informed opinion, there is a need, fabulous federal government to take action to really facilitate aid, right. in depth analysis of the data global headlines inside story on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm barbara sarah. this is the al jazeera news. our live from london, thanks for joining us. coming up in the next, the 60 minutes. i minister abdullah ham dock resigns as at least 3 professors are killed in sedan when security forces fire to tear gas had demonstrators marching towards the presidential palace. south africa's

parliament in cape town suffers expensive damages of fire, collapses the roof and guts, an entire 4 thousands defy a band on protests in the netherlands to demonstrate against corona virus restrictions. and in sports, val, madrid suffer a shot close to one of the leaves in the lowest place. ah, we start with some breaking news out of sudan were the prime minister, abdullah hum dock has just resigned. been an address to the nation on state tv. for more of this were joined by our reporter. he brought more again. we don't actually have he, but right now we are trying to get to the latest spouse of sudan, or of they filled with violence on sunday. their protest there's, there,

clashed with security forces once again, as they vowed to continue their fight against the military rule, at least 3 people were killed. now, police fire tear gas at crowds marching on the presidential palace and the capital cartoon. internet services worth cut and armed officer is blocked bridges, connecting the capital to the suburbs. so 557 people have been killed since the rallies began back in october. that is, when the military sees the power was hoping to speak to he but morgan alive as soon as possible, but she was at one of those protests in cartoon. protesters are once again making their way to the presidential palace incidence capital heart of tomb. now son, this protest were called for by one of the resistance committees in the southern parts of 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, the lam doke. i'm out to end the regime of the military in saddam and to hold the army and those in power accountable for the deaths and protesters. but we want justice for our brothers who were killed. we want a civilian government in one piece. freedom and justice. i thought i was gentle and mothers are crying during the last protest. one of the protesters who was killed was an only child. what the head of the army is doing is terrible. so we'll continue protesting. security has been increased there on the capital, her to with major bridges and roads closed ahead of the plan protest. and with security forces deployed around government facilities. c sedan 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 respects people's rights to demonstrate peacefully. now,

despite the statement from the government, the council, and this process will also met with tear gas use against protest is to disperse them from the vicinity of the presidential. the sovereignty council has announced 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. my 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. and they will continue their demand for civilian government until they see that happen. can let's take a look back at how we got here will 3 years ago and uprising in sudan forced the government from office. it began in december, 2018 with protests over the rising cost of living. but it soon evolved into calls

for an end to president amaral the shears, 30 years rule in april 2019 alba. sheer was overthrown by the military. a power sharing agreement was signed in august of that year in uh, bellingham dock was appointed prime minister leading a transitional counsel that in february hum, dock announced the cabinet. we shuffled in the face of mass street protests against fuel and bred shortages. and then in october of last year, the military declared a state of emergency dissolving the interim government and the resting civilian leaders. since then, thousands of people have demonstrated on the streets with dozens killed by security forces. so let me just repeat that breaking news there to you that we have high the in the past half hour or so. and that is the resignation of the prime minister of dela hm. doc. and for more on this were joined by our reporter at haber morgan that she joins us live now on the phone from a cartoon. so he brought just a, remind us, we had heard that the prime minister might have resigned for, for

a while now. but what exactly did he have to say when he did it all? there were a lot of points that up prime minister now from a prime minister up the mentioned in his speech ahead of the final where he said that he was resigning, which is the fact that he says that the reason why he keep this position was due to political consensus using the various political parties and the military after the over there off on the president. i'm going to, she's, you also mentioned me treatment that was made during his tenure as prime minister think that they were points where he succeeded, but they will also points where he failed. now he mentioned that the problem that led intrinsic mission is political. but there's also a problem as well, the social problem facing the country. and the main reason why he resigned today, following more than 2 weeks after we heard that you regarding the issue of

political consensus. he said that he had moved with all the partners or actors of this transitional period. that is to say, the force of freedom and change both the, the central committee as well as the national tried to align that is a group that splits away from the forces of freedom and changes. he met with the military and try to find a way out. he also said that he was trying to make sure that the games all the transition period was not lost. so he said that because he was not able to achieve that content because he's being way for someone else to lead this transitional period until elections are held. and so he, but that is why then he resigned now, is that he has been threatening to do for some time, but where does it leave the situation in sudan now? well, the reason why i say there's ignition was the division between the political parties . and because that has like resignation, it is not going to go away. that was also the reason why the military said that if

