history with the 1st papal visit telegram his 1st trip outside to sleep since the throne of august and then make. up fronts marc lamont hill cut through the headlines to challenge conventional wisdom. hope for the future the ivory coast goes to the polls for its complementary election. march on al-jazeera. outrage and condemnation off the malaysia deports more than a 1000 me on the national despite a court order against it. they're on the stand here tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up thousands in georgia protest against the arrest of a prominent opposition politician deepening a crisis that began with last year's disputed election. the u.s. congress has testimony from former top capitol police officials for the 1st time

since donald trump supporters stormed the building back in january. and nearly a 3rd of south africa's workforce is out of a child as figures show how the pandemic has further damaged an economy already in recession. malaysian authorities have defied a court order and deported more than a 1000 migrants to me that's despite safety concerns for those being sent back just weeks after the military true that in myanmar itself protest as a continuing to demonstrate against the military as international condemnation grows meanwhile the voices news agency is now reporting that indonesia's foreign minister will fly to me imo on thursday in the fast known trip by a foreign envoy since the crew reports. malaysian immigration trucks transporting more than a 1000. sign them seekers to the coast and ships waiting to deport them despite

a last minute court order delaying the repatriation the immigration authorities defy 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 test and i 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 lie 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 of the general threaten 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 live ammunition against unarmed people is on the acceptable and e.u. foreign ministers announced targeted sanctions today we have decided to set of target it measures with ministers in response to these events. and we took the political agreement to apply sanctions targeting the military responsible for the cool on day comic 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

. and protesters have been demonstrating in georgia's capital over the arrest of a prominent opposition politician earlier police stormed the offices of the opposition detaining nicomedia he's been demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary palls georgia's prime minister resigned last week in protest against plans to arrest many are saying it would make the political crisis west robin forrester walker has the latest now from to be so 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 largely to opposition is saying is that this arrest was a big mistake by the government to have to plunge this country people into political crisis if they start by what they've been through monday for months now which is new elections fresh elections because since october this country has been

at standstill from a political point of view because the opposition refuses to acknowledge the results of their likely refuses to go in with a problem and that boycott will continue. and now they're saying that they will march on the prison where nick omarion is 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. well demonstrators in barcelona have thrown bottles at police during a 7th night now of protests against the jailing of rapper public hostle police say around $700.00 people took part in the mostly peaceful rally hausa was found guilty of criticizing spain's monarchy and of glorifying a separatist coup set off days of protests and debate about free speech the demonstrations have been organized by a group who once catalonia to secede from spain now 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 on the territory the new rules extend to opposition districts councillors who won by a landslide in the 21000 election and those who violate that loyalty pledge will be barred for 5 years let's take a closer look at just what this means for hong kong's opposition the government says at least 4 directly elected opposition district councils could lose their seats and also then be barred from running again for 2 electoral cycles and as soon as legal proceedings a board brought against a politician for breaching that loyalty pledge they'll be suspended immediately critics are saying it's a violation of the presumption of innocence and even though the proposed law is not retroactive past behavior may be considered when officials determine if an earth has been violated. dave is an associate professor at the school of law of city university of hong kong he says china is redefining the one country 2 systems

principle. and the basic object you know well well the government is to ensure that there is hardly any dissenting voice in the elections in hong kong down the labor there and short order at the legislative council the government recently acquired the civil so events are big deal and now they're asking those districts cancerous or the on going forward i think that the only if you're going to hear it is that the meaning of who is affected is is a very subjective and there is no legal requirement it's a political requirement and this is defined in a base objective and but absent an arbitrary matter to be doubt anyone who will speak against the governance party or who will criticize the chinese government i think i would suggest that we are not creating a new one country 2 systems i mean we had in an idea of one country a sort of system which either knocked it from 1st of july 1907 onwards or after the

