probably and you know little soon for. her little timmy her. son suchi has been detained by the military just hours before a newly elected parliament was set to convene. the whole robin what you all deserve to live my headquarters here in doha also coming up donald trump's office names a new legal team for his impeachment trial in the u.s. senate also. this was. the.

protests from vladivostok to st petersburg as russians come out in support of jailed kremlin critic aleck's through the valley thousands of detained and israel says it will transfer 5000 covert 19 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers after drawing sharp criticism for excluding the occupied territories. welcome to the program. other senior figures from the ruling party have been detained in an early morning raid according to the spokesman for the governing national league for democracy the move comes after days of escalating tension between the government and the military and says duties party was reelected in november's vote by a landslide an election that the army claimed was fraudulent mere miles new parliament was due to convene in the coming hours that the military had earlier denied allegations that it was planning

a clue. joins us now on the sign from young alley correspondent the room is have now become a reality what are you hearing about this detention yeah well that means i'm still just keeping in that it is sounding incredibly larning i'm hearing that about 3 am they started winding people 9 in the capital several times in the being detained not just on time peaches but also all the ministers ministers legion so i'm wrangling hands on regional ministers those good graces in the chain of command things who are hearing and gone and also the cabinet ministers some presidents and also some political activists high profile political activists like coco jean i who are prominent come to the sun and. a to the 1088 up to the coup in the demonstrations then they also reportedly been arrested and local

movie has apparently been taken under military control so it does feel like this is the beginning of a coup or. a military case has been was just dropping as well that the bible of independent news sources saying that the spokesman full suit cheese poteen saying but i want to tell people not to respond rationally and i want them to act according to the lol you've been reporting on the ground for al-jazeera these past few days what was your sense of these rumors whether they would actually see a potential detention of suchi what were people saying to you. the fear has always been very real people here a the military. the military so i don't think anyone has a rule that there's a lot of skepticism about whether they you know the classic military plays that

they don't normally. normally give warnings so. this might be. suffering from them. has been credibly laurie. you know a lot of tension on the street. they need to protest the military people and. the majority of the. most of the population things have been quiet. d popping up around the city and the flags. popping up in the streets people are really showing that the pool and i think there will be a very negative reaction from the public. and i'm sure. reaction from the public the spokesperson for the. state to the public will we see

public dissent protests on the street is that a possibility considering the military charge of the country. when it comes to dissent. it's certainly a possibility people here the rules have changed in the last 10 years since the military. relinquished power to the least because i think the government. and. protesting gatherings are not allowed by little so. there may be public gatherings and given under the military rules that. the public will see it's time the crisis we see people coming out the street but it often ends in the political times we love a slew 9 of it at the moment there's a lot of. political and economic issues going on in the country might not happen immediately but certainly i should imagine the will be. some public dissent

and some objection to that. at the bowling. alley thanks for joining us on the follow a chorus. of it today being a professor of international relations at. the australian she joins me via skype with the program already worrying development and a huge risk for the military to go. direction isnt it. it certainly is look here's the situation can go one of 2 wives are this is the beginning of a coup in which is distinctly possible or the military hasn't played its hand and it will have to back down in the next hours i would think and if it does that then i think they would really have to do a big rating and abstract barracks that it's we're at a critical juncture it's on at the end of military involvement in myanmar politics

or it is in fact a coup it's not there's no more middle ground on this this is crunch time that's a slightly extend that question then so what's the endgame here they know the military of this is true that the detention of a democratically elected leader will only lead to condemnation of potential sanctions so do they want that. yes look there's been a struggle within the military now for years between the hardliners and assad whiners or the reformists and the hardliners and it looks like the hardline faction has the upper hand certainly the commander not units at meo you know lang is a hard liner and he has been indicating that this type of action might be possible and of course hussein that military in place on the streets in recent days. what my sense is is that the hardliners have the upper hand in the internal not tristram's but also their own back to their chinese arms and say look this is where we think

you're going is the chinese government which is not inclined as court democracy has said you have a vacuum here that's pretty interesting because we're going to ask you who's behind this you've you've mentioned china i just want to mention that the army chief that you also alluded to mina why and given he was due to retire is it a case that this could be a much more smaller group of people trying to influence what's going on across the country and he wants to remain more relevant in a new democracy in the in a new political emergence or direction that me amar is going into. you know look i think that it went on lang and the tatmadaw wants to remain relevant it's not byron democratic process they are fundamentally anti democratic in orientation in their minds and sort of quarter of the states in the parliament without being elected i think indicates that and if you look at the myanmar constitution it does count at a very distinct role not treat does give them

