in the west bank and gaza. has emerged between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating their populations israel's program has outpaced even the richest countries starker just how much the palestinians have been left out of the process and how far they've been left behind. armenia's prime minister takes to the streets and warns his supporters of an attempted military coup against him. to watch al-jazeera lie from a headquarters in doha i'm dating navigate also coming up. facebook bans me and mars military over its use of deadly force against and to cooper testers. a step closer to triple u.s.

regulators say johnson and johnson's single dose coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective. they are. rising from the ruins how artists in mosul are leading a cultural revival in the iraqi city devastated by i say. hello we begin with a deepening political crisis in armenia the prime minister a nickle question has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation he says that call amounts to a coup attempt and has been addressing thousands of his supporters in the capital year avan he's told them his political future should be decided by the people not the military bernard smith begins our coverage. on the streets of yerevan on thursday i mean as prime minister was defiant in the face of going from the military to him to stand down. i think it's 10

spoke we all agree that should be no clashes nicol passion young told his supporters. has been under pressure to resign after his country lost last year's war with azerbaijan over the region of nagorno-karabakh. solution that's. but it's happening now the statement from the german stuff calling for my resignation i consider it an attempt at a military coup you know that i took all responsibility for what happened and tried to do everything to answer all the questions myself now we have come to a stage where we cannot avoid questions towards some of our high level ranking military personnel more than 3 and a half 1000 damini and soldiers were killed in the 6 week conflict a significant number for a country with a population of under 3000000 how should we on was forced to cede large swathes of territory around the going to karabakh that armenia had controlled for almost 30 years since the end of the last war with as a by john. that prompted weeks of protests led by the opposition.

rushing out to push them from power in 2018 in what was called the velvet revolution i think attempt by the previous leader to stay in control beyond his term limits the prime minister it gives government have diminished slightly larry but the alternative the discredited political opposition has much less so or so in general there is little alternative who partially own or his government but this is unprecedented in terms of a military rat the government much greater and more grave than anything the discredited and unpopular political opposition good mom. what's not clear is whether the army is willing to use force to back its call for the prime minister to step down passion jaan says he'll announce a replacement for the head of the army in the coming days the crisis he says will be resolved constitutionally but it smith al-jazeera let's find out how it's all

playing on the ground and speak to our producer garam virginie on who's joining us on the phone from your of i'm sure i'm you're you're out and about in the capital you've been with protesters from both sides what him soon. no. i think 2 different. rallies 2 different marquis. de la square over here the free don't square position get dark. and. the other square in the republican party not support the cult hoping for the support of friends and we support us to get our. one walking. on both romney. both. of them read what they think. both sides they were. really going to deal with the peacefully. no no clash. even after the romneys

both romney and the. they continue their marching. i mean you have to do already enough of that. until the streets to show. how the crowd. and the boat rallies when. we went in different directions right and we're looking at the right now the prime minister is walking still walking in the streets of here yvonne with his supporters behind. him how would you rate the the support that the prime minister currently has in the country it's difficult to say i've seen many supporters. in the region depart from the raw deal. of people who believe. everybody from

2018 before the power of the people they were there to stand with rebelution to protect the values of the reason. i've seen people there. came to the square. to support the democracy to uphold. they say we are not support our strong support of them. but we we support. we value from the other side we are going to protect the constitution ok thank you so much if you're different yeah thank you so much thank you for that update from your yvonne let's continue the conversation with robin forestay walker he's joining us from tbilisi robin so. how how do you say is see the way forward. well you know it's been

saying. and supporters. support the revolution that that he led and i think they want to preserve the constitution because this is this is what's happening right now this is unprecedented for armenia the idea that the military would intervene in this way. and that such a scene could be seen on the streets of year of at some point which hasn't happened yet and by that i mean you know military vehicles soldiers coming to the capital to wrest power from nicole passion yan i think this was a decision by him today to really up the ante after all these weeks of antigovernment protests and say look you know i can show you that i am still popular that i can command many thousands of people to come out and back me but

that doesn't lead us out of this crisis what would lead the country out of this crisis would be elections to prove once and for all whether mr president has still has the public support that he says he has and that may be ultimately what would resolve what we're seeing happening right now in armenia because if he doesn't have the support of the public then it's clear that that he cannot continue in this role even if as we know now he has lost the support of the army the church the armenian church and even the armenian president who so far has refused it seems to saw in that dismissal document that mr passion yann called for this morning when he spoke to to the army in public and live on air fired the head of the army robin from what you've seen what's been the regional reaction and particularly from

