this is the beginning of friendship. this is the beginning of love, right? like getting somewhere we can really break through the barriers studio, be unscripted on al jazeera blue. 3 protesters kill dean. some don as security forces confront demonstrators angry over the military's role in government. ah, play watching al jazeera live from bill how with me for the back people also coming up a fire causes serious damage to south africa. parliament building in cape town. protestors against gilbert 19 restrictions in the netherlands. clash with police in amsterdam defying a ban on demonstrations and recovering mexico's last treasures. ancient artifacts

are heading home centuries after they were stolen. ah, thank you very much for joining us. we begin in sudan where medical sources see at least 3 people have been killed during demonstrations in own. dorman, is the 12 major protests since the military seas power. in october. earlier internet services were cut and armed officers brought bridges, connecting the capital to the suburbs that were trying to prevent the planned demonstrations, which were called in memory. of protesters recently killed by security forces will cross live to our corresponding mom at vall, in cartoon very shortly. for the latest, but for his he is he but morgan was been speaking to some of the protesters in cottage growth. i spoke. oh, once again, making their way to the presidential ballot incidence capitol, heart of bloom now thunder's protests were called for by one of the resistance committees in the southern parts off to dance capital and eventually was joined by

other resistance committees committees that have been mobilizing people to take to the streets and void, their opposition to the military takeover that happened in october last year as well as to the deal that followed in late november between the army and prime minister album, a ham doke, an out to end the regime of the military into down and to hold the army and those in pal accountable for the debts protesters. we want justice for our brothers who were killed. we want a civilian government. we want peace, freedom and justice. why don't we damage, you know, i, mothers are crying during the last protest i, one of the protesters who was killed was an only child, but the head of the army is doing is terrible. so we'll continue protesting. security has been increased there on the capital, hard to with major bridges and roads closed ahead of the plan protest. and with security forces deployed around government facilities. c so down sovereignty

council on saturday, stated that people have the right to freedom of expression, as long as it is within the law, and that it's respect people's rights to demonstrate sweet fully. now, despite the statement from particular sovereignty council, sanders protests were also met with tear gas used against protesters to disperse them away from the vicinity of the presidential palace. the sovereignty council has amount that there will be investigation into the incidents of violence and that those who are responsible will be arrested and held accountable for the protesters who continued to take to the streets. the use of force has not been a deterring factor. more protests are planned for in the coming weeks by resistance committees who say that they will continue to voice their opposition to the deal that was fine between the army and prime minister ham dog. and they will continue their demand for civilian government until they see that happen. live now to another of our correspondents in cartoon mohammed von mohammed, reports of several protest is killed to day. what's the latest your hairy

the side for the 3 at least have been killed during the confrontations in on the man the confrontations. that's probably not the right word. it is one way a talk by the, by the police against anom protest isn't that part of it's been happening time. and again, during these protest since that the major protest was supposed to be only in come to me today. and i call it the day of the, the national day of, for the, for the mob to those martyrs who were killed during the december 30 demonstrations in on demand. the 5th of them came to his bones today. so this brings a number of people killed since december 30 to 8 right now. but as the saying that they are not going to give in to this kind of pressure of this kind of bloodshed, they say that they will continue without fight in the peaceful fight against the

military rule. without until the military seed paula to civilians were understand also that there isn't a number of initiatives and activities on the political level. as prime minister. the law met with the military leaders yesterday. and also he met the, the participants in the government. those who are still in the government today, most of them belong to the, the format, the military or civilian format, militias into for, on the other parts of sudan. they are ministers, are still in the government. they met with prime minister the handbook to try to dissuade him from tending his education by the way, he is still threatening to attend his escalation. if that, if the various players in the political game do not come together around the same negotiation table and bring a solution to the impulse, the problem fully is that the, the list of committees and there was

a compl disconnect between them and the various political plays on the upper levels, the at the resistance committees are saying that there is no compromise. there will be no negotiation with the military and whatever type of deals, whatever types of initiatives are discussed between those players. it has nothing to do with what's going on on the ground. they say they represent the people that are present a street and the real aspirations of this denise, from democracy, democratic process, and a poet is in the hands only of civilians. so this means that the discussions on the political level may not lead to anything if there is no dialogue. and if there is no approx mall between in views between those politicians and those people on the grounds, while we're stating why i know clearly the ship, there are no names that they can contact. and that's the situation right now,

