winds of change kenya aims to be a global leader in renewable energy. ah, a powerful synonymy as hit beat pacific nation of tongue after an undersea volcano erupted. the extent of the damage is still unclear. as many phone lines are down, waves more than a meter in height, it fiji vanilla 2 and american samo. warnings and advisors are still in place of parts of japan and the western united states will tongue as king has been moved from his palace to safety. people on the small island nation had to scramble to reach higher ground for level reports from los angeles, where an advisory is still in place. it only took minutes for the waters to arrive tanya's main island on the 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. ah, there would be warning signs. this was coming. the who gets hunger, who the high party volcano has been a rough thing for days. on friday it said dash 20 kilometers into the sky. saturdays eruption though. so violet, they felt it more than 2000 kilometers away in new zealand. but it was tonga, the caught the bronze of it, so like explosions in town. i guess it was from her. okay. no. and they like literally popped out here. jonathan, everyone just rode 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, sparking warnings in fiji and thousands of kilometers away in the us. particularly here on the west coast. normally it is earthquake for that main concern here. but tsunami is caused by events far, far away. also a real risk right now, the supposed to be staying off the beaches out of the water. but clearly that isn't happening. i was shows like you're in a tori for the circling of all which eyes probably is pretty unusual for west. well, so right. something soon, army related, but so far we're still here. oh, very see. yeah. even if like a one foot wave come through that smile then went here. so i'm more worried about my mom and i to why my go there thing when there is a did amy further up the coast, northern california. so some choppy, a waters the bay area waves up to a meter 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. the disruption 7 times more powerful than another one from the same volcano in december may not be the last or the worst fill of al jazeera los angeles . meanwhile, new zealand as offered assistance to tara officials, are in contact with trauma authorities on priorities for food. the aid, the ministry of foreign fees in cds and other nissan 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 tang and authorities . this would include cost of release supplies and technical support, as well as supporting local responses. place it may be very clear, this is very much a staffing figure and the government will provide additional assistance is required . or simon, massive as a reporter with tv and said he has more now from oakland. some communications have started to be reconnected with at least the area around the capital of tongue or the call ofa. but most of the last 22 hours that many, many thousands of commons living in the field and elsewhere around the pacific have been in the dark, extremely concerned about what 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 did what we know is that the volcano wrapped about 5 p. m. local time tunnel? yes. but i the waves arrived within, we told 15 to 20 minutes, but the images that some tomlins were able to record and post do shows some people leaving the coast equal to evacuate to higher ground. some people were caught unawares. we've seen pictures of people inside the homes with waves, especially against the windows people in the church, literally the way the washing to the inside of the church and through the pews even here, new zealand, some hours ago, new cylinders were warned to stay away from the northern and eastern coasts because of surges and strong currents, one very popular holiday spot up in the north of the country, known for boating, had moorings and boats damaged by title surges. so it's really very much await to get more information from the ground as to the extent of this disaster. not joking, which will soon find out if you play in the australian open all be deported. the world tennis number one's 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 out of questions about his coven 19 vaccine exemption. but that decision was overturned by a judge or sarah clark joins us live now from brisbin, sarasota stoker through what's happening in court. and the arguments put forward by both sides now with a federal court hearing on on sunday in melbourne is under way of we've got a full bench that's 3 judges presiding over this tice joked, vicious, tame, spent about 2 hours, arguing the case. a big key argument is that the immigration minister, alex a hawk, took an illogical and irrational per approach and have cited no evidence on their key ground. that the government use was that they claim was it's a joke of it is a public health risk in australia and as a result, they won't dealt with, they canceled his visa now the job to which is tame, they finish their argument. we've now got the government and they've presented about 2 thirds of their tastes. the foundation of the cases, as i mentioned, i believe that drug, which poses a health risks not necessarily on an individual scale, but because of his high profile status, they're suggesting that any of these opinions or any of his statements. and of course we know he's a doesn't a, we opposes ment, vaccination that could be promotions and replicated by not just the anti vaccination groups, but also the public. now alex hoke, the immigration minister, has used his discretionary powers to overrides a tat, the visa, which was cancelled on monday. i saw that there is override the court's decision to re invoke that visa. and we do expect, given were about 2 thirds of the way through the government's case. we do expect the judge to make a decision on sunday, in the federal court, whether or not a joke of its will play in the australian night, but which starts on monday. yes sir. and what about public opinion on politics? have they been playing into this case? well, whoa, that's been released on sunday in the age newspaper suggest that this brought support the joke of h to be removed from australia. 