be the hero of the world news. wash. the bloodiest day yet in a month of violence the u.n. says me and ours military has killed at least 18 protests. alone kimbrough this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up where are they to go to school in nigeria as the hunt continues for more than 300 kidnapped girls. is rather than answers there will be vaccines for palestinians with work permits and illegal settlements what about the rest of us to the community. i'll get my 2nd

job in 84 days where some people are just going to get up to 28 days a world 1st the u.k. begins a trial mixing and matching different covert 19 vaccines plus. it's been me and maher the deadliest day since a military coup sparked a nationwide protests the u.n. says security forces have killed at least 18 people after firing live ammunition at unarmed protesters for a month tens of thousands of people have been demanding the return of democracy and the release of aung san suu kyi and other elected leaders tony chang begins our coverage of the medics struggle to treat a wounded protester shot in the chest and on the streets of done away and so the men and the security services crackdown early on sunday police supported by the middle. 3 firing tear gas rubber bullets and live around. but

despite the dangers protesters still turned out in large numbers to oppose the military coup. thank you on live rounds used in yangon a man wounded in the streets of playdown 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 shields 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. we 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 coup on febrile 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 tony chang al jazeera. the u.n. condemned the violent crackdown its human rights office issued a statement saying in several locations throughout the country police that military forces have confronted peaceful demonstrations using lethal force and less than lethal force that according to credible information received by the u.n.

human rights office has left at least 18 people dead and of a 30 wounded reportedly occurred as a result of live ammunition fired into crowds. is the founder of the of a network of organizations supporting human rights and me and mom she's concerned the death toll is likely to rise as more information comes in from smaller cities across the country we've not heard from other regions in the country have this point we've only heard from the south into new to eat where people were killed in the way in munich in yangon in mandalay and who and also big old these are main cities the military is trying to turn these cities into was owned by bringing battle hardened soldiers with their weapons into these areas against an armed protesters it's time for the un security council to take action and send a delegation to defuse the situation in burma without delay this increasing

violence is telling young people that it is almost inevitable that they will go back to the days of previous military regimes and military dictatorship if they don't take a stand and now they know it's now and never now or never be have to overturn this coup or else the entire country will be doomed to another 3 decades of military dictatorship i think for many of these young organizers these young people leading the movement this is bigger than aung san suu kyi and l.d. this is about the fate of the country. $47.00 hong kong pro-democracy activists and former politicians have been charged under beijing's contentious national security law they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territory's legislator last year it's the largest single round of charges under the new law adrian brown reports from hong kong for. leicestershire is

a district councillor now facing the prospect of life in prison after being charged with violating hong kong's tough new national security law if he's convicted his political career like his freedom will be over on sunday he was one of 47 activists told to appear at police stations across the territory with his wife for 4 weeks by his side sure i'm insisted the fight for democracy in hong kong must go on i want you and how all of the hong kong people are no matter where you are 2 will keep faithful and to be hopeful and to accounting to our struggle yes to do you believe you'll be disqualified you are no commie i had are sure that same question 7 months ago after he was detained for taking part in a small protest in breach of social distancing rules i really don't know where i wouldn't start i don't know but i'm i can say for sure that this. shooter was

a candidate in an unofficial poll held last july to pre-select candidates for legislative elections 2 months later elections which were later cancelled with the government citing covert 90 the strategy of the pro-democracy camp had been this again a simple majority in parliament block important legislation and force the resignation of the territory's leader kerry lamb. but such tactics common in democracies around the world are enough to get you arrested in today's hong kong and in january the police came knocking rounding up 55 activists including us human rights lawyer john clancy who was not charged on sunday but joshua the territories best known pro-democracy voice was he's already in jail after being convicted of organizing an unauthorized protests 2 years ago when the beijing imposed national security law

took effect here kerry said it would only affect a small number of people so far it's led to almost $100.00 arrests with half that number now charged human rights groups say that hong kong is heading in the north or a tarion direction with new laws and regulations curbing freedoms once promised by china gradually the voices of dissent are being silenced adrian brown al jazeera hong kong. in thailand hundreds of protesters are calling for the prime minister to step down police used tear gas and water cannon against people rallying to a military base protestors have been demanding reforms to make the monarchy less powerful activists say elections and 29000 were rigged and protecting the king from criticism of being used to silence dissent. by jarius government has ordered all boarding schools in an area where 30700 school girls were kidnapped to close the fate of the students are still unknown they were taken from the town of john kerry

on friday and the latest of a series of mass abductions in the north police say they have information the girls have been moved to a nearby forest one of the girls who managed to escape the abductors has been describing her ordeal. and i were in 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. i'm editor says more from the school then just give it town and some part of state where the girls were taken from they have been rumors flying about the ghosts of been found and then government denying it and then these rumors are persistent that if used to go away but a senior official confirming to algeria that some progress has been med and probably they hope in the next 24 hours the girls will be back or i'm now the situation in this call the police in fact are coordinating the rescue operation