which indicates that probably what's, what we see today will be repeated for the time to, for the, for the, for the foreseeable future. thank you for that update mom and far live in cartoon. a massive fire has ripped through south africa parliament in cape town. the blaze has extensively damaged the national assembly chamber, where parliamentarian fit no casualties have been reported and present on our post says someone is being questioned in relation to the fire. we need to go deeper and deeper into how this type of event can take place and what measures we will need to take going forward. but for now, i think we should be grateful that the national assembly parliament has not been raised to ashes. and to the flaw algebra here is jillian wolf has more now from cape town. well, the situation is very fluid here, around 6 am, this morning about 70 firefighters were rushed to the scene within

a matter of minutes to combat this fire. now, parts of the old assembly building had been completely burned down and now the fire has spread over to the national assembly, which is behind me. as you can see around me, there are a lot of fire crews and police officers still on the scene as well. as medics, luckily no one was hurt because it happened so early on a sunday morning. no one was in the building at the time. but the reason why this is important to south africa and is this building represents democracy to south africa. a lot of politicians come here to debate. this is where the president whole has state of the nation address. and it's also a building where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st black president of south africa. so it's really a place where you see democracy in action. so it's also a place where a lot of tourists come to, to honor this building and really see how democracy unfold in south africa.

governments around the world are grappling with how to control surgeon cases of corona virus, but there's been a backlash to tough restrictions in the netherlands. thousands of people in amsterdam defied a ban on protest rally against the measures the government imposed nationwide locked down 2 weeks ago. shutting all $0.90 or stores bars and restaurants, and that's expected to last until january 14th. in england, secondary school 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. our campaign has been launched to vaccinate $40000000.00 people each month. it's hoping to knock late 70 percent of the population by april. nadine barber is at a vaccination center in london. he says he corona virus response is being stretched

. the government here is stressing that restrictive measures such as you are seeing in the netherlands, must be a last resort, and they have been trumpeting the success as they see it of the vaccination and booster program, which is carrying on rapidly here across the u. k. but they also have asked people to continually test before they socialize and go to work. but most people, many people around the u. k. have experienced problems doing so. in the last couple of weeks, the government is under strong criticism right now, including from some of its own policies for not preparing better as we come out of the holidays. some of the national health service have said that their members should be prioritize for those natural flow tests. and also the more reliable p c r test saying that people like nurses have struggle to get a p c r test before going in for shifts really worryingly for them. because of

course, the more cases there are inspectors like that it leads to stuff shortages on those shortages. there are reports that have been confirmed by the government that they've asked bosses in the public sector to prepare for shortages of up to 25 percent of the workforce in coming months if amico and continues to rise as deeply as it is now. one area that's worrying people is schools. it was reported that in december as many as one in 20 primary school pupils tested positive for full copied, maintain. and let's not forget that because of the problems with getting tests, the real figures in the population could actually be worse. simon conk is an associate professor instead of micro biology at the university of reading. he says, if children aren't wearing masks properly than the roles may not have much impact,

this is the, i think, in secondary school age children. and so people are familiar with the u. k. system that means from the age of 11, up have any influence on younger children that they were expected to do this. but not quite sure that anybody's ever really study the effectiveness of miles when a school environment because it's not just the case of wearing a case wearing properly in the right place the right time, all the time, changing them, making sure they fit stuff like that. so it does strike me that the government saw perhaps looking at the situation, fearing that schools are going to be a drive that they've seen. this is something that can be done. so they do it without really knowing how much impact it's going to have. i don't think we can be sure what, what impact will have not even show the getting children when a face moss will drive down. those that are over the age of 11, they will drive down the numbers. i can't do any harm, but i'm not convinced it'll be

a huge amount of benefits. you would just have to make sure that the schools are well ventilated, the social distance, appropriately. that's very difficult with sort of kids with the 4 or 5 up to 1011. so not really sure that there is going to be protection. they are vanishing. the more risk 19. we should remember that then highly likely to get to get l all seriously. the only con, very, to cover 19 is driving up infections in the u. s. with cases reaching unprecedented levels. but the president's chief medical advisor says the number of facts needed people in hospital remains low. my county has more from washington, well down to policy making very clear that the rate of infection is rising at unprecedented levels. however, he adds that given the case studies in other parts of the world, in particular, south africa. they could be a drop in the rate in coming weeks. this is the way that the virus,

