i. mean mars military has warned of consequences if it uses heavy handed methods against protesters demonstrating against. the what you know just your own life from headquarters and. also coming up a call for an independent commission to investigate the attack on the u.s. capitol the house speaker wants to get to the truth of what happened the world health organization approves the oxford astra zeneca with 1000 vaccine for global

rollout a winter storm sweeps through parts of the u.s. bringing record subzero temperatures traffic headaches and leaving millions in the dark. hello thanks for joining us the u.n. special envoy to me on mars warning of severe consequences if the military steps up its crackdown on demonstrations. protesters are out for an 11th day voicing their anger over this month's military coup armored vehicles on soldiers have been deployed across the country and officials cut off the internet for a 2nd night in a row but it's now been restored scott huyler's monitoring the situation from the thai capital of bangkok so scott what is happening with the protests.

that and we're seeing a similar pattern to what we have seen over the last several days in yangon in particular there are some targets that the protesters have gathered that gather that earlier in the day then kind of spread out from there there's a main intersection in downtown yang gone where protesters usually gather 1st also by city hall and then also the central bank that's been kind of a focal point over the last couple of days and what's interesting about that is the protesters are going there and they are trying to stop business as usual if you will for the operations of the government that is what they see is to be part of the issue with the military taking over the government they want to try to stop that and they want to try to stop or at least prevent them from carrying out the business of every day that the government needs to do that's why they're targeting some of these buildings now we know particularly the central bank and then other banks around the city as well and around the country so that is right now with the civil disobedience movement that these protesters are trying to slow down the

operations of the government by the military so that they're hoping will kind of force their hand and hear their calls that they want their democratically elected leaders 1st released and then reinstalled so that is kind of what we're seeing again but as you mentioned that in you know we have this we had for the 2nd night running a internet blackout for about 8 hours from 1 am to 9 am it was restored straight after but what's concerning is why they're doing that why the military government is doing that a lot of people think it's to kind of put a blanket over what's happening at night and a lot of abductions a lot of i should say detentions are taking place overnight so that's what's believed why that internet shut is coming we're not sure if it's going to happen again this evening it's kind of got it has been going the last few days so far and scott we do expect the military to be speaking shortly at least an official from the military that is what can we expect. yet we're hearing that they'll be a press conference within the next 30 minutes now this will be the 1st official

military press conference since the coup since that announcement of the coup we don't really know what's going to what they're going to say what's going to take place obviously they will address the protest movement the civil disobedience movement in some way you know they've issued statements and rules and laws about how they are going about they the military are going about dealing with these protests across the country but this is going to be the 1st press conference we're also hearing that this is going to take place in the capital neighborhood or we're also hearing that local journalists from myanmar in they put or in the capital are going to boycott that because they don't recognize the military as the official government of the country so they're going to boycott it but obviously we'll monitor that particular because we anticipate there to be some pretty major announcements within that because again this is the 1st press conference that the military government is holding since the announcement of the coup all right scott we'll check in with you a little later thank you so much for that update from bangkok on the situation i'm

in mar well men's hour is the executive director at the me and more institute for peace and security and he says targeting financial institutions could test the government's tolerance for street demonstrations. right now and the government and the protests are 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 force the government to halt the functions and the government it's also. trying 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 walk they may take actions so that 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 international support definitely reinforce and encourage people determination but on the other hand many xperience activists know the international support is quite limited to myanmar so. don't people in the long around they have to stand on the old do face off the government and so that kind of confrontation go on at least 'd for the some of the low intensity in the long run. 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 it will be modeled on the