helicopters are combing the forest to find exactly where the locations are is not clear whether negotiations have been going on all not at the time for the time being but we understand that several ministers are currently in them for a state a meeting of the governor and other personalities in the state to try to chart a way forward for the situation a presidential candidate in chad says government security forces have killed his mother son and 3 of his cousins jaeger data the general betis says a unit of the presidential guard raided his home at dawn becerra former rebel leader submissive his candidacy for april's elections on friday the government has confirmed the raid but says its forces had no choice but to shoot when they were fired on it accuses bitch of leading efforts to destabilize the country. saudi arabia says it intercepted several air assaults by her the rebels and had targeted riyadh and cities in the kingdom self and her visa stepping up an offensive in the

yemeni province of muddy shelob else reports. saudi arabia intercepts rockets over riyadh on saturday night. to go after. saudi state media said 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. 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 2 things at the negotiating table this is a very critical. place it looks like i. would like to be in this longer but. these thoughts the problem of course is that these short term gains there. could actually. you the stresses 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 hard 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. the fight is in just. in coombe ribbon if it's a suicide mission and. when the yemeni government urges him 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 neither stop shelling shallop ballasts. still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. grounds emergency approval to johnson and johnson single does shows getting americans across the virus vaccine. donald trump isn't their president anymore but its influence still looms large for us republicans.

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right behind that as it clears up with some crist sunshine the soul and full beijing a lot of sunshine across south asia at its warm sunshine to last the class skies temperatures generally around $45.00 celsius about the seasonal average we have highs of 37 either bad but no just some wet weather that the bhutan. sponsored it weighs more than a year onto the coby 19 pandemic began its origins remain a mystery one when a snakes the scientists trying to trace the virus from the animal kingdom to humans on how does the. played an important role in protecting human. interface.

no geologist there are a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.n. says meanwhile security forces have killed at least 18 people in the most violent day yet of a month long military protest as were killed in yet gone mandalay and 4 other cities 30 a wounded. 47 pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been charged under a controversial security law opposed by beijing were accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territories legislator. nigeria's government has ordered all boarding schools to close in an area where 30700 schoolgirls were kidnapped the fate of the students is still unknown they were taken 2 days ago from

a town in the north. of israel says it will begin vaccinating palestinians but only those working in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the country has faced criticism for excluding gaza and the west bank from its speedy coronavirus vaccine roll out our forces joins us now on skype from west roseland harry so what specifically is this announcement. well yes this is something that had been talked about leaked and reported for some time now but is only now being officially confirmed by the israeli military that the palestinian workers who have permits to work inside illegally illegal israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as you say and also inside israel proper we're talking about more than $120000.00 people but they will be provided the vaccine the modern of vaccine that israel has stores unused stores

of so far because it's been back sitting its own population with the fire as a biotech vaccine that's something that we're told will start to take place during the course of this week the full plan to be published within days and it follows a good deal of criticism that's come israel's way from human rights groups and others and from the palestinian foreign ministry for not vaccinating or offering vaccines to the palestinian authority to allow the population of the occupied west bank and gaza to be vaccinated at a similar rate to what we've seen in israel where more than 4 and a half 1000000 more than half of the population inside israel has already been vaccinated israel also criticized more recently for a plan which would have seen it of vaccines not just to a small amount to the palestinians but also to allies far afield around the world the former director of public health that the israeli health ministry he was saying

that the entire area has to be seen as one epidemiological unit and even on a self interested ground israel should be more to it should be doing more to ensure that palestinians are vaccinated because of the large cross over in occupied east jerusalem and from these workers who come in on a daily basis for between the 2 populations where 7 next question harry where does this leave the rest of the palestinians where my dad vaccines come from. well for now it leaves them almost entirely unvaccinated what we have seen is a 2000 donation given by the israelis to the palestinian authority something that the palace in the health ministry hasn't officially knowledged it maintains that it has the responsibility and rights to to deal in terms of vaccines internationally outside the israeli sphere as well as that there have been 10000

vaccines from the russians that have come in the but vaccine 2000 of those going into gaza 20000 vaccines again the sputnik vaccine from the united arab emirates coming in through egypt into gaza but the main reliance that the palestinian authority will have will be on the kovacs scheme the international donor scheme which is guaranteed some 20 percent of palestinian needs but at a much slower rate than what we've seen happening inside israel in the 1st tranche of astra zeneca vaccines more than $20000.00 of those due to come in in early march but it's going to be a much slower rollout and at a time when there is a 3rd surge of virus infections taking place inside the occupied west bank the caseload has tripled since the beginning of february hospitals a talking about 80 to 100 percent occupancy inside their coded wards and the

