and when you leave with a smile we know what he's done. welcome to. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your oh. me and mars coup leader breaks his silence with tens of thousands demonstrate against his rule for a 3rd straight day. you're watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters in doha i'm daddy not a gator also coming up south africa delays its covert 1000 vaccination campaign after a study shows that astra zeneca provides less protection from the strain that's appeared in the country. were in northern india where rescue workers are searching

for more than 100 missing after a glacier burst sending a flood of water down a valley. on elizabeth for autumn in the town of joshi much of that account with the humanitarian rescue and recovery operations are being coordinated from. donald trump's lawyers outline his impeachment defense a day before his trial is set to begin in the u.s. senate. follow me on mars military gentle has been gatherings and imposed a curfew in several areas it's intended to stop growing protests earlier the military ruler men i'm flying promise to hold elections and hand over to whoever wins he sees power in a coup one week ago he accused the country's democratic leaders a failing to carry out their duties and if using the coronavirus pandemic to rig planned elections he's. hours after tens of thousands of protesters return to the

streets of me and maher they're risking violence on the rest to call for the government to release democratic democratically elected leaders detained in last week's coup scott hi lower courts. i the 1st push back from myanmar security forces on the growing number of protesters burst from water cannon and in attempt to disperse some of the thousands who gathered in the capital neighborhood. this is the 3rd day of mass rallying against a military coup one week ago a civil disobedience movement has been called encouraging people to skip work and school to head out and protest they're demanding that deposed civilian leader on song suchi and the more than $160.00 elected leaders supporters and activists most who were detained during the early hours of the coup be released immediately. like at the weekend when tens of thousands gathered in cities across the country waving the colors of suits cheese and the party and flying the 3 finger salute now

a symbol of the movement the protests and calls for civil disobedience have become more organized in the days since last week's overthrow with momentum building labor unions civil servants teachers buddhist monks and students have all taken to the streets good i don't know and you know we are an engine is unique and we are not going to allow this military dictatorship to pass on to our next generation and we will continue our protest until this dictatorship fails we have already looked down on by other asian people and others around the world for growing up in an education system and the military rule made must destroy you and sean turned out was one of those recently detained by officials he was serving as an advisor to aung sang suu kyi we have called for the immediate release of australian citizen professor sean to nail from the detention in. our embassy has been providing a face eternal with extensive support during this ordeal he is

a highly regarded adviser a holler god member of the academic community. there are signs the military is growing frustrated with the demonstrations. a message on state t.v. warned of actually being taken against those who break the law. everyone has the right to speak freely living in the country put those kinds of freedom shouldn't disturb others it should allow others to have different opinions but these days people have disturbing and even threatening others by breaking laws while claiming it's democracy if we don't follow the rules and regulations our democracy can get damaged legal action should be taken against those who commit acts that harm the state stability public safety and the rule of law. some supporters are determined to show their dedication to the cause one group tattooing a line of an old revolutionary song on their arms that reads we won't forget until the end of the world it's got our jazeera south african healthful forty's are working with international scientists to drop

a new vaccination strategy that's after they suspended the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca job when charles showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious south african variant of the virus one option being considered as an alternative as rolling out a covert $1000.00 vaccine that's still in the testing phase from there miller is in johannesburg she explains why the government is under fire for how it's handled the pandemic. the government has said that it shows that there is only a 22 percent if a casy rate when trying to prevent mild or moderate covert 19 now this is very damaging for the government given the criticism it's already faced and even if the government can be forgiven for only understanding now that the vaccine is not is as effective as they had hoped the government has also come out to say that the vaccines that receive the 1000000 doses last week it's only on a rival that it was established that these vaccines expire in april vaccines take

about 6 months they have a 6 month shelf life and already south africa has a difficulty in that it didn't have this information on hand so so that ricans are certainly very disappointed and there really is an issue of confidence with regard to how the government is managing this vaccine rollout for the time being we know that they've said that they used the information they had on hand they've said that this was the most accessible vaccine at the time and what they'll do now is one of the experts on the panel that's trying to deal with the vaccine rollout has said it would it would be irresponsible to completely discard the astra zeneca vaccine instead they will vaccinate some people at some point but at the same time continue studies to understand better how to use astra zeneca. study a johannesburg's with university shows 2 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine provides a minimal protection against mild to moderate infections of the south african

