and asked as there. to protect some of the world's most vulnerable such subjects. coverage disabled victims are one of the just. about for democracy the military takes power in myanmar haunting international condemnation and calls for sanctions. and they are money inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. president biden holds talks with the 10 republican senators who proposed a slim down covert 19 relief package. the u.n.

refugee agency chief calls the humanitarian situation in ethiopia is too great a very grave valve to visit the conflict with the region. and iran launches a new satellite carrying rocket propelled by its most powerful engine to date. beyond miles military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the hours following the detained leader aung sun suu kyi has called on people to rise up in comments written before the takeover bot her whereabouts remain unknown off to she was taken in the middle of the night instead the army's resting power in the hands of the commander in chief and 24 government ministers have been removed and 11 replacements named. a u.n. security council meeting is now set for tuesday the u.s.

has threatened to resume sanctions that were lifted back in 2016 the military is keen to point out it's only temporary promising free and fair elections in the year this comes just 6 years after the 1st civilian government in half a century or more now from alley foul one of the new few foreign journalist based in mammal. in dawn raids in yangon members of me a democratically elected leadership were rounded up and detained as the military staged a coup the new state of emergency is in effect nationwide and the duration 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 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 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 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. 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 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 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 minim 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 . joins me now live from young gone there is 24 hours now since that coup took place what is the feeling on the ground are we likely to see those protests that are on 6 he called for. things here in yangon a reasonably quiet at the moment it doesn't feel like anything hearing imminent slave but you can never be sure with these things certainly last night the world very few people on the streets this morning there were rumors of

a curfew and lots of people not quite sure about the time no official announcements being shed but rumors that it had been in the military t.v. and lots of people talking about it and it was always almost became a sort of self and. the people were too nervous about going out and so everyone who left the street pretty empty just in case shops closed. and so on so we really haven't seen or felt much movement here that has been a statement going around that was attributed to on some to achieve that was on one of the n.l. days official pages which is calling for people to protest but there are also now who missed that that might have been posted by the military they taken over. facebook accounts when they detained some of the spokespeople and so on and perhaps they're doing this in all this trying to incite people to come to the streets and and make arrests whether that's true or not and it's not clear the military of

obviously acted slightly differently this isn't a typical coup that been cruising in myanmar before but they tend to come. times of . protests and big crackdowns and they tend to be violent and quick with with activity warning whereas this one we have a little bit of warning they they did sort of preempt that that things are going to happen and they they seem to be acting slightly differently we haven't seen a huge movement of troops from the front lines the security presence in yangon has increased but it's still minimal so things are relatively calm and perhaps they're trying to keep them that way and what about. the other top officials hayward to tame last night do we have any moral clarity on their whereabouts and also how long they will be detained. it. has many no more player information coming out about bats there had been fears last night that some people would be taken to prison who would be actually formally arrested rather than just detained in the

areas. that we know that they're in at the moment in the in a futile but it seems that the people who we are able to contact m.p.'s for example who are in the m.p.'s municipal come time to maybe deal still there and it will that. and also with the president and some of the high profile ministers and high profile politicians are still being detained in their homes where they live so we've not seen people being taken away or sent prison it's possible that they're just trying to keep them locked up until this is over it's also possible that there will keep them after a long time because obviously if they do release them there's a risk that they will be able to mobilize people and among the rest as well as high profile politicians who've also see high profile activists and. protest leaders and student leaders from 1908 who were able to mobilize the people in the past they've

also been arrested so that it's clear that they're trying to stop the backlash they're trying to stop some sort of popular movement popular uprising. coming as a result of this coup which they know is going to be incredibly unpopular because the. support for the n.o.c. party and the intensity is overwhelming we saw that in the election and so they know this isn't going to go down well and they're obviously being very wary of of electing people who might be able to mobilize the public out and given them a lot. and if out there for us in yangon many thanks for danes they sent this report from the united nations on the international reaction to the situation in myanmar only last week the u.n. secretary general and tony of the terrace had warned of the possibility of a coup in the country and the u.k. which is just assumed the presidency of the u.n.

