al jazeera. the arab. this government was not elected by us so we don't accept them or work under their command more anger across me on ma over the military coup stripping deposed leader and son suchi of her power. play why money inside this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a pledge not to leave poor countries behind the kovacs alliance unveiled plans to distribute

over 300000000 kovan 1000 vaccines in the coming months. the u.s. house prepares to decide the future of the new elected members she's on the fire for backing wild racist conspiracy theories. and climbing taken to new heights a once nations sport set to make its an impact day. the leaders of the military career in myanmar have ordered popular social media apps offline facebook says access to services have been disrupted the police filed criminal charges against depose leader unsound suchi the u.s. is among a number of countries that are condemning monday's military coup but washington has yet to say if it will impose sanctions meanwhile displays of anger continue across . reports. medical workers walked off the job at yangon general hospital

in the middle of a pandemic believing that this moment is too important to stay silent they wore red ribbons the color of banks on su cheese national league for democracy which have quickly become a symbol of resistance i meant you know this government was not elected by us to be an 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 to 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. speak up to the all know that bring 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 mia mars 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 high those been following developments from china neighboring thailand what is the reaction been to these criminal charges that have been filed against. well and as we've been seeing in that piece in the last couple of nights people come out and banged pots and pans and things but something that happened over the last hour or so probably the last 90 minutes that could very well be a development when it comes to the people of myanmar expressing their dissatisfaction with this coup that took place on monday in mandalay the country's 2nd largest city in front of the mandalay universe medical university about 20

people came out and staged a protest they had banners and signs that denounced the coup and demanded the release of their democratically elected leaders now this is the 1st time we've seen something like this since this coup took place and when you look at me and march history the army's history and the crackdown on dissidents and the critical voice against the military they're risking quite a bit because they can very well face some type of a virtue for that we do know that it didn't last that long these a lot of this is coming from social media right now because as you well know there's a very difficult to get word out for me and more so these images the video was posted on social media and then the updates were from social media and one of them which is that they were dispersed pretty quickly by police we don't see that in the video we don't know how it happened but right now this is what we believe to be the 1st instance of protests street protests since this coup took place on monday and

scott we touched on it but a number of the sessional media sites have now been closed down in the last few allies tell us a bit more about that what impact that's likely to have on people in the country. deep impact that's because when you look at the 53000000 people in myanmar half of them are on facebook and that's the main social media that has been shut down ordered shut down by the ministry of communication and information so half of the people in myanmar are connected in some way to facebook that also includes the messaging apps associated affiliated with facebook so that is a deep impact on the people how they communicate with each other inside the country but then also outside the country getting the word out of what's happening in there is you've got a lot of people from myanmar scattered all over the world who are very concerned about their family and friends inside while this is going on so that has been cut by the government now the government says that they're there they are they've done

this because there's been fake news misinformation coming out of facebook so that is why they said they took the steps facebook said this shouldn't happen but they're hearing to it also telecoms have said that they have to do this because it came from the ministry of information but they all have said that they wanted to get back up as soon as possible the ministry has said that this current ban on facebook blocking a facebook will carry on through february 7th scott many thanks for that updates go hide that after us. the scheme says not to ensure that poor countries get equal access to corona virus vaccines has unveiled its distribution plans for the coming months this game backed by the global vaccine alliance the welsh health organization and the u.n. children's fund is aiming to put just 2000000000 dices by the end of 2021. today we are pleased to announce the conclusion of a long term supply agreement with the serum institute of india for the coke 19

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disloyal to voting to impeach former president donald trump she's the daughter of former vice president dick cheney cheney joined 9 other republicans who were in favor of impeaching trump last month. also on thursday the house will those 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 fake and advocating violence against democrats shepherdstown see reports from washington. those that attacked congress in early january laid bare don't trump's unshakable base willing to contest the presidential election to the end christian fundamentalists white supremacists and d.c. mates gun rights militias and followers of conspiracy theories like q. and on who believe that trump is a warrior against satanist paedophile accountable 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's 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 green defeated a mainstream republican for her party's nomination last year i was 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 loans . and as with donald trump sent 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 january the 6th happens it's critical for

everyone to show up and show the nation who we are we are a people that's good 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. these most influential leader republican leaders not even if they cross the trump ace they may face powerful forces but my attempt to unseat them but i also know that if they allow figures like marjorie taylor green to define the republican party they may lose a white suburban electorate 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 learners and conspiracy theories as a cancer 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 excepted in mainstream us politics since richard nixon 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 downfall she every time see al-jazeera washington. still ahead on al-jazeera. america for saving

