very good at bringing the news to the world from here. i. break the news that northern india is on high alert himalayan glaciers see a breaks apart on leashing a torrent of water along 2 refits. i'm come all santa maria here in doha with the world news from al jazeera thousands of protesting across a 1000000 mile for a 2nd day calling for the military to give up control and to release civilian leaders. new hurdle as astra zeneca says its vaccines showing limited protection against the south african strain of covert 19. more dangerous

place in chile after the killing of a street performer that was caught on camera. with starting in india as i say breaking news the country has put several of its northern communities on alert for potential flooding because of this part of the himalayan glass it has broken off these pictures it appears is of a hydraulic trick down there as well where the water is rushing through the state of. the glass prompting water levels of course to rise very quickly into nearby rivers disaster management crews trying to move people out of that area let me just show you on the map quickly which talking very much northern parts of india here the state this is just the mouth which i'm zooming into which is a city in the area zooming out though is when you can see. the himalayas.

and then he had all these gorges which run through the area which that water can now so easily go through we're talking about 800 meters above sea level so that gives you an idea of where it's happening let's. correspondent on the line from new delhi i know that the details scant at the moment but what do you know. when i come out so we are hearing that was glacial good in the state. 9 only district has triggered an avalanche 9 massive flooding along the a lot and 9 the congo this. evacuation all 1000 people living in surrounding areas called damage to homes and to me about how a project we can see pictures of a flood in the. hundreds we know that hundreds of gessen border police personnel have been rushed to carry out rescue operations at the side.

border patrol officials have told indian media that they fear they will be casualties because some body log or the and destroy many homes on the banks the state leader tweeted that the district administration police department is off to management order to deal with this is awful and also for people to not pay attention to any kind of movement he said at the time and another indian government has said that is $1.00 of the teams of indian border police to have bought 3 national disaster response team to being. a capital. and more to be reaching there with the help of the with the help of indian a force helicopters this evening let's just over the geography for our view is this part of india as i pointed out very far north in the country mountainous lots of terrain difficult to access. it can be incredibly difficult to act because of all

of that leave. and because of the movement of the you know in the himalayas down treatment has been sounded for. 9 all to sit down 3 people. you know may just physically like a discipline and watch. 9 other bits of have to be more and again there's a saying that the banks at the time elizabeth thank you for that information do get back to us when you get some more news coming out of these northern parts of india and state the pictures you're looking at after a glace you has broken off from the himalayas there and that water rushing through the area lisbeth mentioned the. river if i'm pronouncing that correctly i've just done a quick google maps search on that and i can show you there as we zoom in again you see all the mountainous areas there but the what happens when we actually took this

map down look at these huge gorges going through here so if that's the river in normal times you can imagine all that water rushing down through these sorts of areas very very mountainous part of india keeping a very close eye on this story bring you more notice and as we have it. also developments in may and to tell you about this sunday growing defiance nearly a week out of the democratically elected government was ousted by the military thousands of people are protesting despite the risk of arrest crowds and young goanna calling for the deposed leader aung sun suu kyi to be freed she has been charged with violating import export laws florence though is in kuala lumpur following developments what more is happened in the last hour since we spoke florence. well we're getting reports that gunshots have been heard in a town called me a wadi that's near the tire border now there was video that was published on

facebook live and it showed on dipping in wearing uniforms charging at a crowd of protesters gunshots were heard but it's not clear if anyone has been injured now this is one of several protests happening in myanmar on sunday now in yangon this is the 2nd straight day of street demonstrations protests have been springing up across. they also happened in the there was also small protests that took place in mandalay the 2nd largest city in myanmar and also in mol i mean a coastal town now the protests have so far been peaceful there have been police presence but they have allowed the protests to go on so far and we're not sure if what's happening at me awadi the reports that are coming out of gunshots being heads is a sign of the military going to take a tougher stance against protesters but this is a country where the military have a history of brutal repression they took down protests in 19882007

using violence so of course there's a real fear and that's a real chance that that can happen again the resilience of the people it was quite something isn't it france just as we're looking at pictures i mean there are thousands of people out there don't mean a fact but what are we a week now after. after the coup and they are still out there is quite something. absolutely and you know the voice of anger if it's quiet has just grown throughout the week i mean it started from people holding nightly noise protests banging on parts honking back costs to a civil disobedience movement that started with medical workers and hospitals across the country to now include lecturers and also government stuff so the anger is really just growing people people want to make their voices heard and this is despite the government shutting down the internet and also disrupting phone lines

