buildings the universities and monasteries were just some of the many structures that were destroyed in manila during world war 2. but rebuilding a life and a city from scratch has proven difficult and some experts see manila has never truly recovered. the way the world. 2 people shot dead in mandalay esmé and mas security forces fired live rounds to break up protests. at the. visitors rappers poets transport workers and ethnic minorities across the country unite in a show of anger against the military. oh i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up for you

on the program russian opposition leader alexina vali loses an appeal against his jail sentence and is fined for slandering a world war 2 veteran. a major disaster is declared in texas after winter storms caused days of blackouts followed by bust pipes and no clean drinking water . and just to washington in jakarta with severe flooding has forced hundreds from their home. welcome to the program me and ma has seen a dramatic escalation of violence against protesters demanding an end to military rule 2 weeks off to street demonstrations 1st began following the coup security forces have killed 2 people in the 2nd largest city of mandalay they fire. live

ammunition into the crowds as well as tear gas water cannons and rubber bullets elsewhere thousands of people were out on the streets of yangon calling for the release of unsung searching and all the civilian leaders from the european union has condemned the bloodshed is foreign minister as a jew to discuss how to respond to events in the in march and meeting on monday tony chang reports now from neighboring thailand. which shots ring out as protesters in mandalay flee from the police and water cannon tear gas and sling shots also used to disperse the crowd casualties taken from the scene by ambulance as the security services attempt to break strikes that have shut down shipyards on the or what the river in the capital naypyidaw marches commemorated the death of a 22 year old student shot in the head during a demonstration last week determination amongst those present that they would continue to march against the military coup despite the danger until

a civilian government is restored no i cannot there are possibilities of many more people dying and we ourselves can even know whether we will die or not but we need to fight until the end regardless of our lives in order to succeed and that is only after we get rid of this military dictatorship downtown young gone through the largest crowds despite a police cordon around the soon go to the crowds just move down the road chanting for the release of aung san suu kyi remains on the military detention there is a campaign of civil disobedience start to impact transporting banking systems across myanmar some feel they have nothing to lose the money have the right to judge young people have their dreams 29000 was a year of development and 2020 there was coronavirus and we were thinking about the future but everything is gone now everything we were hoping for is going to be destroyed that's why more people are joining the protests than in the past in kitchen stay. he's in the phone north

a tense standoff between protesters and police this is one of the areas where the military has struck would be used to suppress ethnic unrest but now there's news media most diverse ethnic groups have signed an nationwide ceasefire to unite in opposition to military rule tony chang algis or. russian opposition leader alexina valley has suffered a double eagle the kremlin critic lost an appeal against his jail sentence for breaking bail conditions while recovering in germany from a poisoning is also fined for defaming a wild war 2 veteran henri chalons has more now. alexei novelli knows this drill well he's been in the defendant's cage of a russian courtroom so many times before he knows judges almost never overturn a conviction you know the chances of that are even smaller for the kremlin's most

high profile critic. so novelli listen to the expected rejection of his appeal and gave a customarily sarcastic reply they reduced my sentence by 1.5 months great he said is the verdict clear ask the judge. yes yes thank you part of the bounty taking off time already spent under house arrest of ali sentences now 2 years and 8 months he gave a final statement captured only on audiotape criticizing the or thora tease. me. they say what's this we can fiddle with the system in any way we want so how can you stand against us i'm not the only one who sees it but the ordinary people who watch this can see it too they help our feelings about it because they can imagine what happens if they make this justice system outside his lawyer echoed in a valley cynical view of the country's courts. today's verdict was expected for us

we consider it unlawful nothing has changed all the arguments were made in the court the 1st time they got rejected then they got rejected now. alexei navalny returned to russia last month and was immediately detained he's been recovering in germany since being poisoned on a trip to siberia last august it was an attack which nearly killed him not only says russia's f.s.b. security service was responsible and the e.u. has sanctioned several members of president putin's inner circle prosecutors say by being out of the country so long of only violated the terms of an earlier suspended sentence but he. is being accused after being released from the clinic on september 23rd 2020 during 2 months till november 2020 alexina valmy has not notified the probation department about his place of stay he has not turned up to the registration either past the courts were still not done with no valmy after his appeal rejection there was another conviction and 11 and

a half $1000.00 fine for supposedly defaming a world war 2 veteran and one of the valleys online videos all this legal attention for him on the kremlin professes complete disinterest in a man whose political future they insist is not their concern rory chalons how does iran or u.s. president joe biden has approved a major disaster declaration for texas 5 days after it and other southern u.s. states were hit by rest snowstorms temperatures are finally forecast to rise but hundreds of thousands of people are still without power and millions have no clean drinking water after treatment plants had to shut down john hendren has a. fridge in texas is trading power problems for water woes this past week has been an enormous challenge maybe unlike any challenge that you've ever dealt with before has been far too burdensome for the lives of all those

