the heaven. so our teachers in south africa using music to keep young people away from picking up guns. ah, welcome to the prego. we begin with breaking news coming out of the kinda fast. so we're a qu, is underway reports from the capital. we're going to go say the president has been detained, that a military base. and soldiers have also taken control of the country's main television station. and it comes after a day of unrest and gunfire was heard overnight in the capital, near the presidential residence henry wilkins. joys us now on the phone from the capital. why do go henry just explained to us where you are right now and what you can see on our side, the national television station on our tv. it's clearly been taken by the troops. the new to me yesterday, croft gone, been installed outside the wall. so the tv station, their vehicles traveling up and down the building is really clear that the tv station is now on a controlled at the meet the mood of the capital change very quickly from that initial gunfire on sunday and into a curfew overnight, just described to us what it's been like being in the capital during this period of time. yeah, so last night we traveled down to the presidential palace where the whole so fine thing we'll say stopped by the the president probably while we saw security for falls outside the the president residency on the sign box where he was special for the need to me on some check points in the area like to mail down the presidential products as well. so they were very much in control. that's the, the situation. of course we'd been waiting for some sort of official announcement either through the the papers, but generally through, as you say, the tv stations, but complete radio silence. to that extent. yes, i mean it certainly get nothing from the the government. so it's going to conflict your top of cold 1st column. i'm like, yes, the day when the national defense minister went on to say that everything was under control, we really are just waiting for an official announcement on the national television any time now already. and of course, what we know about the president's whereabouts. of course, these initial statements about him being detained as a military base. so these are on time to pull to the moment of the, the, the missing to be that he has been can find out the military base camp climate which. ready which you can eat yesterday. it was, i think i last had me that, but thanks very much, henry. of course we'll continue to keep in touch with henry wilkins or what to do as the day progresses. taiwan says that china flew 39 warplanes near it as they see what's being described as the largest incursion for 3 months. the time on our false issued radio warnings that activated defense massage systems. there's been no immediate comment from china, which considers the island a breakaway province. katrina, you has more from beijing. this was the largest incursion by china's military close to taiwan. this year, the sunday exercise involved $39.00 chinese war planes, which flew close to the ty when he's controlled, protest islands. now, china's foreign ministry would not elaborate on the reasons behind this exercise, but it follows just one day after a huge show of military force by the u. s. and japan in the philippines. see now this exercise, this joint military exercise included to us aircraft carriers. and the u. s. navy said that this exercise was designed to preserve a free and open indoor pacific. now china considers taiwan rogue chinese province that will inevitably be reunited with the mainland, and beijing has not ruled out using force in order to achieve this. in recent months, its increase the number of military exercises taking place close to taiwan and the highest number of incursions recorded and took place in october, which included 56 chinese war planes which flew close to tie one on the same day. now, begging does the denies that these exercises are designed to intimidate the ty when he's government. but analysts say that that's exactly what they're meant to do. now the united arab emirates says it's intercepted and destroyed to ballistic missiles, the ministry of defense, as they were launched by his rebels in yemen. it added that no one was injured in the day bri from the destroyed missiles. so near the capital of w, that last week 3 people were killed and who could try to attack all the you a capital. the heating salesman says the rebel side, ballistic missiles towards an i base, and i would be able to talk to, to buy with trains. he's called on foreign companies to leave the you a warning they could expand their attacks on the go or tell them was a lot in response to the belligerent escalation by saudi arabia and the u. s. e. and there are crimes against or blocked people. the missiles and thrown units of our armed forces carried out to successful large military operations. shopping at our armed forces stress, its full preparedness, to widen the scope of its operation in the coming period of time. and to meet escalations with further escalations, our armed forces renew, its warning to the foreign companies. investors within the u. e to leave as the u. e is declared an unsafe country and the target of our future operations, so long as its belligerents and siege against him and is not halted. now, don monk, foreign minister says the european union is ready to impose never before seen sanction. if russia attacks ukraine, e foreign