variant the study didn't assess efficacy against severe infections but the author said the findings show efforts should shift from herd immunity to protecting people at risk of getting covert scientists to lead the development of the astra zeneca vaccine said the study confirms the virus will find ways to spread in vaccinated populations researchers noted work is underway on a 2nd generation of the vaccine that will target new mutations. dr clear cut lenses of the astra zeneca trial coordinator in south africa she says the country was depending on the astra zeneca vaccine for its immunization program it's being a disappointing state fact that we had the only vaccines that are carrying the. in country in so africa the escalating thanks even which is seen as domenici the original virus the don't send in johnson parents made an application to date people each separately who are. critical of the johnson and johnson that. as

morrison and to date that approval has not come to one set of times theory. here are simple steps that need to be taken and secured the fence and importance and how. to paint on it he had a defendant here thanks and says you know you can be important to me. rescue operations are underway in northern india to free more than 30 people trapped in a tunnel a day after part of the himalayan glaciers are collapsed at least 20 bodies have been recovered while around 200 people remain missing elizabeth purana reports from just your mouth a town in the area where the accident happened. the rescuers are relying on heavy equipment to barge the piles of mud and debris clearing a tunnel where workers have been trapped since a torrent of water and debris swept through on sunday after part of

a glazier broke off upstream. working on the crown of the tunnel when we heard screams get out get out we didn't know what was happening we started running to escape when the force of the water gushed in through the mouth of the tunnel. it's thought the workers are stuck in an outlet about 180 meters then. my brother was here he used to work here and now i'm hearing he is trapped inside we have no information about him there were 6 people from our village over here. but they are about 2000 members of the military police and specialist the mountain rescue of involved in the search. while they hoping to find survivors of the tunnel some teams have been out on the river fearing the worst. our team is here searching for bodies if we see anyone near the banks or in the river our work is to recover them . most of the missing were working on 2 hydro power projects being built by the

government deep in the mountains of northern state one dam was damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the burst could be linked to climate change and a team of scientists has been flown to the site to investigate other environmentalists blame the construction saying it's damaging the himalayas fragile ecosystem clearly this is an unstable. which is not uncommon in these sorts of environments i worry i think would be that this could there could be other such events i saw the launches landslides snow avalanches and so on in the future and that that may well be exacerbated by by climate change. food and medicines have been delivered to some villages that have been cut off and this mountainous region repairs and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue

efforts are being coordinated the town of. this 300 kilometers from the state's capital but takes time alice to reach. the head of india's national disaster response for said one of the biggest challenges is the difficult terrain and the rescue and recovery operation could take up to 48 hours elizabeth. just one day before the former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial is set to begin his legal team have followed the fence papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional let's bring in alan fischer he's joining us from capitol hill so what more did trump's lawyers have to say. well the defense is going to follow very much the pattern that we expected that it would have been widely trailed over the last few days 1st of all they're going to argue that the impeachment of the former 'd president is unconstitutional saying that he's left office therefore they cannot go ahead and continue with this operation the 2nd thing that they're going to say is that his

comments on the 6th of january did not inspire the attack on capitol hill they will say that the f.b.i. has established that there were plans laid to do exactly what happened several days before the president spoke and certainly that his using the phrase we have to fight to save our country is something the it said several times on the campaign trail with no issues atoll no issues of violence so that is going to be the basis of the defense no of course we know what the democrats are going to say the question is just how quickly will this trial take you'll remember that a year ago it took more than 20 days to run through all the evidence the senate will decide whether or not they want to hear from witnesses but really at the democrats want to get this wrapped up as quickly as possible they have looked at the numbers they know they are not going to impeach donald trump you remember that 45 senators said that the whole process was unconstitutional among them was mitch mcconnell the leader of the republicans in the senate he said that that doesn't

preclude him sitting down and listening to the evidence that's presented and perhaps voting to impeach donald trump but if you've got $45.00 senators have already believe that this whole process is unconstitutional the fact that flipping a lot of them to give you a 2 thirds majority in the senate to convict donald trump seems highly unlikely here's the other reason why the democrats are very keen that this gets done pretty quickly as well the longer it goes on the more it gets in the way of joe biden's legislative agenda and they would like to get round to things like an immigration bill dealing with the corporate crisis and things like that rather than being distracted by a trial which the except off the record and very quietly at the moment that they do not think that they could possibly when all right allan frustrate thank you very much. the had an al-jazeera somalia's president turned a somalia this president's term sees me ends with no agreement on how to replace him. and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu pleads not guilty at his

corruption trial and calls the charges against him a witch hunt. well lost the very active weather that produced flash floods in iraq in the run is this tale and now a few more showers the northern parts of iran the cross into turkmenistan and then snow in afghanistan leaving behind open skies and blueness and apart from a few showers in the mountains a sudden saudi and yemen it's going to be dry the still but for a couple of days down the gulf which means doha will be a dusty and a bit breezy was not particularly severe and temperatures here in the levant are rising beirut's forecast gets 22 that's above normal by about 4 degrees a nice warm weather nothing hugely changes in the next 2 or 3 days says wednesday's

