disabled victims want. a u.-turn for democracy the military takes power in prompting international condemnation and calls for sanctions. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up president biden holds talks with the 10 republican senators who proposed the slimmed down 1000 relief package. at

al-jazeera an investigation uncovers a criminal network with bangladeshi security forces profiting from links with prime minister sheikh hasina. iran launches a new satellite carrying rocket propelled by its most powerful engine today. military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the hours following a coup to tame leader and she has called on people to rise up in comments written before the takeover but whereabouts are currently unknown after she was taken in the middle of the night instead the army's arresting power in the hands of commander in chief men. 24 government ministers have been removed 11 replacements named phone and internet connections were cut and state t.v. forced off air war banks close 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 is only temporary promising free and fair elections in a year but this coup comes just 6 years after the 1st civilian government in half a century or more now from early file one of the few foreign journalist based in miramar. in dawn raids in yangon members of me a democratically elected leadership were rounded up and detained as the military staged a coup in the name of 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 min and lying 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 the 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 pairing and gone 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 a skeptical you have been there 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 you. knight 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 minimum lying is pursuing his personal ambitions i mean i wanted to be the president

so that he can stay in power the reason he wants to is he needs to stay in power is his his family has so much at stake in. business is business is run by the military or its cronies or its associates minim lang's 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 ali file al jazeera younger. well let's take a closer look at the general now in charge of me in my min took over the military in 2011 that's the same year me i'm up began undergoing major political changes under a power sharing agreement the military has had a major say in defense and border affairs it's also guaranteed 25 percent of seats in parliament to not lying has been credited for his part in critical national security decisions such as cease fire agreements with armed ethnic groups but 2

years ago he was sanctioned by the united states for his role in the military crackdown range of muslims that led to more than 730000 people fleeing to neighboring bangladesh and in recent interviews with local media he said he'd be open to entering politics once he stepped away from the military. or the coup is a major international test for the new biden administration the us president called on the military to relinquish power immediately but a tough stance risks changing the regional balance of power a white house correspondent can really help it as this report now. calling the military seizure of power a direct does salton me and maurice transition to democracy now. u.s. president joe biden issued a stern warning to the country's military leaders were reversed course or face economic sanctions we removed sanctions the united states i should say remove sanctions on burma over 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 all the white house is calling on the international community to pressure me and mars military to a mediately release detained officials and relinquish the powers it seized the developments are test for the fledgling biden and ministration and the new secretary of state antony blanket who was sworn in last week the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell released this statement pressuring the biden administration to take a strong stand and urging u.s. partners and all democracies around the world to follow suit in condemning this earth or terry an assault on democracy. when biden was vice president barack obama became the 1st sitting u.s. president to visit me in mar he praised it steps toward democratic and economic reform strict u.s. sanctions against the country were lifted on me in march transition to civilian

rule but u.s. support for me and maurice government began to sour because of its discrimination against muslims that included a denial of citizenship there were further concerns when civilian leader aung san suu kyi defended the military as hundreds of thousands fled as refugees. the foreign policy crisis comes as the biden administration is struggling to deal with domestic issues like a depressed economy and unemployment due to the global covert 19 pandemic that's cost roughly 450000 americans their lives is still trying to get trying to figure out what it's. these will be and most importantly it's very preoccupied with domestic crises the biden distraction really wants to focus on the endemic kind of economic crisis at home and racial tensions and it really doesn't i think it's not ready to have to confront a crisis like this the biden administration faces

a dilemma tough u.s. measures could push me in mars' military rulers closer to china a u.s. adversary something the new president wants to avoid can't really help at al-jazeera washington united nations plans to hold an emergency meets you know meanwhile and choose day old to from medicaid it's a jazz basses more and what the reaction has been so far real shock at the united nations the move that had been taken the secretary general had warned about the possibility of a coup now he says he's gravely concerned about the situation and we've also had in the last few hours a new statement a very strong statement from the u.n. high commissioner of human rights michelle paschal a which was read out by her spokeswoman we echoed the secretary general's call for the military leadership to respect the outcome of the elections. the high commissioner is alarmed by reports suggesting that at least 45 people have been

