and i and colonise ation. oman history and influence on al-jazeera really understand the differences in the same cultures across the world so no matter what we encounter for that matter. the us threatened sanctions against myanmar as the whereabouts of aung san suu kyi remain unknown. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up russian opposition leader alexina boni appears in a moscow cause while his supporters outside are rounded up by police. the reality of a crippled health care system in zimbabwe where coded infections and deaths of doubled

in the last month. and how the debates over data privacy is setting up a battle between apple and facebook. we begin in myanmar where flights have been grounded and dozens of politicians remain in custody a day off the military coup the ousted party the national league of democracy is calling for the release of government officials including on science sushi whose whereabouts are unknown her party want to landslide victory in the election in november it's calling for those results to be recognized instead 400 would be members of parliament a still being held in a heavily guarded compound power is now in the hands of general min online who is appointed his own cabinet the u.n. security council is meeting later on tuesday to discuss the situation and the u.s. has threatened sanctions the military says its takeover is only temporary but it's

promising free and fair elections within a year. well many a memo are anxious to see what the military's next move will be for some but uncertainty is frustrating. people are frustrated with the coup and worried for their future they want to know how they are going to move ahead and how they will be protected by the new government whoever governs a country where all the people desire is that their lives are saved they want to live peacefully and have a better income is what did it. whoever governs the country we've the citizens are at the bottom the most important thing for us is to be ok in our daily business for living and food as you see there is no one here to buy everything is silent in the middle of yang gone where normally it is busy i do not like the situation i'd be grateful if we can get back to the old situation let's get the latest now from. this 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 the people of. gauge well the military going to do next. they where is on line on some 60 we're pretty sure she's in a futile about where she will have been when this all started when yesterday monday of 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 the activists who are still prominent activists and now the popular figures the known to support including saying those rights is 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 russian police have detained at least 100 supporters of the kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina valmy security forces were sent in ahead of his court appearance he was arrested on his return from germany in january he's accused of violating parole while he was recovering after being poisoned let's go live to moscow to alexandra god for a let's start with what's happening outside the court 1st of all on example. well we are at the outside of the court and there is a lot of journalists present and there is an amazing amount of police which is guarding this court and guarding all the surrounding streets there north of there taking everything all the measures they can in order not to allow people to gather

and indeed by the latest figure we have so far some 230 people have been detained and these people were detained when they were coming out of the metro station when they were walking down the streets of basically anyone that looked like they might protest they might be for now against putin was swiftly. toward the paddy vans and then in direction of detention centers of moscow. and as far as the hearing inside the cold what do we know. well at this point the judge judge decided to have a 2 hour break before that 2 parties so the lawyers of the violin they submitted in evidence 2 documents one is the verdict of the european court of human rights which says that the regional trial from 2014 was. unfounded and on which russian state did beno widely compensation in the end his brother as

a defendant the 2nd is a document medical file from the hospital in germany where has been treated after he's been poisoned with a nerve agent and now they also submitted in the meantime. his whereabouts that was a document that the right from germany to the prison authorities prison authorities are arguing that he violated his parole actually that these terms of the suspended sentence many times before that and they didn't know where he was and that they even didn't have his contacts number to check and that after all it was for him to report to them and not for them to search for him so they are concluding that he did not mend his ways as it was put it so that he suspended sentence should now become a prison sentence but what the viney keeps on claiming that the moment he set the foot in russia is that it is not about the judiciary did this is the way for deal for it is to put pressure on him to shut him up to prevent him from participating

in political life and especially we have to know that this year it's parliamentarian elections in russia. all these critics and also critics that are coming from outside of russia like from u.s. and e.u. countries that he should be released immediately kremlin keeps on repeating that this is about russian laws that any such comments or requests are actually interfering in russian domestic affairs and that they are not going to be listening or taking this commands and requests into account they're not going to be lectured as. press secretary put it today how xander got for reporting live there from moscow xandra many thanks indeed. the united nations says that as many as 20000 refugees are missing after 2 camps in ethiopia's t. gray region were destroyed most of them were from eritrea the u.n. high commissioner for refugees says the government must do more to protect people

