traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part one on a. mass military clamps down on internet uses demonstrators gather on the streets in opposition to monday's coup. hello i'm adrian forget this is 0 a live from doha also coming up farmers in india say they'll block national highways as part of their months long protest against agricultural reforms. a new hope for libya warring factions agreed to an interim government that aims to unify

the country after years of conflict. from the golden age of hollywood christopher plummer dies at the age of 91. military rulers are cracking down further on social media as anger builds over the seizure of power hundreds of people are rallying against monday's coup in the largest city and gone there calling for the return of democracy and for the release of leader aung san suu kyi all the leaders of our blogs twitter and instagram having stopped access to facebook earlier in the week i was there as florence louie is following developments from kuala lumpur she's with us now live in light of the 1st big anti coup demonstrations of the civil disobedience movement demand for

v.p.n. service is 1st tell us more about that. that's right well the military they're trying to they're targeting the internet because they know only too well themselves just part of the how wide and how wide the power of the internet is the military has used facebook in the months before its crackdown on the ring in 2017 it used that social media platform to spread and he moved in sentiment to spread hate speech and it's facebook it's such a popular platform in myanmar together with twitter and instagram is what a lot of young people use that the military most likely fear that these platforms can be used to organize protests but clearly that just shutting down the internet the military's hoping that they will be able to stop these protests from happening now and the spro test that we're seeing in yangon on saturday that's the 1st major

protest that we're seeing right police have been deployed but as far as we know no arrests have been made yet but protests have been escalating as the week has gone by it 1st started with people banging on kitchenware honking their cars chanting antique coup slogans now banging on pots is a traditional way that people used to it's a believe that they have that this can be this gets rid of evil and then those protests have escalated from that to a civil disobedience movement where you've got civil servants you've got teachers medical workers in hospitals going on strike now a rights activist group says about 100 nearly 150 people have been arrested since the start of the coup but bacterially is not enough to. is not enough to stop these protests from happening now this is a country where people have protested against military rule before it happened in 19882007 those were very big demonstrations huge uprisings and the military

crackdown on it very brutally so there's 1st hand knowledge and there's also fear people know what the military here are capable of but that hasn't stopped people from going out on the street to demonstrate just how angry they are that the military is once again taking over power. despite the demo despite an election despite a democratically elected leader and perhaps people have also been emboldened by the statement attributed to aung san suu kyi said to have been drafted before she was detained urging people to reject the coup and a surly an advisor to aung san suu kyi is reported to have been arrested and the lawyer acting for her and the former president has been speaking about their detention what's he been saying. well i think these reports haven't been confirmed yet according to reuters the last communication they had with sean to now he's an economic adviser to aung san suu kyi he's been advising her for many years now and he's according to linked in

profile he's been living in a 2 door since 2017 now he sent a message to reuters as he was being detained and he also said that he was being charged but he wasn't sure what with he had enough time to act but he was fine that he was strong and he was not guilty of anything. he is just the he's one of the many top advisers well he's one of the he's just one of several who've been arrested we also know earlier in the week a very senior figure of the national league for democracy wind saying he's a trusted adviser to aung san suu kyi he was also arrested just a few days ago and we're not sure what he's going to be charged with now the one thing in common with these people is they are trusted advisers and they've also spoken to western media so perhaps the military thinking that detaining them silencing them is a way for western media to not be able to find out what's happening not these people because they're so close to her their words are seen to carry some weight or

serious foreign reporting live them for other things to do for. farmers in india are ramping up their protests against agricultural reformist by blocking roads across the country months long demonstrations outside new delhi have been mostly peaceful for the time violence in january where thousands of farmers breached barricades around the capital now they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on the protests as here is elizabeth cohen joins us now live from gaza poyan pradesh what's happening where you are. so we're hearing of protests of the blocking roads in the states. and in punjab and these a major highways in fact also hearing that police have detained to protest is in the southern city of bengal looted this is off to farmers are to anyone who supports them to block roads for 3 hours on saturday in support of farmers and

against the government. now delhi police have deployed $50000.00 police and paramilitary personnel in and around delhi in anticipation of the protests they've closed a number of metro stations there are extra police drones flying over the protest sides extra c.c.t.v. cameras installed police have said that they're taking all of these precautions after the violent clashes between protesters and police on republic day last week when protest is breached police barricades when some even climbed the historic red force just hours after prime minister that in the more he addressed the nation the nation from there and those extra security measures because since then police power military personnel have erected so many rows of barricades using everything from concrete and steel. thousands of ion nails on the road outside these protests sites to make them so much more difficult to get to. electricity and

