over babylon on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on al jazeera. 0. can but al this is the news our lot from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. the bloodiest day yes in a month of violence the u.n. says me and miles military has killed at least 18 protesters. where are the apricot now based on the hunt for more than 300 schoolgirls kidnapped in nigeria. israel

says palestinians with work permits in israel and illegal settlements in the occupied west bank we'll get an ocular acted for coronavirus others miss else. a sophisticated set up the philippines gears up for its covert 900 vaccines but there's concern for people in rural areas. in sports caster semenya lawyer tells al-jazeera he expects the olympic champion to compete at this year's tokyo games so many is facing a legal race against time to win the right to defend 800 meters title. more people have lost their lives fighting for the release of aung san suu kyi be it miles democratically elected leader is due to appear in court in the coming all of a month after being deposed in

a military coup or detention has triggered countrywide protests and the united nations says on sunday alone at least 18 people have been killed after live ammunition was fired into crowds tony chang big. our coverage. medics struggle to treat a wounded protester shot in the chest and arm on the streets of dar way in southern myanmar the security services crackdown early on sunday police supported by the military 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 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 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. 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 coup on fairbridge 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 the 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 ching al jazeera let's look in more detail at the un's condemnation of the army's actions during the bloodiest day of protests it says in several locations throughout the country police and military forces have confronted peaceful demonstrators using lethal force and less than lethal force that according to credible the information received by the u.n. human rights office is that at least 18 people dead and more than 30 wounded deaths reportedly occurred as a result of live ammunition fired into crowds. that is the founder of the old c.n.n. burma a network of organizations supporting human rights and need more she says the number of deaths is likely to rise as more information comes in from smaller cities . we've not heard from other regions in the country have this point we've only

heard from the south into new to even people killed in the way in munich in yangon in mandalay and percoco and also burgo these are all main cities the military is trying to turn these cities into was owns by bringing battle hardened soldiers with their weapons into these areas against unarmed 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 and 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 their country the fallout from on kong's pro-democracy battle continues 47 activists and former politicians have been charged under the national security law imposed by beijing they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territories legislator adrian brown reports. leicestershire is a district councillor now facing the prospect of life in prison after being charged with violating home 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 or 4 weeks by his side should insisted the fight for the mark. prosy in hong kong must go on i want. the hong kong people no matter where you are to keep faith 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 our show him 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 would get started i don't know but i'm i can say for sure that this. shooting was a candidate in an unofficial poll held last july to pre-select candidates for legislative elections 2 months later elections which were later canceled 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 $55.00 activists including us human rights lawyer john clancy who was not charged on sunday but joshua wong 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 carrie lamb 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 a north oratory in 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. police in thailand have used tear gas and water cannon to

disperse hundreds of protesters calling for the prime minister there to step down i've diverse say the elections in 2019 move rigged the demonstrators in bangkok are also demanding constitutional reforms to make the monarchy less powerful they say north protecting the king from criticism are being used to silence dissent. let's delve deeper into the pro-democracy movement in thailand and those neighboring countries judith by it is a political and legal adult poll just at the university of konstanz in germany she joins us now by skype thank you for your time so we have a crackdown now on me and activists being charged in hong kong after violent protests there protestors in thailand being met with water cannon or any connection parallels to be drawn here a protest is being inspired perhaps by what they're seeing in the region. definitely they are and today was for me and that leaves the devil instead we've seen but it was also a hopeful day in the beginning because it was planned as a transnational our solidarity movement the so-called milk tea alliance which

unites different activist groups for example people in hong kong in taiwan. and india so there's a huge crowd of nations across culturally across nationally among actually those who learn from each other or to each other who shows on a dairy teach once one another and this is incredibly hopeful but at the same time as we've just seen today in myanmar it was the deadliest day with lots of violence from the military so i guess the demands of protest is an on all these different countries are very different they're all facing very different situations but what are the perhaps the parallels that we can see here. talk to me a little bit about that. well it's still a legitimate take of power by and by the military or by it's a regime which the protestors are fighting against and not for example there is no doubt that it was an illegal activity committed by the military regime that was

a government that was a newly elected parliament in place so there were leaders there was democracy in started 1 which might not have been perfect but it was a democratic society and it's illegal what is going on now and the international community needs to react. why are activists so determined in me in my i mean now the risk of injury and even death it's very real risk now why do you think protesters are so determined and do you think now that we're seeing this crackdown that the protest movement perhaps might store will lose some of that momentum. they are so committed because they know that they don't have an alternative that i see amongst all of my interlocutors from. the determinacy to to stay on the streets no matter how hard it will get they are few full of course they are threatened and frightened but they don't want to go back to

