ah, al jazeera ah, with an undersea volcanic eruption of toner triggers. tsunami, a loves across the pacific from japan to the u. s. west coast. ah, oh, i'm adrian again. this is al jazeera life in dough, also coming up. well, number one pedestal, no back junk, of ich faces a deportation hearing in melbourne, which could bol him from the australian open and the country for 3 years. the fost reported case of omicron in beijing, prompts mast testing at a neighbourhood,

locked down just 3 weeks ahead of the winter olympics and refugee shelters near the us border and mexico are running out of space as more people arrive, fleeing gang violence. ah, a powerful snobby has hit the pacific nation of toner off to an undersea volcano erupted. the extent of the damage is still unclear as phone lines a down waves more than a meter in height. it fiji, found iwatsu at american samoa warnings, and the advisor is still in place. the parts of japan and the western united states will told us king was moved to safety people on the small island patient had to scramble to reach higher ground. alex's here is phil of bell reports now from los angeles, where advisory is slim place. it only took minutes for the is to arise tsongas

main island along a top you being hit by a tsunami. the result of a massive volcanic eruption in the pacific ocean, even from space thousands of kilometers away. you can see nature's strength. there'll be warning signs. this was coming, the hunger tonka, who the high pie volcano has been rotting for days on friday. it said ash 20 kilometers into the sky saturday's eruption though, so violent. they felt it more than 2000 kilometers away in new zealand. but it was tonga, the court, the bronze of it was like a explosions in town. i guess it was from her. okay. no, any, like, literally popped out here. jonathan. everyone just rolled the ash cloud, turning daylight sky's as dark as night. people fleeing in their cars from above you can see just how enormous that cloud is. please head to higher ground if you are in danger zone waves. more than half a meter high. reaching american samoa,

japan, seeing high water 2, smoking warnings in fiji and thousands of kilometers away in the us, particularly here on the west coast. normally, it is earthquake for that of main concern hair, but soon armies caused by events far, far away are also a real risk right now. they're supposed to be staying off the beaches out of the water. but clearly that isn't happening. i was shows i could earn a toy for the circling the ball, which is probably is pretty unusual for west. well, so right. something soon army related, but so far we're still here. oh, very thing. yeah. even if like a one foot wave come through that smile. then went tearing down. i'm more worried about my mom. you like to why my go to therapy when there is it's it amy further up the coast, northern california. so some choppy, a water. the bay area waves up to a meet

a higher than normal flooding in santa cruz 2 and hawaii getting strong waves and some minor flooding. this very much a watch and see situation and a warning of this eruption. 7 times more powerful than another one from the same volcano in december, may not be the last all the worst. and sullivan insurances? how buy from los angeles? so what's the latest? well they to says, we are still under this advisory notice cedra and you know, there are full levels of full tis the most severe peanuts unami warning that is where you get the water. you've got away from the coast and you get to a high ground immediately. we're not at that stage. we're still at the level below that, which is the advisory. ah, but that the waves, hey, it all getting a bit choppy now that's anecdotal because it is also the evening. hess up tends to be the, the course of things this time of evening. but what it does mean is that means that there is nobody now on the beach and not gave us

a bit of relief to all of the emergency workers on your authorities. because they've been saying invade to death is all day. don't go anywhere near the war to, despite that you've got people walking mad dogs, you've got people surfing, if you're playing volleyball, taking absolutely no notice. and they were saying this is a real problem because even the water, the water hare looked fairly calm. there's a strong red current that is the potential danger that these waves could bring. having said that, all of the ways here with fairly bad, not too much out of the ordinary, we did see some stronger waves are hitting farther up the coast here in california . port st. louis, which is about 3 hours drive north of los angeles in central california that so some heavy ways further north, they also so some in miramar and pacifica which are up in the bay area, san francisco. oh, so santa cruz, so some localized flooding, but nothing that you could really sized cause any real, huge levels of damage, certainly no casualties,

certainly no huge amounts of damage. and that was the concern because we knew that these waves were coming via the national weather service, told us earlier today to expect them at around 8 o'clock in the morning. and we were told that these waves could be anywhere between a quarter of a meter to our meter high. they're in the and they were just over a meter high in port saint louis. i'm but they are still in this 3 stage. and that is because they can't lift status until the waves go below this level and stay below that level for a number of hours. we do know that the advisory, though, has been lifted on the islands of hawaii co, which is one of the items i saw some heavier waves a little bit earlier today. they saw some localized flooding again, nothing huge, but certainly nothing that they wanted. they've now been in a position where they've had relative calm, so they've been able to rescind advisory and the same in southeast alaska. but here on the west coast, which of course includes california, but also oregon and washington they are still saying very much you have to be very

