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wall's there are often legitimize and legalize pedophiles on air or online jumping to the quick fix and leaching to be part of the discussion this stream on out is there are. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. anger in me in mass protest as march against monday's military coup as the internet is shut down nationwide. i'm compelled this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. indian farmers block highways for several hours calling for the repeal of new another call for goals that led to months of protests. al jazeera journalist
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bubbles who say it was freed from prison in egypt softer being detained for more than 4 years. plus teachers and students of the philippines say the cancellation of a decade's old agreement could put academic freedom at risk. thousands of protested overnight in me involved following a mass rally on monday calling for an end to what they call a military dictatorship where miles army seized control of the government had arrested its civilian davis 6 days ago internet access is still widely blocked across the country phone story 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.
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doing. it won november's election by a landslide a result the military has refused to record citing unsubstantiated allegations of phone the band has 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. to civil disobedience to medical stuff went on strike 1st and were joined on friday by lecturers and other government employees into yet another 4 young woman be 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 now an economic advisor to us on cinci was
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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 other activists were arrested early hour on monday morning and then we haven't heard anything about ration where they are being held or a health condition you know all the family members are very worried. the military
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is gradually cutting off the population from one another and the outside world 1st by blocking facebook and 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 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 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 sun sujit 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
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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. are testing farmers have been blocking highways across india pressing on with their months long demand that new agricultural laws should be repealed they fear they'll no longer get guaranteed prices for their produce leaving them at the mercy of corporate players elizabeth prada reports from just outside new delhi. police used to cabin 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 ghana they said they wanted to show their solidarity with those who've been
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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 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 cut off at the sides where hundreds of thousands of people camping out the un's human rights offices are. the indian government and protesters to exercise maximum restraint but also said the right to peaceful
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assembly and expression should be protected by as offline and online. the government has arrested more than $120.00 people in connection with the recent violence and charged union leaders with rioting and sedition it's also had hundreds of twitter accounts suspended farmers say the government is treating them like criminals. are not that aggressive that bob via 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 removed 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 of repealed elizabeth al-jazeera. i was there a journalist moment hussein has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt he was arrested and 2016 while visiting relatives in kabul was never formally
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charged with a crime or portal trial. courts. home at last and the joyful welcome for mahmoud hussein after 2 years in prison. multiple organizations campaigned for his release and say could open the door for other journalists wrongly held in egypt but news release can be a step too. loosening of the repression in egypt there are dozens more journalists in egypt in jail there has been a mass crackdown closing of. sharon. i think to really did help but we hope it will be a stepping stone. for mahmoud was detained in december 26th seen after traveling him to cairo from his base in to her he was accused of incitement broadcasting false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions allegations he
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and al jazeera have repeatedly rejected al-jazeera media networks acting director general welcome to my ministry least after a vigorous campaign for his freedom throughout his detention a statement said while he was incarcerated mahmud had become a symbol of press freedom across the globe on the day of his release al-jazeera course for freedom of all journalists who were unjustly imprisoned all around the world while being held at the tora maximum security jail in cairo my mood was kept in solitary confinement for long periods and did not receive proper treatment when he broke his arm. reunited with his family and friends there are other wounds that won't be easy to heal. mahmoud's father died just over a year ago before witnessing his son's release. out of
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syria. thousands of protesters into near 0 to 5 up and down to mark the anniversary of the killing of a prominent leftist activist. the rally took place at the spot where shah create relaid was killed and 2013 scuffles broke out between her legs and the testers who saying the freedoms won the 2011 arab spring uprising have been eroded. teachers and students the philippines are angry of the decision to allow military forces to enter the top state university critics call the move an attack on academic freedom . from manila. if art is a reflection of society then this display of work by filipino artist email can be seen as a put trail of young people struggle for academic freedom in the philippines time called see our barricade he created it to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the building and put you in february 1971 activists march to the university joining
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martial law and declared it liberated from state forces the incident ended in a violent siege. and now similar battle lines are drawn once again the militias and did a decade's old agreement with the university of the philippines to keep state forces out of its campuses across the could shape the military says the university has been a haven of recruitment for communist rebels the new people's army and the military have been fighting for more than 50 years the conflict is described as the world's oldest existing communist insurgency hope we were. able to get some of the. military to not be in new york no only you. moron. what resources. for other universities have also been accused of encouraging dissent in
