now. the world leaders w.h.y. make you feel world. the you. everyone. warning shots fired in myanmar as police attempt to break up some of the biggest protests against the military in almost 15 years. to. play you watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully battle also ahead. the rescue teams in india 3 survivors after

a himalayan glaciers breaks and sends floodwaters and debris down a valley but up to 150 people are feared dead african leaders trying to hammer out a coronavirus vaccine plan at their virtual summit but it's another deadly disease causing alarming the democratic republic of congo and the u.s. announces a new immigration policy that some dramatic break from the trump administration. said to be the largest demonstrations in myanmar since 2007 tens of thousands of people have risked violence and unrest to protest against last week's military coup that anger has spread to multiple cities and to neighboring countries in the 7 days since the takeover took place they began in the city of mandalay on thursday before spreading to die we on friday on saturday they merge in the country's long. just

city of young gone with 2 more cities joining on sunday florence 3 has our report. for a 2nd successive day people in myanmar have taken to the streets to protest against the military takeover marching through downtown yangon they held up a free finger salute a symbol of defiance against authoritarian rule even people who weren't part of the demonstrations showed their support by cracking off honking because protesters are demanding an end to military rule and the release of. the democratically elected leader and others still in custody they marched undeterred by the police presence and the threat of arrest was so good we've decided i will fight until the end of our lives for a generation we have to work for the next generation to get democracy to them if we want to in this military dictatorship myanmar emerged from nearly 50 years of

military rule in 2011 people here are aware of the military's brutal repression of past uprisings but some say they're not a friend i know that our ancestors had a ready made revolution against the military we can't just let the military when citizens had already shown their demands by voting we are on the streets for fraud that we are against the military dictatorship a near total shutdown of the internet and disruption of phone lines was partially lifted on sunday facebook and other social media platforms had already been blocked the un special rapporteur on myanmar has accused the military of trying to paralyze the movement of resistance and keep the outside world in the dock all week the voice of disquiet has grown louder and bolder from nightly noise protests began gone to a civil disobedience campaign the un secretary general antonio good terrorists has pledged the un will do all it can to unite the internet. no community and create

conditions for the coup to be reversed activists say mere words are unlikely to have any impact the military leaders dictatorship is gambling on the fact that there will be a lot of statements but no real action it's time to target military companies because the economics of the situation is an economic power just one off the mark to baiting forces for the military to grab power like this for now there's no sign the generals are ready to give up control even though the calls for them to go are growing sunday's demonstrations are the largest since the 2007 uprising against the military alliance louis. for more than 100 people are feared dead in northern india after part of a himalayan glaciers collapse a torrent of water rushing down a river where there's a hydroelectric power station and several villages 7 bodies have been recovered so

far but rescue operations continue alexia ryan reports. a wall of water dust and rock rules down the tally ganga river in northern india the bridges and dams in its path damaged or destroyed a portion of the name to davy grace is said to have broken off sending the torrent surging down the mountain and through narrow valleys below people living on the river and several nearby tributaries were warned to move to safety immediately a lot. of other people are being evacuated from the area here in atlanta as a precautionary measure floor by the rocky river has been stopped to prevent the flow of water from manic monday dam and rishikesh dam have been emptied. rescue teams in the military quickly arrived at the area where dozens of people were working on major hydropower projects like the top of an additional guard plant which was under construction. others scrambled to reach at least one block tunnel

where people were trapped inside. in these difficult times the modi government is standing shoulder to shoulder with the people of that account of the disaster management teams along with other security forces are already there and the indian air force is also on alert it is our priority to minimize the loss of life and property to the people of lootera cond and restore normalcy here. put out a condom the himalayas is prone to flash floods and landslides in june 23rd tain record rainfall caused devastating floods that kind close to 6000 lives. that disaster was dubbed the himalayan tsunami because of the torrents of water which buried homes and swept away buildings roads and bridges. before water resources minister olmert bharti and other environmental experts have criticized the construction of power projects in the area pointing to its fragile ecosystem

