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a new ebola outbreak guinea steps up efforts to control the spread of the deadly virus. and the u.k. supreme court rules in favor of giving driver's worker rights. we begin in somalia where there's been heavy gunfire on the streets of the capital mogadishu it happened during a rally calling for the president to step down of the delayed elections to go ahead . the shots were fired as a presidential candidate was holding a march against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire roads have been sealed off and there's a heavy security presence the u.n. has called for calm but just urging both sides to come together to reduce tensions . let's speak now to catherine sawyer who's following those developments from

kenya's capital nairobi and catherine despite those calls obviously things are very very tense in the capital. well things are extremely tense in the capital. much of it is now calm following the incident that incident and those dramatic scenes that we witnessed this morning security forces saying that they have contained the situation people have been going to the mosque for friday prayers but there is a lot of free and it's difficult to see how this process that had been called by opposition presidential candidates are going to go on. as i mentioned there was dramatic scenes of exchange of gunfire between government forces and propositions of forces around the airport there's a huge explosion we spoke to some position leaders were saying it's a rocket propelled grenade that was launched inside the airport operations in the

airport are still suspended we also spoke to the government spokesman who confirmed there was an incident like that around the airport by he did not give much detail so what happened in those protests it was the start of this protest march being led by several of the opposition presidential candidates they were trying to get to an area where they had planned to address a protest rally. to call out the government and everything that has been going on in somalia politically with the election but it's very difficult like i said to see how that's going to happen because there's all this military and police checkpoints all along the way a huge deployment over security service security services security pass and then also there's a what's how very close to this area where the protest was supposed to happen and there are 3 presidential candidates who are stuck in that will sell which has been surrounded by security forces there was also gun fighting yesterday very unclear

how that saw said but we have a hard from one of the presidential candidates of former president sheikh sharif has. blamed president joe accusing him of stifling freedom of expression or ordering an attack on them that would tell us so as we mentioned the security situation very tense indeed people afraid to come out of their homes saying that they just want to go to the mosque and then go all they do not want to participate in these protests because they just want to wait out the situation. ok thank you for that update there catherine soy monitoring developments from nairobi. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die after being injured in me in mars and he could protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd in the capital now people. have been on life support in hospital.

and for the 14th straight day thousands of people are on the streets of yangon calling for the release of their depose civilian leader aung san suu kyi and others u.k. and canada have announced sanctions against me in mars generals as international pressure builds on the job to give up power. more rallies have also been held in myanmar 2nd city mandalay the u.n. says an estimated 3 quarters of the country's civil servants are now on strike. has more from bangkok. so there is definitely anger on the streets across myanmar and semi that is definitely has been stoked by the announcement of the death of one of the 1st death of a protester we know that over the last a week or so there have been vigils for her held to during some of the rallies and protests because when she went into hospital on february 9th after receiving the bullet though the doctors are saying it was a live bullet wound. to her the prospects of her pulling through weren't great so

a lot of the protesters were holding vigils and so this was kind of something that was in tissue paper but yes of course this is going to stoke their anger even more you know there's been a series of things that have really kind of elevated the of the emotion if you will and they're still coming out sami what's interesting today in yangon an area of the biggest city in myanmar the commercial capital in myanmar that we have seen it has been around the sleeping goda area and that's why we've seen the most people come out the biggest gatherings well today on friday morning the police put kind of extended their cord on area around. so protesters couldn't get all the way there and it's kind of a perfect venue for a protest because there's a lot of street space open street areas because it's a roundabout and a lot of streets coming in so they blocked that off but there the protesters still came out they just kind of went to different areas and around there as well and as you mentioned in mandalay they were gathering as well so yes the anger is still there and i can imagine that with the announcement of the 1st death of

a protester that's only kind of raised it. that's arean 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 on wednesday is unknown 100 still missing a cent 20 files off the mass abduction reports of that another that it was attacks about interests as well from the. well these negotiations have been going on for at least 2 days now sami government is optimistic parents are really concerned especially those who are yet to see their children and for parents who have lost especially one particular parent is concerned about the safety of one other child from that family who's actually hurt while trying to escape the attack now the concern right now is the safety of this children we understand that from day one the military was saying that they have pinpointed the location of the kidnappers and they've pin them down paving the way for negotiations but there are concerns

that 2 things made result from these so-called negotiations on the book between the government and the kidnappers one is the payment of ransom government assistance. run some is off the table not part of the negotiation and the other the other possibility is that they are negotiating maybe a safe passage from for these kidnappers which about way it went then definitely there are concerns that this will the embolden kidnappers in the region we've seen that happen before 2 months ago there were 350 or even 360 students getting up from a school after 6 days of traumatic experiences in the hands of their captors these students were released we later learned that some ransom was paid although officials deny that earlier that russian was paid but we understood that ransom was paid for the release of these children and i lot of people believe that this has

