al-jazeera. and western countries step up the pressure a 1000000 miles military with the u.s. announcing sanctions against 2 generals for this month's crude. but on a clock this is out there a live from doha also coming up. a staggering milestone the u.s. remembers the 500000 people who died in comfort 19. police in georgia

stormed the headquarters of the main opposition party to arrest its leader for charges he says it's a clean make you think. that's right unveils breathtaking videos of its reva touching down on the red planet. and gives me goose bumps every time i see it just just amazing. so the united states has imposed new sanctions targeting military leaders for this month the european union says it's agreed to do the same the army has been increasing its use of force against a civil disobedience campaign calling for the release of the deposed leader and since each $83.00 protesters have been killed since the demonstrations began let's get the very latest we can join a correspondent tony chang from across the border in the thai capital of bangkok so any demonstrations continue but will they be on the scale that we saw on monday.

no and i think that's not surprising we saw huge numbers coming out not just in major cities but all across the country yesterday we're not seeing as many people today but there are still very noticeable demonstrations going on in young gone in a in the south and elsewhere and i think you know they want to keep up the pressure on the military they want to remind them that this you know they aren't going to bang down this also the civil disobedience movement which you mentioned just now. that has relaxed somewhat in that i understand in yangon today some businesses are open but i think the target there is to really try and bring the infrastructure. to a to a halt and that does appear to be very effective apparently transport systems within the country railways planes have been severely curtailed. hospitals are running on skeleton staff at the moment because many of the doctors are going in

some cases it's affecting the civil service and i think the effort there is for the protesters to keep on pushing that said we saw the senior generals in the coup council meeting yesterday they don't appear to be recognizing the huge numbers of people out on the streets all the calls for the reversal of this coup they say that the media is not allowed to refer to this as a coup any longer and any media that do will be banned so we are still very much at loggerheads between these 2 groups and i think the problem is the longer this continues the harder it is to find any way out that doesn't hugely impact the country indeed or attorney leave the military chain there in bangkok. well more than a 1000 refugees in malaysia jujubee to pool to to me and ma have not been granted temporary stay the decision to hold this follows appeals from human rights activists on wednesday a court will hear the group's supplication food you dish will review the 1200 tietê

news which include asylum seekers and children scheduled to leave on tuesday 3 navy ships sent by me and most military. to phil robertson who's the deputy director if you rights which is asia division joins us now also from bangkok in thailand and phil the stay of deportation is obviously welcome but there's still a great deal of uncertainty tell us who these migrants are and what your concerns are well these are persons who have been detained in malaysia over the course of the last year or so these are people including at least 3 of these people we know are refugees recognized by u.n.h.c.r. there are probably many more recognized refugees in this group at least 17 of these children are persons who will be separated from one or both of their parents by this book and they're sent back to myanmar this is a group that has been held and the malaysian immigration has not allowed the u.n.

refugee agency access to person in immigration detention center since august 21000 so there's a lot of question marks about how many refugees and asylum seekers there are in this group and why the malaysian authorities are not allowing the international community have access to them so the cold will now head the groups application for judicial review what needs to happen. well we need this entire movement to be stopped that u.n.h.c.r. needs to be allowed to have unfettered access to these 1200 people to ascertain who they are how many of them are refugees with with unix your cards how many are asylum seekers who have significant claims of possible refugee status and how many of these are children who separation from parents would be devastating for their lives and in itself this ratcheting up of international pressure on the jew into effort to restore democracy and releasing sons who cheat like these targeted sanctions from the e.u.

the united states and canada will be the likely affect that. well we think that there is going to be increased pressure that comes from the international community that makes it clear to the myanmar military that they're cool as unwelcome that it's not supported by the international community nor the people of myanmar and that the only path forward is for them to ricin this and enter negotiations with the government that was elected in november 21 and also the people of myanmar there has to be some clarity that there is no other way forward for the myanmar military other than to do that because if they don't they will head down a path to complete international isolation and accountability mechanisms for the top officials there but is it really likely that the military will follow the path that we've been here before complete isolation well i mean i think that what has surprised the military this time is the size of the turnout of the protests which

were just massive yesterday but also huge last week and also the fact that international community has been moving rather quickly on this i don't think that the government there counted on the actual impact of the internet and the ability of people to get information out where every time something happens whether it be a crackdown by police or people being shot in mandalay or and need to know the information is instantly coming out and it is being relayed around the world much faster than the myanmar military junta can deal with so you have the pressure from the outside of what about pressure from within and to what extent does does the civil civil disobedience you talk about create problems for the june through this kind of defiance of the protest movement in the face of woundings of the potential for loss of life. well i think that people recognize that this is a time where they must go forward that the alternative is to return to the military