detained including elected parliament ariens under confinement and we call for their immediate release. the high commissioner urges the international community to stand in solidarity with the people of myanmar at this time and for all states with influence to take steps to prevent the crumbling of the fragile democratic and human rights gains made by me and maher during its transition from military rule the key un body in all of this is the u.n. security council is the body in the u.n. system that has real teeth now the new president of the security council starts the day the 1st of the month and it's the u.k. which has the presidency the u.k. doherty planned a meeting on me on march on thursday what i'm hearing from european diplomats is that they are pushing for that meeting people called forward and possibly to take place in the next 24 hours what will the security council do will they got lots of potential tools i think many diplomats on the security council would be wanting

them to issue a strong statement potentially they could push for sanctions but there i think you need to look at the role of russia and particularly china the regional power which has a great deal of leverage in myanmar and what their position is on this i think sanctions though are likely if not from the u.n. and i think the u.s. and the european union will be looking very closely at sanctions in the coming hours. u.s. president joe biden has been meeting with a group of 10 republican senators to discuss the alternative to his coronavirus relief package they're proposing a $618000000000.00 plan and that is about a 3rd of the $1.00 trillion dollars of aid the body is aiming for the group of republicans wants a president to negotiate a slimmed down package rather than trying to ram his stimulus plan through but democrats are still vying to push ahead with or without republican support and we've just been hearing from republican senator susan collins who's been speaking in the past few minutes this is have

a listen to what she had to say good evening everybody we have just had a very productive cordial 2 hour meeting with the president and the vice president and some of their key aides to discuss the next steps and the relief package we outlined for the president the provisions that we have proposed as part of an approximately $600000000000.00 package he explained in more depth areas that. were not fleshed out as much in that package the $1.00 trillion dollars package and it was a very good exchange of views i have when say that we came together on a package tonight no one expected that in a 2 hour meeting but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further

at the staff level and amongst ourselves and with the president and vice president on how we can continue to work together on this very important issue all of us are concerned about struggling families teetering small businesses and overwhelmed. health care system getting vaccines out and into people's arms and strengthening our economy and addressing the public health crisis that we face so i think it was an excellent meeting and we're very appreciative that as his 1st official meeting in the oval office at the president chose to spend so much time with us in a frank and very useful discussion finally let me just say that we have

demonstrated in the last year that we can come together on a bipartisan package dealing with the covert crisis in fact we've done that not just once or twice we've done it 5 times and i am hopeful that we can once again pass a 6 bipartisan relate package and co-exist and one is about republican senator susan collins from maine one of 10 republicans who met with joe biden trying to get him to slim down the $1.00 trillion dollars aid package that the democrats want to push through as for going across pretty kohei in party a very good exchange of views susan collins said very much talking up the concept of bipartisanship but will the republicans get what they want. you know i think the big question for president joe biden and his team and democrats are are the

republicans acted in good faith or are they trying to buy time a lot of this discussion has been colored by their experience during the great recession when they tried to do that financial ballo then when he was vice president under president barack obama they tried to negotiate with republicans they spent weeks upon weeks of trying to come up with a kind of compromise democrats will tell you in the end they lowered the amount that they wanted for that financial crisis and they feel that that really slowed down the economic recovery for about a decade so it seems unlikely in buying president biden a signal that he's done really willing to do a lot whole lot less than $1.00 trillion dollars but he said he wanted to be bipartisan and he wanted to have this conversation and he needs to have this conversation because there's one senate democrat who says we need to negotiate with the republicans if they lose that one senate democrat they cannot pass this bill by the way they are planning to move forward so basically kicking the can down the

road saying we're going to continue talking really not giving any indication if they had any major breakthroughs but there are some pretty big differences in what the republicans want and what the democrats and the president won in this case or a party leader that's not particle haman from talking to us from washington d.c. thanks a lot. still a they are now there are the 1st bunch of but it seems arrive in south africa has it backwards a 2nd wave of covert 19 driven by more contagious variant. powerful winter storm hits the northeastern united states causing widespread disruption. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways hello winter is in now ebbing and flowing at the moment it's a cold breeze giving some snow to japan and subzero in solid about plus one degree

