granny long shot out of the viewfinder. on al-jazeera. 'd this government was not elected by us so we don't accept them or work under their command more anger across me on my life the military coup stripping deposed leader and so on see tree for power. and i money inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a pledge not to leave poor countries behind the kovacs alliance unveils plans to distribute over 300000000 kovan 1000 vaccines in the next few months. the u.s. house prepares to decide the future of a new elected member she's under fire for backing wild racists conspiracy theories

. also the popular social media out tech talk joins others in flagging unverified content but is censorship driving the far right to the dark web. the leaders of the military coup in myanmar have ordered popular social media apps offline facebook says access to its services has been disrupted and yet the police filed criminal charges against deposed leader aung san suu kyi the u.s. is among a number of countries that have condemned to monday's military coup but washington has yet to say if it will impose sanctions meanwhile displays of anger continue across me on my undershirt reports. medical workers walked off the job at yangon general hospital in the middle of a pandemic believing the. this moment is too important to stay silent they wore red

ribbons the color of bank sun tsu cheese national league for democracy which have quickly become a symbol of resistance i mean we see you know this government was not elected by us so we don't accept them or work under their command we stopped providing service at governmental hospitals instead will provide free medical services by outside doctors and other alternative services so that there are no problems for the public in this way we're conducting civil disobedience. medical staff in mandalay did the same responding to calls from a group calling itself the civil disobedience movement staff at 70 hospitals participated according to the group's facebook page. where we're just protesting peacefully by wearing this red ribbon we don't need to speak out we all know that during the ribbon as a sign of protest against the military government and the only want our elected government this is a message. facebook services were then cut off across me amar's telecom networks

but that's not stopped people from being heard on wednesday prosecutors filed obscure criminal charges against state councilor on song suchi and her ally president lenient. the presidents accused of breaching coronavirus measures on the campaign trail last year so you cheese charges stem from the possession of walkie talkies. she has not been seen in public since her civilian led government was toppled international condemnation of her detention has been swift i think the charges filed against her just compound the undermining of. the rule of law in myanmar and the democratic the democratic process we are disturbed of course by these reports we call on the military to immediately release them all and all detained civilian and political leaders journalists and detained human rights activists and to restore the democratically elected government of power as president biden has said the military seizure is

a direct assault on the country's transition to democracy and the rule of law so the calls have yet to make headway with the generals in charge but it's clear that many members of the public are very angry and willing to tolerate a slide back into dictatorship and chapelle al jazeera let's go live to scott haile he's been following these developments from china mali in neighboring thailand scott let's start with these criminal charges that have been filed against suchi what is the reaction been to that in in the country. well and as we've been seeing and as we saw in that story that you know there's a civil disobedience that's been kind of getting larger and larger over the last 2 days at nights they go out people go out and bang pots and pans make a lot of noise yell into the air to show their. dissatisfaction with what has happened in their country over the last couple of days then we see this movement by

health care workers some 70 hospitals across myanmar they're facing a strike by these health care workers and part of the reason they say that they're doing this you know there's the pandemic a global pandemic going on it's being hit the health care system in myanmar is being hit pretty hard so they are really going out themselves they say because the army has put itself above the health of the people in its nation so that's why they are staging this movement this civil disobedience movement so that is how they're reacting to what the military started to do on monday and slowly we've seen these the things ratchet up but it's going to be interesting to see if this swells or what how it swells will it mean bigger protests will it mean that other strikes come out from different walks of life from different professions will these nights noisemaking protests become bigger that's when you get into dangerous periods because dangerous situation because the army in the past has has has a history of cracking down cracking down hard but right now it's peaceful

resistance and that's what we're seeing with health care workers and people coming out on the streets the last 2 nights making noise and still in the last few hours the number of sexual media platforms in the country have been shut down presumably that is to stop some of these protests from getting out of hand. absolutely yeah that's the the government has said the ministry of communication information is that they are shutting down facebook because they say there's fake news there's false information being spread on facebook facebook's confirmed that that's happened telecommunications companies that operate in myanmar have also said that they have been told by the government to stop allowing people to go into facebook now when you look at the country and you look at you know book a facebook why is that that importance of a platform for them $53000000.00 people in myanmar about half of them use facebook that is to communicate with people within the country but also outside the country and that along with that go with the messaging platforms apps that are come under the facebook banner so that's

