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and show how people take a stand against evictions in their struggling communities. the 1st time the arrest . i was 11 years old. a jason next on al jazeera. ah south africa's parliament catches fire for a 2nd can takes the consecutive day. we'll have a live update. ah, hello, i'm emily anglin. this is out 0, live from dough house, or coming up india begins cove at 19 vaccinations to obtain ages as it struggles with rising infections due to the ami con variance humans who if you find his seas and immorality cargo ship alleging it was carrying weapons. the sandy led coalition
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says medical supplies for on board and another news outlet in hong kong is shopping down, raising questions about the future of independent media. ah, we begin with breaking news from cape town where a fire at south africa's parliament has flared up again. these and live pitches of fire fighters battling the blaze on sunday, a fire got at the national assembly where parliamentarians seat extensive damage was caused to that building. and parts of the roof caved in. a man has been arrested. the cause of this new blaze is not yet known. gillian wolf joins us live now from cape town on the phone. hello that jill. what more do we know about the 2nd blaze? hi, emily. i just spoke with the chief of south african fire services. he sounded chaotic
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at the time, he said that around 55 fighters are on the scene right now trying to back up that place. and this is again, the country's national assembly building that is on fire. again. 0 you have to remember that this is just, you know, hours after the fire department with you. it's fire cruise early this morning after a 25. 5 long shift and trying to contain a fire that was ignited early sunday morning and that fire severely damaged both the old assembly and the national assembly parliamentary building. and i'm being told that temperature this morning, inside that building were around a 100 degrees celsius, which to american audiences are 200 degrees fahrenheit. so very, very hot. the assembly hall is completely got it. everything is destroyed. as you mentioned, the suspect is in custody already is expected to appear in court tomorrow in relation to the fire. he's expected to be charged. 5 with arson and other offences,
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but this is the 3rd fire, including this one right now here in 10 months. and those ones prior are related to maintenance issues. i'm told that the sprinkler systems were delayed and their activation this time around, the fire detection system is key to that. and that was only activated 20 minutes until after the firefighters were originally on the scene on sunday. so obviously the systems were not working as they should and so fire cruise and the south african government and please for expecting a full technical assessment, i guess off that there finish containing displays. now as you can imagine, no be significant costs associated with refurbishing. this building, the interior of the national assembly is completely recognizable. everything that the fire could destroy had been destroyed. the old assembly hall is the most precious historically and seems that that one is not as badly affected. that was the 1st one to catch fire on. 9 days that would have been the grid calamity to have
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lost because of the historical significance of that building. but this is going to require a meticulous restoration to, to restore. 5 a lot of money, i can imagine this is the beating heart of south african democracy. it's where parliamentarians debate legislation and policy. it's where the president delivers his address to the nation. and it's also where nelson mandela was elected as the 1st black president of south africa. so emily, it's a lot of history within those parliamentary walls and of course a lot to be answered for in the coming days. thank you very much for that update julian wolf live for us on the find there from cape town. in to the latest on a panoramic now, and india has launched a campaign to vaccinate 15 to 18 year olds against covered 19 expanded dr. comes is on the current infections. surging several regions have introduced restrictions and
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not time care has been imposed in the capital, new jelly schools and public places there. and in other states have also closed have the middle has more from a vaccination center in the capital. and with that, another teenager has gotten their job where the vaccination center in new delhi, which is dedicated to inoculating teenagers between 315 to 18 year old. that is the started getting that today. it's a huge bracket of population of about 70000000, a big expansion for in just vaccination drive, and a big relief of parents and students who had a particularly tough, fun damage. pools in india have been the 1st shot and last to open. in fact, as we speak, many schools were closed again. over $900.00 cases started searching. as of now, the population is only getting cool vaccine, which is it to job engine made vaccine given 28 days a box. i have a lot of restrictions on my son remember, so me to for the goal with the goals properly. so i didn't go with my friends and
