i come back to sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's. security forces in me in market at least for antique protesters in the most violence day of the crackdown yet. here in doha this is the world news from al-jazeera dozens of pro tem ocracy activists in hong kong have been charged under beijing's national security law. got

an update for you on the search for more than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in northern nigeria and acknowledging the past the descendants of slaves in kenya official recognition as an ethnic group. looking at the bloodiest day of the crackdown yet in me and by security forces against the anti coupe protesters who've been rallying now for weeks in the past few hours at least 4 protesters have been killed by the police one shot dead in yang gone and reports of several more fatalities in other cities as reporters and tony chiang. medics struggle to treat a wounded protester shot in the chest an arm on the streets of darwin. the security services crackdown early on sunday police supported by the military firing tear gas rubber ball. it's and live around. but despite the dangers protesters still turned

out in large numbers to oppose the military coup. and live rounds used in young gone a man wounded in the streets of play down district the protesters tried to give him 1st aid and get them to cover. as the tear gas rained down they ran for shelter. elsewhere hid behind improvise she. but if the intention was to get the crowds to disperse it failed regrouping out of range of the guns the protesters remain defiant the crackdown has been widely anticipated and the crowds are fully aware of the dangers they face down or. with the public are only protesting peacefully and now the military has come to crackdown they're just here to give us trouble we want peace we have nothing but still they come to crack down on us. we want to protect our people because the police aren't doing

that they're attacking us instead as you know the jointer is doing illegal actions so the citizens need to protect themselves. the campaign of civil disobedience has been widely observed against the military the 1st in many areas people block the roads with obstacles and cars the progress of the police hindered as they tried to clear a path in some places the protesters tried to take a stand throwing projectiles a molotov cocktails at the police. but it seems a futile effort as they attempt to stop a military government prepared to use lethal force against its own people. plenty of information in that report from tony changes with us now live from bangkok i'm wondering as a sort of postscript to that can you tell us about how you got all that information today not only the crackdown on the streets but the choking of internet and communications it's straight out of the me and playbook how has it affected what

you've been able to gather. absolutely we found early on in the day that certain areas of myanmar were particularly difficult to contact after the blanket shutdown that was the internet that happened last night as it has done for more than a week now it didn't come on in certain areas like mandalay yang gone seem to be ok dar way in the south also contacts were very tough but people are getting the information out we're also we've got teams on the ground who we're speaking to contacts who've been reporting back to us what has been very difficult is confirming the numbers of faith territories as they've been coming in we've seen very gruesome pictures on social media of the injuries sustained by the protesters in these incidences of live fire. as the police and army have pushed down but in the last hour it's really you mentioned 4 confirmed the france press news agency is

confirmed that there are 2 more. spoken to an ambulance men who transported to bodies from this city about go which is about an hour's drive from and learn we're expecting those numbers to climb even further with some footage we've seen out of mandalay motorcyclist who appears to have been shot in the head by a sniper so it is a struggle getting information out but i think it's also a huge challenge for the military who are in the past who conducted these kinds of crackdowns in relative secrecy with information seeping out very slowly over days and weeks now it's happening almost into instantaneously and those messages not only getting to the outside world but a flashing around myanmar as well and there's a huge amount of anger but what's going on at the moment thank you for all those updates and insight as well tony chang in bangkok. and there are protests in

bangkok as well hundreds of people continuing to call for the prime minister to step down and for reforms to make the monarchy less powerful activists say elections in 2019 were rigged and that laws protecting the king from criticism being used to silence dissent with staying in asia and almost 50 hong kong pro-democracy activists and former politicians have been charged under the contentious national security law the one imposed by beijing all were detained after being told to report to police stations across the city they were accused of participating in an official election primaries in the territories legislature last year is the largest single round of charges under that law is adrian brown with more from hong kong. 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 activists 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 yet for some reason everything's 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 it you're going to have $47.00 of these activists appearing in court we're not sure if 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 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 paralyzing 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. a presidential candidate in chad says government security forces have killed his mother son and 3 of his cousins. and betty says units of the presidential guard. raided his home and don't pictures of the alleged attack and aftermath were posted on social media but internet access across chad has since been shut off she's a former rebel leader who submitted his candidacy for april's elections on friday

that is where president intrastate he is seeking a 6th term in. the fate of 317 schoolgirls abducted in nigeria on friday is still unknown taken from the town of junk and 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 so let's talk to is that the school in some far a state where the girls were taken from i believe actually one of the girls managed to escape and we got a little bit of information for what more you learning. were basically the girls who escaped were those left behind by the bondage or the gunmen who invaded this school i would spoken to parents of some of them already who are here keeping vigil waiting for news of their children and the stories they are for telling us. how doing the experience was immediately after these girls were taken. after daylight

