their lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera. the head of the un's nuclear watchdog meets officials in tehran ahead of iran's plan to partly block the inspection of nuclear sites. around come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera. defiant and determined protesters in may and mara back on the streets a day after a military crackdown that killed 2 people also in the news voting underway in

a 2nd round election in the share which could lead to the 1st peaceful handover of presidential power in 60 years. in a miraculous escape for passengers and the. people on the ground after a passenger jet engine explodes over the u.s. city of denver. starting in teheran this hour where the head of the united nations nuclear watchdog the i.a.e.a. is meeting iranian officials as efforts are underway to revive the 2015 new clear deal his visit comes on the day of a deadline set by the iranian parliament for the u.s. to lift sanctions iran could suspend some inspections as well as taking other measures if the sanctions stay in place iran's foreign minister says all steps taken since the 2050 nuclear deal are reversible. nothing has changed by dint

claims that trumps a policy of maximum pressure was maximum pavia being can also just recently said that that policy failed but for all practical purposes they're pursuing the same policy they haven't changed that policy the problem in the united states and it doesn't matter which administration does not make it public now has dealt with 7 concerts get consecutive u.s. presidents and i have dealt with that and the problem is us is addicted to sanctions us is addicted to pressure the us is addicted to. those jabari into iran following the story today interesting comments from the foreign minister i thought he might actually distinguish between certainly what donald trump want to determine what joe biden has indicated he wants to do but apparently not. no certainly not and the foreign minister made

it very clear that the behavior has not changed from the new administration. homage of out zarif is set for the 1st time most interesting point he made was that fact that the radiance have suffered a one trillion dollar loss as a result of u.s. sanctions imposed on them this is something we haven't heard before we've always heard about the rhetoric of how much they're suffering economically but this is the 1st time actually heard that figure it's important to point out that the foreign minister will after this interview go to meet with the director general of the i.a.e.a. you know this meeting in his visit is not about trying to change the minds of officials here to stop this for the next step from taking place on february 23rd the only thing that will make that happen is if the u.s. administration says they are now going to suspend the sanctions they've imposed since leaving the nuclear deal in 20 team is meeting is about how mering on the details of what further inspections will look like after iran takes this next step

and is anything come out of that yet from mr gross see the head of the i.a.e.a. from his visit. it will rafael gross he just wrapped up his meeting with ali akbar salehi the head of iran's atomic energy agency the 2 men met behind closed doors where they discussed again details of what inspections will look like in the future under this new measure iran is taking the will leave additional protocols of the nonproliferation treaty meaning that specter's will have to have to give advance notice to rein in officials before they visit any of the declared nuclear facilities also the surprise visits as well as visiting undeclared or military sites will no longer be happening since the nuclear deal of 2015 specter is visited $26.00 military facilities for various reasons and iran was very transparent as a part of this additional protocol but that will no longer be the case because

parliament passed a law in december after the assassination of iranian nuclear scientists most and factories are there to try and speed up the process of pressuring the united states to lift the sanctions and that's where we find ourselves now at the moment ok talk to you again later then dosage of bari into. on to other news on a day after the worst violence since me and miles military coups began earlier this month protesters have returned to the streets in their thousands soldiers fired tear gas and live rounds killing 2 people and injuring dozens more on saturday. and if this is the response the scenes from yangon 1st of all where people are defiant in their opposition to make it through and continue to call for a return to democracy for deposed leader on sun city to be released she has been detained for nearly 3 weeks now. people also miles and the 2nd largest city mandalay where the protesters were killed on saturday dozens of people have been

injured there in the palm street. this is nato the capital a funeral being held there for the 1st protester who was killed in police violence 20 year old kang who died on friday after she was shot in the head earlier in the week she has become a symbol of the opposition to military rule an update from tony chang who's in bangkok for us this sunday so tell me what more you hearing about today's protests . well they seem to be going ahead fairly peaceably at the moment but thousands coming up particularly in mandalay which saw so many injured yes then those 2 fatal and his but i think the message to the military is very clear that people are not going to be cowards if a crackdown is under way a very determined we've seen huge banners being painted on the streets of both mandalay and yang on the people want a return to democracy and they will that is not accept military dictatorship so if

the intention of the military was to really try and scare people to get them back in the homes it doesn't appear to be working and we're looking forward to a week of more protests those protests as a people to take part in the civil disobedience movement a movement which is trying to persuade people but particularly those in important and sensitive industries not to go to work to take part in what is effectively becoming a general strike it's already paralyzing transport systems the banks closing for many days in the week we understand tomorrow that supermarkets are going to be closed across yangon so this having a big impact on everyday life but it still seems to be supported widely in the community and it will increasingly be putting pressure on the generals who behind the coup and does it look like they are now reverting to type a little bit tony heading towards the more. well i mean not talked about live

