dramatically expanding the critical. say that huge. a security crackdown and. a curfew has been imposed following a day of dissent. on the intent of this is our sara live from london also coming up. hope for millions around the world the oxford astra zeneca vaccine is cleared for global rollout

through the double date shows kovacs ski. turkey summons the u.s. ambassador to ankara accusing washington of supporting kurdish fighters. and outrage in india after climate activist is arrested for editing and sharing a social media guide in support of protesting farmers. or as many miles the minute she intensifies its crackdown on protesters against the february 1st coup the un special envoy has told the army the world is watching and a heavy handed response will have severe consequences local media reporting that soldiers opened fire with robert bullets on demonstrators in mandalay myanmar's 2nd largest city tanks have appeared on streets across the country more arrests are expected overnight now that a curfew and internet blackout have come into effect. they are me as war protesters

they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they call hatred or contempt towards cruel leaders and deposed leader aung san suu she is to spend a further 2 days under house arrest she faces charges of illegally importing 6 walkie talkies she says they used by her security staff if you go pardon reports from hong kong. a show of force to break up a protest outside a state bank in the city of mandalay around a 1000 people at a peaceful rally were dispersed with rubber bullets and slingshots more than 10 truckloads of security forces and police were deployed to the scene where demonstrators were calling for me and mars' military leaders to reinstate their elected government extra troops rules and sent to other parts of the country ilian mars' largest city and gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrolled the streets. one group of the civil disobedience movement c.t.m.

for short stood in front of the central bank in the and gone 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 cdn and fight for the freedom of government staff this as the military issued a statement on its facebook page outlining the possible punishment for protesters saying any acts token or written that expresses or incites hatred of the government could lead to 20 years in prison people gathered outside a court in the capital neighbor door hoping that the deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi would be released on monday but that did not happen. the other unit 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. suchi 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 $400.00 people have now been detained since the february 1st clue there's a vast range of people within that group and that's a real concern for 23 year old fortune teller charlotte a fellow yangon fortune teller was arrested a few days ago after a video of him praying for the military to fail went viral on national that was she says the dictators they can make up whatever laws they like to oppress us we astrologers are like birds in their hands it is squeeze we are 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 still coming out and frank the ruling national league for democracy and the party won by a landslide in last november's election and most popular most see this move by the

military as nullification of their vote and their voice their ego pollen our desire . the world health organization has given emergency use approval to 2 versions of the oxford astra zeneca coded 19 vaccine the decision will allow some of the world's poorest countries to start immunizing their populations against the virus the vaccines will be distributed through an equitable access program known as kovacs the 2 versions are produced by astra zeneca s.k. bio in south korea and the serum institute of india or a chances in east sussex south of london so what does this mean in practice for the global vaccine program memory. well the w.h.o. saying this essentially means that countries that currently have no access to vaccines whatsoever can start vaccinating their health workers and their most at risk groups essentially kovacs is

a project that is designed to provide equitable access to vaccines for low and middle income countries the fear was with the whole coded 19 epidemic or pandemic is that it would be the richest countries that would buy up all the vaccines hoover them all up and there wouldn't really be enough left to go around for countries in africa asia etc so kovacs was set up to basically pull the resources of lots of different countries rich countries putting in money as well and then. vaccines would be licensed and distributed and after production to countries that otherwise wouldn't be able to get some so that's basically the whole point of kovacs and this means that the astra zeneca vaccine joins the pfizer vaccine in being soon available for for the countries that need it now kovacs has an ambition lofty

ambition to vaccinate 20 percent of all the participating countries by the end of 2021 so we'll have to see whether this enables them to get some way or at least achieve that goal and do you have any idea on the timings for their for that go that route. well i mean we are expecting 330000000 doses to be did ministered by the middle of 2021 with something up to 2000000000 doses being given out by the end of the year now that sounds very impressive and it is but one that would still leave. the developing world countries some way behind rich world countries there's a study done by duke university at the beginning of the year released to the beginning of the year which said that the the world's 16 percent richest countries

