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one on a just. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through here and as you see it or we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. banging pots and pans for a 2nd night people in myanmar protest against military rule is the police file charges against him son suchi. hello again i'm peter w. watching out to syria live from doha also coming up a lifeline for poor countries the global alliance for coronavirus vaccines rolls out its plan. italy has
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a new prime minister the former european central bank chief mario drugging vows to steer the country out of recession caused by the pandemic. amazon's founder jeff bezos is stepping down as c.e.o. after the company posted record quarterly profits. there have been symbolic displays of anger against the military coup in me in ma people in the largest city there are banging pots and pans for a 2nd once in a row but there are a few signs of major street protests earlier the police file charges against on sun tzu's ji and the ousted president when me and lopez what a young reports. military vehicles patrol the streets of me on mar they are a reminder the coup may be over but hits against alstad leader and sons which she and her government continue police half hour. charges against her for allegedly
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importing radials illegally an accusation they will have retained 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 now they 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 trap. the announcement follows public displays of outrage against the coup with people banging pots and pans. calls for civil disobedience are gaining momentum. in the arab league 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
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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 they're 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 you will. a planning something big you know i think you know my guess is that we go from a box either this happens in the next or 5 days our it will just move there. here protests carry high risks for years myanmar was ruled by the military dissidents were silenced and opponents arrested on wednesday morning the government
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run newspaper published a warning urging people to not oppose the coup me on mars elected leader and head of the national league for democracy on science which he 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 cocktail of the civilian al-jazeera. well michael says the asia director for the center for humanitarian dialogue we spoke to him on al-jazeera he says he's pot banging protests indicate there is a high degree of anger among the people. well i think it's clear that people are very angry i think the question is what is the strategy for any organized protest and my guess would be that the n l
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d itself and he protests potential protest leaders are probably hoping that they can lull the military into local sense of security off a matter of a couple of weeks or so and then begin the protest because coming out straight away would be probably a food issue but there's no doubt that these pot banging for 2 nights now and probably will continue indicate a very high degree of public anger well i think for the last 5 years people have been worried ever since the 2015 elections that the civil military relationship was not being handled well i mean she was having it a very difficult time maintaining a working relationship with the head of the army men online she was very stiff in front of him there were very few meetings i think only one in the last year and there was no sort of camaraderie also all sort of socialization with the military and it made it very very difficult to actually engage the military at a working level the memo military will look to thailand where of course you've had
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a relatively successful path from coup to military controlled government an election that was held almost a couple of years ago that then installed the military leaders as an elected government and i think they're looking at the type constitution and the installation of non-elected opera house members of the senate and thinking well maybe we can do it that way. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to deliver 240000000 doses by the end of june the un led kovacs schemes is on track to supply 2300000000 vaccines by the end of the year most of the doses expected for the 1st phase will come from british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its partner the sarah minster shoots of india today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of
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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 power hope 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 kovacs says it expects to deliver over 35000000 doses of astra zeneca as covert 19 vaccine to the caribbean and latin american countries by the end of june the region needs to immunize about 500000000 people to control the pandemic chile remains one of the hardest hit nations in the region in america at its elysium human joins us live now from a vaccination center in the chilean capital santiago good to talk to again tell us
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what's going on round a bout you. well you wouldn't believe it but i'm actually standing on a football pitch in a huge sports stadium in a lower middle class neighborhood here in san dougall which has been turned into a mass vaccination center this is the 1st day that chileans over 90 and older can come here to be vaccinated they're getting priority today 89 year olds and above tomorrow then 87 and so forth and so on this is really quite an extraordinary sight so chile is the 1st country in latin america that has begun mass inoculations and we're seeing people coming in here some in wheelchairs others with chains others sprinting in and out as though your likes of though they were spring chickens very very energetic indeed but it's i was been speaking to people
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over and over again here and they're saying that they're absolutely thrilled to be vaccinated that last they'll be able to meet with friends with relatives and not be as isolated as they have been since march when people over the age of 75 in fact in chile were forbidden from even going outdoors for at least 6 months so you can imagine how happy they are this is most of these people are getting the seed novak chinese vaccine which does not need special refrigeration just ordinary refrigerated temperatures and others about a month and a half ago received the pfizer vaccine mainly medical staff but this as i say is the 1st mass inoculation in the whole country there should be something like 5000000 chileans vaccinated by the end of february and that will continue in march and so on and the months that follow you see how do chile managed to get so many doses of a back seat. that's that's a very very good question indeed while our neighboring countries have been
