if you want to help save the world. leaders. sneeze into your own. more anger on the streets of mar against the military coup despite fears of a violent crackdown. given how this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. fears grow in nigeria about the fate of dozens of students 24 hours after they were kidnapped by gunmen. an arctic blast leaves millions without power in the u.s.

state of texas with warnings that freezing temperatures will last for days. away. and that if you damage its reputation and australia is government blasts facebook for blocking new sites response to plans to make tech pay for content. to me and mark thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets a day after some of the biggest rallies yet the protesting for a 13th straight day calling for the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi the military jointer has issued of arrest warrants for 6 celebrities encouraging the protests close to 500 people have been detained the united nations is warning of a possible violent crackdown after reports of soldiers being moved into gang gone. joins us live from the thai capital bangkok scott today's civil disobedience campaign seems to be shaping up what is happening now and where is uncensored.

to me is that shipping up like we saw very similar to what we saw on wednesday and that's with this broken car campaign starting the day that's were hundreds of people if not thousands drive their cars onto the streets in central yangon pretend that they're broken down and just park right in the middle to slow things down and then today they also once they did get back in their cars they just drove slowly to further snarled traffic in the middle of yangon they're doing this they say because they want to prevent government workers from getting to work they want this to be a very visual aspect of their civil disobedience campaign and they've been doing that very successfully the last 2 days in yes the largest city the commercial capital yangon but also across the country so that's kind of what they're they've been working on lately and this is what's interesting because once they do that like we saw wednesday in are seeing again today unfolding that thousands tens of

thousands of protesters come again behind all that chaos if you will that congestion caused by that by that campaign song suchi she is still being detained she still under house arrest in the capital neighborhood or we heard that yesterday wednesday that her next hearing there are 2 charges that have been placed against her now that her next hearing actually her 1st hearing we haven't heard really seen anything any movement on either of these cases but yesterday the courts better controlled by the joint and now said that the 1st hearing will be on march 1st so that's when we know we'll hopefully get some clarity on what's going to happen with her if she's going to remain in detention or they'll release her while these cases move forward but right now that's all we really know about her ok guys are saying there have been a rest warrants issued now for celebrities supporting the protests so this is obviously sort of targeting going beyond just the this it can connect it.

absolutely no this is something that's quite interesting so initially in the early days of this right after the coup with the joint in power they were changing laws and rules so they could start to arrest people and most of the most the time at night and it was those who were politically connected or connected to the end of the party on songs to choose party but then it kind of went beyond that we had advisors who were being arrested and then now particularly with this arrest warrants an ounce meant for celebrities who are simply supporting encouraging people to join the strike to join the movement they are now facing an arrest warrant but it's also other people who have just participated there was a situation in the capital naperville or earlier in the week were students who were out on the street protesting some of them had been detained and it's not quite clear what happened with them so it's going well beyond just those at the top of the you know the high echelon within the end of the party those who are top aides

of unsung suchi it's gone further afield it's those who are organizing and even participating in the movement that we see pouring out on the streets across myanmar thank you for that update there in bangkok scott. a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped students possibly several 100 it's been confirmed to one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state run school and kagawa of that interest joins us live now from abou jahjah just give us the latest on this rescue operation and do we know yet exactly how many students and stuff a missing. well like you said the rescue operation has been on since yesterday following orders by president going to heidi to service to security officials to ensure that these children have been rescued and reunited with their families now the situation on the ground is that so far the united states government has released the names of 27 students it said were

kidnapped and 15 other others who are members of staff of that. science college as well as members of the families who were kidnapped along side with the students but the government is quiet or silent about the census taken yesterday that showed 280 people was still and accounted for us and yesterday morning when this incident happened so now the situation is a bit calm in the town of can get out attention is now focused into those who escaped either with injuries oh have been attacked or what able to escape because they managed to evade that kept us in the going to when they launched that attack. at the hospital it got up doctors and nurses street would be students and teaches and at the get a science college since then parents gather for news. elsley in town security is

stepped up just as the state government ordered the closure of schools in those areas prone to attacks schools saying creasing be targeted as they offer an opportunity to take many students hostage in nigeria this totally absent absence of look at government administration which has become very difficult for the locals to have any want to run to another plane yet as that they also. border surrounding most parts of that area if you look at what is happening internationally and like in places like chart in cairo in especially in saab in cameroon this countries have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long this is the 2nd may just could keep happening in us many months. in december last year gunmen stormed a school and abducted hundreds of students in president behind his home state of cats and. for 6 years before that in 2014 in

