i don't speak for sale but only target the let's leave simplicity to the headlines joining me is our take on the art dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. marc lamont hill and it's time we get up from right here on out in the. me in my pots and pans protest the people show that anger after the coup leader defends his actions. i'm charlie and this is the out is there it is there live from london also coming up. south africa's coronavirus setback the rollout of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is suspended because of disappointing results against

a new covariant. the day before donald trump seconded pietschmann trial his lawyers claim it's unconstitutional and political theater. and we're in northern india where rescue workers a scrambling to find survivors after a glassy avalanche hundreds still missing. we started me and military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities yangon and mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people the curfews are intended to put an end to growing protests against last week's coup military rule ending on time has addressed the nation for the 1st time since the takeover he accused the country's democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rick november's election but also promised a new election next year. for a multi-party democratic. system in free and fair election is important for the

long term of the system that are generated when we have completed one year of this emergency law we will continue to proceed on to the 2008 constitution we will have a multi-party election and we will hand over power to the one who wins in that election according to the rules of democracy. thanks for following the televised address protests continued across me in the eye with people in the largest city young on striking pots and pans in a show of public anger against the military leaders we call in from the protests are showing no sign of abating the sky high the reports they seem to be getting bigger and more widespread. the 1st pushback from the m.r. 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 their 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 for the good i don't know and you know we are an engine is union we are not going to allow this military dictatorship to pass on to our next generation 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 a strong turnout 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 sergeant citizen professors shown to nail from the detention. our embassy has been providing the face ateneo 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 action being taken against those who break the law. how can we change our body everyone has the right to speak freely living in the country put those kinds of freedom shouldn't disturb others that you will allow others to have different opinions but these days people are disturbing and even threatening others by breaking laws while climbing 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 scott had left our jazeera south african health authorities are working with international scientists to draw up a new coded 900 vaccination strategy they suspended the original plan to use the oxford astra zeneca vaccine because trials showed it gives little protection against the highly contagious local variant it could now be rolled out in steps to test its effectiveness for me to mete has more from johannesburg. it's here in nelson mandela bay on south africa's east coast that experts say a new variant of covert 19 spread rapidly it's more contagious and accounts for 90

percent of all new infections south africa with 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine was due to start giving jabs to frontline health workers in a week's time study suggested it would cut the risk of contracting the or original variant of corona virus by 75 percent but against the new variant the vaccine is almost powerless it's said to have only a 22 percent chance of stopping mild to moderate infections is a temporary issue we are. sure that. the study's not clear on how well the vaccine can protect people from severe illness or death south africa may be at the tail end of its 2nd wave of covert 1000 but the approach of colder months there is a real worry of a 3rd wave there's always been concern south africa's not vaccinating people quick enough and with the new variant of the virus that concerns only growing oxford

astra zeneca says it will tweak its existing vaccine to offer more effective protection but it could be august before that's available so far the new variant has spread to at least 21 countries while existing vaccines may face the challenge of keeping up with mutations as new variants have already been identified in the u.k. and brazil experts say all is not lost and this vaccine be combined with another vaccine so that you have 2 different vaccines that do what we call prime stimulate the immune system and 2 different points in time and you do it with slightly different back so there are many questions still to be honest here given the limited sample size of the trial and the younger healthier profile. of the participants it's important to determine whether or not the vaccine remains effective in preventing more serious illness south africa's also looking to other

manufacturers the government says it expects to receive a new vaccine soon from pfizer and johnson and johnson and it will continue talks with more suppliers including in china and russia for me to al-jazeera johannesburg the study by johannesburg's vets university shows the 2 doses of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine provide minimal protection against mild to moderate infections of the south african variant the study didn't assess efficacy against severe infections but the authors said the findings show efforts should shift from herd immunity to protecting people at risk of getting coated the scientists who lead the development of the astra zeneca vaccine said the study confirms the virus will find ways to spread in vaccinated populations researches noted work has begun on a 2nd generation of the vaccine that will target new mutations. oksana pacific leads the university college london to global citizen program on outbreaks of