a lot of communication that's being cut because they have shut down the page the government in myanmar says this is going to continue on through february 7th but it's in the sea of the extend that but right now so you have a lot of people inside myanmar there one of their their main if not their only way of communicating with each other is being shut down because of facebook it's called . many thanks. the kovacs scheme set up to ensure that poor countries get equal access to corona virus vaccines has unveiled its distribution plans for the coming months the scheme backed by the global vaccine alliance the world health organization and the u.n. children's fund is aiming to purchase $2000000000.00 doses by the end of 2021 as of now they have secured $330000000.00 doses to be distributed in the 1st half of this year these will mostly consists of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine that would cover

around 3.3 percent of the total populations of $145.00 participating countries but kovacs wants to ensure countries are able to vaccinate at least 20 percent of their populations pfizer biotech has pledged up to $40000000.00 doses in the next few months china has announced a plan to provide $10000000.00 coronavirus vaccine does this while india's serum institute has agreed to supply 1100000000 doses of the astra zeneca nova vax 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. american airlines is warning that it may need to layoff 13000 workers juta the pandemic the company expects a drastic reduction in flights in the 1st quarter as bosses of blaming a slow vaccine rollout new restrictions on international travel congress has provided billions of dollars in support to american airlines over the past year and it's pushing for another bailout. the international criminal court is set to deliver its verdict in the case of a former militia leader from africa dominic when was part of the lord's resistance army but he was himself abducted by the arms group at the age of 10 and force become a child soldier lawyers say he shouldn't be punished for acts he committed under duress and saw reports janet talk on your says her son and parents were killed here

in luke already in northern uganda by the lords resistance army or air laurie in 2004 it was one of many villages that were attacked by the group and that i was in the market when the attack happened it was evening time when they started shooting i ran home and when i got there i found my son dead his body was next to his grandparents. dominic when we say to have been the rebel commander in charge of the low quality massacre app to 60 people were killed the war between l.r.u. rebels and the government began 3 decades ago and is now say to have shifted into parts of central african republic the democratic republic of congo and south sudan joseph corney formed the group to overthrow president yoweri museveni in uganda and create a state based on his interpretation of the bill because it had commandments the group's current political goals are not clear for the didn't go on when is charged

with 70 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes he says he was abducted by the l r e when he was a 10 year old child going to school in his village of koran he also argues he did not know any better because of his are bringing in the group and devotion to its leader connie his relatives told al jazeera many children were taken by the rebels during those stubby times. and. his family members were praying for him may not get knocked up but in case he is found guilty he is forgiven. when may have been a child soldier but he quickly rose through the ranks and by the time of his capture was the number 4 in command human rights organizations say is a victim himself this case poses difficult questions on the biden of responsibility he should be held accountable for. any crimes that he may have committed as an adult but the fact that he was abducted i think to the whole thing to be taken into consideration as a mitigating factor because. his situation is so unique by 2004

the air laurie had abducted more than 20000 children killed around 800000 people including those in luke already commemorated in this memorial site and displaced up to 1500000 it was one of africa's longest conflicts and the victims of it like janet are kanya not only one justice but compensation as well catherine soy al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera. bonnets and corruption in mexico a dozen police officers agressor said every grisly deaths of migrants. how in places say we got some quasi weather for the eastern sea but at the u.s.

east and parts of canada now is that latest weather system our latest snow still 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 or ways a cold direction but it is in the process of easing out of the way so 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 a northwesterly 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 east which is because 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 see this line of storms or should move across cuba jamaica easing across hispaniola bringing some heavy rates was the lesser

antilles over the next day also on the 2 showers coming in here but dry brush the weather does come back in behind you just a chance and wanted to show was there that you make. when the tourist terraces of the football ultras what club loyalty can be a violent confrontation when i was young when there was a football match we were crying because the fans would go crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnival mask a display of peace and you take the fans who make for poor old truism angels on al-jazeera. to news.

you're watching out of her mind of our top stories this hour myanmar has blocked access to facebook following the military coup 4 days ago despite that symbolic acts of protest against a journey to being seen and heard across the country. the place to file criminal charges against the post of a civilian leader. leaders accuse her of owning handheld radios the way. one is calling for releasing the arrest is undermining democracy on the bridge of. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations known as the coburg scheme says it's on track to supply $2300000000.00 doses by the end of the year expect scenes for the 1st face will come from the british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its indian. house republicans have

overwhelmingly voted in favor of allowing the most senior leader in the chamber to continue in. this cheney had been accused of being disloyal for voting to impeach former president donald trump she's the daughter of the former vice president dick cheney cheney joined 9 other republicans who were in favor if impeaching trump last month. and on thursday the house will vote on whether to remove republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green from various committees she's been criticized for promoting right wing conspiracy theories including suggesting school shootings were faked and advocating violence against democrats chabris hansie as an ice from washington. those that attacked congress in early january laid bare double trumps unshakable bates willing to contest the presidential election to the end christian fundamentalists white supremacists and d.c.

