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police file charges against. her to be taken into custody for 2 weeks. santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera opposition parties in ethiopia's to a region say more than $50000.00 civilians have been killed in 3 months of conflicts also an alliance that's leading the drive to distribute vaccines to local low income countries to the sami to deliver at least $240000000.00 doses of the 1st half of the year. before european central bank chief mario draghi accepts a request from italy's president to form a new government. starting in may and malware police have filed charges against. and are asking for her to be

detained for 2 weeks she and other politicians were asked to from power on monday in a military coup and her party says their offices were raided and documents stolen in some places around the country the military has been patrolling the streets but there is also a civil disobedience. movement which is gaining some momentum all the details in this report from. military vehicles patrol the streets of me on mar they all reminder the coup may be over but hits against alstad leader on sung switchy and her government continue police have filed charges against her for allegedly importing radios illegally an accusation they will have are detained until february 15th some members of her party the national league for democracy now gather in a temporary office and young gone after their headquarters they say were raided those are telling the people who support the army are celebrating but if we go out onto the streets there would be

a clash it would be chaos we fear the military would then use that to extend the coup and legitimize it saying we incited violence we have to avoid that political truck. the announcement follows public displays of outrage against the coup with people banging pots and pans over night and young gone. calls for civil disobedience are gaining momentum i am other than i really want to join the protests banging pots until they were bent out of shape it was the only thing we were able to do at the moment we want the international community to be aware of the situation because in terms of power we can't fight back against the military. doctors and nurses in at least 3 towns have gone on strike to oppose the coup an act of defiance with potentially dangerous consequences in a country with one of southeast asia's highest coronavirus steps towards but there are still reluctance to protest openly some analysts say what happens over the next

week how people react could define the country's political future for years to come right now i go you know it well. a planning something big you know. my guess is that we go from a boss. either this happens in the next or 5 days are at a desk. here protests carry high risks for years myanmar was ruled by the military dissidents were silenced and opponents arrested on wednesday morning the government run newspaper published a warning urging people to not oppose the coup me on mars a leftist leader and head of the national league for democracy on sunset she won a landslide victory in elections in november following a large loss of parties favored by the military they declared the election fraudulent now the head of the army is running the country. amid mounting international criticism people are now wondering whether their country's brief

experience of democracy has perhaps come to an end cocktail of this of the young al-jazeera spoke to thomas mcmanus a little earlier who is the director of the international state crime initiative at queen mary university of london and he studies a lot to do with me in viruses since unsung search he defended the military against genocide charges i no longer had any use for. her reputation has been tarnished internationally because of her lisicki with the top model the mime our military in the persecution of the right hand just pacifically the genocide there and also with other ethnic groups and she has used your political capital she built up over the years to protect the military so her reputation internationally has been tarnished her reputation inside burma is not started at all and the burmese people still revere her and when it comes down to

a choice between her and the military they're going to choose her i would say. and so this pressure that the international community is putting on not because it is about democracy and we're not sure what her motivations were for providing cover for the military but she has become closer and closer and it seems now she has i believe her usefulness for the military or somehow being seen by me on the head of the military to become a threat some profound whether that was to do with his enforced retirement whether she was going to win and pose a president that he wasn't happy with and it seems an unusual thing for him to do it's basically a self who they already have 25 percent of the parliament they already have the main. ministries so it he had enough power already and it seems like an unusual thing to do and it seems it can only be a sign of desperation and then a loss of trust in the sense that she is going to protect him and future. well

group of opposition parties in ethiopia's today region says more than 50000 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army it's not clear where that estimate is actually come from and in the past the ethiopian government said federal forces haven't killed any civilians access to the region has been severely limited since the fighting broke out in november but when this report the people have been caught in the crossfire and some of them starving well the. government responded to those opposition allegations on a twitter account that says it does fact checking for the region here's what it said reports of assessment of civilian casualties that is being circulated in various international media outlets are unsubstantiated and suffer from unfortunate political motives it goes on to say the fact that we have not found ourselves with significant civilian casualties is testament to the planning and professionalism

professionalism of the ethiopian national defense force more from our home where he's following the story from nairobi today. well the qs the ethiopian government forces of blindly bombarding towns and villages destroying them killing civilians in the process they've accused the government of using food and hunger as a weapon against the civilian population they say that the government forces have killed millions of heads of livestock they've burned crops this is caused a hunger crisis is the 6000000 people more than 6000000 are in need of humanitarian aid as a result of the government we contacted the prime minister spoke the person who directed us to the government's social media accounts and one of them said that numbers of civilian these high numbers of civilian deaths being reported in international media were on substantiated and politically motivated and they said also that twitter account that the government regrets any civilian deaths and they