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struggling to get vaccines but some of them have even signed contracts the chilean government has actually fired specialists specialists lawyers who are accustomed to working with pharmaceutical companies apparently it's quite complex to sign some of these contracts and actually have that the companies stick to their commitments and so they did that and the other thing is that chile is actually paying for these vaccines no matter what they cost unlike other countries which are having to wait for the kovacs vaccines which as you mentioned earlier will cost a roughly $3.00 per dose that's not the case with the vaccines we've seen here in chile they're coming the country has signed contracts with all sorts of pharmaceutical companies are just going to keep rolling them out here even though the kovacs excellence and also eventually arrive in chile ok we'll leave it there in america it's in the sea and human reporting live there from the vaccination center in santiago thank you so much. the un's highest court will hear iran's
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case to overturn u.s. sanctions a majority of a panel of 16 judges ruled that the international court of justice does have jurisdiction in the dispute but the united states doesn't recognize the court's authority the iranian foreign minister job as a reef is describing it as a victory for his nation. earlier iran suggested the e.u. could facilitate a return to the 2050 nuclear deal but the u.s. is rejecting but proposal said 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
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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 you if we see actions will show it as well if we see commitment our response will be full
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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. still to come here on al-jazeera extreme winter weather bass's displaced syrians already struggling to keep warm. and live in india's capital with the police of clashes to find protesters determined to support the only going from a strikes. how
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low because some right in the forecast the parts of the middle east they are caught are will stay dry the southern half of the region will be settled and fine but you can notice some western weather just coming in across that eastern side of the mediterranean syria lebanon jordan israel palestinian territories saying some rather heavy right and that line of rain coming in across the northwest quarter of saudi arabia we've got a northerly wind coming out of the levant got a southerly wind now where they say swain's mates can't go down they're forced to rise cool condense we get the cloud and we get the right and that is likely to cause some flooding out west the weather will move across iraq as we go on through friday just spreading its way into western parts of iran east of that general dry kibble 10 celsius south of that again dry him in concert temperatures getting out to a pleasant 22 celsius in the sunshine that stretches down across the gulf of aden into the horn of africa sees those showers do quite nicely across the heart of africa
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while those big a lot of the showers just around the rift valley rolling down towards tanzania it was made sam big zambia sings in heavy showers sweater weather to coming in across him bob way for a time and see that shabby rain just stretching his way into botswana northern parts of south africa turning wet with a chance of flooding. but. even recent history can become ops cured 3 intrepid photojournalists returned to the at the center of peru civil war and tracked down the brave characters that they had captured through their lenses 30 years earlier imagine a rising challenge to the official history that denies indigenous peoples contribution to the peace process witness seeing again on a jazeera. eat
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eat. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour there have been symbolic displays of anger against the military coup in me in march but there are a few signs of major street protests earlier the police filed charges against one son suchi of the ousted president when. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations is aiming to inoculate 200000000 people in june the u.s. led kovacs person practice by 2300000000 doses by the end of the year. and the un's highest court will hear iran's case to overturn u.s. sanctions the international court of justice ruled it does have jurisdiction in the
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dispute but the u.s. doesn't recognize the authority of that particular court. the former head of the european central bank mario draghi has agreed to attempt to form a new italian government he's been asked by the president to form a known political it ministration of experts to help the nation steer its way out of the economic and political crisis there it comes 3 weeks after the previous coalition government split 70 dekker explains from rome. right on time mario draghi arrives at the presidential palace for his meeting with president that i laugh at the tele toss the former head of the european central bank with forming a government that accepted it on the condition that 1st he had to parliament to ensure a majority and only then he'll give his final response and moment to the feature it's a difficult moment the president mentioned the dramatic health crisis with its great effect on the lives of the people on the economy and society i'm aware of the emergence of requires responses that measure up to the situation at hand and it's
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with this hope and with this commitment that i respond positively to be a pale of the president defeating the pandemic completing the vaccination campaign responding to the daily problems of the citizens relaunching the country of the challenges we face it marks a new phase after weeks of political posturing that was prompted by former prime minister mike there n.z. pulling his ministers out of government over what he says were disagreements over how to spend more than $200000000000.00 in easy recovery funds. with a pandemic and a serious economic crisis many italians feel it wasn't the time to play politics but are. there many other course renzi is completely responsible for all of this but i think at this point it's better to have a druggie government than elections because he's a very competent person one of the best in europe. i mean. it would have been better to hold elections but if we can't have elections this is the lesser evil for
