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but also just across the border in southern mozambique. i know coming all of that the narrative from most in my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. the 1st major protest in myanmar against the military coup calls for further civil disobedience a growing. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up opposition parties in ethiopia's to greater region say that more than 50000 civilians have been killed in 3 months of conflict. a team of investigators from the world health
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organization visit a lab at the center of china's covert 19 conspiracy claims. and u.s. president joe biden signs 3 executive orders rolling back donald trump's hardline immigration policies. so we begin in myanmar where a civil disobedience movement is growing 2 days after the military seized power and removed the democratically elected government staff at hospitals and medical to pop in since 30 towns have stopped working the group says that the army has put its own interests above the nation which has one of the southeast asia's highest coronavirus death tolls overnight there was a public show of dissent in the commercial capital gang on people banging pots and pans to protest against the coup. leader aung san suu kyi remains under house arrest the us is now classified the military takeover as
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a coup and there's growing condemnation from across the world the head of mi and mas army who now runs the country says the removal of sushi was inevitable the military claims with no evidence that there were irregularities in november election. let's go straight to. one of the few foreign journalists based in myanmar she's with us now to tell us more about this campaign of civil disobedience . and what's happened is in the last 24 hours also there's been a whole will people what is the government organizations. joining a campaign of civil disobedience so essentially it's a form of strike they. if using to do that was under the military well they were using to work directly for the military and so we've seen it the coal fire is across all government organizations all civil servants who seem cold from the youth
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a young gun use network which is an activist group where it's had the most impact and the thing that everyone's talking about the most is in the hospital there are 70 hospitals and medical clinics that have to be signed up to to this campaign for civil disobedience they were using to what under the military which is obviously incredibly worrying and problematic we're in the middle of a global health crisis here the time to make the 1900 that has hit me much harder than its neighbors in the region and there has been an impact here and took over 1000 patients the government hospital is the only place you know to go similarly if you have an emergency equipment in the government hospital means that's the place you need to go doctors are saying that they will treat people in other ways and many doctors here at what the government institutions a paid so badly that they moonlights the private clinics as well so perhaps we will
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see them moving that to private clinics but that might be out to reach for many people in myanmar and also they would have the facilities so it is worrying but they obviously see it as something that will have a huge impact something that will affect the whole country and will make it ungovernable for the military and they they think it's a good bargaining chip and hoping it will have some sort of response to the military make some sort of a. i was on the whereabouts of aung san suu kyi. well on time suchi is we're told to be still in make it all the capital she has been spotted by a neighbor walking around the grime of come time so we think she's in her own home come find on the house detention home detention rather than having been taken away somewhere we heard from. an l.d.
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party spokes person that she is in good health which i think they've gathered from the fact that she's walking around it's apparently something she used to do when she was on the house arrest before exercise is obviously important to be all details and so it's showing she's fine you know making sure that people can see she's still there and she's still well but we have no news on whether she's going to be released the room is now of charges being brought against her if the military do go ahead with concluding that the election was full jill and that could be some very serious charges no confirmation on that yet but that's just me what people talking about is meanwhile many of the people who were detained have have been released there is some good news that and m.p.'s who will surrounded in that in the in the m.p. compounds there's a a minuscule guesthouse where all employees say they can go they have been released but have chosen to say that the now. in order to be able to handle well wait for
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the next steps really but they've now been told that they must leave within 24 hours so it's unclear what will happen in that but certainly some movement happening early fall reporting live from yangon ali many thanks indeed well a group of 7 largest developed economies has condemned the military coup in myanmar and said that it was deeply concerned about the face of the detained leader aung san suu cim on tuesday the un security council held a meeting on the developments in the on law but stopped short of taking immediate action or diplomatic editor james pace 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 u.n. special envoy christina srun a berg and she told them that. she 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
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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 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 who is playing for time and diplomats say china has not yet shown its hand. inspectors from the world health organization a visited virology institute in the chinese city of who han where the corona virus
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was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 19 since arriving last month they've conducted interviews with people from research institutes hospitals at a seafood market linked to the initial break of a series katrina you in beijing can tell us more what is this team doing at the very moment she institute katrina. well they were there for a few hours today since that morning there is intense interest in this site when not sure exactly what kind of information what access they've been given there but of course this is a very important lab it's the focus point of much controversy because the trump administration when it was in power alleged that corvette 19 in fact leaked from this lab now we haven't seen any evidence of that but it is true that this lab has the highest level of bio security in china and inside
