you'd ministration as promised a time out around we'll have extensive coverage of the big picture to reduce how the perfect storm of events in 2020 exposed the truth about wakes up the hawks in the united states and as president joe biden embarks on his 1st month in the white house we'll bring you the latest developments escape attempts to repair global relationships february on al-jazeera. warning. me and mossies its 1st major street protests against the coup thousands risking arrest to march in yon gone. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. al-jazeera journalist mahmoud is saying is released after more than 4 years in

prison in egypt. more than 100 killed by i still a fine de lay to rest including 2 brothers of nobel peace prize winner nadia murat . in south africa allows the use of a controversial drug to treat coded even though it's not registered for human consumption. welcome to the program our top story thousands of people in me and my have risked arrest taking to the streets for the biggest protest yet against the coup in the largest city young gone protesters chanted slogans against the military and help pictures of civilian leader unsung suchi she remains under house arrest after being detained in the early hours of monday it was one of the 1st acts of the takeover by the minute treated leaders refuse to accept her party's win and november's election and in a further bid to silence dissent they've added to

a ban on cell phones social networks with n e a total internet shutdown florence italy reports from kuala lumpur. hundreds of people are 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 d. it one november's election by a landslide a result the military has refused to records citing unsubstantiated allegations of fraud the bad as read against military dictatorship. these people are calling for the release of 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 staff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by

lecturers and other government employees didn't have another for government we don't one dismember tree 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 i mean from. the threat of arrest israel astray and sean to mel and economic advisor to aung sun suu ching 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 who are out of a job as far as i know they are under house arrest on some to choose a new private home not one given by the government and when mint 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 other activists were arrested only hour 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. 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 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 man must 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 italy al-jazeera kuala lumpur. or we go to egypt now where our colleague al jazeera journalist man which hussein has been released after more than 4 years in prison is now been reunited with his family mahmud was arrested in 2016 while visiting relatives in egypt but was never

formally charged with a crime or put on trial al-jazeera media networks acting director general said 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 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 al-jazeera calls for the freedom of all journalists who are unjustly imprisoned all around the world china ballasts our ports 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 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 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 an unparalleled crackdown on journalists in egypt under former general now president abdul fattah el-sisi in 20130 journalist mohammad mohamed fahmy and peter greste are were imprisoned on charges of spreading fox news

they were released after a year abraham allowed a 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. i'm joined now from doha by al jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara why has mahmoud hussein been released now. you know clearly there are some circumstances happening indonesian and on the world that influence the system of the president with a c.c. notably. the recent not read normalization of relations between cutout and the photobucket think country which includes egypt and to the advent of the biden

administration and just to remind our viewers around the world biden have made it clear over the last several months that he will no longer give. you know a pass to autocrats and that he will no longer coddle dictators he put it in lawless words in the sense that he puts the likes of the vet the has the issue on notice that he could no longer jail journalists and human rights activists and he can no longer continue with the same political oppression that he did when trump was an office it's also good to remember that president thrown made the press journalists as the enemy of the people as he called it and that coincided rather well with with president sisi but now with the with the by then mrs sheehan in it's clear that someone that would have sane like the rest of us was doing his civic

duty as a journalist it was not a politician he was not an activist he wasn't even a human rights activist he was a journalist doing a civic duty the fact that he was imprisoned for 40 years and i would love our people or those who are watching us around the world just to think about this for a 2nd a journalist jailed for 40 years without trial without trial without due process simply being taken hostage in order to blackmail whoever they are trying to blackmail and teach a lesson to whoever they want well that apparently now that trump is no longer there that needs to stop. by then and the united states which is the most important partner for egypt around the world the one that supports just what over to a $1000000000.00 a year it's clearly putting the the egyptian regime on notice and i think defect that has sisi and they just shot him in general is already responding to spawn the not in the most dramatic way but certainly responding to the pressure coming from

washington and marrone in speak about the changing political context that could that be implications then for other journalists you know they could be but it's just good for us also to be careful that while my more testing is out is that actually a free man is not a free journalist because he would still need to check with the with the local police department he's still on the surveillance his passport to send confiscated so this is really but haps that the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end in the sense that you know this is going to be a struggle to really get that the egyptian regime to be more responsive to 3 them of speech journalists doing the job as well as of course human rights.

