people uniting across borders to speed up the development of tests treatments and of that. keeping you up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making the healthier world for you. for everyone. a u.-turn for democracy the military takes power in me and our prompting international condemnation and a call for sanctions to be imposed the country's democratically elected leader uncensored chief has been detained and replaced by the military's commander in chief.

on our intelligence is al jazeera live from london also coming up a special delivery in south africa one of the half a 1000000 doses of astra zeneca as coronavirus vaccine touched down in johannesburg . and announcers are investigation uncovers a criminal network could looting with bangladeshi security forces and profiting from links with the prime minister shake a senior. fellow man mars military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the day following a so far bloodless coup aung san suu cheese called on people to rise up and comments written before the takeover but her whereabouts remain unknown after she was held in the middle of the night instead the army is resting power in the hands of commander in chief men on playing $24.00 government ministers have been removed

and 11 already replaced phone and internet connections were caught and state t.v. forced off air or banks closed when people scramble to take out cash a un security council meeting is now set for tuesday the military is keen to point out it's only temporary promising free and fair elections it's worth remembering this coup came just 6 years after the 1st civilian government in half a century is any foul with latest from the ongoing. in dawn raids in yangon members of me a democratically elected leadership who were rounded up and detained as the military staged a coup the new the state of emergency is in effect nationwide and the generation of the state of emergency is set to one year. the military says it was acting in response to widespread election fraud its chief mina longline now rules the country this is our worst nightmare quite clearly this is the myanmar military scrapping

the democratic experiment you know you're talking about a party that won a landslide election truly a landslide election and all of a sudden we have. we have the president and other top people. under detention and a state of emergency manufactured by the military to justify your long seizure of power the raids came shortly before the 1st session of a new parliament was supposed to begin. party the national league for democracy had won a landslide victory in elections in november instead the military is now patrolling the streets here in yangon it's been a tense day as information has continued to him although we have seen an increased security presence with riot police congregating in a few key areas the streets of remained relatively quiet the energy is released a statement accusing the military of trying to return to a dictatorship and urging people not to accept the coup ok i am now you know we

have a lot of struggles right now for food for life in general the health you know us people have got the covert problem and now we have a coup we were about to be ok and now this happens what do we have to do to survive some supporters of the military did take to the streets in celebration the new leaders have pledged to hold fresh elections and allow the winner to take power. but this is a country that only recently emerged from 5 decades of military rule and many are skeptical. how can we believe they will stick to that one year period based on what there have been other things in the past we couldn't believe them over there will be a solution when all the people unite there's a growing list of nations expressing concern over the situation as well as the united nations its former special rapporteur on myanmar says military chief min and lying is pursuing his personal ambitions i mean i wanted to be the president are

so that he can stay in power the reason he wants to he needs to stay in power is his his family has so much at stake in. businesses are businesses run by the military or its cronies or its associates minimum lines power play has left many in myanmar uncertain about what comes next and with banks and some shops closed people are stocking up on supplies early file al-jazeera yangon. british on and we're going to the u.n. special envoy for man march he joins us on the line now from geneva thanks very much indeed for your time can you give us initially your reaction to events in men are so far. yes thank you very much i am really deeply concerned especially about the decorrelation of what your state of emergency and also the transfer of

all legislative teeth executed fanchet the show powers to the military did a commander in chief and peace means a real serious blow to did you more crap agree forms in myanmar and therefore d.c. is really not acceptable and we cannot allow others to blacks live in myanmar opened up in 2011 and that we are now just in one day back to square $1.00 and $3.00 for 3. all our efforts are also done in the last couple of years to bring the county forward to a full democracy we can just one day as i know you are breaking the un tuesday's meeting what it was your message or you the message going to be from the un to the them in the military do you think. well tomorrow i will have to briefing of the un the cricket security council and i will be for

a brief briefing about the current situation. what should we be now receiving because that is a continuation of the good positive steps which i cooked up sir since the election of the 8 nothing but we have a ceasefire. not time for kind we see that krishna's or healthy choice where released. i could help serve. a successful trilateral meeting between bangladesh myanmar china on the 9th of january to discuss the report to agency of the rohingya and all of the world in the 200 health yes we are now working to respond they. are all thought change of narrative which comes over so we.