infectious diseases she says the vaccine can still help prevent severe infections. so you say the expectation that we will see some protective benefit for more steve year and aggressive forms that appear in the older population and we also see this if you see improve for other that seems as well so even with the johnson and johnson vaccine for severe cases we see that the level of protection is as high as 89 percent but when we get to that mild and moderate which we see mostly in young populations that jumps down into the fifty's range so with the ashes that results again the sample size and that 1000 so small and again it shows an important aspect around transmissibility but one of the key reasons that we turn towards vaccines is also because we are looking to reduce the overall pressure on healthcare systems in

hospitals as well as reducing the death rate and we expect that there will still be benefit in it and so some protection is better than not. lawyers for former us president donald trump's impeachment trial have filed defense papers saying the proceedings unconstitutional well alan fischer is on capitol hill following the story for us allan what more did trump's lawyers have to say what is their plan for his defense. well there's been a couple developments just in the last are so don't trump's lawyers say aleut the whole thing is unconstitutional is a private citizen you can't interfere with his 1st amendment right the people that attacked the capitol on the 6th of january did so because they wanted to and they will point to the fact that the f.b.i. says that in their investigations the plans for the attack on the capital were formulated days before donald trump made

a speech and you remember during that speech on the mall on the 6th of january he said you've got to fight for your country if you want a country or words to those effect that's what the democrats say sparked the problems on capitol hill and the insurrection on capitol hill just in the last hour both sides in the senate republicans and democrats have agreed on the format of what will happen over the next few days it will start on tuesday there will be essentially 4 hours of debate on how the whole thing will proceed then both sides will get 16 hours over 2 days if they need them to make their case there will be a vote a separate vote on if they decide whether or not to call witnesses and donald trump's lawyers from the office of donald trump are actually in the last oh we've got a statement it's interesting in that it says president donald trump has welcomed the fact that there will be this bipartisan agreement on the whole proceedings go

forward but then proceeds to say having used the word president donald trump the you can't go ahead and impeach a private citizen just on the floor in the last hour john cornyn who's a republican senator from texas is it exactly the same thing look he's a private citizen you can't go doing this no the democrats' argument to that is hold on a 2nd you can't be the president do something that would be considered impeachable walk the door and then face no consequences john cornyn says they don't reach high crimes and misdemeanors at the democrats say look what he did was the. was grievous thing that any president could do which was jeopardize the democracy here in the united states so you see how both sides are lining up and how that is going to happen over the next week or so don't expect this to be a long trial you remember a year ago we had what $22.00 days of an impeachment trial it's not going to last that long this time around here's why 1st of all the democrats want to make sure

that they can get this done quickly so that the partisan bickering doesn't last for a very long time because of course they run 2 branches of government as well as have the white house as well they also don't want to step on donald trump's trump on joe bachmann's a legislative agenda is saying hold on a 2nd he's got 4 years in office he wants to get things done quickly like the covert bill possibly even immigration so they don't want that to get in the way the other thing the other reason why they don't want to drag this out too long is because of the partisan division joe biden made a big deal of bringing the country together and if this goes on for too long then that's simply going to become much more difficult even in the last few hours in the briefing room jen psaki who is of course his press spokesman was asked. does joe biden want to see donald trump impeached and she wouldn't answer that question c. says that really for the senate to decide so the senate hearing will get under way

on tuesday we expect it to last somewhere in the region of 7 or 8 days so by this time next week we could actually have a result but what is clear is it's going to be much more difficult for the democrats to convict donald trump because they don't believe they have the votes they don't think there is enough republican senators who are going to flip on to the other side and vote to impeach donald trump even though all the articles of impeachment to get here where supported by both republicans and democrats here's another thing to remember that have been 3 presidents who have been impeached including donald trump not one of them have commute been convicted by senate trial . thank you for that update from capitol hill. well still to come this half hour biden wages war on trump era policies vowing to rejoin a body washington views as flawed and in need of reform. benjamin netanyahu faces court on corruption charges as protesters keep up their fight against the israeli

