calls for the release of aung san suu kyi grow as the military reach takes power in man ma the us is threatening sanctions. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the u.n. says that as many as 20000 refugees are missing after 2 camps in ethiopia's war torn region were destroyed. the reality of

a crippled health care system in zimbabwe where covert infections and deaths have doubled in the last month. and iran launches a new satellite carrying rocket propelled by its most powerful engine to date. the day after me and mars military seized complete control of power the ousted party is urging for the release of government officials the tabe leader aung san suu cheez whereabouts remain unknown her party won by a landslide in the vendors election it's calling for those results to be recognized instead some $400.00 would be members of parliament detained in a heavily guarded compound power is now in the hands of senior general men on hiring who is appointed his own capital as the u.n. security council is meeting later on tuesday to discuss the situation in the u.s. has threatened to resume sanctions that were lifted in 2016 the military says that

its takeover is temporary it's promised free and fair elections within a year let's take you live now to yangon and the fall is with us from the ali what's the latest. well here in yangon things are actually relatively quiet life is sort of seeming like it's returning to no mo and all the banks have reopened and there were a few shops that closed early last night and some during the whole day most of them seem to be of no 70 around the neighborhood that i'm in and so things are relatively normal here in terms of just seeing people are in the streets and the atmosphere but there's still a lot of anxiety a lot of fear people don't know how the next few days are going to unfold i'm aware there's quite a lot of people lying low maybe it hiding maybe they've not a lot of people who are not in their homes they don't want to be where the military would find them as you mentioned there's been a call from the l.d.s.

essentially sect of committee for the release of old detainee's including aung san suu kyi and president when men and the have been also some reports on local media that there's been no to some type to all i meant of notice to amman it's an informal notice that they seem to pilots that all commissions for all flights. to land will takeoff in myanmar has been suspended have been revoked sorry so that's all whites currently suspended. international and domestic flights and that notice is in course until the end of may 31st of may 11 59 pm so we're talking about 1st of june until things would return to normal there a message. attributed to hold on the people to protest any sign of those protests where is. at the moment we're not seeing signs of protest emerging on the streets all around here there's definitely.

still a lot of caution in the end i feel like people of waiting to sort of gauge what the military going to do next and. where is online on some 60 we're pretty sure she's and maybe you know about where she will have been when this all started when yesterday monday the column was due to open so she and most senior government officials were in the door awaiting the opening of the parliament and the thought to be being detained in their own homes in other parts of the country where other people were detained for example in yangon the younger of regional government people were actually taken away because it's much harder and young gone to surround to detain people in their houses because they don't live in these individual compounds like they do in the capital naypyidaw so people were taken away and the local media irrawaddy is reporting that the that

a military source has told them that the people in other parts of the country will be released and put on the house arrest so it is possible that the military is trying not to be too brutal not to stoke too much anger they've also arrested high profile protest leaders people who lead protests in the past activist who are still prominent activist and now the popular figures who are known to support including signals writers so anyone they see who might be able to rally people who might be able to potentially motivate a popular uprising so with all of matt it doesn't feel like that it means going to happen imminently but who knows what could we could see in the coming days and weeks early fall reporting live there from young go on i mean many thanks indeed. the coup in myanmar is a major test of international policy for the new by the ministration the us president is called on the military to relinquish power immediately a white house correspondent kimberly reports. calling the military seizure of power

a direct assault on me and maurice transition to democracy 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 will necessitate an immediate review of our sanctions laws and authorities followed by appropriate action home 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 a test for the fledgling biden administration 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 is a thorough 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 steps toward democratic and economic reform strict u.s. sanctions against the country were lifted when 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 sea legs and trying to figure out what its foreign policies will be and most importantly it's very preoccupied with domestic crises biden mr asian really wants to focus on the pandemic and economic crisis at home and on racial tensions and it really doesn't i think it's not ready 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. a group of republican senators in the u.s. say that they're hopeful a bipartisan coronavirus relief package could be passed off to meeting with the president proposing a plan costing about a 3rd of the $1.00 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming full body kohei and reports from washington. even before the meeting got started the press were allowed

