the systematic killing led to the displacement of millions of people. the paramilitaries dictated that in the zone say 2 kinds of areas the state could never reach under pressure from the dea the criminals who came after the problem one hunted down the shell companies were dismantled and arresting increased. but 1st major protest in main mob against the military coup a civilian leader aung sang suu kyi is put under house arrest. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up experts on

the world health organization visiting the bar tree in china as well the city which the trumpet ministration had said could be the source of a couple of 19 outbreaks. protests in russia as opposition leader alexina valley's jailed for more than 2 years world leaders demand his immediate release. u.s. president joe biden signs 3 executive orders rolling back donald trump's hardline immigration policy. and amazon's founder jeff bezos is stepping down as c.e.o. as latest quarterly profits hit $7000000000.00. we begin in myanmar where the biggest protest yet against monday's military coup happened overnight in the country's biggest city young go on. people banging pots and honk their car horns to show their anger against the generals who

overthrew the civilian leader understands cinci and seized power so she has been placed under house arrest the head of mi and mas army the man who now runs the country says the deposing of suchi was inevitable. what i found is one of the few foreign journalists based in me in monte joins us via skype from young gone into more details emerging about. being house. pretty much got confirmation that she is being held in her home in a fetal which is what we've long suspected that hasn't really been any actual nation that gto one of the n.l. these folks cousins has said on facebook that she is in good health and that she is known to be in her compound in a video she's reportedly been seen by an eva walking around the grounds what she apparently does to show are those that she's in good health some of the thing when she was under house arrest in gone she would take regular walks obviously if you

spend 115 years under house arrest exercise becomes a key to your day she's not in the same place she was detained for many years before that was her home in young gone this iconic lakeside villa but in the last few years since she came to power she's been spending more and more time in a futile the capital which is far away from the hub of the city of yangon city life . perhaps more suited to her temperament but the risk is that it's surrounded by minutes really it's there's a huge motor presence here and so it's made this crew very smooth very easy and allie what's the mood now in the young. that we've now started to see the 1st signs of public protests. quite frankly the mood is pretty low i think that people have got overly initial shock. and you know there was

a lot of fear and anxiety of the last few days that they are still here but what's also happened is that people have had time to digest what this really need to clarify that this is definitely happening on the back of the military rule here and people are incredibly upset i spoke to some people in the streets yesterday to a very emotional tears in their eyes talking about how they couldn't sleep they couldn't eat and that to let fear and sadness sadness for the people and and as you mentioned a show of dissent at last you know we went shoal last day what was going to happen everyone was too thankful that there were people stayed home and streets were empty but last night around the same time that the streets were deserted people flocked in these they started banging drums and pans and people in the cars in the streets . people were shouting and you could hear it like across the city it was quite an

incredible spectacle and moving a very moving moment showing how much dissent or how much disapproval there is of this mood how much a happiness there is that this move has also been calling for a campaign of civil disobedience from youth groups and also independently from hospitals to government workers. thought to basically. almost like a form of strike again. and they'd like to do that or sort of decide not to do what the government is asking them to say because their government now working government buildings we've had the trains are also going to get involved hospitals slightly worry but we'll see what actually happens with that in the next few days. well on tuesday the u.n. security council held a meeting on the developments in me and ma but stop short of taking immediate action our diplomatic editor james bays reports the un security council met in

closed session but they couldn't agree a statement condemning what's happened in myanmar in recent days they heard from the un special envoy christina shriner berg and she told them that and son suchi had been moved from the place that she's been detained in to house arrest the spokes person for the u.n. secretary general though said that was still on acceptable and as a 1st step all detainees needed to be released a special envoy said that given the apparent commitment by the military to safeguard the rule of law following the november 8th elections these turn of events was surprising and shocking the current president of the security council the british ambassador said that discussions will continue in the coming days there's been widespread concern among an across the international community i heard those concerns very clearly among my colleagues this morning and we welcome the role of

regional partners including s.c.n. to resolve this crisis the key to the next steps on myanmar depend on one permanent member of the u.n. security council china in the meeting i'm told to the chinese representative was playing for time and diplomats say china has not yet shown its hand. meanwhile the u.s. has now classified the military takeover as a coup the state department says it's reviewing millions of dollars in aid to me in law our 1st concern of course is the restoration of civilian leadership in burma our concern consistent with that is ensuring that as we undertake this review now that we have the chairman that a coup has taken place on february 1st the civilian led government has been deposed by the military our 1st concern is we do that review will be to ensure that of $135000000.00 we contribute an annual eat to the people of burma that we don't do anything that would affect the long suffering people of burma including the. well