dictatorship which the myanmar people had experience with over 5 decades and they're just not willing to go back to that so we've seen a massive disobedience of civil servants the transportation shutdowns business shutdowns you know there have been a number of police that have come across in some places and joined the protesters so i think that you know that the pressure is really on in my day they're making the country ungovernable by the military and i think that ultimately this is going to be a key part of the decision that the military has to make that they are not going to be able to go forward with this coup and continue in the way they are phil robertson appreciate that phil robertson from human rights watch thanks so much thank you. the united states has recorded more than a 1000000 deaths from cave in 1000 that is the highest toll in the world and despite efforts to ramp up vaccinations about 2000 americans are still dying every day.

dispels told $500.00 times at the national cathedral in memory of those killed it's been just over a year since the u.s. recalled its 1st death from more than $28000000.00 people have been infected since that christensen reports now from washington d.c. . president joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house knowledge in the half 1000000 lost to cope with 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary they span generations born in america immigrated to america but just like that so many of them took their final breath along in america. as a nation. you can accept that you cool for

a while before i do this pandemic for so long we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow after addressing the nation the president headed outside for a moment of silence 500 candles lit 450-0000 dead and we're still not out of it a half a 1000000 deaths it's just it's terrible it is historic we haven't seen anything even close to this the grim milestone comes after a winter storm stalled vaccination efforts in parts of the nation so far just over 80 percent of the doses that are available have been administered health officials say they should be back on track this week backs and eating at a rate of $1800000.00 shots per day while hospitalizations and pay tallies remain high the most of any country in the world they've begun to decline dramatically cove in $19.00 in the united states has been declining for 5 weeks with the 7 day average dropping 74 percent since the 7 day average on january the president has

promised to vaccinate 100000000 americans in his 1st 100 days in office and white house officials expect to meet that goal but that may be small comfort to those who've lost a loved one nevertheless the president offered the grieving a message of hope you could be ok. to hear he said we must remember kristen salumi al jazeera washington. let's move on to the nation of georgia where police have stormed the offices of the opposition and have arrested its leader camilla is demanding a new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary polls georgia's parliament voted on monday to approve a new prime minister and cabinet let's join that robin 1st your workers in tbilisi . robin the main opposition leader has now been arrested and this was in the full glare of local media. indeed they were all there to watch

as police in riot gear dozens of police officers surrounded the building and then we saw these dramatic scenes that used to fire brigades aerial ladder to climb up the multi-story building and enter from from from the it looked like from the rooftop and from of course from below and then we saw how the opposition supporters inside tried to stop them from arresting mr tear gas some claim to take us being used or at least purpose pepper spray some people injured and also have been additional arrests as well as mr malley who'd been seeking shelter inside headquarters of the the largest opposition party for the last week and it's been a fraught week in georgian politics because the previous prime minister had offered his resignation resigned over this whole issue because he believed that arresting

mr marriott wouldn't serve you which is interests of the country is deeply polarized the political forces here we've got we had the election in october that all opposition parties claim were falsified and they have been refusing to enter parliament so parliament being courted at a primitive. resigning over this whole affair now is much more hardline government led by a new prime minister who has promised to restore law and order because he says mr marriott broke the law and now must pay the consequences face the consequences but we are also now expecting large protests opposition protests against this move later on today nic yeah tell us more about that because he's got a fair bit of supporters and he wants the response likely to be from opposition supporters. it's difficult to say how many georgians.

are behind the opposition now because as i said the country is fairly divided but it does seem as if this move is looked upon very unfavorably by the international community western governments have been doing what they can to try to bring about a settlement because of this impasse over the elections last october and they've been warning against exactly this kind of move by the government. you know 100 years ago georgia was invaded by the red army and. anniversary has not. remarked upon and in fact both sides tend to use russia the problem of russia as the sort of. as a way to label their opponents as you know the bad guys and so we've got the government now saying well they've arrested the bolsheviks but the opposition has long been claiming that this government behaves rather the way to treat its

opponents you know this kind of visible spectacle of seizing papa's ition leader inside his own party offices doesn't look good for democracy certainly for the optics perspective and it doesn't look good if there's any hope now of of any settlement to this ongoing political crisis here that it is looking very unlikely at the moment will see how things unfold as the days go on that's a picture in tbilisi robin for us you're welcome thanks a lot. still ahead here in algeria health experts landed in guinea on the search for fertile and killer we have more on the efforts to stop on a boat. on blogs why facebook has agreed to reverse its news ban on australian sites.

