and questioned the use and abuse of power around the globe. are now dizzying. we understand the differences. in cultures across the world so no matter what we encounter for that matter. growing anger in myanmar over monday's by the 3 crew a large demonstration is stationed young on despite an internet shutdown. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up just a few weeks after donald trump state department labeled yemen's fruit these terrorists joe biden's of ministration changes course. far as in india plan to

block highways across the country and protest against controversial reforms being proposed by the government. you've called him dangerous you can't and requests. believe it joe biden says the tradition of giving intelligence briefings to former presidents should not happen with donald trump. the 1st major street protests have taken place and man last 6 days after the military seized control of the government arrested its civilian leaders thousands marched in the largest city yangon on saturday in anger over the coup heavily armed police blocked off main roads it's a sharp escalation from earlier demonstrations which were largely limited to banging pots and pans and online process anger has swelled since the leaders blocked twitter and instagram after having shut down access to facebook earlier in

the week and he could messages have been trending across the platforms before they were disabled al-jazeera florence louis is monitoring developments from kuala lumpur. well we had hundreds of people came out on the streets of yangon many of them wearing red which is the color of the national league for democracy. party which won the election by a landslide now even people who want taking part in the protests show to show their support by offering the protesters food and water and we also know riot police have been deployed in yangon they prevented more people from reaching the main site of the demonstration as far as we know no arrests have been made yet now these signs of disquiet have been growing since the coup started on monday 1st it was people banging pots and pans which is part of traditional myanmar believe that dr that that believes that this doing that this noise protests drives out evil and then it grew into a civil disobedience campaign 1st with medical workers in hospitals across myanmar

taking part and then growing to include lecturers teachers and civil servants as well now activists groups say that nearly $150.00 people have been arrested and local media reports say 30 people have been arrested in connection with the noise protests so myanmar military leaders clearly. they want to stop these protests from happening but they are still happening and we also know that just a few days ago there were protests also in mandalay the 2nd largest city of myanmar as well as in the way in southeastern. brigid welsh is an ornery research associate at the university of michigan but lazio she says world leaders need to support the deeds of people. what should be done internationally and in the end so we've seen the u.n. is actually make up in terms of condemning the areas i think also at this time it's necessary to have dialogue with the military to assure to let them know that the world is watching you know that these situations continue to escalate i think it's

important to have that dialogue but also to begin some of the sticks and issues of sanctions to show that there are going to be specific measures that have could be in place to respond i think at the same time we have to realize that embracing the situation now is not about an embracing one person that if there's a lesson from this is that embracing on star search your one person is not in a way to actually support the system the focus needs to be on the myanmar people the ones that are suffering the most as a result of the coup and so there needs to be more holistic approaches towards direct towards that towards a situation which involves helping many of the protesters get access to technology also dealing with issues of hunger and also putting pressure on them and them in the military and looking at the situation in a broader way not just a black and white situation about one person. the u.s. secretary of state has called on china to join international condemnation of the

military coup in b.m. law and to the blinken also used his 1st call with beijing's top diplomat to criticize china's human rights record lincoln told young j. china that america will stand up for democratic values in changing tibet and hong kong he warned that the us would work with allies against any chinese threat to stability in the in the pacific region including across the taiwan straits well the u.s. state department has to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who thiis president by that highlights of the need to find a diplomatic solution to the void given during his 1st major foreign policy speech who things were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration of humanitarian groups warn that this could affect crucial aid deliveries so to begum is the advocacy manager for the weekend refugee council she explains how the terrorist designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. the 1st thing to save this designation with coming at

a time when yemen face is precedented threat of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of war 16000000 people are at risk of starvation that's one in 2 yemenis cope with 19 also 11. big clinton me with getting more people lost their jobs you also basically he had. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with the exemptions made by the u.s. governments this only provided limited protection would stay it would still continue to delay humanitarian aid operations as we never take the new legal risks and complexities but we will take key concerned about what this. meant for the private sector. what does this mean for getting food fuel and medicines into the

country what we've seen in other contexts is that private sectors such as backs are risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about this time actions regime and exemptions would have meant private shipping companies. commercial companies would be very locked into bringing food fuel and medicines into the country so this is really. a decision by the u.s. government and a sigh of relief that the yemeni people farmers in india ramping up their protests against agricultural reforms by blocking roads across the country once 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 the protests as elizabeth pradhan reports from guys it paul. where the protests side will continue

to occupy this key highway into delhi they've been here for more than 2 months but today we're seeing protesters blocking on the highways around the country including in the start and how to run punjab and we've seen police detaining protesters in the southern city of bengal 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 and 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 fortune climb the walls just hours after promising that in the address the nation from the. u.s.

