teach you that. sometimes the told you can be better to god continue to be really to. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. media as prime minister takes to the streets and one says supporters of an attempted military coup against him. hello there i'm a stand here today and i says al jazeera live from doha also coming up. facebook values manaus military over its use of deadly force against and through protests. in you need is a disgusting travel restrictions and the need to step up vaccination programs to

tackle the coronavirus pandemic. and rising from the ruins how artists and most of our leading a cult or a bible in the iraqi city devastation by myself. but we begin now with a deepening political crisis and all media prime minister nicole passion 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 he has told them his political future should be decided by the people not the military but a smith begins our coverage in the center of your event on thursday armenia's prime minister was defiant in the face of calls from the military for him to stand down made it back to. some people want to drag the army into unconstitutional processes

this is an attempted coup but the people will not allow a military coup in armenia an estimated $20000.00 people came out onto the streets of the capital after nicol pushing in cold for a show of support by an act that beat the. context part in political processes it must obey the people and the elected authorities machine ian has been under pressure to resign after his country lost last year's war with azerbaijan over the region of nagorno-karabakh. i'm not as much of supporter of nickel caution you know but i don't want to corrupt the dream to come 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 russian yohn was forced to cede large swathes of territory around the going to karabakh that armenia controlled for almost 30 years since the end of the last war with as a by john warner that prompted weeks of protests led by the opposition for the.

question ian came to power in 2018 in what was called the velvet revolution after an attempt by the previous leader to stay in control beyond his term limit we are enough. crises and i hope to see either institutions there or 66 percent chance national security agency and police just penned by their army and to demand to leave our prime minister without any. opposition representatives say they'll spend the night in yerevan central freedom square the prime minister and his government have diminished watley larry but the alternative the discredited political opposition has much less support though in general there is little alternative partially known or his government what this is unprecedented in terms of

a military record what's not clear is whether the army is willing to use force to back its call for the prime minister to step down question you know and 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 for now let's speak to roy chalons he is the lowest in southeast england rory covered the nagorno-karabakh conflict extensively for us were able saw the opposition build against passing out after the cease fire and the aftermath of that conflict but these protests appear to have been triggered by a relation but slightly different issue on his relationship with the military. yeah well i don't think since the conflicts last year with azerbaijan came to such a disastrous conclusion for armenia there have been many people in armenia and watchers of armenia saying that it was only really

a matter of time before passion e.-m. had to fall as prime minister that he was essentially a dead man walking but he's endured longer than many thought he would this is a serious threat of course to his power. what we're seeing i think in armenia at the moment is both passion iyam and the army basically trying to say that they both separately represents the will of the people the army the head of the army in its statement saying that passion ian should resign was saying that we've always been with the people and the people are with the army and passion ian himself has said the army cannot be involved in politics and that they must obey the electoral will of the people now as we were just seeing right think in burnitz report there there is no little appetite at the moment on

behalf of the armenian population to support. the opposition parties but passion ian is in a in a perilous situation and it's unclear at the moment whether he will survive this as prime minister the you know the most peaceful solution to all of this is to. that is something that passion has actually been trying to push for him in some way or other but has been rejected he says by the opposition parties will have to see whether that movement for snap elections gets fresh impetus when the country can see that perhaps the alternative is for some sort of army takeover which i assume would be pretty unpopular laurier we're hearing from our producer greg and he's been in the streets that demonstrators are planning to stay out there overnight do you think these protests are likely to be sustained in coming days.

what i think you know the the atmosphere in armenia is pretty feeble at the moment we have dueling protests going on at the moment there in separate parts of the capital but we had supporters of passion ian out on the streets earlier on in the day he called them out rallied amongst them gave a speech to them but we have also had the opposition parties trying to draw its supporters out of their supporters out onto the streets as well there were reports of opposition supporters setting up barricades at the moment i think it's too soon to say whether this is going to have any insurance is as as a kind of. set of clashes i mean essentially what one passion was said and. i apologize there way appears to have lost rory

a bit let's move on. now in myanmar supporters of the military then launched in the largest city yangon and faced off against opponents of the power grab by linspire cotton some parts of that city those tensions come as facebook has now banned manaus military from its platforms it's called 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 me and most military on its platforms but now it's ban them all together. for years beyond mars 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 my blog 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. now the european union is holding a leaders summit focusing on the rocks corona virus vaccine rollout representatives from 7 major drug makers including pfizer astra zeneca and went to ana joining that's whole conference they're discussing house improve the back scene capacity and delivery the block has been facing criticism for a slower than expected rollout of an occupation well european parliament president david society says vaccines will prove central to the blocks long term recovery with no one left it will get more jane we've spotted a number of big disses and we need to make sure that we deal with those contracts need to be respected and we need transparency when it comes to the vaccines that's

