another day of internet communications blackout in manama as the army ones and he could protest as could face up to 20 years in jail. hello there i missed on the attack a this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the world health organization approves the oxford astra zeneca 1000 vaccine for global rollout. the killing of turkish troops in northern iraq triggers a diplomatic dispute with the u.s.

. and outrage in india after a 22 year old climbers activist as a rested the editing and sharing his social media guide to support protesting fall minutes. now for the 2nd night in a row myanmar's military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country more arrests are expected now that an overnight curfew has also come into effect there's an increasing crackdown on protesters there who are angry about the military coup on february fast the army has warned protesters they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they call hatred or contempt towards cruelty it is to become part of reports. 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 sling shots 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 were also sent to other parts of the country ilian march largest city young gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrolled the streets one group of the civil disobedience movement c.t.m. for short student front of the central bank an eon 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 cd 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 broken 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's 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 seventy's 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 $400.00 people have now been detained since the february 1st 2 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 he says there 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 al-jazeera . when is the ballet human rights not factor rector in the u.k. and he says the international community needs to put more pressure on the military to help stop the violence. every day the arresting across them i have hundreds of people and the people all the local people came up to the street to protect these people you know but the thing is you know important thing in the mission community need to put more pressure because these military generals would arrest gone on the

heavy pressure because from their subordinates or other generals they also fear just fear that their future their future will be in danger because the associated image in the region in the in the very very daily senior crime in the country the are committing so international community need to put more pressure more as i saw libya that these military legal political you know the generals and their any government officers and step down the call not cut down the communication with them and put more pressure the more people create more pressure more the several different disobedience increase the military will respond with more violence if the international community put pressure to stop this by both the pressure from the public meeting place and increased at the end the government would shut down and they will not able to operate today you see that all because of the banks now government backed employees to stop going to the ship the job so they related to

the some quarters where they live and the local people came out to protect them so their defeat that means what they have done is they withdraw all the cash from the bank and they took some non-play that means the government banking system also going to shut down very soon now a series of explosions in the northern iraqi city of abdel has killed at least one person 3 blasts were heard and smoke was also seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are stationed iranian backed shia groups claim to have targeted the military base with rockets the international coalition fighting isis has one civilian contractor was killed several others were injured including a u.s. service member. least 60 people have died and 240 others are missing and democratic republic of congo after a boat capsized and happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake mind on bear and the boat was traveling from the capital kinshasa to equity province the government says it was overloaded well i know i can he has more from the capital

kinshasa this news was right now confirmed by the. humanitarian action. not the 1st time anyway on this leg of mine everything happened according to the condition of the boats these bore today usually take a large number like it really saved the squirming that more than 700 people were on this boat leaving tell not can shutter to bring this is called. then there were troubling during the night time and because of the condition of the people in the ward and also the large number of people and much on days then they got this accident on the river so the big challenge right now is because of access to this area it is not very easy to access and also. the most of the

troubling nor depress were the rescue team can't properly walk to to to give the tradition to the victims so far for now they are still missing more than 200 to 300 people according to the deity or officials. well the wild health organization has now approved the oxford astra zeneca cover $1000.00 vaccine for imagine say yes that decision was allowed low and middle income nations to immunize their populations against the virus the product will be distributed through an equitable access program also known as kovacs and comes as the number of cases globally dropped for the 5th consecutive week now. heads university college london supply will citizenship program outbreaks of infectious diseases and she says this authorization is an important step for international

vaccine coverage the job usually emergency authorization essentially allows for low and middle income countries to be able to authorize within their own nations relying on the show process around quality safety checks also looking at analysis of the supply chain really pulls the trigger on allowing those vaccines to be shipped to those countries because so far we know that 75 percent of all vaccines have been administered in just 10 countries in the world and kovacs is the arm of the show that is working pacifically on vaccine equity financing the astra zeneca vaccine to reach the majority of low in middle income countries which through donations alone at an individual level would been extremely difficult without the job you show emergency authorization so because that process is so much

lengthier when it's done just through the international regulatory body that often in low and middle income countries has less regulatory capacity this sort of launches the words next that the next step allowing for the 1st shipments and processes to really get rolling because again they're bare very far behind when it comes to vaccinating their populations. well adeline passengers arriving in the u.k. from a group of high risk countries offending their fest light and hotel quarantine the government says the new scheme will help to prevent the spread of highly contagious strains of the 19 but the policy is attracting criticism for the way that it's been organized paul brennan reports now 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'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 p.p. is going to be a writer very well. what are. they going on once they get the hi how are you have to bear in mind the problem is that not. 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 forced 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 persist australian states introduced hotel koren scene in march 2020 and have learned 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 they're still out to leave their rooms breaks as 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. still ahead here on al-jazeera why the world health organization says it's better prepared to tackle the new outbreak in guinea this time around. and failing that call the rest sightings of snow and southern parts of the u.s. navy many struggling to stay in control. this is a really harsh winter now for most of the united states west texas again got snow and