they, it took over the country and all the transitional government political parties to reach a consensus, despite the fact that there has been a normal pressure on them by the prime minister, by the military. i live with us is on the street demanding that a civilian government be put in power and the military cause the barracks that division between the political parties. it's still there. so again, it's still in a political crisis. there is still no solution to whether to see what the political parties will come together or not. but there's also the issue who is going to take his place as well. there has been a lot of names that were put in place for the military take over to replace him as prime minister. none of them have been able to take that position so he was reinstated back on november 25th. now this creat another vacuum of who will leave the country, at least on the executive plans, all of the transitional government. and then if the political party can, you would like to form a government or even being a prime minister. but they would both agree on the street will agree on and process

. and i know that this happened less than an hour ago. so may be difficult to answer this question, but you have any way to assess what kind of reaction there is or might be to this news over the land ducks resignation. while the prime minister did sound emotional when he was giving his farewell speech and there has been reactions, at least on social, over his resignation, some people seem to be touched by the fact that he is living. but other thing to be will coming. and the reason is because he finds that agreement with the military on november 21st. people have been again, been military since to take over october 25th prior to sub symbol of civilian rule . up until he inc, that on november. so for many people, he became an extra additional figure that they were fighting again. and now that he got to believe you will be focusing mainly on the military. not a lot of people so far have expressed disappointment over his departure. it's like

the fact that it will create up. let's go back. you have a morgan with the latest on that breaking news out of course to means to then he but for the moment, thank you. well, to discuss the issue in more detail, we can speak to sarah 3, me, the son, the from the you case cambridge university is also of last year's book when peace kills politics on the ongoing conflict in the sedans. he joins us via skype from australia. sir, thank you so much for joining us here in al jazeera. so the 1st the obvious question, what is your reaction to of the law? hum dogs resignation. thank you. i think with a resignation, sedans, transition actually really is dead. the crew is successful, but the revolution is not over. and so what we're seeing is hayden paving way for someone else to take the reins or for some, some other political agreement to emerge. but really, in truth,

that seems less and less plausible, and certainly less and less acceptable on the street. so i think the revolution was that, that began in 2019 with our wishes to pose all was also facing a palace crew at that time. and some of your viewers recall that a fell, but actually military generals and the security that he had empowered also took over. and it took further protests for a civilian military agreement to be reached for a transition. now that civilian military accommodation is dead. and so there's a real face off between the military security lates joined by some rebel forces and leaders versus the civilian forces. and it is very true that the political parties have been in disagreements, etc. but i don't think that is the issue at the moment. the issue is that the transition is such as that, and now we go back to a kind of a face off between revolutionary civilian forces and, and military leads in that he'd been in charge of this. i mean, of course,

this is the latest development, but we have been seeing clashes, the latest that today is well, that protests there is with security forces. we are seeing several dead. do you expect that situation to worsen? i mean, one can't help it fear that this will lessen because when the political agreement was signed by the prime minister, who had been confined and arrested after the 2, when he came out and sign this agreement, one of the things he sought to do was to that violence by, by reaching this agreement and that didn't really transpire into the violence against protest is continued. but in the last days and weeks that has only grown more severe and the number of deaths, many dozens, as you've noted, but also great amounts of injuries. and also a direct attacks on those who are providing medical help to those who are injured in the protests. now this has not stopped protesters from coming to the streets. and 3rd, wave after wave of protest have been following the cold for protest has been heard

. and so one would expect that those purchase will now be in bold and, and they will continue. but some of the somewhat restraints that were provided by this political agreement on the military and true leaders response to the purchase . even those restraints will now be undermined by the resignation by ham dock and the fact that they are in full command. so i am, i'm very concerned for what lies ahead absolutely mean you do paint a situation that could escalate quickly. what role do you think there could be for either regional african powers or the un, the international community to try to stabilize the situation of not necessarily find some kind of solution. this is indeed the big question because the, the desire always to stabilize the situation usually means the desire to reach some kind of political accommodation between civilian political leaders. technocrat leaders like come doc and these military actors who have been the ones who are