president joe biden has moved a step closer to the passage of his $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan the house of representatives approved the budget blueprint democrats want the deal completed by the end of the month his white house correspondent. 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 covert 19 this is about people's lives biden's plan includes direct payments to struggling americans of $1400.00 unemployment benefits would be extended until september $400.00 a week the plan will 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 clear at this point it's better economics not only addresses the immediate crisis room it's better for the long

term economic health of our nation and our competitiveness. 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 connell 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 and getting dragged bogged down in a lovely negotiation 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 heard 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 usually spending a month every 5 once again better than not getting a and i do people 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 at al-jazeera washington president biden says that his predecessor donald trump shouldn't receive intelligence briefings speaking at 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 answer action when you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called him reckless. your hands are believing what your worst fear if he continues to get these intelligence briefings. i'd rather not speculate out loud i just think if there is no need for him to have the intelligence fusion what value is giving him an intel was appreciated what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something the weather next here on al-jazeera then the coronavirus forces an african union summit on line even as it tops a long agenda for the consulates leaders. a moscow strikes back russia takes action

against nations accusing them of supporting jailed opposition leader alexina. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored plan qatar airways however we have temperatures set to tumble across japan over the next couple of days so there will be more snow in the forecast for the time being it's not to bad we have got this area of low pressure just pulling out of the way driest guys coming back in behind for the most part but the winds starting to come in from a northerly or northwesterly direction and will feed more snow into that western side of honshu and also into hokkaido and those go on into monday that we go temperatures no longer getting up into double figures at that stage in the snow becoming a little more widespread and potentially more disruptive we will see plenty of rain

since essential parts of china further north as generate dry and further south and pleasant sunshine there in hong kong with a temperature of around $24.00 degrees a lot of sunshine to across south asia where we do have some showers coming into a good part of strength for over the next couple of days we will see it staying fine and dry for the cricket in chennai 31 celsius here at 5 dry weather continues across much of in your notice start. the warm up in new delhi temperatures taken up to around 25 degrees and we got some wet weather in the forecast across northern parts of the middle east lots of cloud in right tumbling through here well that wintry weather coming across the high ground of the iranian mountains but fine here in doha a 26. sponsored paul qatar airways al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. colonic. to try to exposing

direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. defection. to al-jazeera investigations all the prime minister's men. again this is al jazeera the main news this hour the 1st major street protests have taken place and we have last 6 days after the military seized control of the government thousands marched in the largest city of yangon saturday and anger over the coup. farmers in india ramping up their protests against agricultural reforms

by blocking roads across the country they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on their protests but u.s. president joe biden has urged congress to pass a $1.00 trillion dollar pandemic relief plan and our plan has been approved in the house of representatives democrats are hoping to pass a final version by the end of the month. african union leaders are meeting by video conference for the 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 growing unrest in the hell region and in the central african republic was a serious malcolm webb is following the summit from nairobi. protecting the african center for disease control and also there a used vaccine task force to report to the african union to update them on progress in this summit comes at a moment where the african continent finds itself at the bottom of

a lot over grossly on equal allocation the distribution of covert 19 vaccines around the world experts estimate that the richest countries will have vaccinated most of their populations at some point later this year and the world's poorest countries many of which are in this continent will not vaccinate the same amount of their population till maybe 3 years from now or possibly never till the african union's task force has been trying to collectively buy vaccines on behalf of other countries is aiming to get about 600000000 vaccines that's about half the number of people living in the continent 1300000000 is the total population that pales in comparison for example to the u.k. which has one of the fastest moving vaccine programs the government there is for about 6 doses for every member of its population the african union is trying to trying to address this and trying to collectively buy those vaccines some african countries have signed up to participate in the game but we'll hear more about it in

the summit later today and tomorrow as well somalia's political leaders have failed to agree on new elections just days before the end of the president's term last year they agreed to hold indirect parliamentary and presidential elections but that deal broke down after disagreements between the president and regional leaders ahmed out o. is monitoring the story from kenya and says that somalia has now entered a period of political instability. the contentious issues include who should manage the election of about 17 members of parliament in the get a region which is the president's home or region he wants to do that himself the president of javelin instruction in case my ahmed rather the outrightly refused that and then there is the deployment of troops to the ghetto region along the border with kenya the government in mogadishu states that they have deployed those forces to try and protect the border with kenya after their diplomatic spat between

