unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. a stunning show of defiance by me and morris ambassador to the un calling on the general assembly to act against the germans and protect civilians. the military coup is not a sop to all in this modern world and the cool must be. the be. are resilient the servant and united in fighting for the of military who. i am. over there i am how i'm here dana this is

al jazeera live from doha also coming out anxious parents wait for answers after more than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in northwest nigeria the u.k.'s top courts rules that show me i'm a big i'm a woman who joined deisel in syria cannot return to challenge a decision revoking her citizenship. and a former u.s. olympic gymnastics coach just 5 dads don't get it started by suicide just hours after he was charged with sexual assault human trafficking. i am. to begin with the most powerful act of defiance yet spy those against man maurice military coup in the world stage in the 1st meeting of the un general assembly on the political crisis in the end maher the country's ambassador to the un has made an

emotional appeal to use any means necessary against the generals who have seized power kill morton told the assembly that he was representing the highest elected government. nemo military has become the existential threat for myanmar as the polity and civilised society now is not the time for the international community to tolerate the war crimes and crimes against humanity can committed by myanmar military the international community must ensure that who has no place in the modern world as bound by in the un secretary-general in that regard we the committee representing our c.r.p. are the united nations the united nations security council an international community that aspired to build peaceful and civilized global society to use any means necessary to take action against them our military and to prove i 30 and

security for the people of myanmar well so it's our diplomatic heads or james basically joins us live from the united nations and james we heard there a strong incidentally from the myanmar ambassador the latest really in a damning assessments of the situation in myanmar. yeah this was a very dramatic moment it is exceedingly rare for an ambassador of the united nations to speak out against events in their own country my memory the recent memory of this the only one is libya at the start of the uprising against gadhafi the deputy ambassador and then the ambassador defected and certainly there was quite some shock in the general assembly hall when this happened speech like that was from from the ambassador i think most people have been expecting this bastard

or just to read out a current statement as put out by the military but he defied the military and certainly other ambassador said it was a most courageous move among those the new u.s. ambassador to the united states has and will continue to take actions in close coordination with allies and partners we will show the military that their actions have consequences violence against those exercising their human rights and fundamental freedoms is unacceptable it is time for the military to immediately relinquish power refrain from further violence release of those unjustly detain and restore myanmar's democratically elected government. linda thomas greenfield is the brand new u.s. ambassador new member of president joe biden's cabinet and this her 1st full day in

new york and she's making that speech in the general assembly as we're hearing that dramatic intervention from the man mar bastard a pap's an indication that the biden ministration is treating this issue pretty seriously quite that session is still continuing james what would you say this meeting at the u.n. is likely to achieve in terms of the situation on the ground in myanmar. well i think it's a very different answer than i would have given at the start of the session before we heard that dramatic intervention from the ambassador of me because i think that being the 1st member of the diplomatic corps in myanmar to turn against his own government and clearly ambassador to the u.n. in any country is an important position i think this may well spur some members of the general assembly who heard that to take

a slightly tougher position the general assembly doesn't have real teeth but it certainly amplifies a message and may well also give a little bit of a prod to the other key organ of the united nations the one that does have the teeth the u.n. security council so far the security council surprised a few people in the early days after the coup by actually managing to agree a statement a statement that was by security council terms reasonably strong in criticism of what had happened in myanmar they didn't get them managed to get the word coup in the statement an example of the difficulties they face in these sort of things when you're trying to go see a these sort of things but they got a statement out can they do more well i think the the place to watch is china which of course is a permanent member of the u.n. security council pap's just perhaps what we've seen today in the general assembly might force china to take a little bit of a stronger stand on this table will have to wait and see but from

a james bays at the united nations thank you. well on the ground in myanmar police interviews stun grenades to disperse protesters in the country's biggest city young goan i think. people fled from lines of right police at one of the city's busiest intersections so far have been no reports of injuries but several protestors words attainments scott hines is monitoring developments in myanmar from bangkok that's where the protesters usually have started their gatherings you know the last 3 weeks plus that we've seen them come out that's where a lot of those images that we were just showing came from where the lines of riot police and the use of stun grenades the groups has to be said are a little bit smaller today than we've seen in previous days but obviously that didn't stop the police from trying to break them up to try to prevent them from the even really forming into larger groups you know stun grenades were used now this

