these legal research talk about just good hardworking people that want to live the american dream like our ancestors these are going to refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to myanmar. outrage and condemnation after malaysia deports more than a 1000 more nationals despite a court order against it. they're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to bowl also ahead protesters gather in georgia's capital angry over the arrest of a prominent opposition politician. and brought why facebook has a great to reverse its news ban on australian sites and nearly

a 3rd of the world's fresh water fish are facing extinction will find out what it means for tens of millions of people. malaysian authorities have defied a court order and deported more than 1000 migrants to myanmar this despite safety concerns for those sent back just days after the military coup in myanmar a protesters in myanmar continue to demonstrate against the military as international condemnation grows tony chang has this report from bangkok. malaysian immigration trucks transporting more than a 1000 asylum seekers to the coast and ships waiting to deport them despite a last minute court order delaying the repatriation the immigration authorities to find the courts filling 3 myanmar navy ships waiting on the docks the decision

overrides concerns that some of those sent back will be under threat from myanmar's new military government. in myanmar itself mourners paid their last respects in front of the comp in the night when. the 37 year old company was one of 2 people killed on saturday when security services opened fire on protesters in the city of mandalay. i feel so sad losing him we lost the guardian of our family and now i need to move on with the remaining family members. me i'm a senior general minong lai however made no mention of recent deaths when he appeared on state t.v. late on monday nor did he make any concessions to the huge numbers of protesters who've taken to the streets instead the general threatened to withdraw the license of media companies that continue to refer to the military takeover as a coup. but international condemnation reaction is mounting fast. a

statement from g 7 foreign ministers said the use of blind ammunition against unarmed people is on the acceptable and e.u. foreign ministers announced targeted sanctions today we have decided to set of trying to get at measures with ministers in response to these events when we do to political agreement to apply sanctions targeting didn't really to be responsible for the call on the economic interest. and still the street protests continue demonstrators in yangon acting out the roles of doctors and civil servants operating under military rule. the protesters are hoping their movement is gaining momentum but at this stage there's no sign the generals listen. tony ching algis or . processes are gathering in georgia's capital over their arrest of a prominent opposition politician and they have placed on the offices of opposition

leader mikhail detaining him has been demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary polls georgia's prime minister resigned last week in protest against bans to arrest melia saying it would make the political crisis worse as bring in robin force a walker in tbilisi for a stare at one of the protests there in tbilisi denouncing the arrest of naked tell us about what's been happening for stopping. by foley well all traits we were i hope it was there would be too many so the problems is very loud where i'm standing. we've had a protest this afternoon that began outside of the prime minister's office and then the crowd moved here to the parliament and. opposition is saying is that this arrest was a big mistake by the government it's sort of to challenge this country people into political crisis they standing by what they've been demanding for months now which

is new elections fresh elections because since october this country has been at standstill from a political point you can see opposition refuses to acknowledge the results of the lengthy and refuses to go in to politics. will continue. no they're saying that they will march on the prison. being held in detention. and that these sorts of protests will continue they say peaceful protests will continue until their demands for fresh elections are met as you say this political crisis has been going on for some time tell us about the reactions they've been outside of georgia and why is what is happening there right now this crisis why does it matter to the rest of the region. if you look at the 2 spring come and see we've had very strong words from the u.s.

embassy which is playing an important role in showing to mediate between the last few months from the british embassy we've heard from. we see george or as like a sort of a partner a brother came out of the soviet union like they did and they want to see georgia succeed the way they have within the sort of european fold we've also been hearing from nato nato secretary general everyone expressing concern about this believe because they see georgia as a partner or an ally in the region. in a sense as their ally against russia which occupies all controls or has little tree falls on the ground in 2 territories of georgia breakaway regions and so you want your strategically is seen as a as a critical part of the european union for the west and they want to see it succeeds democratically and they say that what's going on at the moment is the opposite of

that and it looks as if the country is backsliding. and. somehow come to a result resolution. so it is a chief so more seats in parliament would have to leave by the opposition. and now we have almost a one party state in georgia doesn't look at 1st fruits of this country. thank you for that. live there in tennessee. in spain demonstrators in boston known to have thrown bottles at police during a 7th night of protest against the jailing of. police say around $700.00 people took part in a mostly peaceful rally was found guilty of criticizing spain's one aki and glorifying a separatist group it set off days of protests and debate about free speech the demonstrations have been organized by a group who wants catalonia to secede from spain hong kong's government has

announced plans to require all elected officials to swear an oath of allegiance to beijing or lose their jobs on monday china's top official in hong kong outlined plans to ensure only what he called patriots run the territory the new rules extend to opposition districts councillors who won by a landslide in the 21000 election those who violate the no oil pledge will be bods for 5 years. the corona virus pandemic now in the u.s. death toll from covert 1000 has passed half a 1000000. bells tolled for $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 have lost more people as a proportion of their population scris since only recourse from washington.

president joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house acknowledging the half 1000000 lost to cope with 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary they spanned generations warner america immigrated to america just like that so many of them took their final breath. as a nation can accept such a cool. well 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 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 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 ringback 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 and to heal he said we must remember

kristen salumi al-jazeera washington. americas half a 1000000 covered 1000 deaths represent about 152 out of every 100000 people see 9th highest figure worldwide but the death rate has been significantly higher in countries like belgium the u.k. and italy the 1st country to be badly hit after china and the nation with the most number of deaths relative to its population is the tiny principality of san marino with more than 70 in a population of just certain 3213 deaths 410-0000 people facebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in australia at the moment all australian news pages are blocked from sharing material on facebook and all its use is a banned from sharing links to australian news sources the decision comes after the government agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for

australian news content peter lewis is the director of the australia institute center for responsible technology he explains why the australian government is pushing hard for a media bargaining code law the legislation that's making its way through the astrarium problem at the moment is to create a safety net to force commercial negotiations on what competition regulator designated to be. monopoly advertising businesses google and facebook there's been pushed back by both of those to be subject to legislative code forcing that negotiation and what google has done is say to do a series of jails and told the code becomes law facebook was resisting the idea of the card fitting into the lore and what's happened to die is that the government's offered a number of procedural amendments to stretch out any prices that would be treated in the event that the coyote's tree good the assumption is that book will now into

negotiations to really tight the name for the card all the time this was all why it's legislation to force negotiations between big tech and the maybe that wasn't going to happen without incident intervention at the end of the dive price books accepted the premise that the knaves to be an accommodation between the their market dominance in advertising and the public interest having journalism and news content in australia. still ahead on algis they're at the beginning of a new chapter why should one is muslim community hope a 2 day visit by pakistan's prime minister could help but. andy concrete decision that's causing or why environmentalists say plans for a cement factory in indonesia is threatening from a sign. however

we've lost the exceptional heat this been running across northern parts of china into the korean peninsula recently and some they some want to into or japan it has to be said about 10 degrees cooler in tokyo to around 12 celsius we go through where to stay notice the wintry flowers are returning western parts of honshu just pushing up into hokkaido clear skies behind not too bad in so but 9 celsius 5 degrees celsius there in beijing quite a shock when you consider sunday we got up to 25 decrees big change here when she weather will make its way into central parts of china northern and central areas seeing some snow in some rain just to the south of that so making its way further race was a little colder than of late than in shanghai supply to 10 degree drop on as of around 14 celsius as that wet weather pushes through tonight is a fair bit of rain there coming into southern parts of china not too much rain

coming in across india at present losey clear skies we have got a fine and dry weather for the most part although going to westerly disturbances just moving across pakistan will bring some snow into the fun of the pakistan the far north of india elsewhere it is settled and sunny pleasant sunshine coming through one of 2 showers there for the pole i'd also tom. but. 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 are more afraid than we are and where it 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 and would love to hear from you in the 2 could be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. pool.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera human rights groups have condemned malaysia's government for deporting more than a 1000 people to mark the move to fight an earlier court order granting the group a temporary stay in. the military in myanmar is coming under increasing international pressure the g 7 a group of the world's wealthiest nations has condemned the jointer for its violence towards untyped who protesters 3 demonstrators have been killed since february 1st. and protesters are gathering in georgia's capital tbilisi over the arrest of a prominent opposition politician early at least on the offices of the opposition

detainee nick has been demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary pulps. pakistan's prime minister has arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit since taking office imran khan was welcomed by prime minister mahinda rajapaksa the leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade me now fernandes has more from colombo. the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's policy of force cremations of course with 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels a centrally what they have said is their religion sort of bans the cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they

have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essentially scientific evidence which basically says that cremations and burials are both acceptable they have gone on a process of appointing different committees and they've kind of been stalling on this issue so on imran khan is a huge sort of a burden of expectation by the muslims of lanka that he will use his good offices whatever goodwill that he has with the government of sri lanka obviously the 2 countries go back a long way pakistan has stood by sri lanka particularly the rajapaksa know that because they stood by them during the last stages of the war in this country giving them sort of needed munitions and things like that so the muslims are hoping that he would bring that kind of goodwill to use the taliban is

accusing the afghan government of not living up to its end of the peace agreement the group says it's still waiting for the release of more of its members from prisons as it was promised during the doha talks it's also concerned the united states has not removed them from black list status negotiators in the interim afghan talks say the taliban have been disingenuous and. an accusation they deny osama bin job it has this update from. the taliban have been accused of perpetrating the violence that we've been seeing in the last few weeks in afghanistan you've heard from the you know i'm a director there accusing groups of carrying those attacks out and the government of the of the sun has actually leveled the blame at the taliban at various levels a senior afghan official a taliban official told us that the taliban has not committed any attacks against civilians it says it remains committed to peace and for the 1st time they've laid