nation's security law came into force last year i think the chinese government working call a close look at the hong kong government the outer player saying that old order is not understanding got one going to start with a new one to standing on one computer system so it will not be identical to the mainland chinese system but it is going to move in clear mentally very close to the system in china and i think increasingly media civil society get me out member so public i think everyone would be increasingly expect it will they come out and coming from beijing. now a judge in india has granted bail to climbers activist station ravi saying evidence that she committed sedition is scanty and sketchy the 22 year old was arrested earlier this month accused of developing a tool kit to support the months long fondness protests police say is encouraged to violence during a rally in january that critics say her case is part of a government crackdown on dissent thousands of farmers have been demonstrating

against all was reforming india's agricultural sector. now the u.s. death toll from a curve at 19 has past half a 1000000. bells tolled $500.00 times at the national cathedral in washington in memory of the victims now while the u.s. death toll is the world's highest in absolute terms several other countries have lost people as a proportion of their populations christensen he reports now from washington d.c. 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 spared generation born in america immigrated to america just like that so many of them took their final breath. in america.

as a nation can accept that you cool for a while before do this pandemic for so long we have to resist become the norm to the sorrow. after addressing the nation the president headed outside for a moment of silence $500.00 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 vaccinating at a rate of $1800000.00 shots per day while hospitalizations and fatalities remain

high the most of any country in the world they've begun to decline dramatically coping 19 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. well america's health 1000000 covered 19 deaths represent about 152 out of every 100000 people that's the 9th highest figure well why it but the death rate has been significantly higher in countries like belgium and the u.k. and also in italy the feste country to be bad be has off to 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 deaths and a population of just $33000.00 that's about $213.00 deaths per 100000 people. well still ahead here on out as the hearings are taking place on capitol hill right now for the interior secretary nominee we'll explore the significance of confounding a native american to that job for the very 1st time. and i'm blocked why facebook has agreed to reverse its news banner on a stray insights. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however we've lost the exceptional heat this been running across northern parts of china into the korean peninsula recently and some day some want to into where japan

has to be said about 10 degrees cooler in tokyo to around 12 celsius as 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 actually when you consider sunday we got up to 25 decrees a 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 east was a little colder than of late then in shanghai supply to 10 degree drop here 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 largely clear skies we have got a fine and dry weather for the most part although there are westerly disturbances just moving across pakistan will bring some snow into the front 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. at ways. acid attacks in india. leave many scars most of which cannot be seen. they also create a bond. born of for sarod ordeal and stronger than the many obstacles their survivors will now face. black roses and red dresses parts of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera that's remind you about top stories this hour human rights groups have condemned malaysia's government for deporting more than a 1000 people to handle that move defied an earlier court order granting that group a temporary stay. inside me out of the military is coming under increasing international pressure the g 7 a group of the world's wealthiest nations has condemned the joint efforts of violence towards protesters demonstrators have been killed since february. and protesters have been demonstrating in georgia's capital over the arrest of a prominent opposition politician earlier police stormed the offices of the opposition detaining. he's demanding new elections after last year's disputed parliamentary polls. when a u.s. senator says all beginning an investigation into security failure is during the capitol hill insurrection on january 6th they'll question the former chief of the

capitol police and also the former heads of security for the house and the senate all 3 of them resigned immediately after the riots a violent mob who rejected the results of the presidential election broke through security at the capitol building and then occupied it for several hours 5 people die as well for more nets now across to patty called and she's on capitol hill following that hearing for us who is saying this is really just the beginning of a series of bipartisan hearings to see some very big questions to be on said what should we be watching for. well the hearing is well underway and this is the 1st time in all the weeks that have passed that we've heard from the people who were in charge of security not just this building but the entire capitol grounds and what we're seeing them basically say is it's not really our fault they are blaming the intelligence community saying that they were told the violence was improbable that's not going to sit well with a whole lot of senators especially the democratic senators because they're pointing out now that there was