the army kron variant has been going. but dr. poaching says, as well, that hospitalizations remain high, but it's significant that the number of those being vaccinated do not necessarily respond to the amount of testing that has been done. in other words, the number of cases being entered into hospital is very low among those who are vaccinated, which doctor says is exceedingly significant. and because of that, he adds, may be one should start looking at the hospitalization rates rather than the testing figures. this is what he had to say. this is particularly relevant if you're having an infection that is much, much more a symptomatic and minimally symptomatic, particularly, and people who are vaccinated and boosted the real bottom line that you want to be concerned about is,

are we getting protected by the vaccines from severe disease leading to hospitalization, i'm still very concerned about the 10s of millions of people who are not vaccinated at all. because even though many of them are going to get a symptomatic and mildly symptomatic, a fair number of them are going to get severe disease. but she also said that the cdc is reviewing its recommendation that the quarantine rate among those testing positive who are a symptomatic be reduced to 5 days. they announced that last week. but within that protocol, there was not a testing recommended after that 5 day period. doctor fall saying that in coming days, the cdc may change this. still ahead on al jazeera marches any rod to remember cars in the money. the properly rainy in general, killed in the us strike 3 years ago. and with food prices at their highest level,

in almost a decade, we look at how people in serbia struggling to make ends meet. ah away we go with your weather start for the middle east. hello everyone. thank you for joining in flooding continues to be a big story in this region. we side in northern o bond, deadly flash flooding and i think there is the potential to see it for southern iran, as this energy moves to the north and the east will track it out too, as it now makes its way into pakistan. on monday, just pulling into the west, but if we put this for monday into tuesday, we'll see a close in on karate. so some soaking rains here to be expected. and again, the risk is seen some flash flooding while the rain has made a clean sweep of turkey, particularly toward that ne black sea region. things have settled down,

tribes on has a high 7 degrees in the sunshine, and it's symbol coming in at 12 on monday, through the tropics of africa, we've got our usual storms flaring up, more specifically through central areas of the democratic republic of congo. north of this, the heat juba, the 38, bon g, 34 lagos. 36 degrees has been quite stormy into parts of the eastern side of southern africa. we still got downpours, not too far away from johannesburg and really into durban, but settled conditions in cape town. ah, your temperatures leave a little bit to be desired though with a high of just 21 degrees on monday. that's it. see again soon. ah frank assessments, this crisis is continued to weaken luca shan club, even though they're cap cbt of the beginning of this. but i informed opinions, i think politicians will now be under incredible pressure from the young people. that is one of the most of the things that come out of these critical debate. do

you think it should be facilitated? not choke it, right? it's a really simple question. let's give samuel a child swans that inside story on al jazeera lou. ah, welcome back here watching al jazeera life from doha reminder of our top stories is sour medical sources in so don z at least 3 people have been killed during demonstration, been ongoing mon, it is sunday earlier, soldiers were deployed and the internet was caught in an attempt to prevent the demonstrations. a fire has raped through south africa parliament in cape town,

causing expensive damage. the blaze broke out on sunday morning parts of the roof have collapsed. and thousands of people have defied a ban on protests in amsterdam to rally against streaks, cool virus measures. the netherlands imposed nationwide locked down 2 weeks ago, shutting all non essential stores, bars and restaurants. as we mentioned earlier, vaccination drive has been launched in bangladesh. he is tanveer chandry in back with more fearful of the new on the conversion of 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, 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 mother should with the high, the government also started

a booster program for senior citizen and the front line workers. it is also started vaccinating school children from the age of 12 to 17 years old. josh, joshua durham, are 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 and buy it again. lose by leather so far received on 100000000 doses of vaccine through unicef. under caution agreement between the asian development bang, bungalow government 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. yes, present, joe biden. he said to call his ukranian counterpart. read me zalinski today to discuss rushes military build up on the countries border. thousands of russian troops have a mass near the border prompting fears of an invasion into ukraine. the phone call

comes just 3 days after biden, and russian president vladimir putin talked biden has warned of new sanctions against russia if he takes military action against ukraine. early i spoke to richard stockwell, who is a professor of russian and european politics at the university of kent. he says the most important negotiations are between russia and the u. s. this call is basically to reassure the opinions that they will be cut out of an a possible deal that there'll be no deal over their heads. so it's just all i can post. it's just simply a courtesy call if you like. the real fundamental discussions are now going on between put in and biden. and the reason for that is that after the geneva summit between binding and put in, it's quite clear that russia has, as it were, to come to the end of its patients in terms of the understanding that it security is under fit. and when you say the tube semester, the border,

