during the. boor war or the bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb or or iraq or wrong war or. another night of protest against military rule in myanmar as obscure charges are laid against democratically elected leader in chief. darren jordan this is out as they are live from doha also coming up

a pledge not to leave poor countries behind the kovacs alliance unveils plans to distribute over 300000000 cope with 19 vaccines in the coming months. house republicans in the u.s. meet to discuss the fate of one of their own under fire for wild conspiracy theories but do they have the will to censor the extreme right. violence and corruption in mexico a dozen police officers are arrested over the grisly deaths of migrants. police in me and have filed criminal charges against deposed leader and sang suchi the u.s. is among many countries that have condemned monday's military coup president joe biden called it an assault on democracy but his administration has yet to say if it will impose sanctions despite reports that access to facebook instagram and whatsapp have been severed symbolic displays of anger across me and ma continue and

there are now calls for a nationwide civil disobedience. reports. military vehicles patrol the streets of myanmar they are the reminder the coup may be over but hits against alstad leader and sons to achieve and her government continues police have filed charges against her for allegedly importing radios 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 in gone after their headquarters they say. read it now about how when the people who support the army are celebrating but if we go out on to the streets there would be a clash it would be chaos we feared the military would then use that to extend the coup and legitimize it saying when sided violence we have to avoid that political tribe. the announcement follows public displays of outrage against the coup with people banging pots and pans. calls for civil disobedience or 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 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 step towards but they're still reluctant 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 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 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 from the white house says addressing the co in may and as a priority for president biden we're continuing to review sanction our sanctions

authorities and other options it's certainly a priority there as the nations as the charges against severely compromised man miles 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 minimise ex-pats have rallied in capitals across asia to call on governments to put pressure on the military. there were. thousands protested outside japan's foreign ministry the union of myanmar citizens association which organized the rally says japan should not recognize the military takeover. and in thailand men non-nationals gathered outside the united nations

building in the capital bangkok the crowd chanted we don't want the military many way flags from men mas national league for democracy party let's bring in john again he's an international human rights lawyer and a junk professor of law at georgetown university law center he was also. counsel in the years before she came to power he joins us via skype from washington d.c. jarrett good to have you with us so there's been a worldwide condemnation of these criminal charges against the what's your response to them and is it now very clear that the police that just looking for any excuse to hold or in detention. well i mean this feels like deja vu all over again senator or last term under house arrest you know look not only are they looking for any excuse but even their own excuses don't meet their own stated constitution that the military put in place you know the constitution says on portly that only the president can declare a state of emergency but the president can only be impeached and removed from office by the parliament which they stopped from meeting on monday so you know

their attempt to replace the president with an acting president and then to have him declare a state of emergency is alter virus and illegal the police in myanmar report actually to the military and therefore any charges against her or anyone else are flagrantly illegal in violation not just of myanmar constitution or its own laws but international law as well yeah and you served as a council before she rose to power so what's briefly are her legal options now javid what can she do against the charges. well look i mean everybody in the world knows that these are pretextual charges that are totally fabricated you can't even believe necessarily that they even found any walkie talkies in her in her home as he's been charged with but again as i said regardless these are charges that themselves are illegal because they're coming from a legal authority you know in yemen or you would not and will not get a fair trial under any circumstance that you sure is not impartial you know or

independent and now with the military junta back in charge i'm confident that she will be convicted of these charges obviously she needs to put on a defense locally and work with many of her lawyers for many many years and undoubtedly oh they'll do the best that they can but again you know there is no question any objective observer what's going on here and of course you know there will be the opportunity to take her case to an international tribunal united nations for example the united nations working group on arbitrary detention which found multiple periods of her house arrest previously to be illegal have had violation of international law but this all this has to get it's all italy this is not going it's all through the courts in myanmar were brought yeah and jarrad i mean many observers say this was a textbook example of a military coup but given that the military wrote the country's constitution perhaps it never really had any intention of allowing me and ma to advance along the path of democracy. more in doubt only that's true and you know they preserve for themselves for example 20 percent of the seats in the parliament and you need

