why. but for the fans back home it's more than just a football club anyone who says policies should be left out of football you know football is new all politics and. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. that defines giant. part of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. military clamps down on internet use as demonstrators gathered on the streets in opposition to monday's coup. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a new hope for libya warring factions agreed to an interim government that aims to unify the country after years of conflict. objections from the u.s.

and israel to an international criminal court ruling that could lead to war crimes best occasions at occupy palestine. the point of. 19 patients in south africa turn to a controversial drug in a desperate bid to treat the virus. military rulers are cracking down further on social media as anger builds about the seizure of power hundreds of people are rallying against months of monday's coup in the largest city yangon calling for the return of democracy and the release of leader aung san suu chief all the leaders of down blocks twitter and instagram having stopped access to facebook earlier in the week al-jazeera is florence lu is monitoring developments from kuala lumpur she's with us now live florence how is the military been dealing with these protests in the angle.

well as far as we know there are no arrests yet but we know that the riot police have been deployed on the streets in yangon now and the protests in yangon is the 1st major protest that we're seeing since the coup but the signs of disquiet have been there all throughout the week it 1st started with people in yangon doing a noise protest and that's essentially banging on pots and pans honking cars chanting honking their cars chanting anti crew slogans it's a traditional believe that making noise will drive away evil and then we saw a civil disobedience campaign being started with medical workers in hospitals across the country going on strike and then it grew to include educators professors teachers as well as civil servants now in the military according to an activist group they've arrested nearly $150.00 people since the start of the coup this include activists filmmakers and according to local media reports at least 30 people have been detained in connection with the noise protests so the military

obviously not afraid to and not afraid to arrest people to clamp down on these protests now and we know that so that that has not stopped people in the past before and the military have brutally put down 2 uprisings in 1900 led by students and another one in 2007 let by monks so people in myanmar know fully well what the myanmar military are capable of but i guess the anger at this time is so palpable that it's not stopped some people from going out on the streets to protest against what's happening in the why is the military clamping down on social media. well the military no need to have the power of the internet facebook twitter instagram these are very popular platforms in myanmar and young relatively youthful population and the military know just how powerful facebook can be they used it in the months leading to the crackdown on the ring in 2017 as a platform to spread hate speech and and he moved in sentiment so they know very

clearly that facebook can also be used to organize and t. coup protests and messages so what they've done now is shut down these platforms that the military now has gone one step further according to internet monitoring group that's based in the u.k. networks that myanmar is in the midst of a national scale internet shutdown with conic to dropping to as low as 16 percent as at 2 pm local time and this is far more worrying than just blocking access to certain platforms because blocking access that can be set circumvented by people using virtual private networks or v.p.n. but restricting internet mobile data and why 5 that means they're also limiting people's capacity not only to organize protests but also to obtain information and information about these protests not just circulating in myanmar but also going out to the rest of the world i was there as far as free reporting live from kuala lumpur florence many thanks indeed. farmers in india ramping up their protests

against agricultural reforms by blocking roads across the country months long demonstrations outside new delhi have been mostly peaceful but turned violent in january when thousands of farmers breached barricades around the capital now they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on their protests or to 0 as elizabeth brought a report stone from the poor in uttar pradesh. where the protests continue to occupy this key highway into delhi they have been here for more than 2 months but today we are seeing protesters blocking on the highways around the country including in the start and how the punjab and we've seen police detaining protesters in the southern city of. and this is all after pharmacy asked anyone who supports them to block highways for 3 hours and in protest against the government's agriculture laws now in response delhi police have deployed $50000.00 police and

paramilitary personnel in and around the capital there are extra drones flying over the protest sides extra c.c.t.v. cameras they've closed a number of metro stations and they're saying that they're taking all of these precautions after the some of the violent clashes that took place on india's republic day last week when we saw protesters. breach police barricades and even go to the historic red fourchon climbed the wall just hours after promising that in the address the nation from the. in libya rival factions of agreed to an interim unity government until elections are held and let's hope the decision could stop fighting that's a goal for the country since the toppling of nearly 10 years ago on a train a report 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 that 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 u.n. recognized government with turkish support retook western libya here in tripoli most people are hopeful that this transitional government can make some changes.

