it's not easy to leave you have to ask for help and inspire others to turn their lives around i call the straw hat program the dream program my life changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change on al-jazeera . protesters march in myanmar as the military appointed foreign minister flies to thailand for crisis talks. this is our very life and also coming up. a historic moment the 1st coronavirus vaccines arrived in akron garner as part of a global scheme to ensure that less wealthy countries are not left behind.

at least 75 inmates are killed in ecuador as gang rivalries lead to prison riots. gulfstar tiger woods lucky to be alive after suffering significant leg injuries in a car. that many miles military pointed foreign minister has arrived in thailand for crisis talks after this month's coup or part of regional efforts to try and resolve the crisis that began when the army seize power on february 1st earlier indonesia's foreign minister he canceled its oshie council visit to myanmar to meet military leaders protesters continue to demand the release of elected leader and sense hoochie and rallies across the country let's we just got highly joins us from across the border in the thai capital of bangkok and scott's efforts of trying to find a seeking a way forward gaining traction. yes

well least we can say i can't really say it's gaining traction just yet but we can say at least they're moving forward to the regional neighbors to myanmar a body called the the on and here in thailand as you mentioned nic we have the foreign minister from the military appointed foreign minister re m.r. here meeting with his counterpart as well as the prime minister prey of general cha and we don't really know if there's going to be anything definitive that comes out of that or this is the beginning of this process what's interesting obviously neighboring thailand has been watching this very closely both politically but also a lot of people here in thailand have been watching this actually even just yesterday tuesday out front of the internees an embassy there are. protesters out protesting what was going to be what they thought was going to be happening and that was the indonesian foreign minister going over to me and mar they're protesting against that because of what was said before her intended visit and that

was she was going to go over and have discussions with the about holding them to their promise of a new election that does not sit well with the protesters that is because they see the election back in november to be legitimate and that the elected leaders democratically elected leaders that have been ousted by this coup in myanmar. they want no new election though they say the protesters say that election was legitimate back in november so what they're focused on right now and they also are now protesting in front of the indonesian embassy in yang gun in myanmar they're asking for their votes to be counted in their votes to be recognized by ossie and they say that this move by the on at least this may be a starter step out of the gate with this process these talks to be a little bit of a misstep because they want to make sure the protesters that their votes that they cast back in november to count so from the protests is a point of view important that they keep the demonstrations good.

absolutely and that's why we're seeing them as i mentioned at the indonesian embassy in young gone today and elsewhere across me and what we've seen different groups come out you know part of the success for this movement in the me and mark has been so many different groups with their own organization coming out to the streets across me and marci have labor unions you have student groups we're also seeing more groups coming out to ethnic minority groups are starting to protest with their their you know previous groups coming out to joining the larger protests we've seen that today across me and mine again also geographically like we have before yangon largest city some of the normal spots that we've been seeing people coming out also in men delay and then some cities down in the south so they are coming out still yes and they do realize that they need to keep that pressure on the military government to get traction to get to where they want to be and where they want to be is to have their democratically elected government reinstalled 1st

released they're still in detention and then reinstalled nick scott thanks for that reporting from bangkok on the situation in. now garner has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme the astra zeneca jabs arrived in the capital acra a short time ago these are batches of the vaccines actually being taken off the plane on the tarmac there in akra plane is just in the background how to shop right now at the 600000 bottles have been flown in from india ghana plans to inoculate around 20 percent of the population in the 1st phase of its campaign well the unicef executive director has hailed the delivery of the dates as a historic moment and react to forces with the shipment of doses the un can make good on the promise of kovacs to ensure that people from less wealthy countries are not left behind in the race for life saving vaccines. nearly 2 and a half 1000000 people worldwide have died from corona virus and so far richer countries have been able to buy far more vaccines and poorer ones the un backed

scheme called kovacs aims to get vaccines to the most vulnerable people and shared fairly among all nations kovacs aims to deliver more than $2000000000.00 doses to people in $190.00 countries in less than a year and those most likely to receive vaccines next will be afghanistan haiti democratic republic of congo ethiopia and somalia kovacs has raised $6000000000.00 but says it needs at least another $2000000000.00 to meet its target for 2021. thailand has received the 1st batch of 200000 sign of coronavirus vaccine doses from china a country is ordered 2000000 jobs with a 2nd batch to jus to be shipped next month and a 3rd in april the government says it will now prepare priority groups to be inoculated thailand has reported more than $25000.00 infections since the pandemic began. they've been protests in get on against coronavirus restrictions for a 7th night in a row earlier this week to demonstrators died after police fired live rounds and

