saw the largest number of woes on record off the coast of cape town scientists cool savation ists and tourists continue to learn more about these giant marine animals we went along to find out more. at certain times of the year special visitors can be part of the waters of being in south africa. where the huge mammals migrate from one tactic to the woman waters off the coast of mozambique to come and they're young they're here for very good after a few months to return some of the lawn the same root and research as have seen an encouraging rise in numbers. of the great conservation success stories since the end of whaling allison people stop catching and commercially in the late seventy's around southern africa the population have been increasing reality. if they can be and we think of getting up toward the carrying capacity of the ecosystem the population of the west and the east coast of africa have been increasing probably close to 10 percent yet the research is used a hydrophone an underwater microphone to record words sound which the team will analyze later the waters around cape

england move on to cape town for the second test on friday.half of england's touring party have come down with this flu—like lurgy — as they've described it — since they've been in south africa. whilst head coach chris silverwood didn't blame the defeat on it, he conceded it didn't exactly help. now i have never been involved in the build—up to a game like this before when you are told on the morning that your players are falling over. yesterday joined josh showed a lot of courage and there are players showed a lot of courage and there a re players left showed a lot of courage and there are players left back at the hotel. what can you do to try and believe that your? is that possible? you don't want to take this blog on to cape town. i would like to leave it year. obviously the two guys i hear, they will come down to cape town with us just in case, because as you seem it has been very unpredictable with what is happening, but he medical staff are working very hard to make sure that those who are infected are quarantined and kept away from the

and for more on this i'm joined now by correspondent ellis fund gayle's in cape town it's good to see you has anything raised the urgency in particular in recent weeks with this crisis we know the world food program has issued a warning weeks ago i believe is this just getting worse or is there a particular thing that's happened. and it's getting worse and it comes out of the end of february through the program called peak hour hunger season so that's when they expect the need to be the most severe and by. now because we're funding to materialize food and somebody slates they basically need about 3 months so they also see that they seen one more shortages they've been monitoring markets in zimbabwe and say that top of the market only have me left which is the staple in in zimbabwe and then as you mentioned it's also on a report on top of that the deprived so are getting higher and higher which means by the end of the day food is there just for the privilege that still have money to pay it ok we're having a little bit of a problem with the line but let's keep going. you mentioned both

the england squad flight to cape town tomorrow with the second test starting on friday.esult was settled using the duckworth lewis method. chasing down the hurricanes total of 69 from their limited 11 overs, the stars were on course to win. the weather then intervened again prompting an early end to the match. the stars were 55 for 3 at the close and were awarded the win. to darts, peter wright is just one match away from winning his first pdc world championship title. he's through to the final at alexandra palace — after beating gerwyn price 6—3. wright has reached the final once before, in 2014, where he lost to michael van gerwen, who is currently beating nathan aspinall 11—2 in tonight's other semi final. after becoming the first woman to win a match at the pdc world championship, fallon sherrock has been given a place in all of the world series of darts events next year. sherrock made it through to the third round at the alexandra palace before eventually being beaten by chris dobey last friday. her historic first—round win there meant she secured a place at the 202

the england squad fly to cape town tomorrow with the second test starting on friday.t the pdc darts world championship, fallon sherrock has been given a place in all world series of darts events next year. sherrock made it through to the third round at the alexandra palace before eventually being beaten by chris dobey last friday. her historic first—round win there meant she secured a place at the 2020 us darts masters event in new york, but she's also now been included in the other five international world series events. we'll have more for you in sportsday at 6.30. police in spain have concluded their initial investigation into the deaths of a british father and his two children. gabriel diya, his 9 —year—old daughter comfort and his 16—year—old son praise—emmanuel died at a swimming pool in fuengirola on christmas eve. a police spokesman told the bbc that there was no need for further investigation, because it was a freak accident and the case can now be closed. 0ur correspondernt gavin lee is outside the resort on the costa del sol, with more on that police report

country and say they no longer feel welcome in south africa reports from cape town. reverend only in stories church does a full congregation of refugees. invited them in now he wants them to leave it for a brief moment during mass they do stepping outside but not shaman he met a muslim refugee who stays to pray she fled violence and grew into thinking she would find peace in south africa instead she found hate muslims africa's months yeah when i show up. i am so disappointed in south africa people are playing to my shop to the ground because i am a foreigner we are not safe here we don't trust the state to protect us we want to leave this country to find a place a place to live and it will stay here until a solution is found him eyes of on hundreds of refugees occupying the church they want asylum to another country some hope to get to europe or north america others simply want to go home. shame out and her husband have a son yusuf and their daughter aisha both were taken away by the city's child welfare agency although they were born in south africa like their paren

