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somalia's capital has gun fights break out hours before an opposition protest demanding the president step down. sheltering from a once in a generation winter storm hundreds of thousands of people of texas are without water and many are still without electricity. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die after being injured in 1000000 miles and protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital not at all maya thought karen had been on life support in hospital. for 14 straight day thousands of people are on the streets of yangon calling for the release of the deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi and others the u.k. and canada have announced sanctions against grand mals ruling generals as international pressure builds on the jointer to give up power. and in mandalay meanwhile 2nd city

there'd be more rallies the u.n. says an estimated 3 quarters of the advanced civil servants are now on strike. we've got hardly joins us now live from bangkok scott so a protesters died delver injuries is this the military now coming under increasing pressure. you know kind had just turned 21 she went to that protest in the cap on a door on february 9th and she was as you said shot in the head when police were trying to break up the protesters she was on life support in hospital ever since she passed away today on friday now what this will do to the protest movement obviously this is going to kind of stoke the reaction of the protesters that we've been seeing on the streets across myanmar over the last 2 weeks plus she has been the while she was in hospital there have been vigils held during some of the rallies and protests throughout these we throughout these days since february 9th

so i think you know we're going to see kind of a shift back to that we're going to see her be memorialized probably a little bit today friday and possibly going into saturday what that's going to do for the military reaction the security force reaction obviously the protesters are going to be a little bit more emotional about what's happened what's taken place so you probably see maybe a little bit of a response from the security forces which we actually already have even before this news came out. about her death and that is in the center part of young gone so they put gota is one of the main staging areas for these tens of thousands of people that we've been seeing over the last several days gather it's quite a big area there it's a roundabout with a lot of street surface so it's ideal quite honestly for a protest a large scale mass rally and that's what they've been using of the how they've been using it the protesters. in response to that security forces this morning friday actually coridon that off so they were able to get where they've been going the last several days but they're still coming out and you know we've been seeing them

flooding into the areas around there but also in other parts of yangon so they are still coming out emotions with the the announcement of the 1st death of a protester since the coup on february 1st so obviously that that's really going to . bring them out to the streets probably even more but right now so far at least in young gone things have been peaceful. and as we've been saying the international community some making some moves some sanctions have been put in place against the military in me and ma other generals responding in any way to that sort of international pressure not directly the u.k. and canada have just announced overnight regional time that they were going to implement sanctions to the top leadership ministers and some generals because of the coup and that's both travel restrictions and asset freezing so that is going to

hit them hard they have not commented on that directly we also know so yes it's international pressure from from the governments of countries around the world but and the united nations strong statements coming from them but it's also corporations that are being targeted by the protesters trying to encourage those companies that do business in myanmar me and more with military entities military companies military connected companies encouraging them to stop doing business with them we saw that happen couple of times couple of different ways but yesterday on thursday there are some protesters who went out to a gas pipeline area in southern myanmar and actually protested in front of those foreign companies complexes so it's interesting that the protesters are going directly after the companies that do business with military connected companies in myanmar so be interesting to see if that you know that's obviously going to be a cut to the military budget if they rely so much on this money so smart move by the protesters we're not really hearing if there's going to be any direct action

from the companies as a result of it ok thank you for that update this call hard to in bangkok. a more gone far has been reported in somalia's capital mogadishu on thursday government forces and armed men exchanged fire in an area where the opposition plans to hold a rally on friday they want the president to step down. he's term in office expired early this month but he failed to organize their actions on time risking a political crisis to speak now to catherine sawyer who's following those developments from kenya's capital nairobi catherine just tell us what's the latest what's happening. well i've just spoken to some of our colleagues in mogadishu who are saying that it's now quiet around the airport where this gunfire was hard but in the last hour or so we've hired all you know intense gunfight between government and proposition security

forces out of a huge explosion around the airport and this is where this protest had started the protests were being led by several presidential opposition candidates including former prime minister has some higher in the protestors were trying to get all the parliament buildings where they expected to be a huge rally later today if it happens but access is quite difficult because police and the military how flocke foules is a huge security presence across mogadishu as you mentioned about last night at this hotel where shooting was hard or on need tonight so this 3 presidential candidates at that hotel called might it's very close to the vicinity where the rally the protest rallies supposed to be held and the 3 presidential candidates still stuck in that would tell which is surrounded by military past and

