not be so bad. there were several steps along the way. where does the chain of command it's you like tried to cover? what's your take on why they've gotten the so wrong? that means political mouth, the bottom line on us politics and policies, and the impact on the world on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm demising. welcome to the news our life from london coming up in the next 60 minutes. and on the see volcano erupt in tonga, triggering a powerful soon on me, alerts are in place across the region and from japan to the u. s. west coast. a corona virus. curfew comes into effect in the indian capital, one of several cities to lockdown in response to rise in cases. lawyers for tennis

number one, novak joker, which planned to appeal your strategy and government's decision to revoke his visa for a 2nd time and trapped in tijuana mexican refugee shelters are overflowing amid a slow down in the u. s. asylum process. and then sport. manchester city. take another step closer to winning the primarily title. they've eaten chelsea one l to taking 13 point lead at the top of the table . ah hello, welcome to the news our, our top story a powerful soon on the as hit the pacific nation of tonga. after an undersea volcano erupted, with many phone lines still down the extent of the damage and the number of casualties is already starting to emerge. there are a so that some residents in tucker are struggling to breathe because of volcanic

ash. okay. now also triggered soon army warnings across the pacific. a was a mandatory evacuation order as well for people living in the marina area of berkeley, california. and then in the last hour, i was confirmation that large waves had reached the coast of japan barrow county warnings in highs for australia, pacific territories, and parts of new zealand. the roxanne was felt in fiji about 800 kilometers north west of tonga, and vanilla to a further 1000 kilometers west 60 centimeter waves also hit the american samo capital pongo. pongo, under chappelle, brings us more now to whom the tongue of whom the high pub oqueeno in the south pacific ocean, about 70 kilometers north of the tongue and capitol dooku alova has been active in recent days. it's a russian sending ash more than 20 kilometers into the sky on friday. another

rupture on saturday was so violent. it was seen from space and register 2000 kilometers away and new zealand. it triggered us unami, which hits hunger within 20 minutes. waves crashing a shore on the main island on the top hill and violent ash turned skies over the capitol as black as night. residents of low lying islands in the area have been told to stay in doors where a mask outside and cover rainwater reservoirs due to the falling ash and acid rain . here's how one woman described it to her family and friends, those like explosions in town. i guess it was from her. okay. no. and they're like literally pop darya. jonathan everyone just wrote aaron rose in town. and then i just like when pitch black in fan, please head to higher ground if you are in danger zone warnings to for those further away in fiji and american samoa tongue, a geological services say this latest eruption was 7 times more powerful than

a previous one. in december and there may be more to come inter chappelle al jazeera and the ash cloud from tongue as volcanic eruption continues to spread. this is some satellite imagery showing the cloud nearing the eastern part of fiji is candle. val island much of the southern lough islands are also covered. so from on the situation on the west west coast, let's be to fill a val. he joins is from los angeles. what is the a anticipated impact from this there? well, i mean it's very much maria watch and white situation. people have been told to stay away from the beaches to stay away from the coast. i'm to show you how seriously people are taking that. take a look at us ever. people are told to stay away from the beaches because there may be high tides that he can guarantee that the surface will be straightened to. that was now, this is despite the fact that people have been told that this soon army could head . now, in terms of the level of risk, there are 4 categories,

so we are not at the warning stage that is the most severe warning that is where you absolutely must not be anywhere near the coast. we're at the advisory stage, and that is, you know, that these waters could come, they're probably going to come, they might be bad, they might not be bad. or you just have to basically stay as far away from the water as you can. and keep on top of things and keep an eye out. now we know that those advisories have not been lifted in a couple of places. in the last few minutes southeast alaska hadn't advisory lifted hawaii a couple of hours ago. had it's advisory lift it. there were some waves that hit the island of co, i nothing to i out of the ordinary, but stronger than normal a bit of localized flooding. but it appears that the water is moving towards the west coast. it was supposed to hit here at $750.00. this morning it's now a little after 1 o'clock in the afternoon. have in southern california. it's really not too bad, but we are hearing in northern california. it is slightly worse. we've had a pacifica, for example, in northern california,

where there has been more water coming in. there have been stronger waves, also santa cruz, which is south of san francisco in the bay area. i just, i enrolled in california as well as also see what looks like some pretty heavy, localized flooding. but we're talking waves that a no higher than a meter, and that is pretty much within the parameters of what they were expecting. they said that these waves would be stronger than normal. they would be higher than normal, but they would be pretty much anywhere between a quarter of meter to a meter high. at the moment, northern california is still under advisory as well. that is likely to continue from most of the day as they caught list advisory. and so we go for several hours where the waves are below a continuously below a certain level. so they expect that to go on for the next few hours me while people are being told to stay away from the water. but as i say, as you can see for the surface, at least i'm the joggers, vannador walkers and everyone else the volleyball players along the beach further along the coast there. they're taking very little notice about all right, thank you very much. los angeles for lavelle. you had the news,