making it difficult for people to organize protests to plan protests and also to disseminate information about what's happening at these protests but that hasn't stopped people from turning out in the street turning up on the streets of myanmar to demonstrate just how angry they are that the military has once again taken control of this country despite a democratic election held in november that thank you for that update florence louie in kuala lumpur astra zeneca says it is working to adapt its covert 19 vaccine against the variant 1st identified in south africa after a trial showed it might be less effective study shows the vaccine has significantly reduced africa's the against the mutation says according to a financial times report the trial is small though and hasn't been peer reviewed yet the south african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern because of the higher rate of spread and the potential to resist vaccines we talked to dr son jonathan and i care about this

earlier an associate professor of infectious diseases of national university he says other vaccines have also shown reduced impact on these variants. so it is very sparse information at the moment for example they didn't actually give a figure of vaccine africa say we also know that it's in very young people so the impacts on severe disease unlikely to be known because that be a disease is very unlikely in young people we know from the other vaccines that are around. pfizer novak's johnson and johnson that they also have shown refused impact against the south african strain although they are effective against the south african strain so this would be consistent with what we have seen with those other vaccines we always knew that viruses mutate that happens all the time but when we talk about a new strain we're talking about the mutation that affects the way the virus

behaves in humans and really we thought that a corona virus tends to mutate quite slowly maybe 5 times slower than influenza so in a sense that we were seeing strange at this point of the outbreak was kind of a surprise and i suspect it just reflects the fact that we've seen so many cases worldwide of cove it and it's allowed the virus to replicate it replicate hundreds of millions of times and we've seen the strains of much israel started lifting its strict coronavirus lockdown restrictions some businesses are able to reopen including takeaway food services and address since the month long lockdown was the 3rd time israel shuttered shops and kept people at home for an extended period the ban on air travel though that is still in place for harry for sit in west jerusalem . what we're seeing as of 7 am on sunday is an ability to travel outside of one kilometer radius from one's home go to other people's homes go to bed and

breakfasts as a nuclear family still no word yet on how they will reopen the education system but some of the most restrictive parts of the lockdown are being eased and as you say a lot of it does depend on whether they can maintain at least the within bounds the effect on the hospital admissions in severe cases stemming from a more relaxed approach because of the vaccines certainly they're going out of this lockdown at a far higher rate of infection far higher positivity rate than the previous 2 in fact the positivity rate according to the wind at new site has risen during this lockdown so there's certainly no real indorsement in terms of the infection rate coming down for relaxing the measures but there is at least the opportunity because of a vaccination program to try to do so and so israel is not just a test bed in terms of the sort of medical efficacy and effect of this is of this

vaccine which obviously pfizer is using it for but also it's a bit of a test bed to see even at this relatively early stage in israel is far more advanced than other countries in terms of its vaccination program whether there will be enough of an effect to allow the restrictions to be relaxed even at a high rate of infection. well the killing of a street performer in chile has triggered protests against police violence the 27 year old juggler was shot dead in the southern town on friday after officers say he resisted a routine identity check and he soon with this report. anger in the chilean capital over the police shooting of a young street performer police used water cannon as hundreds took to the streets in santiago to the bank parts and charge that officers the protesters wanted to show solidarity with 27 year old francisco martinez romero who was shot dead by police on friday officers say they opened fire because the juggler refused to cooperate in a routine search the government held an emergency meeting well

a judge has ordered an investigation into the shooting. but we always regret that an operation of these characteristics result in the death of a person as a government we want to guarantee that all measures will be taken to ensure the justice system and the prosecutor's office can investigate exactly what happened in the fall for justice came after demonstrators that several public buildings on fire in the normally sleepy town of. residence a police brutality must come to an end you know gregory thought in the book the one i believe that the protocols and the actions of the police must be reviewed yes it's not the 1st time or the 2nd or the 3rd time before you think of it before we must have justice because something like this cannot go unpunished it cannot always wash their hands saying it was in self-defense no things cannot stay this way it cannot be. mass anti-government protests since 29 team have put chile's police force under intense scrutiny with local and international watchdogs alleging

excessive use of force and human rights violations. it's always been like this in the last couple of decades because the police institution has never really been reforms there's a lot of human rights violations a lot of repression by that you know me. is going on in the shanty towns near the capital and in a smaller neighborhoods the poor neighborhoods which we never hear of well those living and mourn the death of the young street performer but many are hopeful it will bring what they say is the much needed police accountability and sue al-jazeera. in the news a heads will hear why teachers and students in the philippines say academic freedom is at risk. and i was a journalist mahmoud hussein finally freed from prison in egypt after being detained for more than 30 years without being charged.