a case that made headlines around the world more than 270 goes last snatched from a schoolteacher book at least 100 are still unaccounted for the armed group claimed responsibility. and 4 years after that in neighboring state the group took more than 100 students from a school in dept kidnapping for ransom is now big business in nigeria from the north down to the country south hundreds of nigerians are kidnapped every week for ransom and despite military offensives against what officials the accord bandits the problem continues to grow on monday 18 passengers were seized while traveling in a bus yeah killa not far from where the latest kidnapping took place 8 have seems managed to secure their freedom although there are no official statistics it's estimated $20000000.00 was paid in ransom money 2020 to kidnappers and this is in

a country africa's largest economy while properties on the increase. now this is coming at a time when i just state has been fighting this problem or has been facing this problem for more than a year or 2 now and the the most complex issues of the moment is how security forces all governments either at the federal level state level or local level watch this banditry as well as kidnapping spread from the northwest to the central and now it's also affecting the south of the country the problem is in niger state and like so many other states the government and security forces have been watching this development creeping in without taking the necessary actions or the force that needed to be taken to ensure that these things don't get how about because the nigerian military is so much stretched over stretched in

fighting different wars on got across nigeria these problems continue to grow and it has become such a huge industry now that a lot of security analysts are saying that it's difficult to control because of the benefits the criminals are driving from it. i had interest from a voter thank you so much. at least 30 people have died as freezing winter weather sweeps across the united states the historic storm has left millions without an interest and covered nearly a 3rd of the country in snow the arctic blast is slowing down the delivery of covert 900 vaccines surprise this forced evacuation centers to close the pipes in texas a burst in the freezing temperatures water treatment plants have also stopped working 7000000 people have been told to boil their water more than a quarter of a 1000000 have no running water the governor says it will be days before the situation improves. most of the state will be below freezing tomorrow morning along i 10 in north will remain you freezing through thursday

night with ultra cold temperatures once again on thursday night we should across the state start getting above freezing on saturday and a gallica has more. snow and ice are wreaking havoc from ohio to the rio grande much of the u.s. now gripped by severe winter storms the states of louisiana missouri kentucky and texas of all reported deaths amid historic freezing temperatures in north carolina and georgia storms brought tornadoes across the rest of the nation millions are without power as rolling blackouts continue this is. the worst we're better. and i'm going to do some planning after all this is over and make sure there's an alternative source of energy texas is bearing the brunt of the arctic chill with

power outages forcing people to use warming centers families desperate to keep warm have taken to lighting fires in sugarland texas authorities believe that's what killed a grandmother and her 3 grandchildren just incredibly tragic young woman 41 years all. family children it just doesn't get worse seniors to a struggling as care homes run short on medical essential xl oxygen for those already concerned about their parents amid the coburg crisis it's a worrying time if we weren't here i can't imagine. because there's really not a lot of information flow the rolling blackouts in texas have led to criticisms over the state of existing power grids many residents are calling for alternative sources of power others say that's a conversation for another time this week we have to get more i mean people are losing homes they're losing food they're i mean we've seen absurd people have died

so it's like we should concentrate on that 1st and maybe figure out the solution next week so it doesn't happen again the severe weather is hampering efforts to get people vaccinated for covert 19 focus to say another extreme cold front will affect south and central parts of the u.s. in the days ahead and a gallica al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera nervous goodbyes as children head back to school in argentina after a year away from the castro. jail hong kong democracy activist jimmy life faces another round of his legal battle for bail. it's time for the perfect gentleman the winter sponsored by qatar airways. vanish leave like the rapid advance of spring has slowed down to a crawl through potent borlase so this atlantica which is still coming in and it's

all in caps and this is lifted temperatures above freezing to about low double figures the most part but this is the storing ground it goes dry through poland the ukraine down to was bowl gary and turkey where temperatures are rather slow to come up but the thought was in the west and it's getting really woman places border on the west coast of france it's 20 on friday the average is about 12 well above average and that's true of most places in central western europe and sudden europe this is the the blocking zone if you like the still some snow to come out of the sky of the black sea over to but the story stuff we saw yesterday fact just disappearing from greece is gone now athens up to about 40 degrees the thaw is underway and on friday used to what wind and rain inducing that warmth in western france but sunshine for the rest with except the warsaw which is crept up just to plus one it's slow progress the north coast of africa is the time being quiet with

the breeze going through benghazi and the rest of us chris very fine but there's a sandstorm blowing through malia and sasha go. support qatar airways jumped into the story there was a lot going on in this and julian on global community when i thought of all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are and where be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. watching

