running for gold in this area for centuries the best time of year to do it is the winter because the river is lower than your in the summer months these tiny little yellow flicks you can see why not look much the worse around $50.00 grand. opposition protesters in somalia running for their lives of the shots are fired as they marched demanding the president step down. there i am convinced this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a protester shot in the head during an anti coupe protests dies in me in march there is growing

anger against the military. the world health organization calls for unity as africa grapples with a new ebola outbreak in the middle of the covert 19 pandemic. eyes on mars a master spacecraft sends new pictures as it searches for traces of ancient life on the red planet. there's been more gunfire in somalia's capital as anger grows over delayed elections. this was the scene in central mogadishu a short while ago where shots were heard as a former prime minister was running in against the current video it's unclear who

opened fire roads have been sealed and there's a heavy security presence bill position is holding a day of protest calling on the president to step down. but it's big not to catherine sawyer who is following these developments from kenya's capital nairobi just tell us what's the latest what's happening. well we're being told that the military and police have now cordoned off that all area around the airport where we've seen this dramatic since 2 hours ago what happened is that the protesters were gathering around that area they were being led by several presidential candidates including former prime minister has higher when security forces tried to disperse them and then there was this intense gunfight between the government forces and proposition security forces as well we also witnessed a huge explosion several buildings around that area have been destroyed now these

protesters were trying to get to the parliament buildings where they wanted to have this rally to call out the government and what has been going on in that country. opposition candidates all still telling the public in mogadishu to come out in large numbers for friday protest but i think it's very difficult to do that because a lot of people are very afraid saying that they want to wait out the situation there is also a lot of checkpoints a lot of police blocks military blocks especially towards that area huge security presence presence across mogadishu and then there is this other incident that happened last night at a hotel very near this venue where there was supposed to be the protest 3 presidential candidates are still holed up there one of them of former president sharif shaikh ahmed saying that he believes that president for marjoe

ordered an attack on them to stifle the freedom of expression so the situation in mogadishu still very very tense indeed. ok you say people angry with what's going on in the country just explain to our viewers what is going on in the country elections that were meant to be held weren't held now a president whose term has technically ended just explain the background to this for us it's a very complex security and political situation yes the election was supposed to be held that did not happen the president has called for a consultative meeting again it's very difficult to see how this meeting is going to happen and that the circumstances various several previous meetings have failed to come to an agreement on the contentious issues we still don't have a date to a new election the process haven't started yet some of the contentious issues include the management of the election the composition of the electoral commission

and also the deployment of troops to some strong states like for example a ged or region there's a lot of mistrust between the leaders with the government saying that some leaders of the states like a like a job or land and point land being the stumbling blocks to the process but then opposition presidential candidates really putting all the blame on president for majesty saying that he is the biggest obstacle they do not want him in the position they are suggesting the formation of a transitional council to oversee the running of the government oversee the running of the country as they organize the elections so there's also the security situation we have. who have been who has been who have been ramping up attacks in somalia so a very complex and difficult security and political situation in somalia right now thanks for breaking it down for us catherine sawyer there in nairobi. jerry and

officials they negotiate with an armed gang that kidnapped a group of students are underway the exact number of those taken by the kidnappers on wednesday is unknown but hundreds are still missing less than 24 hours after the massive doctrine reports emerged that another village was attacks. from a boot what more do we know about these negotiations who's behind the kidnapping who's doing the negotiations and where these boys have been taken. well basically the question of who took the students is actually defined by the words banded that's what the officials here call them and they've been operating in 19 states for the last 2 years and the blame nigerians as a placing on security forces of the government is that they've watched events in the northwest of the country to china you reach and i see these violence as the kidnappings cattle rustling raids by these armed groups as an s. i the

activities in the criminal activities are trickling down from the northwest down to the center and up to this down to the south of the country at without much. precautionary measures taken so basically the government says it's the bandit and that are presented to us have been in touch with the people holding these students this security force said they have pinpointed the location and they've pin them down allowing for negotiations to continue the hesitation foot from the post for that for from the start is that any military action could result in unnecessary deaths on the part of the victims of this crime so the government sort of took a position too fast tried to see how a peaceful negotiation can bring out this children to safety and that has been going on the government says the state government in particular said it has made contact with these people through their lead it's through leaders of communities

who they believe know them but we also understand that some clerics one particular cleric who have been in touch with people good one trying to dissuade these bandits from these activities was also reported to have made contact with the people holding these students so the situation now is such that the people are expecting the government says that yes the students will be released safely and soon we don't know exactly when that will be but that off. years across nigeria that 2 things may happen here 1st ransom would be paid or set percentage will be negotiated for the criminals and if that happens the fear is that this will encourage them in boden them to take more hostages to demand for more ransom and then the criminal activity will continue already we're seeing that in a country that we're sure $1020.00 in december in particular particularly in december when hundreds of students were taken from the border school and there were

