minds our around the lawns little babies were dying and they did nothing there were people in power in vest again exposing is and question they use and abuse of power around the globe and now disease. should show. threats of more sanctions against me and miles ruling military judge after the bloodiest day in more than 2 weeks of anti coup protests. welcome i'm peter sagal you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up the kremlin critic alexina valmy loses 2 court cases in one day leaving him heading to prison for nearly 3 years. terrifying moments for passengers

and people on the ground as a commercial aircraft jet engine explodes over the u.s. city of denver. and mexico's president pushes to get rid of a corruption busting unit there's been a milestone for the country's democracy. the top story 2 people have been killed in me in last 2nd largest city during the bloodiest day of protests against the military coup tension escalated quickly in mandalay where the police and soldiers fought with demonstrators and striking shipyard workers the violence has provoked more global condemnation including further threats of sanctions against the generals tony chang reports. 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 20 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 the civilian government is restored. and 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 sooner the crowds just move down the road chanting for the release of aung san suu kyi she remains under military detention there's a campaign of civil disobedience starts to impact transport and banking systems across myanmar some feel they have nothing to lose i was young people have

their dreams $29000.00 was a year of development and 2020 there was coronavirus and we were all 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 stays in the far north the tense standoff between protesters and police this is one of the areas where the military has struggled for years to suppress ethnic unrest but now there's news men most diverse ethnic groups have signed a nationwide ceasefire to unite in opposition to military rule tony chang al jazeera. iran says it's still studying the e.u. proposals to hold an informal meeting involving the u.s. and other participants in the 2050 nuclear deal u.s. president joe biden says he is willing to rejoin talks to try and save the agreements his predecessor donald trump withdrew from it in 2018 and reimpose

sanctions iran has been winding back its compliance ever since. and the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog has arrived in tehran ahead of a deadline that iran for u.s. actions to be lifted feel good rossi will discuss his agency's ability to continue inspections set under the nuclear deal iranian legislation comes into effect on tuesday suspending some inspections if the u.s. sanctions are not lifted taken off several rockets have hit an iraqi military installation injuring at least one local contractor no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on the airbase in balad north of the capital baghdad earlier iraqi security forces raided an eyesore hideout in areas surrounding the town of tommy are also north of baghdad 5 i saw some 2 pro-government fighters are said to have been killed the russian opposition leader alexei novelli has suffered

2 legal defeats in one day the kremlin critic lost an appeal against his nearly 3 year jail sentence and was fined for defamation in a separate case rory chalons takes up the story. 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 he knows the chances of smaller for the kremlin's most high profile critic. so narrowly 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 harsh the judge. yes yes thank you part of the bounty taking off time already spent under house arrest of ali sentence is now 2 years and 8 months he gave a final statement captured only on audiotape criticizing the or thora g.'s. this

might be what they say what is 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 meet this justice system outside his lawyer echoed in a fairly 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'd been recovering in germany since being poisoned on a trip to siberia last august it was an attack which nearly killed him he 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 around me violated the terms of an earlier suspended sentence but he. is being used after being released from the clinic on september 23rd 2020 during 2 months till november 2020 alexina valmy has not notified the patient department about his place of stay he has not turned up to the registration either. but the courts were still not done with novell me 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 no valleys online videos all this legal attention for a man in the kremlin professes complete disinterest in a man whose political future they insist is not there can really tell and al-jazeera let's talk to alex connectin he's a russian defector who was granted asylum in the u.s. after the collapse of the soviet union he joins us from inclined village in nevada

alex connection welcome to al-jazeera so this will almost completely silence novell the particularly between now and the election shuttles for the autumn but in real terms what does it do to him and his supporters won't be there 1st of all thank you for inviting me and asking for my opinion i believe through very similar experiences on a smaller scale. as mr no one me and i don't think he is actually getting silenced i think that he turned to russia essentially get something just like sacrifice and he self himself or well the coverage ness of many of his company that it's possibly including myself just to get the better. deal and from the from we shouldn't dock now he is getting more bold by people in russia and by the internet the international community. is this

a coming bigger issue for the kremlin in as much as if you examine the kind of people who've been protesting on the streets a lot of them are older a lot of them are 1st time protesters on russian streets and they're not primarily saying we are protesting in support of alexina valmy we are protesting against what was done to someone who wants to set themselves up as a viable opposition to the incumbent in the kremlin 'd well you hit on the name they are there for a long time and the rest long why is a position in the russian opposition was so for it meant that there are many would be interests and not clearly there are many people who would even just exceed the violet because of he's of use the war right nationalistic but this a huge he seems to have of want and now he is clear and disappeared at the end of

their presentation and that of course doesn't present a clear danger. don't what your city she even has or i don't think it's a one year term danger do you get the sense that as well as trying to finish off the job of inventing him self as a viable opposition politician to vladimir putin given what he said in the court yesterday it's almost as if he's trying to reinvent himself as a moral voice as well that's absolutely clear if you made a choice between personal safety. and if you don't look to russia very absolute certainty of it you would be needed there arrested on the arrival and put in jail for a long period of time to make that choice essential disagree facing himself in order to govern one of the eyes through all. your rate up as you show in