instrumental in that who have undermined the transition ripped up the constitutional documents along the way. and so this desire for appeasement and conciliation and stability usually leads to some kind of deal, some kind of roadmap. and that's precisely what the civilians and the revolutionary committees on the ground, the resistance committees refusing to, to buy into they're saying we want to the civilian lead government in the here and now on to. and that's the political community and political future that we want here. we don't want to have that delayed and deferred for another 2 years. so it presents a very difficult challenge for those who are seeking to stabilize the situation to find a way out in a way through and crucial is to rethink what kind of trust can these resistance committees and citizenry have in a form of transition that protects what they want to see happen at the moment. i think that formula has been successfully arrived at very interesting points that

you raised there. and it makes me think of the title of the book that you wrote on . so then when peace kills politics, which perhaps isn't the most obvious of titles when, when dealing with something like this, why did you opt for that and how do you think that that title in your way of thinking of the situation and so then applies to now yes, well, i mean, i guess, you know, politics is a dirty word, often writes, and i think what i'm trying to express in that book, looking at many decades of the civil wars and the sedans and peace interventions. is that the kind of politics that i'm talking about that i care about really is non violent, civil politics, the kind of civil political action that has been characteristic of this very robust and brazilian protest movement incident for the last 2 years. and usually the peace deals that we've seen, our deals between military leads, belligerents, political actors who professed to represent interest of the country, but usually represent the interest of themselves and their care. they cohorts. and

really those deals which are elite packs and stick shops of power, sharing wealth sharing with some promise in the future of a democratic transition that's written on paper, but really doesn't amount to much that ends up undermining and under valuing non violent civil politics. in the present and often leads to violent resistance and thus reproduces the cycles of war and violence that we've seen the many decades in the sedans. so i hold a beacon of hope in these non violent resistance committees that they represent a kind of politics and they need to build that political future. but i am also not naive about the fact that it's very, very hard to imagine how that can grow into the new sit and that some so many wish to see sheriff of the u. k. c. cambridge university, author of the book when peace kills politics. so thank you for sharing your expertise and he's with us still to come in this al

jazeera news hour from london. 2 years after the death of iran's leading general protectors in bagdad gathered around the remains of his car. was suit prices at their highest level in nearly a decade. we look at how people in serbia are struggling to make ends meet and coming up in sport, the champions continue their willing st. thanks to their star player. ah. but 1st thousands of people in the netherlands have defy the ban on mass gatherings to demonstrate against the government's cobit 19 restrictions. a mass protest took place in amsterdam. the government imposed the nation wide locked down 2 weeks ago, shutting all non essential stores, bars and restaurants that is expected to last until january 14th. when well, in bangladesh,

a campaign has been launched to vaccinate 14000000 people every month. the country hopes to inoculate. 70 percent of the population by april, less than a 3rd of people are currently vaccinated. conver chowdhury has more from docker. fearful of the new on the conversion bank. those governance stud and 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 has also started vaccinating school children from the age of 12 to 17 years old as joshua dom or the wife. today, i'm here with my wife and my mom who 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. lou does bandler so far received or on 100000000 doses of vaccine through unicef under caution agreement between the asian development bang, bungalow 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 and the remote rural areas are bangladesh. the densely populated gaza strip is seeing an increase in corona virus cases. the health ministry. there is warning that the area is on the verge of a powerful force wave. una is said, has more because the strip is facing another difficulty. it's complicated state. the densely populated enclave has detected the presence of the on the chrome bargain, which with extra burden on the health secretary,

which is already deteriorated. health officials here are extremely worried in light of its rapid spread among the people. we are afraid that the capacity of receiving of these cases will be in challenge due to the lack of oxygenation auto accident and other a i c o. but so we are a need it to support and it has and to work to allow the israeli site to facilitate the influence of this machine. because there are many challenges facing garza but is israel continues to prevent the entry of station plants and other vital medical devices for the i c u unit. and with the escalation of the pandemic crew in godsa, this through the life of many elder is especially extra uganda is reopening after one of the strict this the and longest lock downs in the world

schools are reopening to children after being closed for nearly 2 years. and a night time curfew is expected to be listed. victoria gating be 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 you're me and 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. i'm particularly in