this is just an example of any count any state really in the u.s. it with the exception of florida that's the winter front so it's always down south in the gulf everything beyond that or in the need to raise pretty cold in fact could show you that daytime temperatures where they reasonable are in this yellow strip and that's true up through parts but not all of california as well so everywhere in land is called what i call by not houston about plus one degree that the sun does compensate i suppose and it's not windy in most places it's not too much wind sheer will be a bit there's more snow developing in the rockies breaks there over and that's on its way size not could be quite dangerous because once more you get freezing rain out of it with this junction of warm pushing in relatively speaking in the cold there was just a line of pretty dangerous thunderstorms for texas into louisiana which yes might produce tornadoes during wednesday so pretty nasty weather in the u.s. every now and again it breaks out across across the gulf and that picks up from

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hello again i'm stars attainder let's remind you of our top stories here this hour myanmar's military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country for a 2nd night there's an increasing crackdown on protesters who are angry about the military coup on february 1st. at least one person has been killed in a series of explosions in the iraqi city of irbil 3 blasts were heard and smoke was seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are stationed iran backed shia groups claim to have targets at the military base. the world health organization has approved the oxford astra zeneca co the 19 vaccine for emergency use that decision will allow lower middle income nations to immunize their populations against the virus. turkey's president recha

typer while has accused the us of supporting kurdish fighters who he says a behind the killing of 13 turkish hostages their bodies were found in a cave and northern iraq said of course the early reports now from istanbul all the all back home to bury the 13 turkish police and military personnel have been discovered in a cave in northern iraq on sunday turkey says they had been abducted and executed by fighters on the kurdistan workers party or p k k during combat operation or lord. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at the group how this is very serious now there is a statement made by the united states it's a joke would you not supposed to stand against the terrorist the p.k. k. the y p g in the p why do you clearly support them and stand behind the picket kerry is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but the u.s.

and the e.u. the u.s. condemned the killings if responsibility lay with the fi k k. if we work together with you. if we are to continue our unity in the world in nato the new will act sincerely towards us then you will stand with us not with the terrorists. or was always angered by washington support of kurdish fighters in neighboring syria turkey claims the group known as wife the chief is organically toys to the p.k. k. and the name difference is just a branding effort to legitimize the organization in the fight against deisel. infuriated by washington statement on the iraq killings to accuse some of the u.s. ambassador to iraq and later to accuse foreign minister spoke for the 1st time with his new u.s. counterpart to deplane can according to readouts blinken is said to have affirmed

that p.k. k. was to blame and that to emphasize the importance of thereby literally relationship an interest in countering terrorism but the differences between longstanding belise remain as a nato ally angara wants washington to pick a side either turkey or the p.k. k. and the syrian based wipe e.g. but in january incoming us secretary of state under an a blink an echo of not acting like an ally because of his purchase of a russian air defense system and said the u.s. would review if further sanctions are required unless one side compromises the dispute between nato is to biggest army is made out and soon so you know al-jazeera stumble let's now bring in bill and he is a senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies and he joins us now from washington d.c. mr early reason i see that the u.s. has now said it does hold the p.k.

responsible for these deaths but this incident is really emblematic of a much deeper shift it seems that we're seeing in relations between the 2 countries former president trump was perceived as being quite accommodating towards president out a while how are things changed now between washington and and struck by the mccain president. well yes for you you know situation of the good case by the u.s. that's actually nothing new the u.s. there was taking the position that the peak if there is a terrorist organization and given the fact that the military engagements. that resulted in the killing of the of the turkish hostages was between a p.j. and certainly this is not unusual the problem as you are or to say it is with the syrian white t.j. which the u.s. government backs as for the broader relationship between present and and present data on that remains to be seen. again as your report said there was a very close relationship between present trouble present trouble and present. that

is unlikely to be the case were present to begin with i don't think that there will be the kind of intensive. personal engagement between the 2 parties characterized to leaders characterized by telephone conversations messick in the present by i think we'll draw the line. pretty much where president trump left which was that under pressure from congress the u.s. government rejected the church acquisition of the us well i'm sure it's struck sanctions on turkey and frankly answer that we should gets resolved this relationship is going to be in difficulties i want to pick up on the s 400 ad offense system issue they were bought from russia is techie realigning itself close to moscow and away from nato. well that's something that the new 6 year state lincoln said that the u.s. government will endeavor. to prevent but i don't think that that means that it's