more than 75 percent of the vote for example to amend the constitution so you know but they actually made a mistake in drafting this sort of provisions as related to the power of the military to assume all of the power to go to branches of government because that can only happen if the elected president elected by the parliament as b.m.r. the elected president recommends and then decides in signs in order to. declare a state of emergency and so even by their own enormously one sided and democratic constitution they're not even following their own and u.s. president joe biden has already designated the takeover as a coup and of course that requires military and foreign aid to be cut doesn't it but what more should the international community jaar be doing to put pressure on me and miles generals. well look i mean there are a number of other things that can be done you know i think you know one of the most important things is to sanction the 2 conglomerates that are owned by the me and

more military there are 2 massive companies that they own. and run and have a whole revenue from that it sells across many different sectors of society on more than 100 companies and so i think sanctioning those 2 companies that they can't get as much money directly because many of these companies have joint ventures on backing surance the international community that would be very very helpful and then another thing would be to really press for it you want to curate council to to institute a global arms embargo on myanmar and to refer the situation b.m.r. to the international criminal court it will be both hard to achieve because of china and russia sitting at the security council that doesn't really i think we have it yet jared looked at just a final thought you could have pushed the time let me ask you what happens next i mean the mean mom in a tree is firmly in control of the country you've written recently that we can expect man ma to pivot firmly towards china so is it now down to the me and my

people themselves to oppose the coup i mean we've seen protests and already called for civil disobedience. why i think that would be the fastest route to bring this to the end and one thing the one positive thing i can say about china ma'am our relationship is are going to do is very very careful not to try to when she came to power and has been very supportive of china on a range of ways that were upsetting to international observers including keeping in place massive contracts to extract the resource of the country on iraq even though many of them were painted through corruption and trying to want stability in the country more than anything else and so i don't think china is going to firmly support the military they're not going to formally support her but if things blow up in the streets you know and the military sure it's going to be people down you know back during the saturn revolution 2008 when that happened china and russia student sidelines ok and allowed actually to be taken against the government jar against our great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you. thank you.

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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 vaccines to access to vaccine products through technology transfer from astra zeneca and nova facts 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 the kovacs facility is planning on delivering more than 35000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine to the caribbean and latin america by the middle of the year chile has become one of the 1st countries in the region to launch a vaccination program it began inoculating older adults and essential workers with the chinese sign of an early on wednesday a latin america editor newman was on

a vaccination center in the capital santiago. 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 an ocular 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

vaccination 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. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back hammering home the point to be israel's palestinians start rebuilding their houses in the occupied west bank just hours after israel demolished them on that status. how in places say we got some quasi weather for the east to see but if the u.s. east and parts of canada now is that latest weather system our latest snowstorm starts to pull away a still as you can see on that shot here we have got so winds coming in from

a northerly direction always a cold direction but it is in the process of easing out of the way said dry a brighter weather coming back in behind as we go through thursday but yet it's nice that they've got this next system which is pushing in across the great plains winds coming in from the northwest direction joining up with warm moist air out of the gulf of mexico every rain on the southern flank of that heavy snow in the northern flank of that metal continue to drive its way further research as we go through friday so a wintry end to the week here wet weather around the mid atlantic states quite a weather coming in behind and which i believe another system just rolling off the rockies at this stage i suppose further south where we have got some quater weather coming into the grates around to this so this line of storms are should move across cuba jamaica easing across hispaniola bringing some heavy rates was the lesser antilles over the next day or so on the 2 showers coming in here but dry across the weather does come back in behind you just

