and you want to polish it should be left for. football isn't about politics and this is. the passion and the politics of liverpool f.c. the defiant joint. of the fans who make football series on al-jazeera. for the 1st time since monday's crew in myanmar large numbers of protesters take to the streets. watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also coming up a warning of a difficult and long road ahead in africa's fight against cover 19 pandemic is a major topic as the continent's leaders begin their annual summit it's.

keeping up the pressure farmers in india refused to back down there is a mandate the government scrapped new laws they say threaten their livelihoods. and closer for some of iraq's minority has 6 years after an attack by eisel that saw thousands killed kidnapped or forced to flee their homes. hello thanks for joining us the 1st major street protests have taken place in me in mar 6 days after the military seize control of the government and arrested at civilian leaders thousands marched in the largest city of yangon on saturday in anger about the coup al-jazeera is florence louis has more from kuala lumpur. people out on the streets of yangon monks students young and old. many

a dressed in red the color of the national league for democracy party or the n.l. doing. it one november's election by a landslide a result of military has refused to record citing unsubstantiated allegations of phone the bad as read against military dictatorship. these people are calling for the release of the elected leader. and others have been detained. protests have grown from just banging pots at night in yangon. for 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 your money out we don't want this military 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 threat of arrest israel astray and sean to now an economic advisor to onus on suchi 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 choosing her private home not one given by the government and women 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 weighing in says her father a former student protest leader was taken away by soldiers it's been 5 days since my father and. the 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 very worried. the military is gradually

cutting off the population from one another and the outside world 1st by blocking facebook twitter and instagram and now shutting down the internet the 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. party has declared itself the sole legitimate representative of the people. in a show of defiance about a dozen l.g.m. peas convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday. wearing in ceremony via. international pressure on myanmar is growing. the un security council has called on the military to release on sunset and others who are being detained the u.s. 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. toker is the director of net walks the group that's monitoring the online crackdown on me and maher he says the internet restrictions are tougher than ever. in the military has always been pulling the strings in some one with the other and we've found that they were quite easily able to control internet connectivity itself through a variety of mechanisms now 1st of all some of the internet providers in myanmar already aligned with the military so. having them switch off the internet or restrict services isn't such a big deal but there are other providers as well present this tenant of which is and we generate a national writer which doesn't really want to switch people off it's got commitments to its investors to the outside world and operators have been pressured

by the military and they've been forced to switch off services and the internet so beyond this we've seen really various forms of restriction maybe a full range full suite of research into this this week so the pins worked this is a method of circumventing censorship with iran restrictions in the last few days but more recently the kind of restriction that we're seeing now isn't necessary amenable to this kind of circumvention which means that people aren't able to work around these are shootings anymore so even those privileged few who were able to use those tools are now more cut off than ever which is really concerning because i spoke to a friend larry this week and she said. she said the one thing we're concerned about is being completely cut off from the world and that's the situation that we're starting to look at now the u.s. secretary of state is urging china to join international condemnation of the

military code me and mar antony bring can use his 1st call with beijing's top diplomat to criticize beijing's human rights record lincoln said that america will stand up for democratic values engine jank tibet and hong kong he warned that the us would work with allies against any chinese threat to stability in india pacific region including across the taiwan strait. 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 cove in 1900 macon the struggle to secure vaccines for the outgoing chairman cyril run a post that says the continent has been devastated by the virus and still faces a long and difficult road before the pandemic is defeated it. is following the summit from nairobi protecting the african center for disease control and also the a use 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 of 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 so 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 or 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 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. financial force a senior atlantic fellow for health equity and george washington university he says the african union deserves credit 1st work in sourcing supplies after western countries acted selfishly by hoarding vaccines and protective equipment and i think african countries are much more prepared than western countries because i mean we been doing this for coal long i mean we just. do our job as last year you know interrupt the polar transmission so all of the investments are going into polio eradication for instance i think how could african countries in a better stead to to really rule out the vaccines when they arrive on the continent i think we also need to give credit to the african union chaired by the president of course the because the pied you know the selfishness on the part of western

nations who by not i believe will back been through his leadership the continent has at least gotten some level of commitment from the khobar facility about $700000000.00 this as well as the africa back enough to dish on pass the bathroom and so on the 1000000 doses are by that $1000000000.00 of commitment last year if you can remember western nations also said or did. was not with the development of the commodities or could be one team and as the result of that the african union stepped up the african medical supplies platform to help with coordinate in airports across the continent follow district on commodities and you know the african medical supplies for. african countries come preorder for buxton and also. book for parts of the district and cotton equipment for those back in.

