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i think that our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society impact is. there anything much we can take before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth syrians announces the era. of. the 1st major protests in myanmar against the military coup calls for further civil disobedience a growing. i'm adrian said again 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
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been killed in 3 months of conflict. a team of investigators from the world health organization visits a lab that's at the center of covert 19 conspiracy claims in china. and soaring covert infections in lebanon in our severe shortage of medical supplies which the country but even greater risk. so we begin to mam ma where a civil disobedience movement is growing 2 days after the military seized power and removed the democratically elected government staff at hospitals a medical department sin 30 towns of stopped working the group says the army has put its own interests above the nation which has one of southeast asia's highest coronavirus death tolls overnight there was a public show of dissent in the commercial cup. itll young gone people the bank
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pots and pans in protests against the coup ousted leader aung san suu kyi remains of the house arrest the u.s. is now classified the military takeover as a coup of this growing condemnation from across the world the head of bayan mazar meat who now runs the country says the removal of sochi was inevitable the military claims with no evidence that there were irregularities in the election let's go live to yangon and we fall is one of the few foreign journalists based in myanmar she joins us from there now tell us more about this campaign of civil defense disobedience. yes so today we see the beginnings of what's been called a movement of. some information about it coming up on line yesterday some of the you screw the activists the young go on usenet what we're calling for people to join and now a facebook page called the civil disobedience movement has been started and it's
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already thousands of followers very very quickly number a growing fast and the 1st example of this that we've seen of the most extreme example of it we've seen is as you mentioned in hospitals and medical facilities across the country a lot there are a huge number of government owned medical facilities across the country most of the medical stuff here what's the government and so the response. coming from the people coming from them. we will not what will the military they're not happy about the fact the military take note of the government and then. working under them so they're responding by stopping treatment which is obviously incredibly worrying and is going to have a huge impact it's dangerous but i think that's why they feel it's going to have such an impact on on the military because it will bring the country. to a standstill it could and it set me having to have
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a huge huge impact there are people saying that the medical staff will treat people in other ways but of course the government hospitals have some of the best facilities they. meant full imagine situations and also treatment 19 if you are diagnosed in 1900 it's obligatory to be treated at a government facility at the moment so all of these patients potentially are being left left in the lurch so it's a huge impact of the still a lot of support for it and i spoke to one of the old. the eyes is of one of the used activist groups yesterday or an advisor to the youth activist group and she said that they've been overwhelmed by the response by celebrities and older more established activists 88 generation people who were leaders in the ones making a protest also supporting it and they also may have other plans up their sleeves
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because we're hearing a little bit more from them about calls for action and i think in the coming days we'll see more resistance and just briefly ali what's the latest on the whereabouts of aung san suu. from some titchy we think that she's still in. the compound in a futile where she had she has a house with the taint in the house she has been seen walking around the grounds it's been posted by one of her. chito he has said that she's she's healthy oh she's known to in good health she's been seen by a neighbor walking around there is speculation there's a maybe some charges brought against her no real insulation coming out about that but there's an increased security presence around her district court made by. the n.l.c. leaders are having a meeting in anticipation of that and it does seem like a likely next step in the military because they want to keep the rights of the way and they follow reporting live from young on many thanks indeed. well the group of
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7 the largest that developed country economies has condemned the military coup in me on mon said that it was deeply concerned about the face of the sensor cheap on tuesday the un security council held a meeting on the developments and them all but stopped short of taking immediate action diplomatic editor james pais reports. the u.n. 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 shriner berg and she told them that. she had been moved from the place that she's been detained in to house arrest the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general though said that was still on 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 save by the rule of law following the november 8th elections these turn of events was surprising and shocking the current
