risky. sirrah leave. the in. the air. for the 1st time since monday's school in yanmar large numbers of protesters take to the streets. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also ahead a warning of a difficult and long road ahead in the fight against covert 19 in africa a pandemic is a major topic as the continent's leaders kick off their annual summit just a few weeks after donald trump state department labeled yemen school fees terrorists joe biden's administration changes course. you've called him dangerous

you called him back. believe and biden says the tradition of giving intelligence briefings to former presidents should not happen with donald trump. the 1st major street protests have taken base in myanmar 6 days after the military seize control of the government and arrested its civilian leaders thousands march in the largest city of young gone on saturday angry about the call for an swe has more from kuala lumpur. hundreds of people are out on the streets of yangon among its students the young and old many are dressed in red the color of the national league for democracy party or the n l d. it one november's election by a landslide

a result the military has refused to records citing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud the bad has read against military dictatorship. these people are calling for the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and others have been detained. protests have grown from just banging pots at night in yangon. to civil disobedience movement medical stuff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by lecturers and other government employees that are yet another for example mariano we don't one dismiss the true coup which unlawfully seize power from our elected government we don't want anyone who steals power and then forms their own government we're no longer going to work with them we want the military coup to fail america from. the to rest is going astray and shown to know an economic adviser to aung san suu kyi was reportedly taken into custody on saturday another key aide when taking who called on the public to oppose the coup

was detained on friday on charges of sedition the attorney for stitching and the deposed president when mint says he hasn't been able to contact either of them. as far as i know they are under house arrest on some to choose a new private home not one given by the government movement is not at the president's residence but in a separate home that is what i heard. activists are also being held this is the moment that rein in says her father a former student protest leader was taken away by soldiers it's been 5 days since my father and. rest. were on monday morning and then we haven't heard anything about ration where they are being held or a health condition all the family members are very worried. the military is gradually cutting off the population from one another and the outside world 1st by blocking facebook then twitter and instagram and now shutting down the internet

u.k. based internet monitoring group says that saturday 2 pm local time internet connectivity in myanmar had fallen to 16 percent of ordinary level. cities party has declared itself the sole legitimate representative of the people. in a show of defiance about a dozen l.g.m. peace convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday yangon regional m.p.'s held a swearing in ceremony via. international pressure on myanmar is growing. the un security council has called on the military to release on sons hoochie and others who are being detained the us is considering targeted sanctions and in the region malaysian and indonesian leaders have called on the association of southeast asian nations or audience to hold a special meeting but the generals have been down this road before me and most military leaders were shunned by the west when they ran the country from 962 to 2011 they want to be giving up power so easily florence really al-jazeera quadruple

. brigitte while she is an honorary research associate at the university of nottingham malaysia she says world leaders need to support the needs of myanmar speedball. what should be done internationally and in the end so we've seen the u.n. is actually make up calls 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 increasing 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 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 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 african union leaders are meeting by video conference for their annual summit discussing a range of shared concerns including the cold the 19th and then again the struggle to secure vaccines there also fears over the growing unrest in this i have region and in central african republic there is martha my best selling the summit from nairobi kenya. protecting the african center for disease control and also the 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 the grossly on equal allocation the distribution of covert 19 vaccines around the world experts estimate that the richest countries would have vaccinated most of their populations at some point later this year and that the world's poorest countries many of which are in this continent will not vaccinate the same amount of their population still 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 program the government there is for about 6 doses for every member of its population the african union is trying to trying to address this 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 hours 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 climate i'd always monitoring the story from kenya and he says 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 ghetto region which is the president's home or region he wants to do that himself the president of jubilant instruction in case my mother the outrightly refuse that and then there is the deployment of troops to the ghetto region along the border with kenya the government in mogadishu straits that they have deployed those forces to try and

protect the border with kenya after diplomatic spat between kenya and the cutting of the prometric relations with 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 present. and another issue is the composition of the electoral commission which opposition candidates including former president at least one former prime minister say it is tough with civil servants and members of the national security agency and they want that reconstituted again now all these leave some money 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 rap 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 to. police in china fired tear gas as hundreds of people protested president idriss debby's nomination for a 6th term in office has been officially named his party's candidate for the election in april has been in power for 30 is the opposition accuse him of trying to introduce in more naki they say it's time for him to step aside in are putting forward a unity candidates because he has more from senegal. police fired tear gas against protesters demonstrating against the nomination of president idriss deby who will be running for 6 mandate in the upcoming presidential election that's taking place on the 11th of april and protester erupted in different neighborhoods of the capital in germany these were protests led by the opposition but also by human rights activists their plan was to march towards the presidential palace before