kenya and the cutting of diplomatic relations with the nairobi and the president of the region is saying no that is not what the president wants is trying to use up his power in the region and wants them replaced with african union peacekeepers are missed on the president. and another issue is the composition of the electoral commission which opposition candidates including former president at least one former prime minister say that it is tough with civil servants and members of the national security agency and they want that reconstituted again now all these leave somalia in limbo on monday the president's mandate will expire and the opposition countries are saying they will not allow an extension of the president's mandate they would not want any extension whatsoever of the president from those some red where that meeting has collapsed is heading directly to a parliament where he's going to ask members of parliament to extend his mandate

and they might do that because extending the prison mandate mystic standing there on monday the diplomatic fallout from russia straight but opposition leader alexina valmy is intensifying it comes after moscow expelled 3 foreign diplomats for joining protests against about this arrest about the opposition leader has appeared in court for the 2nd time in a week is accused of defaming a world war 2 veteran address some of those reports. i russia's foreign ministry says the diplomats have attended what are called illegal demonstrations last month in support of alexina valmy thousands of protesters were arrested in a series of rather as the ministry isn't saying how many of the diplomats from germany sweden and poland they're expelling. the bench and 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 leader's 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 surrogate lover of russia's foreign minister i on barrells agenda was the plight of natalee who had been poisoned with a nerve agent novacek and received the lifesaving treatment in germany last september i have conveyed to minister lavrov our deep concern and great to rated our appeal to release on to launch of an impartial investigation of the piece by.

lab roth talked of the low points in relations with the e.u. so just because it is 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 value of. andrew simmons. south africa has allowed the use of a controversial drug to treat covert 19 patients ivermectin has grown in popularity but it's unregulated uses raised concerns about a sale on the black market for made a middle report stuff 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 smuggled into the hospital which i felt and so on task because. this is something that's going to help people and something there are people who need something that people. think you know as a criminal. where you would. save your loved one you know at that point. when you get the point of death you would do in syria is so convinced the drug saved her life she also gave it to a parents who'd also tested positive for covert 19 they all use the drug without 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 use of either mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works the biggest concern is the honest and the

fact that there's been. what. 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 cold that 19 including india in argentina south africa plans to begin clinical trials on the effectiveness 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 let me al-jazeera jana's berg in colombia hundreds of migrants and refugees are resuming their journey to the united states after being stranded for weeks due to the pandemic but to get to the u.s. border they'll have to 1st cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world lorber madly reports. stranded on this beach for weeks in makeshift homes

hundreds of refugees have finally be given the green light by authorities to leave colombia's seaside town of neck ugly the town which neighbors part of had closed its borders last march to prevent the spread of coronavirus. the people's desperation to leave is evident i was the migration authority says the group is mostly made up of patients but include something cuba and africa they're all looking to make a better life for themselves in the u.s. . the trip will take them across the caribbean go straight to caprica from there the trip becomes infamously dangerous. moment at the moment we have to cross the panama and from panama if we can continue to mexico. but it means getting through the daring gap one of the most impenetrable jungles in the americas it stretches

for almost 100 kilometers connecting colombia and panama not only do they have to pick their way through dense vegetation and extreme humidity but it's also an area known for drug and people smuggling gangs i'm going to last about it in the jungle we have to walk for almost a week so we have to carry water food as well and in the jungle they are wild animals so we have to carry machetes for safety these dangerous parts of become the only way north for thousands of people over the past few years not all of them survive. colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. we want to call in all the authorities all the governments that in one way or another to deal with this migratory dynamic to concentrate their efforts towards the search for a solution to this problem that afflicts us not only in colombia in a cocky but in the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies

ahead and know they are risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many see little choice but to push on. al-jazeera. 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 and the 1965 blockbuster the sound of music kristen salumi looks back down at his 6 decades in film television and on the stage. christopher plummer was a classically trained actor in his native canada on broadway and on the london stage sadness reserved. just sadness. because burst of comedy and tragedy the world came to know him as captain von trapp in one of the highest grossing movies of all time the sound of music. be.

a. rib or do you see the film's success caught him by surprise here i was going to start doing a very famous film took off none of us really realized it would. 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 and i thought and i tried so hard to america i'm interesting but 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 and old age only 2 years older than me

dollywood will be normal. in the years since plummer remained active on the big screen stepping in to replace kevin spacey in the 2017 felt 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 actor amanda plummer. it's good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in doha the headlines and i was there at the 1st major street protests have taken place and we have about 6 days off the military seized control of the government thousands marched to the largest city of yangon saturday in anger over the coup of syria's florence lu is monitoring the situation.