in for a quick look. thank you both 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 up and 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 political hane al-jazeera washington. as many as 20000 refugees are missing after 2 camps in ethiopia's to grey region were destroyed most of them were from eritrea that's an estimate by the united nations the thai commissioner for refugees says and the government must do more to protect people trying to escape the fighting for people grandia says that

civilians told him their ordeal continued after they'd reached what they'd hoped would be safety barbara and go for reports that the people arriving at my irony 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 any 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 soldiers from neighboring

eritrea have been cooperating with the ethiopian military to pursue fugitive leaders of the tea gray forces but ethiopia's government did nice the presence of foreign fighters even after declaring victory against a great forces in the vendor after a month long offensive people caught up in the violence say locals living around the camp a punishing them for the war. is. 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 people are 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 be helped barbara and al-jazeera. we've got

a weather update next here on out syria then all the latest live from russia as kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina valley is about to appear in court. and how the debate over data privacy is something of a battle between apple and facebook. the cold of winter is being edged slowly out in is a slow process freezing rain and snow light take place on the edges well this atlantic which is quite a complicated mess pushes off into the east of europe where daytime temperatures are still subzero but 6 say the changes taking place snowfall in the higher ground sometimes on the low ground as it happens and back in the warmer air in particular in portugal have a couple of days a significant rain in porto for example the temperatures are in the teens it's

windy then the wind drops that but it's still like to be raining now on the front page and warsaw is a good example it's hard work temperature creeping up to freezing because sunshine you're back to 0 or have just seen a problem disappears the clouds become gray and sometimes full of snow but that is the process of easing out the cold at the real cold hangs around in the southern baltic vilnius is minus 2 by then wednesday as a high temperature but head sassan temperature definitely on the way 7 prague is about 10 degrees tempers a bit of a story in north africa as well although on the north coast you got some of this windy wet weather just dragging through from tunisia into libya most places are dry and foreign but down in nigeria up to just temperatures 37 or 38 is pretty much on the high side. of. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground and in the canaries what

is the situation. there's only one doctor and one nurse for 2200 people informed opinions how big does foreign policy figure in the early stages of a bomb in the situation he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like good live get a back seat when there's no money and all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera and it's roger of the main news this hour the party of me and master tamed leader aung san suu kyi has called on the military to release her and recognize its election victory seen here general men on hiring is

appointed his own cabinet a day after armed forces seized power. the un security council will meet later to discuss the coup with me m r it's been widely condemned internationally the u.s. has threatened to reimpose sanctions if the military doesn't hand back. at republican senators and the us say they're hopeful that a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed a subsidy met president biden to discuss an alternative to his $1.00 trillion dollar plan there's costs about a 3rd of that. zimbabwe has seen a surge in covert 900 cases more than half of its infections and more than 2 thirds of its deaths have been recorded in the last month alone the health system has been crumbling for years and is now struggling to cope with the rise in cases of serious head of a tussle reports from harare. every day when he gets home salsa inhale steam with some eucalyptus oil added to it he says his health reduced

the mucus in his lungs. and he believes coughing gets rid of germs that could make him sick. with no word from the mob his government on when vaccines against cloven 1000 when they arrive the businessman hopes alternative therapies will protect him . is there anything. that he said to the. tuesday that. the 'd. zimbabwe is battling a 2nd wave of corona. interactions and the already struggling healthcare sector is overwhelmed some of those buried recently include 2 cabinet ministers a retired general and other high profile zimbabweans the country of about 50000000 people has 84 working ventilators in public hospitals and just over 1000 beds for

covered 9000 patients in private and public institutions that's according to the health ministry public health care workers often go on strike protesting against poor salaries and the lack of personal protective equipment and drugs sometimes you find patients dying in front of you when you don't know what we're supposed to do but we didn't even the choice that i snore. nor this patient needs. better than often as do they really know this patients need drugs. to try and bring down the infection rate the government has extended a lockdown by 2 more weeks this includes a dusk to dawn curfew and shutting land borders nonessential businesses will remain closed until mid february that includes closed stores and mobile phone repair shops only 10 percent of government workers are allowed to work from day offices the rest are at home. health officials are investigating with

