change is changing all of our drive to bring you more award winning documentaries and life means. play important role protecting him and. face. at least 4 people were killed in an intensifying crackdown against and he could protestors in me and. hello i'm come all santa maria here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera johnson and johnson has been given emergency u.s. approval for its single dose vaccine giving americans

a 3rd option for battle for control in yemen is a rise in fighting between her things and government forces in the central province and acknowledging the past we make descendants of slaves in 10 years we're not seeking official recognition as an ethnic group. so there has been may have been more violence in me and mother sunday for protesters killed across the country least one note was shot in young go on. video there of police using live rounds tear gas water cannon as well against the demonstrations and reports too of several more deaths in other cities offices have been changing their tactics stamping out protests before they even begin mean more of course in crisis and for the 1st when the military seized power and detained

elected civilian leaders including unsung suchi. i can see the soldiers in a word that. we're not here in the streets supporting any political party i was trying to go to the way he supported in the future if we don't leave 1st we're going to just do it. and now this is happened it's no good for us. you know if you do i don't know us and we the public are only protesting peacefully and now the military has come to crack down it just here to cause us trouble we want peace we have nothing but still they've come to crack down on us from the 77th light infantry division the latest now attorney chairing monitoring things from bangkok thailand tony last time we talked it was one person confirmed dead now up to 4. indeed we're hearing confirmation of 3 deaths in a way in the south of myanmar independent confirmation from one of the medics who is treating those shot when when the police when the soldiers opened fire on the

crowd of protesters they've been out since about 8 o'clock in the morning local time when the security services cranked down hard using rubber bullets tear gas as you mentioned but live rounds as well some of the pictures coming out on social media show those wounded with very severe. injuries clearly and they're the kinds of images we've been seeing not just in the way but also in young gone or mourning and in the last hour. a protester in mandalay apparently shot by a sniper on the back of a motorbike and it's very hard to confirm these fatalities at this stage in men to them to kill or communications have been cut off for much of the day. but it's clearly a picture emerging of a brutal crackdown on the protesters the protesters call for people to come out in

very large numbers on the streets yesterday we saw the security services employing these new much tougher tactics against the protesters trying to stop them stop them before they could get momentum but if the intention of the security services was to scare them off the streets it hasn't worked people are still coming out in very large numbers very disturbed as you can hear by those voices on the streets but they're still very determined to state their opposition to the military coup and why is that tony what is different this time because everything sort of going according to form in a way the way that the military is pushing back as they always have in the past this time the protesters are just so much more galvanized. they are indeed i think in the past when this has happened i guess most notably in 1908 was a very different place was very isolated news was leaking out very slowly in days of no weeks now they are seeing these images flashing across social media

screens almost instantly despite the efforts by the military go mad to try and slow down or cut off the internet in many areas it's still getting out it's getting out to the outside world many people have heard the address by marrs ambassador to the united nations general assembly on friday night and would deeply encouraged by that that the world is aware of their plight they are asking for the world to intervene who knows if that will happen but but they are communicating with each other and they've also had 5 years of relatively democratic rule they've seen the benefits that have come from an elected government and i think many of them particularly the cue that all those benefits will be lost if things start to roll back. thank you tony chang monitoring mean march from bangkok. in other news 47 a pro democracy activists in hong kong have been charged under a controversial security law imposed by beijing dozens of people were ordered to

report to police stations across the city on sunday officially charged with one count of conspiracy to commit subversion adrian brown with more from. what we've seen in the past few months in hong kong are the leaders of the pro-democracy movement being rounded up and charged now the authorities are moving in if you like on the foot soldiers on sunday we saw 47 of these mostly young pro-democracy activist told to report to police stations across the territory it's not clear why they had to appear before police today though because after they were arrested in early january they were told to report to police in april for some reason being fast tracked and no one's exactly sure why now we know that these 47 activists are going to appear in court on monday morning at west kalou magistrate's court but think about how $47.00 of these activists appearing in court we're not sure they're

going to be all together or whether they will appear individually but they have been denied bail and will next see them in court on monday morning now their crime if you like is that they are accused of organizing a poll to pre-select candidates for elections which were due to happen last september but the government says this poll was aimed at simply care allies in the hong kong government because the organizers of the poll had made no secret of the fact that what they wanted was for the pro-democracy come to get an overall majority in the legislative assembly making it much easier for them to to block government legislation including things like the budget eventually forcing the chief executive to resign now in democracies around the world those sorts of tactics are commonplace but in today's hong. kong strategizing about how to win an election is now a violation of the national security law. coronavirus news the us has approved the

