big stories and little from the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who don't have a voice i mean one of the child might that's never be afraid to give him the last question and i think that's what i'm sure he asked the question to people should be accountable and also get people to give their view of what's going on. police fired tear gas and stun grenades to clear defined protesters in me and mom after the u.n. has an emotional plea for help. here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera we are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses he was president sends a strong message to saudi arabia after an intelligence report implicates the saudi

crown prince in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. also dozens of students are freed in nigeria after being abducted last week but the fate of hundreds of others is still unclear. and a growing number of children in the netherlands struggling to cope with depression during this pandemic. where people police even appear to be changing their tactics against the people and refusing to allow protesters to get. police are chasing them to the streets of yangon on saturday firing tear gas and stun grenades demonstrators are refusing to back those still demanding the release of the elected leader unsung suchi she has been detained since the military seized power back on the 1st of february. is in bangkok the thai capital following

developments for us remember sort of saying to you might have been a few weeks ago tony that we're almost waiting for the other shoe to drop here when will the military do what we expect the military to do does this seem like the start of that. or think a lot of people have been expecting them for the last couple of weeks particularly last last week 7 days ago a source such huge numbers coming out on the street with the general strike that was so world observed by the protesters around the country but what i think what we're seeing at the moment is rather the tightening of the screws we're still seeing that the security security services predominantly led by the police although do seem to be. the military coming in in police uniforms or in plain clothes as we've seen today out on the streets they are still using things like tear gas and rubber bullets rather than live fire although we have seen in the

last couple of weeks on occasion live ammunition used to disperse protesters but what's changed in the last 24 hours is that rather than letting those groups of protesters form in the streets particularly in the bigger been centers like mandolin yang gone they seem to be going out early in the day occupying those spaces and then very proactively charging against the protesters they may be doing that as a sign that they are just not going to tolerate these protests anymore but also we're expecting large numbers out on the streets more of the protesters saying more than 100000 people will come out so perhaps these tactics have been deployed in the hope of. making people a lot more nervous about coming out they do seem to be detaining more people and not just the protesters themselves we understand a number of journalists have been arrested today and they've been shutting down medical support services around these protests sites as well there is

a regulation now which appears to be being inforced across myanmar that people should not be gathering in groups of 5 or more and that is a law that's being used to arrest people who are taking part in these protests and it's not again just in the bigger bands. as we've seen very proactive security service a crackdown in towns like which is just to the west of mandalay where we've seen pictures of plainclothes police and uniformed police really cracking down with with their very sharply we understand a number of protesters have been quite seriously injured the latest on me and with tony chang tony thank you for that of a world away mean mars u.n. ambassador made an emotional plea for the world to help restore democracy his message inspired some of the protesters who want the online we got so much encouragement to protest by seeing myanmar's ambassador to the u.n.

that's why we're protesting with lots of energy and as much effort as we can have we feel so thankful and got so much courage to see that the u.n. representative stands with us while we're trying to protest and get our state councilor and president released more from our diplomatic editor james bays on the u.n. general assembly 1st meeting on me and. it was a dramatic moment in the u.n. general assembly hall the ambassador of myanmar using his speech to speak out strongly against the events in his own country near my military has become that. for myanmar a super lety and civilized society his voice was trembling as he continued and strong support from the international community is imperative for the be. in our 5 against the military regime. as he finished his speech he gave a 3 hoping good salute a message of defiance that's become

a trademark gesture of the protesters in his country other ambassadors praised him for his courageous stand on for a long on the brand new u.s. ambassador linda thomas greene failed in her 1st full day in her job we urge every member state here today to use any channel available to tell the me or my military that violence against the people of myanmar will not be tolerated together we all show the people of myanmar that the world is watching we hear them and we stand with them and the u.n. special envoy christine shauna bergen and has been trying to visit me but she said permission for the trip has not been granted. regrettably the current regime has so far asked me to almost all n.b.c. it seems they want to come to new main launch spain arrests and have been forcing

people to testify against the mit farm and east is cruel and inhuman. such a powerful session in the general assembly now puts pressure on the part of the un that has real teeth the security council to take care of sion but it's worth remembering one of the permanent members of the council is china it has veto power and the chinese ambassador in the general assembly meeting said that his country largely sees the situation in myanmar as an internal matter james bays out jazeera at the united nations u.s. president joe biden has warned saudi arabia the rules are changing and their relationship this is after the release of a u.s. intelligence report into the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi it says the crown prince mohammed bin salman gave his approval for you to either be captured or killed the kingdom has denounced the report as false and unacceptable and the official reports from washington d.c. . when journalist jamal khashoggi walked into the saudi consulate in istanbul on