government will have a large task at hand it will not be easy we have there will be able to make some changes 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 hopeful 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 traina al jazeera tripoli well the u.n. secretary general antonio the terrorists 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 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 thought it is being put in place or going to be put in place the international criminal court has ruled that it does have territorial jurisdiction in the occupied palestinian territory this bolsters the i.c.c. chief prosecutor's efforts to investigated the suspected war crimes by israel and potentially by palestinian armed groups this includes the gaza strip the occupied west bank and east jerusalem by the ministration says that it objects to the i.c.c. decision while israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is accusing the international criminal court of anti semitism. the i.c.c. investigators will for fake war crimes this is pure anti semitism the court

established to prevent atrocities like the nazi holocaust against the jewish people is not targeting the one state of the jewish people 1st it outrageously claims that when jews live in our homeland this is a war crime 2nd it claims that when democratic israel defends itself against terrorists who murder our children rocket our cities we're committing another war crime yet the i.c.c. refuses to investigate brutal dictatorships like iran and syria who commit horrific atrocities almost daily as prime minister of israel i assure you we will fight this perversion of justice with all our might earlier we spoke to says in part from a hack a palestinian human rights organization she says that any thought that allays 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 prosecution has already moved into the investigation phase so we can see even a meeting that the prosecution cannot move but she is already in investigation so i think we are starting to see the prosecutor already has 5 which have been identified by the officer the prosecution or i'm at the 5 now taken and ringback i think the one thing that we are concerned surprised from the decision today in fact preach 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 it. was we thought it went for trackage that kind just picking fights but also where we are now and very much in the investigation stage. presence 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 have to wait on chess and 2015 hours for the 2nd preliminary examination show from and we think waiting all of the time i would preliminary examination pro at the at the end just 2019 where 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 weather next here on out 0 then no longer on the u.s. terrorist we take a look at where the by the better stretched is changing tack on a given suit is. only 2 years older than me darling where it will be a normal. of oscar winning actor christopher plummer perhaps best known for his role in the sound of music has died at the age of 91.

but. we've got some very active storms across southeast asia as per usual the wettest weather coming in across malaysia and also into indonesia where we're seeing the $200.00 millimeters of rain in one or 2 spots over the past 24 hours more heavy showers there across indonesia more big downpours too just around malaysia will see some western weather grassy coming back into the philippines in the form of some sundry showers rolling into central and southern parts in particular loss you find in try though across a good part of indochina where we will see wanted to show i was just coming across vietnam pushing into work cambodia one of 2 showers around the malaysian peninsula there's that wetter weather continuing across indonesia and we got some rather wet weather in the forecast into australia we have seen some very heavy rain recently

just around western australia with this what is the remains of our old tropical low sinking further south which hopefully bringing some useful rain into perth and then we got this area of low pressure which has been sweeping across the southeast and colder easing out co-direct tucking in behind just 19 celsius there in melbourne on saturday star sunday going on into monday temperatures no hard amount 18 for the start of the tennis but it will be fine and dry. on counting the cost china could become the 1st country to issue a digital currency is it strains in the tech giants pacifies his rise despite tanking economies increasing the divide between generations and fishermen in the philippines struggle to make a living. counting the cost on al-jazeera. play an important role protecting it

would. ringback. hello again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour military rule is it cracking down further on social media they've now blocked twitter and instagram having stoked access to facebook earlier hundreds of people are rallying against monday's coup. farmers in india ranting 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 at libya rival factions have agreed to an interim unity government until elections are held in december

this hope that the landmark decision could stop the fighting it's a gulf country for nearly 10 years down. the u.s. state of pop at this to drop its terrorist designation for gibbons' who thiis president biden highlights of the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war and you haven't during his 1st major foreign policy speech who keys were labeled a terrorist group by the trumpet ministration but humanitarian groups warned that this could affect crucial aid deliveries and hamper the peace process so how big is the advocacy manager for the wage and refugee council she joins us now live via skype from saw good to have you with us. what's your take on this decision. so the 1st thing to save that this designation with coming at a time when yemen faces precedented set of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of all 16000000 people at risk of starvation one in

2 yemeni 19 also led to. the economy getting more people lost their jobs you also basically have. prices rising at the same time so pick humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with exemptions made by the u.s. government. this only provided limited protections that we would stick it would still continue to delay humanitarian aid operations as we never take the new legal risks and complexities but what we were particularly concerned about is what this meant for the prior sector what does this mean for getting sued fuel and medicines into the country what we've seen in other contexts is private sectors such as banks are risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about us to action is regime and

exemptions would have meant price shipping companies. commercial companies would be reluctant to bring food fuel and medicines into the country so this is really well decision by the u.s. government and a sigh of relief for the yemeni people to what extent then does the u.s. hold the key to solving the conflict in yemen. the u.s. government and along with president biden's announcement that he's going to essentially and the u.s. support for the already yemen comes a fairy very crucial and important time the biden ministration now has a really historic opportunity to change u.s. policy in yemen from that of an arms broker to have peace made it really has a chance to mobilize and lead the world to call home in for an immediate nationwide heath fire to put immense pressure on the conflict parties to go back to the

negotiating table and also restore aid to yemen and so we really hope we really welcome the decision from the biden ministration they've really shown that they're putting the interests of yemeni civilians 1st and standing in solidarity with them and just remind us of the situation the humanitarian situation in yemen right now just how bad is it. when we as a humanitarian organization and our t. is talking to people every day what people are coming. up to 60 years of war they're hungry they're worried about 219 they don't know how to put food on their family's table and they're also worried about their safety we've still got thousands of people being displaced every day so this decision is really very important for the yemeni people really good still too many sex dates on the back of

that from the norwegian refugee council thank you for having me president biden says that 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. he 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 of his rabid behavior on related to the insurrection i mean you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called him reckless. i believe what your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings. i'd rather not speculate and i just think if there is no need for him to have. what value is giving him an.

