i've been covering all of that the america for most of my career but no country is the like and it's my job to shed light on how and why. calls for the release of aung san suu kyi grow as the military retakes power in the us is threatening sanctions. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russian police detained several supporters of the kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina this he's doing cools. the u.n. says that as many as 20000 refugees are missing after camps in ethiopia's war torn region were destroyed. and the reality of a crippled health care system in zimbabwe where covert infections and deaths have

doubled in the last month. but they also man must military seize complete control of power the ousted posse is urging the release of government officials to taint leader aung san suu kyi is whereabouts remain unknown hope party won a landslide victory in the us election it's calling for those results to be recognized instead some 400 would be members of parliament detained in a heavily guarded compound palace now in the hands of senior general men all buying who is appointed his own capital. the u.n. security council is meeting later on tuesday to discuss the situation the u.s. is threatening to resume sanctions that were lifted in 2016 the military says that its takeover is only temporary it's promised free elections within a year early fall reports now from. the 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 people of. gauge what the military going to do next and. the where is on one on some 60 we're pretty sure she's in a futile that's 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 in nato are awaiting the opening of the parliament and the thought to be being detained in their own homes 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 activists and now the populist thinkers the known to support including saying those rights as 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's it doesn't feel like enemies going to happen imminently but who knows what could we could see in the coming days and weeks. to poison managing director all of us campaign for burma she says that the military never stopped being in power. looking at the nature of the burmese military anything could happen any time why is because they are the one always who has the power and authorities so do you think right now well from yesterday and before the past 5 to 6 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 the increase the militarization in our states and

so for us is not a unique one so but the fact is that what they are doing right now is not only dangerous for those in rangoon and naypyidaw but so as in the ethnic minorities areas where the can stage their power and a lot more people would be in danger a lot more people would be killed have to flee for lives so these are the dangers that also come our way. in russia police have detained more supporters of the kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina validate they've gathered to protest to see appears in course he was arrested on his return from germany in january he's accused of violating parole even while he was recovering after being poisoned moscow and other cities are expecting mass rallies in protests today let's go live now to moscow our example god is outside the court what are we expecting to happen today alex on from. another id has been brought.

to court to end he has been given time to consult with his lawyers or say that. wife present there to see him as well in the meantime judge in this hearing has been changed in that comes off the change of venue after movie the hearing for an hour and also. this whole area around this court is fenced off sealed off sort of on the by the police i mean it's astonishing number of the police officers in riot gear around here and there to hear mostly to prevent protesters coming. from 20 people have. further away so outside of this area near the metro station and that. still is still going on now in this hearing today to determine whether or not will

be put behind bars for a couple of years prison authorities are claiming that he while the conditions of his suspended sentence he was basically in germany recovering from a nerve agent and this is what now rightly says that he has nothing to do with. russia that is a way to shut him up and to prevent him to put. political life ever since he landed their protests in russia in his support and also wrote this so that they're at the same time against putin and his regime that resulted also in the detention the last one the more than 5500 people have been. sold to the point that there is no more space in detention centers here in moscow and as i say and as we see it's today detaining supporters continues alexander good for

reporting live there from moscow an example many thanks and. a group of republican senators in the u.s. say that the hopeful a bipartisan coronavirus relief package could 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 al-jazeera is pretty culhane reports from washington. even before the meeting got started the press for 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 went 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 pedicle hain al-jazeera washington. there i said nation says that around 20000 refugees are missing after 2 camps in ethiopia stingray region were destroyed most of them were from eritrea the u.n. says that the government must do more to protect people trying to escape fighting phillipa ground says that civilians told him there were deal continued after they'd reached what they hoped would be safety bobber and oprah reports that. people arriving at my only refugee camp say they trekked for a day to reach here with the 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 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 the great forces in the event after a month long offensive 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 are trying to escape revenge attacks the refugee agency wants an ethiopian government to give them access to the areas where they're hiding so they can be helped barbara and al jazeera. a weather update next year i was here and then hong kong the supposed high profile pro-democracy supporter goes back to jail after his bail hearing is delayed. and how the debate over data privacy is setting up a battle between apple and facebook. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways it's

still the northeast of europe this is particularly cold is this area here more or less the northern germany eastwards and north has not particularly in the baltic states but biting into it and quite successfully is atlantic weather you know it's front after front after front so it's going to end up bringing pretty mild weather in the process you are going to rule snowy weather as in northern germany all significant rain as in for example the northwest of spain this is the picture then for tuesday and this is really quite warm we'll see temperatures i think rising to the low twenty's in the southeast of spain and threaten military nasdaq in good rather wet temporarily in the western side of turkey but this is the area to watch for a pretty raw weather i mean berlin's at 3 degrees if you like hamburg bit further west and north snow this evening and then the breeze is the thing and note the temperatures do not change here as the culprit that's weather to me is south westerly wind against this easter the cold which will bring nasty weather to denmark to scotland and probably some parts of the baltic states as well edinburgh