a whole lot of warning there was the president's own street donald trump telling people that you know fight like hell and come to washington it's going to be wild take back our country so what they're saying is they didn't necessarily have the intelligence to prepare for that what they said is they knew the intelligence said that they knew that some of the proud boys white supremacist group and teeth. and some of them would be armed and that they could possibly expect violence but they said they didn't think that they needed to prepare other than moving the perimeters back from the capitol grounds and i think it's important to point out what they did do is they put bicycle racks with a handful of officers not in riot gear to try to keep protesters away from the capitol what we heard from the police chief is he asked for the national guard days before that was denied so now senators are going to want to ask who denied that and i think a lot of questions are going to be about this intelligence there were so many notices on twitter facebook and social media that these people were coming to take

back the government i think the question is going to be if the media knew it and the congress knew it was going to be dangerous and the d.c. police department had every officer on standby how come they didn't know so they're defending their actions but it's likely going to get heated in the hours to come some tough questions ahead while there is also talk passy of this $911.00 commission to investigate just what happened and that i know is a separate process but that is also playing to be fairly divisive. well republicans won an equal seat at the table and democrats don't appear likely to want to do that now republicans say look after $911.00 it was half republicans half democrats and democrats are probably going to come out and say look 147 house republicans voted to decertify the election after the riot took place and there are a lot of questions about exactly how the writers knew exactly where to go in this building because anyone who comes here often will tell you it's really easy to get

lost in fact i got lost again today on my way here so there's a lot of questions that are going to go into this and i think republicans and democrats you just have to keep in mind this is really still very raw for them and we now know in large part thanks to be impeachment that it was literally seconds that kept the mob from finding not only lawmakers but the vice president it was just a very very very very close call and people are still dealing with that trauma here there's been crisis counselors available to people because it was so traumatic to hear that mob does rampage the capitol for hours and hours and there's a lot of questions still about what went into the planning of it and why it took so long secure the capitol why there wasn't apparently a plan in place to evacuate lawmakers but again they came within seconds of facing the mob many of them well hopefully we'll see some imagine in the coming days patty called and they're following that hearing for us on capitol hill thank you patty. staying on capitol hill joe biden's nominee if the secretary of the interior deb

holland right now is being questioned there the for a senate confirmation hearing now it's confirmed she will be the 1st native american cabinet secretary howland's role overseeing national parks natural resources and reservations she's promised to strike a balance between energy needs and conservation but republicans are saying have views on the environment quote extreme can be how it has more now from that hearing from washington d.c. . she grew bitin white house is watching this process and they will be watching the confirmation hearing very carefully given the fact that joe biden as president promised to make his cabinet look like america and that is why this is so important and why so many people are watching the nomination of death hell and the fact that not only is she being heralded as sort of the future of the democratic party particularly refract of of the concerns of its further left progressive wing but native americans are watching this knowing that the symbolism of this nomination is

significant because the agency that should be overseeing has historically trampled on the rights of native american so to have a native american potentially leading this department would be a historical achievement but it also would sort of help to heal some of the wounds that have been inflicted over the decades so this is something that the democrats in the senate are really excited about but you're right she's a polarizing figure in a divided senate where we know that come a harris would break a tie vote at least one democrat is siding with republicans over concerns about her past activism particularly the fact that she is vehemently opposed to on federal land the process of natural gas extraction known as fracking and this is a big driver of jobs in the united states particularly we have a depressed economy there are real concerns that she is really seeking to ban

the oil and gas exploration on federal lands. now the wife of jailed a mexican drug boss joaquin el chapo guzman has been arrested in the u.s. on drug trafficking charges emma coronel was detained at washington d.c. international airport she's accused of helping her husband run his multibillion dollar cartel and also of plotting his escape from the mexican prison in 2015 because man is serving a life sentence in the u.s. federal prison when your pal is following the story for us from mexico city. what was she doing in washington d.c. what was the purpose of this trip this is a question that was posed directly to mrs guzman's attorney here in mexico unfortunately she did not answer that question what we do know is that. is that him acquitted in a speedo is 31 years old she was arrested on monday at dulles international airport this is the main airport just outside of washington d.c. on the charges of conspiracy to distribute marijuana methamphetamines cocaine and