now we have had from former president a shake sharif shake oh shit shake sharif who is in that hotel he's also a presidential candidate and he has accused the president from marjo of ordinary ordering an attack on them to stifle freedom of expression of the presidential candidates are asking the public in mogadishu to tan up in large numbers for friday prayers and for that rally but there's also a lot of fear came with people saying that they are opting to stay home and wait out the situation which is very tense indeed right now where does this rahman sort of leave things in terms of governance i mean so elections are meant to be held by words now there's a president whose time has actually ended so will finally that the next. well the situation the political and security situation is very precarious we have all shabaab feiss somalia the been ramping up their taxes while that is

a huge concern president for mother himself has called a consultative meeting with the leaders of the federal states that starts today and to morrow he wants to see whether this impasse can be resolved there are several contentious issues we don't have a date to a new election yet none of the processes has started and some of the contentious issues include the composition of the electoral commission and also the deployment of troops to a some states like juba land 2 of us feel the election now that government has accused some of these biggest states like juba land and put land or being the stumbling blocks to the process but then opposition candidates are actually blaming the president saying that he's the biggest obstacle they want him out they want a sort of transitional council formed to run affairs as they organize the election so as we said things very things very tense in mogadishu and across the country and

also of course it's a complex situation and it's just a wait and see situation but unless these sticky issues this contentious issues are sorted then things are just going to get wes. ok catherine so is following developments in somalia from kenya's capital nairobi thank you we turn now to the reemergence of ebola in west africa the world health organization has shipped more than 11000 doses of vaccines to guinea with the aim of stopping an uncontrolled spread of the disease on top of the corona virus pandemic it's ask 6 countries to go on high alert for possible infections and this is where the new cases are emerging in guinea self as nicholas holcomb holds. great in guinea's for a street in the epicenter of the new ball outbreak at the regional health center un health workers dispatch from conakry to treat the patients in isolation among them

is nurse lucy hobbs husband it is in this home where nurse lucy suffered from a fever vomiting and diarrhea a week later she died in hospital health workers were unaware that she had contract at a bulla during her funeral relatives and friends hugged her body contracting the virus but not her uncle dr louis who kept his distance he says he alerted authorities because he sensed her death was more than simply a personal tragedy. lucy who was treating her grandmother who had a fever and was reading from a nose and everywhere tried to get blood clotting medicine from the main town eventually the grandmother died and nursed the. security forces stop and search vehicles in an attempt to trace close contacts and check for temperatures isolating those that appear ill guinea is on high alert people are scared haunted by the previous epidemic in 2015 over 11000 people died and

22000 were infected across guinea sirrah leone in liberia a bull that was contained thanks to the development of a new vaccine. but the 350000 doses distributed then expired last december the un says that new vaccines are on their way we are shifting to the $11000.00 is off of vaccine and this is the achievement at least for the 1st time in guinea we are having a vaccine not the beginning of outbreak to control of this object within the population of vaccine alone will not stop a virus harbored in nature by bats and primates the resurgence of a bull and brings more questions than answers with scientists still trying to understand why a guinea forest region is again the center of the outbreak nicholas hawke

al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera no word yet on dozens of schoolboys of doctors in nigeria as officials begin negotiations with kidnap. and a grim warning from u.n. officials yemen could be heading toward the worst famine the world has seen in decades. it's time for the perfect jenny. went sponsored point qatar airways how the weather remains very cold across eastern parts of europe but the further west some will be looking at temperatures getting close to fabry wreck ores in one of 2 spots will see temperatures up it's double figures there for london and for glasgow 13 there for paris and rising further east it's minus the same for moscow

basin places the snow there into that eastern side of poland pushing across into belarus maybe creeping across into that western side of russia as well we see some snow too just coming down into the southeastern corner just around bulgar area just easing away from the balkans for central parts it is generally try with that model there in place but the really mild air as can be further west 17 celsius there for paris well up into the mid eighty's there you notice for london a sweater weather and some windy weather started to push his way into western parts as we go on through saturday some heavy rain coming in there will be some heavy rain too coming into portugal which will gradually make its way into a good parts of spain as we go on through the weekend chances of wet weather to into the east the side of the mediterranean so cool and damp there forward northern parts of egypt much of north africa will be fine and dry the a few showers to eastern areas of ethiopia this weekend. qatar airways jump into the story there is

