those discussions that are to unfolding on capitol hill international filmmakers and world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and in one of us is about a responsibility to change out there is to explain this for them it out on al-jazeera. another day of international communications blackout in myanmar as the only ones that ante to protest is could face up to 20 years in jail. and i there i missed us here today this is al jazeera life and also coming up the world health organization approves the oxford astra zeneca covert 1000 vaccine for global rollout. turkey buries 13 soldiers killed in northern iraq and reignites

tensions with the u.s. over its support of kurdish fighters. plus feeling the cold rare sightings of snow in southern parts of the u.s. leave many struggling to stay in control. for the 2nd night in a row now myanmar's military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country and more arrests are expected now that an overnight curfew has also come into effect there's an increasing crackdown on protesters who are angry about the military crew on february 1st the army has now warned protesters they could face up to 20 years in jail if they obstruct soldiers or incite what they're calling hatred or contempt towards cruelly it is difficult hala reports. the issue of force to break up uproot turns to outside the state bank in the city of majuli around a 1000 people at

a peaceful rally were dispersed with rubber bullets and sling shot more than 10 truckloads of security forces and police were deployed to the scene where demonstrators were calling for myanmar's military leaders to reinstate their elected government extra troops rule to send to other parts of the. one tree ilian mars' largest city young gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrol the streets one group of the civil disobedience movement c.d.n. 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 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. 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. 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 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 and national that was it 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 not 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 ascot hylas monitoring the situation for us from the thai capital bangkok it's got a 2nd night now of no colors just what do we know about what's been happening there on the ground. we're not sure just yet we haven't been able to reconnect with our people on the ground usually the internet usually after monday the connection will be reestablished at about 9 o'clock local time that's within the next half hour so we're hoping to reconnect with our team what it happened it

seems as though you know this might actually end up being a nightly event where they they cut the internet and obviously it raises great concern because that means you know when they have these patrols when they have the the round ups for the detentions for the arrests usually take place overnight so that raises the concern because now essentially there is really no communication with private communication citizen communication with the people on the ground in myanmar during that period during that 8 hour period so that is of great concern what also moving forward people have started to ask questions about if this continues in this internet blackout continues every evening what's happening during that period yes obviously we can't see or hear what's happening inside me more but is there something being done to the infrastructure of the internet in myanmar that has been a lot of raise a lot of speculation as to their might be something that the government the military government the joint is putting in place inside myanmar to restrict the

internet traffic inside the country and that's why they're possibly part of the reason why they're they're. implementing these blackouts at night but again that's that's very difficult to confirm but that's kind of the speculation now and obviously we will probably see people start to pour out onto the streets again the 1st in young gone that's will probably once the reestablished connection we'll start to see them come out again like we did on monday despite the blackout for the internet despite the increase of troops and armored vehicles on the streets we expect more people to come out again and stay and they'll be bringing you all of that here on out as their as and when we get it scott had that keep an eye things for us from bangkok thanks scott. well there's been a series of rocket attacks on the northern iraqi city of erbil some of them struck the airport area where u.s. forces a stationed the international coalition fighting eisel says one civilian a foreign contractor was killed several others were injured including a u.s. service member an iranian backed shia group has claimed responsibility at least 60

people have died in $240.00 others and missing in democratic republic of congo after a boat that capsized it happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake mind on bay the boat was traveling from the capital kinshasa to a quarter province the government says it was overloaded and while a new economy has more now from the capital kinshasa this news was. actually. not the 1st time in any way on. everything according to the condition of the boats these bore today usually to. make it really saved the score for being more than they have been and with people on this boat leaving tell not can shut up to boarding this is called. then there were troubling during the night time and because of the condition of the

people and also the large number of people and too much on the eyes then they got this accident on. so the big challenge right now is because of access to this area it is not very easy to access and also. the more sort of the troubling nor depressed world the rescue team can properly walk to to to give the tradition to so far. they are still missing more than 200 to so young people according to the deity or visuals. well the world health organization has approved the oxford astra zeneca 1000 vaccine for emergency use that decision will allow low and middle income nations to