the euro is now tossed with seeing his native isn't a free the permit. how is that we've got some rather unsettled weather in the forecast for northern parts of the middle east over the next couple of days we have seen some flooding recently into western parts of winds picking up some lively showers brewing just around the levant as we go through the next hour so something of a northerly feed coming in here meeting up with a southerly wind where the 2 come together there is forced to rise it cools condenses we get that line of cloud and heavy rain there will be some localized flooding as a result of this that we continue to make its way further race with syria lebanon jordan israel palestinian territories all seeing some heavy rain northern parts of saudi arabia to into iraq into western parts of iraq but to the south of that it

stays fine and dry some very pleasant weather here in doha just getting up to around 22 celsius over the next couple of days that fine weather that stretches across the whole of africa few showers just around lake victoria into the rift valley shallows about where they should be at this time of the year sink further south which is a must see plenty of showers there into zambia as well eastern parts of angola seeing some rather wet weather and that wet weather pushing down across a good part of botswana northern and eastern parts of south africa seeing some very heavy rain over the next couple of days pushing into a zombie. it's 10 years since revolutions across the arab world challenge the power of the us but how did these leaders rise to their positions the principle of the dictator before his dictator is to be patient they played the game very carefully and how did they

stay in control of a common thing amongst the arabic states as is incredible will to survive the arab awakening absolute power. on a. whole or. whole. form. you're watching al-jazeera mind our top stories this hour the atmel has blocked access to facebook following the military coup that took place 4 days ago despite that symbolic acts of protest against agenda are being seen and heard across the country. the police have filed criminal charges against deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi 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. the global alliance to distribute vaccines to poorer nations known as the kovacs scheme says it's on track to supply 2300000000 doses by the end of the hear most vaccines for the fast phase will come from british swedish drug maker astra zeneca and its indian partner. let's get more on our top story the military coup in myanmar min who is executive director of the institute for peace and security he joins us now on skype from yang gone many thanks for speaking to us on al-jazeera and we stop by asking you how much of a blow is it to you and the people of myanmar to lose their fragile democracy have a night like this. major heartbreaking moments for

many people in korea came back to discount tree to restore democracy and human rights and strengthen the transition to democracy because the military coup. actually discourage a lot of us from what activists and from uprooted marcus she. campaigned us to witness the. history again and and a lot of young people are also very upset at the moment what do you make of these charges that have been placed on the sun she's sooty what are the implications for her and her posse if she is jailed. this is usually the regular practice whenever the military. try to detain somebody in the past the usually put some charges for some of my friends were charged for having like a u.s. dollar currency the in the house and so what they were trying to do is when they

did take somebody there to church so that. kind of a regular practice they do that in the past. what do you think life under the military is going to look like after you had this semblance of a semblance of democracy of the last 10 years how do you think things are now going to be. well right now it's still a little bit early to a set how much a stent our civil liberties remain and how much they're those activists could be in the risks. so far what we have seen is and what about 80 people were detained in some capacity some people were just released some advice or like it some of the ministers and chief ministers who were released to the house but they were told not to leave the house they have to remain in some sort of under house arrest and. only a few people were charged formally

a majority of the people we're still not being charged and the internet is still on about the social media has been restricted on and off and what the military is concerned currently is they do no one to see people taking the streets so out to militate some nationals to cattle to prevent people from the taking the street on the other hand so far the have been tolerating other sorts of other degree of civil disobedience and people are being quite vocal on social media against a military coup so flock i wonder if it will if it will go much further than that the protests were the escalate any further or op people jaded. by what has happened in the past or perhaps just scared of the military. well people were

very angry especially the young generation and they felt like their future has to be held up to their dreams where pretty much. by the military coup but on the other hand. and the even though they were in the government for 5 years and they were the. largest civil institutions pro-democracy institutions at the time of the military coup did they could not come up with any substance show instructions to the people what they should be doing so a lot of these dissatisfied and unhappy people are now leaderless they did not receive what they should be doing. a lot of all activists rule with less than 9088 must pricey their will live through their military rejean are also