tear gas like a sack as this. 7 look at him aunt georgina cries i raised him like my son such a gentle and calm voice she says this was taken moments before the money died after police shot him in the head she says he had breached a government imposed curfew to get food but police say he was taking part in protests against the current of virus restrictions. over the a line of. c. they shot him like a dog threw him like a piece of rock treated him like a hunting animal i want my child back i want to bury him with dignity. what's known as the free citizens it started as an online movement calling for people to bang their pots and pans every night during the curfew the protests grew and spilled into the streets across the country in response police have fired tear

gas and life bullets to disperse the crowds several have been killed and many injured still the night demonstrations continue fearing for his life this demonstrator doesn't want to reveal his identity. sees all. this is a movement rebellion we are not here to just destroy things and make noise we want to be able to open our stall at night. our leaders don't understand our reality they need to set us free. get on it is what about because richest countries govern for half a century by the bungle family while the family amassed huge fortunes live in poverty president offered a stroke in 2000 a his son is said to be ruling the country and has passed draconian laws infringing people's civil liberties in the name of protecting the population against the pandemic they recently pushed through parliament very rapidly a little to. the political elite as it would be

learned if the president became incapacitated people are not quite. able. as return to the leadership already of the presidency money was in his 2nd year of university when he died in his death georgina didn't just lose her nephew but someone she counted on to bring food to the table in a country that has so far left her poor isolated and now grieving. nicholas hawke al-jazeera. some children in ireland will be returning to school next week but other restrictions have been extended travel limits and business closures were due to be lifted on march the 5th but will now continue for at least another month the prime minister nicola martin said the highly contagious u.k. variant of the virus was a major problem he said the government would reevaluate look in the coming weeks.

we will get through this but i want to make sure that when we each particular restriction we take a careful approach to ensure that when we open something it stays open we want to protect as many people as possible in the coming months until we achieve a critical mass of vaccinations that is why we will continue to proceed carefully and cautiously keeping the situation under constant review and being informed at all stages by public health advice the world bank is threatening to suspend $34000000.00 in financing for corona virus vaccines in lebanon the bank is investigating accusations that politicians were inoculated in parliament without prior approval a top lebanese official supervising the vaccine rollout called the revelations outrageous and has threatened to step down rights have broken out in 3 prisons in ecuador leaving at least $75.00 inmates dead the fight scenes being blamed on gang

rivalries in the overcrowded facilities which house almost 3 quarters of the country's prison population mally as this report. families went out front of prison death grip at the police the military moved into a stew. that solved the gun battles and knife fights broke out between rival gangs battling for control of 3 points in a monday night dozens of people were killed in the bloodshed others appointee their lives in hospital there are reports of prisons posing with the bodies of their rifles. ecuador's president lana moreno took to social media to blame the riots on criminal organizations he said he durant's to exercise control of firearms and explosives around the prisons. in the largest city wide you police patrols bomb squads and helicopters surrounded the penitentiary as groups

were imposing families could only comfort each other no not at the present get a good effort everyone knows that all the prisoners have telephones our children told us last night that they were in danger and that there would be a riot at any moment and we thought it was a minute now but they were not what we wanted at authorities passes a list of people who died to know if my brother is ok around hard for the people killed were in tory prison in cuenca where writers were filmed by the she knives in the prison roof waving for the cameras and as the police secure the 3rd quarter paxi prison the injured were moved out these jails a set to hold about 70 percent of all inmates in ecuador and often flashpoints the battles between rival gangs last year $51.00 people were killed in prison disputes and with riots occurring frequently as concerned about the conditions inside the

prisons we have a system which is meant to house around $27000.00 inmates but wait crating right now we have over or eat out in the system this causes tremendous overcrowding or sanitary conditions are now official said campaspe masood the with the gangs continuing to operate in the prisons there is concern that calm may be short lived. among the al-jazeera. still ahead here in algeria u.s. security officials admits being unprepared when donald trump supporters storm the capital and say that warnings about threats were not taken seriously. but we back in ecuador to to tell you why the country could be facing another indigenous uprising.

for the perfect. sponsored point qatar airways how in places like we've got some quiet weather now coming in across the philippines still want to see showers over the next couple of days but they something the rest by following on from the flooding that we saw into southern and central parts of the country there you go we want to see showers there as you go on through thursday more sunshine than showers that's also the case to into borneo we'll see a few showers into the eastern side of the island but it's a much a boy is fine and dry scattering of heat of the day showers there across malaysia push up into india china here is fine and finals of warm sunshine seeing temperatures getting up to 36 celsius there and bangkok the really wet weather will continue across indonesia java has seen further flooding and the heavy downpours continue here we have a little circulation down towards the timor sea and that is just helping to drive those showers in across much of java and they say we'll see some heavy showers too

into central and eastern parts of the country joining up with a shower is that we have across northern areas of australia staying very disturbed around the top and around the cape york peninsula still a few showers 7 to the eastern side of us as well as we go through the next couple of days see some west of where the grassy heading towards the saturday over the next day or so and it's turning a good deal hooah. at ways. these things are said and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think on the ask me questions now as a new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only comedy so let's leave simplicity to the headlines join me as i take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and give me the contradiction. i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front right here on al-jazeera.