hadn't actually found a significant number now all of these claims and counterclaims are very difficult to verify because the still massive restrictions on access for journalists for humanitarian workers throughout the ticker a region. who. the 1st vaccine allocations as part of an alliance to get them to lower income countries been announced health officials are hoping to supply 2300000000 covert 19 shots this year part of an initiative called the kovacs alliance aimed at providing fair global access to vaccines. today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19 vaccines to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and nova vax unicef along with our procurement partners including

will have access to up to $1100000000.00 doses of vaccines for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low end lower middle income country. well after we heard the announcement we spoke to as an employee me who's an advocate on vaccinating in africa and is the director of med biotech which is a medical biotechnology laboratory he says son of x. has taken a large step towards fair distribution of the vaccine. i think it's great news actually because last week's we were given actually through nightmare see it like all the doors us go into rich countries and lower and lower income countries get in nothing so now i think the new rich or unicef through the corps parks initiative is bigger then i think we have to talk about the gobi the start of this initiative

many years ago through the gates foundation and now i think through lots of struggling maybe soon this countries will get to the doors is that i'm still here waiting for them women taishan it's easy to say that we can guarantee and the to have the girls as but i think until we see it in africa we will have to wait i think which is a really nice in the government and the unicef initiative and the advocates of the kovacs initiative and just seeing that the forward who are should be able actually for this year to vaccinate at least 20 percent of the population and boxing of the people at risk if we do it the mortality will go down and we can go to the feast true we can go to the other range or of age to vaccinate the maximum of the population while he was lauded for pulling the eurozone back from the brink now the former head of the european central bank has been asked to lead italy out of its

political crisis since the new prime minister in the last few hours mario draghi agreed to form a new nonpolitical governments to steer the country through the coronavirus pandemic italy's been struggling politically ever since prime minister to separate content resigned last week his coalition broke up because he couldn't agree on her own of our spending. so the name of jay and in light of this crisis the situation needs to be met with equal action with this hope indeed a cation i accept the call the president to beat the pandemic to vaccinate our population to offer solutions to everyday problems of italians and to relaunch the country of the challenges we face more on the story from stephanie to. is accepted with reservations what does that mean it means that he's now on his way to the lower house of parliament to also be heading to the senate and what he's basically said is that he will accept the position of prime minister only if he can get a majority so he's are taking this there is being a wise leader that he's going to talk to all sides of the parties and make sure

that once he accepts the nomination officially that he has the support to be able to manage and move forward with applying the policies of his country so it's still step one but certainly as you heard from him there he has initially accepted the nomination and if he gets the support that he needs then he will yes be the new prime minister of italy. in the news ahead extreme winter weather patterns displaced syrians who are already struggling to stay warm. and john hendren in chicago where many teachers want to receive their vaccines before going back to school the mayor disagree. however we've got another round of heavy snow in the forecast for japan particular

cross western parts of honshu you can see this little area a cloud here which has been sliding across the sea of japan may disturbances well at into the open waters of the northwest pacific but you can see that sea effect snow just rolling back in and that could cause further disruption as we go on through thursday a ship become a little quieter by the time we come to friday but there will still be some wintry flurries from time to time moderate comes back in behind across the korean peninsula so getting up to 7 celsius and we could get it in double figures for beijing with a high of around 11 to create unnoticed by that state we will see some west whether it's eastern parts of china shanghai could see some heavy downpours for a time chance of some heavy downpours just pushing into eastern parts of sri lanka meanwhile but for much of in the air it is dry and quiet we have still got the fog there across the northern plains but hopefully this little disturbance just westerly disturbance further north i'll just mix things up that will lift the fog and ship clean the air somewhat as it just drives this way towards the foothills of

the himalayas temperatures in it that way at around $22.00 celsius cool enough in the whole with a high of 80 degrees by friday. welcome to down from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax join break. and when you leave with a smile we know how day's work is done cons are always welcome to our.