countries like russia russia of course helped to roker that cease fire deal between armenia and azerbaijan over and i'm going to care about. well russia has said that this is an internal dispute that this is a matter to be resolved internally and that's very telling because they haven't taken sides. people. who understand the politics surrounding armenia know that nothing really now can go ahead you know armenia without implicit support from moscow. the situation on the ground has changed so much that armenia is in many ways now utterly dependent on russia to maintain this situation if we think about how all those territories that armenia lost in the war has changed the balance of power they now require russia to

continue to keep the peace because russian peacekeeping soldiers are on the ground in the gorno curry back and this whole dispute actually goes back to this whole issue regarding pression yen and his generals is criticism of how he handled the war and how they used russian weapons in their fight against as a by john weapons which were out of date and old fashioned soviet era weapons supplied by russia so you know russia is always there and it's got to be taken into account turkey has said that this is a coup turkey has has actually gone a lot further and stepped in i think turkey and azerbaijan often working in sync when it comes to issues around the south caucasus now and as a by chance who i think both sides probably could easily just sit back and watch

because it's certainly in their interests not to see a stronger armenia emerge after the conflict that in fact what we are seeing now is is in armenia in in real trouble ok thank you robin thank you so much for that update france and other. now in maine maher supporters of the military coup march in the capital and faced off against opponents of the power grab the violence broke out in some parts of the city the tensions come as facebook has banned me in mars' military from its platforms scott haidar reports. early on thursday about a 1000 marchers took to the streets of yangon voicing their support for the june to end its takeover of myanmar as democratically elected leadership they were flying the flag of the tatmadaw the official name here for the military they were met by some protesting against the coup but later photos appear to show military supporters with knives and other weapons witnesses said they threaten journalist

then came reports of scuffles and attack by supporters of me and mars john against anti kook protesters was caught on c.c.t.v. the video shows a man being assaulted by an armed group. despite this antic who protesters gathered at the university of young gun said they will continue with their peaceful civil disobedience movement initially police attempted to block them from leaving the campus. but they made their way out to join other protesters. a few days after the coup facebook limited content from myanmar is military on its platforms but now it's ban them all together. for years myanmar's military has waged a very sophisticated communications campaign weaponize and very social media platforms and using them to incite and glorify violence some feel this move by

facebook needs to be part of an ongoing process as these accounts have been blocked and removed as much as we might lauded their removal we also need to ensure that they are preserved and that facebook makes them accountable for future criminal or human rights investigation. while the military has used social media platforms as a tool for its agenda it also recognizes how vulnerable it will be if they're taken away scot harder al-jazeera still heads on out just desperately looking for survivors rescue efforts underway after the illegal gold mine collapse is an intimacy of. migration crisis the pandemic and sliding has put brazil's north western states in a state of emergency. it's

time for the perfect jan and the winter sponsored by qatar airways how i once again we've got some very heavy rain in the forecast for parts of central china a fair bit of cloud here just spilling out of. china pushing towards shanghai all associated with this weather system here which does have some tropical and. trained within it so heavy downpours which will make their way through the east china sea southern areas of japan q show in particular will see some very heavy rain but the possibility of some localized flooding for much of honshu it shouldn't be too bad as she was never really too far away colder than of late temperatures in tokyo at around 11 celsius and falling a little bit of a northerly wind starts to freshen things up as we head into the weekend then what's the weather will make its way away from eastern china makes way for the next weather system to be more snow coming into central parts of western areas as we go on through sas day up towards the north are just spilling out of mongolia meanwhile

we got some snow flurries too in the far north of pakistan northern areas of india can see a little westerly disturbance just sliding through this balsam snow out of afghanistan for much of south asia it is warm dry and sunny a chance of wanted to showers that down towards kerala as we go through friday and on into saturday maybe allies out to the southern pastas for lanka. school support qatar airways jump into this train there is a lot going on in this and julian on global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we don't want to feed that we are nowhere to 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've been disconnected from who we are good enough to keep the new in the team be part of today's discussion this dream on out is the inner.

core. now that we get the top stories on al-jazeera armenia's prime minister has accused his armed forces of an attempted coup nicole passion has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation questionnaire and is out on the streets right now as you can see he's addressing thousands of his supporters in your if. we opposition is holding it comes around the of their own they have been there have been weeks of protests against macedonia and his critics say his handling of last year's conflict with azerbaijan over the disputed region of the horn of terra bank was a disaster. supporters and opponents of the military coup in the m.r.i.