internet services have been intimidated. they caught off at all of the protests sides we had the un's human rights office on friday released a statement they tweeted a statement saying they're asking the government protesters to exercise maximum restraint but they also said that the right to peaceful assembly and expression is should be protected peaceful expression both offline and online because as well as police arresting a number of protesters we've had hundreds of twitter accounts which support the farm's protests being being taken down despite all of this government pressure on farmers to end the occupation of 3 major highways and borders which is lasted more than 2 months now once you actually access the site there are thousands of people there and they're just as determined to continue with their protests they say until the government repeals its recent agriculture. 0 elizabeth cohen i'm reporting

there from gaza poor it was a pradesh many thanks indeed. the u.s. state department is to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who think president by a highlight of the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech who things were labeled terrorists by the outgoing trumpet ministration but humanitarian groups warned that that could affect crucial aid deliveries to the country in libya rival factions have agreed to an interim unity government until elections are held in december there is hope that the landmark decision could stop the fighting that's engulfed the country since the toppling of moammar gadhafi nearly 10 years ago when the trainer reports now from tripoli. in what the u.n. is calling a historical vote participants of the libyan political dialogue for voted in a new transitional government their objective lead libya to parliamentary and

presidential elections in december this is a moment for historic compromise for reaching we've already seen it people are reaching across the divide. you know the guarantee is that what you are doing now will. serve your people libya has been golden conflicts for the last 10 years since an armed revolution toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 and april 2019 just days before a un facilitated national conference warlord khalifa haftar began a military campaign in tripoli with support from egypt russia and the u.a.e. in june 2020 they were forced to retreat towards eastern libya after the un recognized government with turkish support retook western libya here in tripoli most people are hopeful that this transitional government can make some changes.

the government will have a large task at hand it will not be easy we have they will be able to make some changes but because it's such a short term i doubt they'll be able to dig. into how much money the only thing we want from this government is for it to bring us elections we want the decision for who holds power to return to the people although hope for some have doubts that the elections can take place so soon the last government was supposed to stay in power for one year but they've been in power for over 5 years we hope they stick to their promise and help the average citizen and provide basic services after years of violence and political divisions most libyans want something to believe in and to hope for and for now many hope that this new transitional government can leave a reconciliation process and bring about elections now trainer al jazeera tripoli well the u.n. secretary general antonio terraces hailed it as a step towards peace. i do believe it is

a breakthrough and it is following the successful result of the negotiations of the 5 plus 5 that the military the joint military committee that led to a cease fire so now we have a cease fire we have a political agreement about elections we have a new jersey tional started to being put in place or going to be put in place a weather update back to syria then moscow strikes back russia takes action against nations accusing them of supporting the jailed opposition leader election about a plus. when you look at the point of. we would do. desperate south african coronavirus patients turn to the black market for a drug that health officials warn may not be safe to use.

but. we got the flooding concerns across france of the moment and i'm afraid there is more rain in the forecast this is the same data to the southwest of the country and those flooding waters actually extend into western parts of germany as well and say that area cloud now making its way further east west and yes there is more wet weather in the wings that's going to nudge its way in across spain and portugal just pushing up through the bay of biscay over the next couple of days for the north another little area of low pressure and we are dragging in winds from an easterly direction always a cold direction particularly at this time of the year that cold air was coming right house of russia minus 10 the top temperature in moscow still at around 10 celsius on friday make the most of that because it will get significantly cooler as we go on through the next couple of days 8 degrees here on saturday then we're down to just one celsius on sunday and monday in london and. cold enough into that

eastern side of europe russia minus 19 there in moscow by choose day so we are dragging that cold air in this and snow there for scotland northern parts of england which will sink its way further south was there is that next batch of rain making its way across france pushing into germany turns to snow as we go on into sunday some heavy snow that just around the out and turning wet across central parts of the med. but the radicalism is on the rise across the globe and we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything that our government policies aimed at tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society and the impact is huge typing on them and there is so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth series on al-jazeera.