workshopped. between communities today a social cohesion and before 3. laps to a change of narrative which takes time and clearly my mandate a lot of patience but. certainly some particular steps and i was so confident that in 2021 we can move ahead after the election because we know normally here you know that how you talk about all the positive steps that have happened now it looks like a coup has as effectively as they could you think cancelled out all that progress effectively. sure sure we are we don't know exactly now what's going on about clearly they say they will replace the old mistress who are under house arrest they always be apt pointed to 11 ministers so far as i knew they are all

military background or come from the opposition party and if it's not the will of the people and. don't want to see. these counties going back to isolation we want to hold more options a little for a change of what options do you think should be considered should there be sanctions against the military establishment because of this d.c. sop to the member states to decide if they want to implement the 2nd so i will just leave a picture from the ground and then it's up to the member states clearly so in the last 3 years overall when i briefed the security council is that they are divided on such questions and i tomorrow what

the member states will propose what we can do christine on a program thank you very much indeed for taking the time children on tara shitter. well even before the coup man mars military was playing a powerful role in the largely civilian government it had a quarter of seats in parliament and control over the defense border and home affairs ministries those powers were enshrined in the 2008 constitution adopted by the country was still under military rule it could also veto any changes this barred aung san suu chief from becoming president because she has children who are foreign citizens she became the defacto leader with president when meant a close aide both were detained in the coup now the former general and vice president didn't sway will serve as acting president he's transferred legislative executive and judicial power to the army's commander in chief senior general min on one of his in the 1st time uncensored she's been detained by the military for about

manny looks back at her turbulent relationship with the armed forces. suchi was once considered a beacon of democracy who stood up to the country's powerful military leaders now that military has seized control and arrested her replacing her with a military general it says the action is legally justified but many reject their concerns as an institution that the election results will trigger government policies that will weaken the military's power in the system i think everyone in myanmar understands that they're using the law to their advantage the coup is a culmination of a turbulent relationship between suchi and the military that's been going on for decades suchi is the daughter of the late nationalist leader aung sun and she spent much of her youth overseas. she returned home in 1988 when she

joined student that protests against the military the taken power in 1962. the movement was crushed and hundreds of protesters killed. a year later she was imprisoned in her family home and would spend 15 years in detention. in 2010 the military released suchi who walked free among large crowds of supporters. it is difficult to achieve democracy and after we achieve democracy it is hard to maintain we have to do a lot of work and we have to take things slowly. in an historic shift for military rule cheese national democratic party came to power in 2015 she became stake counselor and the de facto leader of myanmar but after 5 decades in power the military maintained much control. the constitution allowed to control the

defense and interior ministries and it was guaranteed a quarter of seats in parliament that gave it another hour to veto changes to the constitution suchi is extremely popular in myanmar in 2900 she appeared in the international court of justice where she defended the military against allegations of genocide in 20 twentieth's november election her n.d.l. party won a landslide victory the military kind the win was fraudulent just over 2 months later it seized power by force provoking widespread criticism of. city's previous detention did little to undermine her popularity. but now it's unclear how active and vocal her supporters will be under threat of military action laura bush man the al-jazeera. p.

and corona virus vaccine doses has arrived in johannesburg countries battling a 2nd wave of infections driven by a more transmissible variant 1st identified there yesterday take a jobs produced in india will be given to health workers scientists are believed they remain effective against the new strain south africa is the worst hit country on the continent i mean to miller is in johannesburg and explains why the arrival of the doses doesn't mean vaccination can begin. well there's been a lot of anticipation around the arrival of those vaccines of that vaccine at least that $1000000.00 doses that's come through now it wasn't clear all slew these processes what exactly what was going to happen and now it seems that rather than the x. actual vaccination process beginning any time soon it will take another 10 to 14 days for those 1st jobs to be given and that's often a quality assurance process the storage of the vaccines as well as tests on

samples just to make sure that everything is as it should be we do expect the government to implement a electronic database where people can register to get the vaccine but at this stage that focus will be are now front line workers people working in hospitals and health care facilities and in a later at a later stage phase 2 of the government grohl out will see essential workers like teachers and police officers able to get the vaccination also we know that it's on a voluntary basis and we do expect that the government may encounter some difficulties around confidence within the south african population around the efficacy of the vaccine and just exactly how it works because of course as many countries around the world that have been a number of conspiracy theories and misinformation that people have come across on things like social media so these are some of the challenges the government is facing aside from the issue of logistics and getting that vaccine to all parts of