however what a difference a week makes we've got lots of warm weather maal there into central parts of europe and over towards the west and in central belgium temperatures on sunday afternoon touched 18 degrees celsius just across the border we've seen some very warm weather pushing up into the netherlands as well cladogram pushing in from the west but this was last week in the netherlands you can see a good old covering of snow here and then on sunday is about we have a temperatures touching 17 celsius and that mild air that's in across the good parts of western and central europe some pleasant sunshine into germany but the light winds are really will fill proper spring like should we say loss of wet and windy weather pushing in across all into wales into were northern england across a good part of scotland still some snow in the forecast there we got some snow there pushing into that western side of russia and still pretty cold in moscow it just minus 16 celsius is a tad warmer for moscow as we go throughout wednesday but

a whole lot still some blustery showers pushing into western parts of it lots of lovely sunshine into central and southern parts of here of the sunshine stretches down across a good part of north africa a few showers there for all the possible geria northern areas of tunisia but elsewhere is dry. frank assessments the world is on a catastrophic model failure is that a fair assessment if catastrophic failure to twice valuable backseat informed opinions should we be buying bit corny 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.

but again you're watching al-jazeera from our top story and the united states has impose new sanctions targeting military leaders over this month's can european union says it's great to do the same but the army has been increasing its use of force against civil disobedience. more than a fountain refugees and migrants who would be deported to be in ma have been granted temporary stay it follows appeals from human rights activists a court will now hear the group's application for a judicial review. and the united states has recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths from cavan 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags are at half staff and president joe biden on the dictums with

a moment of silence. guinea is expected to begin its about a vaccination drive on tuesday 11000 doses and 200 health experts have landed in its capital cannot occur after a resurgence of the virus at least 5 people have died in the latest up rick because as this. they work like detectives trying to trace a silent killer a ball the health workers question the son of a nurse who died from the virus in early february asking questions on what she ate where she went and what she did did he see anything unusual before her death still in shock he calls out to his deceased mother. i can't stop crying. but we don't really know is this true are they lying to us go the only knows if you powerless night and day i cry why did you have to go

he is not alone in doubting a bull is resurgence at the at the center of the outbreak the regional market is bustling despite a ban on public gatherings worse meat from wild animals known to harbor is sold in stalls. what he has noted people are just that some haven't come into the market so those people you see he off foreigners from neighboring countries in 2015 more than 11000 people died in 20000 were infected after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring liberia and sierra leone the outbreak was contained after an experimental vaccine was distributed but not before health workers were attacked by people who did not believe in the virus infected patients were kept in isolation and the dead were taken away buried without their families being present. a good listen when you're on is that instead of doing everything right i was safe we have to give. to the

population then to do the work or you look at authorities to manage to break by them said we cannot continue coming with big way to the end was a lot of people in small villages. 11000 vaccines and 200 health workers have just arrived in guinea's capital cannot be to help manage this latest outbreak they doses will go to frontline health workers and close contacts patients are being treated in. crete and little by the border almost a month after louis mother died of a paula the virus is spreading nicholas hawking al-jazeera. q.h. has announced it's closing all land and sea border crossings from wednesday as it tries to get on top of corona virus infections the closure will stay in place until the end of march but the government says it won't affect shipping operations and exclude some domestic workers from the gulf nation by the entry of non-citizens on saturday he recorded 2100 new pope and 900 cases on monday argentinean

president alberto phenomenons is in mexico visiting and astra zeneca vaccine factory and the 2 countries are teaming up to co-produce around 200000000 doses of the job for most of latin america the region has been struggling to hit its vaccine targets brazil's state oil company petrobras has had a $13000000000.00 wiped off its c.e.o. was ousted by president john bolton or the company says plunged 22 percent on monday after the government nominated an army general with no oil and gas experience as its new boss also criticized the firm's market driven pricing policy off the truck drivers threatened to strike over the rising cost of fuel. the united states supreme court has ruled that donald trump's tax records can be released to new york prosecutors as part of a criminal investigation it's a major setback for the former president who's fought to keep the documents private investigation is partly focused on payments made to 2 women who say they had

