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the listening post strips away the spin what kind of reporting if you can see on the ground misinformation is right lays bare the bias a lot of people believe things because they want to believe they're done covers the uncomfortable truths you think they did enough to scrutinize the case for war the listing posts. policing me and file charges against un sun suchi and ask for her to be taken into custody for 2 weeks. for a 2nd night residents make some noise in protest against monday's military coup. hello again i'm peter sagal you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up an alliance that's leading the drive to distribute vaccines to low income
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countries says it aims to deliver at least 240000000 doses in the 1st half of this year. it's only has a new prime minister the former european central bank chief mario draghi that was to steer the country out of recession caused by the pandemic. the extreme winter weather batters displaced syrians already struggling to stay warm. 2 days after the military knew not to control some military vehicles have been seen patrolling the streets but by all appearances life has returned mostly to normal however a civil disobedience movement is growing in yemen go on people went on to the streets just a few hours ago to bang pots and pans in a show of protest earlier in the day the police filed charges against the ousted leaders and son suchi. and president when me and catching lopez for the young
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reports. military vehicles patrol the streets of me on maher they all reminder the coup may be over but hits against ousted 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 i don't know if i want to people who support the army or 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. calls for civil disobedience are gaining momentum.
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and the arrow are there and i really want to we 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 and 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 if. a planning something big you know. my guess is that we go from a box. either this happens in the next or 5 days are at
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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 party's favor by the military that 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 the tale of this of a young al-jazeera. thomas mcmanus is the director of international state crime initiative a queen mary university in london he says and suci defended the military against
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genocide charges they no longer had any use for. her reputation has been tarnished internationally because of her let's see 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 artist at all the burmese 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 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 many on the head of the
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military to become a threat some probably whether that was to do with his enforced retirement whether she was going to win impose a president that he wasn't happy with and it seems an unusual thing for him to do it's basically a sell through they already have 25 percent of the parliament they already have the main. ministries so 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. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs scheme says it's on track to supply 2300000000 doses by the end of the year most of the doses expected for the
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1st phase will come from the british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its partners the sarah means to shoot of india 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 novak's unicef along with our procurement partners including power who will have access to up to $1100000000.00 doses of vaccine for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low end lower middle income country. as a teenager hear me is an advocates on backs an aging africa and the director of med biotech that's a medical biotechnology lab he says kovacs has taken a big step towards fair distribution of the vaccine. i think it's great news
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actually because last week's we were given actually through nightmare seeing like all the doors as go into rich countries and lower and lower income countries get in nothing so now i think that the new rich or unicef through the corps parks in this if it's 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 it think through and lot of struggling maybe soon this countries will get to the doors is that i'm still here waiting for them grim and taishan it's easy to say that we can guarantee and that 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 unicef initiative and the advocates of the kovacs initiative you just see in the forward who are should be able actually for this year to vaccinate at least 20 percent of the population and boxing or the
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people at risk if we do it the mortality will go down and we can go to the face true we can go to the other range or of age to vaccinate the maximum of the population. china is one of the countries taking part in the kovacs alliance at the moment world health organization investigators are in the city of new hampshire where they're investigating the origins of the pandemic on weapons day they went to the virology institute when it was 1st identified katrina you has more now from beijing. beijing has confirmed that it's contributing 10000000 doses to quarterback's an alliance which will ensure developing countries have equal access to the core of a 1000 vaccine and the w.h.o. is currently reviewing chinese vaccines for emergency use now the w.h.o. has also currently sent a team of experts to han to study the origin of the pandemic beijing's foreign ministry in a press conference on wednesday said it was providing that team with all the transparency and information that it needs of course this is a part of
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a wide effort by china to improve its international image which has taken quite a beating since the beginning of the outbreak at that time once they made a very important visit to the wood institute of allergy which is where the trump administration alleged that carbon $1000.00 originally leaked from and there's no evidence or follower of this but we do know that dangerous pathogens including the corona virus were being studied there now after spending about 3 hours that the w. hatred team members said that they had frank and open discussions with the scientists who worked at that lab but it's unclear whether they're going to have further access the problem with this entire mission is that it's been highly staged managed and many of these locations have been very tightly controlled and the team itself is under strict health monitoring so that able to freely move around in the public now china has rejected any criticism that it's blocking this team or not providing them with quality access and the team itself says that they're happy with the progress that they have made but it has attracted