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a joint statement to the military their heads say such allegations are irresponsible and without proof critics say the military is the zisha and to cancel its accord with the university of the philippines is deeply disturbing it could soon mean that soldiers in civilian clothes could join students in rallies and that the atmosphere of freedom and campuses would soon be replaced by fear university education needs you need to give a range of ideas the man has thought of time immemorial age length for all heroes was in for free dom is based here. across the country student activists are up in arms to the. lord and that's because we are. so. much of times work has been focused on the legacy of the martial law era when young
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people were under siege and turned to art as a means of expression and defend he says recent events are a reminder that those times of trouble and conflict could be returned to the dock and i'm just here. still ahead on al-jazeera protests in chile of the police killing of a street performer and investigation has been awarded. an international criminal court ruling brings hope for palestinians but israel says it will find bank. or whether or 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 winds piling out of canada a rural arctic blast coming through here so have
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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 manas 27 the high at this stage what a cool but dry weather across that eastern side of the u.s. eastern 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 poly out of the rockies befana driver towards that western side of the country but some places atlanta rank clearing away from florida by this stage that ray should clear through the east. also the same poll on sunday problems that tampa bay you can say that right and in play there for sunday good part of the day but it does go through by the evening across the caribbean a sloshy fired in try want to showers but nothing too much to speak of more in the way of sunshine than showers so you want to show us to just into the western side
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your geologists are a reminder of our top stories this hour thousands of people in 1000000 man have risked arrest to protest against the military coup on monday leaders have been forced in their total internet shutdown to try and silence dissent. indian farmers have ramped up their protests against agricultural reforms by blocking highways across the country i fear they'll no longer get guaranteed prices for their produce even the mercy of corporate players. and al jazeera journalist muffled hussein has been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt was arrested while visiting family in december 26th it was never formally charged with a crime. the international criminal court has ruled it has jurisdiction in the occupied palestinian territories bolsters the i.c.c. effort to investigate suspected war crimes by israel and potentially by palestinian armed groups prime minister benjamin netanyahu condemned the judgment and says
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israel will fight back if barca has. it was founded to bring the perpetrators of the world's worst atrocities to justice more than $120.00 countries and state except the international criminal court or 30 including palestine where the i.c.c. now says it has the power to investigate suspected war crimes by the israeli military and armed palestinian groups such as hamas the decision was quickly and fiercely rejected by israel which isn't a member of the court doesn't recognize its jurisdiction when the i.c.c. investigates israel for freak war crimes this is pure anti-semitism. the court established to prevent atrocities like the nazi holocaust against the jewish people is not targeting the one state of the jewish people 1st it out religiously means that when jews live in a room and this is a war crime circuit it claims that when democratic israel defends itself against
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terrorists who murder our children rocket our cities we're committing another war crime the palestinian authority and hamas say the decision office by 2 protection for the palestinian people with a mass insisting its military activity is lawful how to get there how massive a guard to hold how mass no resistance groups in a legal and legitimate battle against his zionist occupation in accordance with all international norms and treaties that give us a right to defend ourselves before these daily war that kills indiscriminately the palestinians want the i.c.c. to look into israeli military operations in the gaza strip in 2014 in which more than 2000 palestinians and 70 israelis were killed also in the spotlight military tactics used by israel against palestinian protesters on the israeli gaza border and the construction of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and east
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jerusalem i.c.c. top prosecutor bensouda had previously called for investigations saying there was a reasonable basis to believe war crimes had happened but progress could be slow the courts only convicted a handful of people in its 23 year history. by . very much. a very. i.c.c. involvement in the struggle between israelis and palestinians could shine a light on other state injustices but was less certain is whether it will help or hinder the troubled search for peace in the middle east neve barkha al-jazeera. the
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united states has ended a controversial immigration system with several letting american countries the deal was made by the trump administration to curb the number of migrants able to seek asylum in the u.s. joe biden's newly appointed secretary of state says we have notified the governments of el salvador guatemala and honduras the united states is taking this action as efforts to establish a co-operative mutually respectful approach to managing migration but lincoln goes on to say to be clear these actions do not mean that the u.s. border is open how does your castro is in washington d.c. with more details. this is 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 is shuffling them back and forth with to the other
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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 by then ending these agreements now really changes nothing on the ground because there's still no decision unbutton his ministry has part of what to do with the sounds 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 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 strain on the