are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour the me and maher thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets today after some of the biggest rallies yet they're calling for the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi close to 500 people have been detained in the past 2 weeks. a rescue operation is underway in central nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken by the armed gang is unknown but hundreds some missing it's been confirmed one student was shot and killed in the attack on state run school in qatar. at least 30 people have died it's freezing winter weather sweeps the united states the historic storm has left millions without havoc christi and covered nearly a 3rd of the country in snow. facebook has blocked users and astray from viewing or sharing news on its platform as a response to proposals to make tech giants pay media groups for content the

blackout also affected some government agencies pages carrying health and weather warnings went blank the governor has criticized the move as heavy handed google had previously threatened to pull out of australia because of the law but has signed deals with several media outlets in recent days we've had discussions with all of the parties all of the stakeholders digital platforms news media businesses that will continue for what will also continue this will continue with the process of legislating the code the principle is very clear where google and facebook are important parts of the digital it go system in australia they're important parts of the economy we've made it clear that we want to continue operating here but we've also made it clear that if you do business in australia you need to comply with the lord loam. australian treasurer josh frydenberg says he expects facebook to restore government accounts as soon as possible facebook was wrong

facebook. sections were unnecessary they're way heavy handed and they will damage it's reputation here in australia their decision to block a strain's access to government sots be they about support through the pain to make mental health emergency services the bureau of meteorology were completely unrelated to the media code which is yet to pass through the senate some sydney residents say facebook's decision will have a dramatic impact on the way people access information i think it's crazy i think i mean some software developers are fascinated to see that the ban is actually affecting other sites that are getting. you know the bombs going off and everything like. this so easy and so widely by right now just. people will just fall sick and like honestly like i specially the younger

generation they would just be like you see they banned facebook. back a strong is the federal president of a strain is media union the n.e.a. he says he's been taken aback by facebook's actions. well it is just such an arrogant response from oh take monopoly responding to not was. a pretty minor but tends to control some of that monopolistic behavior kind of proves the point that their monopoly behavior needs a little bit of control because news organizations use whatever platform they can to share their content problem is that what this is meant is google and facebook now take the lion's share of advertising revenue which makes it very difficult for media companies to employ the journalists our members the needs of bringing quality news and so you have facebook refusing to abide by local

laws not just this is not just about astronomy and they're worried about a global recession and we expect that the us federal trade commission will be looking at this very closely which is some anti trust investigation into facebook's activity this is a classic monopoly move by a powerful company trying to dictate what civil society does when in a democratic society civil society needs to. take companies up right. the boy is starting its 1st corona virus vaccine rollout on thursday using the chinese made sign of jab the country received its 200000 doses on monday 1st phase will be on a voluntary basis and will prioritize frontline health care work it's there are some concerns of the efficacy against the south africa virus variants present in zimbabwe. joins us now from how operations going then.

well they're about to start and the 1st phase will go on for about 10 days throughout the country health workers are being vaccinated but most of these people work in public hospitals where they had complained for many years about the lack of p.p.s. mask and gloves with some of these nurses and doctors hope they're getting the vaccination will take them again covert 19 and then you will be the police soldiers and immigration of staff coming to get vaccinated later the elderly and people with underlying conditions and in the race of the population who follow the governments is purchase an additional 600000 vaccines from china now those are expected to come into the country early in march they also talking to russia and india about buying more vaccines they're also trying to get more back into the country from the co that facility that's being coordinated by the world health organization and the

global vaccine alliance the aim is to vaccinate $10000000.00 people about 60 percent of the cooperation by the end of the year on tuesday the government saying that the variant that was 1st identified in africa is now in zimbabwe as a some people are now concerned asking questions how effective is this vaccine going to be against that theory and some of them are saying they feel that the chinese vaccine plan or farm and other vaccines on the market will produce you quickly they want to know what exactly is in these vaccines and would it be any scientific and then buying into the conspiracy theories that misinformation about vaccines are some of them feel that or believe that these like. my apologies we seem to have lost that connection that was her in her. 200000 doses of the chinese covert 19 vaccines on a farm have arrived in senegal health workers the elderly and high risk groups will be the 1st to receive the job their president macky sall says the country is in the process of buying nearly 6800000 doses to start its mass vaccination campaign next

month senegal has recorded almost 32000 cases in its break with infections increasing in the past few months. schools in argentina's capital have reopened after they were shut for more than a year due to the pandemic it's a welcome relief for some parents but a cause of concern for others special hygiene measures are in place and class numbers are limited and the reports from when a scientist. for many of these primary school children and their parents it seemed like this day would never come the school year of classes loss of studying a home of not seeing their friends their back but cautiously carefully concerned about them upon all of the all of this is that we've got all the necessary measures in place alcoholic jale disinfected mouth sprays masks the mamma says the idea is that everyone's relaxed to let them know they can send their children to school without being worried that we've got everything in place to look after them. not

