informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story. 'd international condemnation grows after men miles military files live rounds of protesters killing 2 of them. daryn jordan this is out of iran live from doha also coming up russian opposition leader lexan about the loses his appeal to get released from prison but the court reduces his sentence to 2 and a half years. terrifying moments for passengers as

a commercial aircraft jet engine catches fire over the u.s. city of denver. and mexico's president pushes to get rid of a corruption busting unit it's been a milestone for the country's democracy. international pressure is mounting on me and mas military after the bloodiest day in more than 2 weeks of protest soldiers fired tear gas water cannon and live rounds in the 2nd biggest city mandalay killing 2 people and injuring dozens more well the violence unfolded as police and soldiers fought with demonstrators and striking shipyard workers but saturday's violence hasn't stopped some people from showing up on the streets again these are the scenes from young gone where people are gathering once more to voice their anger over the coup earlier this month reports. shots ringing 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 near ramadi river in the capital naypyidaw marches commemorated the dead. but 20 year old student shot in the head during a demonstration last week determination amongst those present they will continue to march against the military coup despite the danger until the civilian government is restored i know 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's a campaign of civil disobedience starts to impact transport and banking systems

across myanmar some feel they have nothing to lose and the money 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 and rest 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. and as i mentioned international condemnation is getting stronger following saturday's violence the u.s. state department says washington is deeply concerned and that it stands by the people few cases it's considering taking further action against those who are quote

crushing democracy and the e.u. has called on the military to end its action against civilians its foreign affairs council meets on monday. well tom adams is the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar he says we can expect security forces to crack down even harder. this military 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 to with the ethnic minorities including the ethnic minority 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 are hardened and soldiers are being deployed from the coastal areas and from the the areas like rakhine state in the north into these ribbon areas and to confront these these protesters who are peaceful protesters there's no question about that russian opposition leader alexina valmy has suffered 2 legal defeats in one day the kremlin critic lost an appeal against his nearly 3 year jail term and was fined for defamation in a separate case were a challenge not small. alexina valley 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 i asked the judge. yes yes thank you parts of the valley taking off time already spent under house arrest and valley sentence is now 2 years and 8 months he gave a final statement captured only on audiotape criticizing the or thora t s. my body. 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 have bad 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 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 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. al-jazeera but that america is the executive director of the valley's anticorruption foundation he told us what this means for the values broader campaign. our struggle for a new russia for democratic change will undoubtedly continue in this trial often of our only taken together with his boys ending by a russian security agency x. months ago and his. return to russia courageous and brave feat i think a lot of people in russia who were previously not so interested in politics they got interested in the human side of things a person being unlawfully persecuted and i think that level of discontent and

the. dissipation people in mice protest will only grow from this the regime may see him stable but we see there is cracking and different faces that discontent is growing among the people of flow in middle incomes they have seen their standards of living still in a team of deteriorating over the last few years the business elite is also discontent they have seen their version of their ss decimated to their access to international capital markets cut so our discontent is growing also it and the next sort of big event is going to be problematic straight elections in september and we expect the heart of our world the united russia will do it rather badly in this election. in barcelona people have thrown bottles the police set fires and damage shops during a 5th night of protests against the jailing of

a cattle and a rapper has received a 9 month sentence for glorifying terrorism and insulting spanish royalty in his songs inspired to bait about freedom of expression and demonstrations that often turn violent. the been cheers of relief from passengers on board a u.s. flights off to a dramatic landing an engine court file with large chunks of it crushing up to the suburbs of denver colorado christensen me as more. this was a good feeling on board united airlines flight 328 shortly after takeoff from denver international airport troy lewis had just closed his eyes for a nap when he heard a loud bang knew that that was not good and felt like it was on the other side of the plane and i was over the wing and i flipped up the shade and saw the ascent of that engine missing or blown up and the smoke and pieces were flying off of it and that was not a good feeling and this is how it looked from the ground one of the boeing 7772