emboldened these kidnappers to continue similar things happened before with a book or arounds. in the netherlands the senate is set to debate emergency that emergency rather legislation to maintain the country's nighttime curfew the bill was approved by the lower house of parliament on thursday a judge had earlier ordered that the curfew be lifted ruling that emergency powers have been wrongly used to enforce it protests were held in january when the restrictions were imposed instead fasteners live for us now in the court in the hague so the policy of this legislation would override the court's ruling scrapping the curfew is that right. exactly that's that's right this is an emergency law that basically was rushed by the government through parliament yesterday and now the 1st chamber has to decide on it but a lot of senators are very critical so it was expected that it would be quite an

easy debate for the government but it doesn't look like that it will be a vote very soon our the far right party has actually put in a proposal to reject the emergency law altogether so sanitas will vote on this very shortly but at the same time the old emergency law which was basically overruled by the court here in the hague is being discussed right now the appeal case is being heard a group of virus deniers basically filed this case and one very surprisingly this was very embarrassing from the government because not only this group of deniers but also lawmakers have been very critical about how the legal base was so basically missing from this this law the judge basically said it's only use in a case of a very urgent emergency situation like a dike breaking and the lawyer for the state sat well this damage is sort of similar to what a crashing against the dike so he's trying to defend himself but it's still very

questionable what the judges will decide here today so this whole debate about a curfew is whole in a country in its grip there were riots a few weeks ago this is very difficult situation for the government only a few weeks before the elections just never actually looking at pictures right now tens of thousands of people it looked like protesting about there so why was it that the curfew was so controversial why was it that people were so angry. well a lot of people said this is not something that in the netherlands should be implemented people are very freedom loving so this is was much too much of a strict measure but i think what's behind it is actually that the government was very lenient from the start they called it an intelligence lockdown it basically put the responsibility with the citizens to decide to follow these measures but then there were so many infections the 2nd wave really hit very badly here in atlanta so the government basically at the very last stage had to implement very

strict measures which completely surprised the population and that's why this. first situation this occurred and the riots were happening there was a lot of destruction and this debate is really hurting the government very back now . all right thank you for that fasten there live from the hague. still ahead on al-jazeera governments around the world consider whether to roll out vaccine passports and often easier travel. and mission to the red planet after a 7 month journey masses rather gets to work looking for signs of ancient life on mars. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour there's been more gunfire in somalia's capital as anger grows of a delayed national elections this was the scene in central mogadishu but shots were heard as a presidential candidate was rallying against the current leader it's unclear who opened fire. a 20 year old woman has become the 1st protester to die in 1000000 miles and she could protests she was shot in the head last week when police were trying to disperse a crowd at the capitol get on. a jury 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 are still missing. the world health organization has shipped more than 11000 doses of vaccines to guinea to stop the

spread of ebola on top of the corona virus pandemic it's ask 6 countries to be on high alert for possible infections and this is where new cases are emerging in guinea's self as nicholas hock reports. 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 to a bola 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. to see 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 contracts and. 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 in 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. into the $11000.00 this of ebola vaccine and this is the u.s.

achievement at least for the 1st time in guinea we are having a vaccine not the beginning of outbreak to control this our break within the population a 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 it's getting forest region is again the center of the outbreak nicholas hawk al-jazeera let's bring in dr moore a caterer in dakar senegal he is a technical officer at the world health organization office for africa thank you for your time and i want to again talk about this index case in guinea the nurse who we heard in that report apparently went to health centers twice and was incorrectly diagnosed twice do we know how or where she was infected.

not from. the moment we question you know. not. kill your action suit do so. well in this use your. information about. the mission is not ok how effective will these vaccines be with things saying 11000 vaccines on their way to the region how effective can they be if we don't know where the source of the infection is. anyway you know what he's actually we do. missions so we are going to fax you need to contact and contact off contact who will be identified by your immunity so we're not going to vaccinate older people he must question if. we are confident

that we feel it is strong investigation we will be able to identify i want to contact them well a spec team. $11000.00 those sunday and it will be stopped nobody objects to getting. on monday we're going to receive. some do it with some cutting back on monday ok so very quick what he wants the assessment of the risk that this may have already spread in both d.s.e. and and guinea yes we don't you are in recount up to it up to this assessment there for this event so the over under this window you know if i were to us. very hiding at the consulate been and. you know i knew then and then we'll update you on the event because you must know one confirmed

case in going to clean up city. from more or. to going to you know or was it a call is a sort of. 1000 kilometer from or so we consider to risk is very hard to come to thank you so much for your time doctor dr morey cater there in dhaka. thank you senator. the u.k. supreme court has ruled that over drivers should be classed as workers and not self employed the judges agreed with an earlier tribunals decision that found 2 drivers will work is under british law and that gives them the right to paid holidays and a minimum wage that joins us now from london so this must be pretty big also for the entire business model of that so-called gig economy.

