al-jazeera. and. western countries step up the pressure on me and most military with the us announcing sanctions against 2 generals for this month's q. and on the cloud this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a staggering milestone the u.s. remembers the 500000 people who've died from cave in 1000. please in georgia storm

the headquarters of the main opposition party to rest its leader for charges he says up politically motivated. blogs why facebook has agreed to reverse its news on the australian sites. now the united states has impose new sanctions targeting made most military leaders for this month's coup 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 deposed peta and sense each e 3 protesters have been killed since the demonstrations began let's meet attorney cheney joins us live from across the border in the thai capital of bangkok and we've just had the statement from the g 7 tony condemning the violence against protesters but the protests are continuing but perhaps not on the scale that we saw on monday. i know there haven't been as many people out on the streets but

they are still coming out it's not just in yangon either large protests in daraa as well and other places around the country so the protesters are very keen to maintain the pressure and that is being piled on from outside myanmar as well you just mentioned the statement from the g 7 foreign ministers where they said the military in the police must exercise the utmost restraint and respect human rights and international law the use of live ammunition against unarmed people is unacceptable and their statements we've heard across the board from the united states state department from the e.u. from the u.k. . and pretty much universal condemnation particularly to the crackdown we saw on protesters in mandalay in fact one of the 2 protesters who was killed 37 year old carpenter his funeral is currently taking place in mandalay at the moment. i think that is one of the things that is prompt to statements like this how much

that has an impact on military is very hard to say the senior general minong lie was on state television yesterday evening he made absolutely no mention of the recent crackdown he did say that the security forces had been using rubber bullets and they had the upmost respect for life but we know that they were using live rounds we've seen 2 feet turn it is 20 other people injured in those clashes. so at this stage we seem to see you be seeing the protesters continue still able to pull large numbers of people the civil disobedience movement is still ongoing and yet the military although they're not cracking down in the way perhaps we expected them to they are still refusing to acknowledge the huge amount of protest on the streets and if you do want to do you what. this ratcheting up of international

sanctions international pressure to. restore democracy like these targeted sanctions from the u.s. and kind of there in the statement from the g 7 it will have an impact at some point in effect on how the joint to operate. yeah i mean i think if you look at. military senior generals they have lived through this before in the eighty's the ninety's the early 2000 when miramar was a pariah state and in those in that era they were very much in control and they kept very tight controls on any kind of democratic voices the popped up any protests were very swiftly put down but in those days myanmar was a pariah state it was very isolated certainly it was still doing business with some of its neighboring countries links with china were still relatively strong but i think in the last 5 years we've seen an opening up and people within me and mar

have seen the benefits that can bring and that's why we're now seeing so many people coming out on the streets of voices that we're hearing from those protesters who are saying look we're prepared to sacrifice our salaries for the moment but if we succumb to this military coup we're going to become slaves to the military again and i think they're very aware cutely aware of the advances they've made in recent years and they just don't want to go back to those down. tony reporting from bangkok of the events in myanmar tony thanks love. well more than a 1000 refugees and migrants in malaysia jus to be deported 2000000 mile have been granted a temporary stay this decision follows appeals from human rights activists 1200 detainees including asylum seekers children they were scheduled to leave on choose day 3 navy ships sent by most military phil robinson is a deputy director of human rights watch is asia division he explains the danger

refugees face if they all deported 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 recognised 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 group and there's a back to myanmar this is a group that has been held in the malaysian immigration has not allowed the un 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. the u.s. death toll from covert 90 this past half a 1000000. yes

bells tolled $500.00 times at the national cathedral in washington in memory of the victims while the u.s. death toll is the world's highest in absolute terms several other countries including belgium the u.k. and italy have lost more people as a proportion of the population's christmas movie reports now from washington d.c. . president joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house acknowledges the half 1000000 lost to covert 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary they spanned generations born in america emigrated to america but just like that so many of them took their final breath alone in america as a nation can accept such a cool for

a while before i knew 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 tallaght is remain high the most of any country in the world they've begun to decline dramatically cove in 19 in the united states has been declining for 5 weeks with