everyone however is likely to be convinced the covered 900 virus has killed 50000 people in argentina 2000000 have been infected or the vaccination program the still any reached a few 100000 would i mean then it of course i know definitely in the next few days or when the old people's return to school there will be families who are concerned and that's fine but we all have to understand that we've got to learn to live with this virus. school attendance this year is obligatory and this really one 3rd of people returning 60 of the $180.00 who normally attend this primary school the 1st day back at school after the long summer break is always an emotional sometimes traumatic time especially after the year we've just had for the children their parents and the teachers. well the son ian says they've lost the habit of coming to school and it's a routine that we're all having to really learn and. i understand they've done

everything possible although it's still not 100 percent secure i'd rather we'd had our vaccines that things had been done to. maybe more gradually or with the classes more spaced out. she says a year it seemed like much longer especially for her daughter lucy oh you know. what. i'd like to see all my friends because it's been a year since i last saw them i really want to see them. anymore the 1st batch of half a 1000000 doses of the ox with us to cynic a vaccine manufactured in india has arrived in one osiris to bolster supplies of the russian spot the vaccines are already being administered as argentina slowly tentatively struggles to return to the life you had before starting with the youngest. one the road to 01 osiris.

colombia's president has hailed the start of the country's vaccination rollout as a new chapter in defeating the pandemic on wednesday a nurse in the city of since day or became the 1st person immunized in the hard hit country it has more than 2000000 cases and close 260000 deaths president to ever do care says he aims to vaccinate 35000000 colombians to reach 70 percent of immunity the countries that received its jabs from the u.n. sponsored kovacs scheme. cambodia's government has unveiled plans to set up a fire wall similar to china is to control and monitor online traffic officials say they want to maintain social order and protect national security but critics are calling the move a violation of democratic freedoms prime minister hun sen's government has stepped up its crackdown on dissent in recent years. jailed hong kong media tycoon july is back in court to make a fresh appeal for bail is accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces and

the beijing's controversial national security law law is the most high profile person among more than 100 people arrested under the new legislation adrian brown is covering this for us from hong kong. arrived here at the high court in central hong kong a few hours ago he's appearing in court because he's trying to get the judge to overrule an earlier court decision to deny him bail in his national security case not this legal odyssey that jimmy lie actually began back in may and i remember at the time asking him whether he thought the various charges he was facing could possibly be politically motivated perhaps even backed by china and he looked at me and said you know what do you think and that's certainly the feeling of many of his supporters they feel that he is the victim of of a deepening political vendetta last night also came word in the local media anyway which is yet to be confirmed by home kong police the jimmy lie has been charged

a 2nd time under the national security law with helping a group of activists to flee hong kong by boat so if you're a betting man i think it's fair to assume that you know jimmy live really is facing the prospect of a very long time in jail if he is convicted he is facing multiple trials at the moment he's accused of fraud taking part in an illegal assembly and now to violations of the national security law. japan's form a olympics minister cycle has motor has been named as the new head of the tokyo olympics organizing committee with less than 6 months until the games the decision was announced in tokyo a short time ago as the motto has competed in 7 and then pick games and resigned from her ministerial post early in order to take up the new role faces yoshida horney who resigned last week after making sexist comments that they had to an international outcry. meanwhile japan's ruling party says it wants more women to

attend key meetings that a usually dominated by men but only if they don't talk the liberal democratic party has proposed allowing 5 female politicians to join its board meetings as observers already 2 of the board's 12 members are women but the observers won't be allowed to speak during the meetings and can only give their opinions later within the party nato as defense ministers will meet again later to discuss troop withdrawals from afghanistan it's the 2nd and last day of the summer's it secretary general has already dismissed an early pullout saying forces will only leave when security conditions allow. made comments after the 1st day of talks as a u.s. deployment decision looms president joe biden has until may 1st to decide whether american troops will stay the taliban must reduce violence negotiate in good faith and live up to their commitment to stop cooperating with

the national terrorist groups over common goal it's clear afghanistan should never again sure it's a haven for terrorists to attack our hormones so our presence is conditions based while nor our ally wants to stay in afghanistan longer than necessary we will not leave before the time is right. this is and is there and these are the top stories in the in ma thousands of demonstrators a back on the streets a day after some of the biggest rallies yet the calling for the release of deposed leader aung san suu kyi close to 500 people have been detained in the past 2 weeks scott hardly has more from bangkok we're seeing again the protesters there who protesters gather in front of our foreign embassy.