engaging with the rest of world i cover foreign policy national security this is a political impasse here's the conflict are we telling a good story. we're really interested in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise it's actually feels that you were there . the 1st major protest in myanmar against the military coup leader aung san suu kyi is put on the house arrest you have a live update from the animal. tell you i'm on the inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a w h o investigation team visits the chinese lab that's facing accusations that it was the source of the corona virus pandemic. protests in russia as opposition leader is

jailed for more than 2 years well leaders demand his immediate release. u.s. president joe biden signs 3 executive orders rolling back donald trump's hardline immigration policies. we begin in myanmar a nation on the edge 2 days after the military seized power and removed the democratically elected government overnight there was a public show of dissent in the commercial capital yangon people banged pots and pans to protest against the coup and now a civil disobedience group says stuff at 70 hospitals and medical departments across the country have stopped work in protest. meanwhile there's still no word from deposed civilian leader aung sun suu kyi who's been placed under house arrest

the head of mi at mons army the man who now runs the country says the removal of suchi was inevitable claiming irregularities in november's election and after a wave of international condemnation the u.s. says it's looking for ways to hold man miles military leaders accountable washington has now classified the military takeover as a coup or 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 the $135000000.00 we contribute and uli to the people of burma that we don't do anything that would affect the long suffering people of burma including the. i found as one of the few foreign journalist based in myanmar she joins us on skype

from young gone good to see you again ali what the mood now in yangon given that we've started to seen around the 1st signs of public protests. yet the mood today i think now that the shock and initial fear and anxiety of sort of the little there's obviously a lot of places around but now there's a there's a feeling more of of sadness but also anger defiance and i think that's what we were beginning to see last night in this incredible. protest movement everyone can say about music you hear the sound of people banging drums and pots and pans all across the city and it's actually a traditional thing that it's done in myanmar to ward off evil spirits which is also quite telling because obviously you know this is what people are seeing this coup as something very negative something very they want to get rid of that they

want to go away and we're also hearing news of civil disobedience campaign as you mentioned 70 medical facilities across the country at stuff within those facilities . refusing to work as a civil disobedience campaign. the government hospitals in myanmar most many of the houses a myanmar government hospitals and a lot of those hospitals deal with emergency situations so this could have some pretty negative consequences for the people but it's seen as this kind of the most the extremes that people feel they need to go to in order to get the military's attention and show that dissatisfaction and disapproval of this coup what about. have we heard anything from her. whereabouts. so. we we're pretty sure that she's in her home in yangon we have heard from a source and all the spokesperson gto he posted on facebook yesterday saying that

she was in good health and that she remains in her home in her compounds in aikido which is where she spends most of her time 9 and since she came to power in 205-2016 following elections in 2800 she's been living most spending most of her time in a beagle she has a house there and a report of the a neighborhood see her walking around the grounds which is something she sometimes does to show people that she's in good health and that she's and knows obviously confirms that she's that and i found one of the few foreign journalist based in me on my many thanks well on tuesday the u.n. security council held a meeting on the developments in myanmar but stop short of taking immediate action on diplomatic at a said james spays has the latest 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 u.n. special envoy christina fran of berg and she told them that the sun suchi had been

moved from the place that she's been detained in to house arrest the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general though so that was still an acceptable and as a 1st step all detainees needed to be released the 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 the 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 un 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. yankee leave as the former un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar she says regional countries need to do more to pressure on the gender. i can speculate but 3 reasons why they thought they were like to go ahead with this at this point 1st the new parliament was supposed to convene on monday and this election the n.l. he won by a far larger margin than it had in 2015 and the 2nd reason is men are eyeing the commander in chief will speak will be stepping down in june he holds a lot of assets financial assets and with n.m.r. and possibly in businesses dealing with other countries and his family his children and his associates they may lose access to these fortunes once he steps down