october the 2nd 2018 he thought he was simply picking up paperwork to clear the way for his upcoming wedding instead according to u.s. intelligence the u.s. resident and saudi citizen met a team of saudi agents set to capture or kill him he was never seen alive again now a newly declassified report from the director of national intelligence says saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin selman approved the operation the report states the crown prince viewed khashoggi as a threat to the kingdom and broadly supported using violent measures if necessary to silence him i spoke yesterday with the king prince made it clear to him the rules are changing and we're going to be announcing significant changes in today and. we are going to hold them accountable for human rights abuses and we're going to make sure that they in fact you know if they want to deal with us they have to

deal with the way the human rights abuses are dealt with jamal khashoggi fiance welcomed the report tweeting out this image with the words justice for jamal the killing lead to saudi arabia facing a measure of international isolation at the next 20 meeting in argentina world leaders kept their distance from hamad bin salman. in the u.s. the trumpet ministration resisted calls to confront saudi arabia citing the value of arms sales and the importance of support in confronting iran and refused to take action against mohammed bin salman joe biden promised if he won the election he would recalibrate relations with riyadh but again his white house want to take action against mohammed bin salmon directly so what we've done by the actions that we've taken. is really not to rupture the relationship but to recalibrate. to be more in line with our interests and our values and i think that we have to.

understand as well that this is this is bigger than any one person the u.s. is also knows what it caused by an imposing visa restrictions on 76 saudis not just those involved in the killing but others who have been involved in threatening dissidents overseas so do rebiya has dismissed the report calling it negative false and unacceptable the release of this report is an extraordinary rebuke to a man anointed as the next leader of a close u.s. ally but the biden white house will come under increasing pressure from democrats to take direct action against mohammed bin salman because they see his denials of any involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi simply are not credible alan fischer al jazeera washington dozens on students kidnapped from a secondary school in nigeria last week of being released ever arrived in mina central nigeria gunmen raided they kick out of school in the state they took 27

students and some of their relatives and staff members one of the students was shot and killed. the fate of 317 schoolgirls kidnapped on friday is still unknown gunmen raided their school in the town of jang in some far off states and they say they have information that the girls have been moved to a nearby forest and interests in a budget has the latest on both of those mass adoption. the release of the students and members of staff as well as family members came after 10 days of intense negotiations between government officials and the armed men who held the students for at least 10 days now and it's also 10 days of intense tension anger and frustration on the part of members of the school community and the entire community who felt that the government wasn't doing enough to get the children released now government said it was not going to pay any ransom for the release of

the student but we also understood that the gunman who abducted the students demanded the release of at least 6 of their members held in police custody we're not sure at this moment whether that run some has been paid and members of the armed group also being released now the release of these students came just hours or even at least a day after another set of students 317 goes who have been taken from a boarding school in northwestern some sort of state now there are questions being raised as to how they were told to hundley the rise in cases of kidnapping banditry in the north as well as the central parts of nigeria many people believe that being run some to free hostages has resulted in the rise in cases of abductions as well as criminality in the northern part of nigeria as well as the central parts of the country a lot of people are questioning the rationale of the go shooting with people that criminals who i say were said to be emboldened by anyone some want to go see issues

between them and government officials. everyone will have a look at the weather in a moment and then how a seed bank in zimbabwe is helping farmers get through the dry season it's. time for the perfect jenny. sponsored plan qatar airways i once again we've got some cool weather returning to northern parts of china over the next couple of days cloud and the rain just making its way out into the open waters high pressure coming in behind so much of japan will be settled but we've got this weather feature just spilling out of mongolia bringing a fair bit of cloud and that will sink further south which is we go through sunday with some snow on that so expect some rain sleet and snow for a time in beijing that wintry mix sliding all the way over towards the valley was

stark showers longer spells of rain there easing out of the yellow sea and this system really gathering as we go on through monday some heavy rain in the southern flank of that for a good part of south korea north korea as you can see can expect to see a fair amount of snow as we go through the next couple of days with a high pressure over japan here it does to the settled fine and subtle fine and dry across much of south asia we have still got a few showers just around the pool maybe some wetter whether that is pushing its way into bhutan india largely settled and fine still some smoke problems around the northern plains there for new delhi but temperatures across much of india as you can see typically getting up into the thirty's fun to try to across a good part of the middle east lots of pleasant sunshine coming through doha with a high of 20 to. qatar airways in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family so what

