next brits say manila has never truly recovered. al-jazeera. using their cars to drive home their message and to cooper testers a 1000000 more ignore military warnings and continue demonstrating for a return to democracy. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters in doha and you navigate also coming up accused of terrorism a longtime critic of rwanda's president credited for saving hundreds of lives

during the genocide goes on trial. in japan begins its coronavirus vaccination program kicking off a campaign seen as crystal to holding the delayed tokyo summer olympics the struggle to reach hundreds of bodies believed to be trapped in a boat that capsized in the democratic republic of congo. hello thanks for joining us and sense to choose the tension is scheduled to end on wednesday but there is no indication whether me and mars ousted leader will actually be released protesters are trying to increase pressure on the military to ensure she's freed they're gathering in central yangon and causing traffic jams she was arrested 2 weeks ago when the armed forces seized power on tuesday her lawyer said the military filed additional charges potentially prolonging words attention scott heiler is following the story from bangkok and he has more on the change of

tactics being used by the press as to. what the day started with is a campaign a creative way to cause a little bit of disruption in the largest city in myanmar and that was there was a broken car campaign essentially hundreds of drivers if not thousands of drivers around the city pretended that their cars were broken and just stopped parked right in the middle of streets right in the middle of bridges yes to send a message yes to further the. civil disobedience movement idea but also to kind of style me the traffic of military vehicles of police vehicles as they started to gather for this larger protest today it was so successful that they also prevented protesters from coming out so what we've been told what we're hearing is that that broke up that campaign broke up so the cars have been moved now so that those thousands of protesters can gather around yangon part of the reason why we're seeing an outpouring more so than we have over the last several days and that's why

there's been a bigger call to get more people on the streets today because the protesters are even angrier because there was a 2nd charge put on on song suchi that could keep her in detention indefinitely this is a 2nd charge relating to a crisis management law in yangon in myanmar and that they say the military government has said that she breached that back in november during campaigning for this election that's really at the root of where we are right now the government the military government said that there was fraud during that election and now they're putting the 2nd charge on her saying that she breached $1000.00 restrictions as she campaigned during that election a group of armed men as attacked a school in nigeria kidnapping at least 50 students and staff it happening could ghar and these arab states at least one student is set to be killed bringing more details as they become available the man who story influenced the hollywood film

hotel rwanda has gone on trial in the capital kigali paul rusesabagina is appearing in court on 9 charges including belonging to a terrorist organization murder and armed robbery he was praised for his role in saving the lives of more than a 1000 people during the rwandan genocide but later fell out with the government's half and so it has been monitoring the trial for us from nairobi. what the judges are doing now basically is identifying each of the fact that the current court is at the beginning is in court alongside 20 others so the judge is basically reading out guidance identities and having the suspect confirm this effect or begin a team south when he's identity has been read out saying that he is not our london citizen he says that he is a belgian citizen this is significant because if you say this 5 times and that means that he did announces that he is one then by bus now as you mentioned yes he

has been he has been charged with 9 counts including mata and belong belongs with harris organize a show on all the facets x. factor to take a piece today and all these charges really stem from heath popular national liberation of the movement for democratic change which has an armed wing called the national liberation front which the government accuses of attacking villages of the soudan border with booty backing 2018 the u.s. has called on yemen truthy rebels to stop their advance on the northern city of mater the special envoy for yemen says they're very aggressively using back channels to get the whose views to return to international negotiations and of who are burdened mentally reports are comes on the day the group was officially removed from the u.s. terror list. yemeni soldiers push back with the advances on 2 fronts north of the city of marjah. battles like this one have intensified since

the start of the month the hooty to be wrestling to take the last saudi backed government stronghold in northern yemen for over a year. the violence has resulted in dozens of deaths and in a tweet un humanitarian chief mark caucus warned the assaults would put 2000000 lives at risk and could cause unimaginable humanitarian consequences the u.s. is calling for the who it is to halt their advance you know our hope is that a combined effort bringing in certain partners at certain times backed with a strong very strong american position will will essentially shake up the architecture and president much better place to push for that negotiated settlement which i think we all agree is the only way forward on tuesday the u.s. lifted the previous administration's designation of the who these as a terrorist organization and to the further departure of president biden ended u.s.