the 7 day average dropping 74 percent since the 7 day average 'd 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. and to hear he said we must remember kristen salumi al-jazeera washington. over coronavirus restrictions in the barn has led to violent demonstrations that have killed 3 people security forces fired tear gas was panic related to disperse protesters in the capital only prevail and the 2nd largest city of port authority a government has restricted travel in and out of the capital and has expanded health officials have reported more than $13000.00 infections so far. england could see an end to most coronavirus restrictions by the end of june prime minister boris

johnson has laid out a cautious plan to start lifting pandemic measures from next month but it could all come to a whole 2 if infection rates rise or in fact the nations are delayed if barker reports now from london the long road out of lockdown will be gradual and cautious a decision the government said was based upon data rather than pressure to set dates nearly a year after this pandemic began this unparalleled national effort has decisively shifted the odds in our favor so that we no longer have to rely simply on lockdowns and restricting your behavior and putting our lives on hold but with every day that goes by this program of vaccination is creating a shield around the entire population the government now confirmed all schools will reopen for all children on march the 8th many have already adapted to continue

teaching the children of essential workers throughout the pandemic students and staff at this school have regular lateral flow tests on the school premises this looks set to continue when the rest of the children return. after the reopening of schools allowing people to have more social contacts will be a priority. from march the 29th up to 6 people or 2 households can meet outside including in private gardens this is when the stay at home order is expected to be lifted the move follows encouraging new data indicating the oxford astra zeneca vaccines use in the u.k. can reduce hospital admissions by as much as 94 percent. the u.k. is hoping its lead in the vaccination campaign will allow it to recover faster than other countries but the number of people still receiving hospital treatment remains worryingly high when you look at number of people in hospital with coded in the u.k. again you can see there is a significant 4 that is continuing but the rates are still high and they're only

slightly below the height of the 1st peak we had last year further stages for england several weeks a passing clue the reopening of non-essential shops and the face return of people to pubs and restaurants hit hard by months of closures the reopening of hotels and hairdressers will follow for the prospect of foreign travel or summer holidays seems some way off the easing of restrictions can only move to the next phase providing for criteria have been met that previous measures do not in any way affect the vaccine rollout that there isn't suddenly an increase in infection rates or the national health service isn't adversely affected by any of these previous changes and last week if there is any concern a tour about the possible impact of any new variance more than 17000000 people have received at least one dose of a covert 19 vaccine infection rates are falling quickly across the country with an 80 percent drop in cases in the capital cases of the south african variant are also

shrinking but after months of disruptive on office trick sions the last thing anyone wants is for a taste of normality to be suddenly taken away need barca al-jazeera london. still ahead here about 0 concrete decision it's causing an uproar what environmentalist say plans for a cement factory in indonesia is threatening farmers like. nasa unveils a breathtaking video of its rover touching down the red light. and gives me goose bumps every time i see it just just amazing. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways how they got some lovely spring like weather across

a good part whole few clear skies into central areas still got some wintry weather some cold air into the far east but it's very very mild exceptionally mild across these western areas where we have got banks of cloud and right tightly packed i suppose in the case of very strong winds pushing into the west and possibly with the winds coming in or out of area of high pressure is a southerly wind picking temperatures up into the high teens here 1718 celsius for paris and for border 5 in try to across a good part of the british isles england looking fine and try to get some wetter weather now coming in across wales some very heavy rainfall coming into a good parts of scotland flooding concerns here have been warnings in force as a result of that central areas that's the place to be 18 celsius for some proper spring like weather but it's minus 18 for moscow it will warm up to around minus 90 some snow pushing through here on wednesday warmer there for berlin around ninety's just gorgeous weather for the most part and that dry weather stretches down across

a good part of southern europe all the parts of africa could see some bits and pieces of shattering some western weather coming into northern areas of algeria for a time but petering out by wednesday. sponsored poll qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we all want to feed the hungry and be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are too little to he's the new in each he could be part of today's discussion this dream on out his inner.

