this unusual little. bit in the fall came on al-jazeera. the in. thousands join in nationwide strike across myanmar despite a chilling message from the military that confrontation could cost more lives. and i'm fully back to boil watching al jazeera live from our world headquarters in doha also ahead hope of. has been to be a biggish stabilize a situation which was really on state a lifeline for the iran nuclear deal tehran and the global watchdog reach an agreement to allow inspections to continue. growing calls for the grounding of some

of its planes after an engine caught fire in midair in the u.s. . and losing the thread in libya we need one of the last we've risen tripoli's old city trying to preserve a dying tradition. thank you very much for joining us we begin in myanmar where a nationwide strike is underway despite a thinly veiled threat from the military that it could use liesl 4th crowds are gathering in several cities answering a call from protest leaders for a spring revolution on sunday the military warned against protests in a public broadcast accusing them of inciting violence 2 people were shot dead in demonstrations on saturday let's bring in tony chang who's monitoring the situation for us from neighboring thailand is in bangkok tony so how is this nationwide general strike shaping up today. the.

thousands and thousands of people. coming out on the streets not just in the big open centers all across the country in the southern city of. the the center has been completely blocked off by protesters up in the north and kitchen state in the capital no door in the 2 largest urban centers in young gone and mandalay were deadly crackdown happened. people are clearly answering the calls for demonstrators to come out and their message is very simple they're holding up placards which state their opposition to the military coup that happened and they're demanding the release of aung san suu kyi and the other political leaders who've been detained since the coup by the military in addition to their there is a general strike going on today which is absolutely paralyzed businesses banks transport links public health services now while that is going to be hugely

inconvenient for people cross country it does show that there is a very high degree of unity here and a very high degree of opposition to the military coup and that is going to be very problematic for the military who as you have stated they will turn we've seen in the last couple of days but in order to do so they're going to be taking on a very large number of people thank you for that tony tony chang right for a stay in bangkok where let's find out about what's happening on the ground in young gong and speak to nicki diamond who is a human rights specialist at 45 right is joining us via skype from one of those protests nikki today's been described as the biggest day of protests instead general seize power 3 weeks ago tell us about what's happening way you are and what impact this nationwide strike it's having so far. 2 only really go on one of the big yes that's happening in your yellow today is the

very nascent warning years in why a lot of the country everyone on the story there. right now today all internet access was suspended overnight snaky so how are what people able to organize and sounds and take on in these demonstrations today. generation is really amazing even but we owe it to tell what is there and. what i'm feeling a lot of people that's very detailed it is very. well and i'm all for i don't want all these people organized but. all it means. generation and the country does want everyone on the street so they are they are demanding most of them of the bad the restoration of the govern the elected government and also all the new democratic. leaders and all these people are. all be out sutil as you see a lot of people on the streets making these demands the military has said it's

patience is running out and have issued a threat really a thinly veiled threat to use lethal force are people concerned that they could be more deaths are they worried about more violence. you know we are seeing a military. brutal crackdown. when the lane if you don't. hold some of the major city and also order to deal 1 before the protests to the. military you will definitely cut down the progress but running out i don't know i mean the cordon all the protests of what is going to be happening in the you know. i don't know now i'm only in the one protest location i don't see any voluntary our problem in iraq now but we don't know one minute he won't show up and . who knows most or all of. you know actually again the be peaceful

protesters so we all know like the military has a lot of history of brutal crackdown get a little. more parents carrying you know more we don't know yet more real and also on screen the people of color worried about the bloodshed you know i believe that if you really model run kilmainham in mendeleev and also interviewed. really gun fire in the recent gunfire in the problem well that's really not documented in mongolia right as this is saying the protests have becoming more spontaneous and we've certainly seen the movement virgo in the past few weeks tony and also more demands being made by the protesters some of the now asking for the release of an santucci others want ethnic minorities to have rights these demands seem to be varying do you get a sense that perhaps this protest movement is. going to be.

finding difficulty in finding a common cause to rally against. whom we will no. longer. buy lou i'll give you a clue i'm going to look for you local school. in this country bus line people are not going to the are going to come in who are. what about the the issue of minority rights of the rohingya are people aware. and understand the issue about the rights of minorities and would they want to stand up for that now that this military is in power. i want to know i'm seeing a lot of people say a lot. while knowing people. go on please but i see a lot of people. so i want cool new realize that all these people are grown or not

very smart very good barbecue goal and also you know i never. got most of well no need the only people this lawyer or you've got people. i'm field of people 8. welcome in all. of them who really look sorry. tony let me ask you one last question before we let you go we've we've heard condemnation from the united states from the united nations what sort of support or help would the protesters want now from the international community. right right right now fundamentalism is a really hot button are all the war every government. doesn't really help you so what i also want to know i mean i have a problem when the people who are being are civil disobedience movement really need to call in all. your government i'm not going to name any government. i mean the