and the damage caused by the 2013 floods it seems like the pod plant which was right in the way of this disaster today was actually a less than 15 megawatt hydro plant the question is should we be compromising they can logically integrity of the malia for such a small projects more questions will no doubt be raised after this latest disaster for now though the rescue operation continues brian al jazeera. in other news a roadside bomb in somalia has killed at least 12 agents working for the national intelligence and security agency it happened near do some a red town in the center of the country on sunday and this town was hosting talks on elections that collapsed 2 days ago claims it was behind the attack be corona virus pandemic is dominating the agenda on the 2nd and final day of the virtual african union summit while mass vaccinations have begun in other parts of

the world the rollout has been slow on the african continent african leaders are also discussing political and humanitarian issues including border disputes send displaced people live to markham webb in nairobi kenya keeping an eye on the summit for us a lot of attention so on call that 19 malcolm just how bad is the situation for the continent and what is the organization what steps can we expect the organization to take. according to the available data africa hasn't been hit as hard as many other continents but this is in a context where many countries have very little testing and generally not much help compared to richer counterparts in europe or the us south africa which has one of the largest health care systems and some of the most widespread testing in the continent is experiencing a 2nd wave at the moment and also is the origin of a new variant which is proving more deadly than the original coded 19 variants and

as rich countries are beginning to roll out vaccine programs in a snapping up multiple doses of vaccine for each members of their population there's a slow start on the vaccination programs across the african continent and a significant shortage of available vaccines for people as well as the african union set up a task force to try to rectify this it's secured 680000000 doses of the vaccine 16 of the africa african union 55 members have signed up to this scheme but health care activists are saying that this is a drop in the ocean and that most of the african continent will be years behind the world's richest countries in its vaccination program and malcolm another health story just breaking within the last hour the d.r. c reporting a new ebola case after being declared free of the disease just last november what more you hearing about. congo's ministry of health

says the case was a woman near the town of return bo who became sick about a week ago and she died 2 days later the ministry of health has just confirmed that this was the case speaking on national t.v. now it was in this same area that there was an outbreak that was declared over 3 months ago that killed just over 60 people that outbreak run for 6 months there was a much more severe outbreak nearby in the same part of the country that run 2018 to 2020 killing more than 2000 people congo's health minister speaking on national t.v. said that they have now launched as a response the official response to this new outbreak waiting to find out what measures will be taken and if indeed there are any more cases coming up malcolm webb in nairobi thank you. for than has warned its national security will be threatened a few opiate goes ahead with a 2nd phase of filling is blue nile dam stand water minister says it will also put

the lives of half the country's population at risk for than any jobs here the mega dam will divert too much water that they rely on while ethiopia says the project is vital to its economic future talks held last month to resolve the dispute failed to make any headway. the pharmaceutical company astra zeneca says it's working to adopt discovered $1000.00 vaccine against a variant find in south africa after a trial showed it might be less effective the study shows the vaccine has significantly reduced efficacy against the mutation according to a report in the financial times the trial is small and has not been peer reviewed however a south african variant is among a number of mutations causing concern because of their higher rate of spread and potential to resist vaccines dr sanjay is an associate professor of infectious diseases at the australian national university he says other vaccines have also

shown reduce the impact on variance 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 very young people so the impacts on severe disease unlikely to be known because the fear is is very unlikely in young people we know from the other vaccines that are around but dern buys are know that x. 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 you 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 seems to be a tape quite slowly maybe 5 times slower than influenza so in

a sense that we were seeing strains 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 march. still ahead on. news in the philippines say academic freedom is at risk and the biggest day in america's sports calendar could turn into a cold with 19 but. now we have the usual pattern repeating itself of cold air coming out of the north east of china coming across the open waters and producing a lot of snow for japan this is