alligator what she ahd to their mind about top stories of the united states has imposed new sanctions targeting me and most military leaders over this month the european union says it's agreed to do the same the army has increased its use of force against protesters. more than a 1000 refugees and migrants in malaysia who would you to be deported to me and more have been granted temporary stay follows appeals from human rights activists who said that deporting the group could endanger their lives. and other states is now recorded more than a half a 1000000 deaths from cave and 19 by far the highest toll in the world flags are at half mast and president joe biden one of the victims at the moment of silence. police in georgia have stormed the offices of the opposition and have arrested his leader nick emelia is demanding new elections after last year's disputed

parliamentary polls georgia's parliament voted on monday to approve a new prime minister and cabinet robin forestay walker has the latest now from tbilisi. dozens of police officers surrounded the building at dawn and then we saw these dramatic scenes they used a 5 brigade aerial ladder to to climb up the multi-story building an answer 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 try to stop them from arresting mr malley tear gas some claim to take us being used or at least pepper strips pepper spray some people injured and also have been additional arrests as well as mr malley who'd been seeking shelter inside the headquarters of the the largest opposition party for the last week and it's been a fruit week in georgian politics because the previous prime minister had offered

his resignation in fact resigned over this whole issue because he believed that arresting mr melia wouldn't serve george's interests the country's deeply polarized the political forces here we've got we had the election in october that all opposition parties claim was falsified and they have been refusing to answer parliament so parliament being boycotted boycotted and a prime minister resigning over this whole affair and now a much more hardline government led by a new prime minister who has promised to restore law and order because he says mr melia broke the law and now must pay the consequences. there were traitors in barcelona have thrown bottles at police during a 7th night of protests against the jailing of wrap up. a police say around $700.00 people took part in the mostly peaceful rally said was found guilty for criticizing

spain's market in glorifying a separatist group it said of days of protests and debate about free speech. the wife of jailed mexican drug boss who work in el chapo guzman has been arrested in the united states on drug trafficking charges and mcconnell supporter was detained at washington d.c.'s international airport she's accused of helping her husband run his multibillion dollar cartel and helping him escape from a mexican prison in 2015 because when is serving a life sentence in a u.s. jail. the families of the victims of a 2900 shooting at a u.s. military base is suing saudi arabia saudi air force officer mohammed saeed brownie was training at the base in florida when he shot and killed 3 american sailors the lawsuit alleges that saudi arabia knew that this sham ronnie was working with al qaeda but did nothing to prevent the killings it also says of a saudi trainees knew about the attack in advance from

mazin indonesia's central java struggling with flooding that has destroyed close to $2000000.00 worth of crops they played with origins for land degradation in the area as they are left to deal with $7000.00 hectares of damage farmland and the construction of a cement factory nearby is not apparently helping the situation just a washington reports from jakarta. it might look like a river but this is actually a paddy field in the village of some pang in paddy regency this community of farmers in central java is trying to salvage their crops days of severe flooding have destroyed most of their hard work and most of the rice is russian. what are those some of the world is that of someone that look all around everything is ruined there is no harvest. this community is used to heavy rains but farmers told al-jazeera past floods didn't reach the heavy fields they say land degradation is to blame for the worsening flooding. but number number of that time i said that

there are many mining activities going on uphill mining for the cement factories forest destruction plantations when it rains the water flows straight to the jawan a river that overflows. the disaster agency says $7000.00 hectares of land is flooded and in some areas the water rose more than a metre and a half. the mine how far along aside from the la nina effect we cannot deny this flood is caused by environmental destruction especially in the forest. environmental groups are campaigning for a moratorium on mining permits they blame the worsening floods on upstream mining for the cement factory but local authorities in how to maintain the floods are caused by heavy rains right very near these floods are because the joiner river overflowed it happens annually when the rainfall is high. this week severe flooding affected thousands of households in jakarta and nearby cities and local authorities

also blamed heavy rain flooding in java causes millions of dollars of damage every year in jakarta and in smaller cities and authorities are often reluctant to make the connection between environmental damage and the worsening floods. in 30 the local government says it will give seeds to the affected farmers but the farmers are still concerned. if it continues like this all is lost on the complex again no seeds they say will not be enough if the bigger issues aren't addressed as well just go washington al-jazeera jakarta. for the 1st time the u.s. space agency has captured or moles landing on video the pictures shown us as perseverance rover descending on to the surface of the red planet ready to search for ancient signs of life or about manly as this at are confirmed. and historic moment for nasa the 1st ever color video of

a spacecraft landing on. a planet more than 200000000 common sense for mouth. that's been the thing we've been dreaming about for years so i'm going to give you a quick warning to not blink as things go really fast here you can see that you get a sense really of how violent that parachute deploy and inflation are the $2700000000.00 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 land they did not had released this is the microphone that was part of the e.t.