affected. we're working around the clock and we will continue to work around the clock to address to meet your needs and challenges after days of rare freezing temperatures blanketed the 2nd largest state in the u.s. power stations are all back on line that after unusually high demand led to rolling blackouts transmission lines taken down by ice still have left nearly 200000 without power but now texans face a new crisis 7000000 people a quarter of the state or being asked to boil their water if they have it at all because the cold weather has left broken pipes and taken water treatment plants offline san antonio faces fire and ice as frozen fire hydrants forced firefighters to truckee and water flowing crews battling flames at an apartment complex haven't been able to get a workout weeklong. now everything that we have in there it's got grocery store

shelves are largely bare leaving residents lined up in their cars for food and water president joe biden says he's declaring the entire state the disaster zone i talked with the federal emergency management agency fema the administrator. of the saff community we're going to ask him to accelerate our response and request for quote it's a different declaration a major disaster declaration the president says he hopes to visit the lone star state next week here in chicago where the northern end of the weather system that struck texas about 1500 kilometers north of dallas but you coddle is used to weather like this it's water and power transmission systems are hardened for the routine cold weather that strikes every winter texas hasn't seen a storm system like this in 35 years and it's clear its system simply weren't up to the task. there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday

john hendren al-jazeera chicago. mike hanna joins us live now from washington for more on this there's been this declaration of a major emergency for the state of texas what does that mean for people that. well essentially what it means is freeing up a vast amount of federal funds for individuals businesses within texas itself president biden has signed off on this directing the federal emergency management agency to basically move into texas what will happen is that individuals businesses will then have to make a request for funding to either rebuild homes to redevelop businesses that have been affected by this weather outbreak and so it is releasing a huge amount of money within the state but there's a problem here this is essentially a short term fix texas as you heard there has not weatherized its systems for

a long period of time and compounding this issue is that texas declares itself to be energy independent it does not want any federal involvement it is the only state in the country that does not rely anyway on a federal policy for example the grid is purely controlled by the state but you've got a situation where the head rule funding is moving into a state that previously resisted it strongly so there are many issues involved in many questions in washington as well and likely to be in the days ahead who is responsible for this in the end a given the fact they're texas declares itself to be energy independent the governance of those within texas are the ones who should be held responsible many here would argue now there is the prospect of this 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan how much bipartisan support is there that package. well it was part of president biden's campaign bring back better was the slogan and

he's made very clear that he needs to develop infrastructure not only in texas but across the nation he's made clear to that he wants this to be a bipartisan issue however republicans have dragged their feet on this earlier this month president biden invited bipartisan congressional leaders to come to the white house to discover discuss this infrastructure plan and he doesn't want to lean on the democratic majorities in the house and the senate to get through this plan he really does need to get a bipartisan issue on it but the issue now in texas may be a little crowbar in for president biden given the fact that a staunch republican state that the woods very reluctant to take federal assistance in the past it's now asking for it in fact demanding it may make his job of persuading other republicans in other states and in congress of course to join him in this massive infrastructure plan that he is drawing up all right thanks very

much for the latest from washington on this story mike hanna thanks frank. in that al jazeera life from london still had. brazil's jumo y.a.l. to colonize asian and deforestation covered in 1000 kills the last survivors out on an indigenous amazon trying. i'm a mystery wrong come on line is that there is right that seems back it's best images from the past. how they were got much milder and asked spilling in across western parts of here and we've also got much wetter weather spilling in from the atlantic and that's fading in ahead of that cloud and right winds coming in from a southerly direction look at these temperatures 17 celsius there for paris the warmth spreading right up into

a good part of germany still on the cool side over to as eastern parts of you but even modest not in moscow represents something of an improvement we got some snow flurries to go through here it will be a 3rd of the minus 7 in moscow by sunday afternoon not sabbaticals central pass in light winds but when will be lovely spring like weather there 15 degrees celsius some of the temperature there for paris so that's up to 2 for london the 3 and i still some west of weather coming into western parts of england western areas of well some very heavy rain moving across portugal into spain snow over the high ground level contagion h. its way further east which as we go on through monday still getting up into the mid teens to some paris at 16 celsius i was towards the southeast a coat of fine and dry fun to try to across northern parts of africa for the most part we have got some wetter weather just sliding in across morocco alsa spain and portugal that what weather all the way across into the fog north of algeria.