are already bought up 60 percent of the available vaccines so even with kovacs there is inequality in access vaccines and the w.h.o. has also said that you need about 70 percent vaccine coverage within a population to achieve the herd immunity that would be able to beat covert 19 so even with kovacs is targets of vaccinating 20 percent of these countries that still some way short of the 70 percent necessary to actually achieve herd immunity so we are getting in the right direction but there's still a lot of work to be done or a challenge thank you very much indeed. and i'm guessing jess who arrived in the u.k. from a group of high risk countries a 2nd into their 1st night of hotel quarantine the government says it will help prevent the spread of highly contagious virus variants but the policy is attracting

criticism for the way it's been organized already reports from london's 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 have passed through one of the 33 countries on the u.k. government's red list in aviation terms the u.k.'s hotel quarantine plan has been on final approach to nearly 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 does that quite well p.p. is going to be a writer for very well. what are. they going on once they get the high

how now you have to bear in mind the problem is that not incur. the u.k. government says it's hotel quarantine plan amounts to decisive action against curve at 19 but even as the 1st arriving passengers go into and for confinement 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 locator form now carries a 10 year prison sentence but doubts persists australian states introduced hotel koren seen in march 2020 an event tough lessons since then procedures on meal delivery times ventilation 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 there's still about to leave the 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 as a breaking news here rocky media is reporting a series of explosions near to the app port and then all the city of bill 3 blasts will head with smoke seen at the airports perimeter on local t.v. networks as mortar rounds with a cause and it's understood that the. base also hosts u.s.

led troops according to security sources reported the wires but bring in more on that story just as soon as we get it. turkey's president has accused the us of supporting kurdish fighters who he says about the execution of 13 turkish hostages the bodies of the group including soldiers and policemen were found last week in a cave in northern iraq turkey says they were executed by the kurdistan workers party which it brands a terrorist organization and has banned but ship tire powder one described the u.s. statement condemning the killing as a joke he called on the u.s. to either stand with turkey or against it. if we are together with the u.n. nato if we are to continue our unity in the world and in nato then you will at some silly towards us then you will stand with us not with the terrorists and following that the u.s. secretary of state and blinken the spoke to his turkish counterpart stressing the

importance of the u.s. turkish relationship the secretary expressed condolences for the deaths of turkish hostages in northern iraq and affirmed our view that p.k. k. terrorists bear responsibility he said and that both sides pledged to strengthen cooperation and support for a political resolution to the conflict in syria they can also urge turkey not to retain the russian s. 400 surface to air missile system and voiced support for andreas portrait talks between nato allies turkey and greece still to come on al-jazeera the arrival of a precious cargo that means millions of mexicans will soon get corona virus protection. and more south africa's former president could face time in jail.

now after about 2 weeks of deep freeze in ice and snow is about to be a change in many countries in northern europe it's coming in from the atlantic this time it wanted to be a bit more forceful and this frontal system will end up going quite a long way east into what is currently very cold weather so it will bring 1st of all freezing rain then stone it's forward lift temperatures they're not going to be extremely high but in comparison with the last few days barely above freezing is good and london's 11 is positively mild but there is still cold in the eastern side of europe it will be pushed out beyond eastern poland or through rumania even down through greece at least by the end of tuesday and that's where the roughest weather is going to be still winter why is your northerly breeze developing through greece and turkey has already brought snow throughout greece's goes from north to south this is what we look at the moment now it's not unique it does happen in most

winters this is quite a severe outbreak and it will i think probably just storm development in the south is fairly nasty weather for both egypt the levant and turkey and of course east until he gets really covered in snow but it's wind and rain for the levant and for northern egypt. it's america's worst kept secrets cracked open the time of a pandemic exposed in the time of trump through the turmoil of 2020 the big picture traces a century of racial injustice to reveal how philanthropy politics and economics preserve structural inequality keeping white a supreme and black in its place the race for america part 2 on a jazeera.

