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i'll become a great film director and my mother will be proud of filmmakers and. on al-jazeera . the 11th day of anti 2 protests in me and the u.n. envoy warns of consequences if the military continues its crackdown. i'm about this and this is a 0 live from doha also coming up us democrats announce an independent investigation into the storming of the capitol building on january the 6th. 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. and 15000000
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people within 2 months mexico targets the elderly and the 2nd phase of its national vaccination drive. protesters a back on the streets and me and more for on the 11th day voicing their anger over this month's military coup. the un special envoy is warning of severe consequences if the military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations or shortly we're going to get an update from our correspondent covering the story scott highclere 1st difficult policy reports. a show of force to break up a protest outside a 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
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demonstrators were calling for me and mars military leaders to reinstate their elected government extra troops rule to send to other parts of the country ilian march largest city young gone soldiers in armored vehicles and tanks patrol the streets. one group of the civil disobedience movement c.t.m. 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
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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. 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 gosh 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
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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 . well scott hadley is monitoring the situation for us from the thai capital buying caucus so 11 days in we've seen the internet blackouts but that has been lifted just within the last hour or so and yet that the demonstrators are still determined to be on the streets. they are rob absolutely and they've already started to gather today at 2 of the locations that they where they were yesterday and previous days as well the lay down center is at a major intersection in central yangon really close to yangon university they are
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there again the protesters and they have been there for about an hour or so pretty soon after we were able to make contact with our team on the ground there once the internet blackout was lifted we also know that they're gathering at the central bank again in yangon this is a place where they gathered on monday in quite a big number and that's why we saw a very heavy military presence compared to other spots within the city within young gun that we saw those armored carriers military vehicles and that's where a lot of the protest was going on yesterday so it's going to be interesting to see what happens again today you know we saw massive numbers over the weekend saturday and sunday monday it dropped a little bit and probably that's what we're expecting to happen again today on tuesday but again they are still coming out rob and this is after we saw some violence around the country on monday we know that some shots were fired that we don't know if the robbery they were rubber bullets or live rounds to disperse crowds to the police in the street of course reeve in using slingshots against the
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protesters so despite all of that they are still coming out rob and what's going to be interesting to see is how the day unfolds if they're going to go to different locations we've been seeing that over the last 11 days going to embassies in the u.n. office for right now we know they're pretty much sticking to the pattern that we have seen over the last several days and right now that is the central bank as well as this major intersection near yangon university scott thanks very much indeed scott hyder bringing us up to date from the thai capital bangkok. the iraqi president's condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city that bill calling it a dangerous escalation 3 blasts were heard and smoke was seen at the perimeter of the airport where u.s. forces are stationed an iranian backed shia group claims to have targeted the military base one civilian form and contract to has been killed several others have been injured including a u.s. service member you guys house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans to form an
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independent commission to investigate last month's assault on capitol hill she says it's going to be modeled on the commission established after the $911.00 attacks but mostly says it would report on the facts and causes of the violence on january the 6th in which 5 people died several republicans have expressed support for an independent investigation and ellison is a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center in washington d.c. he says the findings will be seen as credible because the commission won't be partisan. the important thing that the 911 model that miss 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 that purpose 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
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clear independent evidence over how responsible president trump is for the riots that occurred in yourself i think there's arguments on all sides of this for getting to the 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 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 find out this but the truth 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 stands from the possibility of a riot so there's a happy political convergence of interest over establishing this that all sides can find something they want to look at the world health organization has approved a astra zeneca covert 1000 vaccine for emergency use the decision allows the global
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rollout of the vaccine and increases access for less wealthy nations through a program known as kovacs it comes as the number of cases worldwide dropped for the 5th consecutive week oxana paid sick heads university college london global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases she says the authorization is an important step for international vaccine coverage. the division of emergency authorization essentially allows for low and middle income countries to be able to authorize within their own nations relying on the w.h.o. process around quality safety checks also looking at analysis of the supply chain really pulls that 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
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that is working pacifically on vaccine equity financing the astra zeneca vaccine to reach the majority of low and middle income countries which through donations alone at an individual level would have been extremely difficult without the job of 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 and these to 60 people have died and 240 others i'm missing in democratic republic of congo for a boat capsized it happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake my and the vessel was traveling from the capital kinshasa to ecuador province the government
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says it was overloaded and i will conny has more from concern. this news was right now by. humanitarian action. not the 1st time anyway on this leg of mine everything happened according to the condition of the boats these boats the usually take. like it it really saved the score climbing more done they've been armed with people on this boat lifting to tell not can shuffle to get no 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
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to access and also. the most of the troubling details nor depressed. the rescue team can properly walk to to to give the tradition to their victims so far for now they are still missing more than 2 onwards to associate with people according to the d.n.c. or officials still had an al-jazeera argentina's beef industry spinning they seem to find a pandemic is being blamed for the drop in consumption. i'm taking charge and breaking barriers making history at the world trade organization. it's time. sponsored by qatar airways. the shovels no longer blowing down the gulf the only strengthens that wind
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directions more or less opposite bring is suddenly up through saturday in generating quite a lot of cloud in fact the big system developing here the cold air that's coming out of europe across the black sea is going to start to generate yet more snow in turkey has already fallen in greece and then the cold air comes across the mediterranean it turns into a storm system you've seen this time and time again this is a late winter one it will hit northern egypt quite badly and then the levant with rain and snow more or less from the golan heights northwards and the significance those like to be in turkey of course will eventually get rain moving moving through iraq and hitching north and saudi and it probably expand beyond that but we've gone as far as wednesday that will do for the alexandra's forecast reflects anywhere on the coast of the mediterranean sea near galle northwest drugs andrea winds a pretty poor conditions there will be flooding here that improves slowly gautami get to friday. similar conditions actually are about to happen in mozambique the wind a different direction it's like
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a fairly strong southerly through maputo and these mostly circulation trying to develop in the middle of mozambique low cost trouble puto 1st of all but after that that little bit further north maybe even better. sponsible cuts at ways to jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian global community when i don't have all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are and where be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is the era.