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a lot of criticism from other international players who are quite skeptical about the quality of information and beijing are providing to the international community . he was lauded for pulling the euro back from the brink now the former head of the european bank has been asked to lead italy out of its political crisis as the new prime minister mario drug has agreed to form a new political government to see the country through the coronavirus pandemic if he gets a majority in government it's a lead has been struggling for literally since the prime minister picante resigned last week his coalition broke up because it couldn't agree on coronavirus spending . in light of this crisis the situation needs to be met with equal action with this hope in the occasion i accept the call of 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 stephanie decker has more now from rome is accepted with reservations what does that mean it means that he's now
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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 you can get a majority of these are taking this there is being a wisely that he's going to talk to all sides of the cardinals and make sure that once you accept the nomination officially that he has the support to be able to manage and move forward with applying the policies of this 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 be the new prime minister this are. a group of opposition parties in ethiopia's to grey regions more than 50000 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army the estimate hasn't been independently verified in the past the ethiopian government said federal forces have been killed any civilians access
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to this region has been severely limited since fighting broke out in november ethiopia's government has responded to the opposition's allegations through a twitter account that it says does fact checking for the region it says reports of assessment of civilian casualties that are 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 civil in casualties is testament to the planning and professionalism of the ethiopian national defense force. still to come almost program here in the indian capital where the police of class have to find protesters determined to support the own going from a strike plus. i'm john hendren in chicago where many teenagers want to receive their vaccines before going back to school the mayor disagree.
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it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways hello 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 of cloud here which has been sliding across the sea of japan may disturbances well out 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 degrees been noticed 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
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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 should clean the air somewhat as it just drives its way towards the foothills of the himalayas temperatures in italy at around 22 celsius cool enough for the whole with a high of 80 degrees by friday. sponsored by qatar airways. their journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villagers traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. but we'll follow the journey of these people as they get there to survive. risking it all.
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on al-jazeera. come back you're watching out his ear i'm pieces over your top stories so far today the police me and i have filed charges against the ousted leader aung san suu chief a bridge an import export law the army took power in a military coup on monday. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs schemes is on track to spite you point 3000000000 doses by the end of the year. the former head of the european bank mario draghi has agreed to take over as it of these new prime minister but only if he can get a majority in the parliament he wants to form
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a nonpolitical government to steer the country through the coronavirus pandemic. police in the indian capital have stopped demonstrations in support of farmers hundreds of thousands of farmers are occupying roads around new delhi to protest against new agricultural laws elizabeth raman reports from new delhi. they came to march through central your delhi but were blocked and pushed back by hundreds of police offices. despite being forced to stay on one road people taking part in the so-called citizens' march so they wouldn't be deterred from showing their solidarity with protesting foreigners on the outskirts of the capital whatever the government made of the farm was demolished the fact there was depression that your father was forced your gas was a bit to the last time david owned in spades and now you are actually a buyer army outside their protest sites. the number of security forces at
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protest fights has increased since violence broke out between some protesters and police on republic day last week police have a wreck to draw those of barriers around the sides using concrete and steel barricades bobbed wire and stone boulders water and atrocity and internet services have and to mentally been cut off and police have also taken action against journalists monday pony i was detained after he reported on a large group of people who were throwing stones at protesters in the area of said his wife has accused the police of harassment just. what sort of system is this where a journalist who is doing his job with great loyalty is being targeted they strategically target him profile him and file such charges against him and mentally harass him for the next 24 hours and they were just targeting him the entire journalist community. members of the the party and the government's chief lawyer have also blamed the protests on 6 separatists despite a lack of evidence there's been
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a pattern with. that there. have begun to. laws there are laws against dissenters they do not recognize the simple fact that when you have a public protest it is being done in a manner which doesn't really need a conspiracy. people in new delhi are also protesting against the police charging foreign leaders with addition rioting and attempt to murder following last week's protests despite the arrest charges know many of the travelling from their villages and states around delhi to join the protests. that come out here in the capital to show their support elizabeth. new delhi. extreme weather has battered syria's northeast leaving thousands of displaced people struggling international aid groups are trying to deliver supplies warning of a catastrophe if they can't report. their flair to war