forecast you're looking at now apart from the lack of showers spot the difference. the same is true i suppose in southern africa with the sun slowly moving north now so the rains are quite as intense over south africa in fact even expect this time of year to watch a step in madagascar and maybe mozambique is still right time to develop a tropical cyclone right on the edge of your screen you see the only one in the world at the moment for us use in the middle of the indian ocean but significant rain is still likely in places like the capital of by the gaskets in the forecast for at least the next 2 days. join africa's largest trade and investment fair and rwanda enter african trade fair gives me access to more than 1100 exhibitors 10000 visitors and buyers and more than 5000 conference delegates from more than 55 countries participate in trade and investment deals worth $40000000000.00 u.s.

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a day after part of the himalayan glaciers collapsed at least 20 bodies have been recovered but around 200 people are still missing. lawyers for the former u.s. president donald trump's impeachment trial the fall defense paper is saying the proceedings are unconstitutional they also say trump did not incite violence on generates 6 when his supporters stormed the capitol and tried to prevent congress from certifying the election results. so millions opposition leaders say they no longer recognize the president mohamed that the life or modules term has expired but with no agreements on elections to replace him an alliance of opposition candidates say they won't accept an extension of his term a plan to hold an indirect presidential election broke down over disagreements on how to proceed with the vote mohamad though is in neighboring is in nairobi in neighboring kenya he says the situation in somalia is unprecedented. no one is

brave enough to predict what the future holds for somalia and the country has now entered uncharted territory it's been it's a fast never has a sitting presidents monday to expire either without the elections being housed or a political agreement being. agreed between the political actors in the country and a country that is now recovering from almost 3 decades of conflict so right now the ease a lot of shuttle diplomacy that is happening been carried out by the international community the leadership of the african union peacekeeping mission in somalia to try and but even the leaders of somalia's federal regions once again face to face with the president of somalia and if that doesn't. i'm in succeed it is going to be really a difficult period for somalia this crisis has been

a year in the making and according to a statement released earlier today by the american embassy in mogadishu they say these political gridlock has affected the fight against al-shabaab to the extent that. everyone is so concerned with what's happening in politics that very little attention is being given to security matters but when you talk to the president and his supporters they say they still power vacuum there's no vacuum at all and that the president would only leave office once elections are held. israel's prime minister has they did not guilty to corruption charges benjamin netanyahu appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust and 3 separate cases he says he is the victim of what he calls an attempted coup very fast that reports from occupied east jerusalem. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin

netanyahu has residence at the new focal point on monday the jerusalem district court a couple of 100 meters beyond the police barricades i would not think about the public security safety economics because the only thing that would interest me is how to get out of jail and this is why a person like that cannot stand in this position to be the prime minister the volume went up as the prime minister's convoy arrived and you know i was accused of fraud and breach of trust in 2 cases in a 3rd he also faces an additional charge of bribery and here they are shut down with me on the eve of his appearance he issued a message to his supporters calling the investigation and trial politically motivated insisting the case was crumbling the alleged offenses range from soliciting accepting lavish gifts from wealthy friends to offering assistance to media owners in return for favorable coverage in court he spoke only to confirm the written defense of his lawyers in essence a not guilty plea and to thank the court before leaving after sitting through just

20 minutes of legal argument his lawyers continued an exam since to question the legality of the investigation with the judges appearing to push back with benjamin netanyahu as departure for all the sound and fury out here for the legal argument inside the courtroom one of the most important things they could emerge from today is the timetable something much more prosaic but could decide whether the evidence 3 phase the witness phase during which will be all kinds of allegations put under oath whether that comes before israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judge. renu hari the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and he said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on the money the other 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now we will see the witnesses start coming end of march early april which would be after the march 23rd election that would itself be a minor victory for the prime minister allowing him to campaign outside of the direction

of the legal battle that is just one issue among many dividing voters as they prepare to return to the polls for a 4th time in 2 years. al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. relations between russia and e.u. countries are becoming increasingly tense poland germany and sweden have all expelled diplomats which russia says is unjustified and unfriendly weak russia expelled several you embassy workers it follows criticism from the block of moscow's treatment of opposition figure alexei navalny he was arrested immediately on return from germany where he spent 5 months recovering from poisoning. china has formally arrested an australian journalist on suspicion of sharing state secrets cheng bay has been detained by beijing since august she'd been working as a television presenter for the state owned channel in the australian government had repeatedly raise concerns over her detention beijing says her legal rights will be