ministers are meeting in brussels for the latest round of crisis talks, western nations are concerned by the builder of russian full says by moscow is worried about native expansion. we continue building up our position towards russia, them to undermine the security, their structure in europe, and to rebuild his fears with influential jar completed a update. we are going to have a video conference with secretary of lincoln of the us in the to continue our drawn coordination during the whole process. the to be in union has been very much in touch coordinating with the us being form before and after meeting with her butler. josie now live from the french capital and natasha leading up to this meeting has been a great deal of international diplomatic flurry. trina, us and nato, into an out of ukraine to get their position, but ukraine will be high on the agenda. yes, i mean, for 2 weeks, there have been meetings and talks on the ukraine crisis. this one in brussels are just the latest european e u foreign ministers meeting to discuss the crisis and ukraine. they are concerned, of course, with that russian military buildup. they are concerned that moscow could attack or ukraine. now what we understand is at the end of this meeting, e u foreign ministers will look at reasserting the use position that there would be a strong and large, devastating sanctions package imposed on russia were moscow to attack ukraine. that's going to be the message we understand from e foreign ministers. we don't know exactly what those sanctions would be. it could be anything from a visa, benz, an assets being frozen of top russian officials to for example, a russia being cut out of certain banking systems. now later in the day, the u. s. secretary of state and sampling can, will also join this meeting by video conference. he will be updating you foreign ministers on the meeting that he had on friday in geneva with his russian counterpart, sergey alive, ross. that was a meeting that ended without any major diplomatic breakthrough, but there was an agreement between the 2 men to continue with talks. it will certainly be though a very welcome assign for the e foreign ministers that a blinking is taking part in this meeting. because the you had felt for some time that european officials are being kept aside or sidelines from the recent a diplomatic push. if you light by the us, they will certainly feel very happy. the blinking is part of this meeting and we understand that the e u. s and e, you are coordinating a lot more closely. of course it would it be fair to say, natasha, that some european countries haven't always been on the same page when it comes to how to deal with russia of this particular scenario that said, folding up the could those divisions perhaps be mended at this meeting in brussels well, i think it's clear that a e foreign ministers will certainly want to put on a show of unity at the end of this meeting because there have been divisions that have been showing up in the last few weeks on how to deal with russia. so should russia a tag, not all members of all is being on the same page. they are not necessarily agreed on what sort of sanctions should be impose the severity of those sanctions. what they will want to do though, in this meeting, is show that they can be united, but of course, anything in the u takes unanimity. so wouldn't necessarily be easy, but it seems the adamant to say, look, we're going to put our differences aside on this. they certainly won't want to repeat what was perceived as a failure in 2014. after russia invaded crimea, and the e took several months to impose sanctions dashboard with the very latest parish. thank you know, the u. k. has joined the you and submit during some of our staff from the ukrainian embassy sighting phase of a russian invasion. the you are state department says not a central staff and dependence and go is also walled against travel to russia, saying americans are at increased risk of harassment. well still ahead here on al jazeera, we'll look at isolate you come back in syria of the days of intense battles with kurdish pulses onward. levin only divided confident leads full. the 1st time in 3 months of anger rises over the classic economy. ah, hello there. welcome to your world weather update. we are going to begin in australia. nice to see. we've seen more soaking rain and south australia could dina 76 here. hi here. picking up $86.00 millimeters of rain over 24 hours. now the bulk of that energy shift in toward the east, along that border with new south wales and queensland and in the zone could see about a 100 millimeters of rain. after that record heat wave in perth at south facing wind has knocked down your temperature to 32 degrees. for new zealand, it's looking like this. rain and humidity moving in to the northland region of the north island. here. this breaks your dry spell. it was your 2nd longest, dry streak on record 37 days a record by the way was 38. so you almost got there. se asia right now, our usual plentiful storms across this area, but i want to take you to the philippines. we've got a disturbance swirling around and it's wip in rain around from sebu right in to, to bow. and in fact, for the devout region, we do have a severe flood advisory in play and it's being amplified by their ne monsoon, that ne monsoon also given us some showers for coastal vietnam. a slug of rain and snow moving across the yang see river valley and