in her long journey to success. championship dreams part of the viewfinder asia series. on al-jazeera. got by on the street. gunfire on the streets of mar de lay be about as military deploys tanks and troops to crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. somehow robert you're watching all 7 of my headquarters here in doha also coming up turkey's summons the u.s. ambassador to ankara after accusing washington of supporting kurdish fighters. also jacob zuma is in trouble again corruption inquiry wants the former south african

president jailed for not turning up to a hearing. texaco starts its 2nd phase of vaccination rates coronavirus a return on killing 15000000 people in 2 months. bought into the program be a military has opened fire on protesters gathered in the city about delay according to local media the number of casualties are not yet clear earlier in the day deposed and san suu cheesed attention was extended that she was arrested 2 weeks ago where the obvious seized power in a coup scott highly reports now of the demonstrations which are now in the 2nd week . there were soldiers and armored vehicles on the streets another tense night in myanmar but despite the security patrols and an internet blackout protesters gathered for a 10th straight day. one group of the civil disobedience movement c.d.n.

for short stood in front of the central bank in yangon and continued with their calls for the military government to step down and the country's democratically elected leaders to be released we are protesting peacefully without weapons and with no intention of violence to call for cd and fight for the 3 dimmest government staff this is the military judge to issue a statement on its facebook page outlining the possible punishments for protesters saying any act spoken or written that expresses or incite hatred of the government could lead to 20 years in prison people gathered outside a court in the capital named for door hoping that deposed civilian leader on song suchi would be released on monday those hopes soon dashed. i mean. according to the remand which was set today is the last day of the remand period but from the discussions with the district justice to remand period is now until the 17th not today. she was one of the 1st to be detained in the early hours of the

coup 2 weeks ago she's been charged with illegally importing 6 walkie talkie radios . according to a monitoring group more than 400 people have now been detained since the february 1st 2. there's a vast range of people within that group and that's of real concern for 23 year old a fortune teller charlotte a fellow young gun fortune teller was arrested a few days ago after a video of him praying for the military to fail went viral i'm not sure the bank was sincere dictators they can make up whatever laws they like to oppress us we astrologers are like bullets in their hands if you squeeze me a dead if they let us fly be a free this is the nature of dictatorship and it's not just happening to us it's everyone. and that's probably why protesters are coming out in strength the ruling national league for democracy n l d party won by a landslide in last november's election and was extremely popular most see this move by the military as a nullification of their vote and their voice scott heiler al-jazeera. did

a good polity is following developments for us from hong kong let's just begin with the incidents we're hearing about and firing in mandalay it's been quite a turbulent day overall. absolutely a turbulent day but let me just start with the scene at the moment the streets are largely quiet a curfew is in place and also in a few hours there will be the end and internet blackout now this was announced earlier now this internet cuts will go from 1 am local time to 9 am in the morning this is also the case on sunday and many are worried there are reports of many people being worried about this mainly due to the fact on sunday when this happened there were increased reports of harassment and arrest by security forces and security forces and touring homes which they down don't need

a warrant for any kind of court orders so there is much concern as darkness falls on me and maher and as you said earlier in the day there was an increased troop presence and presence of security forces in the bigger cities in the country including mandalay which is the 2nd largest city where a 1000 protesters had gathered around. a state bank for a peaceful rally but not long after about 10 trucks of security forces and police arrived they tried to disperse the protesters with rubber bullets and sling shot many of their before it's of people's are being attacked with sticks and baton certain journalists being harassed and threatened and even attacked while young gone on the streets there was a heavy security presence with tanks and armored vehicles but protesters still did turn out not perhaps in the numbers we've seen in recent days but there were sustained demonstrations with people calling for reinstating the elected

government and for the military rule to end nonetheless despite this defiance there's a lot of concern as the forces on the ground are said to be from our many of them are said to be from quite an elite unit one that's known for their brutality particularly when dealing with ethnic minorities and protesters in the past. to you thanks very much for the update to be a part of there in hong kong for us now turkey is some of the american ambassador to ankara to explain washington's response to the killing of 30 turkish soldiers in iraq but their bodies were found in a cave in northern iraq present reza to describe the u.s. statement condemning the killing as a joke he called of the u.s. to either stand with turkey or against it has more from istanbul the u.s. administration a seem not convinced with the turkish defense ministry and other official

statements that those turkish citizens were killed by the p.k. k. bullets at this is why turkey's president actually lashed out today and turkey has been criticizing the u.s. for. providing weapons and arms for the white p.g. and at the same time which is for turkey because turkey believes that those weapons provided by the international coalition in the fight against iceland syria too. will one day be diverted to turkey and that's what the officials have been claiming for the last 2 days that the p.k. k. actually received mass weapons when saddam hussein fell down in iraq in after 2003 and through the west and international coalition in terms of fight against ourselves but the p.k. he is using those weapons to turkish citizens that's why turkey is calling out for the west to pick a side either with turkey or the p.k. k.