johnson and johnson covert 19 vaccine it is the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose jab the pharmaceutical company says its vaccine is effective at preventing severe covert $900.00 symptoms including those of the new variance and 4000000 doses are all ready to be shipped his governor is under in washington he says this new vaccine has some 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 u.s. say all the vaccines do the job the f.d.a. has just announced emergency use authorization of a 3rd a backseat for americans this one made by ensign also did called 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 being 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. saudi arabia says it has intercepted several error assaults by hooty rebels in yemen who targeted riyadh and cities in the kingdom south. are also stepping up an offensive in the yemeni province of mahdi. reports. saudi arabia intercepts rockets over riyadh on saturday night we are 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 who the rebels pushed 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. my read from 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 60 years of war there who these more merit because it's the yemeni government's nost northern bestie and to capture it could bolster the things at the negotiating table this is a very critical battle making place it looks like 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 derailing you these fraudsters launched by new u.s. administration. the yemeni government has issued urgent calls 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 his 2000000 people. still the government is fighting back on saturday they reported killing 350 who the fight is in just 2 hours and cobra belief it's a suicide mission. 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 with fewer numbers and they were defeated the 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 their last weeks and months both sides say the other is putting civilians at risk and neither stop shelling shallop dallas or in the news their heads say why small pacific island nations have managed to avoid large coronavirus

outbreaks. and protesters in the french caribbean demand action over a pesticide blamed for high rates of cancer. but . the weather's been largely settled across china recently added into the philippines where we got a few more showers in the forecast over the next couple of days but some places of cherry rain running into central and northern parts of the philippines and at times it will be on the heavy side into parts of luzon could cause a little bit of localized flooding water to showers into central and southern parts of vietnam you may even see a shower to just. into thailand as we go on into choose day cambodia could see some heavier showers some are looking at some rather wet weather pushing across into

some montra usual showers there across much of malaysia we have got some wetter weather still exacerbating the flooding concerns that we do have into. so much weather to into northern parts of australia chiefly around the cape york peninsula little circulation in place here a little area of low pressure which may well develop into a tropical side that will bring some very heavy rainfall in and around can sliding down towards townsville could cause some localized flooding and damaging winds as well because see some problems here over the next couple of days still a few showers into the northeast of queensland pushing across into the southeast of queensland ad northeastern parts of new south wales and the chance of some showers the new zealand. a tamil journalist in search of a missing colleague stops at nothing to bring her 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. with al-jazeera and these are the top stories 4 people have been shot dead in 1000000 miles largest city young gun as police use live rounds tear gas and water cannon against the ante to demonstrate its 47 pro-tem ocracy activists in hong kong have been charged under

a controversial security law imposed by beijing dozens of people ordered to report to police stations across the city on sunday and the u.s. has given emergency approval for johnson and johnson's coded 19 vaccine now giving americans a 3rd option and their 1st single dose shots. new zealand's biggest city oakland is in lockdown after a new case of covert 19 it has been confirmed is the more contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. schools and non-essential shops are shut and movement in and out of the city is severely restricted the rest of the country is subject to less stringent rules including a limit on public gatherings zenon has avoided high numbers of infections by banning most foreigners and quickly imposing strict measures as cases emerge. we have think clearly 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 measures 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 measures it is to save our people's lives and to save their livelihoods small pacific on the nation's largely been successful at keeping cover 19 at bay but despite these efforts the tourism dependent economies have been badly affected and there is no sign yet of any recovery because the gauge is more in that . papa new 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 and true as independent countries like that awhile too and. it's also recovering from

a cycloid that devastated communities from many in the transfer of the children to every school you know it's a real crisis. vaccines are being rolled out in the marshall islands and plan helped by the u.s. government but for the rest some experts say it could take years to bax in a small oist of their people countries are initially relying on the global kodak's initiative an alliance of organizations delivering that seems to developing nations exact roll out dates for the pacific conserved but it's hotel begin in the coming months for the injuries trying to send over the want to. go x. but there isn't enough we need all the support of everyone to make sure. eventually everybody's getting vaccinated against this horrible out there. for the other writing percent astray and new zealand have committed to supplying vaccines that