other drugs for importation into the united states according to u.s. authorities mrs guzman that has played an active role in this in a lower drug cartel here in mexico since before the arrest of her husband joaquin el chapo guzman and ever since there's also according to investigators in the united states reason to believe that she participated in that conspiracy to break him out of jail in 2015 which really shine a spotlight on chapal on this in the lower cartel and on the guzman family in general mexico's president of this man who looked as a brother he was asked about the arrest during his morning press conference on tuesday unfortunately he said that this is ultimately a matter that corresponds to u.s. authorities now mrs guzman is due in court for an arraignment at some point at some point on tuesday unfortunately we do not yet know the details of the time or place but we are keeping a close watch for any new developments well a judge in malta has sentenced one man to 15 years in prison for the murder of

a high profile investigative journalist who exposed corruption in the government there then some muscat david guilty to the 27000 car bomb killing of death and. the scots 2 brothers are also on trial the prime minister resigned last year after an investigation revealed many of his supporters were implicated in hama. pakistan's prime minister has arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit that since taking office imran khan was welcomed by prime minister mahinda rajapaksa and the leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and elsewhere and as has more now from sri lanka's capital colombo. for 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 corbett 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 be 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 sri lanka that he will use his good officers 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'll bring that kind of goodwill to use. now the jobless rate and south africa has jumped to 32.5 percent that's the highest since records began back in 2008 between october and december last year affair that $700000.00 people lost their jobs meaning a total of 7200000 people are now unemployed that means a fad of the working age population is out of the job but i last spoke to ellen woman she's the head of macro economic and currency research at standard bank south africa chick sprains why the take even longer for the economy to recover we had an unemployment crisis even before co and to all that this is doing is it's just eccentric getting that and saying you know it's even it's going to take even longer to make any positive impact on the very high unemployment rate of the crisis yes i

think part of the problem is just that job growth has been quite sluggish. and i think that links back to economic growth that has been very predation over the last number of years and there are a number of reasons for that one is policy uncertainty and other is structural constraints of the economy so for example we've had significant low cheating over the last couple of years and over the last at least 2 years that diary of reduced economic growth by one percent a year and that's just the direct impact the you have to say you kondraty have any capek's any new expansion in compressible even if you're unsure about the availability of electricity so i think it's that structural constraint to the economy that being means that there is very little scope for in the employment growth of who's now with the crosses in the lock down of the restrictions we see in an additional impact. now facebook has announced it will restore news content to

its use as an australia that decision comes after the government agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for a strain in news content. has been. the compromise agreed between the australian government and facebook has been welcomed by uses and is a victory in the short term at least for australia's news outlets who have their facebook pages restored or facebook has read friended astray and astray in news will be restored to the facebook platform and facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content facebook has agreed to invest tens of millions of dollars into australia is struggling new sector in return little avoid mandatory payments that could have cost it vastly more and created what it sees as an alarming global president at the

end of the dive price books accepted the premise that there needs to be an accommodation between the their market dominance in advertising and the public interest journalism and news content in australia. the social media giant sparked outrage last week by blocking news content for its australian uses in protest against legislation that would have forced it to pay media companies when it republished their content google face the same threat that took the opposite approach striking a deal with rupert murdoch's news call i think facebook but in my view a lot of misjudged this one and. i think the market's going to respond pretty strongly with competing places to get news. by if you're an active. facebook user you just have to get into the habit of electing a news from alternative but. there's been years of escalating tension between governments and big tech many saw facebook's blocking of australia media as an

attack on free speech and even a threat to democracy and that could alter the road to regulation putting companies like facebook under more pressure than ever before similar laws are already being discussed in the e.u. and canada that musicology has been radically disrupted in the last little while and i think there is a global appetite for regulation and it was for facebook and google and others to pay something for the news that is linked to from my platforms that is just one step in that process. google and facebook have 2 months to reach further deals with australian news outlets and devoid being forced to pay it to a gate and be al-jazeera. again says al-jazeera and these are the headlines human rights groups have condemned malays.