the country as quickly as possible. britain is ramping up testing after it emerged the south african variant may have spread in some regions experts urgently want to test 80000 people in 8 parts of england mobile testing units and some home testing kits are being sent into the effected areas health officials say 11 people had tested positive for the variant over the last 5 or 6 days and had no links to travel john holl is in london and says the extra testing is to stop transmission of the variant in the community $116.00 cases now identified included among them 11 that have no connection to previous travel in 8 different local areas in england and that suggests a degree of community transmission prompting the health secretary matt hancock a couple of hours ago to say that the health service who do whatever was necessary to crack down hard on this strain to try and eradicated so-called surge testing now

ordered to begin as soon as possible in those 8 local areas that includes daughter door house to house testing calling on people to come out and be tested $80000.00 adults they're hoping to cover all together as quickly as possible and pinpoint focused on those 11 addresses in an effort to break the chain of community transmission i think the problem is that community transmission may be wider and deeper than they're able to detect at this point because one of those 11 cases we're told received their positive test several weeks ago now back in december suggesting that this south african strain so-called much more transmissible more virulent of course alongside its u.k. born cousin the so-called kent strain may have been around now for quite some time . the dr make a fire has pledged to deliver an additional $75000000.00 vaccine doses to the european union for the 2nd quarter of the year that brings the total number of doses for the block this year to 600000000 according to the european commission

president or slept under lyon the vaccine rollout has been slower than hoped in part due to supply issues drug maker astra zeneca has reduced its quota of doses to the block by more than half causing a rout of the company's contractual obligations. still to come on al-jazeera new york wakes up to what could be an record breaking snowfall. the cold of winter is being edged slowly out and it is a slow process freezing rain and snow or light to take place on the edges well this atlantica which is quite a complicated mess pushes off into the east of europe where daytime temperatures are still subzero but 6 say the changes taking place snowfall in the higher ground

sometimes on the low ground as it happens and back in the warmer air in particular in portugal have a couple of days a significant rain in porto for example the temperatures are in the teens it's windy then the wind drops but it's still like to be raining now on the front page and warsaw is a good example it's hard work temperature creeping up to freezing but the sunshine you're about to see or have just seen will probably disappears the clouds become gray again sometimes full of snow but that is the process of easing out the code that the real cold hangs around in the southern baltic vill these minus 2 by then it went to a high temperature but head sassan temperature definitely on the way at various 7 prague is about 10 degrees tempers a bit of a story in north africa as well although on the north coast you got some of this windy wet weather just dragging through from tunisia into libya most places are dry and foreign but down in nigeria who just temperatures 37 or 38 is pretty much on the high side.

of. the welcome. from everyone of this. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy breaking your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done our cats are always welcome to our home. one of the top stories here now jazeera made mars' military has tightened its grip

on power purging key ministers in the day following a so far bloodless coup the un security council is expected to meet on tuesday to discuss the. whereabouts of still unknown after she was detained in the middle of the night she'd earlier urged people to resist a minute to take over. the plane carrying south africa's 1st 1000000 corona virus vaccine doses has arrived in johannesburg countries battling a 2nd wave of infections driven by a more contagious variant 1st identified that. the white house is warning it could reimpose sanctions on myanmar because of the coup there u.s. president joe biden has called on the military to relinquish power immediately we remove sanctions the united states i should say remove sanctions on burma of the past decade based on progress toward democracy the reversal of that progress when the substitute an immediate review of our sanctions laws and authorities followed by appropriate action so that's why he called it out i don't have anything any

additional steps beyond that to predict for you at this point in time let's cross to our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat who's in washington d.c. and candy the reaction has been swift from the u.s. the 1st big foreign policy challenge for the botanist ration. there's no question about it and that's why we're seeing a very strongly worded statement from president joe biden where he is not only calling on the international community to pressure the military leaders but also calls the detention of the civilian leaders the power grab by the military is being an assault on the transition to democracy and rule of law he's now calling for immediate release of those civilian leaders and also relinquish power by the military the concern in all of this of course is you know the response and what will happen next and as the world watches to see what the united states will do the united states also very keen to see international partners get involved but at the

same time going it alone suggesting that should the mian mar military not heed the united states warning that it would face strict economic sanctions sanctions that we have seen before roughly 10 years ago there were very strong economic sanctions in place that were lifted when there was this sort of march toward democracy and freedom but the white house saying now in light of the reversal of that process it's time to review the laws that are in place in the united states to see if those economic sanctions can be put back in place so we're watching very carefully there is the support of many in the u.s. congress who had soured a little bit on song suchi given the fact that they were disappointed in her response in terms of not defending the revenge of muslims and the concern is the refugee crisis was occurring there that there was not a calling out of the military or at least strongly worded in terms of the response