rounds and tear gas just becoming stepping things up a bit more. there i think is what everybody had been concerned about and i think it is the reaction we've seen definitely in the past but i think you have to put it in the context of a modern myanmar myanmar for the last 5 years has very much been on this road to democracy and this is the message we're hearing on the streets as well as the people are saying they've seen the opportunities that they can get both in terms of democracy in terms of being heard good also economically as world has opened up it's been a fairly rocky path but investment has gone in from overseas and i think people are acutely aware now that if this military coup goes ahead despite the promises of the journals that everything will be back on track they will have elections within 12 months they know that that is just

a facade and i think they understand now that if they don't put a stop to this all of the gains they've seen will be lost and similarly for the generals who were very much school the in the ninety's and in the early 2000. in a military that could do absolutely anything that they wanted they've had 5 years. they have under their constitution a 25 percent controlling bloc in parliament which is guaranteed them but they wanted more and i think they're now coming up against the hard reality they won't be able to have that and so somehow they have to find a way to i the backtrack from this or alternatively stand down even harder ok that's tony chain keeping an eye on events and me and mark today thank you tony major as polls have opened as voters choose the country's next president this is a runoff election 1st round of polling fails to produce a clear winner to succeed president mohamed do is full. this does though pave the

way for 1st peaceful handover of power in over 60 years and as a manager supports goes well it will be historic regardless. it's decision day easier from a list of 30 candy the choice for 7 and a half 1000000 voters is known not only to familiar faces on the country's political landscape. a former minister is the ruling party candidate he pulled the most vote 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. look i depended on someone in the last 10 years my mind as mine is the only opposition candidate who is 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 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 they are clear has only 7 seats in the 171 state 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 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 broken up fossil groups allied with iceland and. attacking civilian and military targets ahmed degrees al jazeera there have been cheers from passengers on board a u.s. air plane after a dramatic landing and engine caught fire and large chunks of it came crashing down on to the suburbs of denver colorado kristen salumi has the full story. very hard. 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 our 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 'd 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 77 seventh's 2 engine suffered catastrophic failure debris rained down on residential neighborhoods about 40 kilometers north of the airport i could definitely see things flying out 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 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 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. your world weather is coming up in a moment and then. the 5th night of protests in spain over a catalan rock has a rest and we'll hear from families in uganda who say their relatives have been forcibly disappeared for supporting the opposition. how still looking at some very nasty weather pushing into central parts of the philippines at the moment with a tropical storm moving into further south that's where we have seen the heavy rain

into indonesia is seeing some slightly dry weather moving away from java so jakarta shouldn't be too bad over the next couple of days but the show was never really too far away that we could scattering as she has across much of indonesia pushing up into malaysia and then another very wet day there for the central parts of the philippines and china on the other hand looking fine and dry that's fine and dry by the stretching across the malaysian peninsula so we see some pleasant sunshine coming through here over the next couple of days to choose to say that western weather from tropical storm will move out into the south china seas the still a legacy of showers coming in behind with more heavy downpours now heavy downpours have link it across northern parts of australia over the past few days and we have seen some flooding some nasty weather just to the south of darwin 86 millimeters of rain some very very wet weather in place here well that's just around that is the side of new south wales where the systems moving offshore some big swells so some

large waves pushing in across that eastern side of australia this wetter weather will move towards new zealand but ahead of that this woman try. acid attacks in india. leave many scars most of which cannot be seen. they also create a bond. born of fish aired ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face. black roses and red dresses parts of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera these are the top story surrounds foreign minister says all steps taken since the 2015 nuclear deal are reversible and ending snap inspections is not a violation it's been seeking on the deadline terror on set for the u.s. to lift sanctions we've also got the head of the un's nuclear watchdog in tehran for to see. thousands of people out on the streets again i mean maher after the worst violence yet in more than 2 weeks of demonstrations soldiers fired tear gas and live rounds killing 2 people and injuring dozens on saturday. people are voting in measure to choose their next president in a runoff election a successor for president mahmoud it is a food who is there with the red hat on in the top right of your screen is just voted. this election whoever wins paving the way for an agent's 1st peaceful

handover of power in nearly 13 years. police and demonstrators have clashed again in barcelona during demonstrations over the jailing of rap artist public housel and charged for insulting spain's monarchy in his music and arrests that has set off a debate about freedom of expression and support from alexandra buys. a 5th night of violence over the arrest of a catalan rapper. thousands of demonstrators clashed with security forces in barcelona demanding the release of pavel of a cell stores in the city's most elegant shopping street were vandalized firecrackers rocks and bottles were thrown at police protestors warn the unrest isn't over yet i guess and is a menace muncy with those of those yes i think demonstrations like the ones we've seen these last few days will continue there is a difference between those who are supporting the artists and those who are looting and. the rapper received

a 9 month sentence on tuesday he's accused of glorifying terrorism and insulting spain's monarchy in his songs but. the arrest has sparked a national debate over freedom of expression whether you're going to get a little hassle of had enough of the frustration as a result of our day to day situation and by now people are saying that it is a rescue is the last straw. that. protests have extended to other cities in spain including the capital madrid the government is now trying to curb the political fallout and she said i must remember your conscience children's brains democracy has this pain and task there is one consensus in spain today to put freedom of speech so that our regulations are in line with other european countries. spain's government announced it would change the law and remove prison terms for fences involving freedom of expression but no timeframe was given and the