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get to watch movies in the hall. so yeah, i'm excited to go to my goal is to i didn't think there was any point waiting. we discussed it with a couple of doctors as well. and they would've been in that we could get it done as soon as possible. and it's not just children starting next week, health day walkers and many people about 60 who have underlying health conditions will be eligible for booster shots. now as we speak, india is seeing a massive surge in over 900 cases, largely fueled by the army on various the hardest hit cities are mom by in the financial capital, which saw restrictions being tightened this weekend. new delhi has also seen cases such positivity rate is close to 5 percent. and as of now, schools, gyms and movie theaters are shot and restrictions have been placed on restaurants and public transport. the government says the hospitalized zation, those remain low and that cases have so far been miles and them to magic. they say
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they will look at these. ringback metrics, hospitalization, and death to decide if new restrictions ought to be placed to the philippines. when you restrictions have started in the capital is tally cases continue to rise there in person classes, contact, sports, and live performances band and capacity limits have been lowered for restaurants and businesses below has more from manila, philippines, capital, region metro, manila, it's back to strict quarantine levels after cases of corporate in 1900 bike over the holidays. so from alerts level to it's been raised to alert level 3. what this primarily means is that those age, 17 and under. and those who are 50 years old and older are not allowed to leave their home except for outdoor exercise or to go out and buy essential goods and access essential services. now, there are discussions among local authorities about also restricting the movement
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of unvaccinated individuals. what was sir right now is that businesses are allowed to operate, bought at the limited capacity. so for example, restaurants are only allowed to accept customers at 30 percent, they're indoors capacity and a 50 percent outdoor capacity. this is of only started to recover after the government east restrictions back in november. it is of course, a huge blow to to the business because for a monday, it is usually a full house at lunch. and this is only the 1st day of the alert. there were 3 and we already have empty tables for lunch. now over the weekend health department officials also announced the detection of more on recorded cases, a number of which were local cases, which means that these patients had no prior travel history. and they said that
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this means that there is high probability of level transmission that felt secretary francisco. lucas said that it is safe to assume that this new virus barrier is already circulating in local communities. encourage people to stay at home as much as possible and get back to needed. the philippines vaccination rate remains below 50 percent. yemen who the rebels say they've said to ship belonging to the united arab emirates because it was carrying military supplies to cargo vessel was seized near the port city of her data. but the sadie led coalition says it wasn't carrying weapons and medical supplies for board. instead, saudi arabia is leading a military coalition that's been at war with the fees for almost 7 years. mohammed al laptop has more from santa we couldn't tell exactly is telling the truth or the how these military spokesperson during his pressure has revealed some
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pictures that he says, show the, the, the you a flag, car, cargo ship carrying weaponry, arm and vehicles, and also marian boats, but, but we couldn't confirm such pictures that had been revealed by the how the spokesperson also the, the, the other side of the quality and saying that it was carrying medicines or other civilian stuff. the situation is really developing rapidly. the whole, these, during his, the pressure during the process explained about the operation how, how they have conducted this operation of the, the cost of data where the have monitor kept to this ship according to the statement of the how these spokesperson. he says that the have kept monitoring this ship for 4 weeks according to a due to him, and also the, the, the, the,
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the, a kick used it all for carrying out style activities. and the long, the, the red sea and a top kashmiri rebel fighter has been killed and a gun fight with security forces in indian administered kashmir. police say selim was a commander of the pakistan based last last group. kashmir is claimed by both india and pakistan still ahead. don al jazeera, how protest is in me. and mara, changing their tactics to ensure that i can continue to voice their opposition to military rule and burn tabs, but covered in snow. sciences, blame climate change for colorado's winter wildfires. ah, ah, look forward to brita,
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sky's the with sponsored play cattle airways. the last few weeks of seen flooding all and off because of heavy showers in peninsula malaysian down towards singapore . nothing's really changed. go. the focus of the heavier stuff is over the water. it's still, the ne monsoon is still the right season to get that sort of potential in qual, lumper, and singapore. the same could be said for norton bornea less so the philippines, equally. so for the south in northern australia, for the north though in japan of course is the opposite story. it is winter and a cold one. this means once again, there be warnings up for other effectively is a blizzard in hawkeye dough and increasingly likely heavy snow in western home. she recalled already been broken. they were last year about the same time. so whence is really showing itself in japan? whereas in china, not so it's fairly quiet looking picture, and it's mostly settled across india. the ne monsoons taken the renters for lank and not very much in town either. but there is rain coming across from southern