have held right evil protests in the main city yang on violence broke out in some areas 3 weeks after the power grab facebook's as it's banned myanmar's military from using its pot forms. trials of johnson and johnson's one shot covert $1000.00 vaccine have shown that's highly effective against severe cases the product is also proving effective against newer variants unlike the pfizer bio intact and modern of vaccines that need to be stored at very low temperatures this one can be kept in a standard fridge it's yet to be approved for use and at least while there smith is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine and based on the vaccines effectiveness of the trials she's confident it will be approved for emergency use in the coming days. it is a vaccine that uses a similar path for mystery as in

a car fixing that uses an i do you know virus vector and the what is new about this next event is that they're proposing it as a single dose the vaccine. at the efficacy so the effectiveness against protecting against a modern disease is about 69 percent and again severe disease about 85 percent so it is it is really good news and we have another tool at hand to fight it oh sex scenes against cultivate but also against many other pathogens are actually to dos or some less even 3 dose vaccines and just let you know so to jensen or johnson and johnson is also investigating and to those benjamins and as another trial going with the 2 those regimen the results of which we will know in a few months time and then we will know whether to dose is better than one dose but i think it's reassuring that we can't go out with that one dose and then we can still look later whether a 2nd dose is needed as a booster to ensure

a longer duration of protection but most importantly is to have an immediate and almost every year protection after a single dose and that's what we now need we need to go out and get the vaccines in as many arms as possible al-jazeera has spoken to a woman who was abducted from a bus and nigeria she was released along with 52 others last week after being taken in niger states she says the armed group beat them up and forced them to walk barefoot for 50 kilometers analysts say nigeria's facing a kidnapping crisis with threats from both armed groups and criminal gangs addresses and mina in niger states with more on details from the victim. she said there was little clean water for them to drink and there was no shelter virtually they were sleeping under trees open to the elements and she said in their conversation very exchanges with the bandits they showed they felt the bandits felt

disappointed abundant and even betrayed by government across nigeria they said you're in the electioneering campaigns there were promises. to look after them to actually provide them with the basic necessities of life yet the government religion that and that's making them sole so angry and in fact they also blame security forces of attacking their communities killing innocent people who had nothing to do with banditry and that's why some of them have taken arms against the state so it's a warning development for these victims and the recount of experience is that like how doing experiences in the hands of the bandits they said these people were and and they promised to execute them every single day but they said i let the government pays up they will execute to. kidnap victims every day until when the government decides to pay are we not sucked in whether the government paid up to get them released or not but the government insisted that it's not paying ransom

money just not paid ransom and i just i wondering how then could the bandits i guess the state will release the victims so easily. at least 6 people have died and several are missing with an illegal gold mine in indonesia the island's local say about 20 people were mining at the site one makes of wooden structures collapsed and reports from jakarta. on sunil a sea island in the district of. a familia seen the aftermath of another illegal mining disaster in indonesia authorities believe there were 22 people here when the mine collapsed but survivors told local media they could have been loyal military police and the local disaster agency a working together to assist the community make shift wooden frames built on unstable soil broke down during the night 1st responders faced the challenge of searching for survivors in the dock. doing such an evacuation by emptying the

stagnant water and it's quite difficult because that dock. fatalities that unauthorized mines are common in mineral rich into the asia attracting thousands of unskilled laborers. with no training or proper safety equipment experts estimate there are close to 9000 on my sins to mind around a quarter of them gold. in 2019 at least 16 people were killed when a mine collapse also on the island of similar. is an advocacy network for safer and more sustainable mining it is long pushed for comprehensive investigations into illegal operations you know. many people in local governments and law enforcement involved in that they conducted raids close the mines down in just a few months later the petition is back on local environmental groups say it is up to the government to help these communities find more sustainable and less risky work. but. the situation for cow farmers in central sulawesi is

not good they are in a bad economic condition so they have to risk their lives in these mining pits it's dangerous and often low paid work but those who keep returning to these mines say they have no choice just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. the governor of texas has promised to fix the state's of electric grid after it collapsed when the region was hit by unusual snowstorms gov greg abbott said residents had a right to be angry rolling blackouts left millions of texans without power and heat during freezing conditions earlier this month dozens of people died more than a 1000000 still don't have reliable access to water heavy rain in the northwestern state of brazil has submerged entire neighborhoods at least 120000 people are affected by flooding and a state of emergency has been declared sarah hierarchs reports. assessing damage