out in detail on how free in phases one government and the u.s. allies are supposed to abide by the unit and they say they haven't they haven't released the prisoners this is the bombardment drone attacks night raids all of them are continuing in taliban areas the taliban insists that there have been no attacks on western targets they say that there are no intelligence reports of any foreigner attacking any or planning to attack any other country using of dance well so they say that they're holding their end of the bargain and nato ministers as well as the united states says that it is continuing its intelligence gathering on the ground and a decision is imminent about what is going to be the future course of action with regard to not just the troop withdrawal but a permanent cease fire and peace in afghanistan u.k. prime minister voice johnson has told farmers the sector can be more profitable and productive now that it's free of the shackles of the common agricultural policy he

was addressing the annual meeting of the country's national farmers union its 1st since the end of the bracks a transition period agricultural organization have warned some sectors are in crisis because of the twain shall and use of rank sets and coronavirus. the 1st thing i want to say is a heartfelt thank you the keeping the nation that you kept the supermarket shelves stocked the delivery boxes filled but now as we look ahead to the rest of the year free of course from the shackles of the common agricultural policy i hope that this can be the moment when we start to realize the many opportunities we now have not just for the benefit of our fantastic promise for all of you for our entire country adam baba has more from essex in southeastern england. the basic message is that the government's committed to the long term future of food production and the agriculture sector here in the u.k. this conference or annual general meeting is of the english national farmers union

but the message is countrywide and it is we're going to stick by you of course there are lots of our knowns right now partly because the u.k. has left the european union a very an approach of a change of direction from the government they're saying that britain could become . exemplary in terms of higher production standards basically raising the quality of what base. but the big change in the short term is going to be the loss of subsidies from the european union which are worth around $4000000000.00 u.s. dollars per year to the u.k. now the government's approach those are going to be phased out over 7 years the government's approach is that it wants to get farmers involved in a sustainable future paying them not to produce but paying them for example to protect wildlife habitats to combat flooding to plant trees and the like saying

that that's the way that their livelihood can be guaranteed and in fact it's thought that 3 quarters of farming businesses are not profitable without those current subsidies we don't know how that's going to work out in the coming years but the message from government is there will need to be a new direction a new focus from british agriculture hama's in indonesia central java struggling with flooding that has destroyed nearly 2 $1000000.00 worth of crops they blame authorities for damaging the land and making it less fertile jessica washington has a story 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. roulette are those 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 petit fields they say land degradation is to blame for the worsening flooding. but numbers and bunkers that dynamite said that there are many mining activities going on up hill 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 rain. these floods are because the juneau river overflowed it

happens 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 poti 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 in the complex of. seeds they say will not be enough if the big issues aren't addressed as well just to washington al-jazeera jakarta the world wildlife fund is warning that one 3rd of freshwater fish species face extinction they could have devastating consequences

for the $200000000.00 people across asia africa and south america who rely on freshwater fish as their main source of protein industry employs $60000000.00 people worldwide generating $100000000000.00 a year the w w f says populations of giant freshwater fish have declined by 94 percent in the last 50 years and numbers of migratory freshwater fish have fallen by 76 percent in the same period earlier i spoke to stuart or was the global freshwater lead at the w w f for nature he explained some of the steps that countries could take to help save their freshwater species. freshwater environments are only one percent of the entire earth's surface and as this report highlights 51 percent of all fish species on the planet are in fresh water freshwater environments are heavily modified by us by industry by irrigation by energy supply we pollute them we've been draining

wetlands on an incredible rate over the last 40 years and i think this report is trying to shine a light on the fact that these critical ecosystems are vital of course to the economy and society who we need to look after them a lot better this species crashes a great indication that nowhere is the nature crisis as evident as in the fresh water environment governments will be meeting this year in china we've put forward with partners a very simple 6 step plan that is very simplistic but implementable it's around flows around water quality protecting and restoring the most critical habitats ending overfishing and looking increasingly into issues like sand mining controlling invasive species and really removing these those obsolete dams and obsolete infrastructure that we have in our rivers those are 6 simple steps that we are asking all governments to take into that meeting we feel that if governments can implement this we can make a huge difference in the in the threatened nature of freshwater species around the world for the 1st time the u.s. space agency has captured a modest landing on video the pictures show nasa has perseverance rover descending

on to the surface of the red planet ready to search for signs of change ancient life and our burden man leave reports at that kind of. historic movement. the. color video of the spacecraft landing on. a planet more than 200000000 of common sense for a mouth. it's been the thing we've been dreaming about for years so i'm going to give you a quick running to not blink hacker's things going really fast here. you can see that you get a sense really of had violent that parachute deploy in inflation air the 2700000000 dollar perseverance roza 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 those days land they did not had released this is the microphone that was part of the e.t.o. 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 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 on to the

1000 moment i drove into new to detach to explore this. nasa has also pieced together 6 pictures to create a panoramic of the dust emotional landscape surrounding the rover. explore the rivers. there in the dust incident scientists are hoping to find. the proof of life once existed on the red planet. clear again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera human rights groups have condemned malaysia's government for deporting more than a 1000 people to myanmar the move defied an earlier call.