engine suffered catastrophic failure debris rained down on residential neighborhoods about 40 kilometers north of the airport i could definitely see things flying at me and yeah my daughter was that on the window and she's a you know i was just like don't look like let's do let's close it up and let's just pray so that's what we did we kind of just held hands and said some prayers the carrier says $231.00 passengers and 10 crew members were on board the flight which was headed for hawaii returned to denver and landed safely to the cheers of passengers. regency crews were there to greet them but then fully no one was hurt and happy to be done down here it's just like you can count your blessings statistically engine failure is rare but pilots are trained to fly with just one engine the national transportation safety board and federal aviation

administration are investigating what caused the incident they've asked residents to report but not touch any debris they find kristen salumi 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 utility companies power plants are now back online but blackouts persist and many people are still having to boil their drinking water . most of the come here not just here including on the lookout for business why it's getting tough in afghanistan 2nd biggest city. and the fans favorite where for the grand slam tennis title is especially sweet funny i mean i saw more of that stay with us.

it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point at ways hello the weather is calming down now across the middle east 50 some outbreaks of rain pushing across northern parts of the region through the levant had some snow and wintry mix making its way across northern areas of iran and now see it's just getting pushed out into afghanistan it's getting stronger now bits and pieces of shabby rain still in place across central parts of iran into central arizona saudi arabia but i think it's going to be more in the way of dry weather than rain sleet and snow over the next couple of days south of that it is fine and dry with lots of hazy sunshine highs here in doha 23 degrees celsius and still a little on the cool side truth be told that clouds does make its way down across central areas of ethiopia bits and pieces of rain coming through here then in that raid running right down into the rift valley we will see some heavy a pulses of right over the coming days i think the west the weather will be very

close to mozambique with that tropical side plan now in the process of pulling away weakening slightly moving out into the cooler waters here and showers coming back in behind into northern parts of madagascar all the areas of mozambique and we got some rather wet weather too for a time pulling down into zambia in sioux falls wanna and eastern parts of south africa. at ways. you say just said ed it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on asking me questions now as a new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only comedy politically simplicity into the headlines join me as i take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and give me the contradictions are marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front right here on al-jazeera.

welcome back a good recap of the top stories here at this hour international condemnation of me in los militaries getting louder after the bloodiest day in more than 2 weeks of protests 2 people have been killed in violence in the 2nd biggest city nonetheless . russian opposition leader less than a valley has lost 2 legal battles in a day the kremlin critics appeal against a jail term of nearly 3 years has been rejected and has been filed for defamation in a separate case. a large chunks of an aircraft are falling into the suburbs of denver in the u.s. after one of its engines caught fire the boeing triple 7 landed safely at denver's airport with one large piece of the engine not only mr hope. the afghan taliban is

intensifying its offensive in the southern province of kandahar fighters have reached the outskirts of the main city the u.s. is calling for an immediate end to the violence and for talks to resume between the armed group and the afghan government video conference reports 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 2nd largest after the capital kabul heavy fighting between government forces and the taliban is now only 8 kilometers away from kandahar city. 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 as i see in the last movements of taliban where the are focusing a lot on come to her in as i know

the infighting and their fighters from a different part of afghanistan to come back. and it's. it will be difficult after months for me to continue war the main hospital is full of those who have 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 with some men just escape from the fighting in their families the women and children left behind after the fighting stopped for a little while the men came back in risk youth the kids and families all their belongings were left 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 because if the law is the central government supports the security forces i don't think that the tally burden would 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 geopolitical gateway to kabul and the broader region as spokesman of the ministry of defense told al-jazeera that if you 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 over everyone's reach for your country for al-jazeera kabul. iran says it still studying a new proposals to hold an informal meeting between the u.s.

