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a very grave after a visit to the conflict region written region in. the battle of the internet giants apple's efforts to restrict facebook's scooping up data from its users. to minimize military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the hours following a coup to tame leader and san suu kyi has called on people to rise up in comments written before the takeover but her whereabouts are currently no after she was taken in the middle of the night instead the army is resting power in the hands of the commander in chief min lang $24.00 government ministers have been removed 11 replacement named the un security council meeting is now set for tuesday the us has threatened to resume sanctions that were lifted from in ma in 2016 the military is keen to point. 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 fall in the un gone who's one of the few foreign journalist based in memory. 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 minimum 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 me 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 for the health you know us people have got the covered 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. how can we believe they will stick to that one year period based on what that 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 men on plying 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 he needs to stay in power is his his family has so much at stake in.

businesses business is run by the military or its cronies or its associates been online is a 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 or because me too early live now joins us from young gone so 24 hours old what's the feeling on the ground are we likely to see those protests that suchi called for. it's not getting very likely at the moment the last. overnight the quote the streets were very quiet there were rumors of a look at curfew widely shared lots of people saying it was curfew between 8 pm and 4 am i haven't done any especially at night but it seems like people are sticking to it anyway so as always it is a self imposed curfew i'm not sure where the information was coming from in the 1st

place but basically people stopped by without being widely will pass by state media or any significant source that i can pinpoint and so. things are still relatively quiet there's all sort of room most that statement from the m.l.c. wasn't actually from the energy that actually the. military has taken over their face but because obviously a lot of the elderly there have been detained a lot of people who live in managing those facebook pages all those official. pages where they make these kind of announcement why. my i think compromised and so there's rumors that this isn't a move by the military to try and promote cleveland's coming so that they can make more arrests it's not me with that but that's meet me by here at the moment so people are really active in the military as well it's also not thing to do. with. mike messina and you haven't had many more arrests and things are

relatively calm there is a. president but that hasn't been much movement in and gone at least military that you make the people people. what about those who have been detained especially young sons who have any news about where they are all the way. well last night and we're hearing that they had been detained in their homes or in the come crimes where they live so i haven't got any new information since then i think that might mean they still. have a head and maybe go and report to him as being surrounded by security forces and she's being tracked and within that so it's like me that you were moonves last night that people were going to be taken off to prison that he's. that was stuck in the home trying to make needle in the capital both are going to be taken off to prison but assuming i'm single when the other journalists who managed to contact

some m.p. then they say that meeting little bit reassured by that i myself like calling compliment nice thing to saying that i to this area so i haven't been able to contact them and directly but i am seeing social media. may have been able to contact at least some m.p.'s who are still about more high profile to go on time to actually no direct kind of i know it but the assumption it's still in her you or i would leave it there for a moment to reporting that from young. but our diplomatic editor james base has more on the international reaction from the united nations only last week the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists had warned of the possibility of a coup in the country and the u.k. which is just assumed the presidency of the un security council had been planning a meeting on myanmar despite this security council diplomats a shocked by what's happened and that meeting has now been moved darpa the

president of the security council the british ambassador explained what she hoped would come out of the meeting will want to have as constructive a discussion as possible all me and looking at a range of measures with the idea all respecting the people's will expressed in the . release in the civil society and civil society leaders i think those will be our overriding aims and we'll want to consider measures that will move us towards that end the security council has a range of actions it can take from statements to sanctions what happens next though is likely to depend on 2 permanent members of the security council russia and most importantly china which has real leverage with the military on the ground in myanmar and let's explore the repercussions further now we can speak tomorrow dr paul who's managing director of the u.s.

campaign for burma and joins us via skype from washington d.c. . you as a member of the current people you know all too well of how minorities are persecuted in myanmar you grew up there tell us how you view this military takeover and what it means for minorities in the country. thank you for having me though indeed as a current person it's not really something that is. very surprising honestly. because looking at the nature of the burmese military anything could happen any time wise because they are the one always who has the power and the authorities so do you think right now well from yesterday and before the past 5 to 60 years and now they have the power but do they really have the power the military is holding the string behind the scene and that is why for us the ethnic

minorities they come in they bomb our villages as we speak a lot of people are displaced and they increase the militarization in our states and so for us is not a unique one so but the fact is that what they're doing right now is not only dangerous for those in rangoon and if you don't but so as in the ethnic minorities areas where the care and the stage their power and a lot more people would be in danger a lot more people would be killed have to flee for our lives so these are the dangers that also come our way you know it's very troubling i do think that sometimes you cheat has lost some international goodwill due to the way she responded to the targeting of the range of minority i'd say so i mean she is a very admirable person and even i myself i admire her so much and i thought she would stand up for us but apparently when it comes to the reality to stand up for