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president of the security council the british ambassador said that discussions will continue in the coming days there's been widespread concern among and 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 a group of opposition parties in ethiopia's to agree region says the ball than 50000 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the theory of the an army it's not clear where the estimate has come from and in the past the theo paean government has said that federal forces haven't killed any civilians access the region has been severely limited since fighting broke out in
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november let's go live now to nairobi al jazeera is malcolm webb is there can tell us more what exactly are these opposition parties saying welcome. well many damning accusations against the ethiopian government including that figure you mentioned of more than $50000.00 civilians they say of being killed they say that villages and towns have been destroyed in blind barges of artillery they say they've been extradition killings gang rapes they also accuse the government of ethiopia of using food and hunger as a weapon they say that millions of heads of livestock have been killed have been destroyed crops have been burned and now 6000000 people they say are in desperate need of humanitarian aid because of this deliberate and widespread destruction of the food sources that people depend on and they also repeated accusations that we've heard a lot that eritrean troops are involved supporting the ethiopian government forces
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in the grey eritrea has denied it ethiopia did deny it for a long time but said more recently that eritrean troops may entered without permission but the u.s. government did speak out about this just a few days ago they do believe that eritrean forces are there and they've called them to leave but they also these opposition parties are also very critical of the ongoing communications blackout in the area and the lack of access for humanitarian workers welcome the u.n. or so 20000 eritrean refugees have gone missing from ethiopia what more can you tell us about that. a lot something that the un's refugee agency chief filippo grandi said just after a visit just a couple of days ago to to the to gray region now there were about $100000.00 eritrean refugees living integration in northern ethiopia when the conflict began
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in the beginning of november eritrean forces were accused of coming in to break up those camps and according to satellite images 2 of them can be seen were destroyed according to images taken in january now filippo grandy said a lot of these people were caught in the crossfire he said that 3000 people from those 2 camps made it to a nearby camp within ethiopia he said many others were on the g.o.'s forced to return back to eritrea and so implying that that's what happened to the 20000 who were missing grundy at the same time said that there was a very grave situation into gray called on greater access for humanitarian workers this correlates with what the red cross have recently been saying as well they're saying that they've many areas they can't access at all because they need passes issued by the government and so there are a lot of people in desperate need of help that they say they can't get to under
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serious malcolm we're reporting live from nairobi malcolm x. . china says that it will provide $10000000.00 doses of its vaccine to an initiative to supply the job to poor countries chinese companies say the farm and see novak have both developed vaccines already being administered in several other countries including brazil and the united arab emirates meanwhile inspectors from the world health organization a visited of the role of genes to jews in the chinese city of new han that's where the corona virus 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 outbreak morrell from al-jazeera is trying to you is in beijing. 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 access they've been given there but of
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course this is a very important lab it's the focus point of much controversy because the trump administration when it wasn't power allege 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 a number of dangerous pathogens were being studied including coronaviruses that had been transmitted from animals this is a very politicized mission china's very worried about the results and how we 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 now china's foreign ministry have rejected those criticisms and indeed members of the team who have spoken to the media since the field work 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 sites including some of the 1st hospitals which housed some of those
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1st corinna virus patients they've also seen the meat and seafood market where the 1st cluster of coven 1000 was identified and they said that they are seeing doctor and information previously on revealed and that they do feel that they are making some headway in their investigations to finding out the origin of this pandemic. we're going to weather update next he announces 0 then u.s. president joe biden rolls back many of his predecessors policies including those making the u.s. less welcome to immigrants. who walk at the space x. hopes will one day go to mars if they can get it to land. it's time for the perfect gentlemen the winter storm suit point qatar airways how we
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got some contrast in the weather across europe at the moment more mild air streaming in across southern parts than a few. into turkey temperatures on the rise here further north we have got some very cold air across scandinavia and then we got some moderate pushing back into western parts as well easing across the british isles into france seeing the form of rain and some snow so there's that cold weather across northern most part struggling to get to minus 5 celsius that's around 4 or 5 degrees below the season lavish the cold even from norway further south of relatively warm air we're getting up to around 80 in there in athens a 15 in belgrade and there sat several something in between we got so wet some windy weather to be just getting up into double figures there for london and paris some heavy rain there pushing into a good parts of the low countries eastern parts of france we've had some flooding problems just around paris at the moment ashley very wet weather coming into