support for the saudi led military offensive in yemen for their part he's accused the yemeni government of being the aggressor i don't see him letting at this point approaching the who he is directly but he probably should i understand the significance of. them they will retain a few kilometers they may have been getting the city but they lose the police and eventually there will only prolong the war if they persist some analysts say who these are using the fighting as leverage in any future negotiations. but it bondsman's have been slow with saudi arabia intensifying as strikes. rights groups say 650 families sabine displaced and many more could follow. but the u.s. administration hopes it can prevent further bloodshed and help bring the 6 to an

end laura bottom of the algae theory japan has started its mass vaccination campaign against covert 19 and its planning to inoculate 4000000 people by the end of march it's a critical time with less than 6 months before tokyo is due to host the olympic games which were delayed by a year because of the virus robin wright has this report trailing other developed nations and many of its asian neighbors by many weeks finally japan is rolling out its vaccines the 1st people to get the pfizer jab are thousands of health workers often criticised for failing to use the latest technology in controlling the outbreak japan is now using a popular online messaging service to centralize the vaccination booking system but a lack of specialized syringes means millions of doses could be wasted safe to

since the vaccines are very valuable the government is working to procure more special for engines that can extract 6 doses from each well. contributing to the delayed rollout has been the requirement for extensive testing of the vaccine in a country that historically has a mistrust of mass vaccination campaigns. the vaccine was developed so quickly so it scares me to think about it side effects and its effectiveness. over concerns but i'll get through it becomes available japan has imposed strict border controls which it believes has helped in keeping the outbreak under control so many here are worried about the prospect of hosting the upcoming summer olympics so opening up the borders and green people from all over the world where there are various different strains a little virus does not seem like an inspired idea here to

a lot of public health officials and the public at large but the government is determined they will go ahead at the end of july although big questions remain over what form they will take last year the government was also determined right up until they pulled the plug so i think you know sometime later in march we'll have a better idea they are going to proceed. but you know really deal lympics has lurched one crisis to another scandal the latest scandal has been the resignation of former olympic committee president yes sure oh morry over sexist remarks he made earlier this month the government is hoping a successful vaccination campaign can help turn around the fortunes of its ill fated games mcbride al-jazeera. south africa set to begin its covert $1000.00 vaccination program on wednesday after some delays it will administer johnson and

johnson jobs the single dose vaccine will be given to health care workers as part of a research study country suspended the rollout of astra zeneca job earlier this month that was after a data showed the vaccine offered minimal protection against the country's more contagious variants johnson and johnson has not been approved for emergency use in the u.s. president joe biden is in wisconsin where he's promising his unit where he's promoting rather his $1.00 trillion dollar relief plan to help battle of the economic fallout from the pandemic it's one of the states that was key to his presidential victory and it's been hit hard by the pandemic john hendren reports from milwaukee. president joe biden went on a whistle stop tour to pitches $1.00 trillion dollars relief plan. it is estimated that if you re passed this bill alone will create

7000000 jobs this year 7000000 jobs this year 1st stop milwaukee in a state reeling economically from the pandemic bigger is better now not spending less. when the focus brother's 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 2020 went here in wisconsin last year was a rough year so we're looking forward to 2021 and out we have the vaccine and everything else will help us and jobs open up and some opportunities definitely open to other way for small companies 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 and the 2nd quarter and 3rd quarter of 2020 is that the economy was doing pretty bad biden is rallying americans to pressure congress to pass his plan much as president obama did for his health care plan at the beginning of his term. the next stop on president biden's coded 19 relief road tour is michigan where he plans to tour of pfizer plant on thursday where they make and distribute the vaccine that gives him an opportunity to talk about what his administration is doing to combat the virus and to ask americans to support his

plan to spend another $1.00 trillion dollars to do that. 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 a khana me john hendren 0 milwaukee. still ahead on al-jazeera a fierce winter storm in southern parts of the u.s. leaves dozens dead americans without power. remembering the cost of freedom 10 years after the start of the revolution that toppled libya's longtime leader. there is now quite a high chance of this massive cloud that's just rotating over the small islands in

the philippine sea will turn into a tropical psych exam possibly more than that this is his forecast progress of the next 24 hours or so now beyond that the weather is pretty standard not many showers and that icy caught a few through java and points to the east and that's still true of northern australia some heavy rain is likely around darwin over tropical queensland that is a bit of a gap to be honest and it is quite warm in most of new south wales away from the east coast where it's got longshore breeze in most of victoria and certainly in south australia melbourne the 3137 in perth is a rather cooler 24 there are still showers in western australia as you can see the forecast of melbourne to the tennis players right up to the weekend is fine possible showery change by saturday finals are on sunday this is friday's picture typically for the east coast new south wales it's an increasing breeze more in the way of rain or shows novel effects sydney for new zealand nothing like as warm but

pretty much settled this big circulation suggests high pressure so the sun's got to work to get at best 23 in christchurch. they may not be top of the take. they might not have the biggest stage. but they stand this tight in the face of the fascist movement. if you want to show the world that the good guys can win they are the force behind just simply. the fun she makes putting on the sea.