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but it bounced a dam that's real winter how often do you see what's effectively a blizzard warning out from sudan for the next day or so and when that's gone the sun comes out and the wind is lighter it's still cold really cold by night that much of that snow go across the north sea to the british isles this is monday's forecast that the bulk of. the rest of us now go through potent eastwood's for the surface it's warm and rainy and we are can use the word walk this tell you the temperatures of 20 in palermo. sponsored poll qatar airways from top to own has their own winners tell us all in a case where us from his home in compensated civilians who we listen to the only music you hear is the only the most beautiful music in the world is silent we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that are on the edges their own . holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s.

its role in the war on al jazeera. there with al-jazeera the breaking news this hour comes from india which has put several of its northern communities on high alert for potential flooding after part of a himalayan classier broke off and sent a torrent of water rushing down to rivers as things are feared and people are being evacuated further downstream. thousands of people a 1000000 more a protesting against the military coup and subsequent crackdown for a 2nd day gunshots were heard at one demonstration and there are reports coming in the internet has been now restored in yangon and astra zeneca says it's working to

adapt its covert 19 vaccine against a variant 1st identified in south africa a new study shows it has significantly reduced efficacy against that mutation. well al jazeera journalist mohammad hussein has finally been released after more than 4 years in prison in egypt he was arrested in 2016 while visiting his relatives in cairo and was never formally charged with a crime or put on trial and support from barber and got. him at last was joyful welcome for mahmoud hussein up to 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 or a. loosening of the repression in egypt there are dozens more journalists in egypt in jail there has been a mass crackdown closing of websites. i think it's too early to tell

but we hope it will be a stepping stone for mahmoud was detained in december 26th seen after traveling have to cairo from his base and he was accused of incitement broadcasting for. news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions allegations he and al-jazeera have repeatedly rejected al-jazeera media networks acting director general welcome to mummies truly 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 tour a 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.

was reunited with his family and friends there are other wounds that won't be easy to heal. mahmoud's father died just every year ago before witnessing his son's release. out of syria. polls are set to open in ecuador and a presidential election being held under severe economic and political crises 16 candidates are on the ballots the main race is between a former banker and an economist a latin america editor the soon human has more on just what's at stake. ecuador into struggling with it unprecedented economic crisis the question for many is who to blame their current centrist president anymore they know or 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. backing 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 in polls. by the i.m.f. now be back in plans to vote for the return of left wing populism these thinking because the say that korea stole 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 of normal pointed out that instead 35 year old economist and the s. and ouse is representing his former boss via korea who is living in belgium where he moved before an ecuadorian 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 chris says they would be no question about the election outcome if he had been allowed to run . that if i'd been a candidate there's no doubt would win 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 in college just yet complete 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 one of me a bit on accord. when it could oriental and asked where their target country would be in 5 years 80 percent of the fame or worse than that sure 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 for the widespread and what it has already experienced to see in human al-jazeera. the head of the african union has been reelected for a 2nd for term year the former champion prime minister mussa fucking muhammad will remain in his role a covert 1000 pandemic across the continent of course top of the agenda 2nd day of

the a use virtual meeting with leaders hashing out details on how best to secure vaccines and how many people can be inoculated is sudan has warned its national security will be threatened if ethiopia goes ahead with the 2nd phase of filling the blue nile dam sudan's water minister says it will also put the lives of half the country's population at risk sudan and egypt fear the make a dam will divert too much of the water they rely on all the v.i.p.'s says the project is vital to its economic future libya's military factions of welcome the decision to form an interim government that could help reunite the country comes a day after the rival administrations of the east and west agreed on who will run the country until new elections in december mark traina has more from tripoli. libya's rival military committees have been mean 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 landmines from the area. we agreed on it being the road between east and west i meet agreed to start the process of clearing mine 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 equal

rights 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 fully for 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 would have a damages. 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. well the teachers and students in the philippines are angry at a decision to allow military forces to enter the top state university critics call the move an attack on academic freedom duggan reports from manila. if art is a reflection of society then this display of work by filipino art destroyed email can be seen as a portrayal of young people struggle for academic freedom in the philippines time called. our barricade he created it to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the

beginning and put you in february 971 activists march to the university joining martial law and declared it liberated from state forces the incident ended in a violent scene which. and now similar battle lines are drawn once again the military has and did a decade's old agreement with the university of the for the pins 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 that we will. not be in. no. what

resources. for other universities have also been accused of encouraging dissent in 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. the education needs. of the man who thought of his time in war a length for all heroes. here. don lemon that i'm hoping across the country student activists are up in arms to unfairly targeting certain words and that's because we are still very critical

about the soul and i think it's the duty of students not to do that much of times work has been focused on the legacy of the martial law era when young people were under siege and turned to art as a means of expression and defense he says recent events are a reminder that those times of trouble and conflict could be returned. to dugan on just 0 manila. breaking news this hour on al-jazeera india feels up to 150 people are dead part of a himalayan glass collapsed into torrents of water rushing down to rivers 7 of its northern communities are on high alert for potential flooding.