thinking twice you know even though the are anti the military dictatorship. the last 5 year they'll be pretty much. isolated or. a broader set aside by the end of the government so the i think you try whether you know the risks their life again to restart the energy to power again so there's a kind of dilemma among people that's interesting that means out really interesting to hear thoughts executive director have me on mind state of peace and security speaking to us that by skype from the young guy on. thank you. he was lauded for pulling the euro back from the brink now the former head of the european central bank has been asked to lead out of its political crisis as the new prime minister mario draghi will form a new nonpolitical government to steer the country through the pandemic and the west recession since world war 2 stephanie decker reports 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 accepted and on the condition that 1st he had to parliament to ensure a majority and only then he'll give his final response and move into 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 emergency requires responses that measure up to the situation at hand and it's with this hope and we place commitment the time respond positively to be a pail 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 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 i'm. sure 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. 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 because if ican to 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 draghi 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. chile has become the 1st the last american country to launch a massive vaccination campaign against kovac 19 on wednesday more than 210000 people received their 1st dose a large majority of them were over the age of 90 the scene human reports from santiago. it's been 5 decades since goodness and just last it floated in a sports stadium she's just celebrated her 90th birthday making her eligible to be among the 1st to be vaccinated against cold 19 what is actually a football pitch. it's been set up as an enormous clinic to inoculate tens of thousands of elderly people in this working class municipality of santiago q e 3 i was very impatient to be inoculated 97 year old danielle lisa

says she thinks the vaccine. made lengthen her life a bit more. this is the 1st mass inoculation against covert 19 in one of the regions hardest hit by the pandemic some used wheelchairs others canes while others sprinted in and out confident that soon they'll be able to end long months of isolation of it by the end of february some 5000000 of the most vulnerable senior citizens and health workers should be inoculated followed by millions more but how did chile manage to secure so many doses. in april and may on the president's orders be signed the 1st contract assisted by specialized legal experts because buying such large quantities of back seen is uncommon and complex. another advantage is that chile has been able to pay for these vaccines up front unlike

many of its neighbors who have had to wait for the less expensive ones that are being distributed by the un kovacs program the 1st one being used in this country are from china's sin of x. laboratory for mass inoculation of the general population and that's because they don't need special refrigeration and or is it to distribute weight on the plans to inoculate 70 percent of the population by the end of june an ambitious goal. 92 year old to doing a full year is the last of her 3 sisters waiting to be vaccinated today particular number from the flu we thought we were so heart until this invisible bug showed us they feel humans are not gods. and with that she went in for her jab defying the virus and vowing to make the best of the years she has left to see in human al-jazeera sent be outlawed. american airlines is warning that it may need to layoff 13000 workers due to the pandemic the company expects

a drastic reduction in flights in the 1st quarter losses of blaming a slow vaccine rollout to new restrictions on international travel the u.k. has been paying tribute to captain sir tom moore the fund raiser described by prime minister boris johnson as a national hero. people across the country took part to clap for the centenarian who died after a battle with corona virus on tuesday he raised more than $45000000.00 for the national health service by walking laps of his garden. to take 828-2011 picks already faces rising costs and issues brought on by the pandemic but now its lead organizer is facing allegations of sexism japanese media reporting that the committee president you're sure mores suggested during an online discussion with olympic executives that women talk too much in meetings former

prime minister was asked to comment on the committee's plan to increase the number of women on its board you share mores reported as saying that if women are restricted they talk far too long something he described as annoying indo climbing has gone from a nice sport to world wide sensation in just the last few years and is set to make its a limb pick debut in tokyo 2 australians have recently qualified for the olympics and are preparing for their biggest challenge yet they can gauge reports from canberra. inside this climbing gym tomei halloran is preparing to the biggest competition of his life representing astride the at the tokyo olympics something he's been dreaming about since he started climbing is a child it's still a bit of a trip out to think and a 1000000 people it's a dream come true so the 1st time a climbing will be an olympic sport and i halloran is one of 2 to qualify and you

for match will require athletes to master 3 disciplines during a coma for a climbing speed climbing and laid climbing with a roic all requiring mental and physical strength flexibility and skill is usually specialize in. the combination of the 3 is is one of the events sort of like. a track athlete has to run the marathon $100.00 made it is and like hurdles climbing his growing from what some of previously viewed only as a recreational activity to athletes winning medals at top international events in australia pretty suppression rights are driving fueled by new gyms opening up across the country with its popularity rising the number of competitive climbers in astronomy has tripled in the past 7 years there are now 1200 climbers who registered for competitions while still in its infancy in

a stray leah an estimated $35000000.00 people if it is in the sport worldwide only 40 will compete in tokyo but speculation around whether the olympics will be cancelled due to cope at 9 tame coupled with travel restrictions limiting access to premiere training centers has made for an unprecedented and challenging debut for athletes i think it's a matter of just digging in and doing the absolute best you can despite all of the external noise you've just got to block it out and just keep on. marching forward. hopefully towards his 1st olympic medal. al-jazeera calibra. this is al jazeera these are your top stories myanmar has blocked access to facebook following the military coup 4 days ago.