much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone to. the arab world. myanmar's military regime saxe the country's u.n. ambassador a day after his dramatic appeal to the world he called the military and they got the stench will threat words which have been bold and the protest movement in me and mark. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up in armenia growing calls for the removal of a prime minister increasingly at all those with the people and those in power.

dozens of kidnapped students are released and then cheering it but the fate of hundreds more is still not now. nearly as a u.n. ambassador has been sacked and publicly rebuked for betrayal by the military junk that that he urged the world to confront joe more told the general assembly he spoke for the government of on son suchi but the army said it was an abuse of his power and his dramatic testimony on friday he said the military was a threat to me and mars existence. in addition to the existing support we need to find the strongest possible action from the international community to immediately and a military coup to stop oppressing the innocent people to return the state power to

the people and to school the democracy well the military leadership appears not only to have lost patience with the u.n. ambassador but also with protesters still streaming on to the streets launching one of their strongest crackdowns on saturday police changed tactics chasing thousands of people through the streets of several cities with tear gas and rubber bullets and detaining those they managed to catch we're going to have tony chains report from bangkok in just a moment 1st though our diplomatic editor james bays has more on the ambassador's calculated risk. well the ambassador would have known what was at stake when he made those words he would of very carefully judge that he knew the the possible repercussions against his family he knew that the military would try to sack him and recall him the big question now is is he going to go is he going to give up his job or is he going to say that he is the legitimate representative of the people of

myanmar and of the rulers of the country who are currently jailed it's worth reminding you that at the same general assembly session the special envoy the secretary-general special envoy on myanmar christine shawna bergen said it's important the international community does not lend legitimacy or recognition to this regime so will they recognize the decision of the regime to sack the ambassador i'm sure that the military will now is try and send a new ambassador that will reflect their views but which one is the united nations going to recognize it will go to a rather obscure body part of the general assembly known as the credentials committee if there is a dispute it has 9 members interestingly among those 9 members of the u.s. is one as are china and russia which of made the point that this is largely an internal affair they will come up with a recommendation and then it will go to the general assembly for

a vote so it's although the military is saying they've sacked the ambassador is not a tall clear whether he'll be losing his job or after a protective fight will actually stay in the job any ally security forces have changed their tactics against protesters as we were saying tony chang has been following the protests from bangkok police in me a man southern city of daraa way implying more aggressive tactics to disperse protesters. advancing behind the cover of their riot shields they fired tear gas into the crowd forcing people back into the cities small alleyways. inyanga on more aggression too from the early morning on saturday security forces occupied areas of protest as it claimed as their own charging forward they pursued protesters relentlessly throughout the day those who didn't flee with detained and not just protesters several journalists were also arrested. but the mood on the streets

remains defiant behind improvised barricades to keep the police at bay and the protesters happy to see their cause raised so publicly at the united nations the call of the one we got so much encouragement to protest by seeing me and mars 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. and memo 2nd city mendeley the protest were led by monks in this majority but this nation it's regarded as to boo to attack a member of the clergy but myanmar's military has shown in the past it has no qualms about cracking down on months and it's unlikely these protesters will find sanctuary behind the saffron robes tony chang al jazeera.

dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school in the area last week have been released gunmen raided their school at kogarah a measure state 10 days ago taking 27 students some of their relatives and staff members one of the students were shot and killed the group has now been received by local government officials in the city of mina in the center of the country. confound all rescue teams. from going to science college i have. it in number. even though we have one in the hospital suffering from excessive exhaustion. under a lot on board. but it was peacefully. to

