because the stories the. 0. 0. meanwhile is intensifying crackdown another protests testers shot dead during demonstrations against the military coup. come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera johnson and johnson gets emergency u.s. approval for its single dose vaccine it now gives americans a 3rd option also a battle for control is there's a heavy uptick in fighting between hurt these and government forces and yemen's maori province and acknowledging the past we make the descendants of slaves in kenya seeking official recognition as an ethnic group.

further violence this sunday another protester has been shot dead this time in yang gone police use live rounds tear gas and water cannons against the demonstrations officers have been changing tactics trying to stamp out the protests before they even get going. really in chaos now since the 1st when the army seized power and detained the elected civilian leader. let's get an update from tony chang in bangkok tell us 1st of all about this violence on sunday. well it started early this morning when the protesters headed out onto the streets at about 8 am local time they were met by the security services police primarily but backed up by soldiers from the 77th light infantry and young gone. we understand

there have been pushed back very quickly we've seen some pretty atrocious scenes from across the country in yangon on a move back in that district under fire from tear gas rubber bullets and live ammunition it seems some pictures on social media showing protesters with severe injuries we're getting reports of fatalities there very hard to confirm at this stage because common the communications are very hard a moment piers that the intern the crackdown is is ongoing in certain places we have managed to confirm one death in the south of yangon protest a shot in the side who succumbed to his injuries in the southern city of daraa way very similar scenes protesters came out earlier were met with extreme force by the security services again we're seeing lots of images on social media of very

severely injured protesters in mandalay in the center of myanmar doctors had gone out early on the streets to protest we understand they've been forced back into the general hospital in the city center where they're trying to fend off the security services who are approaching them from both sides but it does appear that the crackdown we saw yesterday has come even harder today and the security services are now using lethal force tony just on the issue as you've mentioned a few times in that on the internet and social media. the fact that we're even seeing these pictures is quite something and it's something that me and my jointer want want will later for these pictures despite them trying to throttle the internet the fact that this is still getting out. have soon not we saw yesterday they targeted journalists who in the last couple of weeks have been able to operate around the fringes of these protests yesterday they arrested 5

journalists and young gone we're on the targeted more this morning and we have seen those internet shutdowns going on over night although in the daytime the internet has has been working ok but today i've been having great problems contacting contacts in mandalay haven't been able to get through all day the lines to the young can have been pretty poor so i think the the military are very much trying to stop this that said it's almost impossible now the images we are seeing coming out almost as a live stream and that is a big change from crackdowns that we've seen inside in the past were it's taken days if not weeks for these kinds of images to filter and tony changing in bangkok despite the limitations keeping across all that information out of me in my thanks tony on to other news and the united states has approved johnson and johnson's covert 19 banks team now the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose jab the

pharmaceutical giant says the vaccine is effective at preventing severe covert 900 symptoms including a new a variance 4000000 doses are all ready to be shipped scabbard alexanders and washington he says the new vaccine has a strong selling points. the big difference with the johnson and johnson vaccine is it is only one shot to get and then be vaccinated that's different from the moderna and pfizer vaccines which both take 2 different shots spaced out about 20 to 30 days apart also the johnson and johnson vaccine does not need to be stored or transported at freezing temperatures so that will make it easier to move around and get out to places and into the arms of people that need it as you know the pfizer and moderna vaccines both need to be kept in complicated freezing storage temperatures bottom line though is is that health officials here in the us say all

the vaccines do the job the f.d.a. has just announced emergency use authorization of us 3rd a backseat for americans this was made by ensign also did call johnson and johnson it's all the same but this is really good news means we have the opportunity for even more people to get immunized as soon as possible against terrible pandemic early on saturday the house of representatives passed joe biden's 1.9 trillion dollar covert relief package it now goes on to the senate where it will be perhaps met with some resistance from many many republicans however the bill as a whole is very positively by most americans and by almost all democrats it would call for many things but primarily a one time payment of more than a $1000.00 to all americans it would extend unemployment benefits as well as put money into schools and local governments to meet shortfalls as well it will now go

to the senate and on saturday this is what joe biden had to say to senators as they approach a vote on this bill. now now the mill moves the united states senate where i hope will receive quick action. 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 and 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 and it's time to act i thank you all for the 14th that is the date that millions of americans could potentially lose some of their unemployment benefits unless this plan is passed so democrats feel they have about 2 weeks to try to work out an agreement with the republicans in the senate to get this on joe