aware and try to stay off the beach and we can still develop, putting live there from los angeles, from evening saturday. evening in los angeles, the sunday morning, i was on the other side of the pacific new zealand prime minister. why is giving a press conference press briefing? thing about the situation and toggle is listening, and local mobile phones were advised i working. however, i would know that we've not yet received news from other coastal areas of tongue taco or the outer islands yet. and keeping with local advice. if you are a loved one or in the sixty's areas, follow the advice of the local authorities including any to now me evacuation orders. please also keep family back in you zealand informed of your well being if you can. we also recommend that you stay informed to development by monitoring local media. although there is currently no ongoing lodge,

a reduction food day activity cannot be rolled out at this stage. the trauma meet office has confirmed that edge has stopped falling in the call ofa. the government of trauma has accepted an initial offer of assistance from new zealand, open in the div surveillance flight. and you deal in defense force pay 3, a ryan is ready to deploy tomorrow morning. subject to conditions including ish for a prison. it is not safe for viable to begin this reconnaissance. this morning the top of the ash clouds estimated to be 63000 feet higher than an hour in z date. the craft can fly. officials are in contact with toma authorities on priorities for through the aid, the ministry, foreign fees, in cds, and other news on agencies are working through for the e and c options to get to toner. the government has also approved an initial

half a $1000000.00 to be able to respond to request for assistance from tom and authorities . this would include cost of release supplies and technical support, as well as supporting local responses, placing a pharmacist and i've done that talking about the situation in tang, i will keep listening to that and bring you anything newsworthy that comes out of it. let's speak to simon masa, who's a reporter with tdm said he joins us now. live from oakland. what's the situation that this morning, simon? well i do nice. the new ceiling, prime minister just indicated it sounds like some communications have started to be reconnected with at least the area around the capital of tang nicole ofa. but most of the last 22 hours that many, many thousands of commons living and you sealed and elsewhere around the pacific have been in the dark, extremely concerned about what's happened in their homeland. what we've known.

because of that, it's really very hard to know at this time to give you an official overview of the extent of damage or injuries or deaths. what we know is that the volcano wrapped at about 5 pm local time tunnel yesterday. the waves arrived within. we told 15 to 20 minutes, but the images that some tomlins were able to record and post do show some people leaving the coast. people asked to evacuate to higher ground. some people were caught unaware as though we've seen pictures of people inside the homes, with waves splashing against the window. people in the church, literally the ways watching through the inside the church and through the pews. so it did cause panic and concern also that the massive sound of the summit sonic booms emitted from the volcano scared many people. later we saw some people and higher grounds, gathering, catching their breath, looking out the people down below. in recent times, who can tell you that oxfam new zealand, tanya has reported

a lot of ash still in the air and perhaps one to 2 centimeters on the grounds of the agency does have concern for pollution of a waste and water weiss. we've also seen some images from an island group to the north, 180 kilometers, also to the north photographic images showing a lot of roadside and churned up a chunks of dirt strewn about. but at no indication yet have any significant injuries or loss of life. even here, new zealand, adrian and some hours ago, new cylinders were warned to stay away from the northern and east in coasts because of surges and, and strong currents. one very popular holiday spot of the north of the the country are known for boating, had moorings and boats damaged by tidal surges. so it's really very much await to get more information from the ground as to the extent of this disaster. tayveon said simon mercer reporting live there from auckland summit. many thanks indeed of

act. joke of it, just about to find out if he can play in the australian open or if he's to be deported. the world tennis number one is in court in melbourne, where he's appealing the decision to revoke his visa for a 2nd time. he was initially bought entry on arrival after questions about his curve at 19 vaccine exemption. but that ministerial decision was overturned by a judge. let's go live out of brisbin. i'll 0 sarah clark is the water each party going to be arguing in this federal court hearing this morning. well, the federal court hearing is just a journey resume at about 20 or so minutes. a joke of it just came spent about 2 hours lying there. i came in for a full bench key cases that they challenging the validity of the federal government's visa cancellation. they're arguing that the minister, being the immigration minister, alex, who he took in an illogical and a rational approach. and i believe that the government has cited no evidence to