came after a night of late night and one neighborhood of yangon that also saw a kind of police dispersal like this kind of a heavy hand by the police that is because in a neighborhood the residents were upset because the military appointed a local councillor for that neighborhood so that kind of flared things up so that might have been part of the reason why we saw a little bit more of a stronger stance by the police today on the streets of yangon also we have found out that they're afraid that japanese journalist was detained by the police he was able to contact one of his colleagues as he was being detained around midday myanmar time he said he said it was ok but that's the 1st german foreign journalist we know has been detained by police it's the 2nd foreigner to be detained since the coup on february 1st and australian man was detained weeks ago who was an advisor to on song suchi and though it was nigeria police say gunmen have kidnapped

$317.00 schoolgirls it happens in the agenda in some phone estates the police say the abducted girls moved to a nearby forest. it. is in the capital of butcher with the latest. i must have operation is underway involving ground troops as well as with the support of local vigilantes who know the train is under way in i don't tend to be on the port of surrounding that community as officials say that they want to make sure that before sunset they at least rescue these students 317 of them or pinpoint the exact location before the abductors move farther away from the community also today shortly after the abduction government officials attempted to go to join give aid to assess the situation civilian officials actually and they were typed in among them of course in the convoy wired journalists who went to cover the story

and eventually some of them were. injured in the attack you know these calls to question the latest abduction calls to question these them for a state government. program or project to negotiate with bandits to convince them to submit their arms or surrender their arms only yesterday just hours before the kidnapping a group of these so-called banded submitted or surrender their weapons arms and ammunition to the police and government officials in goose i was in for a state and then this abduction happened we this is coming just 9 days after a number of students were also taken from another boarding school boarding school in they bring niger state 9 days after that is no word as to when that will be who so this is becoming more and more complex as security forces struggle to deal with the situation it looks like a quote when you ask many nigerians they will tell you that it looks like this quarter forces are not able to deal with the situation and that is fear spreading

in the land as this criminal activity is spread farther inland from the northwest down to the center of the country and down south. united states military has long. the airstrikes in syria targeting facilities used by iranian backed militias the main target was the image of the military base near our column schools to syria's border with iraq the pentagon says the operation was in response to recent attacks against american personnel in iraq. but. the target. was. shia militia. and that the strike. the u.k. supreme court has ruled that a woman who ran away as a teenager to join eisel should not spill out to return to britain to fight for

citizenship shamima begun left london with 2 school friends at the age of 15 and married and i still find her she was stripped of her british citizenship for national security grants after being discovered in a refugee camp and 2019 the u.k. government has argued speargun is spangler death by descent so she could see if there are maya 4 is the core executive director of the legal charity reprieve she says there needs to be more investigations and these kinds of cases. what the cold is of that that this is really a decision for government and what we. last walked up hotness in your house said is that the most effective thing to do with these families the current attendant in syria is to we have to pay them out often and we will get to some that will need to be prosecutions and not just a system in britain is perfectly well equipped to deal with those prosecutions and

then the others including women. who are detained that they will need support but we've been attention reintegration a memoir of the victims the people who might be in traffic when we have not yet in britain acknowledged when you ask what the government and what the political opinion is i think that's very interesting because it's that not some parents strong security minded. for example the chair of the fast moving chair that defense committee senior lorianne peace will wrote to the government this week signed goblets books that we need to bring back the british families and include. them to the u.k. the prosecution where we have i'm for investigations the circumstances that those magni traffic in this area so the political opinion on this is not going on we have a lot of that response at your voices saying that it is in the interests of justice

of security to bring these individual time so as to come on al-jazeera an investigation looking into crimes against humanity highlights possible atrocitus an atheist to growing region and hundreds of opposition supporters an army and some of the prime minister's resignation find out why they're angry with thanks. however the weather looks slightly fine and dry across much of the middle east not exclusively we do have some patchy cloud just pushing across iraq maybe one or 2 showers coming in here then as we go on through the next couple of days easing over towards afghanistan where it will clear the high price of skies coming back in as you can see but as we go on into sunday watch just pick up

a shero 2 into northern parts of saudi arabia pushing across into iraq war in the way of wetter weather up towards the caucuses georgia for example could see some rather wet weather along with the far north of turkey but elsewhere across the region it's generally settled and sunny with plenty of sunshine you might catch a shower to just around the gulf of aden the southern end of the red sea but as we push further south this is where the proper stormy weather is we'll see some very wet weather over the next day or 2 particularly into as zambia zimbabwe heavy downpours could lead to some localized flooding as we go on through the next couple of days some sharp showers too for a time making their way across a good part of madagascar take a look at sunday in zimbabwe western areas will see some very very heavy rain some concerns here that stays because that rain will be particular wet and could cause widespread disruption south of that is generate drive we want to showers for south africa.