announcement appears to have done little to call. the social tension alexandra buyers' al-jazeera. still simmering in mania months after the end of the conflict with neighboring. protests a prime minister in the betrayed the country when he signed away land in exchange for peace this was fighting over the long disputed territory of the going to. kathy lopez has more. the rain and snow didn't deter this rally against armenians prime minister protesters say nico push is a traitor who should resign. they accuse him of mishandling last year's war with. an unforgivable action they say that deserves punishment. the peace deal ended fighting in the region of nagorno-karabakh and it also gave back land to azerbaijan ever since thousands of armenians have been outraged. 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 yesterday was up with 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 had control since the 1990 s.

john says the deal was a long overdue armenians call it humiliating. 6 weeks of fighting in 2020 led to about 6000 tents on both sides even though the fighting has ended the prime minister's political battle is far from over. al-jazeera. coronavirus news on a small group of australians including the prime minister have become the 1st to receive their coverage 19 vaccinations ahead of the national rollout prime minister scott morrison says he wants to assure people the job is safe as they have been anti-vaccination protests in several cities on saturday has more from the capital camber. this seems to be a lot of misinformation happening in australia us with the 19 facts saying even with protests on the a day ago people were thinking that it was mandatory but the spec saying isn't mandatory in a strike ringback and the government is really trying to instill public health and

in getting backs united 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 jobs but this will be a a huge logistical operation from monday of course a strong leader is a vast country and these vaccines will have to be reaching very remote communities and of course the thought that fire is a vaccine that needs to be stored in very well below freezing conditions it comes at a time when the government is in a very public we've facebook which has blocked news from is fairly and social media sites which has made it harder for the government to promote why having this vaccine is so important the government has remained very coolly as to what the biggest 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 snap lock

downs of cities that we're seeing when we have small outbreaks of quoted 19 so we don't know the actual figures as to how many people need to be dux and i say these troubling government is putting it in the people's hands to say the speck scene is safe. in argentina there's a new health minister the last one for start by a scandal involving cure jumping from the curve at 19 a vaccine to support donors in when a cyrus. the origin time president though but often on this swearing in his new health minister karlovy sortie came to put behind him a scandal over his government's handling of the covered 19 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. but of 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 arriving we can't produce what's not available and this we now know you're friends with people in the right places your man you call me because i have this prominent arjan 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 the similar cases being investigated in peru where nearly 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 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. their al-jazeera when osiris. nigerian authorities say they are making progress in negotiations with an armed gang kidnapped students in a northwestern region

a muslim cleric has met the kidnappers as part of efforts to secure their release one student was killed when gunmen disguised in military uniforms raided a school in ghar on wednesday more than 40 people could in 27 school boys were taken and officials in uganda are under pressure to find more than 2 dozen people reported they kidnapped by security forces opposition leader bobby wine says his supporters have been targeted in a spate of disappearances linked to january's general election the one he has challenged the outcome of in court accusing president yoweri museveni of voter fraud the support from katherine soy. regina number cassie's has sanford jumbo was abducted from his home in the central ugandan town of peaky in january by a man wearing civilian clothes and mosques 2 other sons disappeared right after she has not seen them since. they came with 2 cars broke the gate and knocked a door when fred opened he was barely dressed they started beating him and then

arrested him he pleaded with them to let him dress up before they took him away my other songs just disappeared in their forms or switched off he was wife says she's also tried looking for him and his brothers in police stations hospitals and morgues. uganda's opposition party the national unity platform says thousands of its supporters have been arrested kidnapped or disappeared by security forces the parties led by bobby why he stood as a kind of date in the recent presidential election he was defeated by presidential where in the 70 that he says the vote was rigged. the president recently told the nation that his forces have mostly been dealing with those he called terrorists out to destabilize the country. and the. other ones will force us to deploy some energy then the world. among.

the judges the machines are facing in the. somalia. story here. to get ready. for the company. this may. be just region of this. is at least one politician has fled the country telling young is a critic of the president she vied for parliamentary seats lost and then fled to kenya for nafta she says her life was in danger after her partner and. a complaint walk kidnapped and tortured by men in military uniform in 2018 younes he was sentenced to 18 months in prison for cyber harassment after writing what was perceived by authorities as a disparaging point about the president's mother she says just tossed it in jail and suffered a multiple infections during those 2 years i had it discourage i was tortured i

lost because of it to. i got your g.i. is because there are no health facilities our detention facilities for women i don't want to go back to prison i don't want to be abducted again i have experienced it when bobby wind recently went to present a petition to the un human rights office about dept actions journalists accompanying him were violently dispatched military commanders have apologized and 7 soldiers sentenced for salts and the incident is being seen as yet another the traces questions about the integrity of uganda security ses cathy zoi al jazeera arabic. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera the head of the united nations nuclear watchdog is meeting iranian officials in teheran with efforts underway to revive the 25th a nuclear deal.