contributed to bill's 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 boy, ah, nearly 30 percent of in his willen migrants are professionals, but 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 soul. medina center so to us either lima biddle. mexico has a wealth of ancient cities, tombs and artifacts, and it's long been a treasure trove for archaeologists. but many of its historical paces were scattered around the world. the government is now trying to get them back. john holman, has will lost treasures returned home after being recovered from abroad.

that being shown often a new exhibition cooled, the greatness of mexico. some of the pieces are on display for the 1st time. this 1200 year, a woo relief came home from los angeles. these co hatchets, which we use is money in southwest mexico, 500 years ago, also returned from the u. s. over the last decade, the mexican governments mounted a big push to bring home the country's historical objects. more than 10000 had been recovered. kristina talks to us from germany after voluntarily returning 27 figurines, that have been with her for decades. not missing anything but again, this is him. i don't feel sad because if i die tomorrow, my children will have this problem and they will end up in a rubbish down, which is my biggest fear. the daughter on the quote to phil's the same sample has promised comments iraq and thought our last were convinced that all of 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 christine inherited from her husband, who got them as a gift from a met can student many years ago. many the recovered treasures had a circuitous route abroad, and it's tough to get them back using litigation. instead, the mits can governments relied on diplomacy, goodwill. 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 just met because long been a paradise for archaeologists. and collectors with temples tombs, jewels and ceremonial objects to be found and sometimes wished to weigh him 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 sweater. then, with the law of 1972, our institute had more tools to fight the pillaging and it went down. oh, now the river vaults fact 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 could gained independence from spain. john homan, al jazeera mexico city. ah, hello, are you watching out his ear? these are the stories way following the sour fight, as are battling to contain a fire at south africa's parliament buildings. in cape town, ablaze, his belief had started in offices, but flames had spread the national assembly building. it said to have suffered significant damage when part of the work has collapsed. gillian wolf has law from cape town.