loads of the across the country and there's a dark side is you do see the grit from his office the majesty of the fish into something more like the team i didn't know the british for i meet with victims of violence and discover what life is like for minorities in the country join me on my journey in search of india's soul on al-jazeera. threats of more sanctions against me and miles ruling military joined her after the bloodiest day in more than 2 weeks of anti coup protests. welcoming peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up the kremlin critic alexina valmy loses 2 court cases in just one day leaving him heading for prison for nearly 3 years. terrifying moments for

passengers as a commercial aircraft jet engine catches on fire over the u.s. city of denver. and prime minister scott morrison is among the 1st australians to receive the coronavirus vaccine ahead of a national rollout. 2 people have been killed in myanmar 2nd biggest 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 u.n. chief and turn eco terrorist has condemned the use of lethal force tony chang is monitoring developments from bangkok in neighboring thailand tony why did this area near the doctor and into being such a flashpoint. were we see. in

protests all across this were answering the 3rd week after the coup the protests have been building up yesterday protests were taking place all over the country in the far north think of chin state very large protests in young go on the former capital also knepper door the current capital why the security services decided to focus on this one in particular in mandalay isn't very clear but there'd been protesters in the dockyards on the banks of the irrawaddy river who have been taking part in a civil disobedience move and that's been spreading across the country paralyzing many transport systems banks much of the civil service hospitals. and while these protests have been sort of tolerated by the military for the last couple of weeks it seems that they decided here they were going to crack down just outside the city amount of their. shots ring out as protesters in mandalay

flee from the police and force a 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 air 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 a civilian government is restored oh 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 soon go to the crowds just move down the road chanting for the release of aung san suu kyi she remains under military detention does

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 21000 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 a 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 man most diverse ethnic groups have signed a nationwide ceasefire to unite in opposition to military rule. it appears that the army unit behind this crackdown was the 11th light in the street and their unit which in the taurus for their actions and particularly

against their anger in 2017 and well known to use particularly brutal tactics to put down these sorts of protests now elsewhere in myanmar we didn't see the security services cracking down with quite such ferocity that said myanmar went dark overnight as it has done for much of the last week with the internet being cut off from about midnight till the early morning we expect more information to come out today protesters have said that they are not going to be put off by the dangers but protesting by the actions of the security services we'll see today if they're back out on the streets what their reaction to the armed forces will be tony thanks very much iran says it's still studying the e.u. proposals to hold an informal meeting involving the u.s. and other participants to the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. president joe biden says he is willing to rejoin talks to try to save the agreement

his predecessor donald trump withdrew from it in 2018 and reimpose sanctions iran's been winding back its compliance ever since that of the u.n. nuclear watchdog has arrived in tehran ahead of a deadline that iran set for u.s. sanctions to be lifted rough feel grossi will discuss his agency's ability to continue inspections are set out under the nuclear deal iranian legislation comes into effect on tuesday suspending some inspections if the u.s. sanctions are not taken off trita parsi is the executive vice president of the quincy institute he says iran and the u.s. are ready to talk but they're taking a cautious approach not to undermine their respective negotiating positions. i think what's going to happen is that both sides will end up having to move just enough at the same time that is what has happened in the past when they've gotten stuck in this way and that is likely what is going to happen this time drama we do have is the complication with that matchless all of this says that

a significant degree of the inspections are going to be halted from tuesday and on words i suspect that will happen there is that the iranians will not go whole would as much as the 1st but it will go forward a little bit as a result of the proposal to meet this is similar to what the u.s. has done it young to date the u.s. is not on the full way when he comes to rejoining the agreement but instead is offering to talk while it continues to have the sanctions off i don't think the iranians do not want to engage the problem they have is that if the starting gauging that biting restrictionists they're continuing to pursue trumps policy that will both undermine their negotiating position and it will significantly put their rouhani government under attack at home so the idea is to find some sort of a choreography that allows both sides to save face move forward but not in such a way that it undermines the negotiating position nor undermines their domestic

political position remember what the biting restriction is concerned about is that it would rejoin the agreement too quickly and because of all the criticism you will get from israel from saudi arabia and from republicans in washington d.c. the russian opposition leader alexina only has suffered 2 legal defeats in just one day the kremlin critic lost an appeal against his nearly 3 year jail sentence and was fined for defamation in a separate case really chalons has more. 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 parts of the valley taking

off time already spent under house arrest and valley 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 meet 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 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 violated the terms of an earlier suspended sentence. used. 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 an avowal 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 the 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 their concern rory tallinn's.

