up to date with what's happening on the ground in the ward and in the lab now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthy a world for you. for everyone. calls for civil disobedience in me and again sunday's coup the un security council meets to discuss possible sanctions against the military. will again i'm peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up a quarter set to decide whether the russian opposition leader alexei navalny will go to jail for 3 and a half years while his supporters are rounded up by the police. as his impeachment

trial gets underway u.s. democrats say former president donald trump committed an unprecedented act of betrayal but incited a mob to storm the capital last month. and argentina has legalized abortion but women who want to see to face numerous challenges. 15 of the world's most powerful countries are meeting to discuss the coup in me and right now as the nation's most senior politicians are locked up flights have been grounded and troops are on the streets but it's raise concerns amongst most members of the un security council which is holding an emergency meeting to decide on an international response but not all countries agree china has a deep vested interest in neighboring myanmar and also a veto powers against possible sanctions or majority which young women were

communicating with all the parties concerned on issues related to the security council any action by the international community should contribute to political and social stability in myanmar how peaceful reconciliation and avoid intensifying conflicts and further complicating the situation. well power is now in the hands of general lino who's appointed his own cabinet the military says its takeover is only temporary and is promising free and fair elections in a year the ousted party the national league of democracy says detained leader aung san suu kyi is in good health but is still being held some politicians are being allowed to return home and they are urging their supporters to fight back. with. the curse of the coup is rooted in our country and this is the reason why our nation remains poor i feel sad and upset for our fellow citizens and for their future all the voters who gave their backing to us in the 2020 general election should follow orks on through cheeze instructions to carry out civil disobedience

and meanwhile many are doing exactly that here's what that civil disobedience campaign sounds like. in the city of un gone citizens are banging pots and pans as a mark of defiance against the coup life to the un security council headquarters building in new york and our diplomatic go to james james what way do we think china will pivot here. well what china is doing right now as far as we can understand from diplomats is worth telling you it's a closed meeting we're not able to watch what's happening is china is trying to play for time and ask for more time china among a number of countries that have said that they don't have instructions on how to proceed at this stage no wait for fresh instructions from their capital i understand that's also the position of the russians and may well be the position of

vietnam as well as they contemplate the idea of any security council action i can tell you that the u.k. have the presidency of the security council they would like a strong statement to come out at the end of this meeting condemning what has happened and calling for the immediate release of those that have been detained but i think it may well be that we are going to be waiting for a bit of time and it may require more than one security council meeting to get that sort of statement out of all the security council members again worse remind you peter that at the security council last statement they really need everyone to come together and agree to the statement it needs to be unanimous for a statement to come out and clearly this statement is the least the security council could do potentially they could come up if they wanted to with stronger sanctions on myanmar i think one of the things that the chinese and others will

push through is the lack of information we've heard from the close security council meeting that the diplomats there the security council ambassadors have been briefed by the u.n. special envoy to be on mar christine sharana bergen and she i think has made it clear from what i'm hearing that she has not been able to raise any of the military who are now in command of the country no one from the u.n. has been able to get a hold of anyone and it's worth telling you that my colleague rose jordan in washington has been listening to a state department briefing and again the you. yes government the us administration hasn't gotten a hold of anyone from the military in myanmar and that's one of the problems a real lack of information when it comes to that lack of communication or being able to get any form of communication out of the countries there that are involved in this meeting that we're discussing james which one has potentially traction with the military if only to be able to pick up

a phone and say guys can we step back from this a little bit. well absolutely i think you would put them in order number one would definitely be china china is the one that has real leverage in myanmar and real leverage on the military in myanmar and after that regional power like vietnam and also another global part power like russia they would have some leverage and those seem to be the countries on the security council that are most skeptical at this stage and committing to do anything as i say their position as it's been explained to me by diplomats of those 3 countries is not that they were refusing to sign up to a stronger statement condemning what's happened they just need more time they need to speak to their capitals and get further instruction on how to proceed i think it might be worth giving you an example of a completely different situation peter and how it has played out in the past and it's another global issue north korea where china is the one country that has