look at this and north wind dragging down those temperatures and shanghai to 8 degrees on tuesday. the trap that susan ah, with from the al jazeera london pool cow, santa t special guest in conversation. when you say a lie, a 1000000 times, it becomes a fact. you then can create whatever narrative you want, unprompted, uninterrupted. i realized i was working for something evil, you know, being a part of actually creating maria meet critical wiley. the death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy studio. be unscripted on al jazeera . ah ah, your child dessert with lisa her robin, a reminder of all top stories are to appears to be underway in becky, the facet revolts from the capitol. what do say the president have been detained as a military base? soldiers have taken control of the countries made television station e foreign ministers of between brussels, with tension in ukraine, dominating the agenda, the u. k. a u. s. on withdrawing some of the stuff from the embassies in ukraine over fear of a russian invasion. taiwan says china has flown 39 wall plains into its i depend so that the largest incursion the 3 months, there's been no immediate comment from china, which considers taiwan as it's territory. lebanon's prime minister is meeting his cabinet for the 1st time in 3 months. now the government has been divided since october about the investigation into the 2020 bay route port explosion. the standoff has happened. does the countries economic crisis worsens? say, dakota has more from beirut. economic hardships are war. sitting 80 percent of the population is now poor. so there is an urgent need for the authorities to take measures to alleviate the suffering of the lebanese people. but what they have been doing over recent years really is adopting ad hoc measures which are proving really to be on sustainable. at 1st, they use the foreign currency reserves in the central bank to subsidize basic goods . then they ran out of money and now they're using whatever is left in the central bank hard currency. injecting millions of dollars in the market every single day to ensure that the local currency doesn't the value even further. it has lost 90 percent of its value in the past 2 years. so yes, people are struggling now. the state budget is on the table of the cabinet, but that's the budget has to be part of a wider economic recovery plan, in order for lebanon to reach a deal with the international monetary fund for a bailout package. this countries in dire need of dollars, but the safe budget falls short of fulfilling the conditions of the 1st of all, there's no unified exchange rates. and more importantly, there is no reforms. the i m f, for example, has been saying the electricity sector, it's inefficient, is corrupt. it needs to be reformed, and independent regulatory authority needs to be created. instead, in the budget, what the authorities decided to do is to put more money into a state institution, which is costing the state billions of dollars a year. so the authorities are falling short on taking the measures needed to stop the economic collapse all the while. people's money trapped them bank. they're taking to the streets. they're angry because the authorities are planning, at least it's on the table. it's an option to convert dollar deposit into the local currency, which has the value in northeastern syria. that's been more fighting between us. but kurdish forces an eyesore fighters, the armed group attack to prison, 3 its members. the violence has killed more than 70 people in the us that coalition say the threat has been contained a peg has the story. going to come from? this is the moment i saw detainees escaped from prison in northern syria. for days i still fight to some is tempted to free this fellow member. it's unclear how many have managed to escape. how many have been killed or recaptured by kurdish forces who are being supported by us there strikes the prison has is more than 1200 prisoners from 50 different nationalities. it's seen as the most significant attack by i feel since the armed group was defeated in the region 3 years ago. this footage shows ice and flight is breaking into prison. a pile of bodies dressed in uniform lane corner. kurdish forces say they have the upper hand dice will have it . now dice exist only in the prison. i mean, apart from the prison, they don't exist any way. so they are controlling the prison only, and we are surrounding them. they do have weapons, i don't deny that, but they can't do anything with that. they might run out of ammunition and therefore they don't fight back residents near the prison or fling the fighting. but it's been bombing bull, pain and conflict since yesterday, and young people were slaughtered. what is happening? the situation is catastrophic. we fed the shelling and conflict. we got scared for our children and flood. there's also reports i sell fighters have broken into homes and killed people. as i slaughtering diane, members broken and killed 4 men, our neighbors, 2 of them were brothers. as the fighting continues, the fear now is whether this attack means a significant return by the armed group or a one off attempt to replenish its numbers for a future front against kurdish forces. i said bake al jazeera with no 13000000 citizens and northern china or a free to leave her homes. after a month, long covert lockdown was lifted. the city of shan. we'll shut down as the government imposed a 