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germany was to push its way into proud industry go on through the next 24 to 48 hours with some snow and all the flank of that wet some wintry weather will gradually make its way across ukraine further south east coast to paris over the temperatures picking up for now athens getting up to 90 degrees celsius. qatar airways ok calm and make sure you're not hyping the situation be part of the debate my main characters are women when no topic is off the table the law is in the last allow child marriage to happen legally these are basically archaic walls their ads often legitimize and legal wise pedophiles on arrow on line jumping to the quick section and meeting to be part of the discussion the stream on out is there a. again
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this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour the party of mammals ousted leader aung san suu kyi she says the military is rated its offices in several regions and seized computers and documents the army took power at a military coup on monday. opposition parties in ethiopia's to grey regions say that over the 50000 civilians have been killed in 3 months of conflict the ethiopian government has yet to respond but in the past it has denied that its forces have killed any civilians. but its spec says from the world health organization of visited of the roma g. institute in the chinese city of han that's where the corona virus was 1st identified the team has spent the last month investigating the origins covered by.
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across latin america leaders are struggling to control a surge in coronavirus cases which continues to have well medical services in mexico ambulances are being forced to wait for hours to find open beds if one could be found a tool oxygen supply is a limited with many forced to recover at home russian sputnik the vaccine has been approved for use there but it's a similar story in peru where people are sleeping outside medical facilities to make sure that they can get access to oxygen the demand is put many families in debts with some forced to spend board 2 years salary in order to help their loved ones oxygen is also short in lebanon the world health organization lists it as in the highest risk stages of the coronavirus pandemic one 3rd of all cases identified that the past year have been detected in just the last month in a huddle reports. the calls are endless every single day of the week at whatever time day or night melissa runs
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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 and. i had a gentleman call me at 1130 at night on saturday crying on the phone because of his father and i had to point 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 receiving. less and less patients being admitted to hospital 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
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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 registered one of the world's worst 3rd. for the size of its population which is close to $7000000.00. 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 with bed shortages and the need to prioritize care but lebanon's health sector was already weak from years of neglect and a collapsing economy high number of cases. that we have.
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not that it's. more. but if we continue like i think. 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 to. beirut more than 1400 people have reportedly been arrested in protest against a court ruling to send russian opposition leader alexina volley back to prison. called says that he violated. early a conviction while recovering in germany from a near fatal poisoning he'll 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 u.s. secretary of state antony blinken called for the immediate and unconditional
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release of the valley and his supporters the u.k.'s foreign secretary dominic rob described the court ruling as perverse germany's chancellor angela merkel said the violence against peaceful demonstrators must stop. aureole cohen as a senior fellow at the atlantic council on international affairs think tank he says that the imprisonment has reinforced how strong an opponent the valley is we've had example of other major sauvie yet regime opponents like andre the suffer of the physicist who was exiled to the city of course fed through to by the regime and nevertheless soccer remained in the russian history as a great man of freedom of the russian dolls and of della. with all the difference it suffered never became the head of russia. not violently is a major figure in the regime is doing everything to show that he is
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a major political opponent of lets you know. 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 20th century at every crossroad made a wrong move that brought the russian empire to the disaster in 1917 when it collapsed on its own people rose against the regime and brought the regime down 12 police officers have been arrested in mexico in connection with the killing of 19 people at the u.s. border the offices face charges of homicide abuse of authority of making false statements the charred bodies were found in the back of 2 burned out trucks in the states of time only pass last week at least 2 of them were guatemalan migrants trying to reach the u.s. the others have yet to be identified. u.s.
