against time. witness our time machine. just. play an important role. ringback for the 1st time since monday's crew and me and more large numbers of protesters take to the streets. are watching al-jazeera live from the headquarters and i'm daddy navigator also coming up al jazeera journalist much more for saying is freed from prison in egypt after being detained for more than 4 years a warning of

a difficult and long road ahead in africa's fight against covert 19 the pandemic is a major topic as the continent's leaders begin their annual summit. keeping up the pressure farmers in india refused to back down they're demanding the government scrapped new laws they say threaten their livelihoods and closure for some of iraq's minority is easy 6 years after an attack by i saw that saw photos and killed kidnapped or forced to flee their homes. below the 1st major street protests are taking place in myanmar 6 days after the military seize control of the government and arrested its civilian leaders thousands march in the largest city of yangon on saturday and anger about the coup al-jazeera florence louis has more from kuala lumpur.

people out on the streets of yangon monks students young and old. many are dressed in red the color of the national league for democracy party or the n.l. game. and 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 i will not be out we don't one does 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 shawntel an economic adviser to onus on suchi was reportedly taken into custody on saturday and other key aides 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 2 choosing her private home not one given by the government and when mental 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. peace convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday. airing 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. 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 a man maher he says the internet restrictions are tougher than ever. mirror 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 restrictions made with full range full suite of research into this this week to the pins worked this is a method of circumventing censorship with your own restrictions in the last few days but more recently the kind of restriction that we see 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 earlier 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 co in me and mar antony blinken used his 1st call with beijing's top diplomat to criticize beijing's human rights record blank and said that america will stand up for democratic values engine jang tibet and hong kong he warned that the u.s. would work with allies against any chinese threat to stability in the indo-pacific region including across the taiwan strait. and some breaking news from egypt where a colleague mahmoud abbas saying has been released after being arbitrarily detained for more than 4 years he was arrested while visiting family in december 26th but was never formally charged with a crime and there has been no trial by media networks acting director general dr mustafa swathed has released a statement regarding mahmoud hussein's release it says we are pleased mahmud will reunite with his family after being robbed of 4 years of his life and deprived of

fundamental rights we hope he will be able to overcome this ordeal and start a new chapter in his distinguished career while mahmud was imprisoned he became a symbol of press freedom across the world al-jazeera calls for the freedom for all journalists who are unjustly imprisoned all around the world charlotte ballasts reports. mahmoud hussein 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 seen 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 folks 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 out of 180 countries and its index of press

freedom of hussein is now free says at least 30 journalists remain in egyptian prisons chala ballasts out his era. african union leaders have been meeting by video conference for a very annual summit there are likely to discuss a range of shared concerns. including the covert 1000 pandemic in the struggle to secure vaccines the outgoing chairman cyril ramaphosa says the continent has been devastated by the virus and still faces a long and difficult road before the pandemic is defeated often why is following the summit from nairobi. expecting 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 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 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 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's 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. emergency talks between somalia's

political leaders have ended without an agreement on how upcoming elections will proceed to fail talks come days before the end of president mohamed up don't have any idea law he excuse me mohamed church last year 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. police and shot have fired tear gas as hundreds of people protested against president idriss devaney's nomination for a 6th term in office he's been officially named his governing party's candidate for april's election has been in power for more than 3 decades the opposition parties accuse him of trying to introduce a monarchy they say time for him to step aside and are putting forward a unity candidates still ahead on al-jazeera refugees on the move in colombia these people trekked through one of the world's most dangerous jungles and hope of

a better life. the current virus pandemic is causing a sharp increase in the number of italians facing economic hardship. how is the weather looks pretty unsettled across a good part of the middle east over the next couple of days lots of wet weather now pushing through the levant seizing across iraq into iran some heavy rain there over the mountains are really turning to snow as well and that cloud in right not too far from us here in casa sunday is the woman day 26 ounces for the winds coming in from over a southerly direction but as this system makes its way further east words the winds will switch from will have a northerly push now winds temperatures at around $22.00 celsius could catch a spot or 2 of rain not too much to speak of elise here on the other side of the