possible thought he has just had to act this weekend announcing another partial lockdown schools being closed travel restrictions and nightly curfews to try to respond to this current surge ok thank you for that i think there have forces in west jerusalem. the world's 1st study into mixing and matching different covert 19 vaccines is underway in the u.k. the trial will examine the best dosing schedule for pfizer and to astra zeneca charlie and angela reports from southampton hospital one of 8 sides taking part in the trials. it's a race to beat infection with injections and volunteers in the u.k. and now helping scientists to determine how to get optimism immunity from approved coded vaccines $820.00 people aged over 50 are taking part in a study testing the efficacy of alternating between the pfizer job and astra zeneca as compared to giving 2 doses of the same vaccine just say no you're aware of it

your brain i remind myself of the pfizer exene for the trucks will work with roxy that you have to do head ok thank you. for volunteers like katrina is a chance to contribute to the fight against covert research is needed i'm generally a healthy person so i don't think it's going to cause me to my problem and it's nice to give something back and be able to connect help right away can you i'm not working at moment so i'm very well you know i think you might get to do something to help this trial this testing to dosing schedules one with a 4 week interval between 2 injections another with a 12 week gap these volunteers won't be routinely tested for coated instead they'll be giving regular blood samples to measure the levels of antibodies and the mean cells t. cells that have been vaccines produce against the both participants want to consent video that also spells out the value of the trial because it is being able to find new vaccines in this way returning flex as it should prove to actually having

people to be immunized. a ditto old when they get their next vaccine but not which brand are get my 2nd job in 84 days where some people are just going to get this after 28 days. scientists hope that combining 2 vaccines will strengthen immune responses by harnessing the best features of each we've got very good reason to think that by using one and then the other that well 8 immune systems respond even better both in is. remember coronavirus in the future but also in the reduction of the immune response to those and they plan to add new vaccines like no vaccine young person to the trial once approved. the ability to mix and match parents could make vaccination programs more flexible speed up the process and reduce the impact of any disruptions in the supply chain with the u.k.'s

vaccination program well underway the results of this 13 month trial won't have any impact here but with initial findings expected in the summer it could benefit poor countries in the global fight against coated. al-jazeera southampton. the us has approved johnson and johnson's kovan $1000.00 vaccine it's the country's 3rd and its 1st single dose germ the pharmaceutical giant says its vaccine is effective at preventing severe covert $100.00 symptoms including the new variants 4000000 doses are ready to be shipped to the u.s. top infectious disease expert is encouraging americans to get vaccinated against covered 19 of the anthony felt she says people shouldn't compare vaccine options because they're all effective all 3 of them are really quite good and people should take the one that's most available to them if you go to a place and you have j. and j. and that's the one that's available now i would take it i personally would do the same thing i think people need to get vaccinated as quickly and as expeditiously as

possible and if i would go to a place where they had j.n.j. i would have no hesitancy whatsoever to take it. brazilian president jaya both the novel has threatened to pull emergency aid from states which reintroduce knockdowns he says any governor who's does it who destroys jobs one gets a lot in the central government or the nahda who had to covert 19 is strongly against most restrictions is often dismissed the danger even though more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died from it in brazil. new zealand biggest city or clint is in lockdown after a new case of covert 19 it's been confirmed as the more contagious variant 1st identified in the u.k. schools and nonessential shops are shot 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 you zealand has avoided a high number of infections by banning most foreigners and quickly imposing strict measures when cases and merge we have think really been without loss of life i

coded 19 for some time but there is still the primary reason we take the strict short in shot from asia is it kills people just recently we saw 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 a car bomb has killed 7 members of a joint security forces patrol in iraq's anbar province the army and popular mobilization forces were searching an abandoned car between her death and when the device was trickett. and israeli owned cargo ship that suffered an explosion in the gulf of oman on thursday has docked at dubai's port for repairs the blast left holes in the m.v. helios re vehicle kariya israel says iran is to blame no one on board was injured

in the course of the explosion is still unknown there's been no immediate response from tehran. a russian warship has docked in the sudanese port for the very 1st time russia's plan exact help and naval base in port sudan president vladimir putin approved the plan in november the facility will be capable of handling nuclear powered vessels. on sunday is the final day of the u.s. conservative political action conference and the most anticipated speak is the last former president donald trump it will be his 1st major parents since he left the presidency 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 it would you vote for president if you're in

a heartbeat most people look at the president 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 trumped you know things that are. the stars of c pac or trump stalwarts like former secretary of state mike pompei oh 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. we called 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 in 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 that donald trump listened to the voice that no one else would listen to and we're never going to forget that people are those people and that's what we're focused on trump 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 into paid since he took that escalator ride into history outside of c. pac 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. what's believed to be the roman equivalent of a wedding limousine has been uncovered under the ruins of pompei this for well the

chariot was perfectly preserved for more than 2000 years before being found by italian archaeologist last month experts say the chariot was too big an ornate for everyday use and was for festivities and parades most likely carrying newly weds to their new homes. this is all just there and these are the top stories the u.n. says meehan miles security forces have killed at least 18 people during wants be the deadliest day yet since the military coup testers were killed in young gone mandalay and 4 other cities more than 30 others are wounded tony chang is following developments for us from bangkok. to report.