biden's desk for possible signature let's hear from dr ali if not them is an immunologist and a vaccine expert at a professor at the university of michigan as well he explained to us the significance of having the approval to use this new covered vaccine. so a good news because this is a direct scene and as you know i'm never on the nose we have a great issue in distribution and of training these vaccines that are for vaccine they think people so having a 3rd one is a good relief and and it's going to be. added value and it's also it's one immunization one in jail one injection on the oral will be on your way so until now we don't know whether we need to say 2nd immunization or not and why and for this vaccine too but definitely there is a an ongoing clinical trial at the in the u.s. for evaluating to immunizations and set of 20 minute session to see whether you can

up the efficacy from the 66. neighborhood to the 90 percent neighborhood like everybody else many people are asking this question you know how come you know when immunization and 66 percent because we are somehow spoiled with the 95 percent i think it's a this vaccine for one immunization you were a. prevented hospitalisation know severe disease after. in the vaccine a group which means that even though you may have some symptoms you would never to get you are not going to get into the hospital and to be serious to conditions that's number one number 2 is that also that sort of a major problem which is the logistics of wanting people back to get the 2nd immunization and this is the only vaccine that is indicated for one immunization. brazilian president john bolton oros threatened to pull emergency aid from states

which reintroduced locked arms he says any governor who quote destroys jobs won't get support from the central government. who had covert 19 himself is strongly against most restrictions and often dismissed the danger even though more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died from it in brazil. health ministers resigned after it was revealed several members of his family jump the queue to receive their vaccines on cost of alice is the 3rd health minister in south america to go following similar scandals in peru and argentina the support for. the battle to control the colored 1000 pandemic in latin america is underway but is being hindered by patchy deliveries of the vaccine and scandals in the government with the task of organizing the vaccination programs. the latest to go is the ecuadoran health minister one caller survive yours ensuring that his family was given preferential treatment all the more committed we have all committed era's

this is a pandemic that has taught us the importance of recognising them. last month as the vaccines arrived in ecuador a country one of the highest per capita death rates in the region he said they would firstly be given to the most vulnerable. because that is present us because that for the people who are on the front line medical staff and also people over 65 years old. many of them are still waiting for the former minister has fled the country. a similar scandal emerged earlier in peru when it was revealed that at least 2 ministers and a former president were among the 500 people to be immunized weeks before the rest of the population. and in argentina a few days later the health minister hin is going to sell his garcia resigned when it came to light he devoted friends and colleagues to receive what have been called the ip vaccines. his replacement karlovy sortie has since tested positive for

covered 19 and this self isolating. supplies from a number of sources continue to arrive this 1st batch of nearly 200000 doses landing in europe why from the chinese soon as that laboratory. 40 tons of ox. just donated by chile to prove with supplies of one day to see no. such protests against handling of the pandemic are increasingly common use one on saturday and one osiris is there but if you didn't give it to the president and the vice president then ok but they shouldn't vaccinate the deputies or the ministers that's no good i'm almost saying for myself right i've got inside information from independent media that the pandemic doesn't exist it's just tests that are full of the holy. war they're angry with the government some still believe the pandemics is a hoax but others are against the vaccine or whatever else people feel their

impatience to put the pandemic behind them frustrated by the slow pace of the vaccination programs confused by contradictory information and i angered by corruption in their governments the road towards normality is still fraught with obstacles. and they're all just want to cyrus. but saudi arabia says it intercepted several airborne assaults by hurting rebels in yemen have a talk with riyadh and cities in the kingdom's self is also stepping up an offensive in the yemeni province of. reports. saudi arabia intercepts rockets over riyadh on saturday night we're going to have to go after the omaha saudi state media say they came from yemen fired by hoofy rebels several explosive laden drones targeted other southern saudi cities. the attack came as hooty rebels push forward in the northern yemeni province of merab. they launched an offensive against the saudi backed yemeni government here

in early february excess a day was the most violent day yet. front is one of the hottest war fronts since the beginning of the aggression on yemen this has been the situation since the beginning and except for a small period. after more than 6 years of war the who these more merit because it's the yemeni government's last northern best union to capture it could bolster the things at the negotiating table this is a very critical battle making place it looks like i both sides would like to be in a stronger bargaining position and. these thoughts the problem of course is that these short term gains there. could actually hear a new peace process launched by new u.s. administration. the yemeni government has issued urgent coups for the huth east to