a great losses or across the country reported i had the been huge cases, awful child marriages, balls, 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 wilson way too long. not too late. we are scared of it in terms of the measures a little but. busy yet morality, we're ready to live rules and doesn't look like it's about to go away. ugandans of suffered a lot in the past few years. rather than get gimme nice. i'm quite misty, but we'll still you going 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 sonya gander. schools are closed for 2 weeks. here in the u. k. schools are ready to reopen, just after the christmas break. and new measures have been announced to try to limit the spread of coven 19 the only con, very. and has seen record daily cases over the weekend. putting pressure on sectors like education and health care, letting bab reports from london with the return to school just days away. many a wondering how will be able to stay open in the week to the 27th of december, an estimated one in 22nd re pupils in england that those aged over 11 had corona virus. the rise in cases is driven by the more transmissible omicron variant. now, secondary pupils in england will have to wear a face covering, at least for the next 3 weeks. the education watched or offset says go be no inspections in the 1st week of term was 2 thirds of adults have been boosted. obviously children have not. and so that's why we brought in some additional

measures within schools at will play and making available things like ventilators and extra, some 1000 ventilation units for those classrooms where it's difficult and to ventilate, that's largely backed by school leaders. the biggest threats education in 6th grade is not having those members of stamps teach young people. and if the way we try and keep our schools more reassuringly safe, history place to bring this through. changes to austin is to improve ventilation. and that will be definitely across the governments. clearly worried about staff absences due to covet 19 it's our boss's in the public sector to plan for up to a quarter of the workforce being off. it's relied heavily on an extensive program of boosters or 3rd vaccination doses. to drive down corona virus rates, but that's being outpaced by omicron. one of the key tools for keeping the economy going regular testing isn't working properly. there have been severe shortages of

all types of tests including the rapid lateral flow tests. problems in accessing covered 900 tests or increasing concerns in important sectors such as the health service. the main doctors union here says its members are having trouble getting test, which means they're worried that they're infecting that patient. the u. k. government and says small restrictions must be a last resort, but with hospitals warning coverage, placing events pressures on them. experts say the annual tentative is changes in behavior be fully immunized. take your boosters and we're a good quality mosque and f b to mosque and avoid those indoor closed poly ventilated places. if we were to exercise, all of those measures ourselves, we by our on ethics, would bring down the case numbers. for now, the only certainty is that on the cones, having an impact on workplace is around the country. what isn't that? how well the measures in place will be,

will get the ball. the al jazeera london will be figure to sunny is the clinical e d. me ologist, and senior lecturer, queen mary university of london. madam, thank you so much for joining us here on al jazeera. so as the u. k is set to reopen after the christmas break. of course, schools will begin again, and one of the measures will be masks of for secondary school students. what do you make of that? there are some people that complain. no one likes against the idea of children and masks a. do you think it's necessary and what do you think the impact will be if it's absolutely necessary? i mean, almost every other country western europe has had mass, particularly at points of high transmission, u. s. canada israel, se asia, millions of children both and primary. zachary school, where master school every day, and mitigations and protection are the only way to maintain in person education without mass disruption, as we have seen in england before. but i don't think it goes far enough. i mean,

i think secondary school children where in masses the bare minimum, but we need much, much more to that given the high rates of transmission. we are seeing we need multimedia measures, including mass, ventilation, contact racing in schools, testing to be able to keep schools open, otherwise we will have mass child absences and staff absences that increases along with which we've already seen in england. yeah, because of course at this time last fair in the u. k, the u. k. was on the, at relatively strength lockdown. correct me if i'm wrong, but schools reopen for one day before everything closed down. and of course, of course, the last thing anybody wants is more a school closure is. but is there any research as to whether there is any impact on children wearing masks at school? because you mentioned a lot of other countries and a lot of countries will have primary school children wearing masks in class and sometimes even during play time outside. yes, an

d evidence is alarming. so there's a lot of work done, published by the cdc that shows in the u. s. for example, in schools where there were mass outbreaks in schools where about 3 and a half times as feet less frequent. and also, infection rises in children were far less after schools opened in counties where the schools had mass mandates, both in primary and secondary schools. we also know that children main moss and teachers reg massaging decreases spread back into the communities of parents of children in schools. reading massive, multi layered measures are all slightly order. so all of those things can happen if children are given access to mosque with ventilation, with other measures, particularly with hydrate mastic we heard about earlier in the program, the vitally important to contain sped of all microns, particularly because of course, it's sort of multi layered. i think everyone, most people would agree that the most important thing is to keep schools open. and