which is listed as a terrorist organization for $43.00 of them a white house correspondent bill health that has more. in terms of air to one's latest comments the united states has not responded to those directly or the summoning of the us ambassador it is a federal holiday here in the united states so we may not get that response for another 24 hours but i can tell you as we've already highlighted that the relationship with turkey is a delicate one and it's not just because the united states relied so heavily on the kurdish fighters in its battle against eisel but also because there are some concerns about where turkey's loyalties lie given the fact that it purchased the russian air defense system that is not compatible with nato there are some concerns about its loyalties with respect to nato as well in terms of its commitments and there are also concerns that turkey in fact is with respect to

democracy and freedoms that there have been some crackdowns that the united states is wary about in fact we know that joe biden called heir to one and autocrat on the campaign trail and vowed to in fact toughen his stance so well turkey is pointing the finger at the united states with respect to its loyalties to the relationship and commitments to nato i would think would be safe to say that in fact the united states is doing the same with regard to turkey. the leaders of 5 countries and west africa's whole region dalby to get china to the g 5 summit comes as a time of groups of increased in the region french president obama is expected to join the conference by video from has deployed thousands of soldiers typical troops but is preparing to reduce its presence in the reach of such a buckler has both powerless. well earlier this year the french president emmanuel mack ross said that france was considering reducing its military commitment in this

i held effectively reducing the number of troops it has in the region but what we understand from the least say is that the french president is unlikely to announce a reduction of troops during the upcoming summit but what france might do is consider a reduction in the coming weeks or months and perhaps announce something down the line it is clear though that emanuel macro will be discussing france reducing its troops with his g 5 partners the leaders from the g. 5 nations when he speaks to them by video conference a bit later there are over 5000 french troops currently in the region we're told though by the least say that what the french president really wants to use this meeting for is to exert more pressure on those g. 5 leaders both militarily to take more control of the region but also politically a feeling in france that a week of governance and certainly fueling instability in the region michael also very keen to try and urge european partners to do more in the region on the ground

but there is some good news says the least and it seems they say that at least we are seeing the reengagement of the u.s. in the region under donald trump interest in the sile a crisis certainly waned but it seems to have taken a turn with the biden administration and we understand that anthony blinken the new u.s. secretary of state will send a video message to the summit for tuesday the former south african president jacob zuma could face a prison sentence us after he failed to appear before a quire investigating corruption during his time in office a commission has been hearing allegations that the wealthy gupta family used his friendship with zuba to with government contracts influence policy for me to build a house both johannesburg. i mean the greatest significance of what's happened today is just how it reflects on the african national congress the governing party in south africa and how it views what the former president has done we do know that the top 6 leadership of the a.n.c.

had planned to see the former president to compel him to appear at the commission but this really is symbolic of the divisions within that party and its fight against corruption if the former president says that he's rights are being impeded on that he's being vilified that this is propaganda and there's a political agenda they also many people who sympathize with him and say that he does one of the commission with swelling with his rights at the same time he's not here to a summons which was issued by the commission and also previously the constitutional court had said he should appear at the commission and not doing that was undermining the law so we would have to wait to see what the constitutional court says next to to see whether or not zuma does continues to defy the commission as the commissioners under had said he is doing or if he maintains it is right not to appear. the vaccination campaign against

coronavirus in lebanon has begun but experts warn a patchwork response will keep the country stuck in tragedy i'm santa for the reporting from beirut also threats intimidation targeted killings the challenges facing it depend to be to the stories after the break. the news. sponsored play qatar airways. there's another blast of snow coming out of the eastern side of asia mainland across the waters to japan that's a pretty good storm system one to get so busy to be the word used in the garden and for time in northern honshu and that snow spread right downs of the korean peninsula i think most of north and south korea will get some during tuesday or even wednesday the cold air will spread south through eastern china pick up the

showers boost and showers of rain of course in taiwan doesn't mean the cold will stay this is not to say a last gasp of winter but it's certainly one that will be swept away about some you get to friday as attention so go significantly positive once more in the sunshine south of that quite a dry spell for most to southeast asia indonesia still seeing quite a few showers around the same is true of the philippines rather less so for the west in singapore the sumatra is looking quite dry for a few days and of course it's still largely dry in india and sri lanka the northeast one soon as we can this not fall out altogether now we get the option of using a few showers in some other parts of india not many doesn't have to stir the sky in new delhi where air quality is still fairly pool. sponsored paul qatar airways on counting the cost where has iraq's oil wealth gone