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welcome back i'm out of our top stories here on al-jazeera me and miles police of filed criminal charges against opposed leader and sang suchi 2 leaders accuse her of owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release saying the arrest is undermining democracy and the rule of law. symbolic displays of anger continue across me and with calls for a nationwide civil disobedience ex-pats living in thailand on japan have rallied against the 2 and expressed solidarity suchi. on a global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations known as the codex scheme says it's on track to supply $2300000000.00 doses by the end of the year most vaccines for the 1st phase will come from british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its india. now us house republicans are discussing potential action against to a bare congresswoman marjorie taylor green has drawn heavy criticism for promoting right wing conspiracy theories including suggesting school shootings were faked and

advocating violence against democrats and senior congresswoman liz cheney has been accused of disloyalty for voting to impeach former president donald trump but alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. allan so too congresswoman and their positions are under threat what does this tell us about the republican party. it really gives us an insight into his relationship with donald trump going forward let's take each of the congresswoman one by one less cheney number 3 in the republican hierarchy in the house the daughter of former vice president dick cheney well very highly regarded considered an outstanding conservative by many in the party but she voted against donald trump she believes that the committee's on the 6th of july in january on capitol hill or sparked by the president and so when it came to the vote she saw as a matter of conscience there was no party line vote it was all about how you felt and she felt it was time to impeach donald trump so there are thoughts in the

republican party who want to remove proposition as a say she's number 3 in the house republicans and among no is pushing for that jim jordan who's a big donald trump supporter he believes that she no longer represents the republicans in the house and has to be removed this is a man who of course over the last few weeks has been really against so-called council culture and just in the last couple of hours gave a t.v. interview where he said that cancel culture is the watch thing facing america at the moment forgetting of course about corporate 19 so he essentially wants to cancel liz cheney as position is number 3 in the house that he believes or would it certainly be something that would play well with donald trump and his supporters note marjorie taylor green where does she fit in well before she became a congresswoman she made a lot of comments that were highly critical highly controversial she sided with a lot of the cuban on conspiracy theories and some of the wild theories that have been advanced in some of the darker recesses of the internet including the fact

that the parkland shooting in florida the school shooting there was staged by actors and didn't actually happen well no she's going to end up on the education committee and there are those in the republican party who believe that they really don't need someone like marjorie taylor green as party. their caucus that she should be removed from all of the committees that she's on because they think that that's what people will think the republican party is a boat and they've already got one eye on the 2022 midterm elections where the republicans hope to take back the house yet we're already talking about the 2022 elections but it seems unlikely that there's going to be action taken against her because kevin mccarthy who's the leader of the republicans in the house has said that she's made those comments before she became a congresswoman he has a chapter and she's not going to hold that he's not going to hold her to her word and actions know that she's actually in congress well the democrats don't like that

so what they're going to do is put a motion on the house floor on thursday to remove no republicans don't like that idea because it feels as if then one party is telling another party who they can have on committees but the democrats know that if there's a vote on the house this means that republicans then have to say here we are actually ok with some of the stuff she's been saying and even if they're not and they vote keep her on the committee that's how the democrats will paint it so this is all politics and the reason that donald trump is linked to that one is because he supports her and he's never stepped away from the queue and on theories either so people see is a vote for marjorie taylor green as a vote of support in one way for donald trump in fact she sent out a fundraising e-mail just in the last couple of hours saying that she's being targeted because of her support for donald trump all this noise because she says things like the wildfires in california were caused by jury space lasers but you can see how she's appealing to the base of the party and how this all still filters

but to donald trump and his influence over republicans all right out and we'll watch how this plays out alan fischer there live for us in washington d.c. allan thank you. meanwhile canada has designated the far right group the proud boys as terrorists some of their members have been charged in the u.s. for their role in last month's attack on congress 5 people including a police officer died in the riots the capitol building earlier that day some boys members attended a rally by then president donald trump popular video sharing app to talk will begin flagging videos that cannot be verified in an effort to combat the spread of misinformation it will place a warning label of an unverified content and place an extra problems when users attempt to share it they say they'll be particularly careful with videos relating to breaking news social media companies have been blamed for spreading dangerous conspiracy theories particular relating to cope with 19 and the u.s. election. 12 police officers have been arrested in mexico in connection with the