yet we do see higher level of transmissions, especially with younger children that really don't understand the concept of social distancing. what are the dangers? is it spreads covered in the community, but another one that you mentioned it is long conveyed in children can most of us think that in most cases and that's the case of children don't really develop serious cove it but we are seeing more aspects of long cove it in children tell us more about that is asked you see to see water and i don't know why it's been ignored by government for so long and policy. i mean we have 77000 children in the u. k. reporting locally for more than 4 weeks of her 14000 have had the some more than a year. the numbers of children local that have actually doubled in a matter of full months because of mass infections course. and i mean this is unlike any other disease, any other childhood, unless the impact is far, far greater on children and many to stop just looking at debts, which are also higher actually with cool, with that with flu than with any other childhood unless we need to stop in

comparing to into adults and looking at the actual absolute impact in children which is quite high and, and come to be and shouldn't be trivialized again. i mean, you mentioned that the countries and, and a lot of other countries have masks mandatory for younger children. do you think that should be a different approach between primary school and secondary school? no, i don't think so. i mean, there's very, very good data from across the world and millions of primary and secondary solution and by mass without any homes. i mean, i do think that there are cases for special needs children, children, that hearing disability way. there is a case for transparent mass and for exemptions, but the vast majority of children actually do very well with math and it massive it uses held impacts and them their families, an educational disruption, all of which will have a positive impact overall. the big or the sunny clinical epidemiologist and senior lecture queen mary university of london a madman. thank you so much for sharing. your views with us will be interesting to see what happens when schools do reopen here in the u. k. in

a couple of days. hope to speak to you again then for the moment. thank you. thank you more as still to come on the news our including fears across the whole middle east as flooding, devastate film on with more rain forecast and coming up in sports in the coldest outdoor game in h l. history. where even the ice needed to be heated. ah hey there, thank you for joining in. there are signs for about a flush out the warmth across europe. good to see you. let me 1st start with the colors on the map, the dark of the orange, the higher the temperature. but look at some of this blue popping up toward the top end of the united kingdom and we've got that wind out of the north. so that's going to bring in some fresh air. we'll talk more about that in a separate 1st again,

sorry about the rain moving across ireland and britain. steady stream of atlantic rain into western france, some of which could be flooding. now speaking of those temperatures, they will fall in paris as well. you had got us southwest when southwest, when then we go to the northwest wind and that is what is going to press down your temperature to 7 degrees, which is more in line with where it should be for this year. that rain knocking on the doorstep of northern western portugal northwest spain. that will be more story for tuesday, but on monday plenty of sun valencia has a height 20 degrees. you know with this warm air mass, many areas are starting the day with fog. it will take a bit of time for that to dissipate as a sun does come up. but i mean, look at this, we're talking about showers across austria. vienna has a height of 14 degrees, and that driving brain we saw in turkey's northeastern black sea region starts to pull out, and the rain is also starting to peter out across egypt. cairo's got a high of 19 degrees on monday. okay. i'll catch up with you later on. ah,

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the parliament building in cape town is still burning. it broke out early in the morning and as extensively damaged a national assembly chamber, where the parliamentarian cit, a man has been arrested and is due to appear in court. on tuesday. julian wolfe reports from cape town, a national monument and symbol of south african democracy. up in flames. a fire tour through cape town, buildings of parliament sunday severely damaging the offices of south africa, the ruling party. and later spreading to the national assembly, south african president, several ram, oppose that calling it a devastating event. but insisting that the work of parliament must go on much as it is disappointing, devastating. there is something that can be grateful for all these men and women in uniform. go into the boat again,

going to places that you can ever think of limb and i live. the devastation occurred on the heels of the state. funeral of archbishop desmond tutu held a day earlier, just streets away. the presidents and many of south africa, the high ranking politicians already in the city to honor the anti apartheid heroes porch would have been devastated as well. because this is the place that he not only supported paid for and wanted to see the repository of the democracy that he worked so hard. dozens of firefighters spent whole sunday tackling the blades. police and medical units were also on standby, though no casualties were reported. digits of a said a democracy. parliament is the home of democracy and bonham and this also assist d g, a key point. the national assembly is