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a number of dangerous pathogens were being studied including coronaviruses that had been transmitted from animals now the w hate or team said that they are investigating this theory actually the agency has said that all hypotheses are on the table and we spoke to the virologist. who is a member of that team and she said that she had been talking to chinese scientists who work at the wall han lab and had been having meetings with them in the lead up to this visit of course it's unclear exactly whether all that questions are going to be answered because this is a very politicized mission china is very worried about the results and how look to the international community everything in this mission since they began their field work has been highly stage managed since many countries have pointed blame at china accusing them of not being transparent certainly on the ground it's very difficult to get information about the next steps of the that the team are going to take the media has been given very limited information and the team itself because of resurgent covered 1000 cases here in china are under what they've called an intense
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phase of health monitoring meaning to say that they're moving about in a kind of bubble they have quite limited interactions with members of the public and because of this some commentators and including the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken he's actually commented on this mission saying that china is falling short when it comes to providing the team with the access that they need now the chinese foreign ministry have rejected the risk. this is a mess and indeed members of the team who have spoken to the media since the field what has began say that the trip is going quite positively they're happy with what they've seen so far they've been taken to a number of flights including some of the 1st hospitals which housed some of those 1st corinna virus patients they've also seen the meet in seafood market where the 1st cluster of carbon 1000 was identified and they said that they all seen dasa and information previously on revealed and that they do feel that they're making some headway in their investigations to finding out the origin of this pandemic out
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xeres katrina you're reporting live from beijing katrina many thanks indeed more than 1400 people have reportedly been arrested in protest against a court ruling to send russian opposition leader alexina back to jail. the court said he violated the probation terms of an earlier conviction while recovering in germany from a near fatal poisoning will now spend more than 2 years behind bars police have been out in force in moscow where the largest protests took place has been global outrage us secretary of state on the brink and called for the immediate unconditional release of all the and his supporters the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic robb described the court ruling as perverse germany's chancellor angela merkel said that violence against peaceful demonstrators must stop or real cohen is a senior fellow at the atlantic council and its national affairs think tank he says
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the imprisonment is reinforced just how strong an opponent volley is. we've had examples of other major saw viet regime opponents like andre suffer of the physicist who was exiled to the city of gorky and force fed through a tube by the regime and nevertheless soccer remained in the russian history as a great man of freedom of the russian dolls and above dealt. with all the differences of the soccer of never became the head of russia. not vitally is a major figure at the regime is doing everything to show that he is a major political opponent of letting a point to he made his job to expose tremendous corruption in russia and to me what they did today was a huge mistake just as the sorest regime in the 19th century and early
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20th century at every crossroad made a wrong move that brought the russian empire to the disaster in 1917 what it collapsed on its own people roost against the regime and brought the regime down . we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then how a new change to the constitution could mean there is no hope for pro-choice activists in honduras and allison has made record profits over the last year now its founder and c.e.o. is stepping back. from. the cold air is still pretty stubborn stuck up in now the northeast of of europe particularly scandinavia but against it is this relentless atlantic push the
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israeli milder and milder windy and wet is fairly typical weather i have to say for this part of winter that's the case for some parts of france and germany low countries in fact as in flood warnings out for france for a couple days in germany at the moment but this all comes up against a cold easterly breeze this line here through northern germany through poland back to scotland is going to be a role one feel pretty horrible in complete contrast to what's happening down in italy for example a good part of the southeast of europe and even spain and portugal where temperatures are actually rising so here's a contrast hamburg's hanging around back 0 plus one with either a cold breeze or no breeze and snow and overcast conditions pretty much all the time for the next 3 days now as you can see there's a line of this there was buckles up through the north sea give some for denmark and still keeps throwing snow into well poland and the baltics and then it goes eastwards as you can see not far from kiev but look at rome and here's the forecast for rome for thursday and friday and saturday might be a big cloud around even
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a murky morning but it's warm the average is 30 new got 19 or 20. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there's only one doctor and one nurse for $2200.00 people and in-depth analysis of the dates global headlines. inside story on al-jazeera the american people have finally folk in america is i split when america is off balance or will become more dangerous the world is looking at us a little mixture of sadness and. with the election behind us will the republican party dump truck to the hill weekly take on us politics and facility that's the bottom on.