system i'm 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 duty 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 1000 moments of drew me into new to detach to explore the this. nasa has also pieced together 6 pick choose to create a panoramic of the dusty motion on scape surrounding the rover. possible

will soon explore the river delta. there in the darfur scientists are hoping to find fossils the prove life 1658 on the red planet. whatever it is an incredible story is that let's point to rebecca allen who's the program lead at the space technology and industry institute at swinburne university of technology joins us from melbourne and rebecca you know what gets me is just the clarity of these pictures just showing the drama of the touchdown and then then these extraordinary views of a landscape that kind of looks weird lee familiar in a way and yet it's 200000000 kilometers away. it's incredible as we look out and we learn more about our neighboring planets and we see that mars really is similar to our and you can imagine a desert landscape somewhere on our planet and you know it could be here and exact

same area. what do we learn from these pictures what can we see that maybe we didn't know before. well i did i can see immediately as i watch that stunning video of the rover coming down to land you can see that it does look like an area where it was a good title flat or that water was flowing you could see already the signatures even though they are billions of years old that water once flowed in that specific region and that's very exciting because that means we're in the right spot it's actually find organic compounds which will be the signs that life did actually. so there will then be another mission to collect the samples that perseverance collects tell us about that and how they'll be tested what you're going to confirm . absolutely so perseverance will be collecting about 30 samples which

seems like a lot but really for the fact that there has to pull earth yours is no the same item that many and they're all about a half ounce in size so these precious samples will be chosen carefully using this rate of insurance on the roof or send them such as it bans cameras and spectroscope so they can break down materials and see what they're made of what they're compositions are and that is their case this is an interesting area of soil that we think it could potentially be an organic compounds and in the room will move over and say these precious samples now in a bit over a decade when those samples make it back to robert tory's on earth are we he confirmed presence of the organic molecules and then hopefully some of those key signatures of life so even if this eventually and slightly puzzled as a layman that there was more certain false quantities of violets filling great

rivers and vos deltas what happened to it. that's a fantastic question so mars is much smaller than earth and we believe that as it cools its core old and so we know that that's a very important component earth liquid metal core helps it's magnetic field and also earth has plate tectonics which allows have. those 2 things are very important for creating and maintaining the atmosphere protect the and without the magnetic field mars's delicate atmosphere would have been constantly irradiated by the sun's radiation and that would cause the atmosphere dissipate and escape into space now without that protective layer we know that the surface pressure and heat it's him or chairs on mars would make it where it's not possible for little water to exist anymore space missions have always had this but i do the extra instigating technological advances here on earth and there and here i get this thing robotic

saw that will have practical implications yes absolutely so the fact that there's over 3 and a half minutes in length between communications between earth and mars means that the nasa engineers had to prove every program everything precisely to anticipate any particular difficulties because they weren't going to be able to take out a joystick and change there were scores and real time now that it's on the ground they're running all these tests that they can make they can make amends to the programming but when it was landing had basically be a thomas and that's a really important skill bought experience as we see industry today these kind robotics are really important for us and so we can take all of that advance knowledge to space and actually here on earth yeah it's a fascinating exciting story rebecca adlington appreciate your expertise thanks very much. now facebook has announced it will restore news

content to its uses in australia at the moment all the straightly news pages are blocked from sharing material on facebook and all its users a ban from sharing links to australian news sources decision comes off of the government agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for strength in news content. so this is a desert these are the top stories and the united states has impose new sanctions targeting me and most military leaders over this month the european union says it's agreed to do the same the army has increased its use of force against protesters has more now from the thai capital of franco. 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.