gulf with that what's the weather will fizzle out as it pushes across iran want to see showers around the southern end of the red sea so yemen could catch a shower at say just around the gulf of aden but not say much wet in the way of wetter weather around the horn of africa somalia generally is going to stay dry and find the basin showers still unusually wet facade into parts of tanzania west or whether they're just coming across just around the rif ali some heavy showers too right through the southern posit democratic republic of congo eastern areas of angola seeing some heavy rain will see some wet weather for a time most affecting a good part of botswana should gradually turn a little brighter for south africa. but . al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover tracking down an international organized crime network. i want to go. through

exposing direct links to corruption at the highest level of the bangladesh government. do you think. i'll just rewrite investigations over the prime minister's man. the. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the 1st major street protests have taken place in me and maher 6 days after the military seize control of the government thousands rallied in the largest city yangon against the coup in a crackdown that followed. al-jazeera which for same has been released after being

arbitrarily detained in an egyptian prison for more than 4 years these are the latest pictures which were saying was leaving the prison he was arrested while visiting family in december 26th seen but was never the formally charged with a crime. african union leaders have been meeting by video conference for their annual summit they've discussed a range of shared concerns including the covert $1000.00 pandemic and the struggle to secure vaccines. 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 agricultural 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 gaza a poor. police used these protesters in the southern city of put them on saturday and their couriers i favor 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. honey ana punjab and ted and ghana 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 narendra modi's 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 and protesters on india's republic day january 26th sense 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 water alec 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 by. and charged. with writing and sedition it's also had hundreds of twitter accounts suspended farmers say the government is treating them like criminals as are the farmers annoyed that aggressive that bob why it has to be put up the government shouldn't have done this farmers are not from some foreign country the people of the same country as even a child doesn't behave the v.m. will be does and he's a senior citizen they should be dissolving to such measures to stop farmers this is . farmers say they're undeterred by the government's crackdown and will continue

their protests until the agricultural laws of repealed elizabeth al-jazeera. over 100 years edis killed by isis fighters in 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 ice so because of their faith the u.n. estimates at least 5000 years edis were murdered and 7000 women and girls abducted and in slate where you are one of iraq's largest religious minorities around 400000 lived in northern iraq before ice alongst its violent attack against them in sindh joran 2014 the un has called it a genocide the armed group targeted them because of their religious sect which is a mix of several ancient middle eastern religions hundreds of thousands are still displaced and of the estimated $7000.00 women and girls sold into slavery or forced

marriage $3000.00 remain missing william why does the founder of hamas a human rights organization that works to improve minority rights in iraq explains the current difficulties for displaced. they are scared to death. 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 as and n.g.o.s we are encouraging people to 10 we have broken. to help them for 10. years these they don't have all 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 sundowning sujata all so well you know there. bolting the houses there is many times it 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 the u.s. state department plans to drop its terrorist designation for yemen'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 of how these were labeled terrorists by the trumpet ministration by

humanitarian groups war and this could affect crucial a delivery. the u.s. president is against his predecessor donald trump receiving intelligence but he's 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 it was ready behavior unrelated to the insurrection i mean you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called and reckless you have who i believe 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 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. in the u.s. capitol she explains why some in washington are concerned about donald trump having access to the 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 and interest 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 or a bird in memory 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 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 him going last a rapid 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 colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. we want all of you thought of geez all the governments that in one way or another to deal with this may create a 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 this game of what lies ahead they're risking

their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many seedless who choice but to push on. the al-jazeera china drug regulator has given conditional approval to a 2nd locally made covert 1000 back scene for use by the general public the coronavirus has been used in china's vaccination program for people in high risk groups since july it's a fact of nursing clinical trials around the world varies from between 50 to 91 percent since their beijing based company behind the vaccine expects to be able to produce more than a 1000000000 doses a year. charities in rome say there has been a 3 fold increase in the number of italians seeking food handouts because of the coronavirus most of those needing assistance lost their jobs or have gone bankrupt during the last 12 months stephanie decker reports. 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 sonal more. there are many impoverished many who had work a family home living in normal conditions you know rome lived on tourism small businesses that went bankrupt so mound astri's 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 very hard 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 it also means real economic

hardship she says it's now impossible to find work and that feels like losing all dignity is starting with her. it's really a humiliating 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 marginalised 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 would be able going site somewhere no nothing no work to stay i mean they can't have us in the day we live in the modern go to 70 a thing where 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. my. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera after sarah's mom had her say in has been released after being arbitrarily detained in an egyptian prison for more than 4 years you're looking at the latest pictures of him what her saying leaving prison.