look who is one of joe biden's 1st foreign policy tests it was the obama biden administration which lifted longstanding economic sanctions on myanmar back in 2016 well now the question is how effective would that be today u.s. assistance is automatically restricted once a military coup takes place in any country but some programs such as humanitarian assistance to be persecuted running a minority will continue the president could declare a national emergency and an ounce of new sanctions but most of them in mass top generals are already on the sanctions and human rights abuses so biden could target companies run by the military which are involved in banking gems copper telecoms and clothing human rights watch and other groups a calling for this approach let's bring in simon business he's a political analyst on me and mom is also the executive director of the international campaign for the ring that he joins us via skype from washington d.c. simon good to have you with us now this is the 1st big foreign policy challenge for

president biden how is he likely then to navigate the choppy political waters of this coup and what are his options do you think. well president biden has one immediate option and that would be to issue an executive order reinstating the jade x. actions on the me and my military and this would provide new tools to sanction me and my army leaders and commanders and also would be able to put sanctions on myanmar military aren't companies it would also banned u.s. imports of gems from burma and some of the men back in us were saying they're back in 2016 the obama administration basically ended me and mas international isolation but apart from gathering like minded allies to condemn the coup what more can the international community realistically do here. well i think the action is going to

be by individual governments by the u.s. by the european union the u.k. and others because they're not expecting much to come out of the u.n. security council we did china blocking any kind of sanctions on burma so i see i would see the u.s. taking the lead again on sanctions and the european union and the u.k. are coming along with those sanctions and that would cut off western markets to. imports of gems from burma and it's from the gem trade in the me and my military has gotten billions of dollars of revenue and the key player in all of this is china i mean myanmar's biggest trading partner and political ally of course but china simon has seen its influence in manama are we can on the and sang suchi

leadership so beijing isn't likely then to pressure them in mars military to reverse the coup is it. well i think china also understands that its business investments in myanmar rely on exporting you know goods manufactured in myanmar to to western markets so if western countries are limiting imports from me and ma that's going to hurt chinese investment i mean put very simply military dictatorships and genocide a bad to business and not be bad to china's business and you if you take a lead role in the international campaign for the rigging guy must you think this coup is likely to worsen the plight of the nearly i think it's 600000 random muslims are still left in the country are they likely then to face increased persecution do you think. it was the me and modern military that planned and executed the genocide of the remainder so the fact that with me and my army now has

total control is definitely very worrisome for the remainder some villainess great to get your thoughts thank you for talking to al jazeera. the. inspectors from the world health organization are visiting a verona g. institute in the chinese city of where the corona virus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 19 since arriving last month they have conducted interviews with people from research institutes hospitals and a seafood market linked to the initial outbreak with katrina you joins us live now from beijing katrina so reports then that the double it show team has not visited this lab in will what more can you tell us. well daryn this lab is certainly it has certainly been the focal point of much controversy since the beginning of the pandemic the trump administration actually

alleged when it was in power that corba 19 leapt from this one in st of rural logy intentionally or unintentionally now the trumpet mr ation made that claim that any evidence at least evidence the public has seen but it is true that a number of dangerous pathogens were being studied at this lab that had the highest level of bio lab security and a number of coronaviruses were also being studied including coroner by her says that had been transmitted originally from animals now the on the church team that are on say they are investigating this theory and al-jazeera we actually spoke to one of the members of that team dr marion coombs of religious who confirmed during her 2 week period of course before this field work began and will hon that they were in talks with scientists who work at that lab now. has been plain in saying that all hypotheses are on the table when it comes to this investigation into the

origin of the corner virus in definitely looking into this theory that the covered 1000 virus lead from this lab but this is just a number one of the locations out of a number of locations that they visited since their field work began on friday including a hospital an animal health care center and also the meat and seafood market where the 1st covered 1000 cases were identified and katrina how much support is beijing given the double agent inspectors because sadly this visit has been highly politicized doesn't it. that's right and it's really difficult to say it is true that this trip has been highly stage managed if the media for example have been given very limited access and limited information we don't know what their itinerary is and head of time they've also been told to stay and stay quite a distance from the team at any given point the team itself is also being very tightly controlled they have had a resurgent corner virus cases here in china and for that reason they say that they