large chunks of aircraft have fallen to the suburbs of denver in the u.s. after one of its engines caught fire a passenger recorded this video on board the boeing triple 7 which was bound for honolulu in hawaii it made an emergency landing at denver's airport safely one very large piece of the engine narrowly missed a home kristen salumi has more on but from washington. 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. still to come here on al-jazeera

in the middle of the pandemic argentina swears in a new health minister after a vaccination scandal brought the previous one. and protesters called on armenia's prime ministers resign while anger over the peace deal signed last year continues to grow. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan qatar airways how that we've got to last spring like weather now and see a station looking good over the next couple of days unpleasant busting through too much in the way of any significant snowfall to come 21 celsius there for tokyo warmest still as we go on into monday a little further north you could catch one of 2 wintry flies but not much to speak of chance of some wet weather to into southern areas of china should be few and far

between i think more the way of dry weather than a ray meanwhile we got some very heavy rain making its way towards the philippines without a tropical storm say the process of weakening but we are still looking at some very heavy rainfall over the next couple of days but nothing like the kind of rainfall that we have seen in indonesia jakarta 95 millimeters of rain in 24 hours and over the last 5 days we've seen $262.00 millimeters of rain that's almost the a monthly average for every average is around $310.00 millimeters so this a big chunk of that monthly average rainfall coming through little wonder that we have same problems in jakarta and the surrounding areas them with that very heavy rainfall coming through there has been widespread disruption i'm hopeful over the next couple of days things will start to come calm down a little with the heaviest rainfall just making its way further east. qatar airways. remaining ancient forest. some of europe's most pristine they are

crucial for our society and crucial for our battle against the climate crisis but illegal logging by a ruthless timber maffia is destroying both the landscape and people's lives logging in romania is our dark bungs violence killing with some roles amidst claims of corruption and the role of powerful multinationals people in power investigate rumania of the far east on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories iran says it's still studying the proposal to hold an

informal meeting involving the u.s. and all participants in the 2050 nuclear deal u.s. president joe biden says he's willing to rejoin talks to save the agreement. last chunks of aircraft to fall into the suburbs of denver in the u.s. after one of its engines caught fire the boeing triple 7 which landed safely at denver's airport no one here on the plane or on the ground was hurt. 2 people have been killed in miramar 2nd largest city 2 of the bloodiest day of protests against the military coup the violence has provoked threats of further sanctions against the generals. tom andrews is formally u.s. congressman who is the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar he says we can expect security forces to crack down even harder. as you know the terry is capable of just about anything and then massacre protesters in the past in street street they've killed monks in saffron robes protesting and of course we've seen

what they're capable of doing with the ethnic minorities including the ethnic lines so this is a very dangerous situation and the nightmare is made even. more frightening by the fact that they are now deploying these army troops these these deployments sort of in this case the 33rd light infantry division this was the very division that is accused of and was actually involved we know in massacres against the regime or ethnic minority tremendous atrocities so now these hardened and soldiers are being deployed from the coastal areas and from the the areas like rakhine state in the north into these urban areas and to confront these these protesters who are peaceful protesters there's no question about that several rockets hit an iraqi military installation injuring at least one local contractor no group has claimed responsibility for the attack on their base north of baghdad hours earlier iraqi