guaranteed but the move adds tension to already deteriorating relations between the 2 countries now cryptocurrency bitcoin has hit a record price of $44000.00 a units after automaker tesla bought one and a half $1000000000.00 worth tesla says it will soon begin accepting payments in the digital currency and that its investments in bitcoin and other alternative assets may grow for more on this gabriel is on those joining us from new york so tesla's investments seems to be a massive investment boost for a big point. it really is on multiple levels i mean this is really become a bit coin craze if you will here on this this monday and it's this surprise move by tesla saying that about $1500000000.00 worth it the price of bitcoin jumped by as much as 16 percent at one point on monday morning after this announcement but it's also as you mention the point they don't they don't only buy bitcoin they also

said they might accept it as currency in the future this is all part of tesla's plan they say to diversify their assets but this was certainly a surprise move people weren't necessarily expecting this and now it's a you know bitcoin in the past had been considered sort of like something that was used by investors or individuals but not necessarily publicly traded companies but that might be changing now because now tesla is the 2nd largest publicly traded company that owns major stakes of bitcoin the other being a micro strategy in analytics company based in virginia that owns $3000000000.00 worth of bitcoins so now tesla one and a half 1000000000 it certainly all goes to this idea that. they're eccentric owner and founder of tesla is certainly says that he's been. an advocate of bitcoin for a long time and now his company tesla seems to be really investing a lot in at the big question is will this be

a sign of other companies now also investing in currencies such as bitcoin that's still an open question tell us more a little bit about him on my ask and what he's been saying about cryptocurrency is because he's been tweeting about the digital currency in the recent past. yeah a lot muskrat a long time was sort of this eccentric character which he still is but maybe not taken so seriously on wall street and other areas well that's all changed now because he is as of recently the world's richest person and tesla doing very well of course and he uses his twitter account with more than 45000000 followers. to promote companies and he's promote things such that he feels strongly about one of those being bitcoin and it's really affected stock prices of other companies too and priced not just stock prices but just prices in general of things and he's and

so for example he streets uses twitter account to promote things such as dog corner digital token it was sort of a joke on wall street but then as soon as he tweeted about it saying he bought it was an interesting proposition the price of it just skyrocketed so he said certainly using his social media platforms now to promote different things that he feels strongly about and and so that's what's causing a lot of this he was also behind the game stop tweeted about that and that led to a lot of that frenzy as well so. clearly using his social media platforms increasingly to do things such as this. from new york thank you. parts of indonesia's capital have been submerged by floodwater after heavy rainfall it's triggered evacuations and power outages in jakarta riverside households have faced the most damage indonesia frequently suffers floods and landslides during the rainy season between november and march. all the scramble for scarce land in

nigeria is pushing millions of people into poverty according to activists and 2800 nigerian overtook india is the country with the largest number of people living in extreme poverty experts say it's largely because of corruption land confiscations and how resources are distributed by the jury's reports from burning. in 7 years one certainly has fought at least 16 court cases of land being taken and justly but lost most of them. the lawyer and activist says the poor are up against the powerful who have the resources to manipulate the judiciary. where local traditionally. used area courts. succeeded in the land from peace sent. who are not apart from that form and that ended in abject poverty i mean equally

among the politicians he says many land orders and witnesses are being intimidated into silence. across nigeria there is a huge demand for land for housing projects and then distribute it. in many cases developers used force to encroach upon farmland and evict poor farmers from the awful things. what can i use of tools to sell 2 of these 3 forms rather than lose them the women of. the rich people invade our villages and use their enormous amounts of money to convince or even coerce poor villages to sell them land as a result many of now lost their source of livelihood and become destitute. nigeria's population grows by 3 percent each year the same rate as arbonne a zation but as rich and powerful nigerians buy up more land experts here that the government and the poor may soon struggle to find enough for agriculture and

development experts say even protected forest land is being targeted they say the elite are enabled by weak laws and corruption the land use decree. allows people to. parcels of land which then are fence off so that poor people are increasingly being pushed to the margins ones who fence of the land they push off who are these poor people poor farmers poor hardest who are increasingly being pushed would imagine of safety as. constant. developers economics that the odds favor the rich but say most often it's the poor who approach biased sauce. very serious or. money or a right. so that as a challenge so you really is

a challenge for. us you know is this. personally. i mean all of us the group the village that. we develop now goes. i mean. activists warn that unless the government puts an end to unrestrained and sometimes illegal acquisitions nigeria could soon face conflicts bigger than those the country is kind of plea deal with but it reset al-jazeera bringing k.p. . and over again the headlines on al-jazeera the head of the military genter the seize power in me and morrow a week ago has accused the democratic leaders are failing to carry out their duties men on klang spoke hours after.