that i think may have very noticed and the 3rd thing is that this is the best time during coronavirus pandemic there's been a lockdown already people it would not be easy for people to come out to protest and they can use as a pandemic as an excuse for a plot for cracking down even harder than what normally do enticements fund to pay for there is russia and china russia a few months ago there was a lot of fanfare of commending men online for his leadership and just down january 12th why he visited. b.m.r. and had discussions with men are lying and his colleagues about the so-called irregularities of the elections that the minimum lying and the tatmadaw are professors that there that there was a fraudulent election in more countries should start to go ahead and chime in

and conducting more or placing more targeted sanctions with all the business enterprises and all the business dealings they do with. madara military affiliate and enterprise. second i think countries like china and japan mostly japan. could start something stronger and interview and countries like south korea that has been investing heavily. in this country in myanmar and i'm really surprised that. these countries have not come up with a strong statement yet. inspectors from the world health organization have visited a the role of g institute in the chinese city of work where the coronavirus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 19 since arriving last

month there conducted interviews with people from research institutes hospitals and a seafood market linked to the initial outbreak let's go to katrina hughes life for us in beijing so the team team is now visited this lab in what more can you tell us about their visit. but they spent quite a few hours inside this lab in the slab of course has been the focal point of much controversy the trump administration when it was in power allege that covert 1000 leaked from this lab now we haven't had any evidence of this but it is true that the war institute of world jihad the highest level of biosecurity there they were studying various dangerous pathogens including coronaviruses transmitted from animals now the team have said that they are investigating this theory that there was a leak from this lab they've said that all hypotheses are on the table and of roll just on the team that we spoke to earlier during the trip so that they had been in

talks with the scientists who work there in the weeks leading up to this visit no of course we're not sure exactly how much scope they've been given inside the lab and it's made all the more tricky because this mission is highly politicized many governments around the world have pointed their guns at china saying that it has not been transparent enough throughout this whole process and certainly this entire mission this field trip of the dubby hater has been highly stage managed they began their field work on friday they've been to a number of locations but the media have been given very limited access there and furthermore because of rove resurgent korvin 1000 cases here in china the entire team has been put under intense period of what they've called health monitoring that is to say that there haven't been given much access to the public they their movements are quite restricted now the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken commented on this saying that china has fallen short of providing the team with the needed with the access they need for this

inquiry and the chinese government has rejected all of that criticism certainly members of the team who have spoken to the media have been quite positive about what they've seen so far they've been to a number of hospitals involved in those early days of the outbreak they've also been to the meat in seafood market where the 1st covert 1000 cluster was identified and they say there are being shown doctor that has not been seen before and they are making progress on their investigation many thanks for that katrina you there for us live in beijing. more than a 1000 people have reportedly been arrested in protest against a court ruling to send russian opposition leader alexina about me back to jail. a crime is most prominent critic was sentenced to more than 2 years in prison for violating probation terms are recovering in germany from a near fatal poisoning police have been out in force in moscow where the largest

protest took place the u.s. press in germany and the e.u. a cooling fan of ali's immediate relief challenge in a report. 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 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 no i do so on 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 could do whatever they want to or. the model of the super these trial is a sham like many of the 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 thoughts at the moment we've still not had an answer for on what basis the swedish military conclusion that mr move only was poisoned by an agent from the group in the last 10 years in the valley 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 charly angela urges or the international court of justice the un's highest court is expected to decide whether it can take on iran's plead to remove u.s. sanctions washington says the court does not have jurisdiction and must throw out the case earlier iran's foreign minister had proposed that the european union help

coordinate a simultaneous return to the nuclear deal by both sides that's been rejected by the u.s. on tuesday a spokesman for the biden administration said it's too early for such action and that tehran must 1st come back into full compliance. still ahead on al-jazeera amazon's founder jeff bezos is stepping down as c.e.o. as the latest quarterly profits hit $7000000000.00. but. the atmosphere there you cannot see it is thinking about changing even though the start of the introduction of cloud in a few showers in iraq and running off into eastern turkey is just to let me step back a bit and get this northerly reason to northern egypt as part of a circulation which will generate as it sits rain for western side northwestern

saudi running up through jordan elsewhere in the levant and in iraq and rather than sitting there it will turn around and bring the rain in a line through saudi arabia and more substantially saree iraq including in baghdad with the backwash still bringing showers into egypt and for example past indian territories now how far further south will it go sometimes these things last and produce some significant right this one looks like falling apart and focusing its witness and there'll be some flooding from it in baghdad the eastern side of iraq and western side of iran ok down to the seasonal rain which is more normal now and this arc here fairly obviously through botswana this middle bit of south africa and to the suit too could produce some flash flooding has been done before that it sort of collapses in news eastwards and we're going to introduce yet more significant showers including in johannesburg but also just across the border in southern mozambique.