when when when their lights arrives they followed their footsteps and along the way they picked up head dresses shoes stained with blood and then there were blood traces along the way and what bothers the most is that this school is not far away from some key security checkpoints in the town of jenin gibbie now what they're telling us is that the armed men when they came into the school they bust through the gates shot at the security person will run to cover and in the process when a police officer returned fire they shot and killed a police officer then they started raising start raising stuff quarters after realizing that the students were actually not there they started moving into hostels and right behind me now is one of the hostages they trust broke into their they found dozens of students some of them in their night dresses and then they

packed them together they moved from one hostile to the other this is a school with more than 550 students took away 307 do students come out that's extraordinary so it's a tell me about the reaction of people in the town of john garamendi 30300 girls gone that has a lot of worried parents. absolutely concerned anger and frustration and some of the parents who we spoke to earlier told us they can't understand why they defied the huge security presence close to the school that this incident will happen and this has become the norm in northern nigeria kamar these developments we just came back from niger state where recently. dozens of students were released to their forces after spending about 10 days in captivity now one of the parents is telling us that he heard his son telling him that after the school after completing the school he's not going back to any other school

a. kitchen for him is over and that is the fear of or forges feo parents fear of agencies that are supporting development issues in africa the concern is that these continual raids on schools is going to kill of education in northern nigeria one of the we is one of the regions that is falling far behind in this country in terms of school roll meant in terms of school retention in terms of graduating students as well so this is a very big concern and the way it's spreading now it's for concerning not only to families but also to the government which by the way wasn't able to deal with the situation over the past 7 years or so because banditry started right here and so for a state farms are being raided cattle are being taken away people and then the it's graduated in to take your people hostage for once i'm and this is continuing to go initially there was some breaks late last year until the early part of this year when it resumed in full force now it's deadly and it's dangerous come out

manageress is joining us from john get there thank you. in the news ahead johnson and johnson gets emergency u.s. approval for its single dose of vaccine americans now have a 3rd option and we'll see how small pacific nations have managed to avoid massive coronavirus outbreak seen elsewhere in the world. it's time for the perfect jenny. sponsored point qatar airways we've got to return to winter for parts of the korean peninsula and japan over the next couple of days because this little bank of clouds sliding across the northeast of china behind our cold front which will gather and move further southward so sad but a snow coming through here maybe as much as 50 or 60 centimeters into parts of north korea some of the snow pushing into the north of south korea further south some

very heavy rain maybe 6070 millimeters of rain coming through here and that could cause some localized flooding make the most of the dry day that we do have a monday for much of japan because the system will move through the sea of japan heavy rain coming through with still coming in from the south there for tokyo so the temperatures not faring too badly at around 18 celsius before the system sweeps through later on in the week and things do start to cool down behind that it is generate drive-by choose day across the korean peninsula into a good parts of china low one or 2 showers down towards the southeast of china want to show as to ensue and opposed to sliding into bhutan much of south asia is dry because some water out across much of india many places around 4 or 5 celsius above the seasonal average we see highs in hyderabad of 37 degrees. qatar airways. mt vesuvius is one of the most dangerous active volcanoes in the.

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cannon against antique demonstrators 47 pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been charged under a controversial security law imposed by beijing the largest single round of charges under that. and the fate of 317 schoolgirls abducted in nigeria on friday is still unknown they were taken from the town of junk the latest of a series of mass abductions in the north. saudi arabia says it is intercepted several air assaults by the rebels in yemen were targeted riyadh and cities in the kingdom south these are stepping up their offensive as well in the yemeni province of maariv as charlotte bellus reports. saudi arabia intercepts rockets over riyadh on saturday night we are going to have to go after the omaha sorry 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 and if 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 60 years of war the who these more merit because it's the yemeni government's last northern best un to capture it could bolster the who thinks at the negotiating table this is a very critical battle playing. it looks like i both sides would like to be in the stronger bargaining position and. these thoughts the problem of course is that these short term gains they are thinking of could actually hear

a eluding you the straw says launched by the new u.s. administration the yemeni government has issued an urgent coombes for the huth east to stop their offensive they wound of a humanitarian catastrophe merab is already home to the largest concentration of displaced yemenis and he's to make his 2000000 people. still the government is fighting back and says a day they reported killing 350 who the fight is unjust. and cobra benefits a suicide mission and they're not going to come back 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 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

