i didn't see the british but i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. the 11th day of protests in me in ma the u.n. envoy warns of consequences if the military continues its crackdown. this and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the world health organization approves the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine for emergency use that

means it could be rolled out more quickly around the world chad the place extra forces to its volatile border region and ask for international support to tackle on groups. and i want to stay on blast the southern united states an emergency is declared in texas as temperatures plunge. an 11th day of protest is now underway in me and against this month's military coup for the 2nd night in a row the army's imposed a near total internet blackout across the country shortly we're going to get an update from our correspondent covering the story 1st did it go pollin reports. a show of force to break up a protest outside a state bank in the city of magically 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. oid 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 mars' largest city and gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrolled the streets one group of the civil disobedience movement c.d.n. for short student 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. 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 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 she 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 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 the legal pollen is there ok scott is monitoring the situation forests from the thai capital of bangkok scott i understand that the internet has been brought back online just in the last last half hour or so what have been a we've been able to learn about what's happening on the streets in the moment. rob yes exactly it just came back on at 9 am local time we're in touch with our team again on the ground there so it seems as though this might be a pattern that is going to be the same way going forward every evening 1 am to 9 am the internet is virtually shut off there's a blackout so it's very curious to see what happens during that period that's why

we're always so very anxious or have been the last 2 days to get back in touch with our team to see if anything's happened we have been in touch with them it sounds as though the protests the the people who have been marching on the streets of yangon at least are back out again as we have seen for the last 11 days straight one group we are hearing today that's going to go out specifically we don't know what location they're going to go to is a group of monks about 50 buddhist monks are going to go out in protest within yangon you know when we look at what's been happening over the last several days in yangon that's we've seen the biggest the biggest groups gather there a couple of pinpointed locations strategic locations embassies the united nations office and then yesterday monday we saw them go out in front of the the bank the central bank there in yangon and that's we saw a pretty heavy military presence so that's probably something we're going to see again repeated today what obviously is the concern is if something that also happened on monday that might be repeated today and that is a bit of

a pushback more of a crackdown than we've seen seen in previous days by the military now that the military proper military is on the streets in numbers just like the police if we're going to see more shots fired in the air to disperse crowds as we saw in the story earlier that you know they're even using slingshots so to be interesting to see what posture they have today as things move forward and it seems rob like it has been the last several days the protesters are going to come out in the thousands again. scott just as you've been talking to those women looking at live pictures from young gong of crowds of protesters they look about 10 to 15 deep as far as i can tell lining the streets there some of the pro the placards have been saying we fight for democracy save me and help us help me and stop crime and we don't want a dictatorship save me a mother also carrying pictures of the defacto leader of me and ma who has been ousted suchi she is expected back in court weighed in the state to get

a review of her detention scott we're going to be checking in with you of course as the situation develops over the next few hours but for now scotland thank you very much indeed ronan leigh is a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london's international state crime initiative he explains what could be behind the military's increasingly heavy handed tactics. it's a sign that the military is threatened by the protests and by the protesters i think the military is probably surprised at the injured of the protestors think the military's expectation was that as with previous coups in me and ma they could arrest they civilian leadership of the country and that then that would be difficulties organizing opposition to the coup this is different the protesters have a diversified leadership. much more difficult to take out just by arresting even

i mean they've arrested 400 but the protests still getting organized i think the military are concerned that these protests who to continue in the long term and that's why we've seen such draconian changes to the whole test is that they risk 20 years in jail for calling a coup. is not something that the protesters i think are going to accept that they've made their decision to protest the coup and they know what the military is like in me and not many people in myanmar of seen the military i mean 60 years of military dictatorship in that country is the lived experience of many people in me and they don't want to go back to that but they know what the military is like and this is what they expect the military to do so protesters have made the decision before they turn out on the straights to put their bodies on the line and to put their liberty on the line for them i think is a fight for their country's future and for freedom. they are actually president has

condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of edom bill calling it a dangerous escalation 3 blasts were heard and smoke was seen in the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces stationed an iranian backed shia group claims to have targeted the military base the international coalition fighting isis says one civilian foreign contractors being killed several others have been injured including a u.s. service member. 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 is going to be modeled on the commission established after the $911.00 attacks pelosi says it would report on the facts and the causes of the violence in january the 6th and which 5 people died several republicans have expressed support for an independent investigation and elson is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center in washington d.c. he says the findings but isn't as credible because the commission won't be partisan

