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a forced out of that campus by harsh winter weather. and the man dubbed super mario for saving the euro is now tasked with forming a new italian government to tackle the covered and economic crises. blow welcome to the program on top story police in man mara filed criminal charges against ousted leader unsung suchi following had detention during a military coup monday she's been charged with possessing illegally imported walkie talkies which police said were found in a search of her home hundreds of newly elected members of parliament who'd been held in a government compound since monday have been given 24 hours to leave the capital naperville activists in myanmar calling for civil disobedience many hospital workers a stopping work all wearing red ribbons and inyanga on residents have banged pots

and pans for a 2nd night as how diane has our report. military vehicles patrol the streets of myanmar they are the 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 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 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 my one we joined the protest 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 30 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 you go. up there having something big you know i think you know my guess is that we go from abbas. 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 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 who 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. this with a young al-jazeera well thousands of people have protested outside japan's foreign

affairs ministry demanding the government take a hard stance against a military coup in me and my. well who. was a union of myanmar citizen association which organized the rally says japan shouldn't recognize a military regime that representatives handed every statement calling on tokyo choose all of its political diplomatic and economic power to restore me and mas civilian government and then in thailand the international zagg gathered outside the united nations building in the capital bangkok the crowd chanted we don't want the military many way flags for me and was national league for democracy party. the un is saying that the charges against unsung see so many compromises the country's democracy will continue to call for her immediate release for the president's immediate release and all others who have been detained by the military in the last few days i think the charges filed against her are just compound the undermining

of. the rule of law in myanmar and the democratic the democratic process. the kovacs scheme set up to ensure poor countries get equal access to corona virus vaccinations as unveiled its distribution plans for the next few months the scheme backed by the global vaccine alliance the world health organization and the u.n. children's fund was aiming to purchase $2000000000.00 doses by the end of 2021 well it now says that it's a kid $330000000.00 doses to be distributed in the 1st half of this year this will mostly be the oxford astra zeneca vaccine that will cover around 3.3 percent of total populations in $145.00 pacific countries but kovacs wants to ensure countries vaccinate at least 20 percent of their populations pfizer biotech has pledged up to

40000000 doses in the coming months and then china has announced a plan to provide it 10000000 coronavirus vaccine doses india's serum institute has agreed to supply 1100000000 doses of the astra zeneca and novak's vaccines to be delivered over a number of years today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19 vaccine 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 doses of vaccines for around $100.00 countries for approximately $3.00 a dose for the low end lower middle income country. well the kovacs facility is

planning on delivering more than $35000000.00 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to the caribbean and latin america by the middle of next year by the middle of the year chile has just become one of the 1st countries in the region to launch a vaccination program let's go straight to see a new man who is at a vaccination center in santiago where there's a very ambitious drive on the way in the country he said tell us how it's going so far. you're absolutely right and just to show you how ambitious although it doesn't look like it i'm actually standing on a football pitch in a large soccer stadium in santiago in one of the working class neighborhoods which has been turned into a clinic as you can see people are being vaccinated on the 1st day of a mass inoculation campaign which begins with people 90 years and older and let me tell you there are a lot of them people are coming in wheelchairs they're coming with care they're using canes some of them sprinting in and sprinting out very healthy indeed there

are a lot of people of that age and so of course they're beginning with the most vulnerable age group and then work work their way down this is a plan that the chilean government implemented and promised the people that it would happen as early as possible and actually it is the chile is now the 1st latin american country destruct mass inoculation until now that had only been the evacuation of. medical personnel nurses and medical students but this is actually quite something and the same thing is happening all over the country simultaneously 5000000 people will have been inoculated by the end of february and more will do the same in march and in the following months. and logistically how is this going to work do they have enough doses to be able to meet the the demand is the supply there. absolutely so it seems i asked the interior minister how they. managed to are to get these vaccines

through something that has eluded other neighboring countries and one of the confirmed what we've been hearing and that is that the chilean government hired lawyers that are specialized in negotiating with pharmaceutical companies very very early on so they managed to snatch the 1st bunch of of vaccines at least 6000000 have been delivered at to as of today but another 2000000 are coming almost every single day so what we're seeing now are people being an ocular with the sino back the chinese vaccine this is for the general population because it is doesn't require very very cold temperatures and is easy to distribute but the other thing is that chile is paying cash right away and not waiting for the u.n. kovacs program to distribute the vaccine to other lower price all right thank you very much a latin america editor lucien human reporting to us from santiago chile thank you lisa. well pakistan has also started vaccinating its frontline health workers with