a constitutional right to remove the elected government at any time for any reason so they i could well be in well within the constitution yet still getting rid of the democratically elected government i mean as i sat i think this is really a reflection of the struggle between the military but also will be don't leave the acknowledgment of blessing of the magic of the north korean that with china you do raise a very interesting point in for our international viewers about telling them that the military does have you might say guaranteed seats in parliament and so one wonders how insulted the military feel that their own public really went against them in last year's election and really said you know directly we want change we want more democracy perhaps or we want more freedom or we want to be more a part of the international community who do have an inkling of what really what they the me and my public really want. oh yeah look we let the election.

came to me and my selections in 2006 day end and it was very clear then that. there was a moment where we thought they'd elections more of her seat at the table really did come out my they were issues very clearly now and i think that that become a little emboldened since then which is why we saw that there a compelling result for the n.r.a. last year and might last year's elections the military is perhaps less concerned with the results of the election and more concerned with a discussion about reform of the constitution to limit the military's role and that's what they're pushing back against at this stage that at least appears today their rationale for this race and motives but of course that they're long a guy maybe to re-impose an electorate room entirely or as i said i have a supply of their hand and find that it's just gone too far and i cannot sky and

this position and along that time and it might well name names of another tree in politics in the end not that it's a critical time everything's up in the air i would be difficult to cyprus honestly which fights going to be a day that has an early as the morning with a way to hear from the authorities and figs actually what has happened in the fate of anson fucci david kingsley thanks so much for joining us from melbourne it's my pleasure. former u.s. president donald trump has named a new legal team to head his impeachment defense one comes up to trump abruptly parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers on saturday he's accused of inciting his supporters to storm the capitol building on january the 6th not that he repeated folds claims of election fraud his aides say they plan to the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and he joins me again from competent. trump having difficulty with his lawyers in the lead up to his impeachment trial he has good news to share with us now. well they are david

show and bruce castor not exactly a household names in this country we have a lot of famous lawyers i haven't actually heard of these lawyers before but the president trying to send the message that with just days february 9th his impeachment trial that he's got this legal team in place now this comes after the 5 lawyers who were fairly well known seem to have quit his defense and the reports were it was because he wanted them to say that the votes were stolen that the he won the election obviously unclear what kind of legal strategy that would be that only would it be false and lying to congress is in fact a crime it would be if the legal argument is that he won the election are they then making the legal argument that it was ok for a riotous mob to storm the capitol and we're 5 people died so apparently they're not going to take that tack to the statement saying that they're going to argue that this is unconstitutional as you mention because he left office and that is

something that they point out that 45 republicans in the senate wanted to debate before the impeachment trial it was voted down but they wanted to talk about whether it's constitutional democrats say they are going to address this in the impeachment trial and they will likely bring up that there is some precedence for this there was a secretary of war in the hundreds who knew he was going to be impeached so he resigned just as the house was meeting to pass those article. of impeachment and the senate decided that there had to be repercussions because he was. accused of basically grift and they said there have to be consequences for that so they did take up the impeachment in that case so this is something that they're going to argue to the u.s. senate and the republicans wouldn't really like to be able to vote against the impeachment without giving him any sort of you know any responsibility for what happened at the capitol so they're going to try to make that argument democrats say they're going to make a very impassioned case about why trump is directly responsible for really the

horror that was seen up here on capitol hill for the update thanks very much political hay and our correspondent at capitol hill still ahead here on al jazeera nigeria plans to revamp 3 of its oil refineries after years of mismanagement and corruption story after the break. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored plan qatar airways for the snow stopped temporarily in most japan we're actually injecting wants for a while there's a lot of where the warm isa cold frontal system bringing rain from eastern china's through the science of japan at the top of that is snow snow for colorado as you'll notice but the whole thing is pushed slowly cyrus was right in turns to snow as the coder types in behind for the maps of the home show took tokyo would eventually

