play an important role ringback. police fire water cannon and gunshots into the indian miles capitol and arrests and mandalay as thousands across the country to fire a bomb to protest the military. museum becomes the 1st country in the world to isolate men must military jointer measures include travel bans and suspension of all tyrants. whether there are more of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up will be live and will hand where members of the w.h.o. team investigating the origins of the pandemic are about to hold

a briefing. setting a precedent hong kong's highest court denies bail to media tycoon jimmy lie used charged under beijing's controversial national security law. following the despicable attack on january the 6th there must there must be truth and accountability and the stage is set by donald trump's senate impeachment trial his lawyers deny he incited supporters to storm capitol hill. we begin a man maher where we're seeing 1st signs of a military crackdown on protesters who've been rallying for a 4th straight day there are reports of police firing warning shots into the air to try to break up rallies in the capital naif a door or at least 27 people have been arrested in the 2nd largest city mandalay police have also used tear gas and water cannon against demonstrate. a ban on large

gatherings has been extended to include the country's capital and yan gone but many are defying those warnings and the anger against the agenda has also grown overseas in the last few hours new zealand has become the 1st country to announce action against the ruling military. every new zealander would be devastated to see after years of working so hard to build a democracy in may 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 and their high level dialogue at a political level we can put in place travel bans and we can make sure that the aid funding we put into me does not in any way support the military regime. not just got hard days following all these developments from bangkok for us and scott it feels like there's a slow but steady increase of pressure on the protesters there an increase in the

extension of the ban on protests gunshots fired me a tear gas water cannon. it definitely has been slowly and steady click up in the way that the security forces are dealing with the protesters there on the streets of myanmar and we've kind of see their actions kind of scale up over the last 4 days these mass gatherings we've seen across the country over the last 4 days and then today on tuesday we've seen the scale up if you will of the security forces in their response to those thousands of protesters going on the streets no so far today you know yesterday on monday we had a bit of water cannon usage around the neighborhood or in the pit or the capitol today tuesday or around the country we've seen a scaling up of the retaliation if you will or the attempts to try to control these thousands of protesters and that came from as you mentioned live fire warning shots we've seen rubber bullets being fired and we've seen tear gas and then the water

cannon again in multiple locations so it is definitely scaling up what's interesting that we've been speaking to some people on the ground in young gone there 2 main areas where the protests are staged over the last several days and again today on tuesday and that's by city hall and then another area a main intersection near yangon university and we saw early pictures at least by the city hall that the police had already prepared with barricades and and water cannon and a lot of trucks they were ready for that so right now we're hearing that those those are 2 the 2 main areas in the one by the university there is actually a line lines of riot police water cannon and then military there as well so obviously yes there the security forces are have definitely beefed up their presence there stance it was interesting over the weekend and we saw tens of thousands of people come out they really were there was a very soft presence particularly young gun obviously those days are over right now they're showing their force and they're out on the streets and all these thousands

of protests isn't any need to be controlled. not at all steadily as i was saying we've seen numbers growing over the last particularly the last 4 days but what's interesting is the people that are coming out the groups that are supporting the the the movement the anti cool movement has grown steadily as well that includes civil service workers that includes trade unions student unions teacher unions they're coming out in force and they're coming all from all walks of life so they are defiant yes definitely what their message is the message they're trying to send but then also it seems to be that they're reaching out even into the further areas of society within me and more so yes very defined so you know you look at the way you look at it right now both sides the lines in the sand that they have to have drawn are there and they don't seem to be waving whatsoever we've seen you see the end it's the 1st country to come out strongly against the coup should we expect other countries to follow suit.

i would imagine you'll start to see more countries coming forward now what's interesting you know a lot of what we were hearing before new zealand made that move companies that have business interests with companies in myanmar that are connected to the military we started to see some pulling off of deals there was a japanese brewery that pulled back there was a tobacco company from hong kong that a pullback or a financier from hong kong or sorry singapore at that a pullback so we started to see that and then this is the 1st step by a nation saying they're severing ties with the military junta in myanmar we're going to hear a special session of the united nations human rights council on friday and you can imagine that the the wording the rhetoric that will come out of that will be pretty strong it'll be interesting to see what action comes out of that the u.n. security council has already issued a statement last week even before what the mass protests we saw really swell over the weekend but will be interesting to see what comes after that human rights

council meeting on friday maps and it may be keeping a close eye on events for the moment those scott thanks very much. as a human rights activists who was involved in the 1988 people's uprising and he says young people are leading this fight against the military even is. this uprising what is different from what we have the. experience in 1988 that a lot of the young people especially the young people who voted. that their vote in the previous. elected the family even as young is that 18 a little bit a little over 18 years old and then most of the people involved in this 3 of the adamant faces voted in young go between 20 and that the ages of the young people so it's very encouraging to see that that that we call it the 10 reasons that the