0 tolerance policy before the start of the beijing winter olympics next month. now thousands have been protesting in washington dc against cove. at 19 vaccine rules, demonstrators say getting vaccinated wearing masks of personal choices of the government has no right to impose them. the are centers for disease control say both measures are needed to protect against infection. article haine has more from the u. s. capital. there been protester out the pandemic across the country, but this is really the 1st large scale one to come to the streets of washington d. c. now they're building themselves as anti mandate against masks against vaccines. but when it comes to the whole idea of mandating vaccines, the bite administration has been dealt a lot of setbacks on that. the supreme court said that they can't force employers that have more than $100.00 employees to force vaccinations or, or require testing and a judge just at least temporarily put on hold the by the ministrations demand that all federal workers and contractors get vaccinated. and it was clear talking to people in the crowd that they really were against the vaccine. even the speakers on stage. many of them seen things that were simply not true. we've no doubt for 2 years that there are cheap se highly effective and widely available medicines that can treat this disease. i'm, you know, stand up for my right to be able to say that i do not want the vaccine. i care about my body. i care about the effect that this is having on people, and i don't wish to separate them. i live in the united states of america, and this is a free country, local official. so they were concerned about this event in part because of its size organizer. so they expected about 20000 people from all over the country. and again, this was a rally against masks and vaccine mandates. well, here in the district of columbia, if you want to set foot in a business like a restaurant or pretty much go inside anywhere, you have to have a mask on. and you have to show proof of vaccination for that reason. the d. c. police have extra officers on the street in case anyone tries to break the rules. belgium, please suffice. ward cannon and take us to break up a protest against cro virus rules. tens of thousands. march to the launch is demonstration seen in the capital, brussels for months. now they oppose the vaccination health passes required to enter some public places. scientists in israel say a false shot of finds this covert 19 vaccine. triples protection from severe illness for the over 60 days, and that twice as resistant to infection. but an additional booster doesn't provide complete immunity. they say he's really started receiving a full stoves earlier this month. dr. krishna or the coma is director of the duke of global health innovations. sunday's as a full shop might offer some extra protection, but thinks most countries will stop at 3. we should remember that about 52 percent of everybody in the world has been fully vaccinated, but that rate is only about 10 percent across the continent of africa. so we still have a lot of work to do to get 1st 2nd doses to be protected. and also for the 3rd dose is that we have more and more data is highly protective relative to 2 doses, especially for omicron so well there may be a little bit of relative additional protection with a 4th dose. i don't think that beyond special circumstances with a very high risk population that, that's going to become the norm for many countries. the good thing is the global vaccine supply is picking up pretty significantly. we're now producing over a 1000000000 and a half doses a month. we've got new vaccines, especially the protein sub unit vaccines that are coming online. so the supply scenario looks promising over the coming weeks and months. but we should be really clear that there needs to be transparent and equitable allocation of those, especially to get high risk population vaccinated everywhere in the world. and in places like israel at a relatively small population. and they've taken a very aggressive stance with vaccination so far. but what we're seeing is that the role of vaccines is going to be less about protection, complete immunity, against infections in transmission, and really much more about making sure that individuals are protected against severe disease. and that we're using it to protect health systems as they become vulnerable. so in that scenario, really global vaccination is the only path forward. not until the parliament will meet on monday to choose a successor to present. sergio, my fidela whose turn is expiring full, but prime minister will be able to, scone has withdrawn from the election, but he's still trying to influence the vote. as out of rainy reports, not from rome, now that scandal tainted former prime minister, silvio berlusconi has pulled out of italy's presidential election. his main goal is to block the leading contender from winning the prize. that man prime minister mattie draggy has led a pandemic unity government for the past 11 months. you know, most candidates don't formally and now to run, but draggy, his strongly hinted. he wants to move on to the presidency. fact the to the local, quit molto. the grey look at us we have accomplish what we will hold on to do. i'm a man a grandfather if you like, the service of institutions. if belo scone and the leaders have at least 2 main right wing parties keep the rug in the prime minister's