elevated reminder the top stories here security forces in myanmar of open fire on protesters in the city of mandalay it's part of a wider crackdown on the 10s of thousands of people who demonstrated against the military coup. turkey has accused the u.s. of siding with kurdish separatists group it calls terrorists it comes after 13 turks were executed in northern iraq an attack turkey blames on kurdish fighters. and the global effort to vaccinate people in less developed countries has received a huge boost the world health organization as a preview of the astra zeneca vaccine as part of the kovacs program.

a 2nd round of vaccinations has begun in mexico's capital health officials are aiming to inoculate 15000000 elderly people within 2 months given doses of the astra zeneca jab which has been produced in india so far health workers are among the relatively few people to be vaccinated when you're up and joins us live now from mexico city where vaccinations beginning so the 1st day of inoculations of the elderly give us a sense of what it's like there. shareable set the scene for you a little bit where we all right now we're in a small municipality just on the outskirts of mexico city called. this is a small community where there are several vaccination points let's walk in and i'll show you a little bit about what's going on right here around me these are some of these long queues that we've been seeing since the early hours of this morning people waiting in line for their turn to get that 1st dose of the astra zeneca vaccine now over the weekend a shipment of some around 870000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine arrived in

mexico from a production facility in india and another 494000 doses of the pfizer vaccine this the goal of this 2nd phase now the vaccination program is to. over 15700000 elderly mexican citizens within the next 2 months it's a very ambitious goal to have all of these senior citizens 60 years old or 60 years of age or older inoculated by this time in mid april now there's been a mass mobilization by the mexican military since the weekend to deliver vaccine doses to all 32 mexican states but there is quite a bit of criticism of the existing strategy by the mexican government when it comes to this nationwide vaccination program on the one hand you have mexico's president at this moment of his over the who has promised that the vaccine will be delivered for free to all 126000000 people who live in mexico he's prioritized rural communities digitas communities and identified some around 333 individual

municipalities across the country that are at a higher priority to receive the coated 19 vaccine what we're hearing from health policy experts is criticism of that strategy what they're saying is that these are areas of the country that have arguably some of the lower rates of transmission of covert 19 and what the government should be doing is prioritizing the more densely populated areas of the country cities like the mexican capital the. very high rates of transmission of covert 19 in and in any event what we what we are learning from health authorities from this latest shipment of the astra zeneca vaccine as well as the seed and with forthcoming shipments of both the russian and chinese vaccine is that this stalled program the stalled vaccination program that really at any movement over the past few weeks is finally going to get really restarted that's a promise from the mexican government that's a promise from health authorities and what we're hearing from people here on the

ground today is a lot of excitement these are people that are 60 years of age or older saying that while they've been waiting all morning some of been waiting for here for 5 hours or longer they're very happy to finally be given an opportunity to get this 1st dose knowing that in the coming weeks they'll have a 2nd dose of the covert vaccine. and you happen to thank you very much indeed. or lebanon's vaccination program is underway bringing with it a sense of hope for a country with this fair share of crises but with high rates of vaccine hesitancy and lingering uncertainty able to supply for migrants it's the what immunization could take a long time so you know how to reports from beirut i mean 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 front lines of this fight are the 1st in line to get the vaccine in lebanon has seen some of the region's highest cases and deaths and now in trying to do almost everybody every person who has

a family member or relative what a friend because the court of public might put of a quote covered both of them. secure but we feel it now and i would hope but not everyone is convinced about the vaccines the public is showing hesitancy so far $500000.00 lebanese have signed up that's less than 10 percent of the population. 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 oh so 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 would probably invite thing the public or the philanthropic sectors of the public to but it's paid to ensure be 40 of the 40 percent more than 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 senator osha zita beirut. the world health organization is planning a rapid response to an ebola outbreak in guinea after the 1st outbreak of the disease that in 5 years 7 people have tested positive and 3 have died during an epidemic in west africa between 2017201611300 people died guinea and the w.h.o. say the better prepared this time because of progress and vaccines it is and will assist countries recognize the need to act quickly to stop the spread. stopping the virus is contingent on all these countries working together and already we've seen certain countries take certain measures like sierra leone sealing off its borders