immunize their populations against the virus the products will be distributed through an equitable access program known as kovacs this all comes as the number of cases globally dropped for the 5th consecutive week were a challenge as an isa 6 out of london he says a middle and low income countries are still falling behind though in their vaccination programs 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. that would still leave. the developing world countries some way behind rich world countries have a study done by a few key diversity at the beginning of the year will release in the beginning of the year we 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 to 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. heads university college london school able citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases 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 specifically 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 national 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 meanwhile the palestinian authority says that israel has banned the entry of 2000 coronavirus vaccines into the gaza strip those doses of the sputnik vaccine are intended for frontline medical workers and the fast jabs were supposed to have been given out on choose day how to stay in health authorities have reported more than 53000 cases and at least 537 deaths since the start of this pandemic. well still ahead here on out there why the world health organization says it's better prepared to tackle the new abode outbreak in guinea this time around. and the u.s. house speaker plans an independent investigation into last month's violence a capitol hill.

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largely dry and india of course is largely driving not as dry as it was a week ago. sherry rain seemed likely in the middle now moving slowly east was towards disha tempest slowly rise even the north indian plain which is still plagued by at least morning fog is seeing a rise in temperatures the forecast for very nasty is not a bad one there's fog in the morning i quote is not back good admittedly but most a day spent in hazy sunshine. sponsible qatar airways. they may not be top of the table. they might not have the biggest stadium. but they stand as titans in the face of the fascist fall rights movement. if you want to show the world that the good guys can sometimes when they are the force behind germans simply phenomenal and.

the fans who make football on al-jazeera. hello again i'm the star and let's remind you of our top stories here this our. military has imposed a near total internet blackout across the country for a 2nd like now there's an increasing crackdown on protesters who are angry about the military coup in february 1st. at least one person has been killed in a series of rocket attacks in the iraqi city of erbil 3 blasts were heard and smoke was seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are stationed a share group that claimed to have targeted that military base. the world health organization has approved the oxford astra zeneca co the 19 vaccine for imagine

c.b.s. that decision will allow low and middle income nations to immunize their populations against the virus. now turkey is president russia has accused the us of supporting kurdish fighters who he says are behind the killing of that teen turkish hostages their bodies were found in a cave in northern iraq so of course the early reports now from istanbul call 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. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at group i mean it is syria 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 and the p why do you clearly support them and stand behind the picket he 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 fee 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. unclear it was all that 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. 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 antony blinken according to readouts blinken is said to have affirmed that the k.k.k. was to blame and that to emphasize the importance of thereby literally relationship and interests 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 in a blink an echo is not acting like an ally because of his purchase of a russian air defense system and said the us would reveal if further sanctions are required unless one side compromises the dispute between nato is to biggest army is made out and soon so now because all al-jazeera stumble. now u.s.

house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans to form an independent commission to investigate last month's assault on capitol hill she says will be modeled on the commission that was established after the $911.00 attacks but as he says it would report on the facts and causes of the violence on january 6th in which 5 people died several. publicans have also expressed support for an independent investigation including trump ally senate said lindsey graham let's now bring in henry olsen he's a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center who joins us now from washington d.c. and read these sorts of commissions often bill primarily about being about security and getting on says but they are also products of the political process so how much of this annual rating is about the future security of the capital and how much of this is about holding former president trump to account and i think it's investigating how far you can or will president trump to it you know the important

thing is the 911 model that speaker pelosi is proposing is that it is 5050 bipartisan controlled by neither party and it is headed extremely important former or current appointed or officials elected officials from both sides so it's something that gives it binding extreme credibility and i think we're precipitous would be to go in and find what house managers in the impeachment trial are either wouldn't or wouldn't produce which is clear and they have evidence over how responsible president is for the riots that occurred in yourselves well after his acquittal where watching now bipartisan support for this commission including from some of president trying to storm chest allies what do you make of that. well i think there's arguments on all sides of this for getting to put truth about this republicans are unhappy with trump would love to be able to find more evidence as senator bill cassidy one of the 7 republicans who voted for convicting president