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celebration tradition life. al-jazeera was a case where insights into the diverse culture of somalia. from least 2 different couples. embarking on land ice to get. some money style on n.b.c. and. both about 2 hours there with me still run the reminder of our top story mere miles ruling party says a leader unsung suchi has been detained by the military along with other key politicians it follows days of tension between the civilian government and the army

which has sought to discredit the november vote the return of the party to power. donald trump has named a new legal team to head is impeachment offense it comes a day after the former u.s. president suddenly parted ways with its lead to impeachment lawyers is accused of inciting supporters to storm the capitol building on january 6th. now from st petersburg to the west to vladivostok in the east tens of thousands of rallies across russia demanding the release of jailed kremlin critic alexina valley more than 5000 have already reportedly been detained as the back has more. we don't have to stay longer to demonstration in russia before you might be arrested. police wasting no time in taking these protesters away the deal you think had been warned says that in the current circumstances the risk of

the protest organizers and active participants provocations is increasing and their aim is to violate civil order in this situation your personal safety can be under threat but alexina valmy supporters braved the subzero temperatures to have their say. these ones pushed out by police fire themselves onto frozen waters of awestruck. justice just what i'm seeing now is some kind of inadequate reaction people were coming out peacefully they were not doing anything illegal now there is intimidation but as you can see no one is afraid the city square is completely blocked off by police but there is someone there from the protesters and there are arrests but there aren't many. people this time but police and special forces had prepared in advance and blocked the square. was the kremlin seems to have been rattled by this latest wave of protests. that have been there. 2 and have adopted a 0 tolerance approach them of even putting pressure on online platforms to shut

down any talk of demonstrations. involved he says he's poisoning in august last year was state sanctioned something the kremlin has denied. the opposition leader and critic of president vladimir putin spent months in germany recovering was this movement is more than just support from the valmy. it's been a mobilizing call for those frustrated with everything from the economy to lunch standing claims of corruption novelli supporters have used social media to spread he's views and to organize protests they have been thousands of arrests across russia and with just days to go before novelli appears in court to face charges of parole violations the kremlin is keen to shut down and discredit him and he supporters said big al jazeera. israel is sending 5000 vaccine doses to palestinian medical workers according to a government spokesperson the country has drawn sharp criticism for excluding palestinian occupied territories from its speedy vaccine roll out more than

a quarter of israel's 9000000 population has received at least one dose of the size the job but territories under israeli occupation and had to rely mostly on the un's kovacs scheme for developing nations phyllis bennis is a fellow at the institute for policy studies in washington d.c. her most recent book is understanding the palestinian israeli conflict joins me live now via skype from d.c. good to have you with us on the program missed dennis again. are we looking at zac see the part tide you think we are. that's exactly what we're looking at this isn't of course the only component of apartheid in israeli treatment of palestinians but it's the latest iteration israel is obligated under international law under the geneva conventions article $56.00 requires it to provide all the materials needed for public health and specifically preventive measures to combat the spread of contagious diseases and epidemics exactly what we're facing here my understanding

is that the the 5000 doses that are that the israelis are talking about are not being provided by israel it's the russian vaccine known as sputnik sputnik vaccine all israel is doing is saying that they may allow it through the crossing from jordan to the west bank at the king hussein allonby bridge that's a far cry from their obligation which is to provide for the entire occupied population and they should certainly be doing exactly what they are doing for their own citizens i mean it's not unusual for the un for example to criticize israel over its treatment of the palestinians but should we be surprised that they've done it so vocally over the coronavirus vaccination program and the need for sort of global herd immunity they sort of bypass the politics and that this needs to be done on a humanitarian level as it always has needed to write down across the territories. absolutely i mean you would think that given the proximity of israelis to the

palestinians who live in the west bank occupied east jerusalem and the gaza strip that they would be concerned about making sure all of them have the exact same baxi in the same protection because this virus certainly doesn't respect any green lines or anything else but that has not been sufficient the the effort by netanyahu to gain credit it seems as if in anticipation of having to run for office again to stay out of jail in that he's very concerned about being able to say that he kept the virus from his citizens without taking into account any of the obligations under international law are how the science works none of this makes any sense of course here for the debate for the last several weeks since the sort of the global rollout of vaccine is is the word is the worry about sort of the financial inequalities between rich and poor countries here in this region it's more specific about a conflict which involves the responsibilities of the occupier of the occupied.

that's absolutely right when you have an occupying power that is engaged in what amounts to a permanent occupation that's colonialism that's the establishment of colonial outposts and that means even if it you know had not been acknowledged on the israeli side it's not about what they mollett it's about what the language of international law says and in this global moment when it is such a dangerous time we're hearing just in the last day or so that because of the new variants emerging in a number of places from the u.k. south africa and brazil perhaps elsewhere that we're going to be seeing a dramatic. increase in cases in the coming weeks and to the notion that politics in this case occupation would prevent the israelis that are actually bragging about being the best in the world they're saying they have they have the facts and they did more their citizens than any other country they got congratulatory articles written in all through the u.s.