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sheltering in this camp for the internally displaced in syria's rebels last stronghold. of the mercy of stalls and floods. has taken his family to higher ground after the rain storms turned the camp into a muddy quagmire. had to give us a tent which want to be easy to erect and then i could have to bring all our belongings. reaches quite frankly a hostel in a harsh winter people here are confronting the floods and cold temperatures with makeshift stoves of burning rubbish to stay warm all the oscars of 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 so rains have compounded the misery of
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a man and his wife. my children are disabled i. can't carry them one of them needs $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 un 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 they have lost hope of peace and their return home has. the united states has rejected
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a proposal from iran to have both nations come back to the 2050 nuclear deal the iranian foreign minister job as a reef had suggested the european union could facilitate a similar teeniest return to the agreement by both sides as a big reports. it appears a game of who acts 1st and right now neither the u.s. or iran are making a move the u.s. has rejected an offer by 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
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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 you 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
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happen. for now nothing has changed president joe biden that ministration has not lifted sanctions imposed under trump and there's still considerable mistrust between the 2 countries as that big 0. organizers for the delayed tookie olympics have laid out their plans to ensure the gameshow jeweled start in july save the international olympic and paralympic committees and they japanese host have been developing coronavirus countermeasures on tuesday japan's prime minister extended a state of emergency for 10 regions to stop the spread of covert 19 pakistan's began its national banks a nation campaign a day after receiving half a 1000000 donated to seize of china's sign of farm vaccine the government says it plans to vaccinate 70 percent of its high risk population by the end of this year has more from islamabad. the national command an operation center had been the no center of the back against their own why race and of course every day they're
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meeting to discuss and see what is happening across the country as far as the spread of this pandemic is going to show progress on had received its 1st batch of 500000 soldiers of the sino farm vaccine i get from china but you should know that so i'm sure if you meet up talk to staff at our college the french if the priority a lot of cooperation is now back cents on it you get from chinese government has a right to be talking soft on products are now satisfactory stockists the 1st country in the work to receive the chinese government doesn't get back to the bush people a good guy george at will be held. as rarely do anything the old with the age of 65 a bit more value to date is quite high i think it's my place here to look down and then we can associate a can in haiti for my colleagues and my fellows. and get a community that instead of what we don't mean because i think it is that essential
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for what has get better ideas will get the 60 nations buggers are noted ready to go order to will 500 dollars and gates of the cairo now why race and has been reporting over the towers in gaithersburg day by day as whole because by your standards also one of the 5 countries where their trials are underway for there can be no biologic rock scene which of course is reporting a lot of promise of a important facts on the i've been getting out a very effective campaign to curtail the spread of disease as well as keeping livelihoods alive for things having problems but obviously that seems with are going to be a very very critical part in providing the safety as you go forward also to live a significant day in every problem. a pox on every friday thing you know the facts on the vaccination drive has been started at the same time a days that it may be able to get a good protection
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a good right now under care deprecation forded ethic where he and the pakistani foreign minister had said that china had offered to help pakistan produced a vaccine locally it is indeed an uphill back to early august on had also contracted to get the oxford estrones zeneca vaccine $17000000.00 goaded had been okayed by jail for shipment of always $6000000.00 is due to arrive by the end of march the next few months of course will be critical in the battle against their own and it will be important to see where the pockets aren't really able to get and help vaccines to day care of its population across latin america leaders are struggling to control a surgeon coronavirus cases which continue to overwhelm medical services in mexico ambulances are being forced to wait for hours to find all open beds if one can be found a toll and oxygen supplies a limited russian sputnik vaccine has been approved for use there. u.s.
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president joe biden's face delays and deadlock in his push to get children back to school in his 1st 100 days in chicago some 62000 students and 10000 teachers were expected to return to the classroom on monday but that's been stalled after heated negotiations on qubit 19 safety measures as many teachers wait to be vaccinated here's 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 b.s. them to matter 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 a concern 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
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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 here are. in school right now in washington state high school junior lily media says the end of in person classes has 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
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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 shock to the education system she says might leave lingering consequences john hendren al-jazeera chicago. recapping your top stories here on al-jazeera the police in me and file charges against the ousted leader aung sun suu chee seeking to detain her for 2 weeks for breaching an import export law the army took power in a military coup on monday that have been symbolic displays of anger against the military coup in me and ma in the past few hours people went onto the streets of young gone to bang pots and pans in a show of defiance the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is
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aiming to inoculate 200000000 people by the end of june the un led kovacs.

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