human rights and dignity in the lives of human beings in our own country our own kind she didn't do it so i'm not surprised the international community lost some faith in her so what now should the international community do. well one way or the other i just wanted to tell the international community including our government here in the us is that the suffering is not over the berm our suffering is not over it's not just the elegy and the millions but it's a whole country we fight against one common enemy vera for i'm grateful to see president biden talking about maybe reconsidering re analyzing the policy in reinstating some of the pressures which i hope he really does and i hope he does learn from the mistakes during the obama administration in 2016 when the wave pretty much all the leverage as we have in terms of pressuring the berne he's got

the burmese military to come to this point i mean we're talking about democratic change but then he lived as sanctions too early and then we come back to square one right now so as the u.n. the the very one thing we have at the table is the burma specific resolution they toned it down to the point where it's almost like just a piece of paper i mean even before the resolution was there they didn't even implement anything yet and now they're torn it down very much like nothing and it is time for them to wake up actually to wake up and to tell themselves we messed up and if this is what we want to help the burma we have to make sure we do our part will have to leave it there do appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much indeed moderate daugavpils speaking to us that from the u.s. campaign thank you. thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera iran

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president joe biden has warned me it must be treated as if they could face sanctions once again. a group of republican senators in the united states say that hopefully a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed off to meets with the president they're proposing a plan costing about a 3rd of the 1.9 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming for the group republicans want the president to negotiate a slimmed down package rather than trying to ram his stimulus plan through but democrats are still battling to push ahead with or without republican support. republican senator susan collins spoke after the meeting and she says that she's happy with how it went. it was a very good exchange of views i wouldn't 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 at this point the particle he joins us live from washington d.c. and patty one wonders how far biden's bipartisan outreach will go. well the white house footing out a statement really sending the message that the president president joe biden doesn't think it's time to slow down and that they will not settle for a package that fails to meet the moment and basically saying that they're going to go forward with this mechanism that they're trying to pass the bill and budget reconciliation and they're saying it can be bipartisan if republicans want to vote for exactly the bill that they're going to push forward so they do say that they are going to continue to negotiate and they are looking for places that they can agree with republicans but it seems as of right now that they're going to continue

negotiating so that pledge of bipartisanship but at the same time just continuing the process to try and get this passed both chambers of congress and to the president's desk for a signature there is a deadline looming overhead february 9th that's when the impeachment trial of former president donald trump is kegel to begin now the senate could work out some sort of schedule where they can still do business in the morning but the way it's written once that starts they basically have those senators all $100.00 of them have to be seated sit at seating excuse me sitting at their desks and inside lines for 6 days a week in till a verdict is rendered so going to be interesting to see how the timeline works out but the democratic leadership in the congress made clear today that they're going to push forward and the statement from the president makes it seem that they're going to try and move with a sense of urgency for a party thinks about how to go home in washington d.c. . their own foreign minister job a jury for the european union to coordinate the return of both washington and

tehran to the 2015 nuclear deal it comes on the same day iranian scientists announced the launch of a rocket capable of carrying satellites into space for target as this report. from a new site in iran's central desert a successful liftoff for of rocket that tehran describes as its most powerful get state television which broadcast the lutrell pulte this is gonna reach to high to 500 kilometers it's said the 3 stage rocket can carry a satellite weighing 220 kilograms who up to 10 smaller ones. iran often coordinate such tests with national holidays this month that will celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the islamic revolution but the launch may also be a show of strength ahead of potential negotiations on an e.t.a. deal i think that 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 you know increasing crisis. the launch comes less than a year after tehran put its 1st military satellite into orbit that state tension with the u.s. which has warned that tehran is using its space program as a cover the missile development well good afternoon everyone u.s. president joe biden wants to return to the 2050 new clear deal abandon by donald trump which story ran restrict its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief the u.s. secretary of state is warning they don't have much time finish. it's a problem that could get more acute because if iran continues to lift some of these restraints imposed by the agreement that could get down to a matter of weeks the bottom line is they are getting closer to the point where they would be either a threshold nuclear power. or actually nuclear power tehran says this illyana will

carry out scientific research if you don't choose a reminder to the new u.s. administration that despite economic and diplomatic isolation iran is one of the any a dozen countries in the world but it's a rocket technology capable of putting satellites into space victoria gate and be al jazeera. president joe biden is planning a pathway for some undocumented migrants in the u.s. to eventually become citizens but asylum seekers who are still waiting in mexico hoping that his administration will offer it to them to show home and as more. joe biden had said things would change on the very 1st say of his presidency for the thousands in the same position as martinez she's from cuba and crossed 9 countries to ask for asylum in the united states but under a program begun 2 years ago by ex-president donald trump she was put back to weigh in mexico between her court hearings she spent 2 years now waiting in see it out