we're going to watch her mind about top stories and we have miles military appointed foreign minister has arrived in thailand for crisis talks after this month it's part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis the test has continued to demand the release of elected leader and sons which. governor has become the 1st country to receive vaccines through the international kovacs scheme in the 600000 files were flown in from india that seems to get vaccines to the most probable people and share them fairly among all nations. writes a broken out of 3 prisons in ecuador leaving at least 75 inmates dead hundreds of

police are trying to regain control of the facilities the government says blaming the violence on gang rivalries. the informant chiefs of security at the u.s. capitol have told senators their offices didn't have the security intelligence and training no equipment needed to prevent last month's ride 2 panels are investigating failures that led to the attack by donald trump supporters and the deaths of 5 people as political hay reports from washington d.c. there was a lot of finger pointing but few ounces as to how the building was overrun so quickly. how could this happen america's symbol of democracy overtaken by an angry mob the capitol police overwhelmed reinforcements would not arrive for hours these 3 men were in charge of security but before 2 senate committees basically said it wasn't their fault a clear lack of accurate and complete intelligence across several federal agencies contributed to this event and not poor planning by the united states capitol police

every capitol police daily intelligence report between january for and january 6th including on january 6th forecast the chance of civil disobedience or 'd arrest or in the protests as remote to improbable. they blamed federal agencies for not knowing what was planned an f.b.i. memo warning of possible violence was sent to capitol hill police they testified it wasn't forwarded to them but they admitted they did have an assessment days before the attack the assessment indicated that members of the proud boy's white supremacist groups and tea and other extremist groups were expected to participate on january 6th and that they may be inclined to become violent the intelligence assessment already here. and the members of the power board and white supremacists and t.v. and other extremist groups will expect and it's part. of that but it may be inclined to become part of

a much more targets we need in that they insisted they move the perimeter back as a result but it was poorly guarded and the fence a temporary bike rack asked about when they called the national guard before and during the riot they pointed fingers more recollection was at one o 9 while i was sitting in the command center watching things rapidly deteriorate i made a phone call that a phone call was made in the presence of i believe both my assistant chiefs and possibly my my general counsel at which time i made the initial request that we need to be the mclean national guard the situation's bad on the west front i followed up at 122 to check on the status of the request senator from my recollection i did not receive a request for approval for national guard until shortly after 2 pm and the former chief of the capitol police defended his actions saying they couldn't have been prepared for this no civilian law enforcement agency to include the united states capitol police is trained or equipped to repel an insurrection of thousands of

individuals focused on breaching a building at all costs many senators expressed concern at that saying that is exactly what police here should be prepared for now this was just the 1st hearing up next members of the department of defense and the f.b.i. will be here to explain what they did what they didn't do and why. al-jazeera washington. american golfer tiger woods is recovering from surgery off to being seriously injured in a car crash near los angeles his surgeon has confirmed the 15 times major champion has fractured his leg police say he's bucky to be alive reynolds reports now from los angeles. tiger woods suffered serious but non-life threatening injuries after a violent car crash near los angeles it's my understanding that he had serious injury simple flakes the los angeles county sheriff's department said it was a single car rollover collision woods was the sole occupant of the s.u.v.

no skid marks no braking so apparently the 1st contact was with the center median and from there then across into the up opposing lane of traffic hit the curb hit a tree and there was several rollover is during that process the vehicle wound up lying on its side at the bottom of a shallow ravine one look at the severe damage to the front of the s.u.v. shows how violent the accident was the outcome could certainly have been worse the front end was totally destroyed the bumpers everything was destroyed airbags deployed all of that and however thankfully the interior was more or less intact which kind of gave him the cushion to survive what's there was would have been a fatal crash sheriff's deputies who pried woods loose from the wreck say he was wearing seat belts and that he was conscious lucid and able to speak with his rescuers authorities say there was no evidence woods was impaired by alcohol or

drugs the 45 year old golf legend was transported to a nearby hospital and underwent surgery tiger woods is unquestionably one of the greatest golfers of all time and he won 15 major championships including 5 masters tournaments 3 british opens for p.g.a. championship and more as a person of color who dominated what had been an overwhelmingly white sport he shattered barriers and expanded horizons for other athletes inspiring many fans young and old tiger it was said made golf cool woods has had his share of difficulties and embarrassed. it's including a messy divorce and the disclosure of multiple marital infidelities it's still not known whether woods will play golf professionally again after tuesday's crash police say it may take days or weeks before they determine the cause of the accident rob reynolds al jazeera los angeles pakistan's prime minister has been