. the important thing is the 911 model that this speaker pelosi is proposing is that it is 5050 bipartisan controlled by neither party and it is headed by 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 your piece of this would be to go in and find what house managers in the impeachment trial either couldn't or wouldn't produce which is clear independent of evidence over how responsible president room is for the riots that occurred in warsaw i think there's arguments on all sides of this for getting to the truth about this republicans who 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 it can be acting president trump he said the more people find out the likelier republicans will be to be on my side democrats of course would like mind 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 their in their stands from the possibility of a riot so there's a happy a little convergence of interest over establishing this that all sides find something they want to look at. the world health organization has approved the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine for emergency use the decision allows the global rollout of the vaccine and increases access for less wealthy nations to a program known as kovacs it comes as the number of cases worldwide have dropped for the 5th consecutive we'd already chalons is in east sussex south of london he says middle and low income countries are still falling behind 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 there's a study done by a few key diversity at the beginning of the year released in 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 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 yeah we are getting in the right direction but there's still a lot of work to be done. at least to 60 people have died in 240 others and missing in democratic republic of congo after a boat capsized and happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake my gma com the boat was traveling from the capital kinshasa to quite a province the government says it was overloaded alan can i has more from concetta this news was. not the 1st time in any way on. everything according to the condition of the boat. bore today usually. really saved. more than 700 people on this boat living hell not just up to

boarding this is called. there were troubling night time and because of the condition of the poor. people and much of. this accident. so the challenge right now is because of access to this area it is not very easy to access and also. the more soft. traveling. rescue team can properly walk to to to to give the tradition to so far. still missing more than 20200 people according to the deity of his shows. still ahead on al-jazeera why the world health organization says it's better prepared to tackle the new impala outbreak in guinea this time round and the killing of 13 turkish

police and soldiers in iraq leads to a diplomatic dispute between the u.s. and turkey. this is a really harsh winter haven't 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 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 cold but i'm cold we're 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 chill

will be a bit there's more snow developing in the rockies outbreaks there over and that's on its way size neck 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 yes 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 produces some pretty big thunderstorms for the yucatan and cuba in the bahamas during tuesday but they disappear by wednesday. there was a lot of there in this community and that is what we lived on the way when they were going to move 14 yet all the while making what up with this is our own man she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing their community was not

always a key problem auction plan had been what as a priority and led the way in transforming a difficulty into a success sir barring a one to me is standing economy. women make change on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour protesters are back on the streets in me in march for on the 11th stage of voiced their anger over this month's military coup in the u.n. special envoys warning of severe consequences if the military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations. the iraqi president's condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of at bill calling it

a dangerous escalation a shia group says it targeted a base for u.s. forces one civilian foreign contract has been killed. as house speaker nancy pelosi is announced plans to form an independent commission to investigate last month's assault on capitol hill blowsy said it would report on the facts and causes of the attack in which 5 people died. airline passengers arriving in the u.k. from a group of high risk countries are spending their 1st night in hotel quarantine the government says the new scheme will help prevent the spread of highly contagious strains of covert 19 but the policy is attracting criticism over the way it's been organized paul brennan 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. 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 does that quite well he is going to be a writer for very well. what. they got are what they get the high how not you have bearing in mind the traveling and not income. 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 weight of 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 their rooms but there's still about to leave the 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. the international red cross is calling for a swift response to a new a bull outbreak in guinea which has killed 5 people nicholas hocked reports from dakar in senegal. is back here the virus is spreading to the capital and i would say. 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 land 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 nurse died of the virus in late january. disaster in fact and we need our. approach to take into account of perceptions and 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 and 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 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 to car child says it's going to deploy 1200 soldiers to the volatile border areas between. faso pledges aimed at tackling on groups came at

a meeting of leaders from africa region president among them inspected to speak to them by video link on tuesday tasha has more from paris. well earlier this year the french president emmanuel mack ross said that france was considering reducing its military commitment in the sile the fact of late 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 is 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 u.s. is trying to defuse a diplomatic dispute with turkey over washington's response to the killing of 13 turkish hostages in northern iraq some costello reports from istanbul for all back home to bury the 13 turkish police and military personnel had been discovered in

a cave in northern iraq on sunday turkey says they had been abducted and then executed by fighters on the kurdistan workers party or p.k. case during combat operations oh lord. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at the output group only sees it or to syria 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 a y p g in the p why do you clearly support them and stand behind the picket k. is listed as a terrorist organization not only by turkey but the us and the e.u. the us condemned the killings if responsibility lay with the fi k k. if we work together with you in nato if we are to continue our unity in the world and nato the new will act sincerely towards us then you will stand with us not with

the terrorists. anger was over the anguish by washington support of kurdish fighters in neighboring syria turkey claims the group known as wife the chief is organically tied to the p.k. case and the name difference is just a branding effort to legitimize the organization in the fight against feisal. infuriated by washington statement on the iraq killings to accuse some of the us ambassador to and korea 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 a firm that p.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 l. lies remain as a nato ally angara wants washington to pick

a side either turkey or the p.k. k. and a syrian based wipe e.g. but in january incoming us secretary of state under in a blink an echo is turkey off not acting like an ally because of his purchase of a russian air defense system and said thing us would reveal if further sanctions are required unless one side compromises the dispute between nato is to pick us army is made out and soon so now because so little al-jazeera stumble a massive winter storm has been polling much of the us that even brought the rare sight of snow to some southern states. reports 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. 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. a little 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 happen 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 gave rosendo algy to we hawk in new jersey.