russia this is quite a give us but never kept that focal point this would allow that deposition to get out again the house and looking ahead to those elections in the automatics that we've already touched on does his continued existence albeit behind bars albeit you're saying not silence completely arguably silenced to a greater degree than not than a little bit of being silenced but does it give the voters a clear choice you've now got to choose between mr putin and miss than of only all people who represent mr. reason there is no elections in russia let's be clear about it then blank to produce whatever number wouldn't you cyrus but you got a list of colored people who walked but of course free elections is not just

eckersley can do you think the numbers the judge does not help in a russian free of actions also include getting mission organized but it's from potus access to the media freedom of the press but are meant to be a position in our debt free society in russia and it shows is a company chair which incision can not be any place to be moved changed through elections. it can only captain eyes as. he walked all. conflict inside a could have an elite right now they don't see evidence of either but we do see an lot of uncertainty spark action especially among corruption crushing us who don't want to live in their company in this has become a pariah in the international community ok we must leave it there alex connect in there in incline village in about

a good to talk to alex thank you very much. thank you bye bye. large chunks of an aircraft to fall into the suburbs of denver colorado with the u.s. after one of its engines caught on fire a passenger recorded this video onboard the boeing triple 7 which was bound for honolulu in hawaii it made a safe emergency landing at denver's airport as one very large piece of the engine narrowly missed a home on the ground no one in the plane all on the ground was hurt kristen salumi joins us live from washington so kristen a lot of people thinking they had a very lucky escape today surely. yeah it's amazing really that no one was hurt 231 passengers and 10 crew members were onboard that boeing 777 united flight 328 which was on route from denver international airport to honolulu when that right engine experienced some difficulties and it was the middle of the day one man reported being out walking with his family walking the dog when he saw the plane

flying very low he actually took out his phone and started videotaping it and saw the explosion and smoke pouring out the back and debris starting to fall police in the town of broomfield which is about 40 kilometers north of denver posted pictures online of this big circular piece of debris that was leaning up against a house just to show the size of the wreckage and you know thankfully it didn't hit anyone on the way down the n.t.s.b. is actually asking people if they have any debris not to touch it so that they can get there and investigate the n.t.s.b. being the national transportation safety board there will be heading up the investigation the federal aviation administration will also be involved. not surprisingly a message of thanks coming from the denver international airport they tweeted out a big thanks to the pilot and crew for turning around and bringing the plane back

safely it landed less than an hour after the taken off back at the same spot i think a lot of people are feeling very thankful today christine will come by see if there are any will develop is the meantime thank you so much chris and sort of a day in washington. still to come here on this program for u.s. president joe biden sends emergency funds to texas the state left shivering without clean water for days. and tens of thousands of lives are in danger in afghanistan as fighting with the taliban escalates. place to say they basically cold weather across north america is in the process of rich tracing away from the deep south so temperatures in dallas about 8 celsius surfaces say off new and rising as we go on into sunday getting up into the mid

teens and you can see have as warmer yellows continues to just edge their way further north with as we go on through the next cop that still cold enough cools across the rockies but so the cold reckoning confined to wards the high ground and up towards the northwest we got some snow here coming in 7 northwest western parts of canada basi seeing some snow some snow to just around the planes heading towards the midwest and of rain just to the south of that but nothing to us as we go on through sunday and on into monday the rain will pack pop around the appalachians will snow coming into pennsylvania upstate new york easing up into new in doing this we go on through the course of monday the rain will be on the heavy side for the eastern seaboard as we go on through the early parts of the new working week trial weather coming in behind him warming up that is touch the 17 celsius by this stage with some sunshine plenty of sunshine meanwhile across the caribbean let me do have some spells of heavier right moving across parts of mexico to central

america and all the cuba. but. what should americans be thinking and doing right now it should be a bad idea they don't care about their work is all they care about is making money fine it is not going to be locked out of the calling for them to go to the defense budget to be try the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world on al-jazeera. hidden away in their room and. a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this half hour 2 people have been killed in myanmar 2nd biggest city during the bloodiest day of protest against the military coup the violence has provoked threats of further sanctions against the generals. iran says is still studying the e.u.'s proposals to hold an informal meeting involving the u.s. and all participants in the 2050 nuclear deal us president joe biden says he's willing to rejoin talks to save the agreement. and big chunks of an aircraft or for the launch the suburbs of denver it's one of its engines in the u.s. after that particular engine caught on fire the boeing triple 7 was landed safely at denver's airports no one in the plane or on the ground was hurt. people have thrown bottles at the police set fires and smashed up shops in barcelona during a 5th night of protests against the jailing of a rapper publisher herself was convicted of glorifying terrorism and insulting