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protests she was shot in the head last week when they were trying to disperse a crowd at the capital nothing at all. more gunfire has been reported in somalia's capital mogadishu government forces and armed men exchanged fire the day before a planned opposition rally on friday they want the president to step down. the world health organization has called on 6 african countries to go on high alert ebola more than 11000 vaccines are heading to get me to stop an uncontrolled spread of the disease. nigerian officials are believed to be negotiating with the armed gangs that kidnapped a group of students on wednesday the exact number of those taken by the kidnappers is unknown but hundreds are still missing ascend 24 hours after the mass abduction reports a merge that another village was attacks. about it just joins us now live from a boot op ed what more do we know about these negotiations who is actually behind

this kidnapping where they've been taken. well kim the negotiations have been on from day one i understand because the initial reports indicate that although the military know where the exact location of the students the fear was that launching an attack on that group holding this to their students could mean that some students made it was their lives in the crossfire and so the negotiation process started now. the problem right now is we've seen more than 2448 hours now since these process began and that he's no word yet as to when they will be released although government officials say there will be loose released soon now the few fall of this process is that we've seen that this happened before. in exactly 2 months ago on the 19th of december hundreds of

students were taken from a school in quetta in cuts in a state the home state of president mahmoud abbas heidi after days 6 days in captivity they were at least and they want to ports that you much later that negotiations took place and that ransom was paid for the students and a lot of legit us believe that these payments these ransom embolden criminal groups and criminals and then help them to perpetrate more activities or criminal activities in the future we've seen that with boko haram before when ransom was paid for some hostages including the juba girls what we realized later that is that book became more fierce and more daring in its attacks and raids on villages and even military positions so the future now is that this negotiation is if it results in to ransom or safe passage to the criminals that will they embolden them to take more action more criminal activities in the future. thank you for that. versa. one of south africa's most powerful

politicians has appeared in a court in johannesburg. is charged with fraud corruption and money laundering he is the secretary general of the ruling african national congress from a to militias live for us in johannesburg the media just tell us what happened in court this morning. well the appearance was in the bloom from tain magistrates court and it was very much procedural 10 accused appear really appeared related to this as best as case that goes back about 6 years and that's when there was a contract appointed to a joint venture that was meant to identify homes in the free state province it had as business roofing we do know now that as best as is not the best option in terms of keeping people safe it's known to cause illness and this is why this particular project was looked at to try and change the roofing of homes in the in this province and

a $15000000.00 contract was awarded to this joint venture but according to the case that's been brought against a smuggler who is the secretary general of the african national congress back then he was the premier of the free state province money from that contract was instead looted very little work was done and according to the charges a smuggler surely may have been a fitted from that contractor that was given out and so he's been charged with a number of other people for foreign corruption at the magistrate's court in blue from day to day it was a very short appearance it's very procedural it's pretrial the problem the trial hasn't begun and so for in the meanwhile it's now been transferred to the bloemfontein high court and for pretrial proceedings that's going to take place in august of this year so for those watching this case that's just another perspire moment at least 6 months before there's any further movement in this particular case for that so for those looking for answers it's going to be a while before this there's any clarity on what exactly happened it's likely that

a trial on this matter may only start a year from now ok for me to johannesburg thank you. and major overhaul of hong kong's public broadcaster could soon be on the cards raising concerns about press freedom a government review of radio television hong kong was initiated last year following its coverage of anti-government protests and 29000 found the editorial management deficiencies and a lack of transparency on com officials say it was making sure the broadcaster complied with its charter entering brown reports from broadcasters headquarters in hong kong. well r t h k's been around since 1928 but this is undoubtedly one of its darkest days what's happening here at r.t. h.k. in many ways reflects the more profound changes that are happening elsewhere in hong kong right now on friday the government released the findings of a damning report into the. essentially accusing it of bias in its coverage of the

recent anti-government protests the minister responsible for overseeing broadcasting said that r t h k had failed to promote hong kong as unique one country 2 systems form of government on the same day it was announced of the boss of r.t. 8 kerry was leaving his post after more than 5 years he's being replaced by a civil servant with apparently no broadcasting experience and of course just a few days ago there was more controversy when r.t. h.k. dropped the b.b.c. world service that came after the broadcaster was blocked on the mainland one of the complaints the government had against r.t. h.k. is that one of its reporters recently interviewed a representative of the world health organization and the representative was asked whether taiwan should be considered for membership well of course taiwan is regarded by china as a breakaway province to be taken back by force if necessary it's one of china's red