our life from london much more still ahead on the program. we looked at the diplomatic push to avert all our conflicts. western negotiators will had to ukraine as russia is accused of building a case for war sport. great. a for the bowlers and the 5th and final ashes test as england battle to avoid another defeat. ah, well the chinese capital beijing has reported its 1st community case of the army con variant of covert the positive cases from the cities northwest and high deann district. china detected its 1st case on record in the community last week, and norman city of town gin, prompting a snap lockdown less than 2 weeks until paging host the winter olympics. while elsewhere, several indian cities, including the capital, need daily, have gone into a strict locked down this weekend. an effort to control

a surge of covert cases there. all shops have been closed except for essential businesses. country reported nearly $270000.00 new cases on saturday, which is the highest level since may last year. this is going on over there monday . if you go to other states, there is election campaigning going on without any covert. 19 protocols. is there no virus at election release is of i'm going to sort of out of god is it gets incredible. i have to go to work, but there is no bus. it's very problematic. i don't understand what to do or what in the election commission is also extended at ban on political rallies in several states. and the lead up to february elections is because of increasing concern about that rise in the number of corona virus cases happening matter reports on this now from the indian capital. and once again, the streets in the national capital are empty. this is the 2nd weekend go if you hear in you jelly, which means that on saturday and sunday,

most people have to stay at home. only essential services like hospitals and food deliveries are allowed earlier this week daily. so it's highest this flight since the pandemic began. the positivity rate here is 30 percent, which means that every talk test is positive. no other restrictions continue through the week. there's a night garfield schools have been closed. restaurants are only open for deliveries, and most people are working from home models. so it's a big loss for us. a full lockdown is actually better because at least we can go back to a village and under, during these we can confuse and we don't on anything right now for the country. several cities like new jelly and one by half the cases diff slightly. but that's because of testing which has dropped authorities are now prioritizing death for high risk patients, so asymptomatic contacts of cobra. 19 patients have been asked to simply self

isolate. so even though it looks like cases have plateaued, positivity rate has gone up not amid all of this log scale gatherings or religious gatherings rather have continued even as most of the country has been under some form of restriction for some time. now. west been gone, which is hosting the largest gathering, has seen its highest single day spike since the beginning of the pandemic. now, the courts there are asking authorities to consider postponing upcoming civic pools because of the grown of our situation in the state. now it's just her day to go until the start the australian, open the wells number one man's tennis player, novak jokers, which is again in detention in melbourne. hotel, chuck, of which is lawyers are expected to appeal the decision to revoke his visa for 2nd time hearing is scheduled to start soon. trillion government was to the visa on friday despite a court decision 4 days earlier. joke of which is seen as health and public odorous

because he is not vaccinated against kind of 19. sarah clark has been following developments for us from brisbin. no joke, which is legal team took the visa staff back to the federal court in the last minute bid to stop his deportation. on the eve of the australian open, the tennis champion has been granted a temporary reprieve. as long as this matters being played out in court, he can stay in australia. the federal government canceled his visa for a 2nd time, arguing that joke of which poses a health risk. and his presence here in australia, fans anti vaccination sentiment and might encourage others not to comply with public health measures. brokovich, his lawyers cited an online poll as evidence of widespread support for a ministry failure. with 60 percent of australians wanting him to play in the australian open, the tennis champion is back in detention. the critics, including the former labor prime minister, kevin rud argue that scott morrison is using the visa saga as a distraction. as a country records a record number of daily tova, 19 infections, joking,

which is on court rival raffle. a doll has also white in arguing that this ongoing court battle is a distraction to the mind game. how strongly and open is much more important than, than any player. so les, if his playing finally. okay. if he is not playing her, i'll tell then open will be a greater than open with or without him. that's. that's my point of view. this saga isn't over yet. the matter is scheduled to return to the federal court for a final hearing on sunday, on the eve of the australian open, and no joke of which is set for the 1st round of the tournament on monday. so how do we get here jokers, which was denied entry to australia on january 5th, because he did not meet covert requirements authority sent the tennis tart to an immigration detention hotel in melbourne. jock of it appealed that decision, arguing his coven 19 infection in december. meant he was exempt from vaccine requirements, a court over turn the decision and ordered his release and organized of the

australian open included him in the tennis championship. but then on friday, immigration as to alex hawk used his discretionary powers to counsel jokers. which is, these are again on that health and public order grounds. let's bring an antonia tor . she is the head of immigration services at the law firm, howard kennedy. so as we were saying there, the immigration minister alex hawk cancelled at joker, which is visa for the 2nd time. crucially on the grounds of public interest. that seems to be the key part of her statement. how will jock overtures, lawyers challenge this? i think they're going to be really looking at the, the rationale behind this decision. you know, this is a international tennis player who's coming to playing a tournament. he's not coming to give a public speeches and rallies against the vaccine or against the pandemic. so

they're really going to be focusing on what damage is joke that's really going to be doing by competing the tournament. because public health and public safety is a very high threshold when it comes to these types of issues. and is that defined in a clearer and straightforward way? how will, how will the court put that to the test? there isn't a dictionary definition that the, the courts will be looking acts as a number of factors that will be considering that the point is this is a residual discretion. this is something that the immigration minister has the power to do. so as long as the immigration minister can show that this is a rational decision that any reasonable person in their position with that information would make, then the court would find in favor of the immigration minister. problem is that the whole process hasn't exactly been handled very well, and so it does lend itself to there being an element of irrationality and decision