most 3 minutes. so we need. to pull. up the 3rd of a sudden they need. you need haddonfield need a lot. so i think you have. government supporting the syrian people don't want them one day and they need all the. x.'s we do and that does the farm aid and axels out well thank you so much. international community. so called yet thank you so much nicky for taking the time to speak to us nicky diamond is from 45 writes a human rights organization joining us there from a protest in young dawn today where as we said a nationwide strike is underway across myanmar to protest the military to bring you the latest on that of course as more information becomes available to us and sent on to other world news now and iran and the un's nuclear watchdog have agreed on

a temporary solution to allow facility checks to continue for the next 3 months tehran suspended inspections to put pressure on the u.s. to remove sanctions the new agreement means in inspectors will get access as though such a barrier reports from tehran. it's an important visit at a critical time rafael grossi the director general of the international atomic energy agency arrived in town on saturday ahead of iran's plan to partly suspend his agency's inspections of its nuclear facilities early on sunday grossi sat down with the head of iran's atomic energy organization to discuss what happens next to his inspectors the director general also met foreign ministers of odd serif before heading back to vienna. and the outcome of those meetings is that the i.a.e.a. reached a temporary bilateral technical understanding with iranian officials which will

allow the agency to continue its monitoring of to iran's nuclear program hope of the i yield as being to be able to take a situation which was very understated. and i think the. understanding does it. so that other political see patients at other levels can think and. we. ration in which we would have been in practical terms like officials have said as a february 23rd iran will no longer abide by the additional protocols of the nonproliferation treaty because the united states left a 2015 nuclear deal and imposed tough new economic sanctions on iran's oil and banking sector this decision is part of a bill which parliament passed in the summer in an attempt to force the united states to lift some of those sanctions and return to the nuclear deal for ministers

of god serif is not optimistic anything will happen before that that line nothing has changed by going to claims that trump policy of maximum pressure was much more. being can also just recently said that that policy failed but for all practical purposes of the pursuing the same policy they haven't changed a policy the new restrictions mean i will no longer be allowed to make surprise visits to any of iran's 60 cleared nuclear facilities and they won't have access to any other sensitive or military sites either they will also be denied access to the 24 hour surveillance cameras at those sites with less than 4 months left in office there are hardly administration was hesitant at 1st to implement the bill which had passed the parliament but after the endorsement of the supreme leader the president had no choice now the government is hoping that the new administration in

washington will lift some of the sanctions which have cost iran estimated $1.00 trillion dollars or president rouhani as 8 year term will end with a failed nuclear deal and a crumbling economy. dorsetshire party al-jazeera. correspondent . for is so awesome how is this deal with the u.n. nuclear watchdog being viewed in iran for the iranian leaders this is not just about negotiating a new nuclear deal is it. no isn't this is about putting gun pressure to the united states to get them to rejoin the 2015 nuclear deal and lift those sanctions that all this started when former president donald trump pulled the united states out of the 2015 nuclear deal and impose sanctions on iran that iran began to scale back its commitments also seen as breaches by the i.a.e.a. and some other countries to the 2015 nuclear deal and this is the latest step and this latest step came after the assassination of iran's and leading nuclear scientist mohsin fuckheads out there and the iranian parliament passed that bill

not initially president has and rouhani and farmers who developed the reef had opposed that bill but ultimately said that this was the constitutional process that they have to implement it now what that means is the i.a.e.a. will no longer be able to carry out the inspections they will lose the ability they currently have the ability to money to nuclear sites certain nuclear sites 24 hours online and those cameras will be taken offline but iran says they will continue to record the footage for 3 months and if the united states returns to the deal and if those sanctions they'll hand that footage over if they don't then that footage will be lost in the a year will have no access to it but the i.a.e.a. says that it's inspectors will remain in the country and will continue to be able to carry out its verification and monitoring process is that what's really important is that some lawmakers inside the country believe that iran has gone above and beyond the additional protocol suggests that inspections at universities now the i.a.e.a.

will lose that aspect of the additional protocols and won't be able to carry out those snap inspections at universities but also this is about the internal politics but centrally what the i.a.e.a. here has done is given a 3 month period for the united states and the european 3 france germany and united kingdom to sit down and maybe come to some sort of an agreement. ok i. have big line for say in tehran thank you and still ahead on al-jazeera. 10 years on new zealand is on of the many victims of the christ church. and could israel's green pass for its vaccinated citizens become its ticket out of long.