is the most terrible thing in syria just. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship for some time it was a call to be better to die than continue to be surely to be tortured. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. woof. oh. here with al-jazeera these are the top stories this hour. police in may in march change protesters through the streets of yangon on saturday firing tear gas and stun grenades demonstrators there refusing to back down still

demanding the release of elected leader and son suci has been detained since february 1st. president joe biden says the u.s. and saudi arabia's relationship is to change significantly this is after the declassified report that accused crown prince mohammed bin salman of approving a plan to kill or capture i'm sorry captured or killed journalist jamal khashoggi a nigerian security sources so dozens of students kidnapped from trigger a secondary school last week are being released official says that now arrived in mina in central nigeria. if european officials are being accused of carrying out a systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing in the region of take a day allegations are in the us government report obtained by the new york times which says fighters who backed prime minister are moving from town to town pushing out to koreans using intimidation and violence if you're launched a military campaign against separatists in november with both sides since accused

of atrocities. separately amnesty international says hundreds of civilians were massacred by eritrean soldiers in in to grow back in november the rights group has released a report that says the killings could amount to a crime against humanity war from malcolm webb. eritrean an ethiopian forces began their attack on the town of axum with indiscriminate shelling according to rights group amnesty international. it's released these videos and the report it says on the 28th of november last year to grain militia and civilians tried to fire back some of them armed with only sticks and stones attacking eritrean soldiers on this scale. it says the militia failed and the reprisals were brutal. according to dozens of testimonies amnesty

says eritrean troops came into the town and executed hundreds of civilian men and teenage boys this video shows the body of one of them people. in charge and. you know no one behind the other end exists if. every trained soldiers. eritrea's government didn't respond to our requests for comment it has previously denied its troops were in ethiopia ethiopia's government in a statement question the accuracy of amnesty sources and said it was committed to undertake investigations. in early november prime minister federal forces into the to great region he said it was a law enforcement operation to topple the thick gray in people's liberation front that dominated politics and military for nearly 3 decades before abby came to power. when government troops took control of the regional capital

abby declared the operations over but the rippin reports of low level fighting ever since researches say the satellite images taken last week show hundreds of structures destroyed by fire in the town of kids yet. to realty is it work in progress but there is no doubt the situation keeps improving along to be one tough month petitions except for a few pockets where there is sporadic shooting by these are imminent. access to the conflict areas has been heavily restricted information about what happened into grey in recent months steadily theat south and with it a growing number of reports of atrocities by flight malcolm webb al-jazeera bangladesh says it is an under no obligation to take back 81

refugees who were rescued by the indian coast guard and been adrift for 2 weeks in the andaman sea in a cramped fishing boat along with 8 people who died that set sail from a refugee camp in bangladesh hoping to reach malaysia india wants bangladesh to take them back with a $951.00 refugee convention lays out states obligations towards refugees it includes that they can't be returned to a place where they felt in danger and also says the state shouldn't block them from entering india there never signed the convention has no domestic laws on protecting refugees despite this it does host more than 200000 of them including. bangladesh a shelter and more than a 1000000 though who have fled persecution in neighboring me and ma summer and the refugees employ people smugglers to take them through to southeast asia his run in lay has a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at queen mary university

of london he says there is a legal responsibility to help people rescued at sea. they're in dire straits i mean the situation that they find themselves in highlights the dread for humanitarian circumstances that in myanmar have found themselves in and consequently those in bangladesh where they face genocide or crimes within me and ma and then those who managed to flee across the border to bangladesh find themselves in limbo. permanently in camps the prospect of return to me and my seems very slim and their life opportunities are incredibly limited i mean access to to education or or industry or any sense of a meaningful future is genuinely limited for them so it's understandable in those circumstances that people will become desperate and will try to escape they'll try to go to somewhere where life can be better that the situation today though is that

the 80 people are in danger at sea and whether or not india or bangladesh have signed the refugee convention becomes irrelevant the law of the sea means that whoever finds them has an obligation to make them safe in this case i understand it's the indian navy they have an obligation to take those people who are in trouble at sea to a safe place of coronavirus news 1st soft korea which says more than $18000.00 people have now received their 1st doses of the covert 1000 vaccine it started its inoculation campaign on friday with the shots been given to frontline health workers and to care if it's wrong mcbride with more from solver. one star from a nearby elderly care home were among the 1st to get the astra zeneca vaccine at a hospital in seoul south korea started its national vaccination role. playing for the past year i've been very worried that if i got the kernel barris i could