a military dictatorship and this is what bookies people are coming to the streets and so we will probably see an increase in violence. we won't see people backing down so there's absolutely no way that they'll go back to a dictatorship and that includes all the generations the older generations who has experience of living in a dictatorship but also the young people who experience that in a democracy so they're united and scoffs and i think this is not only incredibly dangerous because we've seen today that the myanmar military is ready to use all kinds of violence everything they do today was against international law but they still shut people peaceful demonstrators but also should people who are not even involved demonstrations who just happen to be in that street at and so again i think it's really important that the united nations but also all the other states take a very strong stance now but what is the you know this this crackdown say to you

about the actual likelihood of the military responding to any sort of international pressure because we have had you know different countries come out targeted sanctions with had a very emotional speech from me in my u.n. ambassador and yet nothing seems to have changed now in fact the military is using more force so what does that say to you about the likelihood that they will actually respond to further international pressure. and this isn't a bureaucrat chanel's think eventually it will need to go beyond statements of concern and i can only reiterate what i hear my interlocutors saying in their mouths they are so desperate that they're currently even taking into account the responsibility to protect their already except for example un peacekeeping troops i think they might be. a bit ahead of us actually going to happen in the next weeks but we will have to reconsider what the international community can do beyond

stating great concern at this moment right thank you for that judith buyer there are a political and legal anthropologist at the university of constance in germany. and areas government has ordered all boarding schools to close in an area where $3700.00 schoolgirls were kidnapped the fate of the students is still unknown they were taken from the town of jan gave a on friday 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 escaped her abductors has been describing her ordeal. and now when 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 ahmed it dresses at the school and just gave a town in some part of states from where the girls were taken this is the 1st hostel the gunman broke into and when they arrived here this is the frost room

there entered the 1st of all broke this door and then moved inside. now in this room there are 8 bun brits and on this bed some of them empty of my trusses and other things but right here you can see uniforms that are waiting to be working and right here is a bucket full of water which the owner probably stored for the morning bath which is an able or she was unable to take all over the floor materials brooms saw and other things strewn all over the place in this particular institution this school when the gunman broke into the school there were more than $550.00 students $317.00 of them were herded together and drove into the night by this gunman 3 days after there is no story about their safety or when they're coming home as a result the government of them for

a state has shut down all public schools and this is having an effect on public education in the i.j.a. area minn is caused are being shut especially in neighboring states for fear of the repeat of this institution and these incidents the kidnapping for ransom the attacks on institutions of learning is coming out in the region why our school enrollment is low the literacy level is lower than the rest of the country and of course government is struggling to raise up the level of improvement and retention as well as graduation in schools there are concerns now that this development world's top or interrupt education in nigeria especially in the north of the country where these incidents have now become frequent. a presidential candidate in chad says government security forces have killed his mother son and 3 of his cousins. digital bitches says a unit of the presidential guard raided his home at dawn they cheer former rebel

leader submissives his candidacy for april's elections on friday the government has confirmed the raid it says its forces had no choice but to shoot when they were fired on it accuses bitch of leading efforts to destabilize the country. i do more ahead on the news all including unshackling the chains of a haunted past descendants of freed slaves want kenya's government to recognize them as an ethnic group. mixing and matching to tame cove at 19 we'll tell you about a unique unique rather trial underway in the u.k. . and it's for a quick start from into milan as they aim to extend their lead at the top of the italian table. development of vaccines attack the coronavirus pandemic is gathering pace us making the latest significant advance a one shot dose johnson and johnson jab is the 3rd vaccine to be approved in the

u.s. that's the worst affected nation in the world another that's leading the way is the u.k. there oxford university is increasing its supply at home and in west africa 500000 doses of the astra zeneca oxford vaccine have arrived in ivory coast following gonna earlier this week but the rollout hasn't been so successful in south america's biggest country more than a quarter of a 1000000 people have died in brazil since its 1st cove in 1000 cases a year ago and china is facing problems too this concern travel restrictions could be in place until next year because domestic distribution of vaccines has been slow . israel says it will begin vaccinating palestinians but only those working in israel and in the eagle settlements in the occupied west bank the countries face criticism for excluding gaza and the west bank from its speedy rollout of coronavirus inoculations are a force that joins us now live by skype from western perry so run us through this

