much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. protests as it made mom march against a monday's military coup is the internet is shut down nationwide. ironic like this is out there a live from doha also coming up. indian farmers blog highways for several hours calling for the repeal of new agricultural

mobiles it's meant to months of print. out there agenda smart reducing is freed from prison in egypt after being detained for more than 4 years. plus why tanzania and burundi say they don't need it 19 fact see it's. so intense of thousands of people took to the streets of yangon 6 days after man miles army seize control of the government to the rest of its civilian leaders it is the 1st major street protest since a coup on monday they calling for an end to what they call a military dictatorship even as internet access has been widely blogged for us louis has more now from kuala lumpur. people out on the streets are gang gun banks students young and old. many addressed

in red the color of the national league for democracy party or the n.l. game. it won november's election by a landslide result of military has refused to record its 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 staff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by lecturers and other government employees that are yet another for libel me 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 that 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 own sons eugene 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 searching 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 sensor 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 as it starts day 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 elegy m.p.'s convened a symbolic parliamentary session on thursday yangon's 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 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 italy al-jazeera. choi you with executive director of the burma human rights network and he told about 0 there are reports that some of the activists who led some today's protest have been arrested . the bar as you know the history in burma whenever people come to demand their rights the military and the politics of the military normally seems they never unable to tolerate this kind of you know t.v. . but one thing my worry is you know so far the military also sure you know the street and they're not coming after the crowds but we are hearing that there are so many arrests or those who are the student activists

and leaders those who are left to do the most christians as you know the steps few of them has another step we still need to but it is very difficult for us to confirm some information because of that due to the internet. logs that like all of this time we find some differences from the military site c.n.n. . immediately you know shooting and killing the people as they did before what they're doing is the are using psychological warfare psychological like today suddenly spread the news that all something new has been released or people are celebrating and they came out in the studio very happy. this is the media's legal activity and they're aware of that this but the counter that they're in for their misinformation and immediately informally run by telephones and by messages this is false news and this is a rumor that is not to believe this people so i thought being out were taking away don't you know what's going on there not i mean they're more careful than before.

protesting farmers have been blocking highways across india pressing along with. the new agricultural laws should be repealed they fear they will no longer get guaranteed prices for their produce leaving them at the mercy of corporate was withdrawn and reports now from just outside. police used these protesters in the southern city of to put them on saturday for their careers 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. 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 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. tricity 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 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 as are the farmers are not that aggressive that why 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 he 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. to 7 news now that is especially close to us here at al-jazeera our colleague journalist going to say has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt he's now been reunited with his family well it was arrested in 2016 while visiting relatives in egypt was never formally charged with

a crime or put on trial al-jazeera media networks acting director general officer has released a statement on mum you can send us it says we are pleased that mahmoud 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 more crude 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 all right let's take this on the street to share the front so he's the middle east and north africa coordinator at the committee to protect journalists joins us via skype from washington d.c. . it's been for a long is a saying one can only imagine at this point how hard it must be with solitary confinement confinement and so forth but at last we do say it has been released. relief then as family and the relief then we're all paying has released it is not

attached was in a condition. and from enjoying his time with family and loved ones and also continue to practice as 'd jonell isn't without threats. you know that this is another for this time and joining us for mentions you know phased out of a tragedy tension that's all total there are at least $26.00 other journalist according to our latest count in december or also many of them i don't held without trial in pretrial detention and out a bit proudly and we're hoping this will be giving hope to many of them to feel the scene you really need to get the thing is there are still some unknown's out there it's not immediately clear for instance what the release conditions are unfortunately this is one of the things that lee has struggled with even with the

case of more innocent himself he was ordered the release before and then was brought that again to face the same charges and the day in football or even years at least 10 other journalists have faced similar situations. many of them once they even practice jordan isn't are brought back again so we're hoping he can travel with all pink and seek and receive proper medical and psychological help after the tracings full march and justice unnecessarily so i think this situation has been encouraged not only by the lifting of the blockade on carter but also by the new administration in the united states to abide. well if you look at that they had to face the test here that arrested pretty much right after. former president trump took over and since then we've seen that picture of government at the top of the water jailers of john noticed aided and abetted by. antique

pets rhetoric by phone what president trump including many that made egypt the leader of the world in imprisoning jonas on false news charges and other and the state charges that's going to say it does egypt compare in terms of imprisoning journalists with other countries around the world and it seems as if it's pretty bad. it's one of the last times to be a little nervous in egypt that were hoping we can see an opening to restore some conversation that's really needed in egypt right now are the treatments or appreciate that thanks very much indeed for time from francis speaking to us there from washington d.c. thank you. fled here on al-jazeera centrism or socialism the choice facing ecuador is voters head to the polls to choose a president. with a part of the peace libya's military factions welcome

a show of unity from the country's political rivals. hello there whether a squatting down across eastern parts of the u.s. now we have this weather system just pulling out of the way clear skies coming in behind but cold bitterly cold wind spotting outside of canada a rural arctic blast coming through here so have a look at least temperatures calgary top temperature on sunday minus 2 degrees winnipeg minus 24 south of the border minneapolis a high of just minus 18 degrees as we go on monday when it gets colder still minus 27 the high this stays on the cool but dry weather across that eastern side of the u.s. east and parts of canada as well as a whole system moves out of the way some snow just moving across the northern

