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a volatile border region and asks for international support to tackle armed groups . i want to storm blocks southern states in the united states plunging texas into a deep freeze. the u.n. special envoy is warning of severe consequences if mia mars military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations. as to throw out an 11th day voicing their anger over this month's military coup vehicles and soldiers have been deployed across the country that officials cut off the internet for the 2nd night in a row although it's not been restored scott hydros following the situation for us from the thai capital bangkok. 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 bang. 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 yangon 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 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 a force review using slingshots against the protesters so despite all of that they are still coming out 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 but 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 ok let's bring in the marines oh he's executive director of the me i'm on institute for peace and security he's joining us by skype from young gone it's good to have you with us once again and all jazeera so you spoke to us a couple of days ago and at that time you said you were concerned for your own safety and the safety of the protesters at that point how are you feeling now. right now and the gov the men and the protests still in a position that could protest a trying to shut down the government functions and. at least at the private banks so they conceded that shutting down the financial industry would actually post

a government to halt the functions and the go the men it's also to. try to demonstrate testily that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protest try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walk us from coming to watch they may take actions so these was the source of confrontation we saw yesterday so we have to see how the the authorities. face off with the protest what trying to prevent financial institution from running today and what we also heard about the authorities arrest some of the organizers us at night continuously as well as far as their arrests are concerned is there any indication that those arrests

are expanding and do we know what's happening to the people who are being arrested . there are a few different types of some of those people were arrested they were a choice. formally and some people were put on. summary. trial and sentenced some of those people were arrested when kept in a what they called government get house rather than prisons but some most of the people who were arrested. detained in communication do it so that means that we we don't know where they were kept and they were not in contact with the their family members and also a number of people who were at the tate well also released after a few days so that different types of patterns of the arrests be taking place we're

seeing reports that the numbers of protesters in dealing vary slightly but it is smaller than it was at the beginning do you think that people are losing heart in the face of the military response. what people are still. angry at the military for the fall what happened. the military coup that took over or the n.l.e. given but at the same time we realized. that the protest was a lot on the day when offices were closed so people will watch could not join the protests in the walking days usually the protests last week we noticed that the friday which is often a holiday was the largest so far and also this so another potential backfire from the protests to the general public was when the protests are trying

to shut down the financial institution the 1st lady oh who are some for the backlash will be the general public because people 'd in the end more be. they survive ph after peach checked and if the financial issues shut down or if the a fire or if their camp and he still walking people with feet a lot of challenges to survive so that would be a challenge yes also for that protester to maintain the movement of the public support in the long run there has been international response to this and we've just heard of course that the u.n. special envoy is warning of unspecified severe consequences if the military carries on with this crackdown did the people does the demonstrators and me and mar believe that they have the confidence of the international community or do they feel that they're actually on their own with this. well international

support definitely really food for reach people determination but on the other hand many xperience activists know the international support is quite limited to me anymore so. so people in the long run they have to stand all the all do face of the government and so that kind of confrontation where go on at least 'd for the some of the low intensity in the long run. is executive director of the mia more institute for peace and security we appreciate your being with us and al-jazeera thank you very much thank you they're out here president has condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of erbil calling it a dangerous escalation 3 blasts were heard and smoke seen on the perimeter of an airport where u.s.

forces stationed an iranian backed shia group says it targeted the military base one civilian foreign contractor was killed several others were 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 causes of the violence in january the 6th in which 5 people died several republicans have expressed support for an independent investigation henry olsen 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 of the 911 model that speaker pelosi is proposing is that it is 5050 bipartisan controlled by neither party and it is had an extremely important former or current appointed or official has left that officials from both

sides so it's something that gives a finding extreme credibility and i think 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 clear and evident over how responsible president is for the riots that occurred in the us i think there's arguments on all sides of this for getting to the truth about this republicans are on happy with trump would love to be able to find more evidence as senator bill cassadine one of the 7 republicans who voted for can be acting president because 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 who was in charge of capitol security did or did not do to protect them and their stabs from the possibility of a riot so there's

a happy political convergence of interest over establishing the sides can find something they want to look at the world health organization has approved the astra zeneca cove 19 vaccine for emergency use the decision allows the global rollout of the vaccine and increases access for less wealthy nations the program known as kovacs comes as the number of cases worldwide have dropped for the 5th consecutive win a correspondent role in challenge says middle and low income countries still falling behind in their vaccination programs. we are expecting 330000000 doses to be ministered by the middle of 2021 with something up to 2000000000 doses being given out by the end of the year now last 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's 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 60 people have died and 240 others are missing in democratic republic of congo after

a boat capsized it happened late on sunday on the congo river near lake my and only the vessel was traveling from the capital kinshasa to ecuador province the government says it was overloaded. still ahead on al-jazeera why the world health organization says it's better prepared to tackle the new ebola outbreak in guinea this time round plus why joe biden's chosen the state of wisconsin for his 1st official trip and what people there are hoping is going to come out of it. for. the sheer miles no longer blowing down the gulf than the strength of that wind directions more or less opposite bring you suddenly up through saturday in generating quite a lot of cloud in fact is a 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 was rain and snow more or less from the golan heights northwards and the significance of those like to be in turkey of course we eventually get rain readings 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 so need a gale northwest drug zandra winds a pretty poor conditions there will be flooding here that it improves slowly gautami get to friday. similar conditions actually are about to happen in mozambique the wind a different direction it's look 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 a little bit further north maybe even boner.