announcement and why this is only covering those palestinians in illegal settlements why it's only those who are getting offered the job. well yes it's the illegal settlement workers in the occupied west bank and workers who cross into israel proper as world with work permits and in total that means north of $120000.00 palestinians who will be getting vaccines under this scheme it's something that has been talked about for some time there were talks between israeli and palestinian authorities last week and now the military body that operates inside the occupied west bank known as has announced this that there will be vaccine stations set up inside industrial zones in those illegal settlements and at crossings into israel as well this comes after israel has been subjected to a good deal of criticism from human rights organizations and others over the disjunct between its extraordinarily rapid rollout of vaccinations within its own

population and the lack of vaccinations on the other side inside the west bank and inside gaza israel maintaining that it doesn't have the obligation because under the oslo accords the health ministry inside the occupied west bank inside gaza has responsibility for health but critics point to international law that israel is not buying power should have been vaccinating these people in any case harry when where then does that leave the rest of the palestinians where might they be able to get that thing in vaccinations from. well so far israel has provided just over 2000 vaccines to the palace soon or 40 the p.a.'s also got $10000.00 vaccines from the russians of which it gave 2000 to garza from the west bank to gaza and inside gaza as well there has been another donation of 20000 vaccines from the u.a.e. which came in through the egyptian crossing into gaza but that represents

a tiny number when you think of the 4 and a half 5000000 people inside the occupied palestinian territories the international kovacs alliance has guaranteed to provide the 20 percent of the need and some 20000 or more astra zeneca vaccines are due to come in in march but right now there is a major virus pyke going on inside the west bank of 3rd wave various restrictions being reimposed so there's a real need for vaccines to roll up much more quickly ok thank you for the data herefore that there in west jerusalem one country that hasn't received a single vaccine yes it is the tipping officials in major cities have unveiled how they'll launch their inoculation program it's already concerned people in remote areas won't get it to me and can reports. this is one of the most advanced and sophisticated vaccine storage facilities in

the philippines. here are all. these. things. we have in this be. in the in manila times funds have also been allocated to purchase growing a virus vaccines for millions of its people but the situation isn't the same in many rural towns in the small town of. province villagers say they are allocating about 10 percent of their budget to the purchase of crew in the virus vaccines it's money that was meant for infrastructure and education. and i think. we know that the philippines is struggling the national government going to provide that since for everyone that this way we decided to contribute for

the good the power constituents. are using this refrigerator is a lifeline it stores the vaccines for polio and measles and will be able to keep colvin's vaccines that don't need sophisticated cold storage systems well other wealthier cities they're able to set up a separate vaccination facility in rural health clinics like this one will have to serve as main back to the hub at least for now but this fight meager resources help workers here tell us they are ready and all they're waiting for now is for the coronavirus vaccines to actually arrive the government says it expects to vaccinate 25 percent of its $110000000.00 people by the end of this year but while other countries have started inoculations vaccines have not even the right. in the philippines we've been on our feet for almost 24 hours a day. so we are exhausting. this is not the

thought of a solution for the fun day but it surely we are for the very significant solution to this one day still the prospect of them provides hope to millions of filipinos already weary of the pen demick jim duggan al-jazeera the leavitt and where they see a province northern philippines. sana physic joins us to she's from university college london slobo citizenship program on our breaks of infectious diseases she joins us on skype. how do you take the the u.s. and the u.k. of come under a lot of scrutiny for how they dealt with the pandemic high infection rights and also confusing advice now on the vaccine from bay seem to be doing fairly well what's your assessment who's getting it right and who has got work to do. well certainly the vaccine role in the u.k. in particular has been a success i think what we'll see in the u.s.

is that they're going to pick up pace and accelerate quite soon and probably even overtake the u.k. one especially the j. and j. vaccine which has been authorized today so we're looking at a 100000000 doses just from this company alone that will reach americans by by june by this summer so certainly making up for that now in terms of speed of vaccines but making a perhaps short sighted assessment at the globe ality of this particular problem and stockpiling vaccines not only that but we could see that the remaining 130 countries that have received no vaccines at all could actually if we scale up production but this would include temporary waiver of ip. intellectual property of these vaccines alongside voluntary licensing and

technology transfer we could get there much faster not just in these isolated individual countries but the entire world as there has been however some significant resistance to this and we have heard from the director general of his frustration at the lack of cooperation internationally as a result of this and there is even a provision within the tricks agreement that deals specifically with trade barriers for temporary waiver of ip in these types of circumstances a global pandemic which is a one in 100 years type event waving i pay as you say in the middle of a pandemic i mean these vaccines there has been a global race to get vaccines and now a global race to secure a vaccine so i'm while it is it really realistic that these companies who have invested a lot of money and time and to into getting to the point of being able to offer vaccines that they would then say ok hands off the world they'd suspects and so