71 percent. want him to port it. either some critics that argue that the government is using this visa saga, which is dominating headlines around australia and internationally. but they, the suggestion is that they using this as a distraction, us it, because in australia, at the moment we've got a record number of type infections on a daily basis. we've had food shortages are in shape markets as a result of the panic. we've also had very big shortage of, of rapid adage and tests. so the government has a lot riding on this case. it is an election year at the federal government wants to make a point. they stating that rules are rules and i come under a time under bit of flack initially when the suggestion was that the government was allowing for jock a bitch to travel to australia to compete in the us. try an open, despite the fact he's been flouting a isolation rules and has his unvaccinated dust status, so certainly does a lot riding on the government out there on sunday. we do expect a decision to decide whether or not john, which i will be deported or not. and of course, if he is deported, he could face a 3, a ban on re entering australia. all right to sara clark live for stay in brisbin syrup. thank you. well meanwhile, in his native sabby a joke of riches visa problems down under provide a fis reaction support to say, the australian government has politicized the issue and turned it into a witch hunt. the belgrade born player is a national hero in soviet as the hello just i feel this. should the paula this is just god newton going back and forth the government agency and ah, the only person but i wanted because i really can time with a wonderful why the government to tell ya was heading high attitude towards an uncle. knew he didn't deserve this, he's fighting for serbia for sport, for tennis. beijing, as opposed to its 1st community case of the amazon variant of covey. 19 the positive cases from the cities northwestern high done district. beijing is one of the venues for the winter olympics, which is less than 3 weeks away, which will not lie from beijing, his journalist, patrick, for patrick. so what more do we know then about this community case invasion will down a woman and hide and district as you say, it's in the north west of the cap to report on thursday that she had a sore throat. she then went down with a fever the following day and on saturday. authorities confirm that she been infected with d alma cron variance. now we don't know an awful lot about that or an awful lot besides of the time being, except to say that there is a bit of a concern in that. so we're told she didn't travel anywhere over the last couple of weeks and she hadn't been in contact with any known people that were infected people that were known to be infected by authorities, sir. and so, so that's obviously causing a little bit of a concern, right? now authorities have taken steps to try and i can say in the situation they been in touch with more than 2000 people that they know were in contact with this woman to try and get them tested. and also they sealed off a residential compound and sealed off her workplace as well. but you know, it's a bit of a race against time right now. you know, a lot of people will tell you though, that they will be thinking that it was only really a matter of time before the omicron veron spread to beijing. as we know that in case reports, intention tension is right beside the capital, and there are many, many people that are traveling back and forth between the 2 cities every day. and it goes without saying really that it comes at a very bad. i'm just out of the lunar new year holidays and the windshield games. yeah. patrick and chinese authorities appear to be keeping quite tight lipped about the extent of the spread of army kron. what will, can you tell us? yeah, that certainly seems to be the case. i mean, as a say, there were 2 cases reported in tension. at least 2 cases reported there in at least a couple of cases courted in hearne and province as well. and authorities of all already said that there were other people that were infected by those individuals. but for whatever reason, right now, they seem to be taking that time telling us, or confirming whether or not these were alma chron cases as well. that may simply be because they want to avoid any panic, particularly before the spring festival holidays, when a lot of people, of course, are going to be traveling back and forth trying to return to our families of for the brain. but we do know that there are confirmed on the credit cred cases in 4 provinces in china, i should say locally transmitted amok on cases were including imported case as well . reports are saying that now, half of all provinces and municipalities in china have been affected. and there are signs as well that authorities a brace for a bit of non slaughter at least a surgeon infections. because in hearne and province, authorities have called for make shift sir quarantined rooms to be built right now . hernandez, of course. currently, china's at break epicenter, all right, her patrick, for their life was in beijing. patrick, thank you. a prominence in these pro democracy group has conditioned, accepted the unions off at a broken end to the political deadlock protest as have been marching against the military. since it overthrew the civilian led government in october, members of the forces for freedom and change will meet you and officials on sunday to present their terms. another group, the sydney's professionals association, has rejected the you in mediation. also to come here, not as they are, including find out why migrant shelters along the us. mexico border are turning away desperate families. plus you've got a prime minister who has lost the moral authority to lead fresh amounts on barbara johnson to resign. after revelations of more parties at downing street during covered 19 lockdown mornings. ah hello, great to be with you. here is your weather headlines for the americas once again. an active storm pattern for the east coast of the us, so rain by monday for dc and new york north of that were in the snow. so upstate new york into the great lakes. i think, for example, in toronto, the snow will move in late sunday into monday. by the time it's all said and done, you could see about 10 centimeters of snow. this is all related to assist him further toward the south. in fact, we could see snow for the 1st time in atlanta in about 4 years. we've got driving rain for the care line as up toward the mid atlantic to the west themes much calmer were into this sunshine for san diego with a high of 21 degrees. and it should not, wind is put in temperature is on the plus side of things for calgary with a hiv, 3 degrees wet weather for the central and northern coast to b. c, and snow over the higher elevation. so that storage system we're talking about in the u. s. it's going to drop down rain into the bahamas western cuba. great in to belize, and for the top end of south america, sunny spells for bogota and lima, but still stormy toward the southeast. so actually pretty much anywhere from the river plate region rate to rio de janeiro. and so paulo ball temperatures have dropped big time in by jablonka to a height of 30 degrees on sunday season ah, on housing, the cost of the cycle right resignation, guys, global. why all people increasingly quitting that job? egypt for canal is achieved the highest revenues and it's been high why he was wearing between net lease and it helped him to call on al jazeera, a diverse range of stories from across the globe. from the perspective of networks, journalists on al jazeera lou . ah, welcome back. a good reminder. the top stories here, this