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iran into some pakistan during tuesday and wednesday, eventually work itself into the western side of india. now, you know, at this time of year, the settled northern part of india gets very poor air quality because nothing ever moves. well, this rate will move it. you could see the improvement in the air quality deterioration, the weather type. oh, the weather sponsored by cataract ways. i'm counting the coffee climate emergency, the price of going green and why it doesn't need to cost the earth dealings and unlikely meter economics caps bad for controlling prices was no go deposit. but why is that one of your biggest for counting the cost on algebra? posing the powerful to account as we examined the u. s. role in the world on al jazeera. ah
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the hello are you watching? 0. i'm emily. angling reminder about health stories this alum fire at south africa parliament in cape town has flared up again. these are life pictures of the blaze which firefighters are trying to get under control. on sunday, fire got the national assembly where parliamentarian says a man has been arrested in connection with that 1st play. india starting a campaign to back to maintain ages against cove at 19 the drive comes in on the current infections continue to rise. several regions have introduced restrictions including and i time code here in the capital, new delhi and m and $35.00 is a phase the united arab emirates ship off the port cd of jose down the rebels claim
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. the vessel was carrying military supplies, but the satellite coalition says it was medical equipment on board. one of the last remaining independent publications in hong kong has announced it will close journalists at citizen news say that i feel they can work safely after colleagues at a separate pro democracy news outlet were arrested for sedition. climate reports from hong kong in hong kong, shrinking media space. another loss in a statement on social media, independent, online news site. citizen, you said it would stop operating from tuesday, saying it needed to ensure the safety of its stuff. it described itself as a little bows in the middle of tremendously rough seas. that announcement came less than a week after stan use announced it was closed down. alas, after the independent publication had been rated by police and 7 people were arrested in october,
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hong kong security bureau accused citizen news of misleading its readers. when reporting that free speech was no longer guaranteed under the national security law . found a chris young, settle those who to send news and not being contacted by national security police. it was impossible for the small outlet to continue. overall media is placing a increasingly tough environment for those who are being seen as critical or troublemakers. they are more on the revolt. young said he hoped young hong kong journalists wouldn't be put off saying there's still a role for media to play in the territory. a sentiment echoed by other journalists, full. c'mon, doyle. they have been a lot of media workers who express their sadness on social media, and i don't think we are the only ones who started in this industry. there were still a lot of journalists who are willing to try hard. i still have the hold and citizen uses the 3rd outlet to shut down after stan news and hong kong. last pro democracy
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paper apple daily. that was for to close in june last year after tacit was seized and found a jimmy lie. arrested. authorities have also blocked programs on public broadcast, the radio, television, hong kong, and issued directives to stuff. it's now uncertain how remaining outlets, including hong kong free press can survive. the decision by citizen used to close is another sign that the media environment here. it's becoming increasingly difficult, yet hong kong authorities have repeatedly rejected claims of a crackdown. thank they are not targeting the media. journalism is not sedition, but seditious action activities and inciting other people through public access nativity is, could not be con, don't. under the guise of news reporting, hong kong chief secretary, john les criticized a recent editorial published in the wall street journal title. no one is safe in hong kong, saying that recent arrests had nothing to do with me of freedom. hong kong was once
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known as a vibrant hub for media outlets, but a national security law imposed on the region and 2020 has changed that and left many faring independent journalism is being crushed for clinic. i'll just 0 hong kong china, russia, the us, france and the u. k. who pledged to ensure a nuclear war is never ford. the 5 nuclear countries relates to joint statement, vowing to prevent the further spread of atomic weapons. the country say it's a war that cannot be won and should never be fought. the 8th round of talks on the iran nuclear deal has resumed in vienna. it aims to revive for 2015 agreement with world powers. iranian foreign ministry spokesman says western nations have realized they must back down for maximal demands till 6 berry has been following developments from vienna. this week could be one of the most important weeks. and that is because the talks until now,