we're going to make available to everyone this is how you make it i mean how realistic is that. well where do you have companies such as asher seneca creating the vaccine that basically nonprofit level you know minimal just covering production costs sensually so it isn't actually that unrealistic particularly if we're looking at some countries having to continuously deal with these cycles of outbreaks until 2023 what we're going to create as a as a byproduct of this is more variance and yes right now the 3 dominant variants we think will will not cause vaccine resistance but that that picture could be different down the line years down the line if these barriers continue to exist again this is a specific problem the waiver would be temporary it wouldn't be out for future technologies etc so i think we just have to approach this completely differently than we would in any under normal circumstance as you say it's not going away

anytime soon and these are conversations going to continue to have for some time to come thank you for your time oksana there the university college london to close such a program on outbreaks of fictious disease it's. still ahead here on al-jazeera mid-term elections in el salvador are expected to give a boost to the president but not everyone thinks that's a good idea. and small pacific island nations have avoided a huge corona virus outbreak but the crisis is still hitting them hard. in sports the world cup skiing event in italy has been overshadowed by 2 serious crashes jemma will be hammered that story. hello the weather is looking pretty quiet across much of the middle east that the

bible got a little bit of cloud just around the black sea the caspian sea easing down into iran but we want to show us a case to share with syrians to kuwait as we go through monday but the the weather weather will be a little further north east in parts of turkey georgia or armenia azerbaijan you could catch a shot here as we go on through the next couple of days similar picture then as we go on into tuesday across the rabia but it's there is generally fine unsettled temperatures in doha getting up to a pleasant 24 degrees and light winds it really will feel lovely over the next couple of days dry weather stretches down across the eastern side of africa through us somalia some rather wet weather there into southern parts of towns in there that we're going to see some heavy showers all the way down through malawi really wet weather that's been in place into zambia and zimbabwe over the last couple of days and it's going to stay very wet here over the next couple of days notice how we got this little circulation just starting to work across pop around the east coast of mozambique and again that could cause some localized flooding as we go on through

the next day or 2 so that's certainly something to watch out for the showers that in place as we go on into wednesday the south africa though it's fine dry and sunny . but. the publisher wrote in telling him he is increasing the movie pregnancies a woman puts itself at risk of a minute and introducing family planning into a patriarchal culture is a challenging task one of the fire resistance to china comes from men when a woman can decide for head bloodied and how many children she wants it actually in policy but one woman's perseverance is transforming her community women make change on al-jazeera. too often on the streets of india 1000000 are victims but a new force is at play. female police officers are combative

sexual assault and domestic abuse. but changing society is a challenge and so is life behind the badge for india's lady cops. on does either. you're watching al-jazeera 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 with a trick of protesters were killed in yet gone mandalay and 4 other cities more than 30 a wounded. 47 pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been charged on

a controversial security law imposed by beijing are accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territories legislative. israel says it will begin vaccinating palestinians but only those who work inside israel or in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the country has been criticized for excluding gaza and the west bank from its speedy rollout of coronavirus an occupation. saudi arabia says it intercepted several air assaults by who the rebels in yemen were targeted riyadh and cities in the kingdom self and the armed group is stepping up an offensive in the yemeni province of merit shelob ellis reports. saudi arabia intercepts rockets over riyadh on saturday night we are going to go after the 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 pushed food 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 when. 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 battle making place looks lie 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 the railing you

the straw says 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 home 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 hooty fighters in just 30 hours and cobra benefits 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 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 other is putting civilians at risk

and yet neither stop shelling shallop ballasts al-jazeera. 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 teeth and when the device was trick it. and his radio and cargo ship that was damaged by 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 carrier israel says iran is to blame no one to board was injured the cause of the explosion is still unknown there's been no immediate response from tehran a russian war ship is docked in a sudanese port for the 1st time russia is planning to set up a naval base in port sudan president vladimir putin approved the plan in november the facility will be capable of handling nuclear powered vessels. the descendants of freed slaves in kenya is seeking official recognition as an ethnic group their