security forces raided and i saw hideouts in areas surrounding the town of tanya also north of baghdad 5 eisel members and 2 pro-government fighters a set of being killed. a small group of australians including the prime minister scott morrison have been the 1st to receive coronavirus vaccinations ahead of a national rollouts mr morrison says he wants to assure people that job is safe they were anti-vaccination protests in several cities on saturday the country recorded just 2 new coven 1000 cases in the past 24 hours nicolas cage joins us live now from the capital canberra nickel hi there so for the facts brigade what's the problem with having this vaccine. well this is to be a lot of misinformation happening in a strangely sweet one tane fact saying even with protests only a day ago people were thinking that it was mandatory but the spec st isn't mandatory in a strike and the government is really trying to instill public confidence in

getting vaccinated and that's why they made sure that the prime minister scott morrison was one of the 1st in the small group to receive the 19 jet but this will be a huge logistical operation from monday of course this trailer is a vast country and these vaccines will have to be reaching very remote communities and of course the thought that finds a vaccine it needs to be stored in very well beloit appraising conditions but the astra zeneca that sit in has also so. but ministration that will be rolled out from next month but there has been a bit of a debate here about whether the prime minister should have received his back saying 1st that of course of the message is safety that we need to make sure that as many people as possible in a stroller leah receives the spec sane it comes at a time when the government is in a very public's doused with facebook which has blocked news from

a strategy in social media sites which has made it harder for the government to promote its why having this vaccine is so important they have also been issues with a member of parliament who has been spreading and misleading information about coke at 19 so if this rollout from today is all about making sure as many as charley and as possible facts of night it right from the cities to remote communities is anyone that nicholas speculating as to what they think the final uptake of people coming forward to get the vaccine might be. so the health minister greg hunt said he is confident that people will come forward it's free it's not mandatory some government departments are saying that they may be looking at this well if you're working it out open as ation you need to be but the government has remained very coy as to what the figures need to be to get so-called herd immunity or to get the

numbers that we need to see to eventually open up international borders or prevent these snapped lock downs of cities that we're seeing when we have small out rights of close at 19 so if we don't know the actual figures as to how many people need to be vaccinated these trailing government is putting it in the people's hands to say the spec sane is safe and they hope that the rollout will be completed or the majority of australians be vaccinated thought light up toba nicolette thanks very much nicholas cage there reporting live from canberra. argentina has put a new person in charge of its coronavirus response the health minister has been replaced after banks in scandal were influential people were allowed to skip the queue is daniel slimer from when a cyrus. the arjun time president though but often and is swearing in his new health minister khaled the sortie came to put behind him

a scandal over his government's handling of the covered 900 pandemic. just a few days ago the now disgraced former health minister jenas gonzalez garcia was welcoming the arrival in argentina of this batch of more than half a 1000000 doses of the ox with us to the seneca vaccine. been a model with the vaccine agreement we have reached and the actions we are taking we estimate that in august or september we will have vaccinated all arjan tines who are in a position to be vaccinated. many health professionals questioned his optimism a concern that not enough doses are arriving quickly enough noise like we're not losing a lot of vaccines to arriving we can't produce what's not available and this we now know you're friends with people in the right places your mammy recall me all because i do have this permanent arjun time journalist on public radio explained how his friend the now former health minister insisted he jumped the queue to get

vaccinated other cases of senior politicians and business leaders and their families immediately came to light the president insisted that gonzales resign the rest of the country with a virus has killed more than 50000 people and 2000000 have been infected most simply wait their turn. now and then and that i have been waiting for it i really couldn't wait because i have been locked up for a year now this program to vaccinate elderly people in one osiris province began as the scandal came to light the similar cases being investigated in peru when they leave 500 people among them a former president and 2. ministers were vaccinated weeks before the program for the rest of the population had even begun this in a country where covered 19 has killed 45000 people and the oxygen supplies are running dangerously low the governments of peru and here in argentina now have the task of rebuilding public faith in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic phrases