security council had been planning a meeting on myanmar despite this security council diplomats a shocked by what's happened and that meeting is now being 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 of respecting the people's will expressed in the vote and releasing 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 the 10 the security council has a range of actions it can take from statements to sanctions what happens next those 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. a group of republican senators in the us say that hopeful that a bi pox than coronavirus relief package cambay process to meeting with the president proposing a plan costing around a $1.00 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming for classical hand reports now from washington d.c. . even before the meeting got started the press for a lot and for a quick look. at the white house signaled they were open to hearing from republicans but not necessarily reducing the amount president biden wants to spend it's important to him that he hears this group out on their concerns and their ideas he's always open to making this package stronger and the democrats in the house and senate didn't wait for the oval office sit down to move forward with their $1.00 trillion dollars bill put it in motion the process to try and pass it without any support from the opposition party republican senators are hoping to

spend just $600000000000.00 the 2 are meeting didn't appear to produce any breakthroughs i wouldn't say 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. further the republican plan would spend money on fighting kovan give some financial support to the lowest earning americans and the unemployed and some money for schools to reopen but it left out a key democratic demand billions for states and cities who are facing budget shortfalls and may have to fire employees like teachers firefighters garbage collectors it also didn't include raising the federal minimum wage to $15.00 an hour over 5 years president biden said the need is urgent and he promised voters that help would quickly be on the way but he also pledged to find compromise in congress now as they continue to negotiate the question is how long is he willing

to wait to see if he can fulfill both big promises pedicle hain al-jazeera washington. still ahead on al-jazeera the battle of the internet giant apple's efforts to restrict facebook giving up data from its uses. the nor'easters becoming a bit of the beast it started out daylight hours on sunday looking like this is version state you pick from the midwest to the atlantic coast but new york's forecast of a blizzard on monday turned into a loss of wind but still snowing on tuesday that could end up dropping a record breaking snow in central park for example the noise of winds up during today's into eastern canada and then the cult sweeps in behind so it will be very

much like winter and that cold has swept a long way south anyway look at the high temperature in new orleans for example 12 degrees and all this time down the planted coast as big storm system has been lazy really throwing rain at california snow a bit further inland that rain ahead further south across the border again into baja in the next day or so so the east cold and sunny the west increasingly snowy up in the mountains range probably dying out but fairly breezy as well and as the cold leaks out across the gulf of mexico always picks up or creates big showers and they're running in through cuba to haiti and a bit of focus temporary honduras then down to costa rica and panama those are big looking showers back in flash flood territory. the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villagers traversing one of the

world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of these people as they give them enough to survive. risking it all. on al-jazeera. be watching out of their mind of our top stories this hour the u.s. has threatened to re-impose sanctions on myanmar all to carry by military leaders prompted international condemnation the u.n.

secretary general called the takeover a serious blow to democratic reforms. the military seize power early on monday detaining democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi and dozens of government ministers says the ever is temporary and has promised elections in a year. a group of republican senators in the u.s. say they're hopeful that a bipartisan coronavirus for a package can be cost optimism the president proposing a plan costing about a 3rd of the $1.00 trillion dollars that joe biden was able. concerns about online privacy and social media companies sharing personal data happen right by governments around the world often now one of the natives of the tech well seems to be taking action rob reynolds reports 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 here you know. we're just 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 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. artists yes you. are about the house. 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. meanwhile google has agreed to pay nearly $4000000.00 to settle allegations of pay disparities in hiring to its women and asians the u.s. department of labor says the money will go to $5.00 and a half 1000 people who've either applied for jobs or worked at google's california and washington offices the tech giants a keys of underpaying thousands of female employees in software engineering positions and discriminating against women and asian job applicants let's get more on all that is tech with in afraid who's the chief technology correspondent at

access she joins us live by skype from san francisco many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera let's begin with apple who's about to roll out these privacy changes to its latest i o s a talk us through exactly how this is going to work in reality and why do you think that made this move now so it's going to work fairly straightforward when you open the app for the 1st time or the 1st time after upgrading to the new version of apple's software it will ask you do you want to allow this app to track you across the web and users will have a choice they can say yes or no and you know i think apple is doing this because they've made privacy a big part of their differentiation and their sales pitch so what exactly isn't wrong that it benefits apple 'd but he's also wrong that it doesn't benefit users it gives people a choice and facebook quite frankly doesn't want people to have that choice well

apple has said that. it will facebook has lashed out saying that apple doesn't care about privacy is not genuinely about consumer needs it's actually about apple's bottom line is is that a fair point. only sort of i mean this is about both companies bottom line the thing is that apple makes its money off selling hardware so it can offer privacy for no charge and in fact have a differentiation against google and others facebook and google make their money through advertising and so they want to offer some amount of privacy but only to the degree that it doesn't interfere with their business concerns and facebook in particular benefits from highly targeted advertising it doesn't days i mean data is facebook's bread and pasta how much is this move likely to have an impact on facebook and other small businesses that use facebook well i mean the small business argument is facebook's strongest argument saying yes this one hurt us but