leverage there it's taken every time there has been action against north korea over the years of sanctions it's taken weeks and weeks and weeks nothing comes out after a 1st meeting and the dynamic certainly or north korea in the past has been that rather than the security council discussing a statement or action in the end it becomes china and the u.s. working together and then bringing what they've proposed to the rest of the security council for ratification of course there is a problem with that dynamic and that's the current tension between china and the u.s. particularly in these early days of the biden administration where it's not quite clear how the new administration will respond to china. james stay close will talk to you later i'm sure james bays at the u.n. in new york. any moment now we are expecting a verdict from a court in moscow over whether the opposition leader alexina army will go to jail

he faces 3 and a half years in connection with a parole violation going back to 2014 russian police detained when 350 of us supporters who showed up outside the courthouse today in a felony was arrested on his return from germany in january where he was recovering from the poisoning of course 3 months beforehand alexandra god for joins us live from moscow outside the courtroom there so alexandra any moment now what do we think is going to happen. well judges still are deliberating on the her verdict but there is not a lot of people here who suspect that there will be any other outcome to actually changing his suspended sentence into a real time in prison or to the prosecution or the prison authorities are saying is that he violated numerous times conditions of he suspended sentence by not reporting when called for to the court now the defense says that he couldn't have

reported since he was poisoned he was in coma he was recuperating in germany and from there he did send the notification to the prison authorities about what happened to him and that he will he will be back when he had the chance to speak in court to address the court to where he said that this is all a political showcase that is meant to scare millions of people who oppose the situation in russia both economical and political he said that he sees this as a weakness not to the power of the system and a whole so he said this is a completely fabricated case meant to remove him from political life he also used the platform to say once again but now in the court and on the record that behind his poisoning is a president of russia vladimir putin alexander just remind us this goes back to the original parole from an earlier offense which the central accusation to do with today's proceedings is parole violation going back 66 and

a half years no. well yes indeed this was a case that was decided on in 2014 it's the embezzlement case where he's kompany allegedly embezzled money from a subsidiary company of iraq share you have to know that the company itself said that they were not they didn't have any losses so basically there was no injured party in this case. that the decision of the court to. address the european court of human rights who decided to do this whole process was basically unfounded that was without evidence that it was sort of an arbitrary were ticked russia did pay on this decision of european court of human rights compensation to the end his brother who was he's accused of but the russian supreme court upheld the verdict saying that this is

a domestic producer so with one hand russia did recognize decision that this was unfounded process and on the other it kept this kept this weird at the end of the suspended sentence and a probation period of 5 years later extended to 6 was a sort of a sward that has been dangled above his head every time there was some sort of his attempts to organize the opposition or he was organizing protests so this was not this is not the 1st time the prison authorities are saying that he violated the parole but all previous times the courts would reject saying that there is that he was. basically doing what he was supposed to do and reporting to the prison authorities this time however there is as i said not a lot of people in russia that expect that the court will reject the appeal of the prison authorities and xander thank you very much. this is again some

breaking news coming to us out of the u.k. if i said the name captain tom to you in relation to corona virus you probably know who i'm talking about captain tom was a 100 year old war veteran in the u.k. who raised months 30000000 pounds for the national health service in the u.k. in its pushback against corona virus captain tom 100 years old was admitted to hospital recently having contracted covert 19 has just been announced from the u.k. that he has passed away he's captain sir thomas moore he was a given area ward by her majesty the queen having raise so much money when it hit the u.k. this time last year he decided to raise a little bit of money with the technical back up of his friends and his family by marching laps in his back garden he set out to aim to raise rather

a few 1000 he raised more than 30000000 formerly a british army officer 100 years old known for his achievements raising money for charity in the run up to his 100th birthday he served in india he served in the burma campaign during world war 2 he later became an instructor in armored warfare after the war he worked as a manager director at a concrete company he also raced motorbikes there he is with her majesty the queen being given that award in the sunshine of windsor castle last year to the us now where democrats have just now submitted their briefing outlining the impeachment charges against the former u.s. president donald trump in the next hour mr trump's legal team will submit their response to impeachment allegations she habra tansey has been following developments in washington he joins us from the capitol building there she have tell us more about the documents the democrats have just filed their. it's an

impassioned argument as you might expect from members of the house who were here on january the 6th and felt the terror of of them all by trying to break in bang for the various members or members of congress but the the arguments laid out begin before january the 6th they discussed how donald trump was trying to know the results affectively of the election almost immediately through all sorts of means including trying to pressure local officials famously and in georgia he wasn't using constitutional means even. but then having failed to do that he continued with his campaign on twitter and his speeches to sell this idea of him having been stolen of a landslide victory in the election he then encouraged his supporters to come to washington on january the 6th and this is how the the democrats then describe the events that the that occurred off to was the only all real policy about points were surprised i'm trying to accept the results and concede his electoral defeat instead