stop their offensive they warn of a humanitarian catastrophe merab is already hollowed to the largest concentration of displaced yemenis and he's to make sure 2000000 people. still the government is fighting back on saturday they reported killing 350 who the fight is in just 30 hours and cobra belief it's a suicide mission and they're not going to when the yemeni government urges them into the fighting it's not a sign of weakness we make these calls out of responsibility but regarding the fighting forces were few in numbers and they were defeated but revenge is hard to swallow when you're starving for 2 thirds of the population some 20000000 people food is what they need the u.n. estimates 400000 children under 5 are severely malnourished and that they are in the last weeks and months both sides say the others putting civilians at risk and

yet neither stop shelling shallop ballasts al-jazeera and the news had how small pacific nations have managed to avoid massive coronavirus outbreaks were seen elsewhere in the world. and protesters in the french caribbean demand action over a pesticide claimed by rights of cats. hello there welcome to another cat the international forecast the weather remained largely fought to dry across a good part if you have got high pressure in charge that x. is a little not the atmosphere keeps it calm and settled but around the area of high pressure we are drawing the winds to scandinavia quite a brisk wind around the baltic states and

a cold winter behind our cold fronts the temperature is starting to fall off but for many it will still feel quite pleasant if the truth be told it's actually rising temperature wise for moscow getting up to around freezing place in places of sleet and snow there across that eastern side of europe but where it is calm temperatures getting up to 11 celsius in so around 4 or 5 degrees above the seasonal average here that's still mild but as mild as it was the start of the week but it's mild nevertheless mild enough to buy into the british isles and into france want to choose showers so into parts of central and eastern spain and we'll see more of those showers gathering as we go on through monday a tad colder monday you notice in london and 8 degrees celsius plenty of dry weather there into central parts of the few showers down towards that eastern side of the but it's right now with quite a brisk wind blowing through here got a few showers too into the northwest of africa with bits and pieces of rain for northern parts of iraq.

but. when freedom of the press is under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges have said dish and the state line becomes the default media namely looking for images that he did not get to these days and just how did the news it makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening post on a. the roof. over. the top stories this hour on al-jazeera one person has been shot dead

a 1000000 miles largest city gang gone as police use live rounds tear gas and water cannons against n.t. to demonstrate its. saudi arabia says it's intercepted several airborne assaults by the rebels and gehman targeted riyadh and cities in the kingdom south beirut is also stepping up their offensive in the yemeni problems. johnson and johnson single dose covert 19 banks and has been given emergency approval in the united states is now giving americans a vaccine option. but more coronavirus news new zealand's biggest city or clint is in lockdown after a new case of covert 19 was found there it's been confirmed as the more contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. schools and non-essential shops are shut a movement in and out of the city is severely restricted the rest of new zealand is subject to less stringent rules including a limit on public gatherings and has avoided a high number of infections by banning most foreigners and quickly imposing strict

measures when cases emerge we have thankfully been without loss of life i covered 19 for some time but there is still the primary reason we take the strict short end shot from asia is covered kills people just recently we saw in the united states market devastating milestone in tombs of the scale of lives lost in the country. we must never lose sight of the reason we take these images it is to save people's lives and to save their livelihoods here is dr michael banka professor of public health at the university of otago he's also a member of new zealand government's covert response advisory board and says despite the challenge of a more infectious variant he hopes the lockdown will soon be lifted. our main defense now is of course a very tight border quarantine system so to come into new zealand and we're still

having more than 10000 people a month coming in through our border facilities but people spend 2 weeks in quarantine and have to with 3 covert tests before they're allowed into the country but this just is good but it's not perfect and we have had the art ok tional small out rates look to the border and we assumed this current outbreak which now includes 14 cases is related to the border somehow every case new zealand has its genome sequence examined and this cluster is a work cases of the one syrian. miriam's and that maybe we know it is slightly more transmissible than in previous variants of the virus it is a challenge but the system is sustainable and we are very confident that there will be control with really high level of testing and our contact tracing system which works very well now with the model here has been these very short sharp knock downs

and i would say we've been seeing days to be a reassessment and we might be in come back down through the rules to live up to in the one again all small pacific and of nations have been some of the most successful countries in the world are keeping covered 9000 at ballet despite these efforts their tourism dependent economies have been badly affected and there's no sign yet of a recovery gauges. pup when you guinea is experiencing a rise in coded 19 cases and testing writes a low but for the most past pacific island nations have avoided a major health classes during the pandemic their crisis is an economic one with borders shot many people are out of work intrusion dependent countries like that a while too and. that's also recovering from a cycloid that devastated communities from many in the transport of the children