suggest that the job to which is a public health risk. and now the government is also presented about 2 thirds of its case i foster we do expect a decision today. they're basically saying that they believe he does pose a health risk to the australian public, not necessarily on an individual sky, but this i'm because of his high profile status. i. he could be supported, of course, could few anti vaccination sentiment. they're saying his recent history of ignoring the various covered safety measures not just here in australia, but elsewhere where he attended an interview, often knowing he was positive at that's evidence to suggest that he doesn't respect people's vaccination and doesn't respect the safety measures in place. and i believe that the public will use his high profile to replicate and promote of the ideas that he believes in. so alex hope, his immigration minister, he's invitees a special use. he's discretionary rules to either turn the court's decision to re incite that visa. and we expect this decision to happen today. we've got both sides

of a pot. both parties are presented, they types and we do expect something on sunday afternoon, a hearing to decide whether or not now that joke, which will appear and play in the 1st round of the strain open on monday. ceremony thanks of 0, sarah clark that live in brisbin authorities in the us state of texas. negotiating with a man who's taken people hostage at a synagogue police in coley vill, which is a suburb of dallas. say that one person has so far been released. it's believed that 3 more hostages remain. the suspect entered the synagogue services were being live, streamed a weather update. maxine announces era, then peru struggling as covet. 19 cases hit a record high at hospitals, a filling to capacity. and will tell you about the diplomatic, pushed to avert all out conflict between russia and ukraine. ah,

ah, look forward to brightest galleys. the winter sponsored my cattle. it weighs, getting going on your weather report for asia. hello, everyone. nice to see you. we're going to begin in india, where we do have weather alerts in play to start the day with some fog through the indian states of delhi, into, to per dash elsewhere across the country. some showers are sliding down from on the upper dash into town on that do so we're going for a closer look. and that ne monsoon is just going to enhance that rain. so we'll see bursts of rain across tamela. they do and same goes for sure longer, over the next 24 to 48 hours after se, asia and plentiful storms across indonesia. so really take your pick where they're going to be falling jakarta high of 32 degrees. indo china fairly said all but it's as we get toward northern areas, we see some of that shower so not too far away from hanoi with a hive. 27 degrees and a slug of rain in between the gang. see,

and the pearl river valley toward the north. that's a cool pool of air toward the south into the warm sector. and we're going to get down with rain in gray. lin with a hive. 10 degrees or that see effect snow machine in gen, turning into high gear. so we'll see that snow accumulate a through the hills of western honju and hope kado over the course of the weekend. meantime in tokyo, you really know much is going on. you're in the sunshine with a hive. 12 degrees on sunday. that's it for me, we'll see again soon. take care blue whether sponsored by katara always. the virus is indiscriminate. those living in poverty are far more vulnerable to the dangers of covert night. g. alley re examines the reasons for this disparity, the social and economic inequality that surround us. how much deeper and much more problematic than we had asked where the lessons learned from the global pandemic could lead to positive change the, the hill, all hail the locked down, exposing privilege and poverty during a crisis on

a j 0. ah ah. hello again. this is al jazeera reminder of the main news. the saw a soon army has hit the pacific patient of toner. after an under c volcano erupted, this mo would yet on casualties. so normally alerts the visor is replaced with parts of japan and the western united states. tennis will. number one, novak joker, which is in court in australia to appeal the decision to revoke his visa for a 2nd time. the hearing is taking place just a day before yesterday. an open begins. beijing has reported its 1st community case of the alma cron variant of co 19 the positive cases from the city's north western

. heidi an district charter detected his 1st community acquired infection of oma kron last week and little than city of chan. gin prompting a snap locked down the country is less than 3 weeks away from staging. the winter olympics with beijing is one of the venues for the games. jewels boy cough is a professor in the department of politics and government of the pacific university . he says the athletes risk of catching coven 19 at the beijing winter olympics. new data suggest decreased efficacy of china's vaccines against the omicron barion, which shouldn't surprise any one. since western vaccines have also shown lower protection against omicron. and so they're locked downs should probably help contain it to a certain degree. but we saw similar types of measures put into place around the tokyo olympics, which just happened a few months back. and still, even with those new measures, more than $800.00 cases of corona virus emerged inside the so called olympic bubble

