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lines in myanmar as the military says its takeover of power was illegal. plus resignations and apologies in peru following revelations that senior ministers secretly received coronavirus vaccination. now the u.s. has called on yemen's truthy rebels to halt their advance on the northern city of marriage the special envoy for yemen acknowledged using back to channels to talk to the who these to try to get them to return to international negotiations to end the 6 year war this all comes on the day the group was officially removed from the u.s. terror list reversing one of donald trump's final decisions in office and in another dramatic change to u.s. middle east policy the white house says it's a recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia joe biden will now speak directly to king solomon bin abdulaziz instead of crown prince mohammed bin sama.

we've made clear from the beginning that we're going to recalibrate our relationship with. saudi arabia and that you know president biden one of the questions there was also just to go back to the context of it whether he would be speaking with us and part of that is going back to engagement counterpart to counterpart the president's counterpart is can someone an expect at an appropriate time he would have a conversation with him mike hanna is in washington d.c. for us mike that's really quite the statement that can you talk us through the implications of the. indeed yes in the world of diplomacy there are many nuances there you heard the statement counterpart to counterpart what this means is that the president speak to keynes that's the way it was before the trumpet ministration and it's a way that is now going to be reset so president biden when he talks to the

leadership he will be speaking to the king and not to the crown prince there's another new onset is entered into the by the administration's discourse since it's taken power and that it refers to saudi arabia as a security partner it does not use the word ally which was the word that was used by donald trump when he was president so these are seemingly nuances but a very important in terms of how the relationship has been set up we've also heard from the biden and ministration an insistence that it is going to focus more on human rights issues within saudi arabia rather than weapon sales which is once again a hallmarks of the previous administration so all of these factors taken together show a marked change in the u.s. position compared to the previous administration at the same time it must be said that the biden and ministrations stool signals that it sees saudi arabia as an exceedingly critical part and that it's once good relations with saudi arabia

particularly with regard to events in the region such as iran and mike as they are saying we are seeing this broader foreign policy shift in the region from the biden administration they've also been moving very quickly and decisively on a a number of different fronts when it comes to yemen. yes this is once again part of this restructuring if you want to put it that way off by in foreign policy the administration has to remove the terrorist at the 3rd that was given to the cooties by trump in his last days as president at the same time it sends a very strong signal to the butties to stop the aggressive at vons on government held city knowledge this is a balancing act on the one hand it is expressing some form of support for the hutus and the negotiation process at the other hand it's making clear that it will not brook ongoing aggression by any of the parties involved now this is an important signal because it shows an emergent policy that is attempting to be evenhanded one

of the 1st actions abided and ministration did was insistent would no longer assist the saudi led coalition in attacks in yemen that was one of the 1st steps now you have these other subsequent steps following but above all the biden ministration wants to reduce it that ongoing conflict in yemen within the terms of a un led negotiation process and this is what it is beginning to do but at the same time it wants to achieve a form of balance and not seeking to weigh in on the side of any party involved it's a very very careful balancing act mike hanna there for us in washington d.c. thank you so much mike well let's now bring in william laurance he's a professor of international relations at american university and also a former u.s. diplomat he joins us now also from washington d.c. professor it does feel like we're watching the white house try to reclaim more control over foreign policy across the whole middle east region this shift in turn

toward saudi arabia's micra saying strategic partner rather than ally and now this printed statement about crown prince mohammed bin santa how's that likely to go over in riyadh. i don't think it's going to go over too well but the saudis knew what they were getting into when they placed the chevy bets on the trumpet ministration and even on his reelection as did the netanyahu in israel and by betting so hard on the job of ministration and its continuance for another 4 years they're sort of reading what they sowed and abiding ministration is aware of all this knowledge they tend towards the obama administration whether they're going to chase e.p.o. in the speech even before congress or the way in which the saudis were so closely allied with gerry cushier on a whole range of issues including the normalization which all those saudi arabia denormalized they green led the nation by several other countries so all of this is part of a reset but i don't think it's i think it's less about diplomatic snobs and diplomatic

diplomatic messaging and more about diplomatic priorities that by the ministration wants to make its priorities clear to everyone and that's about renewing a multilateral u.s. european democracies democratic country approach to a whole range of issues including all these middle eastern issues and the emphasis on human rights human rights brings together yemen domestic saudi activists and so he this is about signal room priorities i think more than anything else you say that the crown prince that pretty heavily on trump is this shift now 7 on the biden likely to have the mistaken potations for the crown prince and his power base within saudi arabia. there's a lot of speculation about out among saudi watchers but i don't think we're seeing the imminent downfall crisis as i heard some commentators say in saudi arabia disc i don't even think this call to king someone was big of