from above the clouds brazil's present diable sonora flies over thousands of flooded streets and homes entire towns and villages a submerged dots of the x. ray river burst its banks back on the ground the health minister updates him as the impoverished amazonian state appeals for federal aid this natural disaster is happening as brazil is struggling with the world's 3rd largest number of cave in 19 cases. and crays one of the poorest states in the country and as well as the pandemic nearly 8000 of the people here have been infected by dengue a virus passing fast in times ok it also has hundreds of migrants from haiti waiting to cross into peru that is close its border because of coronavirus the government says it's doing all it can. but we have a team of almost 40 people working on this situation in supporting the fight against covert 19 and as well as the consequences of the floods and migrant crisis

and the impact on people's health. 70 percent of cinema during one of the worst hit cities has been affected by the floods and more than $4000.00 families have been relocated. water levels in several new supply started to fall. but more rain is expected this week and a state of emergency has been declared so high that al jazeera israel has stopped the sale of local fish after an oil spill along its coast and that of southern lebanon a great company denies one of its oil tankers the minerva hellen is responsible managers say the vessel is now in spain and has no deficiencies israels nature and park south already has described the spill as one of the worst ecological disasters on record $55.00 tons of tar have so far been cleaned up very fast so it is a western he says israeli authorities want to do extra testing to ensure the fish is safe to eat. they want to make sure that potentially soluble materials

haven't drifted through into the food chain and could therefore cause harm to human health as well we've seen these extraordinary pictures of just the sheer amount of tar that has washed up along this vast stretch of coastline is really swimmers and surfers and beachgoers have been told to stay away while this cleanup continues a lot of the beaches are now looking cleaner but there is quite a lot of this material still intermingled with the sand and more difficult it's it's to get the or oil in tar out from the rock era areas and the reefs along the shoreline too and then they're also being shown pictures of contaminated oil covered turtles there was a whale that washed up on the beach near the port city of ashdod exactly a week ago which is when these concerns 1st were raised and there are worries about what happens when there is a migration of birdlife from africa in the south heading up towards europe in just

a few weeks time that the contamination could spill over into those birds as well so this is a major ecological disaster and one that could last for some time almost 4 years after i still was driven out of the iraqi city of mosul artists and musicians are leading a cultural revival despite limited government supports their work is a testament to the people's west to return to normality but also to document the impact the war has left on society simona fulton reports from mosul. amid the ruins of old mosul a cultural awakening the city hasn't seen in decades members of mosul's orchestra established just 3 months ago by a local radio station in rehearsal. many are beginners others played in secrets during rule

a. terrorist organization by music people were scared and the society did not encourage all support musicians but that began to change when i saw was driven out in 2017 by the. energy of the youth which had been hidden before started to come out now missiles floor of. the orchestra is a melting pot of religious and ethnic groups just like mostly used to be before eisel just like they wanted to be again. the main goal of the orchestra in mosul is to revive life in the city especially in destroyed areas like this church now wish most of the city can return to its former beauty high hope that peace does return here. but the orchestra has no budget no proper place to rehearse the whole is a promotional video to be published online it will attract attention and funding musicians and artists are spearheading also this cultural revival and say they're

doing so despite limited support from the governments their work is a show of hope for the future and the way to process the collective trauma from iceland devastating 3 year reign that trauma screams from many of claves paintings the veteran artist fled the city in 2014 his pieces from that period portray the chaos of war and displacement. but after the feat the great tones gradually gave way to pink green and yellow the facial expressions of his characters soft and obama. i change my colors i give them more optimism for the future i have hope that through all my art i can send a message to the world that we are people who like art and beauty that we like peace away from terror his colleague love now wants to revive memories of architectural heritage much of which was destroyed during the war.

most of the things i painted take from what was there before my out depends on old architecture like dame stat wells old folklore but all that was destroyed so i use old. her paintings also depict women who now enjoy greater freedom a reflection of how mosul is opening up again and a sign that its residents have turned a new page seem awful to al-jazeera. out of again the headlines on al-jazeera armenia's prime minister has accused his armed forces of an attempted coup they call question ian has fired his military chief after the army called for his resignation as he has been out on the streets and address thousands of his supporters and arabs on the opposition is also holding a counter rally of their own there have been weeks of protests against press and yon his critics say his.