like we're all in this together and we're doing all we can ring hollow while people are being urged to wait patiently in line to be vaccinated and the virus still kills. their al-jazeera. the nigerian authorities say they're making progress in negotiations with an armed gang that kidnapped students in the north west a muslim cleric has met the kidnappers as part of efforts to secure a release one student was killed when gunmen disguised in military uniforms raided a government school in cook garra on weapons day. voters in these areas heading to the polls to choose the next president in a runoff election a 1st round of polling fail to produce a clear winner to succeed president one hummer do is so full of main interest reports from a butcher in neighboring one cheerio. it's decision day in the air from a list of 30 candidates the choice for 7 and a half 1000000 voters is known not only to formally a faces or the country's political landscape. a former minister is the ruling party

candidate he pulled the most votes in the 1st round of presidential election last year with 39.3 percent of the vote. he's opponent moment as mine came a distant 2nd with less than half the votes of the front runner the former prime minister and president is looking to come back to a job he left 25 years ago. the president was the man in the last 10 years my mind it was minus the on the opposition candidate who was not collaborated with the ruling p n.d.s. the others did it several times all big names in the jail politics gave it one time or another have gone into some form of alliance with the liberal in party. but whoever wins will need to form a coalition to govern that looks a lot easier for the ruling party that won the most seats in parliament in december but 6 short of a working majority they are here has only 7 seats in the 107 to unseat parliament

so head of sunday's vote they have been negotiations between the 2 candidates and smaller parties to form a coalition the election commission says it expects the election to be conducted smoothly but there are fears of attacks by armed groups in some areas in december the country missed the opportunity to produce a president in the 1st round of voting but is still on course to mark a historic milestone sunday's vote is expected to lead to the 1st peaceful transition of power from one civilian government to another in these year. but whoever wins will face don't think challengers poverty made worse by covering 1000 years on the rice used unemployment is high so also is a level of illiteracy but more warry is the violence of the borders in the west boko haram has raided many communities and along the border with mali and broken up fossil groups allied with iceland al-qaeda attacking civilian and military targets ahmed degrees al jazeera. 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 utilities companies power plants are back online but blackouts persist and many people are still having to boil their drinking water people are throwing bottles at police set fires and smashed up shops in barcelona during a 5th night of protests against the jailing of a cattle and rapper herself was convicted of glorifying terrorism and insulting the spanish royalty in his songs he was sentenced to 9 months it sparked a debate over freedom of expression and demonstrations that have often turned violent there were protests around spain. to armenia now where anger is still simmering months after the end of the conflict with neighboring azerbaijan for testers say the prime minister nicole betrayed the country when he signed away land

in exchange for peace the fighting was over the disputed territory have been gone. catch a lopez hold a gun reports. for the rain and snow didn't deter this rally against armenia as prime minister protesters say nicole pushy me and is a traitor who should resign. they accuse him of mishandling last year's war with the servers on and off forgivable action they say that deserves consequences the peace deal ended fighting in the region of nagorno-karabakh and it also gave back land to a server shot ever since thousands of armenians have been outraged here what it has and the moment that i demand his resignation he sold my country and i lost my homeland because of him there's been several opposition protesters last year but we want concrete action to follow. the prime minister has resisted pressure to step down but that pressure is mounting he was elected in 2018 after leading

a movement against corruption and a weak economy but 3 years later his own opposition now wants him out yes he could have the opportunity our culture education and even our homeland borders are under threat one way or another he must resign the prime minister has defended his actions even though armenia appears to still be on the losing end suddenly new civil here unfortunately we didn't manage to solve the issue of war prisoners which is the most sensitive and the most complicated as part of the moscow brokered deal ethnic armenians handed back land they control since the 1990 s. a serb john says the deal was a long overdue armenians khalid humiliating 6 weeks of fighting in 2020 low. to about $6000.00 tents on both sides even though the fighting has ended. the prime minister's political battle is far from over katia locus of the young college is

here. nasa has launched nearly 4 tons of supplies to the international space station while honoring a black mathematician. here in. the sickness capsule has been named the s.s. catherine johnson her calculations helped put the 1st americans into space in 1982 it's the sickness capsules fifteen's mission to the i s s john take on the. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha these are your top stories 2 people are being killed in me in mar 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 iran says it's still studying e.u. proposals to hold an informal meeting.