be. medically. checked. and i believe. the medical team will money to them. for a few more days. but the fate of 317 schoolgirls kidnapped on friday from jim gibbons of our state is still unknown rescue operations are underway after gunmen raided their school in the middle of the night well they say they have received information that the girls have been moved to a nearby forest amid a dress as the latest on both mass abductions he speaks to us from a brutal. the resolve 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 can get a 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 students but we also understood that the gunman who abducted the students demanded the release of at least $6.00 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 been released now the release of these students came just i was or even at least a day after another set of students 317 goes who have been taken from a boarding school in north west and some for a state now there are questions being raised as to how they will talk to 100 of 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 they just criminals who i say were said to be emboldened by anyone some want to go see issues between them and government officials armenia's top army general is that all what the government the president is refusing to fire him even though the prime minister has publicly called for his dismissal accusing the military of attempted coup but it's the prime minister who needs to fight for his job as he struggles with the fallout from last year's war with azerbaijan robin forestay a walk up reports from the air about. the pressure is growing on prime minister nicole pressure with the president on saturday refusing to sign his letter dismissing the head of the armed forces saying it was unconstitutional for the opposition it's

a sign things are going their way and again why would you hand me a letter salute the decision of the president our people are standing with the army the army is standing with the people and now the president of the republic stands with the army. the opposition accuses nicole of treachery over his handling of the war over to go to cairo by. the peace deal he signed in november ceded huge territory to azerbaijan at the cost of over $3.00 and a half 1000 armenian lloyd's. and the war isn't the only reason why many armenians have lost faith in nicole pushing the promises he made when he came to power 3 years ago remain unfulfilled that was easy expectation that only he stayed months will allowed to arrest or corruption there's or may judges on the stand the professional but no practical efforts were done for that people so that

is nobody is really punished for misdoings they they they lose their optimist and trust in possibility of the progress of the country with pushing on as a leader. the street protests demanding mr passion yan's resignation have been bolstered by support from the army generals the church and no the president of the republic. the prime minister's response on saturday evening was to return it to crete dismissing the head of the armed services back to the president asking him again to sign the documents or take the matter to the constitutional court robin 1st he woke up al-jazeera. joe biden says he will make an announcement on monday about future relations with saudi arabia it follows criticism for not including the crown prince in sanctions over the murder of jamal khashoggi

a declassified u.s. intelligence report revealed agencies concluded mohamed bin selman approved an operation to capture or kill the journalist in 2018 ashaji was killed by a team of all preserves inside the saudi consulate in istanbul his remains have never been found. the u.s. president has urged the country senate to act quickly on the nearly 2 trillion dollar a coronavirus aid package joe biden thanked members of the house of representatives who approved the bill in the early hours of saturday the package includes direct payments of $1400.00 to most americans but not an increase in the minimum wage which was blocked by senate officials we have no time to waste if we act now decisively quickly and boldly we can finally get ahead of this virus we can finally get our economy moving again the people of this country have suffered far

too much for too long we need to relieve that suffering the american rescue plan does just that relieve the suffering it is time to act phatic elaine is more now from washington d.c. on what this means for most americans. the $10000000.00 americans are out of work right now millions of simply lost their job to no fault of their own but because of the pandemic and because of the economic fallout from that so basically their benefits were going to decrease or if not cut off what this bill does if it's passed it will give them additional federal unemployment aid up to about $400.00 a week increase it's a now about $300.00 but the bigger part is it extends it those are set to expire these that will then go till august so that gives people peace of mind to know that they're going be able to pay for certain bills in the weeks and months ahead well the wait while we all wait for the economy to recover it's also going to go towards increasing covert vaccine distribution increasing testing obviously that is

something that's very frustrating for americans there is a huge demand for this vaccine in incredibly short supply of it so it'll help they say speed that up more of it will go to state local governments their budgets have been hammered by this economic crisis and so many of them are looking to lay off key employees school teachers garbage collectors firefighters police officers so this will go directly to some states and some cities in the last aspect of it to schools it's been a year most students are still learning from home so a big chunk of this goes to help schools states local cities and directly to the people who are hurting the most in this pandemic still to come here on al-jazeera russia sputnik vaccine is rolled out in mexico a boost for immunity and the economy. dark clouds over than that the lynds how the covert locked down is affecting i mean years generation.