and why do i 1 say this is only the end of the beginning because we need to see much more to see in our colleague totally free to do his job and totally free to travel all sorts of what we would like to see other journalists read human rights activists as well as the 10s of thousands of political and human rights activists in dejection prison now one would hope that president biden is serious about his threats that he will no longer coddle dictators and they could no longer run free to do whatever the heck they want and that the has a sticker notice that more than a $1000000000.00 of aid could be. endangered if his regime continues on the same path now judging also from washington's position for example on the question of men mark only a few days ago that perhaps this administration is serious putting on the fact that he saw not this and that maybe we will hopefully see more journalists and other

release for egyptian prisons thank you very much al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashar now the latest in a series of demonstrations has seen the center of tunisia's capital brought to a halt despite a police lockdown it took place at the spot where prominent left wing activists shockwave allied was assassinated and years ago his death led to a wave of protests just 2 years after the country's revolution more protests have been held recently in the people disappointed the freedoms won in the uprising have been eroded protesters call for the truth about political assassinations to also happy reveals. now over 100 members of iraq's easy the minority who were killed by i sell nearly 7 years ago have been buried among them the 2 brothers of the nobel peace prize winner nadia murat who was tortured and raped by i sell fighters a service was held in the northwest of the country to lay them to rest their

remains were found in mass graves last year and identified through d.n.a. testing. we use e d's a one of iraq's largest religious minorities around half a 1000000 lived in northern iraq before i see launched a violent attack against them in sin jha in 2014 the united nations called it a genocide hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced after they were targeted because of their religion which has some elements with islam but also with christianity and all the traditions of the estimated $7000.00 women and girls sold into slavery or forced marriage during the assault 3000 remain missing well william r. there is a founder of the house be a human rights organization that works to improve minority rights inside iraq he explained the difficulties and challenges facing is edis who are still displaced they are scared to death here. even the strategy of the government is to

close. goodish people to return to their homeland but still the situation you know in specially is. is very. political and people late there is no trust of the security situation they can not stay. in the camps in science it joe. you know is there a line from london still ahead. indian farmers continue to ramp up their protests against government reforms blocking roads across the country. and the president's eyes only by joe biden doesn't trust his predecessor with secrecy intelligence.

how there it is positively spring like across eastern parts of the mediterranean better elsewhere winter really has got its grip on us we've got some cold air across eastern and northern parts in particular cross those northern areas of europe we are going to see more the way of colder weather and more the way of snow we have storm darcey bring you some very wintry weather in across the british isles and we got this another area of low pressure moving across the iberian peninsula and lat will just run up across the flood affected parts of france are going to see somewhat of weather coming back in here there we go with that moderate into central and eastern parts of the mediterranean getting up into the twenty's but look further north a minus 12 in moscow 0 in berlin just 7 degrees there in london and it does get colder as i say as you push on into saturday we will see that colder air gradually making its way further southwards and west was one celsius there in london at this

stage 0 celsius there is you go on into monday let's go to a choose day on the hang on just similar temperatures but just minus 20 the top temperature in moscow still plenty of warmth down towards southern most past we got the snow across central areas it will turn a good deal wet and windy for central parts of the met. oman has a rich history but also plays an important diplomatic role in the gulf region today al-jazeera will discover as its empire stretched from the arabian peninsula to east africa built on great sea power. the problem existed in the gulf was piracy. tribes wars rebellion empire and colonize ation. oman history power and influence on al-jazeera.

the all. the way. back with al jazeera live from london the main stories now thousands of people in myanmar risked arrest by the military to protest against it taking power in a coup there's a near total internet shut down now in the country to try and silence dissent. al-jazeera journalism which is saying has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt he was arrested while visiting family in december 2016 but never formally charged with a crime. and more than a 100 years edis who were murdered by i saw in 2014 have been laid to rest in northern iraq their remains were found in a mass grave last year. now india's government has

cut off internet and phone lines in its latest efforts to clamp down on farmers protesting around new delhi they've been blocking roads into the capital for several months angry at new laws that end guaranteed prices for their produce and as elizabeth purana reports now from gaza pour the protests are spreading with roads across the country blocked for several hours. police used to carry on these protesters in the southern city of the put them on saturday night or through their curry favor among thousands of people around the country who heated fama schools to join their movement. many stopped traffic by sitting on roads and told collection centers of 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 in punjab 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 protests 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. and internet services have been intermittent 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 offline and online. the government has arrested more than