they are the closest 125 kilometers away, and at least 10000 have departed. so the idea that i'm messing just breaking to invade is as nonsense, and even the ukrainians after a long time have dismissed that. the 1st one was, is that this is the 2nd time this year. well, president, one in which close of did mass indeed. and the idea was to prevent what was said to be an attack on the don dice that say look, guns and the next people, the public's so it was a preemptive move. and the 2nd factor behind it is that, in a sense, to try to force the west to force by going into negotiation. because i've put in his complaint for many years as simply not listening to russian concerns. people in cities across the rock have gathered to mark 2 years since the assassination of senior iranian general catherine silly money. he was killed in the u. s. john strike in baghdad. along with iraqi commander, i will my dear hondas and several others. breton donald trump ordered the monies,

killing the leader of molly's intrigue. authorities calling for elections to be delayed. the transitional government had agreed to hold the polls next month following a military full in 2020. now it won't somehow. within 5 years, the west african regional blanket glass has imposed sanctions and officials and its promise more if molly's leaders don't produce a plan for a democratic transition. fidelis bass has moved my butcher. last thursday, there was a, at the end of the national dialogue, had recommended that elections, that's presidential and legislative elections would be held between 6 months and 5 years. but then, you know, the countries are foreign minister had in meeting with the neither off the echo or so a block which is the regional block lead. that's the president of gonna, after the meeting, it broadcasts on national tv where the foreign minister now said that so that they

expect to hold elections in 5 years. because in previous times they had actually complained about her lack of logistics. and also the fact that we take country steegal and true serious violence because if we continued a passed by am groups, especially in the central and northern region of the country. so they are now saying that to the 3rd because they only do that after 55 years. so that will be able to hold elections because even the national dialogue there was heard last week had been a boycotted by the position who said that serve or whatever it was being said is just a waste of time and that they don't see elections happening soon the it, it's looking ill likely that these elections are going to hold next month. so where spectrum for the song choice as promised by the regional block because they had threatened that if this elections don't hold, that they're going to impose another round of like a sanctions against the traditional committee members and an effect, or the supporters as well. global food prices are at their highest levels in

a decades. many people are now struggling to make ends meet in serbia. rising fuel and power prices are making the situation worse. lower burden man, be reports this new year. many in belgrade, a choosing carefully. well, they put in their food basket and that because prices have thought that she was alone or 20 percent on a year ago. and we have to predict prices to get to the end of the month, to go through the month without any did. what was the most of the we don't eat what we want, but what we have here will you always pay for that? i managed to put it together somehow to pay for utilities to pay for electricity to make ends meet the mini probably fail. awesome logan. it was payable, you according to the un 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 partly due to bad weather disruptions to supplies, to dakota, 19 fact enclosures and high energy costs are also to blame in serbia prices room by 7.5 percent. but food with more than double that oils and fat rows by 22.5 percent. that's of more than 20 fruits, nearly 17 percent, and meet by 14 lynette john stockton. 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 exxon products will increase in january. there will also be an energy crisis and this madness with the prices of gas, electricity, so on in the them,

the government kept the prices of sugar, oil, flour, pork and milk. but that will expire at the end of january. or will a few more or workrooms objectively this freezing of the prices of these foods didn't have any effect on stabilizing prices, as it had a psychological impact on consumers and gave the impression that the government is protecting the standard of living nut. ah, many, we'll say price wise as far exceeds minimum wage increases, and that's putting pressure. many people to put food on the table. lore about a man. the al jazeera, mexico has a wealth of ancient cities, tombs and artifacts, and his long been a treasure trove for archaeologists. by many of its historical pieces were scattered around the world. or the government is now trying to get them back. john holman, has the story last treasures returned home after being recovered from abroad?

the being shown often a new exhibition called the greatness of mexico. some of the pieces are on display for the 1st time. this 1200 year, a war 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 mexican government mounted a big push to bring home the country's historical objects. more than 10000 had been recovered. christina talks to us from germany after voluntarily returning 27 figurines, that have been with her for decades. now me see anybody that would get it to see me . 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 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 the spaces because people really want those pieces to go back to their um, origins metric has long been a paradise for archaeologists. and collectors with tempest terms, jewels and ceremonial objects to be found and sometimes wished to way if the momentum, the wire lithium door may he go. mexico was growing and a lot of people were looking at it from the 1940 to the 1970s later. 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 homan, al jazeera metzger, city ah clair. again, i'm funny battle with the headlines on al jazeera medical so says incident to say at least 3 people have been killed during demonstrations in on dorman earlier soldiers when deployed. and the internet was.