prime minister. but. the still a lot of rain in the north 3rd of australia that circulation is going to watch the west towards western australia's produced enough rain for flash flooding and you've got the same sort of thing developing in tropical queens in the month small this is seasonal stuff all the same and it's rather quiet and that's the south that this is warming up with adelaide up to 30 sydney was this young shore breeze you'll be kept cooler and it will be sherry possibly a few thunderstorms and not big severe ones for the tennis players and in melbourne it's warming up again up to $31.00 votes are you get to wednesday was a bit of a contrast this ugly breeze coating things down in perth and notes the rain still falling if we jump northwards it looks fairly north grants with this breeze coming

across the sea of japan more showers for western honshu and hot car days sunshine slowly warming things up behind that until you look sized this shouldn't be significant rain this time of year shouldn't really exist but it's there as a cogent frontal system on its way through it even hits hong kong on wednesday such a cold windy and wet day for you in hong kong it doesn't improve by thursday or friday is the wind drops out the sun returns and you've got temp just slightly above normal so it's just wednesday that's the anomaly. make a change. change your life. the path of a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something to break it continue remolded up to turn the status quo and fight injustice. the. wolves out of his home dogs will witness documentaries

deception on al-jazeera. the. her mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera mean mars minute she routers have imposed a curfew in yangon and mandalay have banned gatherings of more than 5 people is intended to stop growing protests against last week's military coup. south african health authorities are working with international scientists to draw up a new vaccination strategy after the original plan to use the box with astra zeneca was suspended the trial showed it gives little protection against

a highly contagious ferry and. lawyers for former us president donald trump's impeachment trial filed defense papers saying the proceedings are unconstitutional they also say trump did not incite violence and january 6th but his supporters stormed the capitol and tried to prevent congress from the certifying the election result. the white house has reversed another controversial trump era foreign policy announcing it will reengage with the un human rights council secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. will return as an observer despite acknowledging the body is still floored and in need of reform former president donald trump pulled out of the rights council 2 years ago accusing it of bias against israel the u.s. can't automatically rejoin and we'll have to wait for elections at the end of this year well rosalynn jordan joins us live from washington d.c. rosen what sorts of reforms does the u.s. want to see the unity. well if there is one point of agreement between the

ministration and the previous trumpet ministration it's that they both agreeing that in their view there is too much of an emphasis on the behavior of israel and not on the behavior of other countries that may have been committing human rights violations and so one of the things that the new secretary of state antony blinken put out in a statement on monday is that the u.s. can do a better job of trying to change the focus from israel's actions if it's an actual member of the human rights council and so that's one of the reforms you're going to seeing another area where of the u.s. wants to see changes is to have more countries that have good strong human rights records sitting on the council rather than having countries that have poor human rights records some of whom have been elected to the council in recent years. and

the state department has also been talking about yemen has the u.s. lost leverage with the. well that is certainly a question that has come up in recent days the us quickly undertook a review of the trumpet ministrations decision to put the who tees on to groups true group lists i should say designating them as terrorist as a terrorist organization however the. ministration is reversing that does it nation because of concerns that doing so would make it much harder for it and for humanitarian organizations to get necessary aid to yemeni civilians who are living in perhaps one of the worst human humanitarian catastrophe in the world now the u.s. is arguing that it not only does this mean that it can provide aid to yemeni civilians but it does not undercut their ability to try to get the hutus to lay down their

arms and to try to agree to a political end to a civil war that is now in its 6th year but they say that they have to make certain that yemeni civilians aren't being harmed just for the sake of trying to end the civil war wasn't jordan thank you for that update from washington d.c. dozens of people still trapped in a tunnel a day off to parts of the himalayan classic if and into a river causing a massive flood at least 20 bodies have been recovered 200 more people are missing and is a bit current on reports from just the math in the foothills of the himalayas. 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. you know we were 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. that when they are about 2000 members of the military police and specialist the mountain best 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 hydropower projects being built by the government deep in the mountains of northern state one dead was