trump he said the more people find out the likelier republicans will be to be on my side democrats of course would like to find out this but the trump people also would like to find out what the truth is in part because it will also enable them to investigate what this house speaker was in charge of capitol security did or did not do to protect them and their staff from the possibility of a riot so there's a happy political convergence of interest over establishing this that all sides to find something that we're looking at what the $911.00 commission report that resulted in a report and recommendations what should we expect to match from this process. well i think we can expect at least recommendations with respect to capital security how secure should the capitol be what you capitol police be trained to be able to do an emergency to wages and how the public should have access to the capitol during regular business hours we could also it was to be the more explosive one and then

be able to get into exactly what did president trump do up to and on the day of the attack and who were going to help him or did not help them right now we have hearsay and sketchy information but something like this armed with subpoena power and a serious number of staff could actually compel testimony and find answers that right now we don't have there's a lot of suspicion but there's no clear it's been and of story and this was what will allow us to either exonerate convict or something in between president trump personally in the role of what happened on january 6th and i recall the $911.00 commission took around today as an by my understanding they would not necessarily be any time constraints on this investigation so given that bat took their consent of this could potentially drag out and distract from the biden agenda. well i would expect it would drag and i don't think it would distract from the brian agenda because much of this would be stuff. on education

a basis that would be continually holding hearings or subpoenaing out and it would certainly detract from public attention on the bayou gender and that's something that is something that democrats will need to think about that if there is opposition to president from as you noted all elements of their coalition so they could easily discern that it is more important to keep the enemy that they all agree about front and center in public attention than it is to focus on passing elements of the body image and that's a debatable point but i did see were democratic strategists say that's the right thing henry olsen they're saying if the ethics and public policy sense it great to get your thoughts here on al-jazeera thanks for being with us. you're welcome demonstrators in india calling for the release of an activist who is accused of helping to write a protest guide authorities say deja ravi helped develop a tool kit used to spread awareness of widespread famine protests and is also

shared online by the swedish environmental activist gretta turnbuckles also voiced her support for the farmers they've been protesting for months now against government reforms of the agricultural sector now chad says it will deploy $1200.00 soldiers to the volatile border areas between malines and became a faster that pledge aimed at tacking came as a meeting of leaders from africa to hell region french president among a background is expected to speak to them by video link on tuesday france has a point of thousands of soldiers to back local troops but is preparing to reduce its presence that. on the international red cross is calling for a swift response to a new abode outbreak in guinea which has now killed 5 people it's the 1st to head west africa since that disease killed more than 11000 people in the region between 2002016 reports now from dakar senegal. is back here the virus is spreading to the capital and i would love to. continue

there as i feel really surprised given the current situation in guinea we give 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 corrie after a nurse died of the virus in late january. disaster in fact and we need. 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 ball or 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 korea 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 the very center go inside this building or 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. now my dear is former finance minister has become the 1st woman and the 1st african to lead the world trade organization and goes away our one unanimous backing to be confirmed as director general of 1st priorities will be to try to settle the u.s. china trade war and to counter protectionism which has grown during the coronavirus pandemic. today w.t.r. members are making history for the 1st time in the 73 years of gatt and of the a.t.o. us electing a woman and an african as director general this is groundbreaking i am positive i am grateful for the 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 to reposition itself for the future. a massive winter storm has been pummeling much of the u.s. and even brought the rest side of some southern states gabriel is on the reports now from new jersey. for much of the southern united states it was a once in a generation winter storm. heavy snow fall 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

and 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 you have snow in front of. a lot 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 on doe. we hawk in new jersey. and analysis out of there and these.