plains some wintry weather to just piling out of the rockies befana driver 2 is that western side of the country but some places atlanta rank clearing away from florida by this stage that race should clear through for the start of the super bowl on sunday the problems that tampa bay you can see that right in in play there for sunday good part of the day but it does go through by the evening across the caribbean and slightly fine in try one or 2 showers but nothing too much to speak of more in the way of sunshine than showers so you want to showers to just into the western side of the region moving over towards on jess. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be a bad idea there. cares about their work is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the collings for the bloated defense spike a high of the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world

on al-jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. had a very you know what gian 0 remind of our top stories this and thousands of people a 1000000 mile have risk arrest to protest against a military coup on monday it denied access has been widely cut off. indian families of wrapped up their protests and its agricultural reforms by block the highways across the country from the say the new law was aimed to guarantee prices for their produce. and al jazeera journalist margaret is saying is people released after more

than 4 years in prison in egypt arrested while visiting family in december 2016 who was never formally charged with the crimes. thousands of protesters in unity defied a police lockdown to mark the anniversary of the killing of a prominent and leftist activist the rally that took place with the sportswear chokri belaid was killed in 2013 scuffles broke out between police and protesters who say the freedoms won in the 2011 arab spring uprising being eroded. the united states has ended a controversial immigration system the deal was made by the troubled ministration to try and curb the number of migrants able to seek asylum in the united states the newly appointed u.s. secretary of state says we have notified the governments of el salvador guatemala and honduras that the united states is taking this action as efforts to establish a cooperative mutually respectful approach to managing migration blinken goes on to

say to be clear these actions do not mean that the u.s. border is open all right let's get more on this from heidegger castro whose life was in washington d.c. and how do you how much of an impact did the previous agreement have on migrants. on migrants themselves nic not much this was more of a photo op or a political win that the trump ministration had used to tout its forceful policies against the asylum seekers but really when this was implemented it made not much sense to begin with because in essence it's taking asylum seekers from one of these central american countries and shuffling them back and forth with to the other countries involved after they've been rejected after seeking asylum at the u.s. border but what made little sense in that matter was that none of these countries are really safer than the other which is why these policies were criticized by humanitarians as deliberately putting vulnerable people back in danger as far as

how much they were put into practice also that was little impact because in part of the pandemic that cut everything short everything stopped in march of last year and also the only country that actually accepted asylum seekers was guatemala and that was a few worth then a 1000 and a senate report recently made public shows that actually none of them were granted asylum in guatemala so biden ending these agreements now really changes nothing on the ground because there's still no decision on but in his ministrations part of what to do with the thousands of asylum seekers who are waiting at the southern border who are in mexico as you'll recall biden has pledged to undo all of trump's conservative border policies but there still has been no decision about how to

resolve them and what is the other option but what is assured now it is that there are thousands of migrants who are now journeying north and are now at the u.s. border and they're growing by the day and this is putting an immense train on. the border and pressing for quick solution from the biden ministration as even in the 1st few days of his time in office already a new border crisis as they're confronting him in 8 or 8 how do things for that party chair custer the washington d.c. ecuadorians a heading to the polls on sunday to vote in the election held under the shadow of a severe economic and political crisis 16 presidential candidates are on the ballot but the main race is between a former banker and an economist a latin america it's a this is a new and has more what's at stake. ecuadorans are struggling with it in president economic crisis the question for many is who to blame their current centrist

president leonine what i know for his socialist predecessor rafael correa. that may be the key to sunday's presidential elections like the current president taxidriver in the n.o.p. bucket is confined to a wheelchair he backed moreno in the last election hoping the poor would get a better break but things have gone from bad to worse since the government implemented dramatic belt tightening measures imposed by the i.m.f. now be back in plans to vote for the return of left wing populism the zinc because the say that korea stalled and many other things but in fact he did lots of public works projects while the current government hasn't done anything except persecute opponents. there's 16 official presidential candidates but the most significant one isn't even on the ballot at least not in person oh no nothing no one about that instead 35 year old economist and this i doubt is representing his former boss via

gloria who is living in belgium where he moved before in ecuador in court sentenced him to 8 years in prison on corruption charges at ows is leading in the polls promising to bring back the days of heavy social spending while campaigning with photos of his mentor grant says they would be no question about the election outcome if he had been allowed to run. that if i'd been a comment that there's no dealt with when by a landslide they destroyed the country persecuted me and my allies and slandered us i had to return to politics and defend their legacy our honor and the country. it's that prospect that frightens people like luis and read out his car parts business went from boom to bust under korea. he hopes ecuadorans will vote for a centrist banker and businessman d.m. or last saw of the creating opportunities party. them along at all we made the mistake of giving korea too much power and he did what he pleased as though he