. where do you see the flaws in this process? i think the fact that you've got 2 independent health panels who have given an exemption, one of which is from the one of the states government states authorities. the fact that he was allowed to claim. and he was in the 1st judged, then granted, all the terms, the initial refusal entree, it is stacking up against the australian government for the for and again, the fact that he's not coming in in order to hold rallies against the vaccinate vaccine or even against the pandemic but on november 29th, the federal health minister did contact tennis, australia chief, craig tyler saying that players wanting to enter the country need to i mean they need to meet, they must be fully vaccinated and they can't count previous infection as

a reason for exemption that is, it is within the right of the australian government to be a to, to passive walter, to port him. yeah, absolutely. they, the strain gum has the power and the ability to move him as a result, not meeting those requirements. i think the fact that that's not their initial approach, and they didn't deny him entry on the basis, that he was a threat to public health. they denied dimension basis, that he didn't have appropriate documentation. and so the goal posts all continually shifting. and when you have a traditional process, that is something that they're going to look at. there will be an element and i called comment on that, but it will be an element of, of whether we're able to actually relay that information to the, to the competitors. but it's certainly something that will be relying on, but again, it just comes back to whether

a correct process has been followed when the decision is rational, supported by objective evidence. and obviously, the joke of it has the financial means to fight this case and to keep launching these appeals. but what do you, what do you make of that approach? the decision to keep fighting will to keep going with the case instead of perhaps taking responsibility and issuing an apology and pop voluntarily leaving the country, which would draw a line on to the whole thing. i suppose from a legal point of view, the thing to bear in mind is that if shock, bitch is removed from australia, he could be subject to essentially up to 3 years in terms of a bam from coming back into australia. and that will also have an ability on or an impact on his ability to travel to other countries, such as the united states. so you k because refusals will deportations from other

countries can have an impact on your suitability into those territories. so it might be the joke, bitch or his legal team feel as if they really do need to battle this in order to clear the slate. but certainly, if we were looking at this at the very beginning of, of this whole saga, it probably would have been prudent for joker bitch to have voluntarily left australia, so as to minimize the damage that could have been caused. thank you very much for joining us. antonia tor, head of immigration services at howard kennedy on our, our stories of following diplomatic efforts to try and diffuse increasing tensions between russia, ukraine are gathering pace. the coming days of foreign ministers of germany, canada are expected in the region for talks with ukrainian or russian representatives. the u. k. foreign secretary las trousers also entered the fray, saying russia must hold what she described as its aggression and engaging

meaningful talks. trust repeated, the u. s. government claim that russia is waging a disinformation campaign in ukraine and destabilizing country in order to justify an invasion. a criminal has denied that accusation, dosage of barriers following events from moscow. the russian foreign minister said a lover of during his annual press conference on friday, stressed that russia's patience with the actions of the west is running out and that they are no longer going to wait around to, to have further talks. as far as the russian government is concerned, there will be no more dialogue with the united states in the coming weeks or months . they're now waiting for an official response from nato, about their concerns of ukraine or any other countries joining the 30 member alliance. the russian foreign minister also said that his country has intelligence or reasons to believe that the us and nato are likely in the coming weeks and

months to be building up their troops alongside the russian border. with the, using the pretext of the tensions with ukraine as an excuse to do so. and he said very clearly that that is not acceptable to the russian government. and that is very much a red line for this country. this was a sentiment that was also shared by the kremlin spokesperson earlier this week, following the 3 rounds of talks at various city europe in cities at between russia and the u. s. and european countries, a nato. the sentiment here is that the talks were not successful and that the kremlin said that any kind of sanctions imposed by the u. s. government on russia will be comparable to severing ties with russia in jordan is covering developments from washington. the one thing that the biden administration says that it has wanted, has not come true. and that is follow on meetings with russian officials about the next steps to try to deescalate the crisis between russia and the west because of

the $100000.00 or so. russian troops stationed a on the border across from ukraine, the u. s. and other countries, as you know, are very worried that russia is looking to invade ukraine in the coming weeks as a way of extending its influence in a central and eastern europe. and that is something that washington especially does not want to see of. there also has not been any development from washington side on responding to russia's request for rug guarantees that nato would pull back it's of florida deploy troops back to central europe away from eastern europe. as well as promising and writing that ukraine would never be admitted to nato, the u. s. has said it won't stand for any interference in nato's affairs. that countries that want to apply to nato have the right to do so,

but they can only be admitted if they meet nato's stringent standards. but at the end of the day, the u. s. is not going to stand for any outside party trying to dictate how nato conducts it's a security affairs. 3 more suspected members of the ransom crime group reveal have been reminded in custody by moscow. court of elite eagle trafficking funds on friday, rush a claim to dismantle the group. at the request of united states, russia security service detained in charge several retail members seizing assets, including money, computers, and luxury cars. united states welcome nearest made a time of tensions between moscow. washington now iran has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. soaring to nearly 60 percent since 2018. the price of milk, for example, has gone up 400 ascent in the past 3 years. or so said airports now from karen.