he summoned a moment to washington exalted them into a frenzy and aimed them like a loaded cannon down pennsylvania avenue or as the capitol was overrun president trump was reportedly quote delighted and in fact there were several concurrent reports at that time actually from people within the white house who said he was i think that was the phrase borderline enthusiastic was one description confused that other members of the white house weren't as excited as he was by what was going on as his supporters attempted to challenge the quote the quote steel so. it took him a very long time then to try and cool his supporters off what he did release messages they seem to be encouraging them still so the this is the case for incitement of insurrection clearly by the democrats the rules so addressing what is likely to be the main argument for the defense which is that the whole process of impeachment is unconstitutional and they're saying look there's no january except.

just because donald trump was in the last few weeks of his presidency and it was off to the election that doesn't mean he shouldn't be held accountable the constitution is very clear the president is held accountable from the beginning the middle and beyond till the last day of his presidency so this shouldn't just be a well look he was about to go anyway so he can so a president can do anything otherwise a president would always perhaps cling onto office so that's their argument then for those 2 there's 2 planks of the discussion here incitement and is impeachment constitutional anyway and super super briefly please mr trump's team is supposed to respond. so we're getting in about an hour's time the response to the initial summons to the senate for the trial we expect them to get a better idea of the defense case we expect them the constitutionality of impeachment to be to be challenge we expect and they are arguments all i'm donald trump's speeches and his tweets to be defended on the grounds of the 1st amendment

right to freedom of speech i think what's going to be interesting to see is whether the defense will make a case that because as far as dollar is concerned the election has been stolen was stolen therefore that changes everything to you and that seems to be a major point of contention within the defense team his defense team defense team has changed entirely over the weekend 5 members 5 members left the defense team apparently in part because they didn't want this argument that donald trump has been pushing for we just to to go back to this argument of a stolen election the indications we're getting there that that argument might be somewhere in the background with the main argument will be the constitutionality of impeaching a former president she have things very much she have returned see there in washington. still ahead here on al-jazeera japan's olympics chief says the tokyo games will go ahead as planned regardless of what happens with the pandemic. we'll speak to asylum seekers on the mexico u.s. border who are hoping the new u.s. president joe biden will help them.

it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways the heaviest snow normally falls when temperatures are hovering around about freezing sometimes a bit above and now the rain is going to the way we've got that sort of situation for the western side of japan weren't affected will probably affect sendai and soprano they're really subzero is just an example of the winter and hot card which is full of snow further west and that the temperatures are actually on the up so was the just were freezing this could be some snow here though certainly in south korea beijing is that plus 6 in the clouds developing in china it will probably bring a bit of cold out towards hsien at the same time the snow keeps falling as you see in japan so she has forecast the cold wrong for thursday down 3 degrees and back up the north 15 as that cold air just disappears if you have warm side we've got

a concentration because of the wind direction the heavy showers in malaysia raising part of borneo and then down towards the d.z. in part of borneo and through java and all points towards the island of new guinea and this bit more activity in the skies in the hindu kush so northern pakistan northern india all full of showers now probably rain for the most part snow of course up in the mountain who has the advantage it certainly gets down towards new delhi stirring up the atmosphere so you have better air quality and if you show. sponsored pol qatar airways. plane. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dubey these are your headlining stories the u.n.

security council is meeting to talk about the coup in me in ma some members are calling for an immediate return to democracy but others such as china ever used to recognize it as a coup. the police in russia have detained more supporters of the kremlin critic and opposition leader alexina bollinger but it expected soon from a court in moscow where he will go to jail instead of only face is thrown off he has a connection with a parole violation. u.s. democrats have submitted their briefing outlining the impeachment charges against former u.s. president from shortly from his legal team submit their response to the impeachment allegations. the scottish government says it will order all direct arrivals no matter which country they come from to isolate the scottish 1st minister nicola sturgeon says overseas arrivals will be required to go into managed quarantine scotland has recorded 180000 cases of covert 19 and more than 6000 deaths sturgeon's says the