owned the country he didn't take advantage of the years of bonanza when oil prices were sky high they stole all the money. now trailing a 3rd place in the polls ecologist yacoob it is offering a middle ground between populist socialism and a mainstream free market economy but whoever wins will have more than the economy to deal with. according to a recent poll when it could dorian's when asked whether toward the country would be in 5 years 80 percent answered the same or worse than now that shows the governability may be the key problem. and unless that perception can be reversed through elections many warned it may be the preamble to social upheaval a widespread then what ecuador has already experienced to see in human 0. a judge in chile has ordered an investigation into the police killing of

a street juggler that spot mass protests demonstrators in the southern town of punk we set several buildings on fire and video released on social media shows police officers approaching the street performer supposedly to check his identity the president sebastian pinera has called for an emergency cabinet meeting on the government of the police to hand over all workloads of the incident. burgundy has become the 2nd african country to root out ordering covert 900 vaccines the health minister says it's better to focus on prevention arguing that vaccines to sensualists 95 percent of patients recover neighboring towns near is also said it it has no plans to alter the jobs president john mccain truly has called the vaccines dangerous thought to have met as a member of the kenya medical practitioners pharmacists and dentists union and he says he's concerned about the lack of vaccine uptake. it is extremely watering and i think there has been a lot of fear in africa for quite

a long time and it was not just on football in 1000 in there had been other boxing like that that enough doctors walk in on their law too much that it was left with. fertility hormones unless they had to do and so when various organizations can mean a question on their people about the vaccine then i think there are groups. that are going to being very in front of the particular vaccine so i think that then i think it's happening to call didn't think that they are still section of african nation regions that are affected by such kind of them but i think i think i think right i mean the various diseases like the government of kenya i believe that she plans to confront likely to ensure that. it to then take up the blocking but when you get a particular leader like not done here but did move before you who keep telling people that they call that 19 they need to be very difficult for people going to

take up. the u.s. is believed to have passed a peak of coronavirus cases that followed the christmas new year holiday period the 7 day rolling average of new cases dipped below 126001 friday don for more than 180008 week or more than 3000 new deaths are still being recorded each day health experts say they're now concerned about a spike in cases of people attend parties during sunday's n.f.l. super bowl event. china's drug regulator has given conditional approval to a 2nd locally made covert 1000 vaccine the current of right jab has been used in china in fact station program for people in high risk groups since july with effectiveness in clinical trials around the world ranges from between 50 to 91 percent sign of back is the beijing based company behind the vaccine and expects to be able to produce more than a 1000000000 doses yeah. well residents of the chinese city where covert 19 was 1st detected to remember the doctor who died after trying to blow the whistle on the

outbreak early when liang was one of 8 people punished by local authorities for spreading rumors about the illness and it was taking hold he then caught the virus and died his death sparked outrage and increased awareness of the virus and the chinese government's response libya's military factions have welcomed the decision to form an interim government that could help reunite the country becomes a day after the rival administrations in the east and west agreed on who will run the country until new elections in december but a train has more now from tripoli. libya's rival military committees have been meeting in the city of sorts for the last 3 days the meetings facilitated by the u.n. have played a critical role in the success of this week's talks in switzerland a nationwide ceasefire was agreed last october in geneva which stipulated that all foreign fighters should leave the country within 3 months but the fighters have

failed to withdraw by the january 24th deadline and the deal also called for the main roads between eastern and western libya to reopen a member of the joint military committee says that will happen once they remove land mines from the area. we agreed on not being the road between east and west i mean agreed to start the process of clearing mind through the specialist teams will start their work on february 10th and on february 25th the un security council has requested the secretary general to establish and deploy a team to libya to monitor the cease fire essential that all foreign fighters and mercenaries move 1st to tripoli and benghazi and then leave the country according to the new schedule that was the find and it is essential that everybody cooperate with the new us oddities to make peace happen in libya according to the u.n. support mission there are more than 20000 foreign fighters in libya with an estimated

2000 russian mercenaries moscow was one of warlord felicia have to his biggest supporters in his 14 month failed military campaign to take control of the capital tripoli the u.s. africa command has said russia flew 4th generation jet fighters into libya with neither have to use forces nor private military companies having the ability to arm operate and sustain the jets without states the port the jets are believed to be based in the air base in central libya beauty said that more. agreed to send a letter to the security council demanding that countries that have mercenaries and forces on the ground must be removed immediately on friday libya's rival factions agreed to form a new transitional government that will lead the country until elections in december libya's new unified government has received international praise and support but the road ahead is filled with many challenges forcing foreign fighters

out of the country will perhaps be the most daunting task but without doing that it could be difficult to hold a nationwide election come december now traina al jazeera tripoli. this is absurd these are the top stories in thousands of people in manama have wrist arrest to protest against a military coup on monday internet access has been widely cost off indian farmers of ramped up their protests against agricultural reforms by blocking highways across the country the fama say the new laws and guaranteed prices for their produce deserve a journalist mother to say news group really stopped more than 4 years in prison in egypt he was arrested while visiting family in december 2016 but was never formally charged with a crime a senior political analyst momper shara.