from fans from civil servants to corrupt politicians to take a closer look and the m.r.i. name technology behind coded 19 vaccines how long before it's used to find the cure for cancer counting the cost of that just. what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through here at al-jazeera we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. about your child is there with me so rob a reminder of all top stories being balls military has opened fire as protesters gathered in the city of delay according to local media earlier but they oppose the

downside suit cheese detention was extended she was arrested 2 weeks ago after the military seized power in a coup. also turkey has some of the american ambassador and i grew to explain washington's response to the killing of 13 turkish soldiers in iraq preserve us a perverted one described state as a joke. and leaders of 5 countries of west africa's whole region dobby to get china the g 5 summit comes as a time but all groups have increased in the region. lebanon's nationwide covert design team vaccination program is underway bringing it in bringing with it a sense of hope for the crisis a country but with banks and hesitancy running high. over the supply of migrants it's feared that if the lines they should could take a long time they know how to report from beirut and you know it's

a start to end the coronavirus pandemic but the battle is far from over the elderly and health care workers have been on the frontlines of this fight are the 1st in line to get the vaccine lebannon has seen some of the region's highest cases and deaths and now in turn you do almost everybody every person who has a family member or a relative what a friend because a court of public might better have a quote covered but don't. know i'm secure thank god but we feel you know in our homes but not everyone is convinced about the vaccines the public is showing hesitancy so far 500000 lebanese have signed up that's less than 10 percent of the population. and i won't take now because there are still a lot of question marks i will wait and see the lack of trust is also because of what many regard a corrupt system. and more of course i won't take it the fact the government is giving it to us for free means there will be a price to pay later it seems the international community has little faith as well

the world bank which is financing lebanon's purchase of vaccines will be monitoring the program to ensure a fair and transparent distribution the world bank didn't mince its words saying there will be no wasta that's arabic meaning you won't be able to use your connections to skip the line it's a common practice in lebanon where politicians have long been accused of favoritism . they're also blamed for failing to secure enough doses to inoculate 80 percent of the population by here and the state is nearly bankrupt will probably inviting the public or the philanthropic sect that is a republican too but it's a bait to ensure the 40 of the 40 percent more needed but that presumes the private sector secures vaccines in a competitive market the government is also trying to get funds to vaccinate the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers lebanon is home to more than a 1000000 and a half syrian and palestinian refugees. on

an off lock downs have led to economic devastation and death experts warn a patchwork response in the vaccination campaign as well would keep lebanon stuck in tragedy that occurred there beirut now a 2nd round of vaccinations has begun in mexico's capital health officials are aiming to inoculate 15000000 elderly people within 2 months they'll be given day says of the astra zeneca job so far health workers are among the relatively few people to be accelerated in mexico by water polo joins us now live from mexico city where the vaccinations are beginning so what's happening behind you.

that's right so monday marks the very 1st day of phase 2 of mexico's national inoculation program i want to give you a sense of where we are right now sort of set the scene of the town is called me and behind me is this long queue of people over 60 years old who have been lining up since the early hours of monday warning monday morning waiting for their turn to have that 1st dose of the covert 19 vaccine now over the weekend there was a shipment of about 870000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine that arrived in mexico from a production facility in india along with another 494000 doses of the pfizer vaccine now the goal of the 2nd phase of the vaccination program is to is to vaccinate exactly 15700000 elderly mexican citizens within the next 2 months so by this time it made me to april now there's been a massive mobilization by the mexican military since this weekend to deliver

vaccine doses to all 32 mexican states there's been 333 municipalities across the country that have been selected and identified as being high priority due to being in the rural communities indigenous communities areas of the country that are seen as impoverished and therefore a higher. a higher priority now the strategy of this national vaccination program has also drawn quite a bit of criticism on the one hand you have president lopez over the old who has said repeatedly from the beginning of the pandemic that the vaccine will be made available to everyone in the country for free on the other hand you have health policy experts that are criticizing the strategy itself saying that it's areas with higher transmissibility of the virus that should be focused on for this for this program areas that are densely populated like mexico city where we are right now on the outskirts of the city actually has a very low transmissibility rate of the virus of the virus in any event these new shipments of the pfizer vaccine the astra zeneca vaccine the new shipments that

will be forthcoming of the china. and russian vaccines should help speed up along what's been a very slow roll out of this national vaccination program. of course the president well he was diagnosed with just a few weeks ago i want to see you actually now saying about this rollout to be the officials to say what they want to say medics academics but i suppose everybody does listen to what the president has to say. that's certainly true and the mexican president has been very avidly criticized over his handling of the pandemic we have to remember that these these criticisms have only grown since the start of the outbreak here in the country mexico still accounts for the 3rd highest death toll in the world from cope with 1000 cases are are getting very close to 2000000 here nationwide in the country the president has been criticized for almost never wearing a mask in public and eventually contracting covert 900 himself less than