commission established after the $911.00 attacks pelosi says it will report on the facts and cause of the violence on generate a 6 then 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 part partisan the important thing is the 911 model that ms speaker pelosi is proposing is that it is 5050 bipartisan and why neither party and it has had an extremely important former or current appointed or official has elected 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 they'd have a chance over how responsible president from 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 who are on happy with trump would love to be able to find more evidence as senator bill passes being one of the 7 republicans who voted for can be acting president for a piece of 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 trump people also would like to find out what the truth is in part because it will also enable them their best to gauge what this house speaker who was in charge of capitol security gate 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 this sides can find something they want to look at. the iraqi president has condemned a series of rocket attacks in the northern city of erbil calling it a dangerous escalation the blasts were heard and smoke seen near an airport where u.s. forces are stations and iranian backed shia group says it targeted the military base

one foreign contractor was killed and several injured including a u.s. service member again a is trying to track down anyone who had contact with those infected with ebola 5 people have died and 10 others have symptoms nicholas haq reports from dakar in senegal. is back here the virus is spreading to the capital. city. continue to suggest i feel really surprised given the current situation guinea weekend names are struggling with the 19 pandemic and now with the paula 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 a nurse died of the virus in late january. disaster in fact and we need. to take into account. the

coach. several people attending the infected nurses funeral contracted the virus some have since died with more than $200.00 close contacts health authorities fear many more could be unknowingly carrying a bulla the virus spreads easily through bodily fluids and triggers fever vomiting and diarrhea eventually causing organ failure and death. people are nervous the governor of 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 and tropical region 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. still ahead on al-jazeera argentina's beef industry feels the heat and the pandemic is blamed for a drop in consumption. or might seem to start. a boil drop why the spanish monarchy is insulted by the lyrics of an artist sentenced to jail.

for. now after about 2 weeks of deep freeze and ice and snow is about to be a change in many countries in northern europe it's coming in from the atlantic this time it wanted to be a bit more forceful and this frontal system will end up going quite a long way east into what is currently very cold weather so it'll bring 1st of all freezing rain then stone it's 4 days lift temperatures are not going to be extremely high but in comparison with the last few days barely above freezing is good and london's 11 is positively mail but there is still cold in the eastern side of europe it won't be pushed out beyond eastern poland or through rumania even down through greece at least by the end of tuesday and that's where the roughest weather is going to be still winter wise your northerly breeze developing through greece

and turkey has already brought snow throughout greece's goes from north to south this is what we're looking at at the moment now it's not unique it does happen in most winters this is quite a severe outbreak and it will i think probably just storm development in the south here so that's fairly nasty weather for both egypt the levant and turkey and of course east until he gets really covered in snow but it's wind and rain for an event and for northern egypt. there was a lot of there in this community and that is where we lived on the way when they were going to look for to get all the while making what up when this is our own men she worked with local women to solve the main problem plaguing their communities was not always a key problem action plan had the water as a priority and led the way in transforming into coty into a success so empowering all one to me is standing economy. and women make change

on al-jazeera. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the u.n. special envoy to me and maher is warning the army of severe consequences if it steps up its crackdown on demonstrations protestors are on the streets for an 11 day divorce anger over the military coup. u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi has announced plans to form an independent commission to investigate last month's are sold on capitol hill. that would report on the facts on causes of the attack in which 5 people died. trying to track down anyone who's

had contact with people infected with ebola an outbreak has killed 5 people and 10 are showing symptoms these are the country's 1st cases of the disease in 5 years. to democracy activists in hong kong have 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 the trials are related to a demonstration in august 29th team against beijing's influence the rally drew nearly 2000000 people critics say the charges are proof the government is ruling through fear. the u.s. is trying to defuse a diplomatic dispute with turkey after its response to the killing of 13 turkish hostages in iraq angered ankara president has accused the us of so supporting kurdish fighters after issued a statement that stopped short of blaming them for the killings so of course i'll go reports from istanbul for the all back home to bury the 13 turkish

police and ministry 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 oh lord. but turkey's anger for the killings wasn't just directed at the group and he says you know 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 its 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 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 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 u.s. ambassador to iraq and later to accuse foreign minister spoke for the 1st time with his new u.s. counterpart to deplane can according to readouts blinken is said to have affirmed that 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 l.