when all that seems to matter is the headline when narratives and counter narratives obscure reality the listening post drifts away the space less bad done covers the uncomfortable truths the listening posts. as the global pandemic continues to spread will african nations manage to secure the 1000 vaccines african union leaders will also try to find a peaceful resolution to heightened regional tensions in ethiopia and somalia the annual african union summit on al-jazeera. and watching out is there

a mind of our top stories this hour have been public displays of anger against the military coup in myanmar people in the largest city young go on find posts to protest against the overthrow of elected leader aung san suu kyi a civil disobedience group says 70 hospitals and medical departments have stopped work in protest. more than a 1000 people have reportedly been arrested in process against a court ruling to send russian opposition leader alexei navalny back to jail he was sentenced to more than 2 years in prison for violating probation terms while covering in journey from a near fatal poisoning. inspectors from the world health organization has visited a very key to the chinese city it will happen by the coronavirus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origin of that 90. scientists say a coven 1000 variant detected in the united kingdom has further mutated in. a way that could help it evade vaccines tests show the changes are similar to those seen

in the more contagious south african and brazil variance the u.k. is tightening measures to control the spread of new strains with more testing and tougher travel restrictions while while the a nations try to ramp up their vaccination programs countries across africa lagging far behind the answer for now is to find existing drugs that can treat coded one candidate is ivermectin and there's been a huge demand even though it's normally found on farms and whole reports either make tin is best known for treating parasites in livestock and in human form as a treatment for skin conditions like scabies it's been taken safely by billions of people trials conducted across the developing world who've also revealed ivermectin to be an effective treatment for covert 19 reducing symptoms cutting mortality by up to 75 percent and even inhibiting transmission. in parts of india it's been

credited with bringing coded 1000 infections down to manageable levels while authorities in utah pradesh have announced they'll provide a protective dose to every devote tending the market mela festival on the banks of the ganges river next year for countries like i wondered because it has a long history in asia and africa many of the countries where obviously. apart from cannot be at home for a long time they have to go for work and they have to cure that and this is the rich and i thought about. less than $2.00 full course a group of doctors in the united states collating data from studies like dr comes in bangladesh now believe i have a mic tin should be put to immediate global use but works not only in prevention early treatment but it even works late fees in the hospital even patients on ventilators have shown improvement when they get ever having met in and at that point it's not the virus replicating it's all severe inflammation so when i say and

i what i've said to colleagues and what we believe in my group is that if you were going to design a drug for all the phases and the path and the physiology of course ivermectin would be the drug the wealth of data that exists on ivermectin has yet encouraged many rich world medical regulators to act in part because the focus here has been so squarely on vaccine development and in part because of an apparent reluctance to accept low budget developing world data but as the virus mutates into more lethal strains owners concerns grow that vaccines alone may not be the long term answer so interest is building in ivermectin with its potential to be both prevention and cure so much so that research is at oxford university a conducting a trial of their own although we are hopeful that vaccines are going to do what's promised the data is not very reassuring that they're actually going to achieve.