our a, some army as hit, the pacific nation of tara, often under see volcano erupted. there's no would em casualty of as many phone lines of down an army, alerts and advisories are in place and lots of japan and the western, the united states. tennis will number one moment jock of it's in court, in australia to appeal the decision to revoke his visa for 2nd time hearings taking place just a day before the australian opens again. and beijing has reported its 1st community case of the micron fair into po. good 19 a positive case and so many cities, northwestern high dia, district. the country is less than 3 weeks away from staging. the winter olympics with beijing as one of the venues for the game. now hospitals and intensive care units in peru are filling to capacity as the omicron and delta variants, both surge across the country. the number of new infections is now at its highest, ever soaring to 30000 a day off of the kobe 19 patients and peruse hospitals are unvaccinated. the country has the highest corona virus death rate in the world. will. the number of oma con cases is up across south america in bogota. alessandra petty has the latest from the region. this was in many ways expected in particular, after the recent holiday ceo's christmas and new year's eve, when people were probably less careful. and after the 1st cases of the armico invariant, 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 very into 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 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 cancelled 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 vaccination, vaccinated the region in a, in, in the world. you can prime minister barak johnson's facing growing calls to step down, including from within his own conservative party, more revelations that emerged about drinks gatherings at johnston's official residence during lockdown. david miller, a newspaper says these took place weekly, opened a dozen such occasions have now come to light for the leader of the opposition labor parties. as far as johnson's not fit for office, he says the prime minister has lost the trust of the public. rather than concentrating on getting through the pandemic and bring into our waiting lists. this self indulgent tory party is having a fight about a leader who they should have know from the start is not fit for office. we were witnessing every day. the broken spectacle of a prime minister might in deceit and deception and unable to lead. but was the tor is becca and fight each other on whatsapp? i want to look to the future diplomatic efforts to deescalate tensions within russia and ukraine gathering pace. the foreign ministers of germany and candidates are expected in the region in the coming days, the talk leaders in kids and moscow. it comes after washington accuse russia a planning a full flag operation in ukraine to justify invasion. criminal has denied the allegations. dosage very has more on mark as reaction the russian foreign minister says, love are off during his annual press conference on friday, stressed that russia 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 there now waiting for an official response from nato, about their concerns of ukraine or any other country joining the 30 member alliance . the russian foreign minister also said that his country has intelligence or reasons to believe that the u. s. a. natal 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 european 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. frozen jordan is 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 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. 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. kosovo has vans serbia's national referendum from being held on its territory, but it's allowed ethnic serbs to vote by mail. customers. parliament voted to still holding stations from being set up, describing the vote as unconstitutional. serbia wants to make changes to the judiciary and it is a condition fittingly membership, kosovo which considers itself a sovereign state is home about a 100000 ethnic serbs. as soon as his full recipes and migrants and mexico are running out of space, as families keep arriving from central america, very few had been able to continue the journey north as their solemn promise for entry into the u. s. as almost stopped during the pandemic. and his manual rapid reports on the border town of tuana, things could be about to get even worse. it's suppertime at a migrant shelter in d one a 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 receive 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 migrant 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 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 vines. 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 whole and 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 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. manuel, filipino al jazeera, tiquana, mexico. authorities in the us state of texas on negotiating with a man who's taken people hostage at a synagogue police and kellyville, which is a suburb of dallas, say one person or so far been released. it's believe 3 more, remained hostage, they suspect a said to be demanding a release of, of pakistan in euro scientist who was convicted for trying to kill soldier. and i'm gonna stop kenya is aiming to be fully self sufficient in renewable energy by 2030 country or when he gets 90 percent of its electricity from natural sources, including solar power and has the largest single wind power farm in africa. catherine saw reports from mar summit the blades of 365 tar binds. 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 will end telecom. we're told the wheat energy will help us when it comes, but it's taking too long to reach us. i found 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 dated impact in aggregate because we have the greenhouses, we are growing our hot carter. we have fish. that is also agriculture. we have drink of crops. if we didn't want to get to lodge skin pharmacy even before who had rico my sure life, we have to fit them adjustment to as your number feel 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 polluting industries. option 2 is to invest a new renewable technology st. cleaned technologies in africa. i'd make use of the community in africa. that is the cheaper the cheapest option we should sell now. and that's what the wild features jaffar abduct mind says. all he wants is a clean and a more reliable pass horse to run his business. katherine saw alta 0 or sabot, kenya. ah, don't forget, check on the top stories here on al jazeera, a, some army of hit, the pacific nation of toner. often under c volcano erupted, but there's no word on casualties. waves more than a meter in height. it fiji van o r to an american samo. sammy alerts an adviser, israel place, or parts of japan and the western united states. new zealand meanwhile has offered assistance.