in beijing but the sun is out and a change in wind direction and this is it here this temperatures again 6 in beijing 2 in seoul is still cold enough to produce some star in fact it might well be temporary produce snow in south korea as well there's only a temporary thing the wet season the rainy season is focusing on this part central and eastern parts of indonesia that has been pretty wet recently in kuala lumpur maybe you got a day off on tuesday and a bit of a change in fortunes in the far north of india were up in sri lanka we've had record low temperatures at about minus 9 so this freezing weather everywhere is snow or ice that probably won't change much there will be a record breaker but the the chance of showers showing up in northern pakistan and north of india will change the fortunes of somewhere like delhi he turned the atmosphere of you get rid of the fog which is prevalent in the northern indian plain and by thursday 'd we've got shouty weather thunderstorms rain and a breeze all of that would improve the quality so temperatures are on the way down

again time to had 22 by day and then by night temporarily it's quiet in the levant in the middle east but it won't last. sponsible qatar airways. i really did bad things would i be able to forgive somebody like me a convicted war criminal seeks out the survivors of a prison camp to apologize for the crimes of his past i just can't get even better as showing for. the unforgiven a witness documentary on al-jazeera my old team ask beth to not let me sleep.

but again you're watching out to 0 remind of our top stories this hour a mere mouse military has seized power detaining democratically elected leader and 7 suchi and dozens of government ministers the military says the overthrow is temporary and has promised elections in the year. the q. had me and maher is drawing international condemnation the u.n. secretary general called the military takeover a serious blow to democratic reforms and u.s. president joe biden has warned memos military leaders that they could face sanctions once again. but biden has met with a group of 10 republican senators to discuss their alternative to his coronavirus relief package they're proposing a $618000000000.00 plan about a 3rd of the $1.00 trillion dollars of aid the u.s. president is aiming for. now the un's high commissioner for refugees has called on the ethiopian government to do more to protect civilians trying to escape fighting

in the 2 grow region filippo grandees says civilians driven from their homes told him their ordeal continued in camps where they sought safety ground has just returned from a trip to figure out where almost 100000 people are displaced a further $60000.00 have taken refuge in neighboring sudan he says aid agencies are not getting enough access to those in need. some of them told us and told the minister that they had resorted to eat leaves because there was no other food but they also spoke about it specially at the beginning as i said been caught in the cross-fire. that the it was at the beginning of the military operation and they also spoke of infiltration of armed actors in the camps of killings abductions and also some forced return to eritrea. at the hands of eritrean forces present in the areas. al-jazeera as investigative unit has

uncovered a criminal network colluding with the security forces of bangladesh and profiting from powerful links with the country's prime minister the investigation found evidence in general these are head of the bangladesh army helped criminals to evade justice and make money from state corruption will fall and has this exclusive report. general is easier made head of the bangladesh army and a man appointed by prime minister shake a senior to defend the country. failing steam follows the general to malaysia and discovered that he's also guarding his own secret waiting for him this is brother harry cellmate. he's a convicted murderer and an international fugitive from a notorious dukkha crime gang banger desh police put him on their most wanted list another brother is also there josef was on death row but freed after he was pardoned by president abdul hamid in 2018. we then tracked down the

4th ahmed brother anis as with harry says he's on the run after fleeing a conviction for the same killing of a political activist mr for rahman in tackle back in 1996 the men get a diplomatic escort from the bangladesh high commission their bond was shake a scene or began when the brothers worked as her bodyguards in the 1990 s. in a covertly 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. chief. 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. going up and. down. play nothing that point for nothing. we found harrys in hungary where he runs numerous businesses under a false identity he tells our undercover source that he has shaikh has seen a support. because you don't get that 7200000 you know the 1st of them but a little thing for them to. think of. her response who acts as a middleman for business deals in bangladesh. the man on the left is has sons 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 game because he. really. is. spatially. 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. he's. 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 we'll thought on al-jazeera and you can watch the full investigation all the prime minister's men on al-jazeera at 12 g.m.t. that's on tuesday. iran's foreign minister javid zarif has r.c. european union to coordinate the return of both washington and tehran to the 2015 nuclear deal it comes on the same day that iranian scientists announced the launch