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has called on world leaders to do everything they can to protect his people from the countries arming protests against cohen february 1st continue to spread nation of whites well let's take you back to the u.n. general assembly where china's represents the u.n. is talking about myanmar what you would usually voice of and measures taken by the international community should help. parties bridge their differences and solve problems and avoid intensifying tensions and further complicating the situation. is a member of the r.c. own family trying to support you know in playing an active role in easing the current state of affairs in myanmar in the hours the only way pretty sure it's the mediation efforts of countries these countries are discussing the setting up of an

informal special meeting of their foreign ministers and we look forward to it early convening on the basis of consensus. thus providing a useful platform and opportunity for promoting problem solving we believe that r.c. on to our region organization has enough political wisdom to help america tide over the difficult issues china also supports special envoy christina burch now in continuing her mediation efforts and hopes that she will keep the communication channels with all parties in myanmar open make extensive engagements and actively promote peace and talks with the international. unity should create favorable conditions. for her work and leave necessary space for her work on the problems of rawhi and state in myanmar innocent should be

resolved by me and bunkered through bilateral dialogue and consultation we do not hope to see you difficulties in solving this problem due to the domestic situation in member thank you madam chair madam president i think the distinguished representative of china and i give the floor to the distinguished representative of china. well we've just been listening there to the course in remarks from china's ambassador to the u.n. gentoo and he was leaning quite heavily on other as he and members who are undertaking diplomacy to try and for the city's an end to what he referred to as difficulties in myanmar he also said that china supports the un special envoy to the country. in her remarks at the beginning

of the session had said she was unable to enter the country because she was wanting to meet with aung san suu kyi. who remains under house arrest and has not been seen so that was china leaning heavily on the floor diplomacy that is under way between the as in. the family of nations as the chinese ambassador said so this general assembly specialists and they rather on the situation in myanmar so very much on going will bring you the latest developments there as and when they advise. now the united states is join russia in calling for restraint in armenia and since prime minister faces pressure to resign opponents of nikko protesting in the capital yerevan demanding he step down he has rejected calls to quit as far as his

military chief accusing the army of attempting the coup has faced process since losing the war with neighboring us and by john last year over the disputed region of nagorno karabakh open for say walker has more from yerevan. question here today has been keeping a relatively low profile in fact. we haven't seen anything like yesterday where he has a massive rally on the republic square off the posting a message live on facebook which he calls on his supporters to come out large numbers and proof that today he made a few words about how he and his government has actually been increasing his salary so the armenian military and i think that's a way that he wanted to remind the army that actually he's on this song because it's the only the he's the senior generals that might make that statement calling on him to resign that created this sense of impending doom with the idea that it

might be the military coup in the offing that hasn't materialized to include 'd there is always the possibility now given that they have thrown their weight behind the opposition in a sense because they want him to resign and the opposition well they're behind me now a crowd of them. several 1000 people difficult to say with numbers but this is the street the main street that they have closed down to my right the current show you but it's the parliament building we've got a police presence out there and over and behind me we have the president's administration very much a symbolic place for the opposition to be holding rallies having a tent city established they 3 meeting the president in fact today because he is the the man that many people think will ultimately want to be able to mediate between the political factions. amnesty international says

a massacre of civilians during last year's conflicts in ethiopia's to grow a region could amount to a crime against humanity reports by the rights group says soldiers from the bring eritrea killed hundreds of people in the city of uk sume in the eritreans governments in the rulers of tea have long been enemies ethiopia says its human rights commission is investigating crimes during the conflict well together bar wrote that reports he says the witnesses described how rowing events during the conflicts in the member. the killings took place in retaliation for an attack by all group of cruelty p.l.o. fighters are supported by local youth with the sand and rockets. and in response to this attack the imaging forces called reinforcement and then proceeded to shoot pointedly at civilians on the streets using sniper rifles and