emergency talks between so malia's political leaders have ended without an agreement on how a coming elections will proceed the failed talks come days before the end of president mohamed the he mohammed's term last year the central government agreed to hold indirect parliamentary and presidential elections but that deal broke down after disagreements between the president and regional leaders somalia has a february 8th deadline to choose a new president. the interim government has cut off internet and phone lines after protests around its capital new delhi farmers have now ramped up their protests against reforms by blocking roads across the country they say the government is using repressive measures to clamp down on the protests elizabeth purana reports from. police used to cad on these protesters in the southern city of put them on saturday for their courage sorry they were among thousands of

people around the country who heated fama schools to join their movement was. many stopped traffic by sitting on roads and told collection centers in the states of. punjab and ted and donna they said they wanted to show their solidarity with those who've been blocking the highways around delhi for more than 2 months. there are at least 80 places employed job where farmers groups are protesting and blocking roads against the government and the farm laws to force them to roll them back there is a blockade here at the golden gate to. $50000.00 police and paramilitary personnel have been deployed in and around the capital new delhi police say they're taking extra precautions since the outbreaks of violence between police had protesters on india's republic day january 26th since republic day police have erected many rows of barricades outside the 3 major protest sites on delhi's

outskirts making them very difficult to access. tricity and internet services have been intimately kushal of at the sides where hundreds of thousands of people camping out the un's human rights office has asked the indian government and protesters to exercise maximum restraint but also said the right to peaceful assembly and expression should be protected both offline and online. the government has arrested more than 120 people in connection with the recent. violence and chaunged fogging indeed as with rising and sedition it's also had hundreds of twitter accounts suspended farmers say the government is treating them like criminals known as are the farmers are not that aggressive that bob vi it has to be put up the government shouldn't have done this farmers are not from some foreign country they are people of the same country as even a child doesn't behave the same will be does and he's a senior citizen they should be dissolving to such measures to stop farmers this is absolutely wrong. fama say they're undeterred by the government's crackdown and

will continue their protests until the agricultural laws have repealed elizabeth al-jazeera the pool with her pretty much still ahead on al-jazeera we've called him dangerous he called and requests to have her believe. joe biden says the tradition of giving intelligence briefings to former presidents should not happen with donald trump. and the central american refugees trekking through one of the world's most dangerous drug wars in hopes of a better life details coming up. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways. the weather is turning cooler for japan over the next couple of days return to more snow i'm afraid we have got some wetter 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 all the parts of china but somewhat of weather you know what weather coming into central parts 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 northeast 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 is that where. the weather which you move through me joining up with some really heavy rain that will

gradually make its way across northern parts of laos pushing back into china. spoke to qatar airways. as information on the government's responses to covert 19 across the world emerges so too as a deeply disturbing question. people in power investigates allegations of systemic discrimination against the pandemics disable victims. has there been a shameful failure to protect some of the world's most vulnerable citizens. this able to victims. on a just you know. just

to bring you some breaking news that is especially close to us here at al-jazeera our colleague mahmoud her saying has been released after being arbitrarily detained in an egyptian prison for more than 4 years he was arrested in 2016 but was never formally charged with a crime and there has been no trial well al jazeera media networks acting director general dr most of us awad has released a statement regarding my release and in it he says this we are pleased mahmud will reunite with his family after being robbed for years of his life and deprived of fundamental rights we hope he will be able to overcome this past ordeal and start a new chapter in his distinguished career while mahmud was imprisoned he became a symbol of press freedom across the world. calls for the freedom of all journalists who were unjustly imprisoned all around the worlds. charlotte ballasts

has more my heart hossein. mousavian will soon be enjoying more family moments this was one of the rare occasions he saw his loved ones during more than 4 years in prison the al jazeera journalist was detained in december 26th again after arriving in cairo on a trip home from his base in doha the egyptian was never formally charged but was accused of incitement broadcasting folks news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he and al-jazeera consistently denied the allegations during his time inside cairo's notorious torah maximum security prison he was denied his rights he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment the detention also breached egypt's penal code he was locked up for 2 and a half years more than the maximum time allowed to hold someone without charge my father is emotionally and mentally distressed because he feels that he is there in

the dark cell behind the bars without committing any crime. and he's away from his children his family his father his mother and he can't do anything rights groups have reported in unparalleled crackdown on journalists in egypt under former general now president abdel fattah el-sisi in 20130 journalist mohammad mohammed fahmy and peter greste are were imprisoned on charges of spreading fox news they were released after a year abraham allowed the former editor in chief of al-jazeera arabic was sentenced to death an abstention for endangering national security reporters without borders ranks egypt of $166.00 out of $180.00 countries and it's index of press freedom of hussein is now free says at least 30 journalists remain in egyptian prisons chala ballasts out jazeera. over $100.00 is edis killed by isis fighters and 2014 have been laid to rest in