woof. or. the or the. hello again this is a reminder of the main news this hour be on last minute free rule is a cracking down father on social media. twitter and instagram of having stopped access to facebook of this week hundreds of people are rallying against monday's coup and young. farmers in india are ramping up the protests against agricultural reforms by blocking roads across the country they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on the protests but in libya rival factions have agreed to an interim unity government until elections are held in december this

hope that the landmark decision could stop fighting that's engulfed the country we're almost 10 years. u.s. president joe biden is a step closer to moving ahead with his $1.00 trillion dollars pandemic relief plan the house of representatives has approved the budget blueprint democrats want the deal completed by the end of the month his white house correspondent kimberly help because. it's a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic plan designed to rebuild the u.s. economy decimated since back in march due to the spread of coded 19 this is about people's lives biden's plan includes direct payments to struggling americans 14 $100.00 unemployment benefits would be extended until september $400.00 a week the plan would provide relief to working and middle class americans particularly communities of color disproportionately harmed by the pandemic and i want to say very clearly on this speech very clearly this point is better economics

not only addresses the immediate crisis it's better for the long term economic health of our nation are compared to us. still republicans and democrats are on able to agree on the details so democrats have cut republicans out of the process the vice president votes in the affirmative in an early friday morning vote vice president come on harris broke a 5050 tie in the u.s. senate over details of the rescue plan paving the way for democrats who control congress and the white house to pass their legislation into law if i have to choose between getting help right now to americans who are hurting so badly in getting drugs bogged down in a lunch renegotiation or compromise in a bill that's that's up to the crisis this is your choice i'm going to help the american people are hurting now the relief is badly needed on friday the labor

department reported the u.s. had added just 49000 jobs. with covert infections high and businesses shut down millions remain out of work and economic recovery at best is sluggish there's fear even with economic stimulus checks americans will save instead of spending giving you what you usually spend to the bugs every fight once again better than not getting a and i do need it but it's just not a solution right it's stop the bleeding it's not. a large stimulus comes with risk there is fear of unintended consequences like inflation and a weakened american dollar but democrats in congress and the white house believe that right now those risks are worth it if americans can get back to work can really help get al-jazeera washington. or president biden says his predecessor

donald trump shouldn't receive intelligence briefings former presidents are usually given routine briefings along with access to classified material speaking in an interview on american network c.b.s. the president says the trump simply can't be trusted to keep the information confidential. should former president trump still receive intelligence briefings. i think not. why not. because it was rabbit behavior unrelated to the insurrection i mean you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called and reckless you have who are believing what your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings. i'd rather not speculate out loud i just think of thirds no need for him to have the intelligence fusion what value is giving him an intelligence what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. the international criminal

court has ruled that it does have territorial jurisdiction in the occupied palestinian territories this bolsters the i.c.c. chief prosecutor's efforts to investigate suspected war crimes by israel and potentially by the palestinian groups this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem earlier we spoke to susan powell from a hark a palestinian human rights organization she says that any further delays to the investigation should be avoided. i think the important thing to know from today the pretrial chamber. preacher has never find that the once the preliminary examination has been close and back at the end of 2019 past the caucus you had already moved into the investigation phase so we could see even to me to say that the prosecution can now move but she is already in investigation so i think we will start to see the prosecutor already has find what chuck and i can fight for the office or the

prosecution or i'm at the fire he has taken and i think the one thing that we are concerned surprised about the decision today is back at creech watching for fact that there might be a protracted process and. types of cases that we've seen coming before the court has gone on for years and years and years and once we thought it went for trackage that kind just picking fights to us but also where we're not very much in the investigation stage but you know could be present in a very high concerns with class because as far as we're concerned we have since 2009 with the 1st premium rate nomination really pushed the courts to open investigation when that was killed 3 years neisha we don't have to wait on shows we have that actuate on chess and 2015 and 22nd preliminary examination show from and we think waiting all of the time i was preparing the mission pillow at the at the

end just 2019 were over a year waiting for at the pretrial chain but you make the decision and we would say we can no longer waste any for their. the diplomatic fallout from russia's treatment of opposition leader alexina valley is intensifying it comes after marks moscow expelled 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against the volleys arrest of now the opposition leader has appeared in court for the 2nd time in a week accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran out as heroes andrew simmons reports. russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats had attended what it called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexina valmy thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rallies the ministry isn't saying how many of the diplomats from germany sweden and poland they're expelling. but the action comes only hours after an avanti was back in court again and the european union's top diplomat was also in