this shopping bags get lighter with each, was it as you're on bellows with inflation. it is this people that suffered the most valuable, not often enough. prices have gone up so much that we're not able to buy basic things. even buying simple cloth is not affordable for me. i'm not from tehran, but even in my own city prices are an affordable prices of chicken, meas, rice, and so many other foods are increasing. day by day. everywhere in the country is the same. iranians have had to endure sorta inflation rates for decades. and while they may complain, there is very little they can't do. but the annual inflation rate announced in september was the highest since 1995 at $45.00, a person and the figures hovered their own se mark says down with some food supply caused seeing triple digit increase customers. autumn only wants to soften him. some small shops ought to respond when out of business. magic about the sales

carpets, inter ron's grand bizarre. for 5 years, he says he has witnessed a steady decline in business and is now struggling to survive. although as the applause one mm hm, we're going to, going to hold on. i took hold for compared to last year. prices have kept increasing this year. even 3 times we have had an increase in price. and so it's had an impact and our business income has decreased rent, fees have gone up again. my income now is half of last year. how many shops have been shut down? the cause of the highest inflation rate in more than 25 years could be from the mismanagement of the company's economy to the fall out from the corner widest pandemic. but many will argue it is the creepy sanctions imposed by washington over euro's nuclear program. that is the real cause of the crisis. in 2015, western powers had agreed to lift some sanctions against iran in exchange for the restrictions on his nuclear activities of away. but in 2018, do united states under president crops administration pulled out of the deal. and washington imposed additional sections on iran is tat handle. iran's president

abraham bracy has made revive in the 2015 bill, a priority. but 8 rounds of negotiations in vienna have yielded nothing so far. iran wants sanction lifted immediately, and i guarantee that the deal will indoor beyond the biden and administration before its reduces its uranium enrichment program. the u. s. has so far as the 1st message, i didn't have that wrong re, inflation under control is the demand of the people. so we're taking measures to address that. and based on statistics, inflation rates are on a downward trend. it's a good beginning. they could lead to drop in high prices, but those measures are in having an impact in the neighborhood stores yet. and for most iranians, the struggle to put bread on the table continues. chris will say that ultra 0 to harass in watching the news ally from london most delightfully on the program. keeping the wolf from the door countries pan

a mass killing program last year in union steps in ange. oh, it's the end of an era for indian cricket. we'll have the details later on in the program. ah. and away we go with your weather update for europe and africa. hello everyone. good to see you. high pressure really in charge across much of the continent. so things fairly settled, but there is some turbulent weather to pick out. we've got some showers dancing in to the low countries. we'll see the winds pick up that pivots into germany, and same goes for pulling them. we've got a shield of snow across the baltic states and because you temperatures right around 0, we could see some icy conditions as well off to iberia right now, whether alerts in play for northern sections of spain. overnight temperatures could

dip down to about minus 6 sets, of course, over the higher ground. but certainly a cool pool of air in play here. madrid just a high of 10 degrees for italy and the balkans temperatures, in some cases above average here. so with that warmer air at the surface, we could have a foggy, a misty start to the day for many of these areas. snow across turkeys, black sea region, once again over the higher ground. so some showers for a tribes on with a high of 5 degrees len. this weather report in africa, the risk of sand and dust storms around the western sahara. a same goes for mauritania. new ox shut has a high of 30 degrees and cool in the northeast, cairo. just 17 on sunday. that's it. that's all we'll see again soon. take care. ah. i'll just see. oh, a wild alarm is can we listen? design is, are making serious effort in order to in

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ah, welcome back. look at the made stories now. a powerful scene army had the pacific nation of tongue after an undersea volcano, or octed. wilkin are also trigger tsunami warnings across the pacific from the u. s . to japan, australia, and new zealand. chinese capital bay jing is reported its 1st community case of the army con variant of covered the positive cases from the city's north west and had the uh district less than 2 weeks until paging host the winter olympics and was just a day to go until the start the australian opened the walls, number one men's tennis plane of act joker, which is again in detention in melbourne hotel. a court hearing is scheduled to begin soon will now hundreds of people are marching north in honduras towards the