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sure druggy is better than the one before conti after 2 terms because if the contests form a lawyer and twice prime minister is out he simply could not get the numbers he needed with mathilde and his demands all eyes now on mario dragon credited with saving the eurozone in 2012 he comes with decades of top level economic experience and is now on the verge of taking on the top political position in this country he's earned the nickname of super mario and he may well have to draw on that to navigate italy's fractious politics but more importantly tackle the very difficult economic and social issues that have arisen as a result of this pandemic stephanie decker al-jazeera. extreme weather syria's northeastern region leaving thousands of displaced syrians homeless international aid groups are trying to deliver a better warning of a catastrophe if they can't. reports. fled to war sheltering in this camp for the internally displaced in syria's rebels last
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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. activity gave us a tent which won't be easy to erect and then i have to bring all our belongings to dishonor site which is 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 our 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 the luck my children are disabled i can't
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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 rebels for calls 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 they have lost hope of being and their return home. or. police in capital have stopped demonstrations in support of farmers hundreds of thousands of. protest against new agricultural laws elizabeth from
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new delhi. they came to march through central new 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. the fact. that you fire. the streets. are meet outside the sites. the number of security forces that protest has increased since violence broke out between some protesters and police on republic day last week police have erected rows of barriers around the sides using concrete and steel barricades. and stone. and atrocity and internet services have
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and to mission. and police have also taken action against journalists. monday pone 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. 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 bad the party and the government's chief lawyer have also blamed the protests on 6 separatists despite a lack of evidence it has been a pattern of the last few years that they have begun to. laws their laws against dissenters they do not recognize the simple fact that when you have
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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 sedition rioting an attempt to murder following last week's protests despite all of the arrest and charges now many foreigners are travelling from their villages in states around delhi to join the protest and people have come out here in the capital to show their support elizabeth. new delhi. respect his stance farmers the victims of mass agricultural reforms complaining that private firms are pushing them to financial ruin businesses are monopolizing everything from seed to fuel prices and turning farmers into employees al-jazeera visits respect farmers who live near term as on the crossroads of afghanistan and turkmenistan and charlotte dallas. in uzbekistan or farmland estate or and
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in the past farmers have leased the land and in exchange the government decided what crops they plant and how many last year. this was abolished yet instead of a free market many farmers say they feel more traps than ever local monopolies known as clusters are controlling the agricultural supply chain and forcing farmers to become contract employees is. they took away our land by force we understand that the state owns the land but other districts negotiate agreements but in our district they have terminated our companies and taken away our land we are young and we have no we're not. pharma say in order to get agricultural loans and supply like seeds fertilizer and fuel companies make them sign supply contracts they dictate what the farmers will grow and how much they'll be paid they say local officials are enforcing the agreements. i mean if i'm not the owner of the land i
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won't get the revenue and profits they proposed to give me a salary but nothing else is secured for me. the government has divvied up exclusive control of certain territories to certain companies leaving farmers with few options if they don't like the terms who runs these cluster firms is also often unclear as always in the year and it would be good if they leave me on my land so i have the opportunity to run my land myself and used to make should 500 farmers unions have been terminated and moved onto the so-called cluster system it's part of his biggest fans agricultural reform strategy the government hopes it will result in bigger returns for all with more regional development. going our goal is to develop get it district that is why we have introduced a cluster system a new modern agnetha still in the cluster the the main problem is that the farmers companies do not benefit the region and do not contribute to its development yet
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farmers insist they face ruin and are not being paid fairly if it all in some cases some have created their own cooperatives or are refusing to sign contracts. a protest against state turned private monopolies shelob ellice syrup. more than 1400 people have reportedly been arrested in protest against a court ruling to send the russian opposition leader election of ali back to jail. because says 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 the police are being out in force in moscow with the largest protests took place. the amazon boss jeff bezos says he's stepping down as c.e.o. later this year he'll stay on at the company he founded in 1904 as executive chairman and says he plans to focus on new projects same bus robbie explains many people might not remember but when it was founded amazon dot com was originally an
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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 me and to disrupt and to you know reshape the way the industry works i mean certainly amazon is not the 1st nor the last innovator who will disrupt the market but you know what's significant about when just based on this 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 stepped down as amazon is posting record
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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
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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 same bus ravi alleges here. this is al jazeera these are the top stories that have been symbolic displays of anger against the military coup in me in ma earlier the police file charges against aung sun suu kyi and the ousted president analysts say mass protests are unlikely well i think it's clear that people are very angry i think the question is what is the strategy for any organized protest and my guess would be.

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