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you're watching out is it on one of our top stories this hour protesters are back on the streets in me in ma for an 11th day to voice their anger over this month's military coup the u.n. special envoy is warning of severe consequences if the military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations iraqi president is condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of appeal calling it a dangerous escalation a shia group says aides targeted a base for u.s. forces one fallen civilian contractor was killed. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans to form an independent commission to investigate last month's assault on capitol hill palosi says it would report on the facts and causes of the attack in which 5 people died. the palestinian authority says that israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines being delivered to the gaza
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strip the sputnik dozes were intended for frontline medical workers the 1st injections were supposed to be given out on tuesday palestinian health authorities are reported more than $53000.00 cases and at least $537.00 deaths since the start of the pandemic. a 2nd round of vaccinations has begun in mexico's capital health officials aim to inoculate 15000000 elderly people within 2 months by no hollow reports from mexico city. queues or long outside vaccination centers in the outskirts of the mexican capital on monday health officials rolled out the 2nd phase of mexico's national inoculation program. i feel happy after receiving the vaccine i'm glad they brought us the vaccine. they say that with the vaccine hopefully we can control the pandemic because too many of our poor brothers and sisters have left us. after weeks of delays some 870000 doses of
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astra zeneca covert 900 vaccine arrived in the mexican capital over the weekend restarting the country stalled next nation efforts you look at all you start with this if you've got what we're witnessing today is the arrival of the 1st test or is in a good vaccines developed with oxford's that were produced in india from mexico this shipment is very important because it will let us accelerate our vaccination drive as was ordered by the president. mexico's military has been mobilized to deliver new doses of the vaccine to all 32 mexican states. that of mexico is nearing 2000000 confirmed cases and ranks 3rd in the world in cope with 19 deaths the latest shipments of vaccines arriving at a critical time jack. said d.n.a. health officials have got the vaccine they arrived in the morning and they will continue arriving on tuesday and they won't stop arriving and national immunization
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plan won't stop as we have said there is preference for the elderly. while the 2nd phase of the vaccination program will focus on the elderly and frontline health workers the government has also placed top priority on rural areas where rates of transmission are relatively low many health policy experts say this is the wrong strategy. adding that the government should be focused on inoculation efforts in densely populated cities were authorities continue to struggle to curb contagion. mexico's vaccination program began in december of last year since then mexico's president has said the government intends to vaccinate the entire population that's more than 126000000 people by march of 2022 melinda upolu al-jazeera mexico city an investigation is being launched in peru into why nearly $500.00 people including many government officials were secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers former president martin because of a scot has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife received
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injections in october and sunday the foreign minister resigned after it emerged she'd also be given a secret goes south africa's former president could be imprisoned after he failed to appear before an inquiry into alleged corruption during his time in office the judge plans to seek an order holding jacob zuma in contempt of court the so-called state capture inquiry has been running for 2 years it's investigating allegations that zuma allowed the wealthy gupta family to plunder state resources and influence policy zuma denies any wrongdoing followed a miller has more from johannesburg. and then 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
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but this really is symbolic of the divisions within that party and its fight against corruption if the former president says that he's rights are being impeded on that he's been vilified that this is propaganda and there's a political agenda they 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 zuma does continues to defy the commission as the commissioners under had said he is doing or if he maintains it is right not to appear the red cross is warning of a deepening humanitarian crisis in northern most and be more than half a 1000000 people have fled an upsurge of violence between the military and fighters
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linked to i saw how they would toss of reports. aid workers say health facilities are being deliberately targeted in kabul and they can access huge parts of the province people fleeing the violence in northern most and baek can sometimes only get help when they reach clinics set up in camps for the internally displaced their total for all 1st sent us in the province is 845539 over there they are no more pressure not because they have been of on the largest or they have been burned or they have been just to destroy most and because government says fighters affiliated to eisele operating in parts of kabul delgado the militant group stage is 1st attack in 2017 since then the attacks have been bigger in scale and frequency taking on the army and the time seizing entire towns health workers say be humanitarian crisis is getting worse from proton the government the number of cases has gone up there are many diseases like malaria missing displaced people
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from where. i'm a commune district practically the entire northern area. more than half a 1000000 people have fled their homes many of them are now in the provincial capital they complain about overcrowding manju tradition and the constant threat of cover 1000. living as a displaced person. moving from one place to another there are many difficulties a problem with staring over finding food to eat at least here and getting treated for illness i am now feeling better. southern african countries portugal and others in the european union have offered to help fight the armed groups but there's been no official word from the mostly be government on the way forward. out as a. nigeria's former finance minister has become the 1st woman and the 1st african to lead the world trade organization. was unanimously confirmed as director john. her