their last weeks and months both sides say the opposite putting civilians at risk and yet neither stop shelling shallop ballasts there. are many as president is refusing to fire his top general even though the prime minister has publicly called for his dismissal on accuses the military of attempting a coup he has faced growing calls to step down since november or before a stay at walker reports from. pressure is growing the prime minister nicola. 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 a good one 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 a car about. 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 un promises he made when he came to power 3 years ago remain unfulfilled that was easy expectation that only his state months will allowed to arrest or corruption there's or may judges on the stand the professional about the 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 on. the street protests demanding mr passion yan's resignation have been bolstered by support from the army generals the church and now the president of the republic the prime minister's response on saturday evening was to return a decree 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 the walka al jazeera. so it's well it's early sunday morning in the u.s. final day of the u.s. conservative political action conference back on the most anticipated speaker is the last one former president donald trump this will be his 1st major appearance since he left the presidency and he is expected to make a pitch for a basically divided republican party to unite behind him john hendren reports from orlando florida so thank you feedback thank you for being here this is not the

republican party that party is it war with itself one part the moderates are hoping to move into a post trump era the conservative political action conference is home to the other half proudly pro trump activists and would you vote for president if you're in a heartbeat most people look at president trump and they think i don't like the way he looks i don't like the way he sounds they don't look past that they don't look at the policies and i follow him based on policy moderates need not apply not here former vice president mike pence senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and congresswoman liz cheney all moderates who have disappointed trump you know going into the heart of the stars of sea pac or trump stalwarts like former secretary of state mike pump aoe a potential 2024 presidential contender who sounds like he's running against president joe biden already in the last few months we've been called clowns and

deplorable and ignorant rednecks. because the evil resistance the new york times think i'm the worst secretary of state of all time but i'm proud of our fight and i'm proud of our accomplishments and that we have truly been the status quo. and then there's a house republican leader kevin mccarthy who's made no secret where his allegiance lies in the party's divide it was forgotten man and woman but donald trump listened to the voice that no one else would listen to and we're never going to forget that the those people and that's what we're focused on memorably announced his long shot bid for the presidency at the end of an escalator donald trump speech to see packed his 1st major address since leaving the white house is his most. escalator ride into history outside of c. pack the former president's visit his drawn both supporters. and detractors.

but inside she packed there's little doubt who the attendees favor for the presidency in 2024 john hendren al jazeera orlando coronavirus news and the u.s. has approved the johnson and johnson coated 1000 vaccine the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose job the pharmaceutical company says the vaccine is effective at preventing severe 19 symptoms including new variants $4000000.00 doses are already to be shipped out speaking of which the philippines has received its 1st shipment of vaccines president would you go to turkey held a ceremony to welcome the arrival of 600000 doses of sign of back from china the philippines has ordered 25000000 more. well a lot of small pacific island nations have been some of the most successful countries in the world keeping covert 19 at bay despite these efforts that tourism dependent economies have been badly affected and there's no sign yet of any

recovery. 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 they crisis is an economic one with borders shot many people are out of work intrusion dependent countries like that awhile too and fiji that's also recovering from a cycloid that devastated communities from your money in the pocket transport of the children and everything. that's a real crisis right 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 injuries 20 percent of them want to. go next but that isn't enough we need the support of everyone to make sure. eventually everybody. against this horrible out there. for the other writing percent this trial ia and new zealand have committed to supplying vaccines the best 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 place we want to keep 'd being relevant in the region it is named 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. funny 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 that story now from french town in mombasa where many of the freed slaves settled. the story of frederick you leddy's family is one of great suffering and survival his grandfather from tanzania was in slaved and rescued and settled here within a community of people with similar histories. town in kenya's port city mombasa to something. you see could be taken from the players.

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 seventy's enforced a ban on the slave trade in the indian ocean controlled by a body sultans enslaved people who were rescued at sea were settled here by the british who were colonizing kenya at the time. we met some of their descendants who originate from east and south africa grandfather came from. we are going for the 5 as our sons so it sounds like here from. a long long time. 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

registered because when are they. to the old issues that i am with you there's no such trail 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 card just to fit in and something that patrick a boon to says has 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 silence 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 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 this church 140 years ago 'd 'd. christianity is still going strong but older members of the community worry their unique history is fading away. and their identity with it. and where al jazeera. kenya. this is al jazeera and half past the hour these are the headlines the bloodiest day of the crackdown yet by so.