. so because of the transmits ability, we have serious problems on our hands in regards to the beijing olympics. just look at the recent us figure skating trials, where omicron rage and it really disrupted a lot of the qualification events around these very olympics and beijing. this is incredibly difficult for athletes right now. they are already under incredible stress just to make it to the olympics in the 1st place. you throw the corona virus element in there and now you have extra stress on top of it. and so they're taking every measure they can possibly take, but everybody knows at this point that you can be extremely careful and still catch omicron. and so there's a lot of fear rippling through the athletic community that their dream could come short because of the fact that the crime pops up on their plane ride over to participate in the beijing olympics. hospitals and intensive care units in peru are filling to capacity as the on the kronen delta, various surge across the country. the number of new infections is not its highest ever soaring to 30000 a day. half of the cove at 900 patients in peruse,

hospitals are unvaccinated. the country has the highest current of virus death rates in the world. well, the number of micro cases is up right across south america, from vulgar tar columbia. alexandra m. p. s. he has the latest from the region. this was the many ways expected in particular, after the recent holiday season, as christmas and new year's eve when people were probably less careful. and after the 1st cases of the only con, variance were discovered in december throughout much of latin america, there was this expectation that in january and probably throughout this month and in february would have seen a rapid spread of this variant across latin america is what we're seeing that happening now with the doubling of the numbers of daily infections in most countries, but fortunately so far with the exception in part of peru in brazil, the rest in the rest of the region. the consequences of that so far at been a mild,

at the main issue as being a lack of testing at that many countries have seen with the rise of request of people looking for a test that has been the case in mexico for example, argentina, partly here but not as the as much the other issue has been with airlines, many flights being canceled. bailey, here in columbia, for example, 40 flights are being canceled that every every day but so far. and the majority of the countries hospitals are not a fool. this is obviously a very good and if you ask experts, they'll tell you that a lot of it has to do with the high levels of vaccinations across much of latin america, which is now the highest. the vaccination vaccinated the region in a, in, in the world. several indian cities including the capitol, new delhi, of going into a strict weekend lockdown in an effort to control

a surgeon infections. india reported maybe 270000 new cases on saturday. that's the highest number since last may, a spike is being fueled by the omicron, and the delta variance, all shops are shot except for essential businesses. what is it? i don't know what i do. monmouth jacqueline, if you go to other states, there is election campaigning going on without any covert. 19 protocols is the no virus at election release value. sorry, god, is it getting that away? i have to go to work, but there is no bus. it's very problematic. i don't understand what to do or i'll just hear us pumping. the towel reports now from the indian capital. and once again, the streets in the national capital are empty. this is the 2nd weekend of you here 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 taught test is positive. no other restrictions continue through the week. there's a night curfew schools have been closed. restaurants are only open for deliveries, and most people are working from home commodities until you know, 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, and there. during these, we can confuse we don't on anything right now for the country. several cities like you jelly and mom by having cases div slightly. but that's because of testing which has dropped authorities and now prioritizing death for high risk patients, so asymptomatic contact of cobra. 1000 patients have been asked to simply self isolate. so even though it looks like cases have plateaued, positivity rate has gone up. now, amid all of these large 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 goal, 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 corona, of our situation in the state. diplomatic efforts to deescalate tension between russia and ukraine, a gathering place, the foreign ministers of germany and canada are expected in the region of the coming days for talks with leaders in care of moscow. it comes off to washington accused russia of planning a false flag operation in ukraine to justify an invasion, the kremlin list, an id allocation, torso jibari has more. 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 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 are 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 to this country. this was a sentiment that was also shared by the kremlin spokesperson earlier this week, following the 3 rounds of talk that various city european cities at between russia and the u. s. and european countries, a nato, they sentiments 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 was land, jordan, it's monitoring developments from washington d. c. 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 of 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. and, 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 facilities for refugees and migrants and mexico are running out of space. most families keep arriving from central america. very few of been able to continue that journey north as the asylum process for entry into the u. s. as almost stops to, to the pandemic. and us manuel relo reports from the border city of to you wanna,

things could be about to get even worse. it's suppertime at a migrant shelter in tijuana, mexico, and both space and food for everyone 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. it's very painful to see women with children arriving in our doors . asking for shelter. large influx is of migrant. 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 p one 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 receive families are overcrowded

right now. they're over a 100 percent capacity. a lot of them have 3 or 4 spaces, but the families are still coming. the u. s. asylum process has been at a virtual standstill since the started the pandemic leaving hundreds of migrants stranded as conditions at migrants shelters in p. want to become more overcrowded. many who can't find a place to state 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. i the sound of children practicing the violin, breaks through the clatter, 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 that i see them

being here is difficult. we're not here because we want to be who would want to live like this. further complicating the matter is the re implementation of a usa 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 n 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. manuel, shrapnel al jazeera tiquana, mexico. ah, it is good to have you with us. hello, adrian. so they can hear it though, how the headlines are now to sierra astronomy as hit the pacific nation of toner. after an undersea volcano erupted, but there's no word yet on casualties. waves more than.