watch al-jazeera english streaming live on the you tube channel. plus thousands of our programs award winning documentary and in-depth luser full. subscribe to you choose would slosh al-jazeera english. police fired gunshots into the air in may in moscow and arrests in mandalay as thousands across the country defy to protest the military coup. new zealand becomes the 1st country in the world to isolate minerals military john measures include travel bans and suspension of all ties. other than norco oil this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up setting

a precedent hong kong's highest court denies bail to media tycoon pro-democracy activist jimmy lie under beijing's controversial national security law. following the despicable turn on january the 6th there must there must be truth and accountability on the stage is set for donald trump senate impeachment trial his lawyers tonight he incited supporters to storm capitol hill. i'm going to the ground i'm in northern india where rescuers are attempting to free dozens of people trapped in a tunnel since a catastrophic flood ripped through this mountainous region. we begin where we are seeing 1st signs of a minute she cracked down on antique who protesters who've been rallying for

a 4th straight day police have fired gunshots into the capital naypyidaw that's according to the voices news agency and at least 27 people have been arrested in manaus 2nd biggest city mandalay. nationwide thousands of protesters are defying the military's ban on gatherings and are demanding the release of the deposed civilian leader. well anger against the germs has also been growing overseas in the last few hours new zealand has become the 1st country to announce action against the military every new zealander would be devastated to see after years of working to build a democracy and to see. what we've seen in recent days unfold lead by the military our strong message is we will do what we can from here in new zealand and one of the things we can do is to spin their high level dialogue at

a political level we can put in place travel brains and we can make sure that the aid funding we put into me does not in any way support the military regime on monday a man must self-appointed these are men on the playing appeared on television defending the coup he's promised new elections and better leadership let's go live to scott hardly he's following all these developments for us from bangkok and scott it's getting increasingly tense on the streets of men are gunshots heard in the capital naypyidaw what are you hearing from the. laura exactly you know this is an escalation we haven't seen yet in this you know 8 days since the coup took place and really have seen mass protests over the last 4 days you know just before tuesday that the biggest thing we saw biggest action we saw kind of pushback from from the defense forces was we use of water cannon on monday today we have

seen that in multiple locations yes it was just in the capital nature of it today we've seen it tuesday in multiple locations and as you said this is also in april where. they fired gunshots into the air to disperse the crowd so yes this is definitely a ratcheting up we've also seen as you had mentioned earlier these 27 people have been arrested in mandalay that's myanmar 2nd largest city so yes we're kind of seeing this steady sure and steady ratcheting up ratcheting up by the military by the police in cracking down on these protests one thing to the it's interesting that we have been hearing directly from the ground someone who is on the ground in young gun and he was telling us that there are really kind of 2 central areas where the protesters have been gathering and this these are the similar places that we've seen over the last couple days but today again thousands of protesters have gone out to area called lay down which is close to yangon universe and he's saying there that there are rows and rows of riot police water cannon but then also military behind of those 2 lines if you will so the military is also present along with the

riot police he said the other area where thousands of protesters have gathered and this is what we've seen over the last couple days as well and that is by city hall so a lot of people out on the streets across myanmar but what we're seeing now is a face to face building in in yangon a lot sort of effect has this been having on the protests and scott because we've seen a brule drange of people teaches civil servants all sorts of people coming out onto the street save the pos few days all they still out on the streets today. all walks of life are coming out of the streets it's quite amazing when you see the list of different trade unions teachers students and you see the images coming through yes this all walks of life so when you look at how defiant they are despite of what happened even even coming into tuesday you know that there was water cannon it was very. widely distributed on social media so everyone in myanmar who is

heading out to the protests again today on tuesday knew that the police had the water cannon and had already used it and were probably going to use it again so they still had it out in actually in one of those locations i was talking about in yangon a lot of the protesters actually had raincoat so they were even anticipating the use of water cannon that has not deterred them you know they're still coming out in the thousands and you know when you hear what they're calling for you and you see what has happened to them over the past week and then the reaction from the the military leader you know the lines are pretty much drawn in the sand so those protesters are still coming out and they are still defiant ok scott thanks very much for bringing the violence is from bangkok on situation inside man ma let's just so he's a human rights activists and was involved in the 1988 peoples uprising he joins us live via skype also from bangkok so i'm good to speak to you that means we are extraordinary scenes on day when you consider them in history and its history of crackdowns by the military against exact such uprisings as this. yes