lies remain as a nato ally angara wants washington to pick a side either turkey or the p.k. k. and the syrian based wipe e.g. but in january incoming us secretary of state under an a blink an echo of not acting like an ally because of his purchase of a russian air defense system and said the 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 see an amp a solo al-jazeera stumble chad says it will send $1200.00 soldiers to the volatile border areas between mali. and work in a fast so leaders from africa somehow region have been meeting at a summit to discuss how to tackle armed groups in the area french president emanuel my call will join the summit by video link on tuesday france as the ploy thousands of soldiers. tabak local troops but is preparing to reduce its presence the world

health organization has approved the astra zeneca 1000 vaccine for emergency use the this is an a lousy global 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. heads university college london global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases she says the approval is an important step for a global vaccine coverage the division of emergency authorization essentially allows for low and middle income countries to be able to authorize within their own nation relying on the show 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 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 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. the palestinian authority says israel has stopped 2000 coronavirus vaccines being delivered to the gaza strip the 1st sputnik

dozers were supposed to be administered on tuesday more than 2000000 palestinians living in the gaza strip are yet to be inoculated human rights groups have criticized israel for not providing vaccines to palestinians living under israeli occupation in the west bank and the besieged gaza strip. benefit is a key component of traditional argentine cuisine but its consumption has dropped to an all time low and it's being partly blamed on the economic impact of the corona virus pandemic series about reports from one of. the ruling before ours is part of argentina's tradition lone wolf is proud of what his family has achieved they're experts in preparing the traditional or barbecue the grilling method used by the or skilled horseman who roamed argentina a region in the 18th and 19th centuries been there all along with the pleasure so here we are proud to say this is a restaurant that feeds everyone also szell crosses 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 $1.00 to adapt its 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. played a crucial role in argentina culture this type of father was i part of people's life but in the past year the price of you have increased around 70 percent because of inflation and increased exports and that's why the government is putting together a plan that aims to review the price of certain. due to rising prices cows were

taken last year to graceland instead of being fattened with corn they slow down beef production and reduce 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 we export only 3 percent of what we consume if the government tries to act on your ficta not on the causes which is the rise in prices of almost everything in the country. 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. and 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 by selling chicken and other parties so that we can get our sales up before 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 . a massive winter storm has been pummeling much of the u.s. and even brought the rare side of sloth to some southern states causing chaos in a region unused to freezing conditions gabriel the zonda 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 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. a little 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 open 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 barely 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 gabriel is

on doe how do we hawk in new jersey. nigeria's former finance minister has become the 1st woman and the 1st african to lead the world trade organization and he goes he on conduit run unanimous unanimous backing to the kit to be confirmed as director general her top priorities include countering pandemic related protectionism and settling the trade war between the u.s. and china. today w.t.r. members are making history for the 1st time in the 73 years of that and of good deal u.s. electing a woman and an african as director general this is groundbreaking. i am grateful for that trust you have a me not just as a woman and an african but tell us a my knowledge experience and how some of you have said courage and passion so well with you trying to take the wide ranging reforms to your knees so it positioned

itself for the future. police in spain have stormed a university building where a rap artist who has barricaded himself to avoid prison. was sentenced for insulting the monarchy and praising so-called terrorism he wants the law under which he was convicted to be scrapped laura burdon manly reports. for singing the star. pablo 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. now he's barricaded himself into yet again a 1st scene abbas aluna in a bid to maintain his own freedom in 2018 a spanish court convicted him for his songs and tweets criticizing spain's royal

family for praising a leftist spying to a group he's due to go to jail for 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 i think 1st of all i think it's our right. to express your opinion either rappin either saying in either dance you need or doing whatever you want. last week supports a strategy to madrid to mani has cells 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 the model so low that over and pick whether 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 refill what's known as a gag law that was intended to prevent glorifying terrorism. this or that rally 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 was amnesty international says about 70 people were convicted on the so-called gag law in 20182019 the all to sue says he uses rap as a tool for transformation says he won't move until the law is scrapped nor about a man the al-jazeera.