a more infectious south african variant of the virus is circulating in zimbabwe fearing it may have entered when thousands of citizens living in south africa returned home for the december holiday the world health organization says the south african variant has so far been reported in 5 other african countries but swine or zambia malawi the gambia and kenya and according to w.h.o. new and more contagious variants of covert 19 are spreading across africa causing an increase in infections and deaths so also crews get tested positive for covert last year. he says he survived despite getting little help from hospitals since then he's been using herbal home remedies to try and boost his anine system doing everything he can not to get sick again. out his or her. criminon critic an opposition leader alexian of l.d.s. used to appear in a more sco course within the hour he was arrested after returning from germany

earlier this month he's accused of violating parole while he was recovering after his poisoning moscow and other cities are expecting protests will than 5000 people have been arrested in demonstrations since sunday let's go live now to moscow and it's under god for is outside the court that alexander what are we expecting to happen today. adrian. hearing which is to determine whether or not viney can be freed or he will be put in jail on a verdict from 2014 as you said for violating the suspended sentence now a hearing is due to start about an hour yesterday the venue was changed and also to the time and what we are seeing here before this hearing even started that is amazing the amount of security and all of the police they have fenced completely

the whole court building and some side streets they are everywhere and there are. people that have to be in the court by checking them. the wife. is already inside she has been fined for participating in a poll to support her husband. also what is expected to happen. that they are still not to detained or put in prison for people to come and support so far we didn't see anybody but there's a whole area. and they are along the streets they are in the yards of the buildings so this hearing today might last a couple of hours and there is not a lot of people here in russia that they expect. anything else but he's suspended to be changed into

a real time in prison. alexander many thanks indeed ours on the gulf reporting live from moscow. iran's foreign minister zarif as asked the european union to coordinate retaught of both washington and tehran so the 2015 nuclear deal it comes as a ready and scientists announced the launch of a rocket that they say is capable of carrying satellites into space the turia gate and the reports. from a new site in iran's central desert a successful lift off for of rocket that tehran describes as its most powerful get state television which broadcast the lutrell pulte this is gonna reach the high to 500 kilometers it 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 any 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 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. or power or actually nuclear power tehran says this is a liana will carry out scientific research if you don't choose it reminded 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 look at technology capable of putting satellites into space victoria gates and be out there are. concerns about online privacy and social media companies sharing personal data have been raised by governments around the world now one of the leaders of the tech world is taking action rob runnels 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 knology just asked for as

a result they. were 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 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 and hiring biases against women and asians the department the u.s. department of labor says the money will go to $5500.00 people who've either applied for jobs or work to google's california and washington offices the tech giants accused of underpaying thousands of female employees in software engineering positions of discriminating against women and asian job applicants hugel says that it will also review its hiring and pay practices as pos of the settlement. a

powerful winter storm has struck the northeastern united states causing widespread disruption in new york and other major urban centers the mayor of new york city of the new jersey governor of both declared states of emergency al-jazeera as kristen salumi reports now 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 cool that is good to experience it so yeah i kind of like it cold it had already reduced traffic and tourists here even in the city's most iconic neighborhoods like times square they've been very mellow you line of times where the kid was here we became running around during the old was people are

enjoying things kate zernike the thing i've been there done poppy and we'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 and that's the park road of virus pandemic only outdoor dining is allowed for another 2 weeks and needless to say not a lot of people will be dining out today this 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. it's good to have you with us hello adrian fitting in here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera the party of me and miles to tame the leader aung san suu kyi is called on the military to release and recognize its election victory see a general been online appointed his own cabinet a day off the armed forces seized power. the un security council will be meeting later to discuss the coup in myanmar it's been widely condemned internationally the u.s. has threatened to reimpose sanctions if the military doesn't turned back power and the fall has the latest from the angle it is.