indeed and then this uprising what is different from what i. experience in 1980 a lot of the young people especially the young people who voted in the. vote in the previous. election some might have been as young as 18 to be a little over 18 years thought and then most of the people involved in the streets of the adamant protests in young go between 20 and 38 of the young people so it's very encouraging to see that we call it the 10 reasons that people are leading the demonstrations everywhere so encouraging to see the people who are coming out onto the streets but what about me is of gunshots being fired into the of the lines of police followed by a line of military was

a kind of being fired at these not warnings but a full crackdown is inevitable. well i think we're going to try to cater to the protests as by the means but the protesters are very determined and then as they have been whining in a different style of the very creative some even mounted the project as in then the middle like that that we could get it joined the civil disobedience can be and then many the civil servants many servants of in the previous ministry going the people of protest so it is very encouraging and more importantly it's not just the food then of the young people but also 'd the i think minorities in the different parts of the country with signing the demonstrators but they are not going to back down because the understand that the it's the best down

this time the will be the leaders of the military dictatorship for ever so there was a few logan that we not be that short the slate short the at this would be sent the commander in chief mean all night because the space he must have known the army chief must have known that this would have been broadly enough but do you think he underestimate just how one particular thing is across all of man law society. indeed. and the will and the defiance of the people there really very greatly and even made an announcement yesterday at 8 pm in the. time and then where the people joining this banging pots and pans everywhere at 8 pm so i believe that the most of the people didn't listen to what he said in this speech. but what you know of how determined he

is to hold on to power and to see his plan through to the end he says he's going to stay in power in states of emergency for one year before he allows elections. i believe that the military coup happened because of mainly because the government didn't mean online because he wanted to extend its power in the community and there now we believe that there were negotiation with the end of the that that he wanted to extend. its role another 5 years and he wanted to become the president of the new government beast negotiate since turn. with the end of the leadership that's why this happened but he will be what he did this with military coup because people will not forgive him and then the work continues until the month. ok so to speak to thanks very much for taking the time to join us there from

bangkok thank you for reporting now hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security law is the most high profile person among more than 100 people have been arrested under the new legislation the 73 year old has to remain and custody and tell his trial is heard she says rowling is likely to set a precedent for future trials pollen reports from hong kong. to me a lie was in fort for less than 10 minutes before you found out he would not be given bail so he has now been taken back into custody presumably presumably until his trial on april 16th this is also the 1st trial by. new chief justice who took the helm on in january and he's told jimmy lies legal team but they can

challenge this but not back at the courts of final appeal but so that sets a nother dilemma for jr and his legal team that's if you recall in december he was granted bail by one of the lower courts that was challenge by the department of justice who said the lower courts did not understand the tenets of the national security law and this is why jimmy life took his case or took his challenge to that ruling back to the courts of final appeal now this sets many kinds of precedence for one thing there was a lot of attention being paid to the it was the 1st case to reach the national security law case $3.00 to $4.00 courts of final appeal and of jimmy alive also had gotten bail but also said in another precedent meaning that those charge on the national security law would be able to get bail but this ruling now essentially means that. unless you have the resources and means to challenge the national security law and the rulings given even before trial it is very unlikely you will

get bail. rescue workers in india trying to find 197 people missing for. glass to collapse and triggered flash floods. believed to be trapped in the tunnel at least 26 bodies have been recovered 2000 soldiers and police officers are helping with the rescue efforts with the problem is the size of those rescue efforts on top of on with the latest. we're at the tunnel where hundreds of rescue workers are continuing their search for around 35 people who were working in the tunnel when it flooded on sunday rescuers worked throughout monday night they say one of the biggest challenges is the amount of mud and slush that's inside the 2 and a half kilometer long tunnel they've been able to enter about a couple of 100 meters and but they say any time they clear the 4 to 6 feet of mud and slush more as falling in from the inside they haven't been able to establish

communication yet with anyone and side the tunnel they said that that could be because it is 2 and a half kilometers long and they might not be any cell phone signal they're worried that workers could be suffering from hypothermia with temperatures dropping to below 0 degrees at night now away from here there is a humanitarian mission going on to deliver food rations to people in around 13 villages who have been cut off to bridges will washed away this latest disaster in that icon the has led to many people many environmentalists questioning why these hydro power plants and these dams continue to be built in the himalayas which is known as a very ecologically fragile sensitive region they say that they should not have been built here protests in the past have managed to stop other dams from being constructed but despite that there are around 50 dams and power plants including