a symbol of south africa. democracy here is where the president deliver to the state of the nation address. and it's also where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st black president of south africa. of course, it's a place that attract tourists from all around the world. next month, president sterile rum, oppose is expected to deliver that state of the nation address. many might expect that this will no longer be the scene, the incidence igniting a long time debate to move parliament to the country's capital pretoria. but for a place that serve such a pivotal role during south africa as apartheid era, that is a move many south africans few which strike a painful cord. gillian wolf, altos era, cape town. people in cities across iraq have been marking tomorrow's 2 year anniversary of the assassination of senior iranian general cast them silly. martin had been gathering around the wreckage of his car, which is now a memorial in the capital. baghdad selling money was killed in

a u. s. strong strike along with the rocky commander after lactic mahathy's and several others protest as are also demanding the fullest whole of all foreign troops from iraq. luck more, the bill we're here has more now from baghdad. good this is it the wreckage of the vehicles that were carrying that to command or is it the iranian command that a possum sleigh? many unable, madden monday's, a top commander of iraq's popular mobilization forces when they were targeted by a u. s. 8, a. strike thousands have been coming here in the same as pot need about dodd's airport. to commemorate the assassination of the 2 commanders, people have been lighting candidates here and putting flowers. we have been chanting against the u. s. and against foreign troops demanding the expulsion of old foreign troops from iraq and reiterating the the resolution passed by the iraqi parliament and january 2020. following the attack stipulating that all foreign

troops should leave a rock. these protests are to say that they will continue protesting across iraq, in many other provinces. to commemorate the death of the 2 commanders, they say that the demanding auction, they say that there must be conclusion to the investigation that is started. 2 years ago. they say, the key issue in this occasion today is this sovereignty of iraq. the attack happened on a rocky soil and iraq should take an action against the perpetrators us president joe biden is due to phone his ukrainian counterpart volunteers. lensky reaffirming the united states support for ukraine's sovereignty. the leaders that will speak about russia build up of tens of thousands

of troops near its ukraine border. they're also preparing for diplomatic talks later this month that will involve russia and nato, and aim to escalate the conflict by then spoke on thursday with the russian president vladimir putin threatening him with sanctions. if moscow invade ukraine cross to john henderson who is live for us in washington, d. c. so john, what is the us president expected to say to try to reassure his ukranian counterpart over starters? i think we can expect him to reiterate what he said before. it is a landscape, and that is, there will be no decisions about ukraine without ukraine. vladimir putin of russia seems to want to negotiate the fate of ukraine without involving that country simply by talking to the us and president biden, to president biden's message to you. grant is no, we're not going to let that happen. we can also expect that this will be

a call with a very different tone. we haven't gotten a read out of it yet. we don't know if it's been completed. we expect that at some point when it's over, but we know the tone will be different than when the last president was talking to hello to me as a landscape. that was president trump, you may recall he was impeached after a transcript came out showing that repeatedly pressured zelinski to investigate biden's son hunter barton before the us election. and the white house has given us a read out of what they expected ahead of the meeting. they wanted to the president to reaffirm us report for ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity to discuss russia's military build up on the border and to prepare for some diplomatic meetings coming up in europe. in the middle of this month, there will be meetings between the us and russia, between nato and russia, and between european leaders and russia. leaders in the organization of security and cooperation in europe. putin has threatened president biden, that if sanctions are initiated, there will be

a very heavy price to pay by and is threatened sanctions. he's threatened adding troops or adding military equipment in eastern europe and in ukraine if potent is to to act further. here, congressmen, speaking on one of the sunday morning talk shows adam smith said that is exactly what is needed. enormous sanctions he called for, but he said, nevertheless, with a 100000 troops on the border, putin is very likely to invade john henderson with the latest from washington, d. c. john, thank you. global food prices are at their highest levels. in a decade. many people worldwide are now struggling to make ends meet and in serbia, rising fuel and energy prices are making matters even worse. laura burden manley reports this new year. many in belgrade, a choosing carefully. well, they put in their food basket. and that's because prices have food that's supposed

to load up 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 debt. what was the most of the we don't eat what we want, but what we have will you always pay from 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 jacoby 19 factor closures and high energy costs are also to blame. in serbia prices, roofing 7.5 percent, but food with more than double that oil from fat rows by 22.5 percent. that's