and other participants in the 2050 nuclear deal u.s. president joe biden says he's willing to rejoin talks to try to save the agreement his previous as a donald trump withdrew from it in 2018 re-impose 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 set for u.s. sanctions to be lifted rafael gross able to scott's his agency's ability to continue inspections as set out under the deal iranian legislation comes into effect on tuesday suspending some inspections if the u.s. sanctions aren't taken off. residents of indonesia's capital have begun cleanup of damage caused by severe flooding thousands were forced to flee their homes out of floods rose to nearly 3 meters high in some neighborhoods authorities of warned the heaviest rain of the season may fall in the city in the coming days floods and landslides are common in the major during the rainy season from october to april. lexica as president is being accused of trying to control what information the

public gets by shutting down corruption busting unit and that is money lopez obrador says the freedom of information unit is too expensive but its supporters say it's been crucial to lifting the lid on crimes john holmes 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 none of these investigations which have proved wide ranging corruption would have been possible. it was yes but now the president wants to scrap the institution through which citizens can request government documents he's reasons one it's expensive to it's ineffective and 3 it's politically motivated to sort out in all of these organs were created just for

simulation they cost a lot of money the public money the people's money. and his companion as a companion is comes from 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 doesn'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 he 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 all vs pro. and that it's basically like picking the referee for a football match from the home to the midst of 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 civil society your forte and decent efforts are trying to enforce or to strengthen the democratization process in mexico when is the sexiness 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 home and how does

it own mexico city. a small group of australians including the prime minister have been the 1st to receive coronavirus vaccinations ahead of a national rollout scott morrison says he wants to assure people the job is safe. argentina has put a new person in charge of its coronavirus response the health minister has been replaced after a vaccine's downall where influential people were allowed to skip the queue down osama reports one of. the arjun time president obama to finance this 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 genius 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. without the more than a month 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 times 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 large enough vaccines to arriving we can produce what's not available and this we now know you're friends with people in the right places i mean i mean we. have this prominent arjun time journalist on public radio explains 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 gonzalez resign the rest of the country with the virus has killed more than 50000 people and 2000000 have been infected most simply wait their turn. now and then and there 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 a similar case is being investigated in peru where nearly 500 people among them a former president and 2 ministers. well vaccinated weeks before the program for the rest of the population had even begun this in a country where coverage 19 has killed 45000 people and 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. when you fly in their al-jazeera when osiris. nigerian authorities say they are making progress in the go see asians 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 kadar on wednesday voters in heading to the polls to choose the next president in a runoff election a 1st round of polling failed to produce a clear winner to succeed the president muhammad to sue food off and it will support from a budget in neighboring nigeria. it's decision day in the year from a list of 30 candies the choice for 7 and a half 1000000 voters is known not only too familiar faces or the country's political landscape. how much does 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 give it one time or another gone into some form of alliance with the ruling 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 the air has only 7 seats in the 171 state parliament so i 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 freeze daunting challenges poverty made worse by covered 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 birkenau fossil groups allied with iceland. are attacking civilian and military targets. al jazeera. may masako as enhanced her reputation as the dominant force in women's tennis the 23 year old has won the australian open her 4th grand slam title and the japanese started it in style in front of adoring fans a tournament disrupted by coronavirus helmet reports. was she's done it again japanese tennis star naomi osaka has won the australian open for

a 2nd time. she was up against jennifer brady in the final having convincingly swept aside serena williams in the last round and just like in that match or soccer's power shots were hard to contend with. brady didn't do herself any favors an unforced error ultimately handing or soccer the 1st set i took from that point the 3rd seed took over. i think she absolutely dominated the 2nd set and raced to a 4 love lead a far cry from the pairs last meeting in the 2020 u.s. open law school where brady managed to win a set i. the american had no such luck this time round i and after 77 minutes on court or soccer wrapped up

her 4th grand slam title i. especially victory given all the challenges just to make the event possible due to the pandemic thank you for coming and watching it feels really incredible for mean i didn't play my last grandson with fans or just to have this energy it really means a lot thank you so much for coming. osaka founds will be hoping there are plenty more titles to come from their favorite player so helm ali al jazeera. time for a quick check of the top stories here on al-jazeera international condemnation of men miles military is getting louder after the bloodiest day in more than 2 weeks of protests 2 people have been killed in violence in the 2nd largest city in mandalay european union is set to add its weight to sanctions already threatened by countries in the u.s. and u.k. .