a month ago so he has been not only him but his is nationwide strategy with the vaccine has been heavily criticized but during his morning press conference once again today he reiterated that the vaccine and more doses of the vaccine will be forthcoming outlining once again this very ambitious plan to have as many as 15700000 elderly citizens vaccinated within a period of 2 months many are saying this is an almost impossible plan continuing to criticize criticize the president's plan but again he's promising that the vaccine will be made available for all $126000000.00 residents of the country we'll see what happens but all republican mexico city thank you. passages arriving in the u.k. from 33 high risk countries will now have to quarantine at a hotel for 10 days the government says it's to help prevent the spread of all contagious variant of covert 19 but the policy which came into force on monday is attracting criticism for the way it's being organized fulbright and reports from heathrow airport. this was the 1st group of quarantine travelers being escorted

from london's heathrow terminal 5 under way into isolation ahead of them 10 days and 11 nights of enforced hotel quarantine a prospect now facing all arrivals who've passed through one of the 33 countries on the u.k. government's red list in aviation terms the u. case hotel quarantine plan has been on final approach in any 3 weeks now the policy was 1st announced in mid january but london's heathrow airport has expressed concerns about what it said were significant gaps in the implementation plan and the union representing some of the security staff is equally concerned about the transfer process from airport to hotel what is not quite well going to be a writer for very well. what are. they going on once they get a hi how are you have to bear in mind the problem is that not. the u.k.

government says it's hotel quarantine plan amounted decisive action against covert 19 but even as the 1st arriving passengers go into and force compartment there is strong criticism of the way the policy is being operated under enforced. inbound passengers need to show a negative test just to board the aircraft and pre-book to further tests for the days after arrival lying on a passenger locates a form now carries a 10 year prison sentence but doubts persist australian states introduced hotel koren scene in march 2020 and have learned tough lessons since then procedures on meal delivery times eventually. staff testing and protective masks have all evolved significantly yet the state of victoria is now back under lockdown after an outbreak of the virus spread within this quarantine hotel australian infection experts say the u.k. needs to be ultra cautious i'm nervous about what i know about the cases

it's good to know that smokers will not be allowed to leave that rooms but they're still allowed to leave their rooms we learned very much the hard way that that just doesn't work scotland's devolved government has introduced a policy that all travelers must now go through hotel quarantine regardless of where they've come from london government is sticking to its red list criteria saying the policies are based on best practice but not everyone agrees paul brennan al-jazeera heathrow airport. independent media has been one of biggest achievements since 2001 but it's come at a price of can join us especially women have been threatened intimidated and even killed especially the only all female station video contra fury reports of in kabul . in the media the basement over houses not where is john t.v. had ever hope to be but the pandemic and financial problems forced the founder of

the all female station to reduce the staff and cut costs and when the targeted killings of journalists began some women left and others were told by their families to stop working so hard some are ask the government for help this is the muscles of the government for all the t.v. station by the weapons where somebody will give you the license but even with the license the report that the weapons but even with the license we need to just wait for the government when the issue it is the promote. the permit for the workers the license. is on t.v. went on there in 2017 with 70 staff and only few men the international community and afghan officials pledged support but now all that has changed. this is done t.v.'s new control room former journalists are supposed to be broadcasting their programs it's small and basic not only because the new facilities are limited

but also because only half of the original staff remain at the station. about a dozen of them work out of another couple station while they wait for security to improve and move to their new facilities 80 percent of the station's programming has been dropped and he broadcasts online for only a few hours a week those who are left carrying on is risky so i want to ask. when i leave my home my father asks me where am i going if i'm going to zante who is with me if i have my colleagues with me not only my family where all those women who are working in the media in afghanistan their families are concerned about their safety. facing threats of targeted assassinations the women here say they are scared but refused to stop one day our director told us the be careful all with yourselves because we faced

a treat and also that they you know all of that we face feel like we will die like we feel like that but when we see a country situation when we see or woman those who can't work those who need to writhe the your hands so we save our with our self if we stop or a way so we can't raise their hands one local organization that supports media in afghanistan says 7 media workers have been killed recently within 9 weeks the director says the government must protect and support journalists and fears much progress in afghanistan's media over the last 20 years could be lost more than 15 of. best join a list left the country they said goodbye maybe tens of them but they are working still they are observing to change the field of working. they are observing

they are thanking are they are making decision how to change it this is the catastrophe that i could i could see it and it's them in concert. but for now it's on t.v. everyone says they'll keep the station alive no matter how difficult that is fill your country for al-jazeera kabul. what you want is there of me so romney reminder of our top stories myanmar's military has opened fire as protesters gathered in the city of mandalay according to local media earlier on monday deposed leader and sons to choose detention was extended she was arrested 2 weeks ago after the military seized power in a coup apartment has more from hong kong. sources on the ground say that those bullets fired in.