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1st priorities will be to try to settle the u.s. china trade war and counter protectionism which had grown up during the pandemic as nigeria's finance minister she helped to persuade rich countries to write off much of nigeria's debt she's a 25 year veteran of the world bank where she oversaw an $81000000000.00 portfolio focused on developing economies a conduit well run against the 7 other candidates and apart from centering trades ability to lift people out of poverty today w.t.r. members are making history for the 1st time in the 73 years of that and of the deal us electing a woman and an african as director general this is groundbreaking and. 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
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said courage and passion so work with you so i'm to take the wide ranging reforms to your knees so it position itself for their future their consumption of beef in argentina has dropped to an all time low that's being partly blamed on the economic impact of coronavirus 3 simple reports from want to say it is. green before ours is part of argentina's tradition but only wolf is proud of what his family has achieved there are experts in preparing the traditional less saddle or barbecue the greening method used by the skilled horse men who roamed argentina the region in the 18th and 19th centuries in their. keep the pleasures of them we are proud to say this is a restaurant that feeds everyone all social classes those who have money and those who don't but things have changed it's becoming more and more expensive those who come have less money. the pandemic has forced restaurants like this one to adapt
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it's working at 30 percent of its capacity what complicates the situation even more is that beef is becoming more expensive in a country where people are used to eating meat nearly every day latest reports show that beef consumption has dropped to an all time low or about 50 kilos a person a year half the amount consumed in the 1950 s. one of the recent is a changing eating abbots but there is more. place a coup for gold in argentina culture this type of father was i part of people's life but in the past year the price of beef have increased around 70 percent because of inflation an increase of exports and that's why the government is putting together a plan that ends the review the price of certain. due to rising prices cows were taken last year to graceland instead of being fattened with corn they slowed down
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before duction and reduced the supply experts in the area fear government intervention to control the prices. back in 2008 government restrictions to prevent a rise in prices ended with a loss of a around 20 percent of argentina's cattle herd. i think it's a political action trying to reduce the price of beef week sport only 3 percent of what we consume if the government tries to act on the effect and not on the causes which is the rise in prices of almost everything in the country i am already he said butcher who was forced to adapt her shop and sell other products she says the increase in the price of beef makes it difficult for her business to thrive. but in the course in the mills in that we've had a 40 percent decrease in the sales of beef mostly because of price not everyone can pay for beef people were used to eating at all the time but that's not the case now we're selling chicken and other projects so that we can get our sales up. beef
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consumption is a reflection of argentina's economy and that's one of the reasons why the government wants to guarantee people have access to it. but failed policies of the past may end up hurting the sector that has made argentinean beef famous worldwide that is i will. a spanish rap artist has barricaded himself into a university near boss a loner he's trying to avoid a prison sentence for insulting the marquis and praising so-called terrorism of a hustler once the law under which he was convicted to be scrapped reports. for my single. blow herself pulls no punches in his tough anti establishment lyrics in his latest video the spanish rap artist accuses the state of 100 covering artists and calls for freedom of expression and.
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now he's barricaded himself into yet again a 1st scene of barcelona in a bid to maintain his own freedom in 2018 a spanish court convicted him presenting some tweets criticizing spain's royal family and praising the left despite a group he's due to go to jail but is refusing to hand over or spawn them with a 4 mile gauntlet and there might be people thinking that this does not affect them directly but of course it does when one of us loses a right the working class of the whole loses it. crowds of people have shown up at the university to support his cause. some have put up barricades to stop any police from trying to reach him none have so far turned up so i think 1st of all i think it's all right. well expressed your opinion either rappin either saying in
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either dance you need or doing whatever you want. last week supporters trying to madrid to mani has self not jailed and 200 artists actors and film directors have signed a petition demanding his freedom. one showed her support with the street showing the spanish king a raising herself image then what. it can be that an artist is jailed for expressing his ideas i believe that something that is profoundly unfair has cells case has the attention of the government it's moving to reform what's known as the gag law that was intended to prevent glorifying terrorism. of a bally these verbal excesses that some may have and which are part of a framework of cultural expressions must according to this government be kept away from any legal sanction. amnesty international says about 70 people were convicted on the so-called gag law in 20182019 the artist who says he
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uses rap as a tool for transformation says he would move on to the scrapped you're about among the al-jazeera. this is all just everything's at the top stories protesters are back on the streets and miramar for an 11th day to voice their own go over this month's military coup the u.n. special envoy is warning of severe consequences of the military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations scott however has more from the thai capital bangkok 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.

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