meeting in sri lanka as president on the 2nd and final day of his visit on tuesday imran khan and prime minister mahinda rajapaksa discussed a joint efforts to fight religious extremism and how to help poor countries whether the pandemic major ones they should link or is expected to face strong criticism of the un human rights council that is jew in part for its failure to bring accountability to those involved in its 25 year long civil war. they speak to women often and as joins us live now from columbus mills a lot of important issues here for this visit what's the latest. that's right essentially the pakistan prime minister on wednesday met with president gore tabi rajapaksa that's of the presidential complex set up you see behind me and what we're hearing from the statement is that obviously the usual kind of rhetoric they had core deal talks they did sort of focus on the

agricultural economy a book of both countries they talked about deepening bilateral relations but the key things like essentially the issue that many muslims here in sri lanka having issue with the government's policy of forced cremations of course $1000.00 victims is not anywhere featured on any of the officialdom of iran's iran come visit here to colombo now he had also been due to meet with muslim representatives that meeting was canceled yesterday we heard among security concerns amid security concerns but today we had the leader of the chirac a muslim congress tweeting out that that meeting had been so they will get their day with the pakistan premier but so far anything above the sort of general things like the bilateral relations trade and now the agriculture agricultural economy

this visit at least in terms of what's being reflected in the media and officially has been mainly on pretty sort of non-controversial issues nick young children still in the spotlight later is the criticism coming their way at the u. a un human rights council. absolutely i mean it's a it's it's a big day we're going to see the high commissioner for human rights table formally the report on sri lanka now that report has been in the public domain for a few weeks now and people have been sort of looking at the sort of final sort of detail of that report the high commission of being very critical in terms of sri lanka's inability and the failure to ensure justice and accountability going as far as to call for targeted sanctions on certain people who

have been identified as being behind sort of war crimes and human rights abuses so that debate will take place later today and it will be interesting to see the exchange in geneva. or milf and under the reporting there from colombo. hundreds of indigenous protesters have marched in ecuador's couple of quito demanding a recount of the presidential election they counted it says that vote rigging prevented him from advancing to the runoff latin america it's a human as this. thing for days indigenous ecuadorians march to the capital some from as far away as the amazon rain forest to demand a recount of this month's presidential election but the entire country is tired of so much corruption bowing to manipulation and abuse this time we won't give in jaco represents resistance. the march was led by the biggest the center left

environmentalist and indigenous rights activist who insists he came in 2nd place that would allow him to compete in a presidential runoff in april. there are no longer doubts ford is no longer a presumption it's a truth that no one can hide it's a structural fraud and we have the evidence here was it is commonly known by his adopted indigenous name. which means water and peach will be present in the electoral council with boxes containing alleged proof of inconsistency is in nearly 50 percent of polling stations his supporters are demanding the council order a recount of all of them even though it has already declared conservative get more loss all the official 2nd place winner by less than half of a percentage point. though if they don't respect the letter of the law millions will heed our call for a national uprising because they can take away the dreams of the ecuadorian people

so. 7 7 it's not a threat to be taken lightly. it would do is combative indigenous groups are well organized and in the past have proven they can paralyze the country and even force out governments when they mobilize the electoral council. only challenge results from specific polling stations when there's evidence of inconsistency it also argues that it can't afford a massive recount. the point of this demonstration and larger lines that may follow is to show that refusing the demands of ecuador's 1st serious and digitas presidential contender could cost the country far more see in human al-jazeera. plays in asia say there's been a capital in the army after mohamed bud zoom was declared winner of the presidential runoff he swept ahead of his challenger to former president mohamed.

with more than 55 percent of the vote the poll was marred by the killings of 7 election workers on sunday officials have called on a kind of it's to respect the final results a group of u.n. experts is a gene the u.s. to address allegations of torture as part of its review of the kuantan of a bay detention center the group says the investigation should look into suspected ill treatment of detainees and what to punish those responsible for time of day was set up to house foreign suspects following the september the 11th attacks in washington and new york the bite the ministration is looking to close it down joe biden has held his 1st foreign bilateral meeting since becoming the u.s. president with neighboring canada biden talked to prime minister justin trudeau 5 video link cheated on them and they discussed mutual interest on trade on climate change and on china including the release of 2 canadians held captive. canada and the united states will stand together against abuse of universal rights and

democratic freedoms we're going to strengthen our shared commitment to providing safe haven for refugees and asylum seekers and so much more united states is no closer and no more important friend than canada. our nations share a close geography and history that will forever bind us together but our values are even more consequential. for it's a quick check of the headlines here and out there a 1000000 miles military pointed foreign minister has arrived in thailand for crisis talks off of this month's coup is part of regional efforts to resolve the crisis the test has continued to demand the release of elected leader and so. scott who has more now from bangkok. it definitely is here he traveled over to the thai capital here bangkok just earlier today and there will be.