damaged another destroyed and homes were washed away experts say the glazier 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 valley which is not uncommon in these sorts of environments i worry i think would be that this this could there could be other such events ice avalanches 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 prepares and reconstruction will take time this is where the humanitarian and rescue efforts are being coordinated. as 300 kilometers from the state's capital takes time 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. israel's prime minister has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges benjamin netanyahu has appeared in court charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases he says he is the victim of what he calls an attempt to force that reports from. the protesters that have gathered every week for the last 8 months outside benjamin netanyahu as residents of 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 will interest me is how to get out of jail and this is why a person like that cannot stay 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 you know they are shouting 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 and 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 office. sitting through just 20 minutes of legal argument his lawyers continue to desire since to question the legality of the investigation with the judges appearing to push back so 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 the israeli election no decision was issued but legal observers saw hints of the judges were in no hurry and the judge said well how long will it take you to send some of these documents that the other side needs and they said 3 weeks and the judges pounced on it 3 weeks on and on in another 3 weeks so it looks to me if i had to guess right now is that they 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 a 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 sorry force it out is iraq occupied east jerusalem. and it's hit for tat move germany poland and sweden have each expelled a russian diplomat in response to moscow expelling diplomats from each of the 3

nations last month russia says the diplomats took part in protests supporting jailed kremlin critic alexina valmy tension between moscow and the e.u. has been rising have the opposition leaders detention in a valley was arrested upon his return to russia after months in germany recovering from poisoning which he blames on russian authorities. somalia's opposition leaders say they no longer recognize president mohamed after he mohamed after his term expired without new elections he's been embroiled in a dispute with regional leaders which has prevented a vote to find his replacement the united nations is calling for a quick resolution to the crisis or diplomatic editor james bass has more. it was supposed to be presidential election day in somalia but following a dispute over the way the poll was to be organized it hasn't happened instead a coalition of opposition candidates have now declared the government of president

from a show illegitimate in an interview to be broadcast on talk to al-jazeera the foreign minister mohammed abdul razak told me that's wrong the government will stay in office until an election can be held well after that time after that 4 years he is no longer legitimately the president no it cannot be a fact the federal parliament in both chambers have signed voted for by a majority of 215 in the lower house and 40 senators to have. a law that would allow for the parliament with its full authority to continue with its mandate and for all the institutions of the federal government to continue the un is urging all sides to go back to the negotiating table but it won't rule on the constitutional position where it is not for the united nations in any setting to annoying to government declared legitimate or not legitimate if there are institutions that are in place that have been agreed to that have been negotiated

we believe that somali political leaders need to come together whether you think the government is legitimate or illegitimate somalia now finds itself in a constitutional gray zone this in what was supposed to be a pivotal year for the troubled country this year ama so on the 2000 strong african union force is supposed to hand over its responsibilities to the somali national army but most experts believe it's not yet equipped to take the lead role the group most likely to benefit from the current political crisis is al-shabaab which continues to fight amazon and the somali government an indication of the concern of the international community is the fact the un security council will now meet to discuss the situation on cheese day james by al-jazeera at the united nations. china has formally arrested an australian journalist on suspicion of sorry state

secrets has been detained by beijing since august she had been working as a television presenter for the state owned channel c g t n is training government has repeatedly raised concerns about her detention they says her legal rights will be guaranteed. or you can find much more on our website the address for that is w w dot al-jazeera dot com. the top stories on al-jazeera meanwhile as military rulers have imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities yangon and mandalay and banned gatherings of more than 5 people is intended to stop growing protests against last week's military coup military rule of being online accuse the country's democratic leaders of using the pandemic to rig november's election but also promised a new election next year but it would be for

a multi-party democratic system and free infer election is important for the long term to see.