of more than 20 fruits, nearly 17 percent, and meet by 14 financial starts. and 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 on this madness with the prices of gas electricity. so on in november the government kept food prices of sugar, oil, flour, pork and milk, but that will expire at the end of january, or will a few more or our crew 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 here say price wise as far exceed minimum wage increases. and that's putting pressure on many people to put food on the table. lore about a manly al jazeera, at least 6 people have been killed after heavy rains in oman, strong winds and flooding began on thursday in the gulf station and the storm is expected to continue until wednesday. it's front of warnings for people to stay away from dangerous areas. while our weather presenter jeff harrington has more now on the storm and the risk of further flooding across the region will go on for a closer look right now. and these are some of the fall bands of rain that we're setting up in and around moscow, which just drenched this area. so we saw in some spots pretty close to about a years worth of rain. but we need to remember that this happened within only a matter of a few hours. so the bottom line too much rain too fast here. and all of that to be said, we also need to remember this is a mountainous area so that rain is falling high above its rushing rate down to the

ground. and then also in the middle we've got these wadi valleys, so those valleys fill up very quickly, the water is got nowhere to go and we have flash flooding. so let's talk about the risk where it is on sunday with these solid bands of rain as we track them out. i think we may see some more scenes of flooding as we look toward q weight eastern side of the audi and into southern iran. now for southern need, ron, it's not just a threat on sunday. this will also linger into monday as well as this storm system chugs to the north and the east. let's peel out give you a wider look right now, because it's not only iran in the days to come southern pockets on in the line of fire 1st the west, but look at this band of rain creeping closer into could roch's. so we look at the 3 day forecast for grouchy, about $10.00 to $20.00 millimeters of rain each day. so very rainy forecast. we also need to remember many of these areas just cannot hang on to all of this moisture. so that just leads to these widespread scenes of flash flooding,

the transitional government, and molly as calling for the election schedule for next month to be delayed by anything up to 5 years. the election is supposed to be returned to democracy, 18 months after the president was overthrown in a military west africa regional alliance. equal was over the promise. more sanctions on molly officials. if there are more delays to the democratic transition, fidelity, somebody has worn out from a bu joe on why the government is calling for another delay. last thursday, there was a, at the end of the national dialogue, had recommended that elections, that's presidential and legislative elections will be held between 6 months and 5 years. but then, you know, the countries are foreign minister had in meeting with the me there off the co r. so a block which is the regional block lead that the president of gonna, after the meeting, it, it broadcasts on national tv, where the foreign minister now said that so that they expect to hold elections in 5

years. and because in previous times they had actually complained about a lack of logistics and also the fact that it did take country steegal and true serious violence. because if he continued attacks by am groups, especially in the central and northern region of the country. so they are now saying that to the head because they only do that after 55 years. so that will be able to hold elections because even the national dam of that was her last week had been boycotted by the position. who said that said, or whatever it was being said is just a waste of time. and after they don't see elections happening soon the, it, it's looking a likely that these elections are going to hold next month. so where expecting for the sanctuaries as promised by the regional block because they had threatened that if this elections dont hold that they're going to impose another round of law as sanctions against the transition committee members and an effect or the supporters

as well. still to come on the news hour of recovering mexico's lost treasure, as the ancient artifacts are heading home centuries after they were stolen. and the major upset in the spanish league with leaders rather read that losing. for just the 2nd time, the susan ah, a mineral central to the quest for clean energy, a key ingredient for the production of electric car batteries, cobalt extracting it is dangerous, but profitable with global demand set to skyrocket. people in power investigates, claims that industrial mines extracting the precious material, needed for cleaner energy, or in fact, poisoning the environment with dire health consequences for those living in their shadow. the cost of cobalt people in power on m. j 0 with

ah ah, mexico has a wealth of ancient cities, tombs at artifacts, and it's long been a treasure trove for archaeologists. but over the past 2 centuries,

many of its historical pieces have been scattered around the world. john holman, is worn out from mexico city on the government's increasingly successful efforts to get them back 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, you're a woo. relief came home from los angeles. these copper hatchets, which were uses money in southwest mexico, 500 years ago, also returned from the u. s. over the last decade, the met 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 miss anthony would get if i don't feel sad, because if i die tomorrow, my children won't have this problem and they won't end up in a rubbish down,

which is my biggest fear. the daughter on the call to feels the same sample has promised comments 0. okay. so the 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 mexican government 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 um origins. meds has long been a paradise for archaeologists, and collectors with temples turns jewels and ceremonial objects to be found and sometimes wished away in if the momentum the radcliffe handle may hico,