it will also hurt all these small companies now some of those small companies are companies that have basically built businesses around selling you merchandise that matches your interests sometimes that's great and sometimes that means getting a t. shirt that says that you are a journalist of a particular age because it knows that by thanking you so please don't think it's all to the good that facebook their argument i think there's some degree of truth to the small business argument but facebook's really looking out for facebook. at the end of the day this is a spat between 2 multibillion dollar companies and where does it actually leave consumers who have already also a lot of faith in tech companies when it comes to privacy. well it's interesting because it does give the consumer a voice in this and for the most part when it comes to facebook the voices really love it or leave it like facebook doesn't offer a middle ground for the most part they do have more choices than they news to but

this gives consumers a chance to say i want to use facebook but that doesn't mean i want to give them carte blanche again an apple this doesn't cost them anything in a sense i mean they do engineering work to make it possible but you know mark zuckerberg is right they make their money on selling hardware but that's not exactly a bad thing at let's move on briefly to google who's a great agree to pay this $4000000.00 to settle allegations of pay disparities and hiring biases weds women and asians what's your reaction to this story is this so a $1.00 off case or is there an a wider issue of discrimination within the tech industry well this is a much broader issue in this case is fairly narrow it's talking about pay gaps and hiring discrimination and that is the main issue at the forefront what's mainly driving the conversation right now is how women and people of color are treated

when they are working at the companies so i think that part of the incentive for google to settle is what this case was about pay discrimination it's just another reminder of the many issues swirling around google most recently the ouster of prominent black ai researcher to mit gabber who has really touched off a discussion on how google responds to women and people of color particularly those that call out discrimination that they see at the company in a free very interesting to get your thoughts in a chief technology correspondent at xcel speaking to us from san francisco many thanks thank you. the un's high commissioner for refugees has called on the ethiopian government to do more to protect civilians trying to step fighting in the tigre a region filipo groundings says civilians driven from their homes told him that ordeal continued in camps where they sought refuge barbara angle purports that the

people arriving at my only refugee camp say they trekked for a day to reach here with only leaves to eat but things got worse at the camp this man didn't want to be identified there isn't anything here how can i feel safe here there's no safety here because they are also here there are many militias around the camp all around the camp if someone leaves the camp they're there and they kill them they kill us. the un refugee agency chief visited the camp recently people told him who they blame for the attacks 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 it's been widely reported that forces from neighboring eritrea

have been cooperating with the ethiopian military to pursue fugitive leaders of the to gray forces but ethiopia's government denies the presence of foreign fighters even after declaring victory against to great forces in november people caught up in the violence say locals living around the camp a punishing them for the war. there are ladies who are raped by the local people due to this war because they believe that our soldiers killed their brothers they believe that so they are raping our sisters mothers and they are killing our brothers. u.n.h.c.r. says up to 20000 people a trying to escape revenge attacks the refugee agency wants the ethiopian government to give them access to the areas where they're hiding so they can help them barbara and al-jazeera. iran's foreign minister zarif has asked the european union to coordinate a return of washington that teheran to the 2050 nuclear deal it comes on the same

day that iranian scientists announced the launch of a rocket table of caring satellites into space it targets in the us. from a new site in iran's central desert a successful liftoff for a growcott that tehran describes as its most powerful get state television which broadcast the lunar triple tape 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 luge may also be a show of strength ahead of potential negotiations on a need to do 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 for missile development well good afternoon everyone u.s. president joe biden wants a return to the 2050 nuclear deal abandoned 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 for negotiations 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 new. we are power or actually nuclear power tehran says this ileana

will carry out scientific research if you choose a reminder to the new u.s. administration that despite economic and diplomatic isolation iran is one of only a dozen countries in the world with its a rocket technology capable of putting satellites into space victoria gate and be out there. now the world's 1st commercial rocket powered by biofuel has been launched from the u.s. state of maine. stop us 1.031 mile into the sky before parachuting back to earth start a company air space says in the future the technology could be used to launch small satellites a much cheaper cost of fire for fuel also helps make space research much more accessible space x.

is planning to send its 1st all civilian crew to space by the end of this year the american billionaire jarrad isaac then says he will take 3 other non astronauts with him to orbit on board space x. is dragon capsule he's looking to raise $200000000.00 from the trip to fund cancer such much more on our web site is the address is al jazeera dot com do check it out . this is out there these are your top stories the u.s. has threatened to reimpose sanctions on myanmar to kill you by military leaders prompted international condemnation the u.n. secretary general called the takeover a serious blow to see the democratic reforms the military seized power on monday detaining democratically elected leader aung san suu kyi and dozens of government minutes.