but others and not i want to throw you here guys but to put it on purpose the fires that are going to be. the way that you tell the story is what can make a difference. about turn for democracy calls for un songs to choose release growing louder as a military retakes power in myanmar. my money insight and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. the un refugee agency chief cause the humanitarian situation in ethiopia is a great very grave of to visit to the conflict ridden region. the battle of the

internet giants apple's efforts to restrict facebook scooping up data and its users . a milestone in a conservative region argentina legalizes abortion but how accessible is the procedure. myanmar's military has tightened its grip on power purging key ministers in the hours following a coup detain leda and some suchi house cold on people to rise up in comments rescind before the takeover of posse the n l d is calling for her release instead the army's resting power and the hounds of commander in chief. and 24 government ministers have been removed and 11 replacements named a un 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 our life our one of the few foreign journalists based in myanmar. 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 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 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. 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 minister 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 has finally has so much at stake in. businesses our business is 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 some shops closed people are stocking up on supplies while a foul joins me live from young go on an alley we've had some developments in the last hour or so since we last spoke we've heard from the n.l. de on facebook what have they had to say. absolutely there's been a statement posted by an m.p. on facebook and on the m.p. . which is attributed to the central executive committee which is the board of the of the let's say and they have called for the release of president

wimmin and don't censor to the state councillor and they've also asked that the the results of the 2020 elections be recognized and couldn't place and they requested that the parliament the little is allowed to go ahead according to the constitution and democratic values. so it's been 24 hours since the coup took place the question is what is the feeling on the ground are people going to listen. to the concern. of the n l d a party to the comments by suchi even before the career took place calling for people to go out on the streets are the people likely to do anything about it well that statement actually came out after the coup happened and its attributes its own sense to cheat but obviously would have been prepared in advance and because of the

fact that she had already been detained by the time state came out there was a lot of skepticism and nationally that it was posted on a legitimate. page but since then the the rumors that facts and pages been taken over by the military because obviously a lot of the spokespeople lot of the senior leaders from i know they've been detained so there's some on uneasiness and doubts as to whether that's really true this is obviously a love affair at the moment so people are wary of coming out on the streets certainly nothing seems to be happening immediately in the streets around me everything's relatively calm. banks have reopened most of the shops around me that were open before have reopened. obviously because of the quite a lot of shops are closed anyway so it's difficult to gauge the situation was quieter than perhaps yangon would normally be in the whole covert times but in terms of last week all the week before it spills relatively normal business is

always continuing as he will so there may be some sort of response but it doesn't appear like anything's going to happen imminently and what about the whereabouts of . the other top officials who were detained in the middle of the night do we have any more clarity as to where they could be. we have elisabet of clarity but no real details coming out so communications where i'm to make the capital yesterday on monday for quite some time several hours but now they're mostly backdrop but we're still struggling to get really detailed information because a lot of people have been detained they're not able to run they're not able to investigate they're not able to communicate with one another very easily we are hearing that sense tucci has been detained in her own home but this hasn't been and but it's does seem likely and have been rumors that people were going to be taken

away to prison the m.p.'s for example newly elected m.p.'s hundreds of them and they do not they all live in these compounds well together in one place they've been surrounded by security forces and there was some fears that they were going to be taken away but they as of today are still there we still have communications of quite a few people in the area so we're hoping the same sort of thing is happening but on san suu kyi the state media today reported that the military have already chosen new cabinet members they've already held a national security council meeting and they said that that took place in the president's house it's not clear whether they mean the acting president who is the was until yesterday until monday the form of vice president military appointee vice president or whether they mean the presidential compound which is where we were we were initially hearing when it is being housed with the former president when

meehan is being held so not not clear whether where they are what's actually happening in those areas but but likely that's still in the people in that home a lot of moving parts still and a fellow there for us with the very latest from the ongoing many thanks to. a group of republican senators in the usa there. hopeful a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed after meeting with the president there proposing a plan costing about a 3rd of the $1.00 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming for particle hain reports from washington. even before the meeting got started the press for allowed in 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 hane al-jazeera washington. the un's high commissioner for refugees has called on the ethiopian government to do more to protect civilians trying to escape facing in the tigre a region phillipa groundings says civilians driven from their homes told him that ordeal continued in camps where they sought refuge. or. ports. 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 is 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 the 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 a great forces in november people caught up in the violence say locals living around the camp a punishing them for the war. is the only. their 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 $20000.00 people are trying to escape revenge attacks the refugee agency once the ethiopian government to give them access to the areas where they're hiding so they can be helped. al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera hong kong's most high profile pro-democracy supporter goes back to jail after his bail hearings delayed. but in the immediate future the will is quiet throughout arabia iran and turkey the