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a log and this is a reminder of the main news this hour residents of mammals largest city bank pots and pans from windows overnight in protest against the military coup medical workers from 30 towns across man also stopped working and process take over ousted leader aung san suu kyi remains on the house arrest. inspectors from the world health organization of visited a variety institute in the chinese city of ruhani where the coronavirus was 1st identified the team spent the last month investigating the origins of covert night . more than 4800 people have reportedly been arrested in protest against court ruling to send russian opposition dalek's leader election about they back to jail the court says he violated the potion terms for earlier conviction while recovering
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in germany from a near fatal poisoning. a group of opposition parties in ethiopia is to greater regions as the ball than 50000 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army it's not clear where the estimate has come from but in the past the ethiopian government has said that federal forces haven't killed any civilians access to the region has been severely limited since fighting broke out in the book but witnesses reports that people have been course in the crossfire and some of them starving let's go live to nairobi officers michael webb can tell us more malcolm what are we to make of these claims of 50000 civilian deaths and to agree. will these claims come from 3 opposition parties they're saying there more than $50000.00 civilians have been killed they say that there was blind artillery shelling that completely destroyed towns and villages they say that extra judicial killings and rape have been
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widespread and they're complaining that this is this is how the conflict has indeed shaped up but they've complained again and once again of foreign involvement they've repeated accusations that we've heard a lot of eritrean soldiers being involved that's something the u.s. announced that it believes is the case that eritrean soldiers are supporting the ethiopian forces ethiopia's government denied for many weeks but has recently said that they might have entered without permission eritrea denied being involved as well and this statement by opposition parties is also very critical of the information blackout we still continues in many parts of the to grey region restrictions on internet and phone lines of zeros broken web reporting live there from nairobi welcome any thanks indeed. the world health organization lists lebanon in the highest risk stages of the coronavirus pandemic one 3rd of all cases identified in the past year of the detective in just the last
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month and despite the lockdown the soaring number of cases that's left the country with a shortage of medical supplies so you know what the reports. the calls are endless every single day of the week at whatever time day or night melissa runs a non-governmental organization that has redirected its resources to providing oxygen supply to coronavirus patients at home there is what doctors call an uncontrolled pandemic in lebanon. i had a gentleman call me at 1130 at night on saturday crying on the phone because of his father and i had to you know explain to him i physically do not have a machine right now please wait until we get a machine and he's like my father can't wait there is a shortage of machines to provide patients with oxygen leading to more appeals on social media for help we have a lot of patients is even. less and less patients are being admitted to hospital
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because this is. the red cross has been at the front line of this battle. volunteers have transported more than 5000 patients to hospitals in the past few weeks 4 times more than last year and there are many more on a waiting list. the 1st. big number of critical patients so they can get. some hospitals are using shipping containers to treat patients in the parking lot while others have suspended non emergency treatment health experts say registered one of the world's worst surges and in fact in salary for the size of its population which is close to $7000000.00 and a half 1000000 refugees more than 100000 cases were detected in the past month that's one 3rd of all cases identified in the past year. many countries have dealt
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with beds shortages and the need to prioritize care but lebanon's health sector was already weak from years of neglect and a collapsing economy. the high number of cases. that we have with the. would we. give a patient more living but if we continue like i think we were that it's. a 3 week 24 hour curfew has brought numbers down but it's not enough and the daily worry of not being able to find a place in hospital or get access to oxygen supplies hasn't gone away jennifer there beirut police in afghanistan say that a police officer has been killed and 3 others injured in an attack in kabul the vehicle was hit by a magnetic bomb during the early morning rush hour there's been no claim of responsibility. u.s.