everything that they're setting how to achieve but if they don't we'll have another tool as as a backup and as one that we can deploy now while waiting for the vaccines right there's a huge portion of the world which don't have anything valuable to protect them or treat them after intense lobbying by health care professionals slovakia this week became the 1st e.u. country to approve the use of ivermectin as a treatment for covert 19 why do you use may not be far behind join a whole al-jazeera. russia sputnik vaccine has been found to be nearly 92 percent effective and protecting against corona virus this is according to peer reviewed results from it stage 3 trial published by the lancet it's also been found to be safe and offer complete protection against hospitalization and deaths vaccines been approved by 16 countries including mexico u.s. president joe biden has signed a series of executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hardline immigration

policies they include the creation of a task force to reunite hundreds of children separated from their families on the trump 0 tolerance policy and also be a review of the asylum process at the border with mexico alan fischer has the details from washington d.c. . what he's turning his attention to is essentially what's been going on at the us mexico border you remember that donald trump put in place as 0 tolerance policy that led to a number of families being separated from one another hundreds of families that were affected by that he's now going to set up a task force which will be led by the new homeland security secretary just confront in the last few hours and he will see if he can try and put those families back together again now the president says this isn't about making a law by executive order this is about overturning policies which he considered unfair described by his own press secretary as immoral this is about how

america is safer stronger more prosperous more we have a fair border we are you married legal immigration system and with the 1st action today. we're going to work to undo the moral and national shame. of the previous administration literally not figuratively rip children from their families their mothers fathers at the border. with no plan none whatsoever to reunify children still. custody and their parents but one of the things that the biking administration has said they would like to see is a pathway to citizenship for those undocumented migrants who connelly in the united states know the figures on those are somewhere between 12000000 and 21000000 and while the support among democrats there are many republicans who say that simply is not going to fly with them they don't want to see that happen they wouldn't be able

to sell it to their constituencies and they point out as well in many cases that donald trump was as popular as he was is because of his hardline stance on immigration so they're waiting to see what comes from the bike the ministration but it's clear that joe biden isn't done with immigration yet. and the man who's expected to play a central role in those attempts to reverse trump's policies has been sworn in as secretary of homeland security a 100000000 workers was confirmed by the u.s. senate he is the 1st latino and the 1st immigrant to hold the position. earlier pete but a judge was confirmed as transportation secretary he is the 1st openly gay member of the u.s. cabinet a 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 the congress are inciting his supporters

to storm capitol hill trump's legal team says the senate lacks the authority to try him now that he is no longer president. he has moved from washington. their argument is that what we saw here on capitol hill on january the 6th was the culmination of a campaign by dog to pursue power out all costs a campaign that began even before the election he was already priming his supporters to not accept potentially the results of the election following the election he didn't receive the results he wanted he began trying to overturn those results and failed as a result there he summoned his supporters to the capital according to democratic house managers needs a very memorable phrase that he someone demob to washington exhorted them into a frenzy and aimed them like a looted cannon down pennsylvania avenue and we saw the riot here on capitol hill as a result as far as the the defense argument that it's simply unconstitutional to impeach

a former president but democrats say that cannot be true because the constitution says a president has to be held accountable from the 1st day of his presidency to the last day of his presidency there can't be a january exception that is you can't impeach a president in january because in a few weeks they're going to be handing over power anyway because if there was such an exception then surely other leaders would be encouraged to try to hold on to power in january as well because they would be held accountable by congress so that's the that's the argument from the democrat house members a u.s. police officer killed in the riots is lying in in the capitol building in washington president joe biden was among those paying their respects to 42 year old brian sync nick police say he died a day off to engaging with protesters during the last month see there were reports he was hit with a foreign extinguisher sic nick was one of 5 people who died as a result of the riots. 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 bezos leaves his post on the high notes as the company posted quarterly sales of more than $100000000000.00 for the 1st time and the jesse who is the head of amazon web services will be stepping up to run the company larry magid is a technology analyst and the c.e.o. off connect safely website he tells us what lies ahead for bezos successor we've 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 regulators around the world labor dispute say that some people want to unionize the employee 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 a merger and regulation of course there's always competition in the u.s. wal-mart and major retailer is also a major competitor of amazon now more than 30 homes have been destroyed by a bushfire in western australia by far as a battling the blaze on the outskirts of the city of puff the strong winds are how prng efforts to contain it hundreds have been forced to evacuate the area this of course is all happening as passes on a chronic virus locked down with 2000000 people confined to their homes. this is al jazeera these are your top stories that in public displays of anger against military coups in myanmar people in the largest city young go on and poets to protest against the overthrow of elected leader aung san suu kyi.