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i've been dealing about what the talks will be about. they were talking about the agenda. now there seems to be a agreement of some kind about what they're going to discuss. there are still hurdles and there had been solutions before us for all sides. mainly the americans in the rainiest were at the heart of this dispute about how they can proceed and overcome those hurdles. this week we're expecting to find out whether or not that can actually happen the rain you have said that they want the us sanctions lifted since the americans left the deal in 2018 and impose a series of strict sanctions on their own oil on banking sectors. the way the americans for their part have said that the rangers have to go back into full compliance since 2019 they started reducing their commitments to the nuclear deal. and further advanced their nuclear program. there seems to be incentive from all sites to decide whether or not this deal can be salvage. this week, the coming talks will be the most serious, since the negotiations began in april of last year. and that is because a dispute mechanism was triggered by the european signatories to the deal. that is
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germany, france, and you pay in january of 2020. so this has been going on for a very long time. it seems it's now this week that will decide whether or not the parties involved will be able to come to some kind of an agreement about whether or not they can threaten revive this 2015 nuclear deal. pro democracy groups in sudan have called for more protests on tuesday following the resignation of prime minister, abdullah hm. dog. he was arrested in october after a military takeover, but then reinstated, when he signed an agreement with general abdel how to alper hon. but i'm dogs been unable to form a government since and says political deadlock threatened to dance, survival hip, morgan reports 2 weeks after the news of his intention to resign emery's and amidst a dead log between sedans, political parties, prime minister of the lamb, duke announced he was stepping down from his position. what amount was it? despite my efforts to achieve the necessary consensus to be able to deliver to our
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people on the promise of peace, justice, and no bloodshed that did not happened during the past few days. i met with all the civilian and military officials of the transitional council to explain and put the put shortage and historic responsibility in front of them. and following what i stated, i have decided to return to you on what you entrusted me with. sure. and i announced my resignation from the post of prime minister. 30 abdullah ham dog emerged as leader in 2019 after the overthrow of sedans. authoritarian president amaral bush here. the country's main civil in coalition. the forces of freedom and change saw him duke. as the man to help sudan transition from dictatorship to democracy. he had previously worked in the ministry of finance before taking up top jobs in the african development fund. and serving as the deputy commissioner of the you and economic commission for africa. as prime minister ham duck oversaw
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a severe financial crisis during which inflation stored beyond 400 per cent. but he still managed to end the civil conflict in various parts of the country with the uber peace agreement of october 2020. he also successfully lobbied the u. s. and the world bank to remove the down from the list of sponsors of terrorism and convinced global financial institutions to provide debt relief and economic aid. but in october, this year, the military led by abdel for to help her hon. these a takeover, placing prime minister ham doke under house arrest and putting members of his cabinet imprison a month later him duck was released and reinstated after international condemnation of the qu. he then find a deal to form a government of technocrats fight lining political group. but many for denise felt he had betrayed the revolution. his removal as far as they're concerned, the last fig leaf that was covering this regime and what remains is
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a full fledged military military dictatorship. so i think the international community will now will likely increases pressure on the military regime with the hope of heating the demands of the city streets and, and installing a pull civilian rule demonstrations against the military and the deal have signed with them have led to the killings of dozens of protesters by police insecurity forces. ham duke has been unable to stop the violence or install a government that would remove military interference. and now it seems he is left with no choice but to concede defeat and resign hebrew morgan august. there are a deadly strain of bird flow has killed up to 6000 cranes in the northern israel. it comes as the country sees a surge and the only con covariance in people. and though experts say it's unlikely, bird flew can cross over to humans. it's causing concern stephanie decker reports
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from jerusalem. it's been described as the worst blue to wildlife in israel's history. this nature reserve in the north was once a bird watchers, dream migratory cranes gather here from culture, climates before moving south to africa. but avian flu has turned it into a graveyard. the scope of the co and i would like in is what is massive. and we see that it is not stopping in the wild animals. so it is why some and i must say that was the attention of the easel, any government and other countries to club with 19. we should not neglect other public health hazards and we must stuck in ebay on influence as would the clean up is taking time. the area now off limits to the public for fear of contagion launch . if you loses early for news at 1st, about 2 weeks ago when they discovered the disease about 5200 dead cranes were identified here within