org on the top stories on al-jazeera the the tension of myanmar as i was the leader is set to end on wednesday but there's no sign that she will be for you protesters are increasing pressure on the military by gathering in central yang gone and causing traffic jams the man credited with saving hundreds of lives during the rwandan genocide is on trial in kigali paul rusesabagina is facing 9 charges including belonging to a terrorist organization he denies the charges the u.s. has called on yemen's 40 fighters to halt their advance on the city of washington special envoy for yemen says back channels are being used very aggressively to get them to return to negotiations. donald trump has launched a blistering attack on top senate republican mitch mcconnell days after he blamed

the former president for last month's assault on the capitol building and a statement released by his political action committee trump said the the republican party can never again be respected or strong with political leaders like senator mitch mcconnell added. he went on to say mitch is a dour sullen and smiling political hack and if republican senators are going to stay with him they will not win again. eric hamm is a political analyst in washington d.c. he explains what motivated trump statements well the reason is because we saw that blistering critique of the president by the senate minority leader just after he was acquitted where mitch mcconnell actually blamed the president not only for the insurrection that took place at the u.s. capitol but suggested that there might be other formal criminal charges coming for the president and so i think what you're seeing now is a former president who is on the attack not only against the minority leader but

also those who voted to convict the president as well as to impeach him and house. the president knows that democrats have been against him for quite some time they have been locked in a battle since he came down that gilded staircase back in 2015 and now the see the some slippage among those in the party what you're seeing now is a president who is exerting his control his authority and his influence to let the republican party know that he is still very much and command now that we see this internal battle has broke open publicly i think now you're going to see a lot of cost a nation within the republican party about how to thread the needle keep in president trump's base at home but at the same time trying to grow the base because what we recognize is this is a party that needs to actually extend the tent not narrow it. a major winter storm has killed at least 21 people right across the central and southern u.s.

record low temperatures of lost more than 3000000 without power for a 2nd night most in the state of texas alexandra byers reports. blanketed with snow and glazed with ice homes in texas are burning this part of the united states isn't used to freezing the winter storm has created chaos electricity grids have failed leaving millions of people without power in dangerously cold temperatures we lost power yesterday morning and the houses are getting a real call like around 2 o'clock and then you've got all the blankets we try to all sleep together to keep us warm come to the cars to keep our phones charge and and then today when we got up there was no water. a family of 4 died in a house fire near houston while using their fireplace to keep warm hospitals have been overwhelmed by hundreds of people suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and

hundreds of thousands have been advised to boil water after treatment plants went down and it's not just texas that's affected. emergencies have been declared in several states across the central and southern u.s. . the storm brought under snow and tornadoes including one in north carolina that killed several people president joe biden is promising additional emergency resources the extreme weather can be traced to a massive arctic air that's normally near the north pole occasionally the system is disrupted sending freezing temperatures south but it's reported to be happening more often and scientists are looking into whether climate change is to blame events like this highlight the country's vulnerabilities. in the middle east. going to be. tens of damages unless we start investing in resilience measures which

you know amazing expensive now. save money in the longer run. the governor of texas has called for an investigation into why services failed and for the state's power grid to be improved in the meantime millions will endure another night without power and the cold isn't expected to ease up until the weekend alexandra byers al-jazeera. rescue teams in the democratic republic of congo say they're struggling to reach the bodies of those who died when an overcrowded boat capsized but these 75 people are known to have drowned when the vessel sank in the congo river on sunday nights but hundreds more are missing as alexie o'brien reports. the wreckage of the boss the limit lies close to shore on the congo river on the surface it's all broken wood and discarded belongings it's what lies beneath that rescue and recovery work is a focusing on our desire to be the majority of bodies are still in the boat because

most of the passengers were killed as there was sleeping on different levels we need to break the boat apart but we don't have the capacity to do more we need help . the vessel went down on sunday province it had left the capital kinshasa and was headed for dhaka about 700 kilometers up river. everything happened so fast as the boat broke up deep in the river the passengers all panicked inside the boat making the situation worse and the owner couldn't do anything to control the situation the boat was overloaded with passengers and merchandise. it's those about $700.00 people were on board the boat about half were able to make it assure the congolese minister for humanitarian affairs stephen byock e ses the boat was travelling at night which is against the law he's called for all those responsible to be held accountable but those at the scene say they have more pressing needs to be managed. we haven't received any help from authorities to deal