machine guns people describe harrowing scenes of of people running and being shot in the back or people being you know lining up one behind the other and exactly he exhibited by every trained soldiers in addition we train soldiers carried out house to house raids to find idols and teenage men to kill and in the aftermath of the massacre in between soldiers shot the residents who tried to collect the bodies and prevented people from carrying out their wheels for roughly a day people described very harrowing scenes of collecting bodies eventually but is that had begun to decomposed. bodies of friends of strangers neighbors of a 1000000 members we believe that hundreds of people were killed and this was we either come a mission or who will leave of abuses that began on 19th of november when jones

also. if you're committed to we indiscriminately show acts whom in their equals to capture the city. because government says it will no longer force muslims and christians to cremate the remains of family members have done things from covert 1000 the government had face pressure from the organization of islamic cooperation the un and pakistan's governments to reverse the policy introduced almost a year ago smith reports. it's hard enough losing a loved one to covert nineteen's but in sri lanka muslims and christians who have died during the pandemic have been forcibly chromate it against the beliefs of their relatives the policy was introduced last april after british monks said burials could infect the groundwater with the corona virus the world health organization says there's no risk of this instead of providing them in the form the parents of a 20 day old baby that died of the virus were among those denied the chance to bury

their child 5 or program the body when we called the hospital they said the baby had died only then did the doctor say the p.c.r. test was positive so we can't give you the body they said there are rules brought in and that the commission can be done even without my signature but they went ahead and did as they wished. more than $450.00 people have died of covert 19 in sri lanka more than half were muslim even though they make up just 10 percent of the population community leaders say people fear seeking treatment and being cremated if they die activists say the government's reversal of policy happened only because of a request from pakistan's prime minister imran calm and criticism from the un human rights council you know like this whole he was sold off the policy has made us to a thing seen london citizens can get only get their rights that is in shining our constitution by only through. international pressure there is no may even to quote

me then don't blame god we've learned almost any judicial process possible but nothing changed drank his health ministry gave no reason for the decision to reverse the ban but on twitter pakistan's prime minister thanked his sri lankan counterparts burnet smith al jazeera. the u.k. has carried out what was 20000000 covert vaccinations but there is a worry that some minority communities are still at risk because they don't want to take the vaccine that issue is being tackled with national campaigns and opinion peers to be shifting that's shown a whole reports from alton. a lot of door to door community outreach under lockdown in oldham greater manchester where you are right. part of theirs was actually very healthy there were various on the doorstep some bring up their worries about vaccines i think using proven slowly but it was the 1st initial for

that while and because it was so much attention on us at the things we must go and get it done without while being targeted to go get it done like what's going on there and because the previous history what's happened with factories as well all it all adds up vaccine hesitancy is prevalent among black asian and minority ethnic groups in a recent poll almost 50 percent expressed reluctance blaming misinformation general mistrust and a history of discrimination in the health service the vaccine does not change or damage our d.n.a. there's also no evidence to suggest that sea affects fertility ethnic minorities stars have appeared in a t.v. ad to counter negative views and an information drive has begun among faith leaders we know that as muslims there we should always stand up against that it's false the mums here receiving the vaccine awareness training to pass on to their congregants i'm not saying that this is a magic wand bought this is

a starting point that we are delivering these kind of training so people would be able to understand exactly what it is and what it entails as well as you know if they don't take it what would be deeply. disadvantages if they take it they will have their life the clear concern in all of this is that it is very communities where social inequality has led to higher death rates from komen 19 good life saving vaccines are most likely to be refused and that's a contradiction with dire potential consequences to look at a pandemic the disproportional impact has. the deprived population of the why not just go with it is and if we do not get over this hurdle but. these are the people who are the most roxanne and we're going to why did this is that we already see within me so we can have more more within these

populations and the unvaccinated could also provide a window of opportunity for the virus to spread to mutate and at worst to become vaccine resistant giotto how al-jazeera oldham and former u.s. olympic stream asterix coach john goddard sam has died by suicide just hours after being charged with crimes against young and gymnasts the charges included sexual assaults and human trafficking sleds the u.s. women's teams are gold in the 2012 olympics have close links with disgraced team dr larry nasser who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing athletes 3 years ago. my. guess is al jazeera and these are the headlines and morris and bassett are 2 the un has called on world leaders city everything they can see protect his people from the country's army

process against the coupon for gray 1st continue to spread nationwide.