impact as we have in all other than the fact he might slip in. african union leaders are meeting by video conference for their annual summit likely to discuss a range of shared concerns including the covert 19 pandemic and the struggle to secure vaccines also on the agenda will be the conflict in ethiopia is to grow a region growing unrest in the south hell region and central african republic let's go live to webb who's in nairobi and monitoring this virtual conference malcolm that's what extent is it going to be dominated by the coronavirus pandemic. one of the items that that is on the agenda and we certainly expect to get some attention the task force responsible for buying vaccines and me african center for disease control are expected to report on progress in development to the african

union now this comes at a time where africa finds itself at the bottom of a very grown grossly on equal distribution of the available vaccines around the world which is countries are expecting to. most of their populations by late this year and the world's poorest countries this might not happen for another 3 or even never happen at all and of course many of the world countries are here in this continent african union being trying to address this they set up a task force late last year. 600000000 vaccines i mean half the number of people that live in the continent 1300000000 is the population of the continent i mean pales compared to for example the u.k. where they've already ordered 6 for every single my. if their population these 600000000 doses are meant to start being available in the next 2 or 3 weeks and how much of african countries have expressed interest in participating in this african union we do expect to be hearing more about this at the summit and what if anything

is the african union going to say or do about the conflict with ethiopia grew reached. not on the agenda but we are waiting to see if indeed it will be discussed how the african union tried to intervene in this conflict late last year just after it started around a poser who is now the outgoing chair he appointed 3 former presidents from across the continent as delegates they travelled to addis ababa the capital of ethiopia their mission was to try and start off peace talks between the government of prime minister and then their enemy that's the green people's liberation front who have been engaged in within the northern to gray province that those 3 former heads of state were able to meet me no peace talks happened they weren't able to meet with the t.p.i. left and still reports of ongoing low level fighting up until now the government of

ethiopia has been pretty clear that it considers this an internal affair a domestic affair and isn't open to these outside mediation efforts in the african union certainly isn't known for putting sanctions or a lot of pressure on its members that would only really happen if more or several of its most powerful members had a motive and a political will to intervene or possibly if powerful partners of member states from beyond the continent were also trying to push their leaders and there's no sign of that going on in any significant level at the moment with regards to ethiopia and the conflicts in the great. reporting live from nairobi malcolm thanks . south africa has allowed the use of a controversial drug to treat covert 19 patients on a limited basis are the nekton has grown in popularity but its on regulated use raised concerns about a sale on the black market for them in a report from johannesburg. ciro who doesn't want to use her real

name was diagnosed with coded 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 traffic with. the fam thing that's going to help people something there are people who need something that people. seen as a criminal. where you would save your loved one you know at that point. when you get the point of. 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 greatest 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 fuel 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 i'm regulated use of either mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works. and the fact that

there's been a. track. and. i am not. 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 so africa plans to begin clinical trials on the effectiveness of ivermectin to treat coven 19 but that may be of little interest to those desperate to get their hands on the drug which they believe saves lives i made a miller al-jazeera janice berg from february 15th anyone rival arriving in the u.k. from corona virus 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 near the sea and airports are being booked arrivals will

have to foot the bill it's designed to stop the spread of mutated strains of the virus. oscar winning actor christopher plummer has died at the age of 91 he was best known for his role as captain von trapp opposite julie andrews in the 1965 blockbuster the sound of music kristen salumi 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 patent. just sadness from. 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 delusion.

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. none of us really realize it would. go word and of course of course of everybody snort so i was were disappointed that the part i was playing it was rather boring are 4 and i tried so hard to american interests are very difficult when i had roles in more than 200 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 in the 2017 film all the money in the world after spacey was dropped from the movie as a result plummer then aged 88 became the oldest oscar nominee for his role as j. paul getty he's survived by his wife elaine and daughter the act. amanda palmer. it's good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera mail us military rule is a cracking down on social media that now blocks twitter and instagram having stopped access to facebook earlier hundreds of people are rallying against monday's crew of the largest city young dawn on sirius florence louis is monitoring events from kuala lumpur.