a story for monday and tuesday so once again that's not particularly cold and that's going to increase the avalanche risk otherwise it's called sunshine potential on the way up this however is not particularly usual this line of rains developing really threw me in my nose and thailand and then going towards vietnam with some orange chop so significant right shouldn't be there this time the year the average rainfall is pretty low to be honest it's just not the season so that's unusual but it's there all the same the usual stuff the heavy rain is still around borneo just south of java or of a job for itself for the next day or so but easier is drier than indonesia for the most part my night because the active weather is this line of rain here we've had snow recently up in the michelle pradesh the heaviest fall for 30 years and there's evidence of it as a sort of policy area so they're enjoying themselves in shimla there's no more to come in the forecast most of india pakistan bangladesh is no longer under the throes of the cold why if there is persistent fog once again in the northern plain

of india in bits of bangladesh which means the air quality new in new delhi is once again pretty poor. from every one of this. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax and enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know law day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home.

to and to. a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera tens of thousands of people have risked violence and of arrests to hold test in myanmar in the largest demonstrations yet against the military cool and they follow days of growing civil disobedience including strikes rescue efforts are underway in northern india after part of a himalayan glaciers collapse officials fear up to 150 people and dead including people who were working at 2 power plants when flash floods hit the old site and a new case of ebola virus has been detected in eastern democratic republic of congo more than 2000 people died in a major outbreak from 2018 to 2020 as compared to fewer than 700 who have died from the corona virus there. at the united states has ended a controversial asylum agreement with several latin american countries the deal was

made by the top administration to curb the number of migrants able to apply for asylum it meant migrants arriving in the us were often sent back to central america to apply for refuge there joe biden's newly appointed secretary of state anthony blinken says we have notified the government so they are salvador guatemala and honduras said the united states is taking beside ssion as efforts to establish a corporative mutually respectful approach to managing migration but blanket goes on to say to be clear these actions do not mean the u.s. border is open castro is in washington 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

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 biden ending these agreements now really changes nothing on the ground because there's still no decision in his ministries and 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 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. polls have opened in ecuador for elections held under the shadow of a severe economic and political crisis and voters will choose between 16 presidential candidates as well as elect $1737.00 lawmakers to fill the national assembly the main race is expected to be against former banker say expected to be rather between former bank of gear more lasso and economic risks. unicef estimates 6 out of every 10 households with children in ecuador live in extreme poverty in a major reform of cuba's state's dominated economy a government says it will allow private businesses to operate in most industries in

the past small businesses could only participate in 127 sanctioned activities but that's not been expanded to to more than 2000 the common is caribbean island is trying to recover from an economic slump brought on by u.s. sanctions and if a pandemic philip brenner is professor at the american university in washington he says economic reforms have been years in the making. 10 years ago when they designated a list of private enterprises but those who are working with limited to things like being a shoemaker were being repairing bicycles and restaurants now this opens it up to a more professional to natives and the significance is twofold one it expands the possibilities for small businesses private entrepreneurs currently it is about 15 percent of the population who work for non state and the prices and this could expand that much further 3040 percent of the nation which changes everything

a bit much less reliance on the state the 2nd is that the state needs to reduce its . employment because it's running out of money they've now changed their economic system so that was going to be a single currency and that's going to result in raising the. wages of state employees and the state can't afford that and so this is a way of helping people leave the state will pull in and take private jobs for a much broader range of people especially rationals lawyers architects people who provides services the business. haiti's constitution says i new president's term begins on february 7th everyone agrees on that but not on which year present juvenile mores says he still has another year in office but as far as the opposition is concerned his time is up on sunday that

a symbol reports on the latest political crisis in haiti. clashes between the opposition and security forces right next to the presidential palace. it's become a regular occurrence on the streets of port au prince. protesters continue to demand presidential and in more he steps down. gives us. it's a strike against kidnapping against hunger in the country and we are sending a clear message to the president to respect the constitution earlier this week transport unions and other workers went on a 2 day strike denouncing institutional violence and an alarming grice in kidnappings human rights groups say at least a 1000 people were kidnapped in 2020 when someone is going up. the person must go to the street and ask for a given so you really does a reason why we organize 2 days of look up to show. that we accept this