you know with 0 and these are the top stories police in me and ma have filed charges against the ousted leader and son suchi it's for breaching an import export more after the army took power in a military coup on monday parties as its offices have also been raided in several locations as a group of opposition parties in ethiopia's a region say more than $50000.00 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army the government says the report's a politically motivated. and global vaccine sharing alliance kovacs is aiming to distribute at least $240000000.00 doses of the vaccine in the 1st half of this year it plans to give lower income countries fair access. the united states has rejected

a proposal from iran to have both nations come back to the 2050 nuclear deal iranian foreign minister job at zarif had suggested the european union could facilitate some sort of simultaneous return to the agreement as assad big reports. it appears a game of who acts 1st and right now neither the u.s. or iran are making a move the us has rejected an offer by iran for it to synchronize a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with the european union with iran for filling its commitments that could have allowed to both parties to save face internationally and at home but the u.s. says it's not ready to rejoin of course though we are a long way from that iran has distanced itself from compliance on a number of fronts and there are many steps in that process i mentioned a couple of them consulting with our allies consulting with our partners consulting with congress before we're reaching the point where we're going to engage directly

with the iranians and willing to entertain any sort of proposal the iran deal was one of the worst and iran began to reduce its commitments to the deal after former u.s. president donald trump pulled out and imposed sanctions on the country the u.s. sees iran's moves as a way of breaching the deal known as the joint comprehensive plan of action a view not shared by iran president has done rouhani says his country is waiting on the u.s. to right the wrongs of the trump era already car yobbo yet the americans must return to the resolution to international law and a resolution that was passed unanimously by the u.n. security council if we see good will gesture we will show it to if we see actions will show it as well if we see commitment our response will be full commitment. in recent days iran has increased the number of advanced centrifuges at its main nuclear plant it allows the country to enrich uranium quicker and to a higher degree something that concerns western powers the e.u.

is stuck in the middle urging both to talk but with little power to make that happen for now nothing has changed president joe biden's administration has not lifted sanctions imposed under trump and there's still considerable mistrust between the 2 countries aside big al-jazeera. in india people are marching through the capital in solidarity with protesting farmers and to denounce a crackdown on them tens of thousands of agricultural workers have been rallying against the new laws which they say will make them much worse off recently security has been stepped up against them and. hundreds of people have gathered in the center of new delhi and to march. they say in support of the hundreds of thousands of protesting on the street with a very large police presence police and. telling them that they don't have permission to protest that there was

a pandemic and that no more than 4 people are allowed to gather there police buses standing by to take people away there's also a lot of water cannon standing by but the people who have come out say that this is exactly why they hear this because of what they called police. government repression against protesters now since there was some between protesters and police on republic day last week police have arrested around a 160. charges of writing sedition attempted murder against foreign union leaders also built. security barricades around 3 protest sites today the government of the state of which is the biggest protest site to crease it from the border of delhi and. tricity which is a huge concern because there are many tens of thousands of people staying there internet services have been for days at the protest site but despite all of the

police action. protesters have only been mobilized many. alleve in their villages around delhi coming to join the protests and the people out here today say they're in support of. well extreme weather has battered syria's northeast leaving thousands of displaced people really struggling national aid groups are trying to deliver supplies and a warning if a catastrophe if they can't support from. their fled to war sheltering in this camp for the internally displaced in syria's rebels last stronghold. of the out of the mercy of stalls and flogs mohammed has taken his family to higher ground after the rainstorms turned the camp into a muddy quagmire. attended to give us a tent reach want to be easy to erect and then i give to bring all our belongings.

reaches quite frankly a hostel in the harsh winter people here are confronting the floods and cold temperatures with makeshift stoves of burning rubbish to stay warm on the ask us of the families are desperate frustrated that the repeated calls for help seem to be ignored. look at me i'm 80 years old my wife is paralyzed my 2 children have special needs i'm praying to god for mercy to run short rains have compounded the misery of a man and his wife haven't really had my children are disabled i can't carry them one of them needs a $100.00 worth of medication every month but we can't afford that amount of money camp settlements spread across the border with turkey when syrian government troops backed by russian warplanes launched a major offensive last year the aim was to recapture the rebel strongholds of.