border with guatemala, in the 1st major migrant caravan of the year. march is made up mainly of hon. doran's, am nicaraguans hoping to reach the us about 2000 kilometers north. 62 percent of hundreds, live in poverty. a situation made worse by the pandemic, and to hurricanes in 2020. she a mara, castro takes offices on der as president in less than 2 weeks. with a pledge to revive the economy and, and corruption. mo facilities for refugees, migrant in mexico are now running out of space as families keep arriving from central america. very few people have been able to continue their journey north as the asylum process for entry into the united states has almost ground to a halt because of the pandemic. and now as many rapid reports from the border city of tier wanna things could be about to get even worse. it's a supper time at a migrant shelter in tiquana, mexico. and both space and food for every one is limited. the shelters director

says there's been a significant increase in the number of families arriving, and she's been forced to turn many away. oh, home, it's very painful to see women with children arriving at our doors. asking for shelter. large influx is of migrants stretching the limits of the services shelters, can provide is not a new phenomenon here. but the coven 19 pandemic, has made things more complicated. for more than a year, the un international organization for migration has been using a hotel in downtown tiquana as temporary housing, and a quarantine new arrivals. but it wants the us and mexico to do more to help those shelters that are able to see if families are overcrowded right now. they're over a 100 percent in capacity. a lot of them have 3 or 4 spaces,

but the families are still counting. the u. s. asylum process has been at a virtual standstill since the start of the pandemic leaving hundreds of migrants stranded as conditions at migrants shelters in the one i become more overcrowded. many who can't find a place to stay have ended up here, a makeshift migrate camp right on mexico's border with the united states. but space has also run out, and local authorities have fenced off the area. oh, the sound of children practicing the violin breaks through the platter. the parents of this aspiring musician tell us they've been here for more than 2 months, but say returning to their home in southern mexico where they faced gang violence. and extortion is not an option. as they feel at that, i think most of being here is difficult. we're not here because we want to be who would want to live like this. so and further complicating the matter is the re

implementation of a u. s. policy known as the migrant protection protocols. or m p p, which forces asylum seekers to return to mexico while their cases are processed. oh, with m p. p, scheduled to be reinstated in more cities along the border. it's feared overcrowded conditions at shelters and migrant camps will only get worse. and manning trying to slime now. what's it like there entail on a money somewhere and where we are right now is the chapparal. it's a port of entry into the united states. we're just a stone's throw away from the us mexico border and the weather has been not very favorable. it's been raining on and off all day. it's still quite cold here. and the want us, these are not good conditions for the hundreds of people that are saying at this make shift migrant camp. that's right on the border. but it's still better than what many migrants are facing, who are sort of left to fend for themselves. given that this area has been fenced off, migrant shelters are already at capacity, and people that are unable to find

a place to say, sort of have to find a way to, to make ends meet just out on the streets. now what we've observed over the last few days here in the city of the juana is that there's a growing concern, specifically over the re implementation of a policy or us policy known as the migrant protection protocols or m p p. it's also known as the remain in mexico program. it forces us asylum seekers to return to mexico. wait in mexico, while the asylum cases are heard in the united states. and that's one of the reasons, not. the only reason that we're seeing this pile up of migrants here on the border . the other reason is title 42, which the united states uses as uses the cobra. 1000 pandemic as a pretext to keep the traditional asylum process sort of interrupted and almost had a virtual standstill. not only here in mexico, but in several cities all across the us, mexico border give you an idea of how many people were talking about. and what's leading to this in terms of numbers. last year,

the united states admitted $11411.00 refugees. that number may sound may sound high . these are statistics according to the few research center, but that's actually the lowest number of refugees since the 19 to 80. so when we try to get an idea of what's really causing this pile of migrants here on the border, it's a combination of very strict immigration policies. some of which began during the trump administration effort to have continued during the bind in the administration and the ongoing coven 19 pandemic. that's why we're seeing so many people piled up here on the border. and unfortunately what we're seeing and that's causing concerns, is that more are still coming. what about is my grand caravan? it's just that tough from under as how. how difficult might and jenny, now being you can imagine the concern from migrant shelter organizers here in tiquana and in cities all are all across the border. we'd heard rumors that this care of and would be formed in the early hours of

saturday. what we've heard from our sources on the ground in honduras is that in the early hours of saturday morning, somewhere between $4600.00 migrants gathered in the city of some failure to soothe, organize themselves, to begin that perilous journey on foot more than 4000 kilometers from honduras to the u. s. southern border. and many of them are from honduras. honduras remains a top country of origin for migrants that are seeking asylum in the united states. but a new trend that we're spotty now is a growing number of nicaraguan citizens that are joining these migrate caravans. this again, the 1st migrant caravan of 2000 in 2002, presumably those that are fleeing nicaragua are fling because of political reasons . there's been a crackdown on descent in that country to link to the last election election cycle in nicaragua. but if you walk around this migrate camp where we are in tiquana, you really get a little bit of everything. there are people from central america, their folks from the caribbean, countries like cuba,