how i was there was a very cold air across eastern parts of europe and it will stay on the cold side for a couple more days yet and then it will warm up quite nicely cloud and right coming into western areas introducing some noticeably milder air we're getting up into the mid teens if you need to the high teens there with parts of france easing up into the british isles but it's subzero once again for moscow modest success on sunday it's minus 12 has become one through monday and it will get a little colder for a time but it will get above freezing but into the week i promise well above freezing into central and western parts cloud and rain continues to tumble in from the atlantic somewhat to weather some snow over the peyronie's there pushing through spain into southern parts of france patchy right in the eastern areas of england just about the east anglia and the southeast in the next batch of wetter weather will gradually slide across and wales into scotland as we go on through choose the central areas doing quite nicely still that wintry mix i would tools

about 6 days in a minus 16 for moscow that will be the coldest day of the way further south it's generally fought in dry with plenty of sunshine in that sunshine stretches down across a good part of north africa $1.00 to $2.00 showers into northern areas of libya and also into egypt with some showers too from record algeria. coveted beyond well. taken without hesitation forgotten died for was power defines our old laws new buildings were toilet. it's the glass used to. be berlin paris investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the globe. on al-jazeera.

to meet the. the in. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to a reminder of our top stories a national strike is underway in myanmar as protesters defy the military to protest against the call crowds have gathered in several cities demanding military rulers step down after seizing power 3 weeks ago but the army has threatened demonstrators telling them to stay home or risk losing their lives in confrontations the protesters have been killed in violence with security forces since the call on february 1st and the head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog has reached a temporary agreement with iran it will give its inspectors further access for the

next 3 months but the inspections will be limited. now the news u.s. aviation regulators have ordered extra inspections for boeing triple 7 aircraft fitted with the same type of engine that exploded during a flight on saturday they suffered a catastrophic failure as soon after takeoff from denver let's ring suburbs with falling debris chris since it only has more. this frightening scene onboard a united airlines passenger flight has led to the grounding of some boeing 777 aircraft around the globe large pieces of the plane's pratt and whitney p w 4000 engine fell over the suburbs of denver colorado shortly after takeoff the plane landed safely and no one was hurt but u.s. regulators quickly stepped in to investigate and on sunday the federal aviation administration issued an emergency directive calling for stepped up inspections

focusing on the engines fan blades united announced it would voluntarily and temporarily remove $24.00 of its $77.00 seventh's for muse saying safety was their highest priority it has another $28.00 of the planes in storage it's yet another setback for boeing the u.s. aerospace manufacturers $737.00 max only recently returned to flight after being grounded for 20 months due to 2 paid all crashes in less than a year and more trouble for united which like other airlines has seen a drastic reduction in travelers due to the coronavirus pandemic. other than united airlines in the united states the f.a.a. says the pratt and whitney engines are only used in south korea and japan the investigation is continuing kristen salumi al-jazeera. an investigation

is underway in nigeria to determine the cause of a military plane crash that killed 7 people the aviation minister says the aircraft reported engine trouble shortly before it went down near butcher app or on sunday the plane was supposed to be part of an operation to rescue dozens of people who were abducted from a school in nearby niger state earlier this week. china's foreign ministers his cooperation with the u.s. on issues such as covert 19 and climate change is possible if steps are taken to repair the relationship. is the trumpet ministration of trying to suppress and contain china which heightened tensions between the 2. china u.s. relations deviated from the normal track and are running to the biggest difficulty since the establishment of diplomatic times the root cause was that the previous u.s. administration out of its own political needs seriously distorted china's future path and policy katrina us in beijing with more reaction from china. and

essentially this speech by one year is a response to comments we have heard from the biden administration over the past few weeks now one gave a speech at a forum attended by chinese officials and various academics this is really significant in terms of the time we because this is the 1st week back to the chinese government the 1st for we back 4 week back after the chinese new year period so this is really a jew sitting it's torn it's strategic approach to the u.s. going forward now one you said that the u.s. and china were at a crossroads and he put the onus on washington to put things back on track and he asked he said that the u.s. would need to do 3 things in order to do this mainly number one is remove tariffs on chinese goods that have been imposed during the last few years because of the trade war he also called for the end of restrictions on chinese students and restrictions on chinese cultural and educational institutions in the u.s. and he also called for the end of sanctions on chinese technology companies he then

reiterated areas in which the 2 countries could continue to work together or start to work together that is climate change fighting the pandemic and on economic recovery but of course this comes at a very difficult time relations between china and the u.s. are at an all time low and this one you blame the previous trump administration. the u.s. is on the brink of recording 500000 deskilling to covert 1000 according to the johns hopkins resource center the virus has killed more americans in both world wars and the war in vietnam combined in the years since the pandemic was declared scenes of being rolled out but some states are in short supply more than 28000000 people have tested positive for the virus gaza is expected to begin its vaccination program in the coming hours starting with health care workers and people with long term illnesses 20000 doses arrived from the united arab emirates on sunday israel has been heavily criticised for excluding gaza and the occupied territory for an