and so many had some reservations but it seems that the united states now united for the most part among politicians in the latest developments saying that there needs to be a strong u.s. response committee how can thank you very much indeed. after serious investigative unit has uncovered a criminal network colluding with the security forces of a bangladesh and profiting from powerful links with the country's prime minister investigation found evidence that general as head of the bangladesh army helped criminals to evade justice and make money from state corruption well for one has this exclusive report. general is easier made head of the bangladesh army and the man appointed by prime minister sheikh hasina to defend the country. our surveillance team follows the general to malaysia and discover that he's also guarding his own secret waiting for him is his brother harry cellmate he's

a convicted murderer and an international fugitive from a notorious dukkha crime gang bang to dish police put him on their most wanted list another brother is also josef was on death row but freed after he was pardoned by president abdul hamid in 2080. we then tracked down the 4th armored brother anis as with harry's he's on the run after fleeing a conviction for the same killing of a political activist mr for rahman in takar back in 1996 the men get a diplomatic escort from the bangladesh high commission their bones would shake a scene or began when the brothers worked as her bodyguards in the 1990 s. in a convert recorded call general as he says the prime minister recently praised the loyalty of the brothers while speaking to prominent members of her ruling party.

haris has been in hiding for 20 years protected by the general before he was part of a crime gang on the streets of dhaka now he says he can exert influence over state institutions. people here. are going to pull. down. play nothing for nothing. we found harry soon hungry where he runs numerous businesses under a false identity he tells our undercover source that he has shaikh has seen a support. contract you don't get that 7200000 he will have a special to them but little thing for them to go and because of that there. is a hurry so also acts as a middleman for business deals in bangladesh. the man on the left is her son's

business associate they think they're talking to a fund manager in london who wants to invest millions in a bangladesh hotel to do so this is really really because he. really. is. but the meeting is a sting set up by al jazeera is investigative unit. and. his son says he takes 20 percent from every deal this is. basically. using. there because mr leader with. al-jazeera invited all those involved including prime minister shaikh a senior and general as he's ahmed to respond to its findings none did so well thought on al-jazeera. and he watched the full investigation all the prime

minister's men on al-jazeera at 20100 g.m.t. . uganda's opposition leader is filing a supremes court challenge against president you very well seventies victory in last month's election will be one claims the poll was rigged with 70 a former rebel leader won his 6th term with more than 58 percent of the vote wind secured just 35 percent but generally the 14th vote followed some of the worst pre-election bloodshed uganda has seen in years in the u.s. a powerful winter storm is covering much of the northeast in what could become record breaking levels of snow christine salumi is in new york where the storm has already made travel and daily life difficult. we've already seen 15 centimeters of snow fall here in new york city and we can get to 50 centimeters and that has prompted city officials to declare a state of emergency it's not just the snow itself it's the high winds that could

get up to 80 kilometers an hour and that is making for very treacherous traveling conditions with low visibility on the roads not to mention power outages in areas outside of the city where the transmission lines are above ground so officials are warning people to stay off the roads they say travel problems could continue for days of course thanks to the coronavirus many people are already working from home and doing remote schooling but this is yet another impediment to vaccine rollout so many people are now finding that these appointments that they fought hard for are being canceled and poor new york city restaurants they only have outdoor dining allowed for another 2 weeks and needless to say not a lot of people are going to want to eat outside even with some of the elaborate set ups that we're seeing around the city to keep people warm and of course it's not just new york the east coast from philadelphia all the way to boston is being blanketed with snow as much as 60 centimeters in some places. a mentor investors

have set the sights on a new target so as they move on from the trading of a struggling videogame retain a game stop the precious metal reached an 8 year high of $30.00 an ounce in the u.k. on monday the surge is being blamed on small time traders using social media platforms to inform one another about what to purchase although some of disputed this with claims rises being driven by big street firms. the top stories on al-jazeera meanwhile as military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the day following so far bloodless coup international reaction has been swift the u.s. will immediately review sanctions on myanmar and take what it calls quote appropriate action the u.n. security council is expected to meet on tuesday to discuss the situation it's

feared the crew will make conditions worse for the ring of muslims the u.s. .