have to be under a higher level of health monitoring and because of this their movements are restricted and they can't have just everyday contact with members of the public for example but of course around this high level system around this high level politicized station. there has been also comments from other governments around raising questions about the transparency that the chinese government have been willing to offer most recently we've had the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken on monday actually say that china was falling short on the access it was providing to the team now the team itself when they have spoken to the media have been more upbeat more positive they said that they have been given decent access and they are actually seeing dasa and information that has not been revealed to other members of the public and certainly to anybody outside the chinese government health officials or chinese government officials they seem to be quite positive about that they've asked the public to reserve their skepticism and the chinese government itself is also hit back and rejected this

criticism saying that they are doing all they can to be transparent and they've actually said that the u.s. itself to have had traces of covert 19 early on in their own countries so they should also invite the dog behaved or they're so they're being quite sassy the response of this criticism but it is true that the chinese government took a year to allow the team to arrive in china obviously any information around the investigation into this outbreak has been tightly controlled by the chinese government so it is does remain to be seen going forward how much information the team will be able to get and how much access they will be given to you live in beijing between i thank you. time for a short break here now does iraq when we come back donald trump's lawyers say the senate has no authority to try him more than stamps.

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about recapping our top stories here this out there been public displays of anger against the military coup in the inbox people in the nation's biggest city young gone down parts to protest against the overthrow of elected leader and son suchi she's now been moved into house arrest. inspectors from the world health organization are visiting a the raji lab in the chinese city of new home where the corona virus was 1st identified the teams investigating the origins of it 19. not more than a 1000 people have reportedly been arrested in protests against a court ruling to send the russian opposition leader in a ballet back to jail. the kremlin is most prominent critic was

sentenced to more than 2 years in prison for violating probation terms water covering in germany from a near fatal poisoning police have been out in force in moscow where the largest protests took place the u.s. britain germany and the e.u. are all calling for the valley's immediate release but we'll have an update from moscow but 1st is charlie rangel. once again alexina valley is paying a high price for his criticism of the kremlin as a court sentenced him to $3.00 and a half years the judge found the valley guilty of breaking probation failing to report to russian police over an embezzlement charge the fact he was in hospital in berlin was not accepted the valley was there recovering from nerve agent poisoning he alleges was carried out by the russian state the kremlin critic drew a heart on the glass in court for his wife and asked his supporters to protest.

the aim of this hearing is to scare a great number of people it works this way jail want to scare millions. i hope that this hearing will be interpreted by people as a signal that they have to be more scared it's not a demonstration of power the national guards of russia this cage they are a demonstration of weakness you can't jail hundreds of thousands and millions. of us from outside the court a major show of force from police rounding up and detaining the valley supporters who call not only for his release but for the release of russia from putin's rule the one you saw in this pretty deal this is total lawlessness you can think whatever you want about alexina valmy as a politician but the problem is that if such high profile people can be arrested in a live television broadcast without a reason it means that people like you and i are known people they can do whatever they want to us the margin of this trial is a sham like many other trials in russia this is a politically motivated case he was poisoned in russia but that crime is not under

investigation he returned to russia and they have jailed him straight away everything these going on has nothing to do with justice. after days of nationwide rallies detention centers are overflowing and despite the threat of new sanctions from the west the kremlin has shrugged off criticism from the u.s. in europe and continues to deny that the valley was ever poisoned your 30th in the marsh we've still not heard an answer for on what basis the swedish military conclusion that mr novelli was poisoned by an agent from the group. in the last 10 years nirvana has been jailed more than 10 times many working for his anti corruption network have now been detained and his spokeswoman is under house arrest but his lawyers promise to appeal against his verdict while he asks people in and outside russia to continue putting pressure on putin charlie angela is there when the police crackdown on the valley of supporters has been swift as alexandra god

for reports now from moscow well today the security was wrong the court building behind me but also the surrounding area and they were not letting anyone in who doesn't believe here they were also detaining people that were coming straight out of the metro station so preventing any kind of brought as they were detaining people for looking suspicious in the sense that they might be protesting for. the moment the verdict came in so seized the ones that are still. not detained they called for his supporters to come to the center of moscow the center of moscow is now completely sealed actually the police started gathering there hours before the verdict was announced and they now shut it down completely some people that tried to approach the appointed spot which is