actually going to mean over backwards on the issues on the u.s. that we should genda i think there are limits to the search sure that she should russia as president everyone himself stressed there is a member of nato and he's very much desires a relationship with the president and i think that the goal is to actually move from one camp to the other that you very much wants to have a bill to stay within the west and have a good relationship with the u.s. but in the same time making their relationship with russia we'll see if that's going to be possible it's a very fine line that i see also the public opinion polls and taki kindly put the u.s. at the top of the nist of countries perceived to be threatening takis national security what's driving that perception. it's not you have to be you know that's nothing new for some time now the u.s. has been seen as as it really and in the eyes of the church people and also i was

seeing me in the eyes of the of the turkish government. as not being you know shy also or blaming the u.s. or all range of issues that isn't happy with much of their foreign policy is directed at the church probably and doubt and will itself across your problem in the in the establishment of a closer relationship because you know they'll have to be given dates and going to cases 30 any concession on this fight will be unpopular with the church whole what's that relationship very closely indeed brilliant alleyways of the from the center for strategic and international studies great to your thoughts here on out there thanks for being with us and thank you. and we're going on and the international red cross has called for a swift response to a new about the outbreak and the 1st to head west africa since that disease killed more than 11000 people in that region between 2002016 that has had reports now from . a bull is back near the virus is spreading to the capital.

so they. continue their search and i feel really surprised given the current situation guinea weekend names are struggling with the 19 pandemic and now with the polar it will be a real disaster the country's learned borders are sealed an emergency team made up of the world health organization doctors without borders and government health workers were dispatched to the region of corey after a nurse died of the virus in late january. disaster in fact and we need our. approach to take into account. the cultural sensitivities. of the several people attending the infected nurses funeral contracted the virus some have since died with more than $200.00 close contacts health authorities fear many more could be

unknowingly carrying a bulla the virus spreads easily through bodily fluids and triggers fever vomiting and diarrhea eventually causing organ failure and death. people are nervous the governor of in zurich or is calling for calm in 2013 an outbreak detected in the same region spread to neighboring countries infecting over 20000 people half of them died from the virus blood samples of infected patients have been set for testing at the institute in neighboring senegal inside this building our researchers sequencing a sample of the virus the idea here is to try to understand which strain of a bull we're dealing with in the current outbreak in guinea and whether the newly developed vaccine will successfully contain this new epidemic there are currently $7000.00 doses of the vaccine available globally none of them are in west africa the vaccines need to be stored at minus 80 degrees celsius and transported to

guinea's remote in tropical regions where power is in short supply for health authorities it is for now a race against time to trace and isolate contact cases before it's too late nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. now demonstrators in india are calling for the release of an activist accused of helping to write a protest guide what are they say disha ravi helped to develop a took it used to spread awareness of widespread famine protests was also shared online by the swedish environmental activist question turn back who's voiced her support for the farmers they've been protesting for months now against government reforms of the agricultural sector well as a elizabeth purana has moved from new delhi. 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 off mic at the 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 where violent clashes between some protesting farmers and the police there has been a lot of condemnation of this police action against the show ravi by many people here including noise 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 the show 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. a massive

winter storm has been pummeling much of the united states and even brought the rest of snow to some southern states there but i was on the reports now from new jersey . for much of the southern united states it was a once in a generation winter storm. heavy snowfall and icy roads conjured up disastrous driving conditions across at least 20 states several of them declaring states of emergency in texas record low temperatures way below freezing brought the electricity grid to its knees at one point more than 2000000 customers there lost power many caught up in intentional outages designed to ease the strain on the system we have experienced. probably 5 or 6 rolling blackouts at about 45 minutes each i know that there's some neighborhoods around here that have them up without power since about 4 am even southern texas more accustomed to hurricanes got

a rare sight of snow this was the scene in bel-air a suburb of houston and in san antonio home to the alamo a famous historical site here's what it looked like there you know we've got snow in front of the all i don't get too far but man you never think you see the day and so you got snow coming down like this according to the national weather service at least 150000000 americans are in the storm's path and unusually wide band of frigid air creeping slowly across the country other states bearing the brunt of it happened oklahoma where it's caused near white out conditions on the roads. and more carolina where freezing rain felled trees along highways further north in chicago there are more used to this kind of weather at this time of the year but even here they're bracing for more than 30 centimeters of snow by the time the storm passes through the new york city region has already seen its highest snowfall

totals in years but the storm that's sweeping through the rest of the country is now barreling north and about to hit here leaving tens of millions of other americans in the northeast of the country bracing for the next one that also could include sleet and hail gabriels andro how do we hawk in new jersey. i know that this is out there on these are the headlines myanmar's military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country for a 2nd night there's an increasing crackdown on protesters there who are angry about the military coup on february fast to be compiling has been following developments for us from hong kong sources on the ground say that those bullets fired in mandalay were.