situation you know but as soon as the look of finish the kidnapping restored quickly. haiti's opposition says it's time for moyes to go they say he's mandate ends this sunday but moyes does a greece he says his 5 year term began when he was sworn in in 2017 and that he still has one year in power but members of the opposition say maurice term began in 2016 in the wake of chaotic elections. and while the political crisis deepens haiti's economy continues to deteriorate. economies like. says urgent action is needed so. the amount of people going hungry in the country is doubled it's gone from $2000000.00 to $4000000.00 people the currency is devalued and there's an inflation rate close to 25 percent. to complicate matters legislative elections were postponed when parliamentary terms

expired this past year preston moyes has been ruling haiti by decree the u.s. and the organization of american states have urged new legislative elections to restore the balance of power maurice is proposing a referendum in april to reform the constitution. last week we held a major meeting with all interviews including the un the provisional electoral council the advisory committee the government the police chief the prime minister we had a big talk about security issues elections and the referendum we were clear with all these people on april 25th because it will be a victory for us. but the opposition says it's another excuse to hold onto power and that's why they vow to continue pressuring the government on the streets . to the philippines now where teachers and students are angry at a decision to allow military forces to enter the top state university critics call

the move an attack on academic freedom jamil island again 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 building 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. and now similar battle lines are drawn once again the military has ended a decades 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 that we will. not be in your new only. world. 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. on.

top of. all heroes. across the country student activists are up in arms to unfairly target so far and it's because. so. 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 returning. to dogon al-jazeera manila. source sal and it's super bowl sunday in the u.s. the kansas city chiefs are chasing their 2nd straight title against the tampa bay buccaneers because of

a pandemic the chiefs opted to spend super bowl week at home before flying to tampa and this was them arriving on sunday only a limited number of fans will be allowed inside the stadium but health experts are worried about another spike in covered 1000 cases and a gallagher report some miami. and campo words cannot harm the super bowl is by far the biggest sporting and television event in the united states last year's final attracted over 100000000 viewers but as the tampa bay buccaneers and kansas city chiefs prepared to meet on sunday this will be a game like no other time because raymond james stadium is the venue it's also a testing site for code 19 in a state that's lost close to 30000 people to the virus in a bid to keep the game safe the stadium will only be a 3rd full the strict protocols and social distancing as you pass through security screening your tickets will be scanned and you will be provided with a safety kit which includes a k n $95.00 mask and

a hand sanitizer health experts say the national football league's measures are acceptable under the circumstances that more concerned with what happens in areas outside their control it's to the pre-game post-game and for those people who aren't at the game the during game celebrations where we expect folks to get together in private and public venues and that's where the risk is especially since we now have 3 new strains of the disease that have made landfall in the states there will of course be the much anticipated celebrity filled multimillion dollar ads but also a recognition of the sacrifice made by u.s. healthcare workers 7500 free tickets have been allocated to vaccinated frontline staff mostly from florida just so exciting like you don't even believe it you know like a fairy. yes it's amazing and we're very grateful all this is a far cry from previous super bowls were host cities reap huge economic benefits

last year's game in miami generated more than $500000000.00 for the local economy tampa's mayor says the goal is to have funds arrive healthy and leave healthy umask mandates now in place but health experts warn there could be a spike uncovered 1000 cases following the game the super bowl was never going to be canceled all anyone can do is make the best and hopefully the safest of a bad situation gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. where again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera tens of thousands of people have risked violence and unrest to protest in myanmar in the largest demonstrations yet again thin military they follow days of growing civil disobedience including strikes throwing 3 has more from malaysia's capital fellow lump or. protests have sprung up in different parts of the.