stripey vaccine roll out the russian made vaccine was secured by mohammed don was based in the u.a.e. his a political rival of palestinian president mahmoud abbas the besieged gaza strip is expected to hold elections in 3 months meanwhile the door so israel's shops malls and james are opening again but only to those who have been vaccinated against covert 19 to get in people need a green pass and that's raising concerns about the potential for discrimination harry fawcett reports from west. after 5 months west jerusalem's y.m.c.a. gym is open again as israel emerges further from its latest and potentially last lockdown but it's a selective reopening only those with the so-called green pass on paper or phone up proving full vaccination against a recovery from covert 19 can come in to work out i am so happy to be back here i love this place and i've been working out for better now in 20 minutes said partner

i feel fantastic not all gyms are reopening some sight difficulties in persuading staff to get the vaccine some doubt they'll have enough vaccinated customers to make a profit we believe that this is best for the community in general and specifically for our members it has its challenges because it's a load of work that too is really usually we do not have but i believe that with time it's things will become easier israel is relying on the fire as a bone tech vaccine as its ticket back to normality with nearly half the population having had at least one jab health ministry figures released on saturday suggest it's about 99 percent effective in preventing serious illness and death 2 weeks after the 2nd dose younger more vaccine reluctant israelis are being enticed with free snacks and drinks but some epidemiologists say a highly protected older population may just have to live alongside a less protected or younger group where the virus could continue to thrive for the

prime minister whose campaign for next month's election leans heavily on his back to life message the green pass is crucial so that. you can get your green pass and head to the gym and other sporting and cultural events. his government will soon be running a giant social experiment by distinguishing some say discriminating between those who have and have not been vaccinated i think. it's extremely dangerous you colonel . divide between 2 population if there is a good medical reason. so for example if someone was exposed to 'd someone infected and is vaccinated you don't need to state that's ok that's a medical decision. it's a balancing our debt will be examined closely by other countries with lockdown repopulation so desperate for a taste of their old lives democracy is not infringing on other people and making

them ill so if somebody doesn't want to so let them stay in their house is real good it strikes a nation head start in part by volunteering to be a giant live to the vaccines effectiveness for now it's also running a country sized test on how to use it harry force of al-jazeera west jerusalem. and saying in israel thousands of labor is in volunteers are scrambling to clean contaminated beaches after a major tar spill tons of tar is believed to have been unloaded from a ship in the mediterranean killing marine life and forcing official circles nearly all beaches as one of the worst spills in the region's history authorities are still looking for the ship responsible for the disaster. people in new zealand have paused to remember the victims of an earthquake that struck the country's 2nd biggest city a decade ago thousands joined our service at the national earthquake memorial in christchurch 10 years after the tremor that killed 185 people the manager 6.3

earthquake hit along a previously unknown fault running directly under the city 170000 buildings were destroyed or damaged the earthquake and aftershocks affected people in complete and to various ways the toll could not have been more significant and daily reminders made it harder a fractured landscape. aftershocks struggling friends and neighbors and children with deep and unseen scars 10 years on the all the people still living the daily lives with the long shadow of that day to libya now where weaving has been celebrated for generations but they are fee is the traditional craft is dying. to gori is one of the last weavers in tripoli's old city and says he wants to pass on the tradition. my name is abdul busselton judy i work as

a weaver making traditional products with cotton on the saloon. i have the shop in the old city in an area called the 4 columns and i work along this loom is one of the older ones in the late 1940 s. and fifty's newer models came on the market using silk and other materials but this one uses cotton. continuing this craft my grandfather taught my father and he taught me but as for the new generation if you have learnt uncle abdullah was a weaver but after he passed away his shop closed and it's still empty because he didn't teach anyone we should teach this craft so it's passed on from generation to generation and won't die out but it's a dying tradition it's been neglected i try to open a school for decades under gadhafi is government but nothing happens. this government has promised me it will help me open a school for traditional crafts like weaving it's allocated a space for us we can move into it in march as for me i hope our country becomes

a better and this craft doesn't die i welcome anyone who wants to learn and i hope to teach at the school so the generations to come can enjoy making traditional crafts through weaving. the and the and the well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera a national strike is underway in myanmar as protesters defy the military to rally against the cool crowds have gathered in several cities demanding military rule a step down after seizing power 3 weeks ago by the army has threatened demonstrators telling them to stay home or risk losing their lives in confrontations 3 protesters have been killed in violence with security forces since the coup on february 1st.