police fired tear gas arrested some of them some sought refuge even inside the u.s. embassy even while the president was at the party headquarters accepting this nomination now he's been in power for the last 30 years thanks in part to the presence of french forces of the former colonial power as the headquarters of the block an operation for its held region based in the capital of chad now they intervene twice though inside the country to protect president debbi from attempts to overthrow him now during this period of over 30 years it has to be has a mouse enormous amount of wealth he's placed some members of his family in key positions in government meanwhile the 13000000 people living in live. on less than $2.00 a day in a country that's rich in oil that human rights groups accuse the president and his

government of not only amassing wealth and corruption but also. dissent and this again is happening and appears just months before the presidential election. protests as in tunisia marking the anniversary of the death of a prominent left wing activist irani is underway at the same place in tunis where 18 years ago policy. was killed and they're saying they want the truth about political assassinations to be. these are live pictures from tunis right now protesters are also condemning the spread of hate speech and violence. over 100 years edis killed by isis fighters in 2014 have been laid to rest in a funeral service in northwestern iraq their remains were found in mass graves last year and identified through d.n.a. testing the religious minority was targeted by ice all because of the faith the

u.n. estimates at least 5000 people were met it and 7000 women and girls abducted and in sleet. the u.s. state department is to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who sees president biden had highlighted the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen in his 1st major foreign policy speech these were unable terrorists by the trump administration but humanitarian groups warned this could affect a deliveries the u.n. says the war in yemen has become the world's worst humanitarian crisis so that a big bomb is the advocacy manager for the norwegian refugee council she explains how the terror list designation affects humanitarian work even when they are exemptions. the 1st thing to save that this designation was coming at a time when yemen faces precedented set of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of war 60000000 people are at risk of starvation one in

2 yemenis cope with 19 also led to the economy getting worse more people lost their jobs you also basically the. food prices rising at the same time so for humanitarian organizations what we were concerned about is that even with exemptions made by the u.s. government this only provided limited protections of the would still it would still continue to delay humanitarian aid operations as we never gave these new legal risks and complexities but what we were particularly concerned about is 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 private sector such as banks are risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about past actions regime

and exemptions would have meant private shipping companies or. commercial companies would be reluctant to bring food fuel and medicines into the country so this is really a decision by the u.s. government and a sigh of relief for the yemeni people. and president biden says his predecessor donald trump shouldn't receive intelligence briefings speaking in an interview on the american network c.b.s. he says 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 on related to the insurrection i mean you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called him reckless and i have who i believe 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 briefing what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. and still ahead on al-jazeera from a scene in the bronx highways across the country as part of a months long. 'd will destroy their livelihoods and hungry and homeless how the crown of eyes and damage is causing a shopping a small number of italians facing economic hardship. how low the weather is turning cooler for japan over the next couple of days return to more snow i'm afraid we have got some what's the weather some winter weather just pulling out of the way clear skies for

a time as this weather system just not as out into the open waters 16 celsius there in tokyo but in say that snow starting to push into western parts of honshu once again and we'll see some snow there coming back into her. winds coming in from a northeasterly direction a rod across the sea of japan becomes a little more widespread on monday and becomes a little cooler as well temperatures in tokyo around 9 degrees at this day cooling off in seoul is around one celsius dry there across well in parts of china but somewhat to whether you notice much weather coming into central pass as we go through the next day or so south western parts of china will see some very heavy rain as we go through it in the next week some wet weather now in the process of pushing across the far north east of in the clearest guys coming back into harder temperatures will pick up into the mid twenty's there for new delhi it is largely dry across much of india some showers there into sri lanka as out west the weather which you move through meum are joining up with some really heavy rain that will

gradually make its way across northern parts of laos pushing back into china. but. radicalism is on the rise across. the glowing we're told it's every west we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalization in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is huge typing on the net there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth serious announces the era. of the word to the end of the to anyone to the.

welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera the 1st major street protests have taken place in myanmar 6 days after the military 'd seize control of the government hundreds marched in the largest city of young gone on saturday angry about the cold african union leaders have been meeting by video conference for their annual summit they're likely to discuss a range of shared concerns including the covert 19 pandemic and the struggle to secure vaccines and the u.s. state department is to drop its terrorist designation for yemen's who sees a decision was made under the trump administration but humanitarian groups have learned it could affect a deliveries. to india now where the government has cut off internet and phone lines after protests around its capital new delhi according to one survey india restricted internet use more than any other nation last year farmers have now

ramped up their protests against agricultural reforms by blocking roads across the country the months long demonstrations on the outskirts of new delhi have been mostly peaceful but they turned violent last month when thousands of farmers breached barricades around the city and is it random as this update from gaza for. where the gods if you protest side where foreigners continue to occupy this key highway into delhi they've been here for more than 2 months but today we're seeing protesters blocking other highways around the country including in the start and how to yana and punjab and we've seen police detaining protesters in the southern city of bengal and this is all after a pharmacy asked anyone who supports them to block highways for 3 hours and in protest against the government's agricultural laws now in response delhi police have deployed a $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 fortune climb the walls just hours after prominence in that interim address the nation from the. the coronavirus pandemic 9 there's been a 3 fold increase in the number of italian seeking food handouts in rome because of call the 19 also those needing assistance lost their jobs or have gone bankrupt during lockdowns over the last 12 months 70 deca reports from rome. the sun has barely come up and this winter morning still has that cold feel of night and yet people lined up here before the church gates opened no one wants to talk to us many don't want to be filmed most are italian but we're told demand for food parcels has gone up 3 fold since $1000.00 started to sorel more with the import.