who are trying to escape the fighting phillipa grandia says that civilians told him that their ordeal continued after they'd reached what they'd hoped would be safety bobber and go part reports that one of the people arriving at my irony refugee count 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 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 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 soldiers from neighboring eritrea have been cooperating with the ethiopian military to pursue fugitive leaders of the tea gray forces but ethiopia's governments denies the presence of foreign fighters even up to declaring victory against the great forces in the member after a month long offensive people caught up in the violence say locals living around the camp a punishing them for the war. and. 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 by. al-jazeera. in afghanistan at least 2 people have been killed in bomb attacks in kabul a series of explosions were set off by so-called sticky bombs attempts to cause police say that 2 of at least 5 people wounded or military personnel no ones yet claimed responsibility. japan's prime minister has extended a state of emergency in tokyo by other regions for a month to curb corona virus infections the rate of new cases has slowed slightly since a surge led to restrictions being tightened in january but the government is trying to restore domestic and international confidence with less than 6 months before the tokyo olympics the head of the events says that the games will happen however coronavirus evolves. zimbabwe has seen a surge in covert 900 cases more than half of the infections but over 2 thirds of

deaths have been recorded in the last month the health system has been crumbling for years but is 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 this 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. he. 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. of the resources nor this patient needs. rather than often as do they really know this patient's needs 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 clothes 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 variants of covert 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. al-jazeera. we'll get a weather update next here on ars is here and then israel's covert 900 vaccination program has been so successful that it's slowing down in pace but where does that leave the palestinians. and how police in india are stepping up security to stop protesting farmers converging on the capital. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways winter has not gone but it's in there now at the moment the rain that came up over japan is now on its way into the western pacific so you get a cold blast behind that means more significant snow for honshu western side

they're off and up in hong kong the temps behind our subzero all those souls right on the edge just freezing the reason snow for north and south korea back in china beijing's nicely warm 6 but you've got this cloud developing she's money running up i think northwards towards places like cher which is $12.00 degrees on wednesday but we'll take a dip we're down to about 3 briefly snowy on thursday and then we're back up to 15 on friday saturday all that is fine in hong kong 22 degrees who's going to complain and some helpful change in northern india look at these light breaks as snow and rain these are thunderstorms all showers developing and of course it stirs up the atmosphere when it becomes significant you finally improve your quality so the forecast in new delhi is a sundry one for a couple of days a quote to be improved but it doesn't last on saturday back to the persistent fog which exists throughout most of the north indian play for the next 24 hours at

least the weather in arabia and iran and turkey is quiet but it will change. sponsored pol qatar airways al jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. i want to go back to go back to exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. the fact that right. back to al-jazeera investigations all the prime minister's men.

this is out 0 the main news this hour the party of me on the detained leader aung san suu kyi has called on the military to release and recognize its election victory senior general online as appointed his own cabinet day after leading a coup. russian police have detained more supporters of the kremlin critic an opposition leader alexina valmy gathering to protest as he appears in course the volley was arrested on his return from germany in january. and japan has extended a state of emergency in tokyo and other regions to curb the spread of coronavirus infections it's trying to restore confidence ahead of the tokyo olympic games ahead of the event says that it will go ahead despite the pandemic. israel's coronavirus vaccination drive appears to be slowing because so many people have already received the japs more than $3000000.00 people have had their 1st dose in palestine

however its ongoing concern about the low vaccination rate a lack of supply and the potential spread of new strains we have journalists covering the situation in both israel and palestine will hear from ybor him in ramallah in just a moment but 1st here's our e. forces in west jerusalem. there are. communities within israeli society particularly palestinian israeli and ultra-orthodox communities where there is less trust in this vaccine where it's been harder to get people to come in to the vaccination senses and indeed there are many people under 35 are complaining that while the vaccination centers on is busy and we can't yet get our vaccine and so it's been reported at least that in one clinic over the last few days some 1000 doses of had to be thrown out and at a time when there's been a big fuss about israel finally 100 over some 2000 doses to the palestinian

authority that seems like a lot and when you also consider the fact that these 2 populations very well interconnected with both populations mixing in occupied east jerusalem day workers coming in from the west bank still into israel so there are concerns in a practical point of view as well as from an international law point of view. often in the yet so have been there for. these 2000 jobs that about arrived from israel to the palestinian authority are part of 5000 vaccines that israel is giving the palestinians for emergency use but even though they don't cover a fraction of what palestinians need a valid opinion health minister says that the frontline workers who are dealing with the coveted patience and i think you. are more than 12000 palestinians and we are talking about 5000000 palestinians living in the occupied west bank and