office, they might be able to stave off a general election for another year while they build support for conservative government. italy's president mainly perform ceremonial duties, but can be called on to resolve political crises, the election and normally behind the scenes of fare in which legislators and regional representatives cast secret ballots has now captured the nation's attention, said i, i am in favor of electing a woman and leaving drug where he has been doing a good job. my god, we all wish our current president mac, that i would just stay in office for another term. italian see 80 year old sir john . martha rella as a steady and unifying force. he says he has no interest in a 2nd 7 year term. there is a chance he could be convinced to stay on. also, in the running justice minister marked to cut tabio, if she went, she would become italy's 1st female president. the focus right now though, is under aggie and martha rella. many italians worried that if mario draggy is elected to service the president, here's a palace that this ability his government has secured of the past year will fall apart as political parties here fight over who becomes the next prime minister, or least political historian, not intercoastal and he says, legislators would already have a plan in place if they choose to, like drug or drug would be elected only if there's an agreement on the future of the government. but actually, his overseen the influx of billions of dollars and you recovery funds. the worry is if he's no longer prime minister, elite recovery could go off track. many people can be president of the public while as a brand new or draggy is not easily replaceable. so ease much more useful as a premium. the election held in parliament will likely go on for several rounds until a candidate gains enough votes. whoever wins will have to try and help italy avoid political crises. and to tries to solidify a sustainable recovery from the pandemic. adarine, i'll just euro rome, french fashion designer theory mcglenn has died at the age of 73, although he officially retired from the fashion industry in 2002. until i went on to collaborate with several high profile celebrities. he also continued to design fragrances after stepping down. a group of teachers in cape town is using music to offer young people an alternative to gang violence. the gangs enlist young people from a young age who often have few options, but music is offering them a different path out there is for me to miller reports now from cape town, up now knocking on a 5 days a week. this group of children gathers for guitar lessons, their classes on cry, fontaine, a suburb of cape town, ravaged by gangs drugs and crime. no, their teacher told me, your sto from the organisation joined bands. not gangs has been giving lessons for more than 2 years in the hope that music will keep the students on the right path. it will allow the massey for and then allow a feel that the music changes their mindset, the one to play music and start thinking in a different way. it's not always easy. it's difficult to work because children need you to repeat things, but they want to do it and they are willing and it makes a difference in children who carry on with the program for more than 6 months. can join a band like this one in a neighboring community. 15 year old jordan, when he asked felts, is his always love music, which he says has brought him strength in march 2021. you know, week we, as a family actually got affected and we lost out cousin little gang violence. you know, but that is, since then i've been living in fear. we all been living in fear. you know, and i have here lies the way jordan, but you actually now really got to you this. got to open your eyes. you gotta do something with your life. those living. he has a bailey, an hour passes without some sort of shooting. and it's a challenge keeping children safe at the height of the violence. they were least 12 gang related murders every month. various gangs competed with territory, often related to drugs. now the music program, oh, he hopes to prevent young children from joining these gangs, but also reduce tensions between rival groups. cedric williams belongs to one of the gangs here. i think it's an area plagued by high unemployment. he lost his job as a bartender and says limited work opportunities make staying away from these groups almost impossible, lately, raised they. he always bought. okay. it is it all of life? did it a little of the city did is oh, i know it. so yes. may be able to get the answer yes. been put on my bedroom for if you ever go away what i want to know. i was used to lately. i don't do so. yeah, 3 d b. but those picking up a musical instrument instead of a gun, ho, programs like this will make a difference. creating an alternative for children who often have little choice for me to mila al jazeera cape town, south africa. ah, no, ah! what challenges there with me? so romilly, reminder of all top stories, a q appears to be underway in the key and offensive reports from the capitol. we're going to say the president has been detained if a military base soldiers of take get all of the countries main television station like comes after day of rest. and gunfire was heard overnight in the capital, had re wilkins, has more from the capital. wanted to go on outside the national television station at the moment oxy. b clarity been taken over by the troops at nittany yesterday.