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a few days and numbers reached thousands. and today they're about 50026000. israel is taking preemptive measures and is called hundreds of thousands of chickens. the virus hasn't yet been contained. and even though we're told the threat of spreading to humans is low, it remains a possibility that needs to be taken seriously. we free of the possibility that the same person would get infected from human influenza and form evian influenza. and there will be genetically assortment. and we, we live in, jo viras that is both bible genic and easily spread the monuments. that's it, though, i think of possibility, but we must be really alone in order to prevent it. at a time when the world is already struggling to contain mutations of coven 19 with on the con infections here expected to double and triple over the next few weeks. images like this report only making people more nervous. stephanie decker al jazeera jerusalem. chinese property giant ever grand has suspended trading on hong
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kong stock market. it's value punched by more than 9 percent after it fail to pay invest is on thursday. it's missed several payments in the past month and owes more than $300000000000.00. that's more than any other property developer in the world to the us now. and after a hard after hurricane force winds, sparked destructive fire in the state of colorado. a winter storm has hit just days later. scientists say climate change is to blame as laura been a manly reports child remnants from people's lives peak through a blanket of snow. a winter storm hit colorado's boat county, days of to fire had engulfed entire neighborhoods. the fire began in northern denver and within hours that destroyed a 1000 homes of sweeping through superior town and the city of louis school. you
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know, these are quiet little blocks, were kids play? did this, luke resident and his dog were lucky not to lose their home walking through that devastation yesterday was on one hand. hard breaking because you know that people last are there. they're all their, their belongings, their memories that were in those homes, families that were raised, their u. s. president joe biden has offered funds to help with the recovery. and the county sheriff's, as such, is continuing the victims. the scenes are still hot. they're still, you know, deep in debris, hot debris cover was snow. so as a very difficult task assigned to say, unusual weather had a domino effect. early trench or rain let to prairie gross his growing hide. a try winter turned the ground to kindling and powerful winds down power lines igniting
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the grass. they blame climate change. this kind of event that happens in december with a lot of rain to increase fuels early in the year and then no rain later in the year. that drives them out is very much associated with climate change. some lives have been lost and thousands more appended. if climate change is to blame many will question, how can they prevent this destruction from recurring in the future? laura, but manly, on to sera canyon conservationist and paleontologist or a chin lake, he has died at the age of 77. his work helped to prove that humans evolved in africa. barbara and gaba reports at the height of an elephant poach in crisis and the 1980s richard leaky organized a spectacular publicity stunt. as director of kenya's wildlife authority, he authorized 12 tons of confiscated elephant tests with millions of dollars to be
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burnt. although the practice was widely copied, globally, critic said the ivory should have been sold to fund anti poaching efforts. we can burn ivory and all these things, but unless we can persuade the public why we're doing it, we'll be wasting other ivory must be seen as only valuable if it's on an animal. it should not be ever seen as a valuable commodity for trade. but his implementation of a sheet to kill policy against aunt pushes made him powerful enemies. he lost both legs when the plain he was flying, crashed in the rift valley, in what he later said was a failed attempt to kill him. like his parents were, the wells most famous finders of ancient hammond had fossils continued their work. and it was in a dig in kenya's to corner region in 1975 that leak. his team discovered an almost complete skeleton of an early human known as homo erectus. the find help prove
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humans evolved in africa. it sped, a lifelong campaign to preserve the corner region. it's a natural heritage site with evidence of pre history. not just of the ancestry of humanity that the us history of the african foreigners, better represent there than anywhere in the world. look at him. he was less successful when he tried his hand at politics. in 1998, he resigned after just 2 years from his position as the head of kenya's civil service. he had attempted a cracked and corruption. richard leaky was 77. ah, hello, you're watching out 0. these are the stories were following this hour of fire at south africans. parliament in cape town has flared up again. these alive pitches of the blaze which fi fi.

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