that's right kim it is huge but as you are saying this is a confirmation of a ruling by an employment tribunal here in the u.k. back in 2016 the the decision that's just come from the supreme court means that it has lost its 4th and final chance to try to overrule the original decision which said effectively that. drivers should be classed as workers and not as self employed people which the company has always insisted that they were the the ruling means that they hopefully can get access to paid holidays to sick the breaks and to minimum wage that's the hope that the 2 code leads in this case who are former drivers have stated the court supreme court judges have noted that. which of course is based. in the us

sets the fair meaning that it dictates how much the drivers can earn so it is effectively their employer also the drivers were not involved in the terms and conditions of their contracts of course often they sit around waiting for a fare and one of the koch claimants has said that under the pandemic that we're going through fares are down around 80 percent which has left many drivers really struggling. and he's called for in fact the law in the u.k. now to be strengthened to make sure that the drivers can actually access it to pay and to get protection from unfair dismissal which was another gripe of the drivers now there are 60000 or so but drivers in the u.k. most of them in fact more than 2 thirds in london but of course this will have implications for other sectors there are other legal challenges from from taxi

firms and. livery companies employees or workers at the moment but other sectors have come under the spotlight during the pandemic of the gig economy a very very big feature right now in the u.k. whether or not the law changes could stand to have to pay out big sums the lawyers for the claimants are saying perhaps as much as $16000.00 per person it could take a while to work that through but clearly this is a big what it's been world come to by the unions saying that the contracts and the fact that these kind of people are classed as self-employed is exploitative so they're clearly hoping that things will get better. thanks for that update nadeem barbour there for us in london. qatar says it will waive quarantine for citizens and residents arriving in the country if they have been fully vaccinated against covert 19 they will still be subjected to testing on arrival the exemption

will not apply to those who've been vaccinated in other countries. so governments worldwide are exploring how values and and for so called vaccine passports and hungry people have been inoculated or recovered from covered 19 may soon be given exemptions for night time curfews and other restrictions our brain is building a vaccinations to fit into its existing coronavirus phone app it will display information including which a person has received denmark's planning to put out an early version of vaccination passports by the end of next month sweden wants to launch one by the middle of this year dr jonathan gruber is from the massachusetts institute of technology he says having an international vaccination passport system is unlikely. i think the important thing to realize is that vaccination is part of a suite of tools we have to fight corona virus and what i would hate to see happen would be places saying ok now we have vaccination now we're not going to let you

say for example be in a classroom until you're vaccinated we shouldn't do that testing remains a critical part of how we should fight coronavirus and we should make vaccination part of the solution you know individuals should not have to be forced to show that same passport on the other hand there should be condition that there are certain say sam so you are in the workplace and individuals don't want to show that team or passport that should be fine but then they should have to pay to be tested we're in this situation certainly where i think countries really have national priorities that putting above international priorities so on i'm not sure we get a truly global system i'm hopeful that within a year or 2 backs initially become widespread enough that we'll have run the virus to ground and that we will be will be able to control in a much in a much stronger way but i guess i'm optimistic we'll have a truly international system in place tourists even if they vaccinated i think will feel more comfortable going to countries where vaccination rates are high and

that's a problem because that's a big source of income for many countries in terms of internal growth i think we've learned that you can do quite well with masking social distancing so i think we've learned to really about good government. nasa's latest maz rover has touched down successfully on the red planet a spacecraft called perseverance has traveled 470000000 kilometers to find out if there was ever life on mars. 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 i can get. on it at that time are you ready to begin picking up the end of. the complex and delicate operation went off without a hitch moments later perseverance beamed back images of barren landscape studded with boulders congratulations our savior pain and our own team that's not years well excellent it's the most ambitious and far reaching mission to the red planet baby and you know by the end of the made by the executive 20 thirty's you can start pushing out of the earth moon system and land mass of ensemble. 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 life in them and only on another planet that could tell us that life is incredibly common and gives us a great shot and show you 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 and cement it in a rock 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 looked for on mars perseverance we'll 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 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 will last forever rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. the sound is there and based on the top stories more gunshots have been fired in somalia's capital as agood close of a day national elections this was the scene in central mogadishu. as a presidential candidate was campaigning against the current leader with unclear at whom up.