reports that negotiations took place and that runs some heavy drug maybe amount of money was paid to these people and it's believed that some of the criminal activities which this is then was encouraged by the payment of that dress we also know that some money and prisoner exchange for some of the cheaper girls were kidnapped in 2040 some years back so these are the few years nigeria's expressing at the moment thank you for that ahmed it's just there live from. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protest to to die healthy being injured in manaus anti coup protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital nap it all while talking had been on life support in hospital. and for 14 straight day thousands of people are on the streets again gone calling for the release of the deposed civilian leader aung san suu kyi and others the u.k. and canada have announced sanctions against iran miles while the general's international pressure builds on the agenda to give up power. and mandalay man our 2nd city

there's been more valleys the u.n. says an estimated 3 quarters of civil servants are now on strike. scotty joins us now live from bangkok scott so a protest has died of her injuries what will this do to the protest movement. kim they'll definitely use this as kind of rallying cry if you will you know we know that they've been holding a vigil for her since she went into hospital on february 9th she was in intensive care the entire time on life support the entire time so this was it seemed to be her doctors even say said from from the very 1st hours after she went to the hospital that her death was inevitable so the protesters had been braced for this announcement but you know the actual end when it happened it's you know when you look at that the images of a body bag being taken out of a hospital the capitol neighbored or that is a protester who was a kid who died from injuries sustained during a protest that is significant so will probably you know it's not as though things

are going to explode right now this is something that was anticipated but i think it will elevate the emotion that is already very high for those tens of thousands of protesters out across myanmar today so i think it will move forward it will definitely increase the anger as you mentioned kim and that anger has been pretty high straight the way through these protests but i think that obviously adds a little bit more to it but right now we're seeing protests in yangon in nato the capital and as you mentioned mentally the 2nd largest city in myanmar in yangon it's interesting because they're kind of pushed back from where they usually have been going over the last several days but they're still coming out jim ok thank you for that update scott heide lead there across developments from bangkok. it's. a major overhaul of hong kong public broadcaster can soon be on the cards raising concerns about french press freedom a government review of hong kong television radio television hong kong rather was

initiated last year following its coverage of anti-government protests and 2019 there have you found editorial management deficiencies and a lack of transparency on call officials say it's making sure the broadcaster complied with its charter brown reports from the broadcasters headquarters in hong kong. well are th case 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 willacy 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 and 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

. malaysia's top court has found a major online news portal in contempt of court of the comments posted by i've read it is deemed offensive to the judiciary and the editor in chief steven gan was cleared of any offense the court finds the company more than $120000.00 saying it is responsible for publishing readers' comments. literally as prime minister is calling on facebook to lift its information blockade and return to the negotiating table to stop the strain uses from viewing or sharing news on its platform in response to a proposed law that would make tech giants pay for news content i would decide of course this is a strain you're going to business here you work according to our rules and that's a reasonable proposition we're happy to listen to them on on the technical issues of this just like we listen to google when trying to a sensible arrangement but the idea of shutting down the sort of sites die did

yesterday as some sort of threat but i know i was trying to react to that and i thought that was a. the not a good move on their part and they should move quickly past that come back to the title and we'll sort it out. still ahead on al-jazeera facing renewed to anti-government protests jarius president calls that erections. sheltering from a once in a generation winter storm hundreds of thousands of people in texas town without water and many still have no and the city. hello welcomes another look at the international forecast for looking at some very wet some windy weather pushing towards southern parts of the philippines now in the form of our tropical storm and i think it's going to get to typhoon strength but

some very windy weather coming into the southern philippines through saturday gradually now seeing a little further north which in west which as we go on through sunday said that could lead to some localized flooding elsewhere it's the usual rash of showers across a good parts of southeast asia malaysia and indonesia seeing some big downpours and big down post here across the far north of australia some more wet weather just around the top and sliding across the gulf of carpentaria more neighbors a queensland seeing some heavy but useful rainfall and notice some wet weather still there in place across that eastern side of new south wales temperatures in melbourne at around 33 celsius as we go on through saturday but it does cool off significantly for sunday a high then of around 22 degrees but it should stay well the eastern parts of victoria could also see some wet weather by this stage further west it's fine and dry more hot sunshine for perth around 35 celsius fun to try to across new zealand

but due to bad in the temperatures here questions for the top temperature of 26 degrees. hidden away in the room. a 1000000 japanese shown the outside world one o one he still has to gates why so many young and old feel lost japan on al-jazeera . on counting because the prosperous president we delve into just how wealthy flood america is at a time when the rest of russia isn't past the rise of mean stops where there's plenty of money to be made and almost none of it is about the core business. counting the costs.