shamali is weakening it's not as dusty's it was but there is a hint of cloud building here and a nice steady breeze which is unusual direction and that cloud bay well gather and we might produce things produce something in the sky rather more substantial like for example rain as you see developing on thursday an arc of rain for the northern red sea through saudi arabia and jordan and into iraq and other countries in the route seem likely to get showers from result of this and it won't stay where it is i think you'll get a rather more widespread picture bitter winter rain may see that for a while least not developing quite like this in southern africa the rains been rather more as you might expect debate there's a particular arc at the moment that goes for the middle of mozambique and the middle is in barbary kills back to botswana and then to this part of south africa this circulation seems to be drifting further west was with time and leaving behind a temporary hole in the sky cape town's got the southerly breeze you've got 24

degrees and generally fine weather there's air which is the city to a wet looking place was temperatures rising to 25 for frequent some of the storms. celebration of tradition life. algis new. insights into the diverse culture of somalia. different problems. together. on n.b.c. and. heard .

you watching al-jazeera mind top stories this hour the u.s. has threatened to reimpose sanctions on myanmar to a coup by military leaders to 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 overthrow is temporary and as promised elections media. a group of republican senators in the u.s. say that hopeful a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed off to meeting with the president proposing a plan costing about of the $1.00 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming for.

concerns about online privacy and social media company sharing personal data happen raised by governments around the world now one of the need is if the tech world is taking action it seems brunell's 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 and knowledge you just need to ask for as a result here you know. 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 facebook is able to get data on what you're up to when you're using all kinds of apps 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. were out 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. hong kong media tycoon and private democracy activist tim miller i will remain in jail wanted to consider his bare application 73 year old is accused of conspiring with foreign forces on the time

a sweeping nextel securest know to pick up pollen. ports from hong kong. a charged atmosphere as jimmy lie enters the building housing hong kong's highest court there's a heavy security presence unusual for a bail hearing but this is the 1st national security law case to make it to the court of final appeal oh yeah the side they're shouting matches between pro-democracy activists jimmy lies supporters and those who want to see him locked up but they seem like that we are very angry with jimmy like he is a traitor and used his newspaper to incite riots and influence young people jimmy lie is a billionaire with a rags to riches story and also one of the most high profile pro-democracy activists in the territory by he is one of the handful of people so far to have been charged under the national security law that was imposed by beijing in july

last year these bail proceedings are viewed as an arena for a struggle between china's communist party and hong kong's judiciary pro-democracy activists say denying lie bail could impact the rule of law and set a precedent they have arrested has to prove their innocence before we can even get that bell and it will become a very useful tool for the regime to the rest anyone any prisoner for 4 weeks if not for 4 months before you can get a trial and we had to travel the fair or not is and i had a question fundamentally undermine or even destroy the principle of common law which has been practicing model for for decades in an unusual move for the top court their new overseas nonpermanent judges presiding over this case that's only happened in 10 out of $700.00 court of final appeal cases in the last 24 years almost all courts of final appeal cases unless that international judge to sit on

the panel that's a tradition that underlines the independence of the dish. and shows that the legal system here are paul's international standards but this time all 5 judges are national security lawyer judges hand-picked by the chief executive the quarter final appeal is seen as the last holdout against beijing's increasingly assertive rule according to hong kong's legal community the ruling is likely to set the tone for what could be a large number of national security cases if political conditions here continue to deteriorate the legal pollen are just 0 hong kong. fit noms biggest political event is in its final day the national congress the ruling communist party shapes policy for the next 5 years around 1500 delegates representing more than 5000000 party members are there began last week but is ending a day early due to a surge in coronavirus cases a key focus has been the economy the party says it will use privatization free