what is for a decision. who missed it i was that the baby can also it's quite dangerous because we're on the border we're not from here and dangerous present all the time so we put our hope in president biden and everything he promised in his campaign we hope he sticks to his promises. what joe biden promised was to end the program could remain in mexico which is see more than 60000 asylum seekers put across the border from the u.s. while they wait between court dates many were placed into gang ridden cities like qualities or matamoros with this tank camp sprung up isn't done that yet but he has done is to stop him rolling any new asylum seekers in the program a hit but the numbers of those same were already going down before his term anyway the real question is what will happen to the thousands already stuck in mexico would they be now allowed into the u.s. well. process plays out. jose luis alvarado and nicaraguan nurse who fled the

autocratic rule of daniel ortega is fervently hoping so he's been stuck in mexico for 2 years struggling to provide for his expanding family without work visa many cannot say what no no no no there are only mean and what happens is that mexico isn't going to give work to an immigrant because it has many unemployed here they go to a factory the 1st thing they ask us are you an immigrant do you have legal status if you don't have a permit they don't give you a job. i will introduce an immigration bill president biden's already planning a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented migrants who are already in the u.s. . he said he would be more open to asylum seekers to the tricky part for him and his team would be doing that without sparking a rush on the border. stuck in the middle of that difficult calculation for those in limbo in mexico john home and al jazeera mexico city. the

u.n. high commissioner for refugees has called on the therapy and government to do more to protect civilians trying to escape fighting in the region for the program he says as civilians driven from their homes told him their ordeal continued in camps where they sought safety grant has just returned from a trip to to grow where almost 100000 people are displaced a further $60000.00 to taken refuge in neighboring sudan he says aid agencies aren't getting enough access to those in need. some of them told us and told the minister that they had resorted to eating believes because there was no other food but they also spoke about it specially at the beginning as they said being caught in the cross-fire. that the it wasn't 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 police in new delhi have dug trenches and laid razor wire across roads to stop protesting farmers entering the city is india's finance minister delivered the annual budget in parliament farmers have been demonstrating for months against agricultural moss they say will devastate their livelihoods and favor a big corporations last week tens of thousands breech barricades on the outskirts of the capital and occupied a major land. twitter temporarily blocked $250.00 accounts and tweets the indian government's request including those of a news magazine an official said the content related to the farmers protests and they pose a grave threat to public order. concerns about online privacy and social media companies sharing personal data have been raised by governments around the world and now one of the leaders of the tech world is taking action robert oulds has this

it's the battle of the internet giants with apple calling out facebook over consumer privacy without mentioning facebook by name apple c.e.o. tim cook threw down the gauntlet at a data privacy conference last month. knowledge you just need to ask for as a result. we're just seeing but that's exactly how facebook does succeed by scooping up vast amounts of data about its 2800000000 active users in order to allow other companies to bombard them with advertisements supposedly tailored to their specific interests facebook gets almost all of its revenue through ads. if you're like me and just about everybody else you probably haven't printed out facebook's terms of service and studied them but experts say what you might find in these pages could surprise you facebook is

probably keeping track of what you're doing when you're not on facebook and when you're not even one into facebook and facebook is able to get data on what you're up to when you're using all kinds of apps and when you're browsing on websites that have no official connection to face i think that would surprise a lot of people apple plans a major privacy change in the coming months we are already. are yes you. were out your house. 'd instead of poking around in your phone settings to opt out of data sharing apple will now require apps to give users a plain choice when they open an app is forced to prompt them to say hey do you want to let us track you or not and that's expected to make a big difference because most people don't actually want their behavior to be tracked and shared between various apps and website facebook c.e.o.

mark zuckerberg says apple doesn't really care about privacy it cares about profits apple has every incentive to use their dominant platform position to interfere with how our apps and other apps work zuckerberg told investors in january apple may say they're doing this to help people but the moves clearly tracked their competitive interests he said the app stores new opt in feature could cut into facebook's revenue by 10 percent experts say that revenue was nearly 86000000000 dollars last year robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. google has agreed to pay nearly $4000000.00 to settle allegations of pay disparities in hiring biases towards women in asians the u.s. department of labor says the money will go to $5500.00 people who either applied for jobs or worked at google's california and washington offices the tech giants

accused of underpaying thousands of female employees in software engineering positions and discriminate against women in asian job applicants. space x. is planning to send its 1st all civilian crew to space by the end of this year american billionaire jared isaac says he will take 3 other normal astronauts with him to all but on board space x.'s dragon capsule is looking to raise $200000000.00 from the trip. so this is arts are these are the top stories and the u.s. is trying to reimpose sanctions on myanmar after a coup by military leaders prompted international condemnation the u.n. secretary general called to take over a serious blow to democratic reforms the military seized power early on monday.