a very close to the kremlin it's a square that is a joint meant to the right square they started detaining these people the same situation is in another city of russia the city where from within is some petersburg where there is also a hundreds of police in gauged in preventing any kind of protest happening tonight . the u.s. has rejected a call by iran a derivative of the nuclear deal a spokesman said it's too early and that tehran must 1st come back into full compliance iran's foreign minister had proposed that the european union help coordinate a similar tenuous return to the agreement by both sides the u.s. left the nuclear deal in 2018 reimpose sanctions and since then iran has increased uranium enrichment levels beyond the limits set out in the agreement u.s. president joe biden has signed a series of executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hardline immigration policies thanks to the creation of a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families on the

trump 0 tolerance policy that also be a review of the asylum process at the border with mexico. this is about how america is safer stronger more prosperous now we have a fair border we know you may be legal immigration system and with the 1st action today. we're going to work to undo the moral national shame of the previous administration literally not figuratively rip children from the arms of their families the mothers and fathers of the border and with no plan none whatsoever to reunify children are still in custody and and our prayers the 2nd actually addresses the root causes of our migration to our southern border and no further action with 3rd or resign orders a full review of the previous administration's harmful and counterproductive immigration policies basically cross border. 2 more biden cabinet appointees

have been confirmed by the us senate. has just been sworn in as the secretary of homeland security is the 1st latino and the 1st immigrant to hold the position where you of course is expected to play a central role in biden's attempts to reverse some immigration restrictions imposed by donald trump and earlier pete but a judge was confirmed as transportation secretary is the 1st openly gay member of a u.s. cabinet the former presidential contender will be leading white house efforts to increase spending on infrastructure. meanwhile the impeachment case against donald trump has been set in motion at the senate democrats who drafted the charges have accused him of endangering the lives of all members of congress by inciting his supporters to storm capitol hill trump's legal team says the senate lacks the authority to try him now that he's no longer the president's amazon boss jeff bezos has announced he's stepping down as c.e.o.

later this year he set to become executive chairman and plans to focus on new products and initiatives based on sleeves his post on a high note as the company posted quote the sales are more than $100000000000.00 for the 1st time and you just see the head of amazon web services will be stepping up to run the company let's get more on this and bring in larry magid is a technology analyst and the c.e.o. of the connect safely website and joins us via skype from palo alto in california laurie great to have you back on the program alison is one of the most successful companies in the world so why is baseball stepping aside now how significant is the timing of his departure. well what he said in a letter to amazon employees that he's going to stay with the company as executive chairman but he wants to pursue other things including helping amazon launch new products so being a bit of a visionary starting up new projects also the washington post which he own he also owns a company that getting competing in the space race privatization of space so he has

a lot of interests and i think he wants to be free to pursue the interests while at the same time keeping its hand in amazon yeah i'm larry in this comes as a muslim post its biggest earnings report saying it made its 1st 100000000000 dollars and of course i mean these are the watering figures larry are they i mean how is the company managed to be so successful especially during the pandemic well i think the pandemic is why it's been so successful frankly i found a lot more money on amazon over the last year because i'm not going to stores to physical store so anything that i need that you know that amazon have that's pretty much where i'm getting it and i think that millions and millions of other people around the world are doing the same thing that i'm doing so let me just talk to us about the jesse the mounted to take over amazon and what his main challenges will be as the u.s. government tries to limit the powers a big tech companies like amazon google and facebook. well he's been with the

company since almost the beginning any currently runs amazon web services which is a very profitable division of the company and its challenges are going to be the same challenges that basis would have had a regulator if the around the world labor dispute say that some people want to unionize the employees and a call for better wages and better working conditions but i think the regulation issue is something that they're having to contend with and also the fact that amazon as it grows bigger and more powerful isn't quite as well loved as it once was so it's just under a lot of scrutiny both you could see and regulators and of course there's always competition in the u.s. wal-mart and major retailer is also a major competitor of amazon now a lot of just a final quick thought to you base also isn't likely then to ride off into the sunset just yet as you said he says he wants to focus on new products new initiatives so what's it like to be doing just briefly oh well i think he's going to likely to be again focusing on some new initiatives and trying to figure out how

to move amazon forward i mean the company has to continue to innovate things like it seleka products and others and i think the basis is going to focus on almost a skunkworks and starting of new ideas and of course as i mentioned his other interests including space and journalism and who knows what else to get into larry magid always good to get your thoughts laurie thank you thank you. more than 30 homes have been destroyed by a bushfire in western australia firefighters are battling the blaze on the outskirts of the city of perth but strong winds a humbling efforts to contain it hundreds have been forced to evacuate the area one firefighter is recovering in hospital from smoke inhalation but there's been no reports of serious injuries. if a quick check of the headlines.