press and yet that that thing that they're bragging about seems to be rooted in their refusal to treat with anything remotely resembling the quality the 5000000 people that live under military occupation 3000000 in the west bank and another 2000000 under this horrific scene in the gaza strip is a course i want to watch and we will continue to do that for us but it's always nice to have you on the program and thanks very much for your insight thank you sara. germany is sending medical workers on the quitman to portugal for systems while battling one of the world's worst crime a virus our breaks the portuguese government has also closed its borders with neighboring spain and banned its citizens from traveling abroad and we see reports . are to a palma and his assistant are taking no chances and this funeral parlor that he runs in lisbon they're handling the body of an elderly resident who just died from corona virus pumice says he visits nursing homes up to 4 times

a week to pick up bodies of those killed by covert 19 more than 12000 people have died so far in portugal half of them since the beginning of january. or it's chaos it's really chaos so many people are dead there's no room for all of them people should be careful they need to know to coronavirus kills for real i have already lost my aunt my cousin my father my grandfather. portugal is currently the hardest hit country in the world in proportion to its population on top of a nationwide lockdown portugal has shut its borders with spain and for 2 weeks no portuguese citizen can travel abroad except in special cases. as we get it if you would you know of before the closure there was some movement in the border area but at the moment it is quieter i assume that people are paying attention to the border controls and respecting the restrictions. portugal's hospitals are severely

strained with his health ministry warning there are only a few intensive care beds left on the mainland some patients have been airlifted to the island of madeira to ease the pressure. the government's also asked for help from germany which is sending medical workers and equipment to help cope with the influx the situation is only comparable. to a tsunami in the sense that the number of. actions that we are sitting on to rise. for weeks on word. this of course then translate into more patients. which then leads to more. into ice you. the government says the more contagious strain of corona virus from the u.k. is to blame for up to a 3rd of the country's infections but the situation went from bad to worse as restrictions be lax over christmas did. not even include rising from i think they

made a mistake at christmas they didn't have enough courage to order people to stay home for political reasons him must. be people still don't have respect for the rules and for as long as they don't understand that they've got to respect the rules we're not going anywhere. but even if rules are respected the governments warn the public that the country's facing its worst moment since the start of the pandemic and that will continue for at least a few more weeks and the su out to 0. is africa's biggest oil producer but with the creaking network of refineries nigeria still has to import petrol and diesel to meet local demand now the government is planning some changes of interest reports now from the capital of future. this is one of nigeria's government run or oil refineries in the city of port tucker. but most of these operations has been shut down to a great equipment and facility. the government plans to hand over these money

losing brain just investors drowned after decades of mismanagement. africa's biggest oil producer has turned from self-sufficiency in refined petroleum products in the 1970 s. and eighty's to now a net importer of the product. it's for plans continue to operate well below capacity and sometimes shut down for months off we should say that cost to stop what we have done different now is to make sure that we know what we're doing we know who would do it i would go back to that but that is funded such a way that you don't stick somebody delegate that budget and that is well on cause finances don't go on for one of them well working with us to make sure that we have been as you put it to be funny because. there's a new urgency to complete the commercialization process nigeria has been hit by a lot on prices and a weakened global demand. the government desperate to shore up its revenue base

sees that refineries as a way out of an expensive fuel import regime subsidized more than $2000000000.00 a year nigeria's refineries are about to face their toughest competition yet africa's biggest refinery owned by the continent's richest man and he couldn't but it will soon start production in nigeria it has the capacity to find 650000 barrels of oil a day compared to the combined capacity of 445000 in government own facilities. all industry sources say between july and september last year the country imported more than 5000000000 liters of refined products. a subsidy program that allowed those connected to politicians to steal hundreds of millions of dollars annually has cost the government huge losses in the past it's crap the subsidy 3 years ago but still the losses continue to mount there we have a line of sight what does with that when just will be delivered and ultimately will

come to when i get out become the public it's all in for the in the us are because of vision so much a fact that we're expecting any from west africa what are you just of doing some nigerians say they are cautiously optimistic if this is not true fan. it's probably wrong. in spite of the age of the technologies that produced them over 50 years ago they are still refineries of that age around the world at last to fully functional so i think they can be rejigged to the point where they wish to come back to their functionality in such a way that the government of nigeria the peoples of nigeria still have their stake in the refineries officials insist this time it will be different but nigerian social hundreds of millions of dollars lost through the subsidy program say they'll wait to see how and when the government delivers on its promise. to greece al-jazeera a pusher.