walty in his songs and sentenced to 9 months is sparked debate over freedom of expression and demonstrations that have often turned violent there were also scuffles in other cities but rallies in the capital madrid were peaceful. u.s. president joe biden has approved a major disaster declaration for texas freeing up emergency federal funds after the state's deadly winter freeze millions of people have had to deal with days of power and water cuts after a massive snowstorm overwhelmed the utilities companies power plants are back online but blackouts persist and many people are still having to boil water before drinking it u.s. congresswoman alexandria oks of cortez has raised more than $3000000.00 towards relief efforts the democrats who represents new york state in the house of representatives is among politicians to visit texas. disaster don't like everyone equally when you already have so many families in the perfect country there and i'm

praying that he can't even afford an emergency to begin with and you have a disaster right here couldn't just that people that are not just printing and so we have tragedy in this we need to rally around the need to rally federal support for action in the state of texas and we need to make sure that we make sure every long term policy decisions so that this kind of devastation preventable devastation never happens again whole neighborhoods are under water in jakarta after the latest bios of tarantula rainfall to hit the indonesian capital the city saw some of his deadliest flooding in years in january jessica washington reports from jakarta. to counter is the world's fastest sinking 50 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 were 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 see the water in my home is still chest high all my belongings got flooded i try 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 are 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 have never

experienced such severe flooding jakarta's governor on the spot swayed and says local authorities are working swiftly to assist every one of them but in a moment 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. joe carter has an obligation to fix its drainage and completely for dollars 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 floodwaters 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. the afghan taliban is intensifying its offensive in the southern province of kandahar they reach the outskirts of his main city the u.s. is calling for an immediate end to the violence and for talks to resume but when the taliban and the afghan government. reports now from kabul. 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. was 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 kandahar and as i know they are inviting their fighters from a different part of afghanistan to kandahar and it will be difficult after months for afghan government 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 jungle wonder that such we lift our homes in a situation where some men just escaped from the fighting in the families the women

and children were left 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 fields 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 look a little like that the is the center of government support for security forces i don't think that the taliban will go forward anymore 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 as spokesman of the ministry of defense told al-jazeera that a few months back the afghan security forces stopped a major taliban plot to attack kandahar 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 of everyone's reach for your country for al-jazeera kabul. kuwait has extended its ban on all non-citizens entering the gulf country until further notice tries to get on top of corona virus infections cases started rising sharply in january almost 6500 were recorded in the past week most businesses are banned from opening at night and public gatherings are restricted health care workers in bolivia are on strike but insists it won't affect covert 19 patients the demand in the government repeal a new health emergency bill has been strikes during the pandemic and allows foreign staff to be hard to believe he is healthy and says the law is unconstitutional and silence his dissent. the mexican president is being accused of trying to control what information the public gets by shutting down

a corporation busting unit as manuel lopez obrador says the freedom of information unit is too expensive but its supporters say it's been crucial to lifting the lid on crime john holeman reports now from mexico city. the former president's secret white mansion in a government scam to defraud the poor and vulnerable just 2 seismic investigations in mexico city that were helped by the country's publicly funded the autonomous transparency institution. or to go on what to one of the. if this institution didn't exist you know these investigations which have proved wide ranging corruption would have been possible. to deal with yes but now the president wants to scrap the institution through which citizens can request government documents his reasons one it's expensive too it's ineffective and 3 it's politically motivated to sort of all of these organs were created just for

simulation they cost a lot of money money the people's money side of the law and is complying and are sickened by needles commission mouse actually the transparency in situ costs 0.01 percent of the national budget by them that's $100.00 times less than the government spends on the armed forces and it hasn't as the president said look the release of government files it doesn't have that power you can only ask authorities for documents they can refuse. lopez obrador spokesman says it often hasn't asked hard enough why not give it more teeth then i put to him but he sees another solution will get him what we want is a law that forces the government to make contracts public and be transparent that has teeth so that the judicial power can force the government to open up certain information so it would be the same us now without the need for this committee of 10 people who make decisions without transparency or efficiency. that idea from the

president's office would hand most of the power and regulating information directly to the federal government all the judiciary which is closely linked to it and free speech activists say there's an obvious problem. and there it's basically like picking the referee for a vote or match from the home to the list to give it they say scrapping an autonomous counterweight to the government big mistake we believe that these will be a. great regression in terms of human rights the institution was there we saw that of the students to say it's your forte and decent efforts are trained to enforce or to strengthen the democratization process in mexico when he says x. units so the question remains why doesn't the government want to improve the transparency institute rather than putting more power into its own hands john homan

how does it or mexico city nasa has launched nearly 4 tons of supplies to the international space station while honoring a black mathematician. the cygnus capsule has been named the s.s. catherine johnson calculations helped put the 1st americans into space in 1962 it's the sickness capsules fifteen's mission to the i assess supply runs with space x. anniversary john glenn's mercury flight carrying. recapping our top stories for you so far this half hour 2 people have been killed in me in last 2nd biggest city during the bloodiest day of protest against the military coup the violence has provoked more global condemnation including threats of further sanctions against the generals there are possibilities of men.