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well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the made news this hour the party of mammals to tame leader aung san suu kyi has called on the military to release and recognize its election victory see a general men on the line has appointed is own cabinet a day after the forces seized. place in russia but are taking more supporters of kremlin critic and opposition leader alexey devoutly as he appears in court about he was arrested on his return from germany in january he's accused of violating parole while he was recovering after being poisoned moscow and other cities are expecting mass rallies in protest of republican senators in the u.s. say they're hopeful a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed and some say they've met

president biden to discuss an alternative to his $1.00 trillion dollar plan there's costs about a 3rd of that. hong kong media tycoon of pro-democracy activists jimmy lie will remain in prison while judges consider his bail application 73 year old is accused of conspiring with foreign forces of the china sweeping national security law to vehicle paula reports now 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. side there shouting matches between pro-democracy activists jimmy lies supporters and those who want to see him locked up. 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. pro-democracy activists in the territory. 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 live 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 bail and it will become a very useful too for the regime to arrest anyone and imprison you for 4 weeks if not for 4 months before you can get a trial and we had to travel before or not is and i had a question fundamentally undermine or even destroy the principle of common law which has been practicing for willfully 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 courts of final appeal cases in the last 24 years almost all courts of final appeal cases unless an international judge to sit on the panel that's a tradition that underlines the independence of the judiciary and shows that the legal system here up holds international standards but this time all 5 judges are national security lawyer judges handpicked 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 parlance hong kong. japan is expected to extend a state of emergency in tokyo and other regions to corona virus infections the rate

of new cases a slowed slightly since a subject. in january led to restrictions being tightened but the government is trying to restore domestic and international confidence with less than 6 months before the start of the tokyo in big games the prime minister is expected to extend the state of emergency by a month for the salama is. near tokyo. the head of the 2 q. lympics organizing committee says the games are going to happen however coronavirus involves 40. this is video of domestic comments from him taking into consideration not only the national but also public concern over the fate of the index. this is also it will almost ending the last week of the 1st stage of the emergency

declaration of emergency and we're expecting that. we'll announce another extension for one month within a couple of hours and onto the numbers especially in tokyo which has been hit with almost 2 thirds of them fictions in order for japan. and all of the numbers have decreased from the peak of 2400 before the creation of the 1000000 a state of emergency there now just not on monday they reported about 100 actions but still this is too early. to announce. victory over the virus especially. during the last week the government has mentioned and that they're going to take a new measures to try to stop the infections not only in sochi but also in other areas especially in or 2nd in kyoto. and other protections we're expecting that but i'm certain. we'll announce another extension for 10 out of the 11 at live pictures

including talk year which had been under a state of emergency and. as you mentioned the concerns about that well i'm excited still have been drilling we're expecting tomorrow a press conference by ship and he's going to a committee to announce the so-called the playbook. guideline of concrete measures that would take place during the olympics in which would be held in july. to prevent that infections and. lots of attention now. on those. measures as many people have feared that japan is still passing the period wave and also by mr abbott is facing lots of criticism over that increase so the number of people actions during the last the previous months so many of the officials in japan that are crossing their fingers fingers that the numbers of the

infections in tokyo continue during coming weeks but some experts they were doing that so they knew but i. couldn't abide it's not already spreading in the public and what's worrying them more is that they don't know the actions. many thanks indeed for a solid reporting live from tokyo zimbabwe has seen a surge uncovered by 900 cases more than half of the infections of the truth and recorded in the last month the health system has been crumbling for years are struggling to cope with the rise in cases. reports from harare. every day when he gets home salsa in hell 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 government on

when vaccines against kovan 1000 when they arrive the businessman hopes alternative therapies will protect him. that he. 'd 'd is battling a 2nd wave of coronavirus infections 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 has no. resources nor this patient needs. rather than off and live 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 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 variant of cova 19 are spreading across africa causing an increase in infections and deaths so also 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. algis or. at least 2 people have been killed by bomb blasts in kabul a series of explosions were set off by so-called sticky bombs attacks to cause police say that 2 of at least 5 people wounded were military post now no once you have to claim to responsibility concerns about online privacy and social media

companies sharing personal data and raised by governments around the world now one of the leaders of the tech world is taking action as well 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 knology does not need. 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 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. google has agreed to pay nearly $4000000.00 to settle allegations of pay disparities a hiring bias against women and asians the u.s. department of labor says the money will go to $5500.00 people who have applied for

jobs or walked at google's california and washington offices the tech giants accused of underpaying thousands of female software engineers and of discriminating against women and asians google says that it will also review its practices in afraid is the chief technology correspondent access she says that the allegations against google part of a wider problem 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 part of the incentive for google to settle is while this case was about pay discrimination it's just another reminder of the many issues whirling around google most recently the ouster of prominent black ai researcher to mit deborah who has really touched off

a discussion on how google responds to women in people of color particularly those that call out discrimination that they see at the company at least 30 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire in western australia that's burning out of control near the city of perth with strong winds hampering efforts to contain it residents in one area near the well the in the national park open told that it's too late for them to leave others though have been told to evacuees. the world's 1st commercial rocket powered by biofuel has been launched in the u.s. state of maine. stardust $1.00 flew one mile into the sky before parachuting back to earth start up company blue shift aerospace says that in the future the technology could be used to launch small satellites a much cheaper cost of biofuel also helps to make space research more except

accessible space x. is planning to send its 1st all civilian crew to space by the end of the year american billionaire jared isaac isaac months says that he'll take 3 of the no astronauts with him into orbit on board space x. dragon capsule he's looking to raise $200000000.00 from the trip to fund cancer research. this is al jazeera a very i'm sitting here with you in doha the headlines the u.n. 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 bigotry that doesn't pan back alley.