the fun she makes put it on you see. more anger on the streets of medium are against the military coup despite fears of a violent crackdown. i'm going to tell 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. some african countries hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic step up the fight as they prepare to roll out vaccination programs. their way. and that if you damage its reputation. but strangely its government blasts facebook for

blocking news sites response to plans to make tech platforms pay for content. and me and maher 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 giunta has issued 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 young scot hurdler has more from the thai capital bangkok. 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 the traffic in the middle of yangon they're doing this they say because they want to prevent the 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 that are 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 the release or while these cases move forward but right now that's all we really know about her. a rescue operation has begun in nigeria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students the exact number of those taken by the ob-gyn is unknown but hundreds of missing it's been confirmed one student was shot and killed in the attack on the state wants cool in qatar and it's just reports from above which. at the hospital in doctors and nurses treat wounded students and teachers and at the cricket our science college concerned parents gather for news elsley in town security has stepped up just as the state government ordered the closure of schools

in those areas prone to attacks schools saying creasing really targeted as they offer an opportunity to take many students hostage in a nigeria that is totally absent absence of look at government administration which has become very difficult for the locals to have anyone to run to another train yeah as that there is also. the border surrounding most parts of that area if you look at what is happening internationally and like in places like chart in cairo especially in southern cameron this country is have not been able to hold the security military onslaught for too long this is the 2nd majors 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 for years after that enabling you will state the group took more than 100 students from a school and dumped. kidnapping for ransom is no big business in nigeria from the most down to the countryside hundreds of nigerians are kidnapped every week for ransom and is part military offensives against what. the problem continues to grow on monday. not far from where the latest kidnapping took place 8. freedom. of statistics it's estimated $20000000.00 in ransom money. and in a country africa's largest economy properties on the increase.

it's about a boy starting his 1st corona virus vaccine rollout on thursday using the chinese made sign. above i received its 200000 doses on monday 1st phase will be on a voluntary basis and will prioritize frontline health care workers but there are some concerns over the jobs efficacy against the south african virus variant present in zimbabwe which also is in her hand says there are public concerns about the role of. the 1st phase will go on for about. the country health workers are being vaccinated but most of the people work in public hospitals where they've complained for many years about the lack of marketing gloves with some of the nurses and doctors hope that getting the vaccination will make them again covert 19 and daniel with the police soldiers and immigration to get back nakedly albanian

people with underlying conditions and then the rest of the population will follow the government and i think that additional things 100000 vaccines from china those are going to come into the country early in march they also talking to russia and india about buying more back there. trying to get more back in the country from the kodak realty that being coordinated by the world health organization and the global a vaccine alliance the aim is to vaccinate 10000000 people about 50 percent of the population by the end of the year on tuesday the government that the variant now with identified in africa is now in the bar with or from people i'm now concerned are being questioned how effective is the fact going to be again that period some of them i think if you look at the chinese back in florida and other back on the market were produced you quickly they want to know what exactly is the in these vaccines and would it be any. 200000 doses of the chinese cover 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 president barchi sala says the country is buying nearly 7000000 doses to start of that this vaccination campaign next month senegal has recorded almost 32000 cases in its outbreak with infections increasing in the past few months. 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 sin ca or became the 1st person immunized in the hard hit country it has more than 2000000 cases and close 260000 deaths president of the ducasse says he ends to vaccinate 35000000 colombians to reach 70 percent immunity the country's received from the u.n. sponsored a kovacs scheme. the un says hundreds of millions of people are being left behind and covered 19 vaccinations with 3 quarters of all shots given in just 10 countries the head of the u.n. says

a global plan is needed because the virus will keep it if it's allowed to spread in poor countries in conflict zones or deserves diplomatic etta james bays reports of . refugees being vaccinated for covert 19 in the zardari camp in jordan but this the u.n. secretary general told a meeting of the security council is the exception rather than the norm progress on vaccinations has been widely and unfair just scam countries ever administered it's 75 percent of all covered in 1000 vaccines meanwhile more than 130 countries have not received a single goal. and those affected by conflict and insecurity are at particular risk of being left behind. the current president of the council of the u.k. is proposing a new resolution calling for cease fires in conflicts around the world so that vaccines can be administered by calling for advice rationed seized by them by

calling one $1000.00 the nation plans to include all high risk populations including refugees this resolution and this council really has an opportunity to. help get back into distributed to the most vulnerable communities across the. both the state councilor of china and the u.s. secretary of state took part in the meeting both stressed the need for global solidarity even though there's still real tension between the 2 nations this perhaps an indication that it won't further stall global efforts on code 19 the un secretary general is now calling for a global vaccination plan he believes the g 20 is the best body to finance this and he's calling on the g 7 leaders who meet on friday to kick start this process james out 0 of the united nations. jailed hong kong media tycoon jimmy lie has been