country may start to ease lock down restrictions in early march well research is showing russia's nick v. vaccine is 91.6 percent effective a study by the independent medical journal the lancet shows the vaccine did not have any adverse side effects during phase 3 trials the russian job also has the same efficacy on people age 60 and above. japan's prime minister has extended a state of emergency in tokyo and 9 other regions for one month to curb the virus infections there the rates of new cases has slowed slightly since as lead 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 event says the games will happen regardless of the pandemic israel's coronavirus vaccination drive appears to be slowing as many

people have received injections more than $3000000.00 people have had their 1st injection but in palestine there are concerns about islam vaccination rate there a lack of supply and the potential spread of a new strain we have teams covering the situation across israel and palestine we'll hear from him and in a moment 1st is harry for sits 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 has 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 early 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 and day workers coming in from the west bank still into israel itself there are concerns in a practical point of view as well as from an international law point of view palestinians are yet to be vaccinated these 2000 jobs that israel delivered to the palestinian authority is part of $5000.00 vaccines that palestinians will get not enough to cover for auction of what palestinians need the health ministry is saying that there are more than 12000 wrong klein worth earth in the health sector dealing with patients in i.c.u. and labs and they are all in an urgent need and there is also 5000000 palestinians in the occupied west bank and in the gaza strip and they have no fines and no

access to a vaccine until now this is why the closure is continuing after 7 pm and on the weekend and while the health ministry is saying that there is. numbers of people infected with the wires it's only because not many people are getting tested. u.s. president joe biden is planning a way for some undocumented migrants in the u.s. to become citizens but asylum seekers still waiting in mexico hoping his administration will give hope to them too john holmes and has more. joe biden had said things would change on the very 1st day of his presidency for the thousands in the same position as martinez she's from cuba and crossed 9 countries to ask for asylum in the united states but under a program begun 2 years ago by x. president donald trump she was put back to weigh in mexico between her court

hearings she spent 2 years now waiting in see it out what is for a decision. the misfit i was that the baby can also it's quite dangerous because we're on the border we're not from here and dangerous present all the time so we put our hope in president biden and everything he promised in his campaign we hope he sticks to his promises. what joe biden promised was to end the program could remain in mexico which is see more than 60000 asylum seekers put across the border from the u.s. while they wait between court dates many were placed into gang ridden cities like qualities or matamoros with this tent camp sprung up isn't done that yet what he has done is to stop him rolling any new asylum seekers in the program. but the numbers of those same were already going down before his term anyway the real question is what will happen to the thousands already stuck in mexico would they be now allowed into the u.s. while their process plays out. jose luis alvarado and they can argue

a nurse who fled the autocratic rule of daniel ortega is fervently hoping so he's been stuck in mexico for 2 years struggling to provide for his expanding family without a work visa many cannot say what not no no no let their only meal and what happens is that mexico isn't going to give work to an immigrant because he has. the unemployed here they go to a factory the 1st thing they ask us are you an immigrant do you have legal status if you don't have a permit. i will introduce an immigration bill president biden's already planning a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented migrants who are already in the u.s. . he said he would be more open to asylum seekers to the tricky part for him and his team would be doing that without sparking a rush on the buddha. stuck in the middle of that difficult calculation for those in limbo in mexico john home and al-jazeera mexico city. a

number of guatemalan families are urging mexico to solve the killing of 1000 people they believe are the missing relatives they think they're among burned corpses with bullet wounds found in a truck near the u.s. border last week the bodies of not yet been identified the foreign ministry is collecting d.n.a. samples from those who think their relatives are among the dead. in december argentina became the biggest latin american country to legalize abortion but i access to the procedure remains difficult especially in conservative provinces so he's a has more from when his ira's. already under pressure from all that 19 argentina's hospitals are now having to adapt again abortion has just become legal in argentina dr while the sun says he has seen many women affected by botched abortions and is happy times has started to change in the years.

in the past 2 days since the law was implemented we have had a request 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 but yet trix 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 the new 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 postponed 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're glad 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 to 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 for amanda 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 the government in their next step toward securing abortion rights nationwide or when a site is. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera these are your top stories the u.n. security council is meeting right now to talk about the coup in myanmar some members are calling for an immediate return to democracy but others such as china refuse to recognize it as having been a coup the party of me and was detained leader aung san suu kyi she has called on the military to release and recognize its.