how you instill trust in your population but we need to make sure that industries in all of our countries are in a position to supply. all of the vaccines it's an urgent matter it's not a matter of money but will remain well it's been for john mccain is across all of this for us from berlin dominic it really feels that the vaccine rolled out across europe has been going really rather slowly why is that. certainly it seems to be slow the answer from e.u. officials would be in several particular points the 1st one being that they have chosen to stick to the guidelines that the vaccine manufacturers 1st gave them which is that there needed to be 3 to 4 weeks between the administration of the 1st dose of the vaccine and the 2nd one and that because of that then they can't immunize as many people as has been the case across the english channel in the

united kingdom where the government decided not to follow those those regulations those guidelines rather and to prioritize 1st doses to as many people as possible and then they also say that the fact that certain of their contracts were agreed after other countries explains why it is vaccines became available in a more in a slow way and then finally there's the thought that the actual authorization of the vaccines occurred slightly later in the european union so that european medicines agency which is the regulatory body that makes these recommendations about what can be given well that it came up with authorization for vaccines later than other countries but the sense of slowness in the e.u. is something that's been picked up well picked up on by major outlets around the e.u. this is a copy of the bits newspaper here in germany perhaps germany's most popular daily newspaper and you can see here they've made a play on words with

a picture of the union flag from the united kingdom saying we ben knight and you will but 9000 in german means we envy you and it says here at the top it says that the as the united kingdom confirms a route out of the lockdowns by june by late june it says here for us no hope well there's a clear sense that of what's the newspaper. it believes speaking for a large section of german society at least envying what's happening in the united kingdom and the moaning the fact that there's no end in sight from that perspective to the lock downs that have been in place in our food such a long time well speaking of hope dominic do we have a sense now of how the plan is to deal with the pandemic going forward. one of the interesting things that's us is right now the heads of the c.e.o.'s or the the heads of several of the different facts in vaccine makers are speaking

to the commission a committee rather from the european parliament in brussels and they've been answering questions some quite hostile questions it has to be said about the way that they've delivered their taxes specifically that's to the astra zeneca organization but the principle going on here from e.u. officials and from government here is they've been talking about the extra doses of vaccine that they've ordered hundreds of millions of doses from the from the relevant different manufacturers and there's also the suggestion of the way that lock downs can be changed can be varied and clearly we know that several different e.u. countries are now either have already implemented or are discussing implementing some sort of border closures and that sort of thing and finally bear in mind so i mean here in germany at least we have the sense coming from several different ministers not least angle immaculate self the chancellor a self that perhaps

a 3rd wave of covert is now running across germany because they look at the rate of spread of the variance whether that's the variant 1st detected in the united kingdom or the variant 1st is active in south africa they see that those spikes in infections and they say there's a 3rd wave which gives you a sense of what's happening here in berlin but also in brussels dominic came in that across that nation for us from that land thank you so much dominic. well still ahead here on al-jazeera india and out says new rules to regulate social media fans weeks after a dispute with have a content related to protesting found. an ecological disaster on the israeli coast but a great tank a company is denying responsibility. for

the perfect. sponsored point 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 that pots over china pushing towards shanghai or associated with this weather system here which does have some tropical entrained within it so heavy downpours which will make their way through the east china sea southern areas of japan q show in particular we'll see some very heavy rain but the possibility of some localized flooding for much of honshu it shouldn't be too bad but the show was never really too far away cooler than of late temperatures in tokyo at about 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 one of 2 showers that down towards kerala as we go through friday and on into saturday maybe a light show to the southern passes for lanka. what should americans be thinking and doing right now you should be a bad idea they don't care about their worth is all they care about is making money china is not going to be left out of the calling for the bloated defense budget before somalia on us politics and policies america act on the world. the showcase of the best documentary films from across the network on al-jazeera.

and again i'm the star of the attainder that's remind you about top stories this hour a media's prime minister has accused his armed forces of an attempted coup they call passion yet has fired his military chief over to the army corps to his resignation passion and told his supporters his political future should be decided by the people not the military the opposition held a counter rally of their own. supporters and opponents of the military coup in myanmar had held rival protests in the main city younger violence broke out in some areas 3 weeks after the power grab facebook now says it's banned me on miles

military from using its platforms. in the european union is holding a leaders' summit focusing on the rocks coronavirus vaccine rolled out they're discussing how to improve the even back scene capacity and delivery the block has been facing criticism for a slower than expected rollout of an occupations. now guinea has launched an ebola vaccination campaign the country is desperate to halt the spread of the virus that reemerge there a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time since 2016 at least 5 people have now died in this latest outbreak draycott be reports. health workers that people against ebola in the town of in southeast guinea and you outbreak was discovered almost 2 weeks ago. i am very proud to be vaccinated and it's a joy to me to see the population get vaccinated specially those on the frontline all my stuff it allows us to be safe protected from this disease because ebola is