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welcome back a look at headlines now security forces in myanmar shot dead 2 protesters they were killed in mandalay as demonstrations continued across the country the european union has condemned. russian opposition leader alexina volley as lost an appeal against his jail sentence the kremlin critic was convicted of breaking bail conditions while receiving treatment in germany after being poisoned it was also fined for defaming a world war 2 veteran. and u.s. president joe biden has approved a major disaster declaration for texas 5 days after it was hit by rest no storms hundreds of thousands of people there are still without power and millions now have no clean drinking water. well in other news we're following large areas of the indonesian capital jakarta are under water off to heavy overnight rain suburbs to the east of suffered the greatest damage with more than 1300 people evacuated to shelters even neighborhoods that don't usually experience flooding have been affected for the 1st time jessica washington reports now from one of the worst hit

areas. you can hear is the world's fastest sinking city every monsoon season is a reminder of the worsening crisis of large parts of the city once again submerged and you can't as east thousands of people who are moved to safety as floodwaters reached up to 1.8 meters high in some areas. rescue is in police work together to help people escape. and sees it out there the water in my home is still chest high all my belongings got flooded. i tried to put them somewhere higher but then last night the water also went higher the indonesian capital is home to about 10000000 people and thousands are now without power many here are so accustomed to this recurring disaster that used to wait it out on balconies and roofs flooding is an annual event here in jakarta heard something that this community. is well

accustomed to but this year many communities which have never experienced severe flooding before doing so for the 1st time and scientists age a card is local governments must act faster to save this sinking city. in the relatively affluent area of command people told al-jazeera they've never experienced such severe flooding jakarta's governor on the spot swayed and says local authorities are working swiftly to assist everyone but she sensed that in the main and top priority is to make sure the people are safe we don't want to see any casualties and we've prepared evacuation centers for people who are affected by the torrential rain. but this crisis is about more than just rain experts have criticised the governor for failing to act and for blaming the rain when there are other factors contributing to the floods were the normalisation projects have been delayed and scaled back despite experts saying they would help ease the annual flooding and excessive ground water extraction and the destruction of adequate

green spaces in the city is sinking at an even faster rate. carter has an obligation to fix its drainage and completely for globalization projects this is to increase the function and capacity of the rivers to contain the rainfall without causing floods. forced from their homes without their toys it's not the 1st time these children have played in flood waters and it likely won't be the last as thousands of indonesians are forced to leave their homes and belongings once again many are asking what it would take for the authorities to act jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. well staying in indonesia a ferry loaded with passengers and vehicles is capsized in the west imports of pontiac. have been no reports of any casualties but force official did say they were checking to make sure all the passengers had

been rescued by waves are being blamed for the accident. some news from afghanistan 5 people have been killed in 3 explosions in the capital police say improvised explosive devices were used no one has claimed to be behind the attacks at least 70 people though have lost their lives in similar incidents in the past month targeting high profile figures including politicians judges and janice there's also been more violence across afghanistan despite a months long peace process between the government and taliban leaders intense fighting in the southern kandahar province is now which the outskirts of its main city are seeing tens of thousands of afghan lives at risk for controversy has more from kabul here in rural kandahar the war has barely stopped since it started nearly 20 years ago. but now it's coming closer to the main city afghanistan's 2nd largest after the capital kabul heavy fighting between government

forces and the taliban is now only 8 kilometers away from kandahar city. of. mines infest the roads while the taliban destroys others some politicians warn if security continues to deteriorate it could be a matter of time before the government loses control or as i see the last movements of taliban where the are focusing a lot on come to her. as i know they are inviting their fighters from a different part of afghanistan to come to her and it will be difficult after months before afghan go into to continue war the main hospital is full of those who've been wounded with one coming after the other every day thousands are displaced from their homes because of the heavy fighting and look for refuge in flimsy tent cities the jungle when you get there are such we lived our homes in

a situation with some men just escaped from the fighting in the families the women and children who lived behind after the fighting stopped for a little while the men came back in risk youth the kids and families all their belongings will live behind. according to government officials at least 20000 families have been displaced in kandahar province since november most of them are farmers they left their field and cannot go back the situation is no better inside kandahar city people say there is no business because of the increasing violence and targeted killings to cheerlead look at the let that be the center of government support for security forces i don't think that the tally board will go forward in. kandahar is the birthplace of the taliban and it's politically significant for the group it's also a strategic province and a geo political gateway to kabul and the broader region a spokesman of the ministry of defense told all jazeera that a few months back the afghan security forces stopped