amy: we will get respoponse from asad rehman from war on w want n london andnd from cape town, s h africa, , tasneem essopp, execue director of the climate action network international. back at home, the house judiciary committee is poised to vote to imimpeach president trup this week. next step, a senate trial. >> everything i do -- i'm correlating with white house counsel. there will be no difference between the president's position and our position as to how to handle this. amy: we will get response from consumer activist ralph nader. he is calling for impeaching trump for delibererately abettig the climatete crisis, among othr issues. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in madrid, spain, the cop25 united nations climate summit ended in failure sunday after negotiators failed to agree to a deal that would limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels, a key goal of the paris agreement. scores of civil society groups condemned governments in the european union, australia, canada,

and i'm nicholas honkey in downtown cape town in a church where hundreds of african migrants have sought refuge find out next why authorities want to see them leave. and in sport with peta how holders liverpool clinched that place in the last 16 of the champions league. hello again and welcome back to your international weather forecast and we have 2 areas that we are watching here across europe 1st of all i want to take you down here across the mediterranean there is a storm system a fairly windy system that's bringing a lot of rain across much of the area we're talking about southern italy the southern part of the balkan peninsula as well as into turkey we're going to be watching that very carefully for the potential of flooding over the next few days that's going to continue to make its way more towards the east as well as this other system out towards the west as a system coming in from the atlantic and it is going to bring some very very damaging and gusty winds across much of western europe over the next few days so we're going to be watching this area as well so anywhere from wedn

reporter: ernest darkoh lives in cape town, south africa.an md and a master's in public health from harvard, and an mba from oxford. but he always knew he wanted to work in africa. ernest: we are literally one of the most richest and vibrant continents you can imagine, right? and alththough i technically dot have what i callll a home couny in africa, because i have moved around my whole life, i really do feel africa as a whole is my home, and i am a product of africa. and this is really a place where i feel like i am in my element and i can make the biggest difference. reporter: darkoh is visiting a new clinic for transgender patients. he's an expert in public health-care management. his company, broadreach, is helping the clinic optimize its operations. many of the patients are or hahe been sex workers. many are hiv positive. there is still a lot of stigma attached to transgender in south africa, and healthcare has been sparse. but here, both patients and staff are accepted for who they are. gigita: i choose to loveve ane truly to myself an

of the famed both biome a naturally occurring community of flora and fauna in the region around cape town in south africa it's home to almost $10000.00 species of plants many of them endemic as part of the efforts to preserve this unique ecosystem volunteers come here regularly to photograph and document the plants they work feel can i say sion custody ends of rare and endangered wildflowers also known as crew. so the reason why we have this program is that just the sheer numbers of written plans that we have it's not enough for a group of scientists to go and monitor those species so in the country we have over $3000.00 written plants and so that's a massive undertaking. this species of erica is critically endangered that means it's on the brink of extinction it's found only in this immediate area measuring less than half a square kilometer. today the crew volunteers are documenting ref laura using a popular citizen science app called eye naturalist. the aim is to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their data collection we can only do conservation intervention if we know that there i

ten quys starts in cape town on friday.t first it up especially the last two days and the —— would come out and that's all i've got to take matt. they will start 2020 on the top of the rugby union. three of the last four premiership finals. the points deduction forfinancial misdemeanours, they wanted today bottom of the table can better tries either side of exeter, heater towards end of the game, finishing with 1a men after a mass brawl. defending his title of the dance chapter of —— darts championship. and he will play next. peter wright will face him and the next match. a picture and has that right because husband and children drowned so she may pursue an independent investigation. a spanish police report has said that have found nothing wrong. they suggested, is known daughter and six enrolled son met their death. we've had very different conflicting accounts on the weekend of what happened of what happened. three members of the family who came here for a week on trip dies in the swimming pool and the spanish police have

some of our highlights it's good to have you along we start off in south africa an area outside of cape town known as the cape flats it's often associated with crime and violence we've reported on gang related offenses and the day to fear that residents are facing but now we have some inspiring news from the cape flats 27 year old teacher of his high school as a uniquely of teachin his students he's got them hooked on this. plane. lands. take down the dominance of all teacher and if you sit down to listen to the speech i know it will have some sort of a way with the trick in my lasix to teach me i keep my fears on the ground i look at what interests what fascinates there and then i try to look at the country that has covered the political topics and then i go do research on 2 things that all in line with the content and it can spy of the. violence. in egypt. the site of the song is discussed. being heard was the sound of my voice in this constant both mean anything woman not. dumping them and giving. to face a lot of challenges in their households we talk about poverty we talk but cancer ism

and this is so cool in the notoriously flats of cape town schoolteacher. uses music and downs to counter violence. in the gambia roughs against political injustice. as you can tell it's definitely part show so let's get to our 1st report in a while one of our largest cities what schools and universities are struggling with the lack of resources there aren't enough teachers classrooms or even teaching materials but many young people want to study so what does this mean for the future let's find out what. one of the big. about how awful fits residents are under 15 years old they need universities vocational training and schools but the education system isn't that dusty the problems already start at primary school. we have $2680.00 pupils that's a lot but we only have 15 classrooms lots of futile have just had where they also have to deal with that dust and noisy traffic. this does not meet education standards. low standards high tuition fees and expensive study materials are all big issues and it's even worse in the higher education sector one currently has