those under construction in this region and that i couldn't. sell a has head on al-jazeera iran begins rolling out covert 19 vaccines frontline health care workers get the 1st jobs. colombia gets an equal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented venezuelan refugees and migrants. there is a cold east wind blowing across northern europe has been doing so for days is shut down transported in germany the netherlands it's maybe a bit more fun in parts of eastern england verney facade in that state right down to the beach in klaxon which is on the coast of east in england that the destructive stuff is probably hard continental europe rather more obvious could part of germany the netherlands has seen this sort of weather indeed this is 1st

time in 10 years or significant snowstorm in the netherlands there is more to come and it's this bright white cloud that more or less shows where it is it seems to be want figuring northwards which is really taking it into the really cold territory so you got a feed of the atlantic averages to go all this what i can answer eastern europe and at the moment it's relatively warm in for example hungary and much colder it lets you endure and this cold is what we watching recently but the forecast takes the snow in the northeast was direction and keeps the wind blowing to some degree was it starts to rain in spain and france and you think well this might succeed but i think not next day or so who was warsaw's shows or gives a hint it's cold and it snows that cold he's talking back down into eastern europe so vienna i think is subzero once more deep into winter.

but. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinions of how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like it lead get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching alex's there has remind you of our top stories this hour police have fired gunshots into the him in moscow brazil naypyidaw to disperse

protesters that's according to the reuters news agency at least 27 people have been arrested in mandalay and demonstrators have also been hit by water cannon. hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lai the 73 year old is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security law. and nearly 200 people a still missing in northern india after a classic collapse on sunday triggering flash flooding as you crews are digging through a blocked tunnel to reach will be 30 power plant workers trapped inside. iran is beginning about vaccination campaign front line health care workers all the 1st to receive the russian developed sputnik v.

vaccine let's go straight to dorsetshire bari she's live for us in tehran so this vaccine rollout underway door so how's it occurring how's it coming out. well we just saw the 1st person in the country to receive the 1st shot of the russian made back scene and it is noteworthy to say that this person is not a health care worker but the son of the health minister they decided to start this rollout by showing that it is safe the health minister son volunteered to take the 1st job we also heard from president hassan rouhani who was joining the ceremonies wire video conference who thanked the health officials and also the son of the health minister for volunteering to take the 1st vaccine there is a 1000 of these vaccines that came into the country last thursday the rest of them will go to the workers front line workers at khomeini hospital this morning and we expect another 2 shipments of the russian made vaccine to enter the country by

the end of february in total iran has purchased 2000000 of the russian vaccines and another 16000000 of other kinds of vaccines ok good news for many people there in iran thanks very much for the update. donald trump's lawyers of revealed more details of the defense strategy for his 2nd impeachment trial they deny he incited his supporters to storm capitol hill but also arguing as unconstitutional to hold a trial for a former president democrats prosecuting say he has no valid defense castro reports from washington d.c. . we fight we fight like hell and if you don't fight like you're not going to have a country anymore those were some i'm donald trump's last words on january 6th moments before a violent mob fired up by his false claims that the election had been stolen broke into the u.s. capitol and tried to stop congress from making joe biden's win official for rioters

and a police officer died in the attack 2 more officers later died by suicide the grounds for this impeachment are deeply deeply troubling and if the united states senate acquit stunnel truong this round it's essentially a green light for 'd future presidents to try to overthrow elections close to the end of their terms house democrats bring the charges against alleged intentionally with his supporters into a frenzy inciting an insurrection trumps attorneys say the trial is unconstitutional because he's no longer in office and that the former president's speech was protected by the 1st amendment robert ray defended trump during his 1st impeachment i don't think the words as charged in the impeachment article go fight like hell can be you know seen as chatham out to

a call to. 45 of 50 republicans in the senate try to dismiss the trial on grounds that it is unconstitutional they failed but the early vote showed republicans are now falling back in line behind the former president and the likelihood of convicting trump is slim the impeachment managers will nevertheless try to present an emotionally charged case forcing senators to relive the hours they spent powering for their lives inside the capitol fearing american democracy was on the verge of collapse trump has refused a request to testify although it's become. clear that this trial is not just about his guilt or innocence it is also about politics with senators weighing how their verdict on trump will also impact their own grasp on power hi joe castro al-jazeera washington. the u.s. is investigating on during the present one of the. according to