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president joe biden aside a series of executive orders aimed at reversing donald trump's hardline immigration policies thanks to the creation of a task force to reignite hundreds of children who are separated from their families are the tribes 0 tolerance policy that will also be a review of the asylum process at the border with mexico is about how america is safer stronger more prosperous now we have a fair orderly and you main 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 and 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 their parents the 2nd action addresses the root causes of our migration to our southern border
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and a further action with 3rd order to resign orders a full review of the previous administration's harmful and counterproductive immigration policies basically cross border. and about his expects to play a central role in those attempts to revive strums policies has been sworn in as secretary of homeland security i have by all cost was confirmed by the u.s. senate is the 1st latino of the 1st immigrants to hold the position. and pete was confirmed as transportation secretary he's the 1st openly gay member of the u.s. cabinet that's all the 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 senators democrats who drafted the charges accused him of endangering the lives of all members of congress by inciting
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his supporters to storm the capitol hill trump's legal team says the senate lacks the authority to try him now that he's no longer president al-jazeera should have returned sea ports now from washington d.c. on the charges presented by the democrats their argument is that what we saw here on capitol hill on january the 6th was the culmination of a campaign by dog trump 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 may use a very memorable phrase that he someone demob to washington exhorted them into a frenzy and aimed them like alluded 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
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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 on a in the capitol building in washington colleagues and politicians are paying their respects to brian sic nick police say that he died the day after engaging with protesters during the look the last line during last month's siege he was reportedly hit with a fire extinguisher was one of 5 people who died as a result of the riots allison boss jeff bezos has announced that he's stepping down
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as c.e.o. later this year he set to become executive chairman of plans to focus on new products of the initiatives baseball sleeves his post as the company post schools and he sells a ball than 100000000000 dollars for the 1st time the head of amazon web services and the jesse is to run the company barry magic is a technology analyst and the c.e.o. of the connect safely website he tells us what lies ahead for bezos is successor well he's been with the company things almost a beginning a 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 of the around the world labor dispute theory of youth some people want to unionize the employee a call for better wages and better working conditions but i think the the regulation issue is one thing that they're having to contend with and also the fact that amazon at that growth bigger and more powerful isn't quite as well loved that
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once what if it was just under a lot of scrutiny both you could feel and regulated of course it's always competition in the u.s. wal-mart and major retailer is also a major competitor of amazon now. the u.s. company space x. has carried out a 2nd test flight of its present type rockets it's being developed to take humans to los things were going well until it tried to land under chappelle explains to one. you're looking at the future of space travel built by a private company space x. starship is designed to transport people deeper into space than ever before and possibly take 100 people at a time to mars the 1st high altitude test flight of the starship prototype was carried out in december stunning onlookers with a landing put maneuver that until that point had never been done the reusable spacecraft stabilizes itself in a controlled fall before landing which didn't go so well the 1st time. 7
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was test vehicles are built to fail so that later versions don't data from test flights are used to make improvements to the production line in texas along the u.s. mexican border the company's founder elon musk says they'll go through around 20 prototypes before it's operational starship will eventually tower 120 meters in the sky atop what's called a super heavy rocket more powerful than the saturn 5 used for the apollo missions to the moon and it will launch from the sea space x. recently purchased to decommission oil rigs for 3 and a half $1000000.00 each and is converting them into floating space ports. musk says 1000 starships will be needed to build a city on mars and he's committing billions from his personal wealth to finance it do you want a future where we become a space rank civilization and are in many worlds and out there among the stars or one where we are forever confined to earth and i say it is the 1st and and i hope
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you agree with me. fully reusable transportation systems have significantly reduced costs for each launch for humans and cargo multiple ships then stop building up a city than making the city bigger and bigger even after defying expectations musk's critics doubt his billions will be enough to finance his dreams a vision that will likely cost trillions of dollars to realize and will depend on future technology not yet invented but for now the next starship is fully assembled and nearly ready for launch and are shipped out al-jazeera. it's good to have you with us hello adrian fenty good here in doha the headlines on i would say to the policy of me honestly the only sound suchi says that the military is rated its offices in several regions and sees compute.

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