in the gaza strip and they have got nothing to date the palestinian prime minister is sad that a new kid nation will start from. february and they are waiting for. this from threatening as well as the russian vaccine in addition to that they are waiting on a. coming from the world health organisation in the philippines the supreme court is hearing arguments against a controversial antiterrorism law the measure was signed by president rodrigo deterred say in july but has since become the most contested law of his presidency the government says that it will increase security across the country but opponents fear it's designed to silence dissidents and limit freedom of speech a court in pakistan has ordered that a man who's been on death row for 18 years be moved to a safe house he was recently acquitted of murdering u.s. journalist daniel pearl ahmed omar saeed shaykh had received the death penalty for

the beheading of daniel pearl those family at the white house have expressed outrage let's go live to islamabad al jazeera is there for us so the court has ordered that. led to omar shaykh has is moved to a safe house essentially taken off death row where is he now. right now he's in central jail karachi however the apex court had ordered all they remove all omar shaykh immediately from the dead headed to a more comfortable and environment by habit and a barrack and then within 2 days could be moved into our safe where he will be allowed to meet his family he is not yet free completely because that comes of shaikh. release will be known after it written or edited issued by the court

our every right now accorded haring they. filed by the government. again they waited all former shake it turned out to be a member that one of the key leaders of a skydive and number 3 college mohammad had confessed to taking part in that beheading directly that state was not able to prove its case the court narcs added by way of proof that was given to the courts and their fall as now decided to all go listen to that review predation decide that he should be delayed by it under strict security he will not be a free man it is a step in that direction but he's not completely free yet ok polls family in the white house expressed outrage what are the implications of this move for the government there and islam about. well this has ended football

gets on in a difficult for nation. as recently as friday the new u.s. secretary of state and kidney bank in spoke to the pakistani foreign minister shot my mood could raise she and richie expressed his concern over the acquittal of omar shaikh and also one did more to counter baylor did so the pressure from the americans will definitely be on the government there's also under pressure because it faded had enough evidence however even in the fog the prosecution has faded to for a white smoking gun or a defeated by lever didn't reject of course led to the release of all the key suspects and up was a good read so this is indeed a case that going to be watched carefully and it has definitely to have a fixation as far as the new biden administration's relations with pakistan are concerned i'll just come ohio to reporting live from islamabad come on many thanks

indeed. india police have set up concrete barriers raise a while in an effort to stop protesting farmers entering new delhi tens of thousands of followers have demonstrated for months now modeling that the government would draw new agricultural laws many birds through barriers last week and stormed a historic sites the government has also taken action on line having temporarily suspend the counts for threatening public order. reports. where the guards the poor protest side with for the 1st time in the more than 2 months of covering the protests police won't let us go through the barricades and they also won't tell us how we can access the protest site now the police and security presence here. and the other 2 sites has been greatly in place since the violent clashes between police and protesters on the air you were 26 security forces have wrecked

many more layers of barricades at all 3 sides here at singing and at to create there are more concrete walls there are steel barricades there is much more still in boulders thousands of iron nails on the roads that is going to make it is making it much more difficult for people to join the protests internet services will also cut off at 3 protest sides on saturday now from union leaders and protesters say the government is trying to cut them off both physically. and cut off communications but it's not just protesters who are affected it's the local residents pleading with police to let them through the fold giving up now despite the fact down on the protests the police action that's been taken against foreign union leaders even against journalists there for more there is a rally planned in central new delhi on wednesday and from union made it

a morning for people around. country to block roy then protest on faster day they insist though continue to protest until the government repealed its agriculture in the. a group of republican senators of the us say that they're hopeful that a bipartisan coronavirus relief package can be passed off to meeting with the president they're proposing a plan costing about a 3rd of the 1.9 trillion dollars that joe biden is aiming for but he culhane reports from washington. even before the meeting got started the press were allowed in for a quick look. i'm told 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 1.2 trillion dollar 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 kovac 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. concerns about online privacy and social media companies sharing possible dates have been 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 ology 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 facebook 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 at the house or. 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.