people are leading the seats in every way. iran is beginning its mass vaccination program frontline health care workers are amongst the 1st to receive the russian developed sputnik vaccine live to jabari she's standing by for us in tehran dr house has been rolled out. well these ceremonies was overseen by the president by a video conference the vents took place at khomeini hospital in central tehran it was a 1000 vaccines that iran got from russia last week and the 1st person to receive the job was the health minister's own son who had volunteered to be the 1st person in the country to be vaccinated the president said that he hopes this will be the 1st step in the country combating this virus and overcoming it eventually iran has

ordered so far 2000000 of the sputnik the vaccine from russia they've also older ordered another 16000000 through kovacs program of other vaccines that they hope to receive in the coming months the health officials that said that their mass vaccination program won't really have the effect that they want in terms of mass immunization until the beginning of next year but this is certainly been seen as a welcome start to that goal and how does the iranians feel about taking this vaccine. well we've asked so many people over the past few weeks and there is one common thread in the answers that is if we see officials getting the vaccine 1st then we are more likely to trust those vaccines and this was the exact reason why the officials chose to have somebody from within their government to be the 1st

person to get it meaning the health minister son who volunteer the other people who receive this vaccine initially will be health care frontline workers there's $430000.00 of them so the 1st group of people in the country will be those workers but in general people are optimistic that if the officials have positive results from these vaccines they are most likely to get them as well after member iran is one of the hardest hit countries in this region with one point nearly 1500000 people infected and the death toll is reaching close to 60000 there's been the number of waves that iranians have seen in this country they are now expecting a 4th wave to come into the country in the next few months but the health officials are warning they are trying to prevent that from taking place by urging people to continue to observe the protocols that are set up by them. in tehran for us thanks to also. home holmes top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie he

is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security law is the most high profile in the months more than 100 people have been arrested under the new legislation the 73 year old is to remain in custody until his trial is heard which is his ruling is likely to set a precedent for future trials paula reports from hong kong. to realize i was in 4th for less than 10 minutes before you found out you 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 andrew johns holmes new chief justice that 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 a 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 that 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 precedents for one thing there was a lot of attention being paid to this 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 charges 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. is a human rights lawyer he joins us live via skype from hong kong good to have you

with this is a landmark case isn't it for the national security you know what does this ruling mean for the pro-democracy activists. well the obviously jimmy law is very high profile. the and the wider issues are freedom of speech here. this specific ruling was just on bail but that's important there's provisions in there in a national security law. and the court has basically determined that a very high threshold to get bail. the usual understanding of bail is that you know basically the the government has to do the running to show why they need to keep you detained and here the court has upheld this quite draconian provision that says. that almost there's a presumption that you should be detained so it's kind of

a reverse onus provision so that's very worrying for people who might be charged under this national security legislation how much pressure hong kong courts underfund beijing well at say you know that's the big wider question here is that the national security legislation ultimately the interpretation is left in the hands of the national people's congress or the standing committee so that's the concern if that's going to be used if they're going to change interpretations by our highest court again that would be a further erosion of the independent of the judiciary in hong kong what do you make of these reports of the 1st trial to the national security law to be held without said during. yeah looking at that you know when when the national security law came into being that was one of the provisions we were concerned about

to you know basically the use of that and any of those provisions that to take away nibble away at fairness of the hearing for the for the person concerned so watching that very closely ok many thanks for taking time to join us from hong kong thank you. so has hair on al-jazeera. i'm in 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. and colombia gives legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented dennis wayne and the refugees and migrants.

it's time for the perfect jenny the weather sponsored by qatar airways now most of europe is still in the grip of a quite severe spell of winter where the snow is falling is different it's under these that whitish there where it's lying is not that much of germany the low countries and the british isles clearly has a lot in poland as well this is for $20.00 to $40.00 center visibility typical fall and it's one of those conditions you get the lowest temperatures of warning of severe frost in germany at the moment to preserve a night down to minus 20 but this is the line more or less where the rain snow snow is likely to fall at its worst it's going to be running out through better or worse and towards russia release a cold air behind and then tuck into the size of europe and you can see these are pointed out much warmer weather february for palermo is 50 and we're up to 21 to this warm weather was rain clearly still cold enough for snow at height in the pyrenees and eventually in the house but this is still a line where weather is relatively warm in some places surprisingly so look at

zagreb for example most of hungary and romania is still warm for february but the cold i think will tend to tuck back in and zagreb shows that point told me on wednesday down to minus one on friday as a cold tocsin and with it will be a shock to the balkans snows on the way. sports of qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian on global community when i don't have all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. and

there again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour police of fired guns into the air and minerals capsule naked or to disperse protesters as according to the reuters news agency at least 27 people have been arrested and demonstrators have been hit by in this economy. iran has begun its mass vaccination program the health minister son was the 1st person to publicly get the russian developed sputnik job to encourage trust. and hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie the 73 year old is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces from the beijing's controversial national security you know all. rescue workers in india trying to find $197.00 people