denied bail again he's accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces on the beijing is controversial national security law is the most high profile person among more than 100 people arrested under the new legislation i'll have a live update from hong kong on the story a little later in the policy. japan's former lympics minister cycle has mater has been named as the new head of the tokyo of the big organizing committee less than 6 months before the games a decision was announced in tokyo a short time ago as your motto has competed in 7 olympic games as a cyclist and speed skater she quit her most stereo post to take up a new role she replaces your sheet of madi who did resigned last week after making sexist comments. japan's ruling party says it wants more women to attend king meetings usually dominated by men but only if they don't talk liberal democratic party has proposed allowing 5 female politicians to join its board meetings as observers only 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. to georgia where the prime minister has announced he's resigning georgie his decision comes following a disagreement with his cabinet of the arrests of opposition leader media or has been accused of being critical of the arrest saying only fuel political tensions further he was only in office for a year still ahead on al-jazeera an arctic blast leaves millions without power in the u.s. state of texas. a bad rap for violent scenes in barcelona as protesters demanded a musician be released from jail.

if you look at the satellite pictures an obvious circulation of storms here it's been named now. tropical storm one yep that's romantic i know and it won't be when he's the southern philippines if it develops into a proper site and he's heading that way it will be the 1st of the year a lot of rain for the southern islands and of course some fairly strong winds or come with more detail when it gets there that saturday's picture the rest is as you've seen for a couple of days now but a week or so most of the rain is focusing through job and to the east not so much further north or west and much is southeast asia is fairly dry northern australia wet of course in the tropics in particular but increasingly i think this coast of new south wales will see the thunderstorms become a bit more continuous the onshore breeze is there cities at 27 not particular humid and quite often sherri certain is true at 3 brisbane then the big showers are in

the tropics the temperatures down in melbourne and adelaide are well up into the thirty's now and it's humid but it won't necessarily stay that way to see a change over what is finals weekend to be honest 32 degrees evening sun that wind changed and sunday will see a southerly a cool breeze 21 degrees in a few showers. rumania is ancient forests some of europe's most pristine they are crucial for our society and crucial for battle against the climate crisis but illegal logging by a ruthless timber mafia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives being in the main there is the water there are bunks violence killing whistleblowers amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals people in power investigates rumania of the far east on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour in myanmar thousands of demonstrators are back on the streets a day after some of the biggest rallies yet 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 ny geria where gunmen have kidnapped a group of students exact number of those taken is unknown but hundreds of missing one student was shot and killed in the attack. jailed on called media tycoon jimmy lloyd has again been denied bail is accused of 40 conspiring with foreign forces and the beijing's national security law by its most high profile person of more

than 100 people arrested under the war. of more on that story edward brown joins us now live from hong kong tell us more about this out latest ruling from the court. not a lot we can report actually came because the judge hearing jimmy lice bail application decided not to lift reporting restrictions saying that to do so might affect the integrity of the trial not jimmy lie as we know is the most high profile of the pro-democracy figures here in hong kong to have been charged under the national security law in total $96.00 people have so far been charged under that law since it was opposed on this city last year following months of anti government protests now lie was arrested and charged in early december now he made an application for bail after that arrest and bail was granted but then following

a withering attack by state controlled media including the people's daily newspaper which is the mouthpiece of the communist party a week later jimmy lai was back in court and the prosecution was able to successfully challenge that early decision to grant him bail then in february hong kong's quarter final appeal hell's a government challenge to that earlier court decision to grant him bail so it seems that for now the 10 by jimmy lie to get bail in this case is over his trial is due to happen sometime in april that date hasn't been confirmed yet and of course you know jimmy lie in china's eyes kim is very much you know public enemy number one he he's from the mainland so for them you know this is this is personal he is able to see family and friends at the maximum security prison where he's been held for the past 7 weeks but this will be a blow of course to to many of his supporters who feel that actually lie is the

victim of a of a political vendetta i remember back in may when he was appearing in court for the 1st time asking him as he arrived at court whether he thought that the charges were politically motivated whether they'd been brought by beijing and he looked to me and said you know what do you think. ok thanks for that update adrian brown there in hong kong. at least 30 people have died as freezing winter weather sweeps across the united states the historic storm has left millions without electricity covered there lay a 3rd of the country in snow the arctic blast is slowing down the delivery of co the 19 vaccine supplies that has forced inoculation centers to close the pipes in texas have burst in the freezing temperatures water treatment plant have also stopped working 7000000 people have been told to boil their water and 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 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 this is the says the further west 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 old. family children it just doesn't get worse seniors to a struggling as care homes run short on medical essential slike oxygen for those already concerned about their parents amid the code 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 warned 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. facebook has blocked uses an australia from viewing or sharing news on its platform it's a response to propose laws to make tech giants pay media groups for content the blackout also affected government agencies as pages carrying health and weather warnings went blank the government is criticised the move as heavy handed google had previously threatened to pull out of australia because of the or boston recent days it signed deals with several media outlets and 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 a coast istomin a strategy there 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 law in the strata. some people in sydney say facebook's decision will have a dramatic impact on the way information is accessed 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 going. yeah i'm going to end up with everything. this site and so widely by. now just. people are just false again like honestly like i specially the younger generation and they would just be you know they banned facebook. sophie mcneill was in a stroller