their timeline also isn't clear some experts believe the strelley a should already be hoping its neighbors given its relatively low numbers of could it 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 the vaccination rollout 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. ecuador's health minister has resigned after it was revealed several members of his family jumped the queue to get their covert 1000 back scenes on carlos is about us is the 3rd health minister in south america to go following similar scandals in peru and argentina you know shrine reports from when cyrus. the battle to control the

colored 19 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 but. the latest to go is the ecuadoran health minister one caller survive yours ensuring that his family was given preferential treatment. we have all committed eras 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 specialist gets down to 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 his gonzalez garcia resigned when it came to light he devoted friends and colleagues to receive what have been called the ip vaccines. his replacement all of the sortie has since tested positive for covered 19 and is 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 of oratory. and 40 tons of oxygen donated by chile to prove with supplies of one day to see you know. that protests against handling of the pandemic are increasingly common use one on saturday and one osiris is there but if they give it to the president and the vice president then ok but they shouldn't box in 8 the deputies or the ministers that's

no good i'm almost saying one message on friday 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 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 that are trying their out as here i want to cyrus. the fate of 317 schoolgirls abducted in nigeria on friday is still unknown they were taken from the town of jenin in the latest of a series of mass abductions in the north the government has ordered all boarding schools in the area to be shut down police say they have information the girls have

been moved to a nearby forest one of the girls who managed to escape the gunman those been describing her ordeal. and well and i was coming out from the door and i met somebody that ran back and hid under my bed i'm scared of going back to school because of what happened but i'll go back if the government makes it safe. now an oil spill that's devastated the coast of israel has begun to affect southern lebanon it happened earlier this month and environmental groups fear it could take years to clean up at the top as other young reports. the sand on tire beach in lebanon is contaminated and soaked in tar. it's residue from a massive oil spill that started in israel's coast now the beginning of a tedious cleanup effort entire is under way to protect the environment and the city's tourism but i mean it's sort of. a nature reserve is suffering from approximately 2 tons of tar 90 percent of which is hidden under the sand we're trying to extract it as soon as possible so we can protect the turtles hatching

season. the spill is considered israel's a biggest environmental disaster beaches have been shut down and there are reports of turtles and birds covered in oil. the sale of fish and other seafood from the area is now prohibited but not all fishermen are following the guidelines now as they are were still eating the fish the entire village many of my friends and people i know bought it and were not affected the tar floats on the water it damages the reefs and seaweed the beach and our equipment like nets and boat but the fish don't eat anything unnatural. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says nearly $14000000.00 have been earmarked to clean up the country shoreline should move to an oil tanker league off the coast is suspected to have cost the spill and tons of tar continue to wash up the mediterranean coast environmental groups fear it could take months or perhaps even hears to clean up the damage.

on al-jazeera. thousands of protesters in the french overseas region of martinique have called on judges not to throw out a long delayed case on pesticide poisoning the insecticide kotak on 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 in neighboring guadalupe and people want compensation b.b.c. 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 deployed and 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 the descendants of freed slaves in kenya seeking official recognition as an ethnic group their ancestors were rescued from ships bound for zanzibar after

a british ban on the indian ocean slave trade. for a town in mombasa any of the freed slaves settled. the story of frederick you ladies family is one of great suffering and survival his grandfather from tanzania was inflated then rescued and settled here. it's in a community of people with similar histories who prefer town in kenya's port city mombasa to something. you say could be taken from the blue. and somewhere. if only the government could not remain. 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 the east and south africa grandfather came from london downs and me we are going for the 5 as our sons south africa here from here still a. long long time since they told us it causes problems having an identity is not among kenya's official ethnic groups it becomes very difficult for them to be reduced or because when are they. do they also issues that i am young with. there is no such trail in kenya where tony and he's not just. 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 boon to 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 or if it means to be silencing but dialogue and 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. the story in the same millions of africans were enslaved 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 build the church 140 years ago 'd 'd. christianity is still going strong with older members of the community worry their unique history is fading away. and their identity with it malcolm webb al-jazeera. kenya. deal with al-jazeera at half past the hour these are the headlines for people shot dead in 1000000 miles largest city yangon as police use live rounds tear gas and water cannon against antique demonstrators tony jones has more on the latest reports coming out of me in the 2nd largest city mandalay in the last hour. a protester in mandalay apparently shot by a sniper on the back of a motorbike. it's very hard to confirm these for.