with the situation we have bodies under this boat in the river but there's no way to remove them even the local rescue team are asking for money before getting in the water to remove the bodies where we get the money from. ship wrecks are frequent here with boats often dilemma dated and overloaded and many passages unable to swim after 142 people were killed in a sinking in 29 tame president félix just a kid he announced that all on board should wear life jackets but that is routinely ignored. brian al jazeera. the taliban has called on the united states to honor its deal to withdraw troops from afghanistan under the agreement signed in qatar last year the us pledge to pull all troops out of april but only if the taliban agree to peace talks with the government to reduce violence in an open letter the group says it's committed to its side of the doha accords. the libyans are marking

the 10th anniversary of the start of the revolution that toppled leader moammar gadhafi says a set of eyes the outgoing head of libya's internationally recognized government was among those paying tribute in tripoli as march martyr square revolution sparked fighting between his forces and libyan rebels earlier this month rival factions agreed to an interim unity government until elections in december traina has this report from the former rebel stronghold of misrata. it's not as libya's 3rd largest city it's also one of the main sources of military power in western libya rebels from misrata played an important role in the revolution that toppled longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 according to administrators at this memorial museum more than $5000.00 men were killed during the 8 month revolution more than 30 percent of them came from misrata. we may just museum to remember those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom family members of those who were killed come

to see pictures of their relatives and remember them as heroes that he has an job or a memorial museum is named after an al jazeera cameraman who was killed in eastern libya while covering the revolution in 2011 it tells a story of victory and triumph these statues were brought back from good death is compound after rebel forces capture tripoli. people here in the city of misrata will be celebrating the 10 year anniversary to the revolution they say that their fight in 2011 was for freedom and democracy but they also know all too well the cost of war here those who died while fighting gadhafi is forces are remembered their pictures fill the walls. 10 years on people bring their kids here to teach them about the conflict. february 17th means a lot to us libyans especially here in the misrata it means freedom and democracy

abroad my kids here to show them the picture of my nephew and to teach them that freedom comes at a cost medical is an engineer he lost a leg in 2011 fighting good deafness forces but despite his injuries he's now open this helps or and works as a personal trainer but out there not. in 2011 libyans express themselves and rose up against a dictator we want a democratic state the situation now isn't how we hoped it would be but it will take time after 42 years under gadhafi it is normal that we are where we are we hope things will get better 10 years after the revolution and this month's political settlement among libya's warring sides there are hopes the fighting may end and libya could be on track to becoming a democratic state now like trainer al jazeera misrata the global sea weed industry is rapidly expanding however in australia the resources largely untapped

but that could be about to change as nickel again reports on the coast of new south wales. these flocks of field with different species of sea weighed all unique to a struggling. wynberg has been studying how to unlock their potential as new super foods with proven benefits not only for the environment but also the body we're inventing it as we go because it's new to australia the systems the food and then taking people that just ate pasta with a weed in it and that will benefit you and benefits the environment. she's open to strongly is 1st factory making food grade products from a domestic species of grain same weight carbon dioxide is captured from a need by weight refinery to help the sea weight grow its then process to make health products and food like musically tough stuff many of our chronic lifestyle disorders like diabetes mental deficiencies and inflammatory disorders could be

addressed by adding say way back into the diet it could also help with wound healing seaweed extracts from the fama being used to print human tissue with 3 d. technology with the hope of eventually creating official skin. we've just opened the lid and there's a whole treasure trove of possibilities that we can exploit that this is a new industry this is the beginnings of a new industry in australia so you weed is being used around the world for centuries but as an industry in australia it's largely untapped now research is all looking at everything from feeding cattle it's a way to reduce emissions to making plastics of course all parts absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere but the difference they waited just how efficient it is growing much faster than trees doesn't need fertilizer all freshwater and at the time have a long ban. making it an appealing option to permanently capture carbon on

a significant scale to tackle climate change. putting a price on. and it would really help a lot of the industries that are kind of starting to emerge that are trying to increase how much carbon we capture out of the atmosphere but pricing carbon is a contentious issue in australia with coal mines still being expanded. believes sea wheat holds the answers to many of the world's climate challenges weekly gauge al-jazeera south coast new south wales. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the detention of myanmar as i was the leader of sutter and on wednesday but there's no sign that i'm sons and she will be freed protesters are increasing pressure on the military by gathering in central yang gone and causing traffic jam. a group of.