they're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour. there's been more gunfire in somalia's capital as anger grows over delayed national elections this was the scene in central mogadishu a short while ago i shall talk to us as a presidential candidate will rally against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die and be in mass at teco protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital not at all. but jerry and officials say negotiations with an armed gang that kidnapped a group of students are on the way the exact number of those taken by the kidnappers is unknown but hundreds still missing. the u.s. government says it's ready to join talks with iran and world powers to discuss

a return to the 25th day nuclear deal the state department will accept an invitation from the e.u. to attend a meeting of the signatories to the original agreement former u.s. president donald trump withdrew from the deal and 28 team iran has been reducing its compliance ever since prompting repeated warnings from britain france and germany the best. the best and safest part is to ensure that iran does not get nuclear weapons we want to discuss this with the u.s. partners and to find out under what conditions they would be prepared to rejoin the deal but in regards to tehran one has to say that the way you run is acting here regarding its commitments which it is discarding bit by bit and has now even threatened to reduce any transparency tehran is playing with fire and will complicate this process even more and it is complicated enough as it is our various president has moved to appease protesters by pardoning jailed anti-government activists and calling early elections in a televised address to whom called for the dissolution of parliament and also

announced a government reshuffle almost 2 years after a popular uprising algeria's political and economic crises have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic. is the middle east and north africa analyst he explains why a president who might be taking this action now. i think to boone is trying to get a had a looming political social crisis the political scene right now and then syria is a turbulent political scene if you will is trying to preempt another uprising known as a rocket like in 2 years ago that led to the result of the departure of the freebies president of the seeker so if you take some elements some variable and think about how the board who was elected president he was elected really bad the effort to amend the constitution through referendum was also very badly because the

turnout in those 2 election the river around them and the presidential election were extremely low you add to the fact that there have gone has been absence for almost 2 months. in germany because you had a was infected with the virus. and you have a president who is suffering from a lack of pollution the and the lack of trust so what he's trying to do is preempt another uprising 3 and another. just the streets people all over and and at the same time he's trying to expand them all the branch black walked in some of the language popularized by iraq the uprising. we now turn to the reemergence of ebola and west africa the world health organization has shipped more than $11000.00 doses of vaccines to guinea aiming to stop an

uncontrolled spread of the disease on top of the coronavirus demick it's asked 6 countries to go on high alert for possible infections and this is where new cases are emerging in guinea south as nicholas. in guineas for is to region the epicenter of the new ball outbreak at the regional health center u.n. 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 constructed 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 my nose and everywhere tried to get blood clotting medicine from the main town eventually the grandmother died and nursed contracted. 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 u.n. says that new vaccines are on their way shipped into the $11000.00 is off the scene and this is the huge achievement at least for the 1st time in

guinea we are having a vaccine not the beginning of outbreak to control this all break with pollution 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 forest region is again the center of the outbreak nicholas hawk al-jazeera. police in spain have arrested at least 18 protesters calling for the release of rep a public. thousands marched for a 3rd night in a row her across different cities was arrested on monday he faces a 9 month prison sentence and is accused of lower flying terrorism and insulting boyle take his songs and tweet. hundreds of thousands of people in the u.s. state of texas all still without us avail went to stall many families don't have

safe drinking water the white house says the extreme weather conditions in texas and nearby states well antti caused by climate change. are reports from new york. so 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. about. an old bagobo may get mobile so that they have a 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 the kind of stuck here i have 9 miles left to go with my car so you have to find something that's within 9 miles from your 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 with back a map and a knocked out by an extraordinary embed and also the impact of that payment for an area then head on down. and and obviously on one. i'm sure people may argue about what ones were done also facing scrutiny texas

republican senator ted cruz who wanted wednesday left his embattled state for an unannounced family vacation in the mexican beatriz or to. 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 its 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. new york. now says latest models are all that has touchdown successfully on the red tennis the spacecraft's cold perseverance has traveled 470000000 kilometers to find out if there was ever life on. space scientists erupted in

cheers when perseverance landed safely on mars it was the culmination of an action packed nailbiting 7 minute landing sequence. first the spacecraft entered mars orbit then its intrigue capsule raced into the martian atmosphere at 19000 kilometers per hour. the craft then deployed a large parachute to slow its approach to the target zone. slowing down the craft fired thrusters to hover just above the surface then deployed a crane to lower the rover gently downwards i can confirm jack actually did. begin picking up the end of. the complex and delicate operation went off without a hitch. moments later perseverance beamed back images

a barren landscape studded with boulders congratulations our savior pain and our own team that's not here the well excellent job it's the most ambitious and far reaching mission to the red planet baby and you know by the end of the mid to by the extent of the 20 thirties and you can start pushing out of the earth moon system in the heartland astronauts on board. the rover is primary goal to search for signs that microbial life may have existed on mars billions of years ago we can go somewhere in our solar system you know in our backyard and see signs of like a wall in the pit and it will be on another planet that could tell us that life is incredibly common and gives us a great shot of central you know finding more complex or even intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. perseverance is landing spot is just 0 crater which was once likely a large water filled lake a prime spot for traces of long ago life imagine you know an ancient microbial net

microbial that was growing along the shoreline of a lake cemented in iraq and leave behind those kind of biological exteriors if we see things like that associated with organics that would be an absolutely fantastic ride that would be probably the best they were look for on mars perseveres will also take samples of martian soil and rock those samples will be stored securely inside the rover and we're going to like them for a future mission to come grab it back to earth. finally perseverance brought along a helicopter drone called ingenuity which scientists hope will be able to fly a short distances proving that flight is possible in the extremely thin martian atmosphere with its dramatic landing done perseverance is mission will last one martian year or $687.00 earth days the knowledge it acquires for humanity.