a researcher at human rights watch she says the move will have a big impact on older people. venerable strains of the one scored in the middle here because last this lore is aimed at news companies there are a whole range of community organizations have been affected the weather bureau you know it's bushfire season here in australia summer people rely on these pages to get emergency warnings on fires that are very popular facebook page wasn't working today indigenous community legal groups who do a lot of work in our remote communities with vulnerable people their pages suddenly disappeared we're in the middle of a state election in western australia and one of the candidates suddenly had his facebook page disappear while the other candidate had his working that's political censorship it's not something we're used to in this country and this is really alarming and dangerous what facebook has done today in australia to cut off in the dead of night you know the entire access to news and information on such

a popular platform for an entire country it doesn't seem like an icicle way of operating to me and human rights watch is calling on facebook to immediately lift these restrictions we've seen some lifted today but still a whole range of groups still don't have access to their facebook pages and as you mentioned as the strelley in treasure mentioned this is in the middle of a pandemic so we're trying to get out that same program rolled out in australia in the next few weeks and the number of people who rely on facebook for the news and information for those kind of services is huge particularly older where the ones that need that vaccine it is older people who do rely on facebook more than any other groups rupert murdoch's news corp has struck a 3 year partnership with google to develop a platform to provide what it calls trust to journalism use corporation has set of will share stories that exchange for significant payments murdoch has long called for google and other internet platforms to pay media companies for their content

about a regime course has reported they sentenced to journalists from a t.v. news channel based in poland to 2 years in prison. and they are and will solve a tainted november and apartment from where they have been filming protests against the government international human rights organizations have condemned their detention more than 33000 people have been detained in a violent crackdown on dissent since august. processor turned violent in barcelona for a 2nd day after thousands demanded the release of rap artist public herself has been jailed following a 2800 conviction for insulting the monarchy and praising the armed separatist group eta but he's been convicted under a controversial law that people say prevents freedom of speech or burning man they were ports. protests he took for a 2nd night across boston. police stations banks and several

stores a damaged during demonstrations. thousands took to the streets to demand the release of popular herself from jail. for most of. the rappers lyrics and tweets got him in hot water with the authorities after he insulted spanish royalty supported till now defunct extremist group and criticize the police. work it's a musical i'm a musician and it affects me the fact that in spain artists musicians rappers everyone is arrested i find it quite brutal that people are arrested for the lyrics of a song you know so i'll send people more common sense tells me that i have to be here because we have less and less freedom in spain. on monday police stormed the university where has cell had barricaded himself in with other activists to avoid a jail sentence has taken away by police but remains defiant and i will try

out they will never make us give in despite the repression was the word. has south cases inspired support across the country $200.00 prominent artists actors and musicians signed a petition for his release they say the so-called gag order prevents free speech spain's left wing government has moved to change the law but that's come too late for hersel the. the protesters here say they'll continue to raise their voices against the silencing of the outspoken rapper the you're about among the al-jazeera. people in libya have marked the 10th anniversary of the start of the revolution that toppled leader. crowds gathered in the 2nd largest city benghazi and tripoli is mohsen square the revolution spot fighting between gadhafi forces and rebels and which thousands of people were killed pollak trying to reports from

tripoli. this is fresh new it's known as a spark of tripoli in 2011 people here were among the 1st in tripoli to stage a peaceful protest wednesday marks the 10 year anniversary of an 8 month armed revolution that toppled longtime leader wal-mart get daffy here those who died are honored and celebrated as heroes who liberated libyans from a dictatorship. mohamed says he is throwing this party to honor his brother a doctor who was killed when the eastern warlord of the 4 huffed are attempted to seize the capital he says the revolution isn't over but he remains hopeful of a good in 2011 we sacrificed so much to be a free and democratic country i'm sure we'll have a civilian state we will continue to sacrifice like my brother did against half tar we will not allow libya to return to

a military rule celebrations are happening across the country but it's here in martyr square where the biggest crowds have gathered at the height of the may god to unite all libyans from east to west and give a stability and make our country prosperous we have to celebrate every year as long as our hearts are beating we celebrate for martyrs in our evolution we don't care about politicians they fight today but tomorrow they act like friends despite years of conflict and political divisions for libyans this is a day of joy in tripoli people singing songs of victory and freedom not only against gadhafi but also after celebrations here are going into the night people here are confident that democracy will prevail nationwide elections are set to take place in december i would train up al-jazeera tripoli. after 7 months and 470000000 kilometers now says perseverance rova is due to touch down on

mas in the coming hours the cars sized rover is expected to land in the just there a crater a vast basin that was once a lake but it will collect samples and such as signs of microscopic organisms that may have lived 3000000000 years ago. this is i was there and these are the top stories simeon ma demonstrators are back on the streets today off to some of the biggest rallies yet the calling for deposed leader aung san suu kyi to be freed close to 500 people have been detained in the past 2 weeks scada has more from bangkok. we're seeing again the protesters there who protesters gather in front of our foreign embassies this.