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you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour protesters have back on the streets in me in march 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. there at the president's condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city that bill calling it a dangerous escalation a shia group says it's targeted a base for u.s. forces one fought in civilian contract 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 israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines being delivered to the gaza strip the sputnik doses are intended for frontline medical workers the 1st injections were supposed to be administered on tuesday palestinian health

authorities have reported more than $53000.00 cases and at least $537.00 deaths since the start of the pandemic. an investigation has been launched in peru into why government officials were secretly vaccinated ahead of health workers on the president martin viscount it has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife received injections in a tub or on sunday the foreign minister resigned after 10 minutes she had also been given a doze in secret. guinea is trying to track down anyone who had contact with those infected with ebola they have brinks killed 5 people so far or 10 others to showing symptoms and of course hock reports from dakar in senegal. a bulla is back here the virus is spreading to the capital. so. i feel really surprised given the current situation guinea 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 corey after a nurse died of the virus in late january. disaster in fact and we need our. approach to take into account a perception. 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 a knowingly 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 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 chad says it will deploy 1200 soldiers to the border areas between mali. faso they move is aimed at tackling on groups the pledge was made of joining a meeting of leaders from africa's held region french president is expected to speak to them by video link on tuesday the talks about has more from power. 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 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 president heard of one had accuse the u.s. of supporting kurdish fighters after it made a statement that stopped short of blaming them for the killings and of course the all new reports from istanbul the wall 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 executed by fighters on the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. during combat operations. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at the output group how this is not only 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. the 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 u.s. condemned the killings if responsibility lay with the p.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. 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 turkey summoned the us ambassador to uncover a and later to accuse foreign minister spoke for the 1st time with his new us

counterpart and to deplane can according to readouts blinken is said to have affirmed that p.k. k. was to blame and the to emphasise the importance of thereby literally relationship and interests in countering terrorism but the differences between the longstanding l. lies remain as a nato ally on carranza 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 connect historically 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 as to biggest army is made out and soon see an anchor solo al-jazeera stumble. joe biden has to risk consulate on tuesday for his 1st official trip as u.s. president it was one of the key states in biden's victory and has been hard hit by

the pandemic now people there are hoping his administration will help them recover from the economic followed john 100 reports from well walking. 33. when the phelps brothers construction company became the general contractors for the democratic national convention it was a corporate coup when the pandemic forced the convention to go virtual the democrats cancelled the contract and that's about how 2021 here in wisconsin last year was a rough year so we're looking forward to any kind of wanted out we have the vaccine and everything else i would hope it s. and jobs open up and some opportunities definitely open to other way for a small company like ourselves they're hoping for a better economic climate with a new president who campaigned in wisconsin promising to help minority businesses now joe biden is making his 1st official visit and outside of the washington area here in part to make good on that promise wisconsin lies near the center of the midwest

a train ride away from american marketplaces from coast to coast. it exports manufactured goods agriculture and like many rest belt cities across the united states has lost factories in jobs to the ravages of the pandemic would depend demick like any other state you know things went downhill so as a result what we saw in 2020 specially in the the 2nd quarter and 3rd quarter of 2020 is that the economy was doing pretty bad he says the state's ability to reopen shuttered shops and recover depends in part on biden's $1.00 trillion dollars kovac $1000.00 rescue plan which includes money for businesses and workers trump $1.00 wisconsin narrowly which helped him get to the white house biden won it back for the democrats but not by a huge margin and wisconsin has shown it could swing right back to the republicans if it doesn't see results from the democratic president. for minority businesses

like the phelps brothers expectations are especially high for black business you know hopefully that he can. do what he needs to put the right legislation. decorative orders or work of congress so that we won't be at the bottom of the list all the time. for wisconsin businesses biden's visit is a start they appreciate the high profile attention of the president at the dawn of his term but they'll judge him by his success in turning around the state's flagging economy john hendren al jazeera milwaukee to democracy activists in hong kong pleaded guilty to organizing an illegal assembly and $2197.00 others denied the charges including media tycoon jimmy lie and martin lead who is known as hong kong's father of democracy it's related to a demonstration in august 2900 games to beijing's influence the rally drew nearly 2000000 people critics say the charges approved the government is written by fear

that way remember fred may become of the really big mama problem or primary goal for president 2 obama got corporate growth run rate of week. from the rule of law well go rule by fear. a major winter storms pummeled much of the u.s. it's even brought a rare sight of snow to some southern states elizondo reports 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 are 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. too far but 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. this is all just 0 these are the top stories protesters are back on the streets and me and my office.