hello we got some rather lively storms affecting northeastern parts of australia at the moment little area of unsettled weather here just rumbling away off the coast of queensland not too far from cannes and that striving in some big showers as we go on through the next couple of days is tropical low could cause some localized flooding say it does pep up somewhat as we go on through sunday still a few showers into that eastern side of new south wales but they should retreat away as we go through monday temperatures in sydney picking up to around 31 degrees but it does stay very wet and very windy into the northeast of queensland still a few showers around the top end as well but much of ours will be fine and rise more sunshine continuing there in perth with temperatures getting up nicely once

again want to shower sissy's in the way towards the new zealand as we go on through monday but again for the most part it should be largely dry the shot just pushing into the western side of the country now we got showers longer spells of fright and some snow making its way across northern parts of china that will sink a little further south with a swiss or alling across the korean peninsula and then really gathering as we go through monday so some heavy rain there for a good part of south korea but it stays fine dry and sunny in japan. a terminal journalist in search of a missing colleague stops at nothing to bring his story to the public. in sri lanka press freedoms are under threat. and some stories can only be told by those who will not compromise on the truth. news from just one

part of the viewfinder asia series on al-jazeera. reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera me and mars u.n. ambassador has been sacked and publicly rebuked for betrayal by the military junk that he urged the world to confront in myanmar itself authorities have launched one of their strongest crackdowns us thousands of people continue to flood the streets in protest dozens of students kidnapped from a secondary school in my jewelry alas we have been released but the fate of 317

schoolgirls kidnapped on friday engine gave bins on for a state is still unknown and there are many as president is refusing to fire the country stopped general despite a call by the embattled prime minister. has accused the military of an attempted coup against them with protesters instead calling for him to go. new zealand's biggest city is back under lockdown for 7 days prime minister just since the ardern announced restrictions for all clint would begin on sunday it's after a new coronavirus case was discovered new zealand has avoided a high number of infections by largely closing off international travel and then forcing tough restrictions when new cases emerge. meanwhile authorities in the us are said to approve the use of a 3rd vaccine signed off on the single shot johnson and johnson inoculation now rests with the food and drug administration after it was recommended by an advice

panel it's also being reviewed in south korea a quarter of a 1000000 doses of the chinese made cinna farm vaccine are due to arrive in iran while the philippines is expecting more than a 1000000 sin of achan astra zeneca doses on sunday and monday the voices news agency reports that prosecutors in brazil are trying to stop the purchase of 20000000 indian made kovacs in doses it's set to go through trials but only 3 percent of brazilians have had any job so far meanwhile globally speaking as of friday more than 50000000 people have received all the doses they need to be considered fully vaccinated. the 1st though says of russia's a sputnik the vaccine arrived in mexico this week but the slow pace of the rollout comes as the country struggles both with the human as well as the economic cost of the pandemic as vinyl or apple reports from the capital mexico city the president

is getting much of the blame. vaccination efforts continue in mexico at this inoculation site in sochi need go health workers are ministry 1st doses of the sputnik the vaccine developed by russia which for now is only available for people 60 years of age or older. people this is the appointment for the next dose that i'll receive on march 17th i don't have a time but they'll let me know. since the virus was 1st spotted in mexico the outbreak in the country has grown beyond what anyone here could have imagined today the death toll nationwide remains the world's 3rd highest. it's become frustrating to see our local ones die people who have dedicated their patients in the area of medical professionals mexico has lost more lives than any other country that has been painful and i hope we have learned some important lessons we need to better health says we need to be better prepared we need to produce our own back

scenes. the outbreak is not only stretch the limits of the country's public health system it's also pushed the national economy into the worst recession in almost 90 years the coded 19 pandemic in mexico has led to a devastating 8.5 percent decline in g.d.p. and a dramatic increase in the national poverty rate from 36 percent to 45 percent of the population. there much of the blame for why the health emergency in mexico has ballooned beyond control has fallen on mexico's president who's been widely criticised for downplaying the extent of the crisis upon them. for his part the president has promised that everyone in the country will have access to vaccines as supplies become available and. the handy the people should know that we are committed to vaccinating everyone as soon as possible even if we don't finish by march every senior citizen will at least be vaccinated with one dose by the end of