extramarital affairs with trump is also looking into the false for cation of business records. u.s. transportation officials say it's too early to draw conclusions about what caused the engine failure of united airlines flights have a colorado on saturday and every results of the investigation show it was likely due to metal fatigue herself and lines around the world to ground some of its triple 7 jets john 100 has more now from chicago. for boeing a fiery flight leads to another plane grounding in a 2 year corporate spiral more than $100.00 boeing triple 7 aircraft with a specific type of pratt and whitney engine have been pulled out of service after an exploding engine on united flight 328 over the skies of colorado led to an emergency u.-turn barrier not ever apart for united for 28 every night air craft to . thank you if you are ready to depart immediately in the u.s. federal aviation regulators have demanded stepped up inspections of the engine type

that rained down on a home a soccer pitch in streets of colorado. before the plane landed remarkably with no injuries inside or outside of the plane. aviation experts blame hollow engine blades that apparently broke off and started the fire it not only blew through the case and blew through the column but actually penetrated the fuselage damaging the fuselage the wing and blowing out a window causing a deep pressurization that led boeing managers in chicago to call for the global grounding of a limited number of 770 seven's that had been flying only from the u.s. japan and south korea the u.s. federal aviation administration is now investigating whether the fan blades failed because they were damaged and that damage went undetected in routine inspection or whether there was a manufacturing flaw that led to the explosion that could mean wider problems. analysts say this engine failure is less catastrophic for boeing than the flight

control problems found to have caused 2 crashes that killed 346 passengers and grounded then brand new 737 max aircraft for nearly 2 years it's just now returning to service this is the kind of thing which happens from time to time with highly stressed modern machinery a full which hadn't been detected before suddenly makes itself known and everything is frozen for a while while an inspection takes place to try and correct this is not a total systemic faults like the maps problem was still after the grounding of a max plane that was expected to be the company's most lucrative and a pandemic that's kept millions of passengers on the ground the $770.00 seven's problems mark another black eye for an already battered company john hendren al-jazeera chicago. iran's top clerical body says there will be no further

negotiations with the united states in the 2050 nuclear deal members of the assembly of experts met in tehran to review the agreement sunday's deal between iran of the un's nuclear watchdog is also facing opposition from hardline iranian politicians it allows inspectors to continue monitoring tehran's new caphis facilities for up to 3 months but opponents say it's illegal and want president hassan rouhani to be punished for it facebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in australia at the moment all its trauma news pages are blocked from sharing material on facebook and always use a ban from sharing links to australian news sources the decision comes after the government's agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for australian use content facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strained news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content . this follows

a series of intensive negotiations with facebook since their actions last thursday it involved the minister the prime minister and the head of the i triple c. treasury and myself we have a great to make some clarifications to the code the code maintains its k. measures namely it's a mandatory card i world leading us secondly it's based on a 2 way value exchange and 3rd it involves a final offer of a tray ssion mechanism. now then for the 1st time the u.s. space agency has captured a mole's lending on video the pictures show not perseverance reva descending on to the surface of the red planet ready to search for ancient signs of life or about manly as this report that's not confirmed yet. and historic moment for nasa the 1st ever color video of the spacecraft landing on

. a planet more than 200000000 commonsense for mouth. that's been the one we've been dreaming about for years and let me give you a quick warning to not blink because things go really fast here you can see that you get a sense really of how violent that parachute deploy and inflation are the 2700000000 dollar perseverance rosa is on a mission to explore the red planet for ancient signs of life it was a nail biting moment the scientists who have to wait several minutes to receive the signal that it had successfully landed on the just there a crater that said to be an ancient really bad that carried water billions of years ago. it's not just video of thursday's landing the nothing had really. this is the microphone that was part of the e.t.o. system i know right now too if you would like to close your eyes and just imagine

yourself sitting on the surface of mars. it will take a few weeks for the rover to get rolling on its heavy wheels the team will 1st check all systems software and test the instruments it will allow us to do further in depth check out to be a shipment we have our core drill in the center are pixel and charlie instruments mounted to the side and that black is to support the gut gas dust removal which will remove dust from the surfaces that we will be inspecting later and in the bows and moaned a drone named into new to what attempts to explode the say this. nasa has also pieced together the 6 pick choose to create a panoramic of the dusty motion on scape surrounding the right.

of the river down. there in the dustbin settlement scientists are hoping to find fossils the prove life 1658 on the red planet. near about money. plenty more of that experience right about more besides on our website al-jazeera dot com as he addresses i'll just talk. like this is out as are these all the top stories and the united states is imposing new sanctions targeting mid march military leaders of this month to the european union says it's great to the say the army has been increasing its use of force against the civil disobedience and. has more now from the top capital of bangkok hospitals are running on skeleton staff at the moment because many of the doctors ongoing in some cases.