and everything. that's a real crisis. vaccines are being rolled out in the marshall islands and plan all helped by the u.s. government but for the rest some experts say it could take years to bax in a small oist of the people countries are initially relying on the global kodak's initiative an alliance of organizations delivering that seems to developing nations exact rollout dates for the pacific conserved but it's hard to tell begin in the coming months for the interest from the percent over what do we know next but there isn't enough we need the support of everyone to make sure. eventually everybody getting vaccinated against this horrible aren't. for the other 80 percent astray and new zealand have committed to supplying vaccines but their timeline also isn't clear some experts believe this trial years should already be hoping its neighbors

given its relatively low numbers could that 19 cases and to secure regional influence in the pacific if we want to keep being relevant in the region it is name calling for us to. provide the region with that savings to help them with the implementation of that explanation rollouts the region has previously faced challenges in delivering vaccines to isolated communities this time around vaccination is critical to reopening borders and getting countries back on track nicola gage. in bangladesh hundreds of people have demonstrated following the death of a prominent writer in prison. protesters marched in dhaka to condemn the government's mistreatment. as well as other dissident writers journalists and activists they are demanding the law he was arrested under be scrapped they say the digital security act has been used to

crackdown on government critics since it was introduced back in 2018 hundreds of people have also much the new ukrainian capital on saturday to protest against the jailing of a right wing blogger and activist. through flares at the prosecutor's office and demanded judges reconsider so he's standing close a case he was convicted this week for the 2015 kidnapping of a politician but his supporters say he was targeted for his anti corruption campaign. thousands of protesters in the french overseas region of martinique have called on judges not to throw out a long delayed case over pesticide poisoning insecticide. sorry quota cone was used for decades on the caribbean island even after it was banned on the french mainland it's been blamed for high rates of cancer in martinique and neighboring guadalupe people compensation. some of it is it it is absolutely

necessary to be here today to fight the criminals those who have polluted martinique those who are destroying us those who have already departed our ancestors who were enslaved our ancestors who today want to poison us want to see us does appear enough is enough now it is time for the fight to resume now the descendants of freed slaves in kenya are seeking official recognition as an ethnic group their ancestors were rescued from ships bound for zanzibar following a british ban on the indian ocean slave trade has this report for a town in mombasa where many of the freed slaves settled. the story of frederick you let his family is one of great suffering and survival his grandfather from tanzania was in slaved and rescued and settled here. it's in a community of people with similar histories korea town in kenya's port city

mombasa to something. you see could be taken from the players. and somewhere. if only the government would look amazing. the history of free a town is told in a nearby mural it's named after battle an officer in the british navy which in the 18th seventies enforced a ban on the slave trade in the indian ocean controlled by a body sultans enslaved people who were rescued at sea with settled here by the british who were colonizing kenya at the time. we met some of their descendants who originate from all over at least in south africa grandfather came from the downs i mean we are all going for the 5 as our sons south africa hear from us a long. long long time since they told us it causes

problems having an identity it's not among kenya's official ethnic groups it becomes very difficult for them to really be registered because we're raised to the off issues that i am young with yasser there's no such tribe in kenya or mafia tony and he's not registered. they say young people in freetown often deny their historical roots to register for id cards just to fit in. shrine something that patrick a boom says is a problem he's the curator of these caves a heritage site widely believed to have once been used as a holding pen for in slave people who don't talk about it it means so we had a silencing but dialogue and we are silencing a lot of people's identities. there are the remains of chains on the walls of the cave according to local all histories and archaeologists this is where people were

chained up and held captive for weeks before being led through these tunnels out on to the beach to slave ships waiting in the indian ocean. historians say millions of africans were in slave and shipped across the seas to the middle east and beyond over centuries many died on the way. those who ended up in freetown were lucky. settlement was founded by christian missionaries the church 140 years ago. 'd 'd going strong with the older members of the community who worry their unique history is fading away. and their identity with it. al-jazeera. funny what is believed to be the roman equivalent of a wedding the museum has been uncovered beneath the ruins of pompei have

a look at this a 4 wheeled chariot perfectly preserved for more than 2000 years before being found by italian archaeologists last month experts say the chariot was too big an ornate to be for everyday use and said for festivities and parades most likely carrying newlyweds to their new homes. at half past the hour we will take you through the headlines one person's been shot dead in 1000000 miles largest city young go on the police use live rounds tear gas water cannon against the anti can demonstrate as me and miles been in chaos and the 1st in the army seized power and detained the elected civilian leader and.