plans to inoculate most of its high risk population by the end of the year the country is of ministering 500000 doses of the chinese made sign of fine vaccine another 1000000 doses are expected to be delivered by the end of the month august on is recorded more than a half a 1000000 kovac 1000 cases but limited testing means the real number could be much higher the world health organization lists lebanon as being in the highest risk stages of the coronavirus pandemic a 3rd of all cases identified there have been detected in just the past month alone and even though there's been a lockdown a soaring number of cases as left the country desperately short of medical supplies saying hodder reports. the calls are endless every single day of the week at whatever time day or night melissa runs a non-governmental organization that has redirected its resources to providing oxygen supply to coronavirus patients at home there is what doctors call an

uncontrolled pandemic in lebanon 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 you know explain to him i physically do not have a machine right now please wait until we get a machine and he's like my father can't wait there is a shortage of machines to provide patients with oxygen leading to more appeals on social media for help we have a lot of patients is even. less and less patients are being admitted to hospital because this is. the red cross has been at the front line of this battle. volunteers have transported more than 5000 patients to hospitals in the past few weeks 4 times more than last year and there are many more on a waiting list. so the 1st person big number of them are the good 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. salary for the size of its population which is close to $7000000.00 including one and a half 1000000 refugees more than 100000 cases were detected in the past months 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 for sure. all that is that we have luckily with not that it's. weird when you put it over to. give a patient more than living but if we continue like i think for.

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. beirut well inspectors from the world health organization a visited the role of genes chichen one hong the chinese city where the corona virus was 1st identified the team is investigating the origins of covert 19 in the past 6 days they've conducted interviews with people from research institutes hospitals and a market linked to the initial outbreak. limbic officials of banda singing and chanting at the tokyo games and the 1st of many predicted measures for the events the $15000.00 athletes will be tested every 4 days will have to wear masks at all times except when eating or sleeping officials have acknowledged this year's games will be different from any in the past but they reassure ate it they'll still be

able to hold the sporting event which was delayed by a year already because of the pandemic. we believe that a vast majority if not all will follow the playbook however we have as you know at the time of the games a disciplinary commission and if push comes to shove we have to activate the discipline to recommission then it will be done in and out as they are live from london well still ahead on the program opposition party say thousands have been killed in the 10 great conflicts as the government continues to guard access to the region and us republicans deliberate the fate of 2 very different lawmakers decisions that will sound a very strong signal about the party's future direction. hello

we got much smaller across the good parts of southern europe at the moment with the winds coming in from a so west the direction for many further north the air is cold on the northern flank of this this front here that's where the cold air remains in place a haven and also a minus 5 celsius around 5 degrees colder than it should be we can see with that mouth or areas across many parts of me getting well up into double figures into the southeast athens at around 18 celsius going to 13 that for madrid not cooler air that we have across northern parts will actually just start to topple its way in from the east back in the across the british isles of the curls its way back around to talking again across france as we go on through the next as i say it is going to cool off a touch but for many it does remain somewhat on the mild side there's some snow there for scotland there's some rain there across england and wales as and west of whether it's a into spain and portugal central areas largely quiet or wintry weather there is that western side of russia which will slide its way across moscow as you go on

through friday tucking in behind minus 9 the top temperature here there's a cold air continues to drift in across the north sea through scotland and digging back down now across france and indeed into spain but for central parts of the med it's warm and dry. welcome to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy the perfect break in your journey. her. and when you leave with a smile we know law day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home. the you're the

a. look at the main stories now police and man maher filed criminal charges against the ousted leader unsung suchi. following her detention during a military coup on monday she's charged with possessing illegally imported walkie talkies which he said were found in a search of. the scheme established to ensure poor countries get equal access to corona virus vaccines has released its distribution plans kovacs says it's a kid $330000000.00 doses to be distributed in the 1st half of the year and limbic officials have been singing and chanting at the tokyo games all athletes will also need to be tested for coronavirus every 4 days during the event which was already been delayed from last year. when other stories are following

a group of opposition parties and ethiopia's to greater region says more than 50000 civilians have been killed in the conflict between regional separatists and the ethiopian army the estimate hasn't been independently verified but in the past the ethiopian government has said federal forces haven't killed any civilians access to the region has been severely limited since fighting broke out in the month of november well ethiopia's government has responded to the opposition's allegations through a tissue account it says does fact checking for the region it says that reports of assessment reports or assessments of civilian casualties that's being circulated in various international media outlets are unsubstantiated and suffer from unfortunate political motives it then goes on to say the fact that we have not found ourselves with significant civilian casualties is a testament to the planning and professionalism of the ethiopian national defense force that is the official statement posted on twitter will algis errors malcolm