there are people from venezuela, from brazil, you really get a mix of everything. and the concern again is that the conditions here are already over crowded, and people just continue to come. thank you very much. from carolina, manny raptor, hospitals and intensive care units and pearl. a close to capacity is the number of current fires, cases rises across the country. new infections have risen to the highest level seen that's past $30000.00 per day. 2 thirds of proven fully vaccinated country has the highest corona virus, right? the high to highest current of ours death rate in the world. i'm sandra beauty has more on this story now from bogota. the fact that the, all my grown byron were have started to as friends rapidly after the holiday season . here christmas new years eve, this is the biggest holiday season of the year in most countries across the latin america, people getting together,

but we're probably not being as cautious as they had been before this period. then in general, just the fact that we know that bombing grown is extremely contagious. and so what we're seeing now, our case is rapidly going, go up across the region. so far, most of the consequences here have been on the ability of most countries to keep up with the testing with all these new positive cases happening more people getting sick. also something to consider is the fact that unlike europe m and b u. s. many countries like, for example, those in the southern colon here are going through their summer season. so there's no, not so much of the presence of other viruses such as the influenza. right, right now. so because of all of this, the government here are avoiding, at least for now to put in place new tough, restrictive measures in steady insisting on people getting vaccinated the to go

true. they're so late that search in that contagion. so now conservation groups are calling on the european union to prevent the calling of wolves in finland, sweden and norway. this winter at sweden, plans to kill $27.00 wolves this year and is already coming close to reaching that target wildlife groups argue the population could for below $300.00, which is a level it, it says sweden promised to maintain finland, plans to kill 20 walls and what it's calling a population management coll, countries 1st in 7 years. government says there about $300.00 bulls in finland, the highest population in a century, and norway will kill $51.00 wolves about 60 percent of the population. it wants to keep just 3 breeding pears on magnus or a brunt is chairman of the swedish predators association and, and geo, that works to protect wild animals and we need joins us from gothenburg. what has

been the government's response to these calls for more to be done to protect and, and safeguard these creatures. so what the government is doing, they're trying to give the subsidies to a cheap form and so on. but the problem is, we know today is that the hunting organizations are extremely strong and they basically are controlling the wildlife management in swede. and then i was in norway, and i've been doing that for many, many years, actually order since 1938 when it was decided that they had that rolled up there. also subsidized by the government to have this rule. and that creates a big problem for the lord, carnivals. so they are how did, on the minimum level levels, it's not, don't, it was all the links on the bare something down to minimum level of sun. they're very even breathing down. that is the problem. so that when we are saying today, 300 words, since we've done that means that they're not in reading, but the reading radiance we need now is so high. and so it really should be like

$1700.00 was and that this this year. and that's why we're reaching out for you to be in community to take action. i guess we're done. and we have a pending case now since 10 years. and now we like the european union to take action against window. so why is it? why is it pending for 10 years? because it then would have told us that we need to try all the court cases possible in sweden. so that's why we have been over ruling many license, something goes in some hands, some links on best. and now we, i find that the highest court possible. busy in sweden and has been over rude. so we see that we have no other possibilities now in sweden. so that's why we turn into to you being union. why is the viability and survival of population important heavy environment? the ecosystem?

i mean old is talk credit. those are important for the own or the environment i'm in. and the problem is that the hunters try to be the top for that. there's a bit a skilled us. how does that go designed to be, to the anamosa controlling the environment. so we believe that for the environment, we need the large cannibals just to be clear. you said that to the use. instructed that you exhaust legal options in sweden before they take up the case. there is, is there is an e u habitats directive, is there? yeah, and we asked me see it, we are breaking to have it done by killing the i mean, continuously yearly or killing wars. and ling, since we consider that we are waiting to have the time to read this. well thank you

for telling us a little bit about this story. i appreciate it. magnus, are a brand journey? is that from gotten back? thank you. much, bye bye. mine a group. we are 10 toes plans to excavate. lithium in serbia might have hit a snag. people out in protest again against the new mine in that region. we ana sandoval, which is in west in serbia and has more on the story. now. environmental activists have blocked the roads across serbia, this saturday as well. but for the 1st time, they have blocked the border crossing between serbia and bought me and had to gov in there, protesting against 3, attend to a company which is planning lead to mine project in western serbia. during the process, there was no reaction from the police, the prime minister ana, but in a beach said earlier that they are close to for feeling the demands of the activists. on the other hand, president alexander watches, things that the project is good for the people and good for the country. experts have warned that the plan lead to mine would destroy farm land and pollute the

waters. at 18 to her said it would adhere to all domestic and european union environmental standards at the site. serbia, is the candidate nation for european union and 3, but little so far have been achieved with regards to improving the countries environmental situation. activists are now announced that they will continue with the protest until at 18 to accompany is definitely out of serbia for countries of joint forces to say the marine ecosystem that famously inspired charles darwin. it galapagos marine reserve is home to many critically endangered species. ecuador, costa rica, panama, and columbia will now expand the area under that protection and band fishing in some parts. lago brain damage kilometers, look in north. there will be no extracted activities allowed within a 30000 square kilometer zone. the protected area includes critically endangered ecosystems migration, roots and feeding grounds for endangered maritime species. audio, mr. saudi,