april. though mexico is now in phase 2 of the national inoculation program health experts warn that so far less than 2000000 people of mexico's 126000000 residents have been inoculated. amounting to a vaccination rate that is still far from making a meaningful impact against the pandemic. below al jazeera mexico city. that's children were once frank among some of the happiest in the world but since the lock down came came in an increasing number are suffering from depression now suicide helplines are receiving a sharp rise in the number of calls that vasant families in amsterdam who are struggling and those who struggle and that in tragedy. for 20 years old baker for most garden life has become a struggle the theater student suffers from loneliness and panic attacks especially

since the dutch government imposed a nighttime curfew for studies are all online and she lost a part time job due to the lockdown i also sometimes. ferreted precious or just had trouble with school and getting out of bed. and rare have to care for yourself like a horse i. can't really go outside it just gets worse and worse and worse the parents of 14 year old the pain saw their son changing from an energetic positive teenager into a liturgical 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 to look for things that the otherwise wouldn't have looked for probably really would have been much more engaged with his friends with school was bored in the will be between his death and the 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 the lockdown has had on young people because i feel that as very little compassion for young. young people there's often a finger pointing at them you just want to have a party and you don't care about the elder people and i find that very that hurts my heart. because i see my boys are struggling by telling their story parents parents hope the government will look for more creative ways to keep young people mentally healthy growing up in an adult 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 their 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 since the 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 significance 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 children and teenagers may score high on the happiness index

again step fasten al-jazeera amsterdam. the former us secretary of state has praised his former boss and his legacy at a major gathering of american conservatives by pompei also he was proud of the trump administration's achievements on the 2nd day of the conservative political action conference conference the future direction of the republican party and what place donald trump and his supporters have within it is the key topic of discussion at the meeting in florida the last few months we've got poor old rednecks. are we because the evil resistance the new york times think i'm the worst secretary of state of all time. yeah since i last saw you the chinese sanction me the iranians don't think so much of me either. but i'm proud of our fight and i'm proud of our accomplishments in

that we have truly been the status quo. sources inside yemen's government say more than 50 fighters have been killed in the latest clashes between who the rebels and government forces that would make it the most violent day of fighting since the who these resumed their offensive on the city of mareeba more than 2 weeks ago the city around 100 kilometers east of the rebel held capital sanaa last close to some of the country's richest oil fields saudi led forces say they've intercepted in the story the ballistic missile attack on riyadh saudi state media says several explosive laden drones were launched by whose these towards southern parts of the kingdom reports indicate one of the drones was heading towards a jazz band and 3 others were directed towards honeys shaped bungalow there she says it's under no obligation to take back 81 rohingya refugees who were rescued by the indian coast guard they've been adrift for 2 weeks in the andaman

sea in a crammed fishing boat along with 8 people who have died it set sail from a refugee camp in bangladesh hoping to reach malaysia india wants find whether to take them back and live ash though says they were found closer to me and more and the indian territories well wrongly is a visiting scholar at the international state crime initiative at cree mary university of london he says legal responsibilities to help people rescued at sea need to be taken seriously. 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 there permanently in camps the

prospect of return to me and now 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 to take those people who are in trouble at sea to a safe place and finally what's believed to be the roman equivalent of a wedding limousine has been uncovered on the ruins of pompei this for real the

chariot was perfectly preserved for more than 2000 years before being found by tallying archaeologists last month it not only survived the eruption of mount vesuvius in $7980.00 but also that the sky very by more recent looters experts say the chariot was too big an ornate for everyday use and was for a 5th of it is and parades. my. now remind of the top stories on al-jazeera myanmar's u.n. ambassador has been sacked been publicly rebuked for be trailed by the military that he orange the world to confront joe more time that told the general assembly he spoke for the government of onsen suit cheech but the army said it was an abuse of this power in myanmar itself authority.