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president joe biden assigned 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's 0 tolerance policy there will also be a review of the asylum process of the border with mexico where the impact of the trump era immigration policies has been devastating for thousands of families as well brunell's reports. the 0 tolerance policy is gone but the damage remains from one of the trumpet ministrations most controversial and widely condemned immigration actions the deliberate separation of children from their parents at the border we have. in a way that we will not fully understand an entire generation of children. thousands of them and there is no clear remedy right now and that at a minimum more than $5500.00 children were separated from their parents beginning
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in 2017. recordings of children crying emerged and helped lead to a public outcry and he banned a mint of the policy but approximately 600 children still have not been you reunited according to a lawsuit filed by the american civil liberties union i think it really was a matter of they just didn't care all they care about is taking the shorter way no plan in place to track or even think about. it some day need to be reunited in most cases parents were deported to their home countries in mexico or central america and the children put into foster care some of the younger kids have forgotten their parents as the years passed by others are deeply traumatized one of the things we're seeing is that so angry resentful at their parents asking their parents can you love me enough to keep. me away the family separation policy was
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deliberately planned to deter migrants if you are some ongoing trial there we will prosecute the natural right even separated from you as required by law a department of homeland security inspector general's report found the border patrol and immigration officials were unprepared for the 0 tolerance policy and kept on. reliable and incomplete data on children and parents immigration advocates hope president joe biden's task force on family separations succeeds in reuniting the remaining parents and children but they say those families deserve more give them permission to read the united states to rejoin their assuring the united states and then to give them the go. higher restitution advocates also want a full investigation and strict policies to ensure that the cruelty at the border
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never happens again rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles 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 and 100 may ocus was confirmed by the u.s. senate he's the 1st latino and the 1st immigrant to hold the position. the impeachment case against donald trump has been set in motion that the senate democrats who drafted the charges of 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 president amazon's boss jeff bezos has announced that he's stepping down to see later this year he set to become executive chairman and plans to focus on new products and initiatives bezos leaves his post on a high note as the company posted quarterly sales of 100000000000 dollars for the
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1st time and the jesse head of amazon web services will be stepping up to run a company larry magid is a technology analyst i'm the c.e.o. of the connect safely website he tells us what lies ahead for his successor. well he's been with the company since almost the beginning and he 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 is around the world labor disputes there's 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 a growth figure 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 say and regulators and of course there's always competition in the u.s. wal-mart and major retailer is also
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a major competitor of amazon now in honduras politicians have made it they only impossible to ever legalize abortion by changing the constitutional rights groups say the move is in response to the decriminalization of the procedure in argentina last month 000 s. manuel right below reports. a trip to an emergency room in. 3 years ago changed his life forever that's when she learned for the 1st time that she was pregnant between 20 and 25 weeks a long letter from here then it wouldn't matter if i didn't visit the hospital because of a pregnancy they were the ones who told me i was pregnant but they said my child had been dead for 2 days i didn't even know what to feel. anna says her emotional and physical trauma was suddenly made worse after doctors listed her merge and see it as an intentional terminations of pregnancy which in honduras is a crime punishable by up to 6 years in prison ok i had some markings on my stomach
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and because of those markings they said it was an abortion when i was discharged from the hospital the police were already waiting. on a defense attorney with the women's rights groups. says that more than 60 women or girls have faced prosecution in honduras since 2012 under the country's strict anti-abortion laws in lobbying and in many cases criminalization is due to obstetric emergencies that medical reports list as abortions despite often being inclusive these reports of then used as evidence against women who can spend 34 or more years locked in a judicial process that is long and exhausting. in january of this year feminist activists hope thunderous might follow the lead of argentina where abortion was recently legalized up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy. but instead pondering lawmakers passed a constitutional reform making it nearly impossible to ever legalize abortion in
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the future human rights organizations have called the legislation in assault on women's reproductive rights there is currently one of the only few countries in the continent in latin america and. the ban abortions without any explicit right the country also has one of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world . without women. every reality. of the new constitutional amendment was championed by hundreds his ruling conservative party and what many see as an extreme political move as the country nears national elections. and where religion plays an oversized role in political decision making. around the world abortion rates are higher in countries where abortions are banned according to a 2017 global study in honduras it's estimated that between 50 and 80000 women risk their lives every year by resorting to clandestine abortion clinics. had 24 years
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old under lopez says having a criminal record has kept her from finding steady work or returning to school. and his criminal case remains open in the honduran court system if convicted she faces a sentence of 3 to 6 years in prison for the quote interruption of life after the moment of conception miserable al jazeera. it's good to have you with us hello adrian forget here in doha the headlines and i was there a people living in manaus largest city of fans pots and pans from windows of a night in protest against the coup medical workers from 30 towns have gone on strike but ousted leader aung san suu kyi remains on house arrest early fall reports now from the angle there's been a whole well people working for government organizations. john.

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