mates go writes militias and followers of conspiracy theories like q. and on who believe that trump is a warrior against satanist paedophile countable zx running a global child sex trafficking ring at one point or another marjorie taylor green the newly sworn in republican representative for georgia's 14th district has expressed support for all these groups there is no point in a lifetime opportunity to take this global cable of satan worshipping pedophiles out and i think we have the president today what was striking was how easily greene defeated a mainstream republican for her party's nomination last year as with donald trump many republicans saw her as an agent of change she could shake things up in washington after the failure of the republican establishment to improve their lives . and as with donald trump's ascent in the republican party the republican establishment was eager to embrace grassroots enthusiasm and their grassroots

campaign contributions plus reliable support for the long held corporate agenda of small government and low taxes but then general. the 6th happens it's critical for everyone the south and south of the nation who we are we are and people that that are going to go quietly into the night in the aftermath of the rounds greene says she retains the support of donald trump who remains the party's most influential leader republican leaders know if they cross the trump ace they may face powerful forces that man tend to unseat them but they also know that if they allow figures like marjorie taylor green to define the republican party they may lose a white suburban and that troops already an easy after the storming of the capitol on january the 6th senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is concerned as the waters party membership decline and corporate donations dry up as he attempts to regain control of the senate in 2022 and he's warning of loony loans and conspiracy

theories as a counsel for the republican party but house republican leader kevin mccarthy has taken a different approach this is the minority leader who recognizes now the corporate dollars have dried up so i have to make sure i at least hold on to donald trump and we're talking about a man who has raised more than a quarter $1000000000.00 and post-election not shift even further to the right is complicating the career path of figures like congresswoman liz cheney she sided with president trump around 97 percent of the time but is now seeing her leadership ambitions in peril following her vote to impeach him she already faces a primary challenge the republican party's embrace of the extreme right has long with accepted in mainstream us politics since richard nixon's southern strategy that courted segregationist voters who once voted democrat but now there is power who fear in the republican party that

a strategy that has served so well for decades may lead to the party's down full sheet over time c.l. jazeera washington. popular video sharing to talk will begin flagging videos that cannot be verified in the method to combat the spread of mis information videos that can immediately be verified by tick tocks fact checkers will have a banner saying they may contain unsubstantiated content trials show the warnings make uses less likely to share a clip other social media john such as twitter have already been flagging disputed or false content of course included former president donald trump who was eventually banned from the platform but there are concerns that this power to censor or suppress information could be abused this past week india pressured twitter to block hundreds of accounts critical of the prime minister the company soon reversed the move but it continues to face legal threats from several governments let's bring in jim anderson he is a tech analyst and c.e.o.

of social flow dot com joining us from new york sky many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera jim why do you think talk has made this move now well i think it realizes it's got a challenge and a problem just like all of these other tech platforms and remember tech doc is still got his chinese ownership problem they're still governed by the executive order by now former president donald trump in terms of having to be divested from the chinese company that owns them by dan so i think the last thing they want is for their controversy and these are really thorny issues of free speech versus hate speech versus potential incitement to violence and i think they realize they have to do something and how 'd exactly will it work because presumably it can be caught complicated in some cases to work out what is correct information and what is not. you just nailed the question right there i mean how exactly is this going to work is the unanswerable question fact checking sounds very good and i think most of us

are in favor of true and honest information being disseminated and we don't like it when we see lies or things that are patently false but trying to figure out how you systematically judge that and if you outsource it to a group of fact checkers you know one of the common criticisms is who fact checks the fact checkers and these complicated topics are rarely yes or no answers i mean it's one thing to say that the world is flat versus the world is round that you know i think there's enough scientific consensus where most people will agree with you that the world is not flat but when you talk about the issues such as election fraud climate change coronavirus these are extraordinarily complex topics that are not very well suited to simple yes or no answers or this is factual this is not indeed of course one of the more famous examples trumps accounts but it's also face quite a loss of backlash hasn't it by some if it sees is that it removes too much information . it has and there is a very fair debate about how much is too much in terms of suppressing content or as