lines it all raises questions of course about the future of this broadcast don't many commentators in hong kong those still prepared to speak out so the. what the government wants is a broadcaster that's much more in the image of china's state controlled broadcaster namely one that doesn't stand up to the government or hold its officials to account . un officials have told the security council that yemen is hurtling toward the worst famine the world has seen in decades this they say had a renewed offensive by who the rebels threatens to wife passed a new opportunity to end the war and diplomatic editor james bass reports from the united nations. the news from yemen is about as grim as it gets these pictures from the aid agency save the children of 7 month old amir the u.n. says he's one among a staggering 400000 children under 5 years of age who are seriously malnourished

and at risk of dying from starvation famines are very unusual well there has only been one in the last 20 years of a significant scale when a quarter 1000000 somalis lost their lives in 2011 what could happen in yemen over the next weeks and months is something the world hasn't seen for 40 years something literally i thought was unimaginable but it will happen unless different action is taken by the u.n. special envoy martin griffiths told the security council the situation on the ground in yemen is now the most tense he's seen since he took up the job 3 years ago i am certain that the word is probably more than that to report that over the past month the conflict in yemen has taken a sharp escalatory turn with the answer out of the most recent offensive it

mara go. i have done this many trials and serve the last year when this offensive operation started and i repeat my call now. america must stop. there's been are a new diplomatic focus on yemen from the biden administration to mr griffiths himself as being to tehran and riyadh in recent weeks the u.n. is hoping the dark humanitarian situation will be helped by a pledging conference on the 1st of march they want countries to give money for yemen james out 0 at the united nations. in the united states the chicago police department has been found to have been woefully unprepared for violence that broke out off the death of george flaunt the black man dies in police custody last year nationwide protests against racism and police brutality an

independent report into the chicago police response also found some officers took steps to cover up their actions but it takes most of the blame on the department say given the ship $100.00 reports from chicago. the report says that the police department and the city leadership essentially failed its own police officers and its citizens and nearly every level starting with being utterly unprepared despite the fact that they were violent riots in the streets of minneapolis and other cities the police department had not prepared to train for a massive arrest for years before this happened and didn't do a quick training course ahead of time and police officers say they had little guidance and therefore they felt that they were left to their own to respond to the protesters and they used a lot of tactics that have been heavily criticised in that report make people rather heavily notably including the head of the civilian police oversight board

who was beaten by police during a protest they also would box people in and then use pepper spray that's a heavily criticized because it tends to create confrontation and as you say there was little oversight afterwards and one of the reasons was there was little record of. which police supervisors made what decisions what police officers did in specific instances including covering their badges with black tape that meant if they were accused of beating a crowd there was little rep or caution for that and afterwards that left little opportunity to punish these officers and the supervisors who made these decisions. hundreds of thousands of people in the u.s. state of texas a still without fail went to stay home many families don't have safe drinking the white house says the extreme weather conditions in texas and thereby states are likely caused by climate change across as also a political storm. from new york. this is.

day 4 of the u.s. winter weather crisis and things only seem to be getting worse especially in texas where as of thursday afternoon a half 1000000 people are still without power and heat as electricity companies fail to deal with rare subzero temperatures. until they go over make it mobile so that they have a coma mobile a quarter of the residents in the state have been told to boil their own drinking water as supply systems are hit adding insult to injury a state famous for its oil industry is also suffering from a shortage of petrol a kind of stuck here i have 9 miles left to go with my car so we have to find something that's within 9 miles from here texas is america's 2nd most populous

state with 29000000 residents living in an area larger than the whole of france it's the only u.s. state that has its own electricity grid and is not part of the national system by its own choice which is allowed it to bypass federal regulations designed to protect against exactly these kinds of conditions under fire for being seemingly woefully unprepared for the state's energy bosses were forced to defend themselves it was a problem went back and happened to be knocked out by an extraordinary and bad and all of the impact of that same extraordinary event head on down. and and obviously on what. i'm sure people may argue about about what once were done also facing scrutiny texas republican senator ted cruz who won wednesday left his embattled state for an unannounced family vacation in the mexican beatriz sort of

ken kuhn when outrage ensued he promptly cut his trip short and flew home the storm is now here over the north east of the u.s. and it's forecast to linger until the end of friday but it is not expected to cause nearly as much disruption as what it has in texas a state that remains in a deep freeze crisis gabriels andro al-jazeera and york. results there and these are the top stories a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die and 1000000 miles anti coup protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd of the capitol not yet or thousands of people have joined demonstrations for a 14th straight day calling for.