a court filing it doesn't specify what is being investigated for last month u.s. prosecutors filed motions accusing him of flooding the u.s. with cocaine and referred to him as a coconspirator in except in bribes from drug traffickers and as denies having any ties to drug cartels john homan is following events from mexico city. but this is the 1st time that he's been directly signalled that he's being investigated by the united states it's not however the 1st time he's been implicated in the same case back in january he was quoted in court documents as saying he wanted to shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos referring to the americans that's what someone else said that he said back in 2019 his own brother was convicted of drug trafficking so there's been a lot of rumors and a lot of controversy swirling around one orlando and on this for some time now the

country that he presides over honduras is 157180 countries in the corruption perception index of transparency international so i think a lot of people in that country that we've obviously visited many times are going to be surprised by this tool they've seen the rule of law in that country continually undercut by this administration itself and by politicians in general in the country now there is an implication here is not just one land one and this but also for the new u.s. president joe biden because he rolled out he said he was going to have a $1000000000.00 plan in central america to tackle the root causes of migration so the violence the economic situation and corruption now the question is going to be how is he going to do that in partnership because that's the plan with a government like the one of one orlando and then there's the u.s. federal prosecutors now are investigating for corruption that's going to be really tricky for the new president as he tries to cut the causes of migration off at the

root. opposition politicians in haiti have names their own president in an effort to drive out the incumbent jim gilmore is joseph. had been selected as the need new leader is the oldest judge in the country's supreme court the opposition says president why is this 5 year term expired on sunday that point says he still has another here in office colombia is to grant protected legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees and migrants from venezuela temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for a 10 year residency permits colombia has long been the most popular destination for venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis at home close to a 1000000 are thought to be living in the country without proper papers as underground p.s.e. as more from bogota. to legal status will allow almost a 1000000 venezuelan migrants who are here without papers to work legally it will

all to extend the status of hundreds of thousands who so far had temporary papers and this decision is obviously great but also quite surprising for all venezuelan migrants given the fact that the colombian government until now was reluctant to offer full legal status fearing that this might have learned even more venezuelans to come here but in the press conference announcing their decision president said that it was time to act the united nations high commissioner for refugees also called the decision historic in an issue because the announcement by colombia to grant temporary protection for venezuelans in their territory for a 10 year period is an emblematic humanitarian gesture for the region and even for the whole world this initiative is an extraordinary sign of humanity commitment to

human rights and pragmatism. some 5000000 people have left the business well a since 2015 fleeing the total economic collapse and political crisis the air of colombia has been the biggest recipients but this is obviously a regional crisis throughout latin america is one of the biggest if not the biggest refugee crisis really in the world at this point but it's also one of the most they're funded just to give you an idea the international community has spent $1500.00 u.s. dollars on each syrian refugee and just $125.00 on each venezuelan migrant so much more help is needed this is something that the president of colombia newcastle insisted on and he also said that he hopes that the decision by colombia to extend legal status will help spotlight this crisis more

and bring more international help. tesla has bet big own bitcoin the cryptocurrency has hit a record price of $44000.00 a unit after the also make you invest in $1500000000.00 says it will soon begin accepting payments in the digital currency cables under has more from new york. the bitcoin craze has reached new heights thanks to tesla the announcement by the electric car company that had bought $1500000000.00 worth of the cyber currency and may start accepting it as payment drove the bitcoin price soaring at $1.00 point monday up more than 14 percent to over $44000.00 per unit tesla announced a move in their annual company report and said buying bitcoin was all part of a larger strategy to diversify in alternative assets but tesla is a product of its flamboyant founder yvonne musk recently named the world's

wealthiest person musk has long boasted of bitcoins promise he often uses his twitter platform with more than 45000000 followers to promote not only bitcoin but other little known cyber currencies the big corn price jump was welcome news for new york for owner patrick hughes after 30 years in the business he's selling up last month putting not just one but both of his new york city bars on the market the price $25.00 bitcoins or $800.00 a ferry and another cryptocurrency in what would be the 1st cryptocurrency only restaurant sale in the u.s. i have a lot of faith in crypto currency because if you offered me right now $100000.00 in crypto currency i don't even care bitcoin the theory and one of the other major crypto currency or 100000 u.s.

dollars i know in 5 years the crypto currency is going to be worth far more than the dollars most investment banks have ignored bit coin saying that it's too risky because it's mostly unregulated but attitudes appear to be changing there's talk of wall street perhaps starting an investment fund backed by big. coin as early as later this year if it's approved by government regulators and there's a lot of money at stake as early as last month the total value of all cyber currencies reached over $1.00 trillion dollars gabriels andro al-jazeera new york. with al-jazeera these are our top stories police of 5 guns into the end man was capsule naif a door to disperse protesters that's a cold.