not a good thing 11000 vaccine doses and 200 health experts arrived in guinea's capital conakry on monday the government in the world health organization hope the vaccination campaign can stop the virus spreading by april i should remove workers to help the fight against ebola we interrupt the train of transmission by targeting the 1st contacts of ebola patients and also the health workers on the front line who are exposed including those who apply the vaccines ebola causes severe fever and in the worst cases unstoppable bleeding in 2015 more than 11000 people died after the virus spread from guinea's forest region to neighboring liberia and sierra leone the outbreak was contained after an experimental vaccine was distributed but not before health workers were attacked by people who did not believe in the virus the next scene is an extremely useful. break but it is not the only real or are. under essential

aspects. to happen as well and it always comes back to communicating. the w.h.o. has wound 6 african countries to be on high alert for ebola including sierra leone and liberia the hope is this campaign will stop the virus from spreading any further and potentially save thousands of lives victoria gate and be al jazeera. india has announced tougher new rules covering social media streaming services and digital news outlets to stop what it's calling and teen national propaganda platforms such as facebook whatsapp and to as a must all now it raises content which the government considers unlawful or determines that affects india's sovereignty or integrity critics say it's the latest in a crackdown on free speech online there's already been a dispute with twitter which refused to remove some posts a link to the farms protests which the government had demanded as for earlier i

spoke to sanjay head today he's a senior lawyer at the supreme court of india he says the government has increasingly censored critical voices in recent years since 2010 there has been a slow clamping down on dissent. believing doors for dissent have been shot one by one and on language is has been sort of a regulated are these these norms also will make it much more difficult for people to remain anonymous. this requires. black forms to delta government who are the 1st review ongoings of. the devil is in the details and as they work out what we're doing is probably being. china's version of internet what you got in the didn't trigger especially and since

folks have been more than willing to cooperate with a good government. it's only the events in the united states which they set up by different standards in so far as trump was concerned which also possibly set alarm bells ringing in the indian establishment that. lived speech of a right of a nationalist kind of an overtly next move this is going to come within the within the norms of censorship by the platforms themselves i think the government says that if government if india wants to say that anything in dealing with censorship. of online content the government wants to say and act and the platforms to listen to what the government what. heavy rain in brazil the northwestern state of achree has cemented entire neighborhoods at least 120000 paper affected by the flooding and a state of aladdin's who has been declared reports. assessing damage from above the

clouds brazil's present diable scenario flies over thousands of flooded streets and homes entire towns and villages are submerged after the achree 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 coded 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 was 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's can we keep 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. the water levels in several new surprise started to fall. but more rain is expected this week and a state of emergency has been declared so hard at al-jazeera. israel has stopped the sale of local fish after an oil spill along its coast of southern lebanon a great company denies that one of its oil tankers the minerva hellen is responsible managers say the vessel is now in spain and has no deficiencies israel's nature and parks what already has described this spill as one of the worst ecological disasters on record 55 tons of tar have so far been cleaned up high for such as in west jerusalem and he says israeli authorities want to do some 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 and tar out from the rock era areas and the reefs along the shoreline too and then they're also been 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 now almost 4 years after eisel was driven out of the iraqi city of mosul artists and musicians are now leading a cultural revival despite limited government support some of the fault in reports from last fall. amid the ruins of old mosul a cultural awakening the city hasn't seen in decades members of mosul 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 but 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 morsels 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 mahmoud's paintings the veteran artist fled the city in 2014 his pieces from that period portray the chaos of war and displacement. but after i solved the feat the great tones gradually gave way to pink green and yellow the facial expressions of his characters soft and remember. i change my colors or 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 wants to revive memories of morsels architectural heritage much of which was destroyed during the war but. most of the things i painted take from what was there before my out depends on old architecture like. old folklore but all that was destroyed so i use old photos for

my work her paintings also depict women who now enjoy greater freedom a reflection of how mostly opening up again and a sign that its residents have turned a new page simona fulton al-jazeera mosul. hello badasses out of there and these are the headlines armenia's prime minister has accused as armed forces of an attempted coup nicole passion and fired his military chief after the army corps for his resignation passing on told to supporters says president future should be decided by the people and not the military the opposition held a counter rally of their own well they have been weeks of protests now against passion and the opposition says his handling of last year's conflict with azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagano karabakh was a disaster the prime minister has dismissed.