some people would say censoring content i think the key to remember especially in the united states is the world changed in a very dramatic fashion on january 6th when we saw the insurrection at the capitol prior to that i think most of the social platforms in the big tent platforms generally assumed that ok even at that language is a bit rough if it's aggressive if it's volatile language that's free speech and we're going to err on the side of supporting or at least allowing free speech post january 6th when we saw that that language ultimately turn into violence real world violence the platforms change their attitude and that's when you saw president trump then president trump's twitter account be banned perm permanently for a tweet that was actually relatively innocuous when you read it he said i'm not going to attend the inauguration of joe biden you know that was a fairly innocuous tweet except twitter you know judged and said well that could be viewed as an incitement to violence by by his supporters. you say january 6th is perhaps when most of the social media platforms really started to take this

seriously but this phenomenon of misinformation on social media that's been around for a while. where does that stem from when did it become a real problem. well it's been a problem forever writin any kind of information even back in the days of newspapers right who guarantees that what's printed in a newspaper is factually accurate you have been tabloids for you know probably more than a century that have printed things that are not true the key difference with social networks though is these algorithms right i think most people don't really sit down and think that what i see on tick tock and what you see on tick tack tick tock are 2 completely different things or twitter or facebook or really almost any social network those algorithms are constantly curating and cultivating content to present to me to present to you to present everybody individually and that ends up creating a filter bubble and a reinforcing loop so that if you start to consume content that is of dubious truth will say or outright misinformation you'll get more of it and then the content

creators who produce that content are rewarded with greater reach and so there's very much a reinforcing a self reinforcing cycle that when you start to consume that kind of content you're going to get more of it and we've seen many far right uses moving to site cold deep sellouts to express their views how will this affect the landscape of social media . well i think you'll continue to see that and parlor was a good example it wasn't really a deep site it was a very commonly accessible application on mobile devices and became very popular and you saw what happened in that they added that being being the platform to after january 6th for all of the same reasons i just described so now you've effectively do have to go to the darker regions of the web where you don't have this and the platforming option and the flip side of that is that it existed existed before january 6th will exist probably for a long time to come it's very hard to build a big audience there one of the real differentiators about what president trump was able to do on twitter and even if you look at parlor what they were able to do is

to generate massive audiences very quickly you're not going to generate massive our audiences on these dark sites very likely at all it's just too hard it's fairly technical to get to them and they don't reach mainstream users so yes that will occur and i think that will continue to be the case for a long time to come i don't think you'll see the numbers in the reach and the significance from those that you did from from some of the other applications jim ferry good to talk to you get your thoughts on this jim anderson tech analyst and c.e.o. of sexual flo dot com thank you. 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 bodies were found last week in the back of 2 burned out trucks and he steers them were got a modern migrants trying to reach the u.s. as john homan reports from mexico city is the latest in a long series of violent incidents involving the police. your.

own 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 in interviews with officers. the suspects are now under arrest i won't be much of a consolation to rayna parents back in guatemala who suspected her brother was among the victims even before the news of the alleged police involvement broke the let me let me the truth is that everyone was there from our community they all went on that trip so the relatives have told us that they died and that's how we knew that he was one of them. 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 in good arrow they helped to gang disappear 43 students. experts say a lack of transparency and basic working conditions for local police forces 1st of all are. in many cases in most cases. lead us now social security to get poor 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 not being respectful of the 1st abusers in this whole chain of human rights abuses argue commanders that crane in their own order to do their bidding so want to carry out violent acts for them criminal acts for them which need 1st it's great transparency it must hold

commanders accountable. but this administration hasn't focused on police reform instead they've created a super security force called the national guard rather than concentrating on the existing problems in the country's many police forces critics say that's like putting a band-aid on a knife we all consider to be well not just makes can but those traveling through the country have been reminded once again that they can't fully trust those who should be protecting them john homan al-jazeera mexico city canada has designated the far right group the proud boys as terrorists some of the members have been charged in the u.s. for their role in last month's attack on the congress 5 people including a police officer died in those riots at the capitol building earlier that day some problem members had attended a rally by then president donald trump. l.t. in which so many around the world have been forced to stay at home streaming

service netflix has dominated the 2021 golden globe awards atlanta 20 t.v. series nominations more than any other network the netflix film about the rise of citizen kane got 6 nominations as did the u.k. drama the crown this year's globes will be 2 months late as a result of the pandemic. this is al jazeera at least the top stories the animal has blocked access to facebook following the military coup 4 days ago despite that symbolic acts of protest against the gintas still being seen and heard across the country scott hardly is following developments.