webb is following the story from nairobi. cues 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 that 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 did 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 region. international aid groups are warning of a new catastrophe in northeastern syria after harsh winter storms they are struggling to deliver aid to the thousands of displaced syrians made homeless again this time because of flooding. reports. there fled to war sheltering in this camp for the internally displaced in lib syria's rebels last stronghold. of the out of the mercy of storms and floods a couple 100 has taken his family to higher ground after the rain storms turned the camp into a muddy quagmire anonyma go ahead to give us a tent of you to want to be easy to erect and then i have to bring all our belongings to dismiss site which is quite frankly a hassle in

a harsh winter people here are confronting the floods and cold temperatures with makeshift stoves of burning rubbish just a wall on the oscars of families are desperate frustrated that the repeated calls for help seem to be ignored are a good 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 amenities why i haven't really had the love 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 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 the last hope of b.s. and the return home. 12 police officers have been arrested in mexico in connection with the deaths of 19 people close to the border with the united states that charred bodies were found last week in the back of 2 burned out trucks at least 2 of them were quite a modern migrants trying to reach the u.s. the others are yet to be identified the officers face charges of murder abuse of authority and making false statements now the man nicknamed super mario for saving the euro has accepted a mandate to form a new italian government after the previous coalition collapsed mario draghi was

head of the european central bank during their eurozone financial crisis and if he succeeds in forming a government he faces the new challenge of steering a silly out of its economic and now public health crises stephanie decker has more from ron. right on time mario draghi arrives at the presidential palace for his meeting with president. but the tele task 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 we're going to 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 emergency requires responses that measure up to the situation at hand and it's with this hope and we piss commitment that i respond positively to be a pill 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 met their n.z. pulling his ministers out of government for what he says were disagreements over how to spend more than $200000000000.00 in the e.u. recovery funds with a pandemic and a serious economic crisis many italians feel it wasn't the time to play politics but all i want that somebody had a crystal ball of 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 sure druggy is better than the one before conti. after 2 terms as if a con to former lawyer and twice prime minister is out he simply could not get the

numbers he needed with methode and his demands all eyes now on mario draggy credited with saving the euro zone 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 wrote. us house republicans are set to discuss potential action against 2 of their congresswoman in a closed door meeting that could point to the future direction of the party marjorie taylor green has drawn heavy criticism for promoting right wing conspiracy theories including suggesting school shootings were fakes and advocating violence against democrats and then senior congresswoman liz cheney has been accused of disloyalty for voting to impeach former president donald trump that speech white

house correspondent can really help get any more information about these closed door discussions. well what we know is that they are going to take place in the coming hours the republicans very much trying to decide how to deal with these 2 very different congresswoman one that in the case of the representative green attracts more of the far right conservative of the party and then when the case of lynn cheney it would be just the opposite the sort of further left or moderate wing of the party and so how these issues are dealt with will really determine the direction of the party post president trump now in terms of what might be done democrats say that they are tired of waiting for these committee assignments at least in the case of marjorie taylor green to be stripped they feel that this would be adequate punishment they see a lot of kind of heel dragging going on so as a result democrats say that if nothing is done by thursday they're going to put

this to a floor vote now why is that important it's not just important for trying to accomplish the goal of democrats and that is to strip someone they see as being incendiary is not being reflective of american values of important committee assignments and sort of a leadership role but the other reason that this is important is because it will force a vote on the floor in other words it will force republicans to take a stand on where they stand on the issue of these least in the case of marjorie taylor green on her controversial comments so this is kind of a political tactic but it also is has a disciplinary component as well so if nothing happens if there is no action taken against margie taylor green tell us why this story is important and what that will say about the state of the republican party. well does appear that there will be some sort of action taken democrats who control the house chamber seem

intent on that as of the last few hours at least but in terms of sort of the broader picture of why there is this heel dragging by republicans why this isn't an easy issue to resolve from them why they are so much hand-wringing has a lot to do with president trump she's very popular she has the support of trump conservatives and she has the blessing of president trump himself who sits down in mar a lago and still is very much a heavy presence within the party why do they care about that because it's critical for winning the midterm elections control of the house something that republicans hope to have in 2022 if you can believe it yes we're talking about that election already because in 2020 the house happened to in the case of republicans make up some ground it other words they were getting close to resting control from democrats of that body this is something that republicans want so that's why they're trying to keep these supporters on board the other reason that they're

defending marjorie taylor green in these comments that many have alleged are bigoted have said that they are violent is because they were made prior to her election as a representative therefore many are arguing that this is not the body to be disciplining her for those comments so this is the controversy again it will dictate the future of the republican party whether it wants to move away from conservatism and towards a more moderate traditional republican approach we'll certainly get an indication of that in the coming hours thank you very much can we help get washington. out top stories this hour police in man mara filed criminal charges against oust.