the u.n. limited humanitarian deliveries to the region to just one crossing point from turkey a year later the same people are struggling with the cold and rains forced from their homes millions have been on the move since the start of the conflict 10 years ago many say the last hope of peace and the return home. organizers of the delayed tokyo olympics have laid out their plan to ensure the games which is scheduled for july will be safe international olympic and paralympic committees and their japanese hosts have been developing coronavirus countermeasures also on tuesday japan's prime minister extended a state of emergency for 10 regions to try to stop the further spread of covert 19 some interesting safety measures which olympic organizers have laid out in this so-called playbook for example singing and chanting won't be allowed in order to

protect the athletes but crapping is permitted participants must submit their itinerary to japanese authorities they must present a negative covert 19 test they must download the government's tracing app as well athletes won't be able to use public transport without permission and repeated failure to comply with the playbook rules may see athletes expelled from the games his doctor. who is a specialist in emergency preparedness and planning on the scene a clinical lecturer at the university of exeter is medical school and he thinks holding these games in july really is a high risk event. there are witnesses along the and tired chain of setting up the games i know we will hear positive noises from the international olympic committee i know i love the international olympics i really do but having said that i think it is a high risk event because on the one hand we put in the regulations but when you

have got hundreds of thousands of people who come into your country from all over the world it is very very difficult to control monitor and do the surveillance and keep everything under control it will be amazing if they can pull it off so i look at it as if it was a conveyor belt of witnesses and at every point public transport that testing the compliance the the crowding the coming into the stadium leaving the stadium except at every critical point there are weaknesses and on a large scale event like this in the middle of a pandemic it's very difficult to control in terms of global how about wealth and safety i think this is a high risk event and it would be more pragmatic to say let us see what global health is doing now that the vaccines have started to roll and take take a feed about how well the x.

in the performing and then consider the games a year after but that's my opinion. u.s. president joe biden has faced delays and deadlock in his push to get children back to school in his 1st 100 days take chicago for example some 62000 students and 10000 teachers were expected to return to the classroom on monday but has been stalled off the heated negotiations over covert 960 measures and he teaches a still waiting to be vaccinated but he has now with john hendren. as you cango demands teachers go back to school teachers like tammy vinson fear their classrooms could become super spreading incubators for covert 19 a lot of kids could be asymptomatic so it could i could have it and i could go to school and inadvertently pass it on to a student they enter and go home and pass on to their grandmother or their medically fragile uncle or their parents so yeah absolutely i'm sorry one person

who wants teachers back in class is president joe biden the president wants to not only reopen schools he wants the schools to stay open another issue kabul mayor lori lightfoot who has threatened a virtual lock out that would barred teachers from access to the online instruction they've been using she says the kids deserve better particularly our black and brown kids are falling behind in las vegas the superintendent of clark county schools says 19 students have committed suicide since virtual schooling began in march in which. kids reaching. school in washington state high school junior lily via says the end of in person classes is driven up her anxiety and always have some land is equally next to me how i'm just with my cat in my room one issue in chicago and elsewhere is that teachers for the most part want to receive their vaccinations before they come back

but for many it could be weeks or even months before they receive their doses. i am so ready even after they do no one knows what normal will look like i don't know if . the desire to get back to what was what was pre-planned to make as is reasonable because i don't think it's going to happen. a once in a century shot to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al jazeera chicago one of the boss of amazon jeff bezos is stepping down as c.e.o. later this year he will stay on at the company he founded in 194 bt executive chairman and plans to focus on new projects often the strategy many people might not remember but when it was founded amazon dot com was originally an online bookstore in a quarter of a century founder jeff bezos made it the world's biggest retailer putting countless high street brick and mortar stores out of business amazon made shopping faster

cheaper and easier the company's success made basis the richest man in the world and the 1st person in history to accrue a net worth of $200000000000.00 in any environment there is always an opportunity to you know and to just rot and to you know reshape the way the industry works i mean certainly amazon is not the 1st nor is it the last innovator who will disrupt the market but you know what's significant about when john basins has done is the magnitude of that disruption you know there are very few markets. are left untouched in some way as a result of what amazon has become basler steps down as amazon is posting record profits thanks to a rise in online purchases drink over $1000.00 lockdowns around the world amazon quarterly sales have reached more than $100000000000.00 for the 1st time. but just

weeks earlier he lost the title of world's richest person to another tech entrepreneur ilan musk founder of automaker tesla and space flight company space x. . in 2002 years earlier than space x. bezos founded his own aerospace company blue origin and just like amazon the company aims to make spaceflight cheaper easier and more accessible 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 owns he also owns a company that getting competing in the space race privatization of space he has a lot of interests and i think he wants to be free depor see the interest while at the same time keeping its hand on amazon for whatever is next for base else one

thing is certain he is more than likely to keep making staggering sums of money estimated earnings from amazon have him on track to become the world's 1st trillionaire by 2026 the same bus robbie old is here.