a deal there would always be a courtesy call 'd to be giving out to king some of the dots i mean that sort of not that strange and if the king says now you talk to the crown prince that's how things will go so i think the bigger issue here is what's the relationship going to be like what's the priorities that are going to be made and what it's going to change and already the release of some people i know dissidents in saudi arabia and certain mousie's of the presage that the saudis do want to deal but one of biden's priorities that he signaled is more constructive rather than an aggressive approach to iran especially when it comes to the need presumably the saudi isn't thrilled about that. yes and that's something i think there's a lot of confusion about and there's a lot of propaganda about it in the u.s. politics it's not that biden likes the iranians it's not the biden who likes to use instead biden believes in his soul of souls of the best way to deal with these

international conflicts is to have a good working practical relationship with all parties to a conflict and then seek peace that's exactly what they're doing in yemen and that's what the point of the j c p a way was to quote my crisis kook ali al you that it was about managing and enmity not rapprochement with the rare and so that this does management approach to thorny issues is the approach they want to take him i think it's a very practical approach rather than just aligning with one side or the other when i am not in san professor of international relations at american university great take your thoughts here on out there thanks being with us professor. military has denied carrying out a crew and pledged again to hold elections next year a spokesman for the armed forces say they had no choice but to seize power and also now filed a 2nd criminal charge against the country's civilian either. which could allow her to be detained indefinitely scott highly reports. continuing their

civil disobedience movement who protesters in you know don't block train services out of ensign railway station one of the city's largest. 6 and east on the other end of the line and protesters there also did the same in its 1st press conference since taking over the military just to justify its actions saying it was not a coup and that the protesters are inciting violence are already going to move in it yeah soon and you know you need money. the party had a chance to solve problems like election fraud peacefully according to the constitutional law they didn't take action that's why we have no choice but to take power and this is not a code we found out that the protesters are inciting the violence in the legally pressuring civil servants the protesters have become violent rather than peaceful. elsewhere in yangon protesters laid down to look like they were resting illustrating the point that tense nights are robbing them of sleep this overconcerned of night time patrols and arrests more than 400 people have been

detained according to a monitoring group as a protesters ramp up pressure by strikes and rallies something else it might prompt a strong reaction from the military the government it's also. trying to demonstrate. tacitly that they may tolerate the street protests but if the protests try to occupy those buildings or prevent. a walk us from county to watch actions a day after police crackdown on protesters in the 2nd largest city injuring many they came back out in mandalay amid a low key security presence thousands marched on the streets. in yangon buddhist monks joined the protest chanting against the coup and calling for the release of detained leaders some see their participation as bringing moral authority to the movement scott idlers al-jazeera.

cassio in the netherlands to stop the spread of 1000 remains in place despite a court striking it down earlier on tuesday a judge ruled that the restrictions have breached people's right to privacy and free movement but another court has now decided the cap you should remain in force until a government appeal is heard on friday and down protest as rising to several days after those restrictions were imposed in january and if. it had to go on for years the aim is to control the coronavirus as much as possible so that soon we will have all our freedom back but in a safe way that is why we introduced a curfew and that is not changed today that is why i urge everyone said the appeal not result in a suspension of the ruling of the district court judge we hope so but we cannot be sure that it will. now almost 2000000 more people in the u.k.

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hello again i'm mr let's remind you about top stories at this hour myanmar's military says its power takeover was not a coup and has again pledge to hold elections and its 1st press conference since seizing power the military has filed a 2nd criminal charge now against deposed leader aung san suu kyi. the u.s. has called on yemen's freaky fighters to halt their advance on the city of meyer but the government's lost more than a stronghold washington special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back channels to get their weekly is back to international negotiations. and the biden administration says its recalibrating its relationship with saudi arabia breaking with the policies of former president donald trump joe biden will now speak to king sound man directly rather than the crown prince. well speaking of joe