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 of artifacts flowing out the country seems to be reversed. what the exhibitions literature says, is when a countries ought 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, al jazeera metzger, city k. it's time for support now. here sar, we thought was football in paris, sandra, man of confirmed and l. msu is tested positive for cove. it 9 c knowledge and time is among full. p. s. g plays in quarantine, also contracting the virus,

the quotes that will miss mondays french match, but could be back in the school for next sundays. lee game against leon. real madrid boss. collar angela. he doesn't believe games should be postponed because of coven. thus, despite his team affected by the virus and the lead up to this weekend fixture railway way, tickets on sunday, on the back of 15 matches on basin and all competition. so the street just to say to the one the last. so his strike. and as you know, school off the just 8 minutes real madrid suffering only the 2nd loss in the league this season off the 20 matches now the new winter class to can the h. l is supposed to be cold, but imagine the temperature being so low, the ice needs to be heated. well, that's exactly what happens in minneapolis when minnesota was hosted. this is louis blues. the game entering the record of the coldest outdoor game in league history is minus $21.00 degrees celsius when the concert gone the way and it goes even call throughout. unfortunately for the minnesota fans, a brave call that seems suffered sick for loss, dropped it off,

pick words like it's embarrassing. i think the 1st 2 periods, you know, have 40000 people coming and it's unfortunately happened on the, on a great night like this. i mean, a lot of people leave their house in this cold and to support us and, and we give them the performance or that in the day a frustrated kevin's. iran has question the attitude of his brooklyn teammates, after a surprise lost to the late clippers. the nets were expected to have little trouble over coming severely depleted. missing several players through private protocols and even injury led by 13 midway through the final quarter before the clipper mounts is an unlikely come back. legs closer when desert and when his game came to to star. i'm just going to walk into a w, a lex. and then because you can lose and be a game like this, you know, the,

so how many just a client guys from the g li? no such providence for ebay champions, milwaukee box, mostly because their stolen is running hot, youngest and say, take room for 35.16. rebalance and 10 assists in a big win the new orleans pelicans in the fall game since returning from covey. 19 protocols. yon is has average of 33 point as i get older, i gotta, i gotta take a moment and i, you know, leave in a moment and enjoy this moment. you know, have 27 sure doubles. it's a, it's insane. i remember i got my 1st one, no my in my that my 3rd year in the league. so it's been a long journey, a long way to go. just keep enjoying every moment so you can play that way. go things out. and i'm ok bucks must got bongo, celebrated his birthday by nailing a half caught shots while facing away from the bone skin and that soil sports now

more later. sorry, thank you. now, before we go, richard leaky a world famous, a famous canyon conservationist, who spearheaded campaigns against the ivory trade. to save the dwindling african elephant population has died. he was 77 and also served in various roles in the canyon government. as well as a spell running the state museums and twice chairing the wildlife authority. and you can find out her more on all the stories that we have been covering here and al jazeera on our website. there it is. and you can see our top story there. soon. these are prime minister, the lam dock has resigned the mid political deadlock and increasing violence that we're seeing on the streets of cartoon and across sudan. we're going to be bringing you more on that story and everything else that we've been covering in just a few minutes. stay with us.

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money on amazon for de ramirez and my molina families, the pain is unbearable for their relatives were killed last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accused him of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat and neighbors and family members insist they were innocent, taken from their homes and executed under pressure venezuela's defense minister, bloody made by the reno, said the armed forces were obliged to the friends that come through from irregular groups, but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated. dreams dawns and entertainment away, the people to rise above the violence around them. so it's my role to give these girls a different idea that they can leave the rules of this community. 3 short films

show how performance creates a home and family, and gives hope and opportunity. ah ha select on al jazeera. ah, ah sudan in political turmoil again as the prime minister tenders his resignation. ah, it comes after at least 3 people were killed. the security forces fire tear gas at anti cooper pester, is marching towards the presidential palace. ah, hello barbara, sarah, are you watching al jazeera life from london also coming up south africa parliament and.