a major taliban plot to attack khandahar he says that if the armed group is planning another similar offensive the afghan army is fully prepared to fight back a piece that for now seems to remain out over everyone's reach for your country for . kabul. health care workers in bolivia have gone on strike they say that the action will not affect covert patients they're demanding the government repeal a new health emergency law which bans strikes during the pandemic and allows foreign staff to be hired live as health unions as the law is unconstitutional and restricts the right to protest. argentina's health minister gonzalez garcia has resigned following reports that at least 10 people skip the queue for covert vaccines among them was a journalist who said he'd been vaccinated after speaking directly with the

minister country's only just started inoculating people over the age of 70 prioritizing health care workers before that earlier this month peru's health and foreign ministers resigned as well after it emerged that hundreds of officials have been vaccinated before health workers. now the last warrior from a once thriving indigenous community in purcell's amazon has died from cover 19 it spells the end of the chin the people as a distinct ethnic group daniel sheiner reports. the last shelter the last few the warrior. 86 year old are more him out has died from the copied 1000 virus at a hospital in northwestern brazil his passing marks the end of a people the humor indigenous community which once numbered around 15000. is survived by his 3 daughters but they've had to marry into another community because

there were no male partners left in their own but our orders. for all of us for the indigenous people for those who fought to defend the rights of indigenous communities the loss of a whole people cannot be measured it's a huge loss for all the indigenous people of brazil. with several 1000000 indigenous inhabitants of what is now the brazilian amazon when the 1st european settlers arrived here more than 500 years ago the disappearance of the uma is just the latest tragedy in a catalogue of disease deforestation land theft the massacres the law for that no more here many indigenous people are dying in brazil many many because we have what we call a government genocide of ethno side and we hold them responsible for these deaths a report out this week says the covered $1000.00 pandemic has only made the situation worse that many governments including brazil's a using the crisis is not unity to disregard social environmental safeguards to

further erode the rights of indigenous people the extent of the increase rob he is rid of the. urgency to enter into round. 3. you aren't. going to turn it. around. the report says many governments have criminalized indigenous human rights defenders and facilitated the threatened use of violence against them i'm now program 19 even more so up to the point we're through to reggie this is a case of crimes against humanity. and. some of the regional authorities in brazil have made efforts to reach vaccinate people in remote difficult to access communities but critics say they've been hampered by a government that has never taken the pandemic seriously and the society that shows

little regard for its original inhabitants. the less action is taken. will not be the last indigenous community to disappear or. the road to 01 osiris. now spanish protesters have gathered for a 5th night demonstrations against the jailing of the rapper publisher earlier this week. protesters are saying that his 9 month sentence i lights the suppression of free speech in spain the rapper is in prison on charges of glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy over his tweets and song lyrics over the past few days police have fired tear gas and phone bullets at demonstrators who have set fire to garbage at least 60 people have been arrested in barcelona a lot. now 2 days after touching down on mars and nasa perseverance rovers mission is already off to a spectacular start the 1st batch of photos being back to earth are providing

unprecedented details of the surface of the red planet and as rob reynolds reports it's only the beginning of man's most ambitious exploration of another planet. this is the 1st ever color picture from a world more than 54000000 kilometers beyond ours it's one of several sent from perseverance is a ray of cameras this one shows the rover being lowered down by cables to its martian landing spot from the delivery space vehicle. nasa scientists say the rover came through its action packed landing thursday in fine form and happy to say that the river is doing great and healthy on the surface of mars and continues to be highly highly functional and then just kind of the rate at this shot shows one of the rovers heavy duty wheels that it will use to explore the red dust of just 0 crater for signs of extinct ancient life but perseverance won't be making tracks

right away 1st engineers will perform system checks update its software and test some of its instruments like a robotic arm and a microphone in a month or so ingenuity the drone attached to the rover will take its 1st flight this rover is epic for it it represents. 8 years of hundreds of engineers at the laboratory thousands around the world a total of over 4 founds and human years of investment. and already a detail in this picture has caught scientists attention that rock on the left the one that looks like a hunk of swiss cheese and there are a number of different geological processes that can make holes in iraq like that and to the science team is now thinking about what this might mean and one of the questions we'll ask 1st is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin and both of those would be equally exciting to the

team ultimately perseverance may dig up evidence that life existed on mars at some point in the ancient past that could be a sign that life is widespread in our solar system our galaxy and the far flung reaches of the universe and that we are not alone robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. a recap of the headlines this hour manned mars in a dramatic escalation of violence against people protesting the detention of the country's civilian leaders 2 weeks off to big street demonstrations against the military security forces have killed 2 people in the 2nd largest city of mandalay they fidler live ammunition into crowds as well as take asked for to canon rebel.