some of all highlights it's good to have you and we start off in south africa an area outside of cape town known as the cape flats it's often associated with crime and violence we've reported on. gang related offenses and the data fit that residents are facing right now we have some inspiring news from the key flats 27 year old teacher admission of love his high school as a unique way of teaching his students he's got them hold on this. playing the i. love you break down the dominance of all teacher and if you sit down to listen to me i speak i know if i have some sort of the way with the trick in my lasix empty street i keep my fears on the ground i look at what interests me what fascinates to me and then i try to catch the country never discover the truth leaking coffee and then i go do research on 2 things at all in line with the content and it can spy of. the soul for. a missing boy. by. the side of the song just disgusted. me was the sound of my voice if this comes to both mean anything woman. you've been dumping them and keeping. they do face a lot of challenges in their households w

it is worrying new cases continue to develop with the cape town test only four days away.ne whereas other players are said to be improving. route is reported to have no injury issues, he looked to be in pain yesterday. the second test sta rts pain yesterday. the second test starts on friday. michael van gerwen is a step closer to successfully defending his title at the world darts championship. he's through to the semi finals at alexandra palace after beating darius labanauskas 5 sets to 2. van gerwen now faces england's nathan aspinall. peter wright plays gerwyn price in today's other semi. and after her success at the world championships, fallon sherrock will be the first women play in the world series of darts next year including the us darts masters in new york, that's all the sport for now. there's more on all those stories over on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport plenty of reaction to come with the david moyes press conference to come. police in sussex are into the tenth day of searching for a father of four who disappeared after a night out with friends

england move on to cape town for the second test on to cape town for the second test on friday. 2010derby at celtic park — before today, that is. their 2—1 victory has breathed fresh life into the scottish premiership title race, with steven gerrard's side heading into the winter break just two points behind their glasgow rivals with a game in hand, after a predictably lively encounter. it was watched by lydia campbell. it's been nearly a decade of domination for celtic but their eight titles in a row mean nothing on derby day. rangers are here to keep a hold on their own title bid, but instead make a copy took a hold of christopherjullien, penalty to celtic. up stepped ryan christie and injumped allan celtic. up stepped ryan christie and in jumped allan mcgregor to celtic. up stepped ryan christie and injumped allan mcgregor to make celtic. up stepped ryan christie and in jumped allan mcgregor to make the save. minutes later, ryan kent made celtic play, guiding his shot in. celtic play, guiding his shot in. celtic levelled shortly after, but it took a helping hand from 0dsonne edoua

tempter though for cape town it is going to be quite warm but we do expect by the time we get towards monday a break in the rain more sun in the forecast in durban a $28.00. you're watching al-jazeera his reminder of the top stories a huge bomb blast has killed at least 79 people in somalia and one of the worst attacks he is giving 150 others were injured in the explosion which happened near a security checkpoint in mogadishu. more than a 1000 people have been arrested across india over the past 24 hours during protests over a controversial citizenship goal but that hasn't deterred demonstrate just all rallies and cities across the country. police a vial of the feed hundreds of protesters who stormed the hong kong shopping mall they were chanting against tried to stop by china accusing them of other crowding and pushing up prices for months now protesters in turkey have been calling for the return of the children and relatives from the kurdistan workers party or p.t.a. they claim the group has been forcibly recruiting them to fight reports from. security is tight outside the pro kurdi

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28 degrees and then as we go toward southern africa what we saw are plenty of clouds moving from cape town over towards durban things are improving most of those clouds and showers are now in the indian ocean will be left with the much warmer temperatures across the board for johannesburg we do expect to see $32.00 degrees here on friday durban at about $28.00 degrees and then as we go towards saturday it is going to be quite nice for cape town winds coming out of the south at $22.00 but clouds are going to be in the forecast for much of namibia if the wind hook expect to see a temper of $31.00. with one of the highest murder rates in the world who is the main challenger going to central america the smallest countries is gang related violence you or a country that's not. in our. country. the president of el salvador. hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour former education minister has been named lebanon's new prime minister president michel aoun hosted consultations on thursday with deputies to pick the new premier who must be a sunni muslim under the country's secta

clouds pushing through we do expect to see more clouds there in durban at about 24 degrees but for cape town expect to see some windy conditions with attempt a few of about 20 degrees. our planet is warming as never before with profound consequences for all life on earth but the world's leading scientists say that is still time to act planet s.o.s. sets out the facts on the science behind the issues affecting our planet and brings you what people across the globe are doing to turn the crisis around planet earth on al-jazeera. you are watching al-jazeera a quick reminder of our top stories this hour sudan's former president omar al bashir has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 2 years in a reform center trial centered around suitcases found in his hall filled with notes of different currencies who are worth more than a $130000000.00 students in the northeastern indian state of asmer on hunger strike in protest against a new citizenship law it allows 6 minority religious groups from neighboring countries to apply for citizenship but it excludes museums anger over the law has led