there are many impoverished many who had work a family home living in normal conditions you know lived on tourism small businesses that went bankrupt surmounted streets you also find these new italian. rita is one of them her husband was recently taken into hospital and her 25 year old daughter lost her job a few months ago she has a widowed son and she would go and help with his housework while he was working. for the children with outdated ma there and him alone so it's normal that i want to help she hasn't been able to visit for more than 2 months now coronavirus means meant taining distance from her family but also means real economic hardship she says it's now impossible to find work and that feels like losing all dignity is starting with. it's really you mediating to receive handouts when you worked all your life even with the pain and sweat on your hands you come back home at night

you are tired but you know you love her and that money like days no now i really understand poverty the marginalized people are those who live on the street in the cold. this church tries to help those people to 12 homeless men come here to sleep we're told half of them lost their jobs during the pandemic others had tough lives even before the virus struck ilia agreed to talk to us on camera he describes the job situation is terrible. is very difficult. for a man over my age. before i ask him how could 1000 has affected his life. before in this quarter we will be able going site somewhere no nothing is stopping nowhere to stay i mean they can't have us in the day we leave in the morning got to 70 of it we're outside all day with the cold is really

tough the coronavirus has impacted everyone in one way or another and here as the lights are about to be turned down for the night perhaps a few hours of warmth of comfort but little else before having to face another day on the streets stephanie decker al-jazeera rome. from february 15th travelers arriving to the u.k. from coronavirus hotspots will have to quarantine in hotels for 10 days the so-called red list of countries includes most of latin america africa and the u.a.e. thousands of hotel rooms nia c.n.n. or sorry being booked and arrivals will have to foot the bill it says zines to stop the spread of mutated virus strains now has more from london's heathrow airport. we know precious little about the details of this current team hotel scheme apart from the obvious fact that it's going to be a big challenge to get it in place by the deadline of february the 15th so 10 days

for the government to convince hotel groups to get on board and to make rooms available the government's trying to block books thousands of rooms across the country at airports like here at heathrow and around the u.k. as well as sea ports on friday the head of one london hotel group said that it wouldn't be enough time to implement the covered 19 safety procedures necessary on thursday just hours before the announcement the head of the u.k.'s biggest airport hotel group said that they had been left in the dark about how the scheme would operate that was a week after prime minister boris johnson said that the scheme would be coming in and many people are asking why the delay the opposition labor party have accused the government of risking lives with its failure to act more quickly pointing out that the announcement came 50 days after the south african variant of the virus was

1st known about the government of course saying that these measures are necessary because of new variants many of the countries on the list of 33 the so-called red list are in south america and southern africa let's not forget that there was a variant also from brazil that's worrying scientists here possibly more easily transmitted and more resistant to vaccines which the government has been so doing so well on so there's a big challenge we don't know exactly how many rooms will be available arrivals by u.k. residents from those countries well they'll have to stay in a hotel for 10 days at their own cost around $110.00 per night that will be my. and that many people are saying we shouldn't be a reuters the government saying that that would be on three's a day and it would unfairly hit people from low risk countries. protesters have

burned down several government buildings in chile 7 ton of punk after a police killing of a street juggler video released on social media shows police officers approaching the artists are reportedly his identity they fired several shots at the man who seemed to be holding machetes chilean media say they were props fois performance. firefighters are battling a wildfire in argentina's patagonia is burning near on and has already destroyed more than $10000.00 hectares of the would have mountainous region. of the sobriety the country has seen since 1905 causing an extensive and prolonged drought. in colombia hundreds of migrants and refugees are resuming their journey to the united states after being stranded for weeks because of the pandemic but to get to the u.s. border they have to 1st cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world or bird man he has a story. 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 has closed its borders last march to prevent the spread of coronavirus. the people's desperation is evident. the migration authority says the group is mostly made up of patients but includes some from cuba and africa they're all looking to make a better life 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 have become the only way north for thousands of people over the past few years not all of them survive most year colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. all we want to call in all the authorities all the governments that in one way or another 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 and quickly but in

the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies ahead a low they're risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many seedless who choice but to push on. al-jazeera. where again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the 1st major street protests have taken place in myanmar 6 days after the military seize control of the government hundreds marched in the largest city of young gone on saturday angry about a cold front story has more from kuala lumpur riot police have been deployed in gang god they prevented more people from reaching the main site of the.