trade deals and tight controls to boost annual growth by up to 7 percent the parties actually general was reelected to a rare becoming the longest serving vietnamese leaders in sochi men was president from 1945 to 1969 and bland as a research fellow and director of the southeast asia program at the lowry institute joining us from sydney via skype many thanks for speaking to us so it seems vietnam has weathered the coronavirus pandemic very well coming in in 2020 years asia's top performing economy even beating china what have they done so well. well what we've seen with the response to kevin 19 is it's not actually rocket science and vietnam has really followed the best practice in terms of border control shutting out flights from the rest of the world in terms of quarantine bricktop quarantine

measures and be an arm and tracking in tracing identifying cases and trains of chains of transmission as well so it's really followed the guidelines it's also very good public education campaign which is maybe something you wouldn't expect for one of or a tear in state on the other and i think to some extent of course we're not benefited from the fact that it does have a strong communist party and that is behind the state so there's a high degree of control so if they got everything else right that worked out quite well though when we look around the world there's no easy answers some democracies have done well others have done poorly some authority and states have done well others of them already i think in the end we have to credit it to the fact that been on took the right policies in a difficult time in terms of its economy how much has vietnam benefited from the trite trade war the trade spat that's been ongoing between china and the u.s. . that's a really interesting question and i think on the one hand vietnam has one quite

a lot of business because manufacturers who've been based in china who are already concerned about very high and rising wages in china have seen the need to diversify because of the trade tensions with the u.s. and vietnam as a neighbor to china with a growing manufacturing sector is an attractive place to go on the other hand however i do think that the trade tensions between the u.s. and china is used to fuge global economies and actually damaged trade trading relations around the world because the cloud over the global economy before kobe 90 and to that extent vietnam doesn't actually benefit as as a nation that wants to expand its role in in manufacturing global supply chains it actually needs the global economy to be doing really well so on the one hand it's helping an arm on the other hand actually vietnam needs the global economy to function well and so long as there were these great tensions between the u.s. and china i think that was always going to be cost a dark cloud over the outlook the party sexy general has been elected for a 3rd term which is

a rare saying he seems to be the big driving force in vietnam success i'm not sure i quite see it that way i only see the fact that he's been elected as head of the party for a 3rd term as a sign of his weakness as much as his strength is something of a compromise candidate because other senior leaders within the communist party couldn't agree on an alternative transition so i do think what's important to understand vietnam has a communist government like china but where is she didn't pay in china has really concentrated power in his own hands i think the leadership in vietnam has always been more dispersed more balanced across the regions of vietnam and among different figures so i think actually in a way it's that degree of communal leadership that's allowed the party to progress to allow the economy to grow and to maintain legitimacy from the public obviously despite the lack of any free and fair elections. but very interesting to get your analysis and research fellow and director of the southeast asia program at the laue

institute in december argentina became the largest latin american country to legalize abortion but access to the procedure remains difficult especially in conservative provinces has more. already under pressure from govt 19 argentinos hospitals are now having to adapt again abortion has just become legal in argentina dr while the sunday i will says he has seen many women affected by botched abortions and is happy times have started to change in those years. in the past 2 days since the law was implemented we have had requests to terminate pregnancies we are trying to move as fast as we can as we have a pandemic and we are trying to minimalize the presence of patients in the hospital . i it's a major revolution in this overwhelmingly catholic country in december the senate voted in favor of legalizing abortion women rights groups have been arguing for

years that thousands of illegal abortions already happen annually and they pose a major threat for women thousands of them end up in hospital because of complications but now women can have a free and safe abortion in a public hospital. where company women a lot we try to make it easy for them without too much crying we try to keep them away from obstetrics and be trig's we have other female doctors that come here to be with them we're ready for this next step. doctors here say many of the women who come already have children and cannot afford to have another one venue law says that a woman can have an abortion after 14 weeks of pregnancy the province of want to hide it is distributing this booklet that explains hospitals how to proceed when a woman comes and requests and i wash and this says that they have up to 10 days to interrupt the pregnancy timing is crucial until now abortion was only legal in

argentina in case of rape or if a woman's life was at risk and that's why in many conservative areas in the country authorities postpone legal abortions for months forcing women to deliver their babies. has been covering women rights issues for years she says political will is crucial if then we get out of the same in the implementation is very clear and i think the conservative fundamentalist sectors don't want to see the implementation across the country they will try to do it become to stop but that's where it is important the political and political commitment to guarantee the law is implemented and it's not just on paper. prior to the passage of the new law precedent of the forum and the said broad legalization of abortion was a matter of public health that needed to be addressed and that's why hospitals in the country now see themselves as essential to help.