liberia doing much the same health workers across the region on high alert what no one wants to see is what we saw during the 20132016 outbreak where more than 22000 people were infected and it all started in this same place where we've seen a resurgence of the virus in the southwest region of guinea. where a nurse was suffering from diarrhea vomiting she went to a health center she sought treatment a week later she died and during her funeral several people that participated in that burial are now infected with the virus we know already 4 of them have died and that have been 15 days ago so time is of the essence to try to track and trace those who have been in contact with the disease and also those that have been in contact with those that were attending this funeral each country doing its bit here in senegal we're just outside the institute where they're sequencing

a sound full of a blood sample of the person that was infected with the bolo virus what they're trying to do so is actually trying to figure out which strain of a ball they are dealing with and trying to figure out whether the vaccine that has been developed will be effective in this resurgence of the virus in this region. who the rebels in yemen claim they've attacked the airports in the saudi cities of jedda with drones on the ground in yemen itself the violence is increasing with hundreds of people killed in mareeba province fighting broke out there will know a week ago but there are conflicting reports about the situation now bootees say they have seized control of a military camp and are attacking a number of army positions but the army says it's repelled their attacks often or to not to marry strikes. south africa's former president could be jailed after he defined an order to attend an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office the commission plans to ask the constitutional court for an order that jacob

zuma is guilty of contempt of court a so-called state capture inquiry which has been running for 2 years is investigating allegations that zuma allowed the wealthy go to family to plunder state resources and influence policy zuma denies any wrongdoing committed miller is in johannesburg with this report. and in 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 their party and its fight against corruption if the former president says their t.'s rights are being impeded on that he's been vilified that this is propaganda and there's a political agenda there are also many people who sympathize with him and say that

he does want to appear at 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 does it continues to defy the commission as the commissioners under had said he's doing or if he maintains it is right not to appear. nigeria's former finance minister has been confirmed as the new director general of the world trade organization and goes the a conduit where there is both the 1st african and the 1st woman to lead the global trading body she says addressing the economic and health consequences of the code 19 pandemic will be her 1st priority the u.s. says it will aim to help her 3 months after president trump rejected her for the position today w.t.r.

members are making history for the 1st time in the 73 years of gatt and the good deal us electing a woman and an african as director general this is groundbreaking i am positive i am grateful for that trust you have a me not just as a woman and an african but also in my knowledge experience and as some of you have said courage and passion to work with you to undertake the wide ranging reforms that w.t.r. needs so it poses shown itself for the future. demonstrations in india calling for the release of a young activist who was detained over a protest guide well searches say disha ravi helped to develop a toolkit used to spread awareness of ongoing protests by farmers in the shadow online by the swedish environmental activist pressure to invoke his voice to support for the farmers they've been demonstrating against government reforms of the agricultural sector for months elizabeth around him is in new delhi and says

the arrest has been condemned. the robbery broke down in court she said she just wants to support the protesting farmers that she edited 2 lines of this document nonetheless she is in police custody for 5 days until her next hearing police have also taken action the issue warrants for the arrests of 2 other climate activists including a lawyer by the name of make it a jacob they say that she was also working on behalf of the sikhs a separatist group to organize what they call the tweet storm on twitter head of protests on india's republic day on january 26th when they walk by that clashes between some protesting farmers and the police there has been a lot of condemnation of this police action against the show robbie by many people here including noirs opposition politicians delhi's chief minister that's the leader of the region has said that the rest of the 21 year old arrest of 21 year old ravi is an unprecedented attack on democracy that supporting our farmers is not

a crime another prominent opposition politician p. chidambaram said india has become a theater of the absurd and that gives you an idea of the kinds of things that are being said about the police action taken against climate activists. and of which money can always catch up any time on our website it just fact dot com and you can also watch a spy clicking on the orange glow of icon. dot com. amanda now the top stories on our syria security forces in main man have opened fire on protesters in the city of mandalay it's part of a wider crackdown on the 10s of thousands of people who demonstrated against the military coup soldiers and police and sling shots at protesters and beat them with

sticks outside a bank in the country's 2nd largest city the scale of demonstrations is grown in the 2 weeks since the military took power and how civilian need is including on sun suchi. the global effort to vaccinate people in less developed countries.