moscow calling for the opposition leaders release only 3 days after being jailed on a separate charge of ali is accused of defamation he called kremlin supporters appearing in a video corrupt stooges the prosecution say he insulted a 95 year old man one of russia's revered world war 2 veterans told the court singling out a war veteran was a p.r. stunt to discredit him and he was disgusted by it in the kremlin barel the head of e.u.'s foreign policy was meeting survey lavrov russia's foreign minister i on burrell's agenda was the plight of no valley who had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received lifesaving treatment in germany last september they have conveyed to minister of russia our deep concern and great created our

appeal to release on to launch of an impulse yearly investigation of the peace bison. love roth talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so yes michelin you because it's true that they're not at their best partly due to the illegitimate restrictions which are introduced by e.u. under trumped up pretext it's a reference there to eat huge trade and financial sanctions imposed after russia's annexation of crimea in the ukraine conflict in 2014. breakthrough is considering further sanctions against russia over the lvalue of. andrew simmons. from february 15th anyone arriving in the u.k. from a coronavirus hot spots will have to quarantine for 10 days the so-called red list of countries includes most of latin america south africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms in a sea of airports are being booked arrivals will have to foot the bill it's

designed to stop the spread of mutated strains of the virus and south africa has allowed the use of a controversial drug to treat covert dian 1000 patients erect in has grown in popularity but it's unregulated uses raised concern about its sale on the black market. miller reports now from johannesburg. ciro who doesn't want to use her real name was diagnosed with covert 1000 and ammonia in january she was admitted to hospital when she could not breathe properly and without the hospital's knowledge began using a drug called ivermectin organize. i would make them for me and then i had to be basically smuggled into the hospital which i felt and so on plastic with the fam thing that's going to help people and something there are people who need something that people. as

a criminal. or you would save your loved one you know at that point. we knew at the point of death we would do in syria is so convinced the drugs saved her life she also gave it to a parents who'd also tested positive for covert 19 they all use the drug without a medical supervision ivermectin is not registered in south africa for human consumption until now it's been used to treat animals for things like parasites but its popularity and illegal use has for south africa's health products with already to allow what it's calling controlled use of the medicine and in this way monitor its use think about it it's an 8 page form which you have to pull in on line each time you have a patient it takes an hour to fill in the form the requirements to use ivermectin have since been relaxed now doctors can use the drug uncovered 1000 patients while they wait for approval. but they are concerned that regulations and delays will

only theel the black market rather than control the drugs use this is the 2nd police bust of ivermectin tablets being smuggled into south africa in recent weeks here more than 300000 tablets were brought in illegally from abroad authorities are worried the un regulated you survive the mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works the biggest concern is that our eyes do you and the fact that there's been an. attack. and. i am not massaging to suit your. overdosing on the drug can cause blindness neurological effects and liver damage globally at least 5 countries want to use ivermectin to treat covert 19 including india and argentina south africa plans to begin clinical trials on the thick to venice of ivermectin to treat covert 19 but

that may be of little interest to those desperate to get their hands on the drug which they believe saves lives i mean al-jazeera johannesburg. oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of 91 he was perhaps best known for his role as captain von trapp opposite julie andrews in the 1965 blockbuster the sound of music kristen saluki looks back on his 6 decades in film television and on stage 8. christopher plummer was a classically trained actor in his native canada on broadway and on the london stage sadness. just sadness from. his birth to comedy and tragedy the world came to know him as captain von trapp and one of the highest grossing movies of all time the sound of music. he.

and the rib or do you see the film's success caught him by surprise here are words of a sudden you're a very famous film took off none of us really realize it would have go where it did and of course of course of everybody saw it so i was were disappointed that the part i was playing it was rather boring i thought and i tried so hard to america i'm interesting but very difficult when i had roles in more than $200.00 films including the royal hunt of the sun the last station and the insider so what do you think i don't plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of national public radio. he won the best supporting actor oscar and the british film academy award for beginners in 2012 at the age of 82 playing a man who discovers his true sexual identity in old age only 2 years older than me

dollywood oblivion or my life. in the years since plummer remained active on the big screen stepping in to replace kevin spacey and. 2017 fell all the money in the world after spacey was dropped from the movie as a result plummer then aged $88.00 became the oldest oscar nominee for his role as j. paul getty he's survived by his wife elaine and daughter the actor amanda plummer. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines and i was here a man was military rule as a cracking down further on social media they've blocked twitter and instagram having stopped access to facebook early up hundreds of people a rallying against monday's coup in yangon florence louis reports now from kuala lumpur.