as noise, solomon b to protect these areas are used to grant that they won't be exploited, but to grant the survival of more than 40 percent of the marines. precious worldwide money. 25 years ago, princess diana walked through a land mine infested field in angola. the event attracted worldwide media attention shining a light on the danger the minds pose. a few months later, the united nations enacted the anti mind feel treaty, which many countries have since signed. but millions of people around the world remain at risk. former can is the head of communications of the halo trust and enjo working to clear land mines. he says that the work is a painstaking effort that requires more funding. i was in said by way last month's or where landmines were laid extensively. it about 1975, but that war ended in 1979 and for decades after that,

the local people be living with thousands of land mines that stop them getting to their what sources are getting to school. i think that what's required to remove my minds is essentially political will and funding the more funding there is acquittal our minds can be removed. it's an incredibly and painstaking effort to remove minds . it's easy to put the vendor cheap to produce, but it's actually quite expensive to deal with them because you have to make sure that you handle land back, that you know to be a 100 percent clear and a 100 percent safe. so, you know, from, in some places we work with heavy equipment machinery. they said like a rack. and in this, in urban centers, we are able to, to clear ideas quite rapidly. but in other places, it's almost like a finger tip search, and you have to and you're using delicate tools to do with things. so it can be an expensive business, because you want to hang back, land is completely say, or thread for you on the scenes out from london, the winds of change you're blowing in kenya. how the country plans to be totally

reliant on renewable energy by the end of the decade and in sport. the see, the eagle saw the africa cup of nations on football action coming up shortly. ah dawn . ah ah extraordinary men and women who are breaking the mold from the taxi drivers investing everything they have in to their mini bus,

only to face extreme danger on the suitors rough his tracks. to the joke he turned paramedics saving lives, transporting the sick and elderly for medical help, blue through to risking it all on al jazeera. ah ah, ah kenya is saying that it will be totally relying on renewable energy by the end of the decade. so ready? one of the leaders in green energy with about 9000000. i'm off grid. katherine, so he has one hour from marsan, bit on how it's affecting daily life. the blades of

$365.00 turbines rotate on the edge of lake to cana. this wind farm, the largest in africa, is perched on a stretch of rocky desert in north, in kenya. yet it is key to the countries plans to have a fully green energy supply by 2030 with a capacity to dispense $310.00 megawatts of low cost power. it will increase energy supply by 30 percent. those who leave and walk in masa bit home to the wind farm can't wait to be connected, but some are not happy. it's not already happened. season of clear thought, you lot of problems, we will end telecom, we're told the wheat energy will help us when it comes, but it's taking too long to reach us. that is one of the theory does in pain. you're still running on generating people here. say they want to go green and benefit from the wind farm. many are increasingly using solar energy to power. the

whole renewable energy from natural sources, including geothermal, weaned solar and hydro electric account for about 90 percent of kenya's electricity needs. the country's electricity company is also diversified by using geothermal, steam for other uses. it's record direct impact in agriculture because we have the clean houses. we are growing our hot carter. we have fish. that is also agriculture . we have drying of crops. if we really want to get to large skilled farmers even before who adrica much of life, we have to fit them under your field to as your number field. all this makes kenya a global leader in climate change. but some honestly see that in itself may not help you. the developed world does not do better option one is to continue investing in cleaning mechanisms for the already for you to invest. option 2 is to invest a new renewable technology. unclean technologies in africa are make use of the

community in africa. that's is the cheaper the cheapest option. we should sell now, and that's what the was features. jaffar abduct mine says all he wants is a clean and a more reliable pass horse to run his business. katherine saw alta 0 or sobbing kenya. ferris now here with the sport. marian, thank you so much. manchester said he had gone 13 points clear at the top of the english premier league, a 2nd have gone from kevin to bernie. i saw them beat title, hopefully 2nd place. chelsea one know the nature was there 12 in a row in the leap there, place liverpool have 2 games in hand on city. caught the gap to 11 points. if they went on sunday, what about we spoke up before the game, so i wouldn't i want to win the game if we deserve it to him. so and, and, and we deserve all players gave everything. and yeah,

important victory because we're playing against a big contender. and no rest and proposals. hunton. manchester united had a night. she forgot the blue to go lead if were held to a to to draw by aston villa. the new villa alone, signing the phillip. continue getting the crucial equalizer on wednesday for the club. the result leaves united 5 points off the top floor. right now it feels like definitely feels like to last points and it feels almost feels like a defeat to be honest. and after those, sir, after being too anal up ourselves request to postpone sundays north london, darby against our travels, tottenham has been accepted by the premier league. the gunners made the request with their squad depleted due to injuries, coven 19 suspensions and players being away at the africa cup of nations. it's the 21st match to be postponed in the last month. teams must fulfill fixtures if they