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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 is there confronting him. more than $100.00 prisoners have led an uprising at a jail in the u.s. state of missouri it made the facility in st louis escape their cells smashed windows and the fire one prison guard was reportedly injured in the violence which lasted several else local media say police used tear gas to end the rising. the killing of a street performer in chile and triggered protests against alleged police violence demonstrators in the southern town of. several buildings on fire protests were also orders the capital santiago police shot the street juggler on friday after officers said he resisted a routine identity check video of the incident on social media has sparked
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widespread anger. boss the vendor spec is editor in chief of the multimedia news site chile today he says a lack of reform in the police force is at the heart of the problem. it's always been like this in the last couple of decades because the police institution has never really been reformed since the years have been a dictatorship of course that ended in the 1990 s. . so there's never been a real police reform and we saw the results of the lack of those reforms social uprising basically all the major human rights organizations came to chile they saw and there were serious human rights violations but they're still now and not real any reforms people the police don't really know how to 3 to to work with something else than just the excessive force that they display every time so it's something that really needs to be reformed and quickly and especially profound there's
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a lot of tension in general in chile in society at the moment especially directed towards authorities like the chilean police and just one detention is not enough to stop these on growing crimes because this. does happen in plain daylight it was captured by various mobile phones so we could all see that this happened but there's 'd a lot of human rights violations a lot of repression by the chilean police going on in the shanty towns near the capital and in the smaller neighborhoods the poor neighborhoods which we never hear of so it's only is only. the tension won't really calm down the tension that there are right now but i doubt if the serious protests like we saw last night will continue hundreds of migrants and refugees in colombia are resuming their tanny to the united states after being stranded for weeks because of the pandemic but to get the u.s. border they'll have to 1st cross one of the most dangerous jungles in the world know about a manic. stranded on this beach for weeks in makeshift homes hundreds
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of refugees have finally be given the green light by authorities to leave colombia's seaside town of the town which neighbors part of a 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 would take them across the caribbean go straight to caprica from them 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 us getting through the daring gap one of the most impenetrable jungles in the americas it stretches
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for almost 100 kilometers connecting colombia and panama not only do they have to pick their way through dense vegetation and extreme humidity but it's also an area known for drug and people smuggling gangs i'm going to last about it in the jungle we have to walk for almost a week so we have to carry water food as well and in the jungle they are wild animals so we have to carry machetes for safety. these dangerous parts have become the only way north for thousands of people over the past few years not whom of them survive most year colombia deported about 3800 people mostly from haiti local officials say there must be a better solution. we want. 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 and quickly but in the world in general these people say they're scared of what lies ahead and they're
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risking their lives but having already fled poverty conflict or persecution many seedless who choice but to push on. al-jazeera. randy has become the 2nd african country to roll out all uncovered 19 vaccines the health minister says it's better to focus on prevention arguing that vaccines aren't essential as 95 percent of patients recover they bring tanzania has also said it has no plans to order the jabs president john mica foley has called the vaccines dangerous to have a member of the kenyan medical practitioners pharmacists and dentists union he says he's concerned about the lack of vaccine uptake. it is extremely worrying i think there has been a lot of fear in africa for quite a long time and it was not just. in 1000 marks in there had been about things like that that enough box the box and there were rumors about it was left with our
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fertility homes on it the whole city and so when organizations came on the question that they are people about roxanne then i think there are groups. about our boys being very afraid of the particular graffiti so i think this term thing is happening to him but they are still sections of africa a measure of armed regions that are affected by what's going to come but i think i think i think i'm in the area that unlike the government of kenya i believe that she plans to confront him to ensure that. if you do then take up their own thing but when you get a particular our leader or i'm done here but do who keep telling people that they know quite a bit 19 they need to be very difficult for people there to take a look at us is believed to have passed the peak of coronavirus cases that followed
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the christmas new year holiday period the 7 day rolling average of new cases dipped below 126001 friday down from more than one 180008 week ago more than 3000 new deaths are still being recorded every day health experts say that all 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 covered 19 vaccine the karada back jab has been used in china's vaccination program for people high risk groups since july its effectiveness in clinical trials around the world ranges from between 50 to 91 percent sign of acas the beijing based company behind the vaccine expects to be able to produce more than a 1000000000 doses a year. residents of the chinese city where covert 19 was 1st detected have remembered a doctor who died after trying to blow the whistle on the outbreak. was one of 8
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people punished by local authorities for spreading rumors about the illnesses that was taking hold if they caught the virus and his death sparked outrage and increased awareness of the virus and the chinese government's response you can always find much more on our web site the address for that is just there or don't call. this is al jazeera and these the top stories people have started to protest again and me and bar against monday's military coup thousands risked arrest to demonstrate against the move on saturday the users have been forcing their total internet shut dumb to try and silence dissent. indian farmers have ramped up their protests against agricultural reforms by blocking highways across the country they fear they'll no longer get guaranteed prices for their produce even at the mercy of corporate players.

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