of a rocket capable of carrying satellites into space these images of these sub orbital tests were broadcast on state t.v. it's unclear where and when they were taken the defense ministry says the rocket is for research purposes and will be able to compete with other satellite carriers once it's fully operational the u.s. has accused iran in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development tamala d. is the president of the national iranian american council and he explains the relation between the timing of this test launch and a possible return to the nuclear deal. could very well be the intended. timing for teheran to show the united states that its work continues. on missiles just as the nuclear issue continues to be as you know increasing crisis iran is expanding its work there and until joe biden makes a move the maximum pressure policy of donald trump is still the policy the united

states so we need to evaluate what is happening through that lens and my hope is that biden as he steps up as tony blinken takes over at the state department that we see some pretty quick action on biden's part to change the dynamic with iran and signal that this new policy is now in place where the u.s. seeks to return to the nuclear deal and hopefully have a one change so i think it's a bit of a red herring this who goes 1st the united states the biden officials saying iran needs to get back into the deal and that the united states will come back. you know at the end of the day there are plenty of ways for the both parties to get back in the deal i think what zarif put forward that is certainly one route and i think it's promising that the iranians are publicly demonstrating that there is this will to get back into the deal and that there are no questions about whether iran is going to keep up its end of the bargain there are other options as well you know the united states could simply announce that it wants to return to the deal go back to the joint commission that sort of polices the deal and is made up of all the

parties to it so it should be a matter of who goes 1st the will is clearly there on both sides now it's a matter of getting it done so that we can get back into that nuclear deal quickly i think you know the goal is to do this before mid february. a plane carrying south africa's 1st 1000000 corona virus vaccine doses has arrived in johannesburg the country is battling a 2nd wave of infections driven by a more contagious variant 1st identified there's concern about how effective vaccines will be against the new a mutation south africa is the worst hit country on the continent. well those top testing is set to start in parts of england for the more contagious south africa strain residents in a terrorist will be visited and asked to take a test regardless of symptoms at least 116 cases have been identified across england 11 of which have no dealings to travel to south africa. google has agreed to pay nearly $4000000.00 to settle allegations of pay disparities in hiring biases

towards women and asians the u.s. department of labor says the money will go to $5500.00 people if either applied for jobs or worked at google's california washington offices the tech giant is accused of underpaying thousands of female employees in software engineering positions and discriminating against women and asian job applicants. a powerful winter storm has struck the northeastern united states caused a widespread disruption in new york and other major urban centers the mayor of new york city and the new jersey governor of both declared states of emergency krasinski reports from new york. only the boards braved the cold and took to new york city's streets monday with snow falling at a rate of $5.00 to $10.00 centimeters an hour snow plows and shovellers could barely keep up the city declared a state of emergency and all but essential workers were asked to stay home still

some couldn't resist i'm from california so this is this not happen over there which to me is something really books that are good to experience it so yeah kind of like you code it had already reduced traffic and tourists here even in the city's most iconic neighborhoods like times square they've been very mellow a lot of times where the kid was here we became running around during an overload people are enjoying things they'd say are the thing i've been doing for them but poppy they're making the best of it but the storm stopped vaccination efforts throughout the northeast in their tracks vaccinations are canceled today they're also going to be canceled tomorrow based on what we are seeing right now we believe that tomorrow again around the city will be difficult be icy it will be treacherous we do not want seniors especially out in those conditions this storm is yet another blow for new york city restaurants are suffering tremendously amidst

the pro dividers pandemic only outdoor dining is allowed for another 2 weeks and needless to say not a lot of people will be dining out today the storm is making its way up the coast with high winds threatening power outages from virginia through the adelphia and into new england states but there was still fun to be had from skiing in central park the planet is ski until i get too tired have to go home to watching pandas go for a slide in washington d.c. as smithsonian national zoo proving even a major storm isn't all bad kristen salumi al-jazeera. this is our dessert these are the top stories and memos military power to tating democratically elected leader and send suchi and dozens of government ministers the military says the overthrow is temporary and has promised elections in

a year where the kid me and maher is drawing international condemnation the.