missing 48 hours off drug last year collapse and triggered flash floods 30 power plant workers are believed to be trapped in the tunnel of these 26 bodies have been recovered 2000 soldiers and police officers are helping with the rescue efforts and as of a problem is that the size of those rescue efforts in top of the latest. we are 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 a 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 inside the tunnel they say 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 after bridges were washed away in this latest disaster in author khan 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. donald trump's lawyers have revealed

more details of the defense strategy for his 2nd impeachment trial it's an i hear inside his supporters to storm capitol hill but democrats pass prosecuting say he has no valid defense rational documents of their experiences during the rise in urging the senators to convict trump she had written reports from washington d.c. . hundreds of congressional staffers who were trapped on capitol hill as a mob rampage through congress and generally the 6 are speaking out they've written an open letter to senators de moaning that donald trump be held accountable and convicted at his impeachment trial absolute concern that later concern for the safety of our democracy the safety of our lives that was put in danger. and has to think suffers we don't speak up this is for and we don't we usually speak to our members about what issues are not members speak on behalf of those issues. and

religion both to describe a chaotic terrifying scene that you see those couple 100 people trying to thousands of people. quickly we're in our office i mean see the alert that a pipe has been in place for a bill and i'm like whoa what do you mean a pipe. now we need to shelter in place it was terrifying. in hindsight i should have been more afraid but i you know my faith guys knew so i was glad you know. but outside of that if i had known what i know now i would have been. even more concerned than what i am now the letters signed by almost $400.00 congressional staffers lames trumps the rugs now. by former president donald trump it says on his political allies some of whom we passed every day in the hallways at work both of how the republican staffers rules or so i can imagine but it wasn't to

be it wasn't a. partisan experience it wasn't a partisan letter it didn't condemn either party they condemned the person unilaterally responsible for the insurrection. and so i felt that some of the staffers who were afraid for their lives and barricade in their offices would find it necessary would be open to signing this letter and i can't say that they weren't open to it i can't speak to something i'm not certain but i can only speculate that they may be theatre retaliation. or not partisan split is likely to be on display in the senate chamber during the trial with most republicans already making it clear that they will not vote to convict donald trump she ever can see al-jazeera. the u.s. is investigating on drone president. and that's according to a court filing it doesn't specify was and is being investigated for but last month u.s. prosecutors filed motions accusing him of flooding the u.s.

with cocaine and referred to him as a coconspirator in accepting bribes from drug truck drug traffickers and and denies having any ties to drug cartels gentleman 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 what there is an implication here for is not just one orlando in on 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 incumbent juvenile boys. joseph. has been selected as the new leader is the oldest judge in the country's supreme court positions as president moises 5 year term expired on sunday but he says he still has another year in office more than 20 people were arrested on sunday in the alleged coupe plot and supreme court judge and a senior police official were amongst those detained said the group had been planning to kill him for more than 2 months colombia is to grant protective legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented refugees and migrants from venezuela to trumpet temporary measure will make them eligible to apply for a 10 year residency permits has long been the most popular destination for venezuelans fleeing the economic and political crisis at home 1st a 1000000 are thought to be living in the country without proper papers and is on the run p.r.c. has more from bogota. the 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 the nice well i'm migrants given the fact that the colombian government until now was reluctant to offer full legal status or fearing that this might have learned even more of its wayland's to come here but in the press conference announcing the decision president said that it was time to act the united nations high commissioner for refugees also called the decision historic in a new show 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 $5000000.00 people have left the venezuela since 2015 fleeing the total economic collapse and political crisis there colombia has been the biggest recipient 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 underfunded just to give you an idea the international community has spent 1500 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. insisted on and he also said that he hopes that the decision by call. to extend legal status will help spotlight this crisis more and bring more

international help to the u.n. says a convoy of humanitarian aid has reached central african republic the 1st since rebel groups blocked the border with cameroon last month 13 of 108 trucks that have been blocked managed to transport food and medicine into the capsule bongi a surge in violence linked to the disputed elections in december as this place more than 200000 civilians rescuers in morocco have recovered the bodies of 24 people who died when an underground textile factory flooded the private residence in the northern city of tangier was being run as an illegal workshop 10 people were found alive and taken to hospital the country has experienced heavy rainfall in recent weeks after a lengthy droughts and the world health organization is about to address the media in the chinese city of blue hand as it nears the end of its investigation into the origins of the current virus pan demick now the virus was 1st detected in blue hand

in late 2019 is expected to leave the city on thursday we'll be taking you live to that press conference as and when it happens. with al-jazeera these are our top stories police of fired guns into the air in manaus capital naked or to disperse protesters that's according to the reuters news agency at least 27 people have been arrested and demonstrators have been hit by water cannon scott hyder has been following developments from bangkok we have seen mass protests over the last 4 days you know just before.