biden he's now heading to the state of wisconsin say his 1st official trip as u.s. president it's one of the states that was key to his presidential victory and it's also been hit hard by this pandemic he's expected to make the case for congress to pass his proposed 1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package on john hendren joins us now from milwaukee john can you talk us through president biden's agenda for today. absolutely he's really got one main thing on his mind this is the joe biden covert relief road juries coming out here to persuade the public to back his 1.9 trillion dollar coded relief bill in order to kick start the economy and it's in a ambitious program it would give money to individuals those people who have been affected by the virus people who've been unemployed due to it it gives money to businesses big and small and it gives money to state and local governments and

that's a lot for republicans to swallow. supporting it so he's here trying to convince mostly democrats to pass that bill and he's doing that by trying to rally the public and this is reminiscent of what president brock obama did in his 1st term when he ended up passing the affordable care act with just democratic votes by around people around that and it's happening here in milwaukee because wisconsin is an important state for democrats hillary clinton ignored it did not campaign here because she was expecting to win in 2016 and she didn't she lost by a narrow margin joe biden learned that lesson and he campaigned here 3 times in 2020 and it up winning it by a similarly narrow margin so now he's trying to rally the base get people to help him pass this mostly by pressuring democratic members of congress and he's essentially mixing code relief with politics and don this is happening as it seems

that the fight for the future of the republican policies heating up with a bit of string rather personal attack on mitch mcconnell from from the president trying to. that's right this is what happens when you take away donald trump's twitter account he finds traditional methods to do it and in this case he used the old fashioned method of e-mail to send out a statement something we're not accustomed to but it was a blistering declaration of civil war within the republican party he starts off saying the republican party can never again be respected or strong with political leaders in quotations like senator mitch mcconnell at the helm he goes on to say misuse it down our soul in unsmiling political hack and here's the point he's trying to make with his lengthy missive he says where necessary in appropriate i will back primary rivals who espouse making america great again and our policy of

america 1st that's essentially him saying he's going to pick people who will attack these conventional republicans from the right and number one on that list is the senate majority leader no minority leader senator mitch mcconnell who after all didn't vote to acquit donald trump in the impeachment trial as weak but ultimately gave a lengthy statement saying that he was morally responsible trump didn't take that lying down he's attacking mitch mcconnell and it's actually saying he is on one side of the republican party the rest of the republican party is on the moderate side and he is essentially declaring war against that side of the party john hendren then in wisconsin following joe biden's visit for us we'll be following that throughout the day thanks so much john. peru's former president has apologized after it was revealed that he and his wife was secretly vaccinated ahead of health is an investigation has been wants to find out why nearly 500 people including senior government officials got the job. on sunday the foreign minister resigned

she had also been given a secret around a sanchez and with more details on that scandal. the way it worked is that peru got 12000. vaccines and the. last year for the trial and all and there was a $3200.00 vaccines that were active. now the director of the trial is telling. congress and so those are the vaccines that have been secretly distributed among many people from the health ministry the foreign ministry friends there we are learning that there is a businessman there is a restaurant owners there's. doctors who have brought not only their their wives or their or their husbands their siblings or their their in-laws etc it's

a huge is a huge scandal here and also we need to know what happened to the rest of those axioms because they were talking about 3200 of them the chinese embassy has taken we learned about 800 and we have to know what happened to those 2 goals vaccines are they giving have have they given them out to friends are they keeping them there what is going on and also there's about between $5714.00 so we don't know what is what has happened to those 2 those 2 those vaccines were they sold that somebody make a profit out of those but what is the worst part perhaps of this scandal is that those active vaccines were not offered to the more than $300.00 doctors that have died during the pandemic not only doctors and the paramedics and nurses and policemen and thousands of people who have been on the front lines on our on the

front lines of this pandemic in peru and they were not offered the vaccine they were taken by people who had nothing to do with the fight against a pandemic. now thousands of ethiopians from the beni sangomas region have been forced to escape their homes and cross into sudan's blue nile states violence in recent months has resulted in a steady flow of refugees and aid agencies are worried about getting basic supplies to those who have left their homes with barely anything as there is haven't morgan met many of those who've taken refuge in or near the sudan ethiopia border hundreds of refugees from banishing all in ethiopia have come to this camp near the border with sudan for refuge they fled fighting between ethnic groups in the metrical zone a mourner says she fled her home 3 months ago with her 4 youngest children as they were all she could carry and not a day goes by without her thinking of those she left behind for the day and how