a funeral service in northwest iraq their remains were found in mass graves last year and identified through d.n.a. testing the religious minority was targeted by eisel because of their faith the u.n. estimates at least 5000 years these were murdered and 7000 women and girls abducted and even enslaved william what does the founder of the that's a human rights organization that works to improve minority rights in iraq he explains the current difficulties for displaced. they are scared to. even the strategy of the government is too close. to the terror to their homeland but still the situation you know in specially is in john. is very. critical on people they there's no trust of the security situation has and in general as we are

encouraging people to return and we have broken. to help them for 10. years these they don't have all of the night bars this is one of they can say. to. 2 sisters and. the conciliation between years in these and that villages villages in the night were the. days either especially beyond all these villages around being seen john are also well you know they're. both in the houses there is many times that houses are destroyed completely the people when they come back they cannot see their houses where they shoot again they cannot stay. in again in the camps in science in general all tennesseans are

holding a mass demonstration marking the anniversary of the death of a prominent left wing activist rally is taking place at the place where 8 years ago politician was killed thousands have gathered in 2 ness they are calling for the truth about political assassinations to be in the field and rejecting restrictions on freedoms and condemning the spread of hate speech and violence. well the u.s. state department plans to drop its terrorist designation for yemen ruthie's president joe biden had highlighted the need to find a diplomatic solution to the war in yemen during his 1st major foreign policy speech the crew of these were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration but humanitarian groups warned this could affect crucial aid deliveries so it's not a big boom is the advocacy manager for the norwegian refugee council she explains how the terrorists designation affects humanitarian work even when there are exemptions. it's the 1st thing to save that this designation with coming at

a time when yemen faces precedented of catastrophe so battered by 6 years of war 16000000 people at risk of starvation one in 2 yemenis cope with 19 also led to the economy with getting more people lost their jobs you have 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 protection of the would stick 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 bags of risk averse and any uncertainty caused by about just actions regime and exemptions would have meant private shipping companies. 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 that the yemeni people u.s. president joe biden is against his predecessor donald trump receiving intelligence briefings speaking in an interview on 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 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 and reckless and i have who i believe in 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 what value is given him an intelligence what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. how did your customers in the u.s. capitol and she explains why some in washington are concerned about donald trump having access to classified information. these briefings are a courtesy that's extended from the new president to the old and it's something that's happened for every former living us president in the modern era they serve 2 purposes one is to fulfill this matter of convention as a courtesy and the 2nd is to have the former president informed in case they are

one day called upon for advice from the current sitting president now the concern about about getting these continued intelligence briefings that can be summed up not only by what biden just said but also in an op ed written by one of trump's former intelligence prefers that was published in the washington post in january and in it she lists to make concerns that make trump different than his predecessors one being that he has a stated agenda to remain as part of american politics possibly running another time and she is concerned that he could use or twist this intelligence to meet his agenda what she has been accused of doing while in the white house and then the 2nd difference between trump and his former u.s. presidents is that he has business holdings and investors and lenders who are foreigners and the concern there is that he is particularly vulnerable to what this

former intelligence officer says are bad actors with ill intent because of his conflicts in interest firefighters are battling a wildfire in argentina's patagonia it's burning near and both has a ready destroyed more than 10000 hectares of the wooded mountainous region last year was the driest the country has seen since 1905 causing an extensive and prolonged dro. well china's drug regulator has given conditional approval to a 2nd locally make over 1000 back scene for use by the general public the current arc job has been used in china's vaccination program for people in high risk groups since july its effectiveness in clinical trials around the world varies from between 50 to 91 percent said the beijing based company behind the vaccine expects to be able to produce more than a 1000000000 doses a year hundreds of migrants and refugees in colombia 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 will have to 1st cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world laura burton manley 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 nick oakley the town which neighbors part of a has closed its borders last march to prevent the spread of crude a virus. the people's desperation to leave 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 for themselves in the u.s. . who trip will take them across the caribbean go straight to caprica from there the trip becomes the sleeve 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 him doing 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 of your thought to tease 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 cookie but in the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies ahead and they're risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many seedless who choice but to push on. al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera this hour and breaking news especially close to us right here at al-jazeera our colleague more to say and has been released after being arbitrarily detained in an egyptian president for more than 4 years he was arrested and tried to 16 but was never formally charged with a crime and there has been no trial al-jazeera media networks acting director general dr most of us awad has released this.