$120.00 people in connection with the recent violence and charged. with writing and sedition it's also had hundreds of twitter accounts suspended farmers say the government is treating them like criminals so. that aggressive that bob via 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. and he's a senior citizen they should be dissolving to such measures to stop this is. fama say they're undeterred by the government's crackdown and will continue their protests until the agricultural laws of repealed elizabeth al-jazeera. at least 3 people have been killed in 2 separate bomb blasts in afghanistan's capital kabul police say the 1st bomb at a shop in the center of the city killed 2 people and wounded 4 others it appears to

have been telegraphing the minority sikh community 2nd bomb in the north of the capital blew up a police vehicle killing one officer no one has claimed responsibility now us president joe biden has been saying that his predecessor be trusted to receive a courtesy that is traditionally normally extended to a commander in chief often leaving office he says donald trump's behave too erratic early to see sensitive intelligence briefings should former president trump still receive intelligence briefings. i think not. why not. because it was routed behavior unrelated to the insurrection when you've called him an existential threat you've called him dangerous you called him reckless. who are 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 for what value is given him and tells you what impact does he have at all other than the fact he might slip and say something. castro is live for us now in washington an interesting the idea beyond saying that president trumps behavior is erratic no for the specific reason as to why he shouldn't receive classified information. right and this is a. courtesy that's been extended to all other living u.s. presidents mariyam in the in the modern era and it exists for 2 reasons be the traditional sense and also the practical value of having these former heads of state prepared to give advice to the sitting president were he were she to need it well in this case of the resistance to having former president trump continued to

receive these intelligence briefings you can date that back to an op ed written in the washington post and it was published by one of trump's former intelligence brief us with decades of experience in the intelligence community and she said that there are 2 things in particular that make former president trump different from his predecessors one that he has a stated agenda of remaining an element in u.s. politics and the fear is he could use intelligence briefings to twist it or use it to further his own personal agenda as he has been accused of doing in the past and the 2nd difference being that his business has holdings with foreign creditors and foreign investors which would make him vulnerable to those foreign actors who may want to use his use that against him in his conflict of interest merriam and what is the process for preventing former commander in chief from receiving these

briefings is it straightforward. yeah that one is pretty easy because this is something that the former president would need to request of the current president apparently trump has not requested these briefings at this point and the fact there's been much reporting about how much he didn't like them when he was still in the oval office because they were boring but if he were to request then joe biden the sitting president could simply deny them to him this is a unilateral move that the president can take and there's very little that trump would be able to do to contest. thank you very much more shinton i did hear kustra thanks heidi in other developments the u.s. appears to have passed a peak of coronavirus cases following the christmas and new year period 7 day rolling average of new cases dipped below 126001 friday down from more than 180000 a week ago but more than 3000 new deaths are still being recorded every day people

are being urged to stay at home and continue with social distancing even watching when watching the super bowl on sunday of course that's coming up health experts are concerned about a spike in cases of people attend traditional parties to watch a football match what residents of the chinese city where covert 1000 was 1st found of remembered a doctor who died after trying to blow the whistle on the outbreak when leon was one of 8 people punished by local authorities for spreading rumors as they put it about the illness as it was catching hold he then caught the virus himself and died his death sparked outrage and increased awareness of the beginning of the pandemic and the chinese government's response south africa has allowed the limited use of a controversial drug to treat covert 19 either met then has grown in popularity even though it's not been registered for human consumption and a burgeoning black market is also raising concern about it as for me to many

reports from johannesburg desperation during a pandemic could risk people's health even more. than 0 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 ifa micht and. they organize. i would make them for me and then i had to be basically smuggled into the hospital which i felt and so i'm tough because. this is something that's going to help people and something there are people who need something that people are. thinking as a criminal even when you would save your loved one you know at that point. we knew at that point a bit we would do in syria is so convinced the drugs saved her life she also gave it to a parents who'd also tested positive for covert 19 they all use the drug without

a medical supervision ivermectin is not 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 fill 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 and covert 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 illegally from abroad authorities are worried

the un regulated to survive a mix and could lead to an overdose and say there's no clear evidence the drug works just. fine and the fact. after. overdosing on the drug can cause blindness neurological effects and liver damage globally at least 5 countries want to use ivermectin to treat close at 19 including india and argentina so 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 al-jazeera johannesburg protesters in chile have burned down several government buildings after police shot and killed a street juggler video released on social media shows police officers approaching

the artist reportedly to check his identity they then fired several shots at the man who appeared to be holding machetes but chilean media say they were props for his performance firefighters are battling a massive forest fire in southwestern argentina that's been burning for more than a week it's destroyed more than 100 square kilometers of forest surrounding the tourist town of both on close to the border with chile the mountainous terrain is making it difficult for firefighters to tackle the fires. just a quick recap of the top stories this hour now thousands of people in myanmar risked arrest by the military genter to protest against the military regaining power in a coup in the largest city and former capital gang on protesters chanted slogans against the military and how pictures of civilian leader unsung suchi she remains

under house arrest after being detained in the early hours of monday a lawyer says he's not been able to speak and in a further bid to hold power and silence dissent the military leaders have now added to a.