cool they came and talked to us the civilians hume to our village at night and sort of killing us people running in all directions parents and children separated from each other after 2 these ones into the bush others with an opposite direction in the bush for 15 days as a reader will to hear. they camp has been set up as a temporary center for refugees arriving in this region and is one of 3 in sudan's state that borders. but was is one of if he appears 9 regions and home to vast arable lands and the grand if you can run as on stem that's set to become africa's largest hydroelectric dam unlike most other regions in mexico the most of the largest ethnic group but the ones who fled here say they've been marginalized in their own lands by the arm horrors who moved in from the neighboring highland region that's led to fighting at least 300 people have been killed in the region in recent weeks according to human rights commission both sides have accused the other of violence over the past few years. that

a lot of the our problem is one of our land does want to take our fertile lands because they don't have such lands for farming they found that our land is so they are targeting us commutes farmers to prevent us from farming we don't want to give them our land so they launch attacks on us because we are weak. since november authorities say more than 7000 people have arrived in the state this by being here for 3 months refugees they have very little aid has reached them they say most of the systems they've got so far are handouts from the local community and some refugees have opted to live with the host communities rather than in these makeshift camps authorities also say that more people are arriving every day and that they expect that to continue. the more your as long as fighting continues on the other side more refugees will come were no racing against time because an april it'll be the start of the rainy season where the refugees are already hard to reach it'll be near impossible by that time so we've identified

a camp but it's not up yet we're hoping to set it up and move the refugees in on time so they can get aid easily many refugees here say that regardless of how few essentials are available in this camp they want to stay for as long as possible and they're hoping family members they've left behind will join them he will morgan al-jazeera on the sudan if your paper order. all restrictions have been put in place in west african countries neighboring guinea to try to stop the spread of the virus at least 5 people have now died in guinea and cases there are continuing to rise and in the 1st statement on the outbreak from the white house the biden administration says swift action is needed to avoid catastrophic consequences because it's now from senegal. dr gello knows the risk he's facing a bull almost killed him in 2014 with a resurgence of the deadly virus he fears his own patients me unknowingly carry it putting him and others in danger. and i have. a fever and therefore wanted

myself sleeping in my car to protect my wife and children eventually i sought treatment and survived. in a televised address the government announces the closing of markets a ban in public gatherings including weddings and funerals events health officials describe as a super spreaders with checkpoints throughout the country guinea is now on high alert so our neighboring countries multiple people in contact with a nurse that died from the virus 2 weeks ago are now in hospital in the capital conakry and in korea where authorities are still trying to trace close contacts including patient 0. at senegal's past institute. says he fears this a bold outbreak more than the corona virus pandemic transmitted through bodily fluids a bull is less contagious than covert but has

a higher mortality rate his team is sequencing blood samples in order to understand how the virus that had disappeared in 2015 after killing over 11000 people in west africa resurfaced 6 years later again in guinea's forest region. more than in the. sequencing allow us to understand where the virus is coming from this helps the epidemic logical investigation maybe the virus came from human contact or from an animal carrying the virus that was eaten by someone sequencing will allow to retrace and understand what we are dealing with. chimpanzees in balance are natural reservoirs for the virus their meat is consumed by people in the giddy forest region where the outbreak started and while the country's health minister says it has a bowl of vaccines that doses expired last december meanwhile in the democratic republic of congo health workers are vaccinating patients after the virus resurfaced last week

a woman contracted the virus from her husband who had earlier recovered from a bull researchers are still trying to understand that the virus back in getting the w.h.o. is dispatching vaccines as quickly as possible to protect frontline health workers who are already overstretched and overwhelmed fearing what is to come. the cart gaza's top judge has agreed to revise a recent court ruling that bars women from traveling without permission from the male guardian such as a husband or father protesters gathered outside the judge's office earlier on tuesday calling that new rule a violation of women's dignity and rights but it's unclear how the law will be redrafted hamas leaders have repeatedly said there are no plans to impose islamic law on the gaza strip the $2000000.00 residents on the european space agency has no instance 1st astronaut recruitment drive in more than a decade and this time it's on the hunt for women only 65 of the 560 people have

ever been to space and all of those just 2 was sent by the european space program budding astronauts with disabilities are also being urged to apply and could join future missions to the moon. well don't forget you can always find a much more on our website including all the latest on the conflict in yemen that al jazeera dot com. the yahoo. this is al jazeera these are the headlines the u.s. has called on yemen's he faces to halt their advance on the city of merit the government lost more than stronghold washington special envoy to yemen says they're very aggressively using fact channels to get there he's back to international negotiations mike hanna has more now from washington one of the 1st actions abided administration did was a.