deaths of 19 people close to the border with the u.s. charred bodies were found last week in the back of 2 burnt out trucks at least 2 of them were brought a modern migrants trying to reach the u.s. and as john holeman reports now from mexico city is the latest in a long series of violent incidents involving the police. that's. going to go a bombshell in mexico tuesday night the killing and burning of 19 people among them guatemalan migrants was perpetrated by police said authorities entirely persist. at least 12 members of the state police took part in the events of the 22nd of january this theory gained traction because the crime scene was altered there's an absence of shells and bullets the police also contradicted themselves in their report of the crime and interviews with officers. the suspects are now under arrest i won't be much of a consolation to bring the parents back in guatemala who suspected her brother was

among the victims even before the news of the alleged police involvement broke the law. the truth is that everyone was there from our community they all went on that trip said the relatives have told us that they died and that's how we knew that he was one of them but. this keeps happening not just the kidnapping killing an extortion of central american migrants heading through mexico most notoriously when 72 were massacred in 2010 again entirely post but also the involvement of mit's completes in atrocities. in 2014 and get it over they help to gang disappear 43 students. experts say to a lack of transparency and basic working conditions for local police forces 1st of all are paid. in many cases in most cases we need us now so. security to get health

care which is great for in the current situation of course and the other thing is that many times the basic human rights of police officers not being respected so at the 1st abusers in this whole chain of human rights abuses are the commanders that crayon their own elements want to do their bidding so much carry out violent acts for them criminal acts for them what you need to 1st it's great transparency in the institutions hold commanders accountable. but this administration hasn't focused on police reform instead they've created a super security force who the national guard rather than concentrating on the existing problems in the countries many police forces critics say that's like putting a band-aid on a knife we will consider meanwhile not just makes concern but those traveling through the country have been reminded once again that they can't fully trust those who should be protecting them john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. israel has begun demolishing a bedouin village in the occupied west bank for

a 2nd time in just 3 months rights groups say they're trying to displace an entire palestinian community from the area to make way for illegal israeli settlements israel says the village was built on military land neither abraham reports now from the occupied west bank. only a few hours after israeli forces demolished their homes these palestinians are rebuilding their homes sold for coverage in the northern jordan valley in the occupied west bank has been home to dozens of palestinians who have lived here for decades israel declared the area as a military training zone in the 1980 s. and has been demolishing structures here ever since it was going to be after rebuild they come back take pictures on the mall is the village again we are tired of having slept. 3 months ago israeli forces raised the whole village on once they came back and demolished what has been rebuilt when we had. the children already scared we hear what are we going to keep demolishing our village this is

the 3rd demolition in 3 months. this is what's left of the bar wets family home the 6 year old and his family had to sleep in the open last night reports by the charity save the children says the number of displaced palestinian children is at the 4 year high more than 500 children in the west bank have lost their homes in the last year what i have seen is israel bringing 1000 of jews building them beautiful houses and swimming pools and giving them all the water of the german valley and i see these people here and they're not the only ones that. are not allowed to live there like you and reports show israel destroyed more than 800 palestinian structures last year most we're here in the jordan valley and in occupied east jerusalem according to human rights organizations this is a part of a policy to forcibly evict palestinians and people here say they have nowhere else

to go and that brain. the occupied west bank syria is accusing israel of aggression in the southern region of connector state media show these pictures of syrian air defense systems responding to an apparent attack and said there were no casualties israeli missiles targeted an area housing government forces under iranian backed militias according to the syrian observatory for human rights found he was lauded for pulling the euro back from the brink now the former head of the european central bank has been asked to leave italy out of its political crisis as the new prime minister by a drug form a new nonpolitical government to steer the country through the pandemic and the worst recession since world war 2 italy has been in political limbo since the prime minister yourself a county resigned last week. in light of this crisis the situation needs to be met with equal action with this hope indeed

a cation 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. and after a year in which so many around the world have been forced to stay home streaming service netflix has dominated the nominations for the 2021 golden globe awards it landed 20 t.v. series nominations more than any other network and it flicks film anchored out the writer of citizen kane got 6 nominations as did the u.k. royal drama the crown this year's globe with 2 months late as a result of the pandemic. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera min miles police to file criminal charges against deposed leader and cinci co-leaders accused her of owning handheld radios that were illegally imported the u.n. is calling for her release 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 under.