pass it on to the elderly residents this campaign begins exactly a year after a large outbreak in the city of daegu made south korea for a time the worst affected country after china its success in controlling the spread through innovative testing and tracing was a model for other countries to follow but it meant there wasn't the same urgency to vaccinate soon or. of course if we had a rapid increase in confirmed cases like in europe or the united states then even if it was risky we would have to go ahead with vaccinations and it's led to claims of complacency from many medical professionals hechsher no for having what we should have secured vaccines in a more aggressive way instead of being late the government says it was being printing but when it comes to securing vaccines it's like a war out there largely praised around the world for its handling of the coronavirus criticism of its vaccination rollout has stung the government and it

seems determined to show with this mass vaccination campaign that it's still a pioneer in fighting the pandemic for weeks the government has been staging drills with the army and police to fine tune the distribution system the goal is to have most of the population vaccinated by september achieving herd immunity by november . that's far behind other developed nations and longer than many here would like but at least for the government it will have to be done with the efficiency for which it prides itself rob mcbride al jazeera so. dutch children were once ranked among some of the world's happiest but since this pandemic an increasing number of suffering depression mental health experts say they've seen a sharp rise in calls to suicide prevention helplines step vasant has more. for 20 years old paper from the garden life has become

a struggle the theater student suffers from loneliness and panic attacks especially since the dutch government imposed a nighttime curfew her studies are all online and she lost a part time job due to the lockdown i also sometimes. referred to fresh air for i just had trouble with school and getting out of bed. and rare have serial care for yourself like a horse i. can see where you go outside it just gets worse and worse and worse the parents of 14 year old pain saw their son changing from an energetic positive teenager into a little child who started experimenting with drugs out of boredom the pain died in january of a tragic accident when he used drugs in a small tent and suffered carbon monoxide poisoning his parents believe lockdown measures led to their son's risky behavior he started looking for things that you otherwise wouldn't have looked for probably because he would be much more engaged

with his friends with school was bored in there will be between his death burial i was sitting next to his body every morning and i realized this is a this is a bunch of potentiality which is lying here which is just become dead. it hurts me so much that this is what we do with the youth to stay active but pain had turned his room into a small gym his parents say the government should have been more focused on the impact that lockdown has had on young people because i feel that there's very little compassion for young. young people there's often fingers pointing at them you just want to have a party and you don't care about the elder people and i find i very that hurts my heart. because i see that my boys are struggling by telling their story but parents parents hope the government will look for more creative ways to keep young people mentally healthy growing up and then that will and long man

children had a good chance to be among the happiest in the world but a continuous lockdown has changed that schools have been closed since early december and this has had a huge impact on the mental health of children and teenagers and the impact that could last for a long time according to experts and won't simply be solved by going back to class in the netherlands people with suicidal thoughts can call the suicide prevention line 113 center start of the pandemic the number of calls and chats has increased by 30 percent nearly 80 percent of the callers are below the age of 30 especially the younger people. have lost their confidence their self-confidence and confidence in other people which is significant compared to before so far the number of suicides has not increased something the helpline contributes to the listening ear they can offer better has also found support with therapy after a month on a waiting list but local leaders say the government should do more so young people

can meet each other in a safe way only then dutch children and teenagers may score high on the happiness index again step fasten al-jazeera. funny to southern africa which has had some good rains this season and people are expecting bumper harvest so the region often experiences years of drought so to prepare for these lean times farmers in zimbabwe are setting up seed bangs. travelled to moods to see how one community is setting up their business. this is a different kind of bank one where the hard currency is seeds deposited and stored away for safe keeping in community seed banks when low rainfall is lead to drought in zimbabwe indigenous seeds such as sorghum and millet stored here become valuable savings just like you draw money which is the. pound you come in we control what you reported yes now you are. can also

benefit from what is really deposited but you do this outside you. or he can ask you to give it something. these farmers are growing millet with seeds borrowed from the bank they hope to repay back the loan with some of those from their harvest the table for who that. is very few in the. entire. world in 44 sometimes so this is a disadvantage so it's better to grow. erratic rainfall brought on by climate change sometimes leads to food shortages during dry seasons access to the right scenes at the right time is crucial like other countries in southern africa zimbabwe is prone to long periods of drought whenever that happens the government buys food from abroad and aid organizations help vulnerable families. the staple

food here is maize a cash crop that doesn't do well in low rainfall but many farmers tend to be less interested in growing drought resistant to digital crops such as millet and sorghum we need to really support because tradition and production of traditional crops so much is that they will be able to get food security because without that i think we will be heading towards a very wrong direction and most of the households will be here by the droughts because droughts are very recurrent part which is almost a full that's why rural communities are being encouraged to keep the seed bag stocked up savings they can easily access when times get tough how do al-jazeera moods zimbabwe.