have 13 outfield players and a goalkeeper available by jerry have book their spot from the africa cup of nations round of 16. the super eagles follows up there. went over egypt by securing a pretty easy victory over sudan and group. see, they open the scoring just a few minutes and then went to know out just before have time. thanks to pretty lucky goal. i jerry going onto a 31 victory. they're looking to win the tournament for a 4th time because i'm but it's a good solid 4 to secure each of their 1st when they turn him in affairs. getting to south one. now they did have a major stair laid on as their opponents found that in quite high killers fashion subway was reviewed. however, with the ref finding and infringement, egypt have 3 points after 2 games are 2nd inquiry. yeah, yeah. but the indian crickets are very coley,

has announced he is stepping down as the countries test captain coley had been in the job for the last 7 years. he led india and 60 matches and has been his country's most successful captain. with 40 winds, calling made the decision on the back of his team suffering a series defeat in south africa. we've been speaking to mom by based cricket broadcast erotica, poor me told us before cali's announcement is relationship with india's cricket board wasn't at its best. i see this, this coming from the da colea not from the be shy guns. me it's his decision. and i'd like to believe it's fucker getting reasons of known that having been said that the change in the pci rob ross of the fact that some of his most trusted members of the coaching staff, the likes of rubbish as 3 the other members of the cortex of that back, all the all who's gone. i think he sense that this was not necessarily his comfort zone and that's leg board to this decision. there has been friction with the board

. he has openly already other indirectly course or around the beach. i brisbin effectively ally o disorder is that the teacher, wendy. i kept and she was minute. so there has been friction. i think up with the fact that he lost the audio gap in sooner rather ungrateful, unceremonious manner. you felt like this was on the guards? i'm a bit surprised that it's gone right after the south african series is also in line to players. 100 just met soon. so we thought maybe that would be an fusion for god to enjoy his captain. and then all the time. so timings a little surprising australia are looking going to finish the ashes series against england with another when england were born out for a $188.00 on going to the 5th test in tasmania. cummings took the key wicked to offer jo a roots since and australia and built up a 150 to run 2nd in fleet. they're already 3 know up in the series. ruffin a dal says the australian open is more important than just one player. and that

he's getting tired of the know back job which controversy dominating and the build up to the years. first grand slam jock, which has returned to government attention and faces deportation from australia after his visa was cancelled for a 2nd time. the whirl number one will appeal against the decision and a hearing beginning shortly. he's due to start his title defense in melbourne on monday. well, i tell you one thing it's, it's very clear that no, like joe garbage is a, is a, is one of the best players of the history without a doubt, but days no one playing he studied. that's the, that's, that's more important than, than an event. now because the players are, stays on then goes and the 9 players are coming. not so no one knew in roger novak myself beyond boy who was amazing. got his time. santa dennis, just keep going and i was throwing open. it's much more important than, than any player. so why if he's playing finally, okay,

if he's not playing and nobody will be a great part about them open with or without him, that's. that's my point of view. about his image. i mean, everyone chose he is his rota. i respect ah, himself as a, as a person of course and as a, as a math lead, without a doubt i, i respect a lot. no. so i wish him all the best and i, i, i really respect him in, if, even if i am not agree with a lot of things that, that, that, that he did the last last couple of weeks. okay. and that is all your support for now. it's now back to mary. i'm in london. okay, great, thanks very much. i will. that wraps up then he's out and i will be back in alignment with another person for you around of the days top stories coming out very shortly. i'll see you in a bit. i found him with

news news, news americans are increasingly saying a 3rd. realism might not be so bad. there were several steps along the way where the chain of command it seems like tried to covered up. what's your take on why they've gotten this so wrong? that to me it's political malpractice, the bottom line on us politics policy and the impact on the world for now does era me hold him in the city in vietnam? once. so i gone the old capital of san vietnam. his heart is lamb,

so square were journalists, diplomats, military staff, and spies, rub shoulders in its famous hotels during the vietnam war, i was assigned to yet not by the associated press. and i arrived june at 1962. the caravel hotel burst under the headlines in november, 1963, when there was a number to recruit 8, which led to the assassination of the president and his brother, over 24 hour period. the center of saigon was a war zone. the press retreated, in effect that the caravel hotel. and many of the story is mentioned we were saying was from the care of me. intelligence and playful, alters, are in high demand, is packed in japan. but concerns are going over the illegal smuggling and

irresponsible breeding of these wild 11 east investigate on i'll just 0. i an under see volcano erupt in tonga, triggering a powerful su nami, alerts are in place across the region and from japan to the u. s. west coast. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm mozy in london. you're watching alger 0 also coming up on the program . a corona virus, coffee comes into effect in the indian capital on of several cities to lockdown in response to the rising number of cases. well, number one is by nova jokers,

which leads detention to fight another court battle for the right to play in the australian open.