ancestors were rescued from ships found following a british ban on the indian ocean slave trade. reports from fair town of mombasa where many of the freed slaves settled. the story of frederick you ladies family is one of great suffering and survival his grandfather from tanzania was in slaved then rescued and settled here. it's in a community of people with similar histories. in kenya's port city mombasa something. you see could be taken from me. if only the government. the history of free a town is told in nearby mural is named after battle korea an officer in the british navy which the 18th seventy's enforced

a ban on the slave trade in the indian ocean controlled by bonny 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 i mean we are going for the 5 as our sons so it's africa here from nasa learned. a 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 rebuild yesterday because we're raised to the off issues that i am young with. there's no such trail in kenya where 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. 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 oral 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 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 where al-jazeera. kenya. in just under 2 hours former u.s. president donald trump will make his 1st speech since leaving office in january he's the keynote speaker on the final day of the conservative political action conference his future and influence on the republican party has been a key topic of discussion at the event in florida 100 joins us now live from orlando florida john so this is transfer speech and think in the white house what is he expected to say is he going to announce another run in 2024.

well in many ways there are 2 republican parties but there's only one here there are the moderates who are really not welcome here and then there are the pro trump voters those are all largely who we see at sea-tac and so there is great interest or patience for this which after all as you mentioned is the 1st big speech that trump has given since he's left the white house and we've got some excerpts of what he's going to say 1st off saying that joe. biden's 1st month in office is the most disastrous in recent history but he goes on to see the republican party is united the only division is between a handful of washington d.c. is d.c. establishment political hacks that would be the moderates running washington and everybody else all over the country so he's really positioning himself with in this speech as the head of the republican party and essentially just pushing the moderates off to the side and saying that this is going to be

a continuing party of america 1st he says the journey that we want on 4 years ago is still continuing in a court should be the last speaker here and that's the most anticipated speech but we don't know if he's going to announce anything we have seen reports that suggest that he'll walk right up to the line of announcing for 2024 but he will not last outline and of course there's also speculation about other people. john jr and my home page you know that i want secretary of state under so we're waiting to see if he offers any meat on the eggs or that we've seen we're not expecting a full announcement that he will run in 2024 this is donald trump the bottom line for any time he gives a speech is we really don't know what he's going to say. and we don't know what we will be checking back in with you sounds like present a lot of excitement that john hendren in orlando florida. salvador is heading to the polls on sunday to elect $84.00 members for its national assembly polls

indicate nearly 70 percent of vote has favor president posse and his men out of reports there's a fair the vote could destabilize a democratic or imposed by 992 peace accord that ended a civil war. it's mid-term elections in el salvador this year many people are expected to vote along party lines and the new ideas party led by old salvador's president. is a favorite to win. a president who clearly is very popular among voters and even though the president is not on the ballot the logic among many here seems to be that a vote for the president's party is a vote to support the president's national agenda man up in the president of the letter but it's important for us to vote i think president is very capable he has shown us that he can make our country succeed and everyone trust him we know he's going to do good was last november a president who kill his approval rating was 96 percent according to a gallup poll and congressional candidates are hoping to ride on the coattails of

that popularity and seize a congressional majority for the president's party isn't it isn't them a little some analysts however say controlling a majority of seats in the salvadoran congress would further consolidate the powers of the presidency a slippery slope toward the politics of the 1970 s. and eighty's when the president held absolute power he would shout out the thought out if you listen to the propaganda from the new ideas party the only thing they are proposing is to help the president and exist only to carry out the interests of the president by offering no other pragmatic latest out of purpose. since becoming president in 2990 people killed his popularity has only grown much of this is due to the success of his government's anti-violence initiative which cut homicides in the country by. almost half. however book killer has also clashed with political opponents and has been criticized by human rights groups who have accused

him of having an authoritarian streak pointing to the treatment of gang members in the nation's prisons and last year to kill a drew harsh criticism after he brought armed soldiers into will saboteurs national congress building to pressure lawmakers into approving a new security law as. someone who does not respect the rule of law he didn't respect opponents these respects the national and international press and differ spec's every person who has the courage to post. some political observers say sunday's municipal and congressional elections could prove consequential for the future of el salvador's democracy. opinion polls project the president's new ideas party will win between 43 and 56 of the 84 seats up for grabs it'll salvatore's congress men as apple al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera in force will have to say many as lawyer as she takes the next step in her legal fight to compete

at this year's tokyo and then picks. in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from the family back to the most terrible thing in syria just to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship put out for some time as a call to the better to die to continue to be surely to the new culture of. the disappeared of syria on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines it didn't matter you're rich or poor what your religion is you are battling this and you're staring at it in the face and you're dealing with it setting the. genda for tomorrow's discussions was it a cool unfolding on capitol hill international filmmakers the world class

journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and every one of us about a responsibility to change out there is this place for to get out on al-jazeera. or. small pacific island nations have vastly been successful in keeping covert 19 at bay despite these efforts the tourism dependent economies have been badly affected and there's no sign yet of a recovery there's nicolas cage reports. 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 the crisis is an economic one with borders shot many people are out of work and true as independent countries like that awhile too and. that's also recovering from a cycloid that devastated communities from your money in the pocket and transport of the children and everything. that'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 the papal 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 trying to send over what do we know x. but that isn't enough we need the support of everyone to make sure. eventually

everybody getting vaccinated against this horrible out there. for the other 80 percent this trial 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 of could it 19 cases and to secure regional influence in the pacific place we want to keep being relevant you know to regenerate 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 al-jazeera. drivers got stuck in traffic for hours in a rush to get in and out of new zealand's biggest city after the start of its

strictest lockdown in months movement around auckland is severely restricted for another 6 days after a new cluster was found links to the more contagious u.k. variant schools are non-essential shops are you zealand avoided a high number of infections by banning most foreigners and quickly imposing strict measures when cases emerged as the world's 1st study into mixing and matching different codes of 19 vaccines is underway in the u.k. the trial will examine the best dosing schedule for the pfizer and estrogenic injections charlie angela reports from southampton hospital one of 8 sites taking part in the trial. it's a race to beat infections 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 the 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 that finds a vaccine for the trucks will be oxford likely happy to 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 i'm 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 have 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 covert instead they'll be giving regular blood samples to measure the levels of antibodies and the mean cells t. cells that have been vaccines produced against the bio participants want to consent video that also spells out the value of the trial because it is being able to find

a vaccine to this week returning flecks as it should prove to people to be immunized this week at a told when they get the 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. realty to 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 current could make back to nation 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 in the way 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 charlie and. southampton. time now sport has gemma thanks came at caster semenya is lawyer has told hours there that he expects the dublin picked ambien to be running at this year's tokyo games at the moment so many it wouldn't be allowed to defend her 800 metres title unless she took testosterone reducing drugs in 2018 new rules were introduced that focused on female athletes like somalia who have high levels of naturally occurring testosterone the 30 year old has failed in 2 previous legal efforts to overturn the ruling so many is now taking her legal case against wild athletics to the european court of human rights

while the f.s.a. exists say the ruling is designed to ensure fair competition and is the result of long term scientific research which links high testosterone levels to better performances it applies it to running events between $400.00 metres and a mile and this impacts on cement his preferred distances of the 81500 meters affected athletes must take medication for at least 6 months something has refused to do their turn assists include running longer or shorter distance of events so many as lawyer gregory not has been talking to our correspondent andy richardson and he says the new rules unfairly target athletes like somalia. we would argue that scream an edgy would argue that it's against human rights we were discouraged to describe it as invasive you know you spoke about. hormonal interventions but it goes beyond hormonal interventions it turns to physical interventions as well so we believe that there's

a violation of articles 14 articles 8 articles 3 of the of the european convention for human rights all dealing with the dignity of the human being all or talking about the degrading treatment which we believe are the other regulations and and a right of respect all of which we believe are being fringed have you been somewhat surprised by the lack of empathy and support from for more than 6 absolutely and the i think that's exactly right i think you can hit the nail on the head we have been surprised by that because after all she falls under the rubric of the world athletics one wouldn't it one would into support the stand by the ethics of a particular such as the such as one has as custer who is an iconic figure not only in our homeland but around the world will this case be heard in time for tokyo and could she be there any way competing in another events what's the timeline here

that's a good question any of this is the the case has been put down on a priority list to the chances of a been heard before tojo are probably unlucky but more the more likely he would be the world championships and 22022 but having said that andy we believe that justice will be seen at the olympics whether it will be running the $200.00 or the $1500.00 or whatever the case may be but we believe the trust of will be running her agenda and running her her objectives she says she's a strong willed person and so odd i don't see her not being there. let's get some football now on insulin have extended their lead to the top of syria to 7 points they be generous 3 nil with all 3 goals scored by former manchester united players a brand new car to put them ahead after only 32 seconds that was his 18th early goal of the season batted on the end alexa sanchez got there others 2nd place to ac

milan play roma later so they could cut the gap back to 4 points. atalanta have moved on from their champions league defeat against brown madrid to go 4th they beat some doria to nail salon to 11 points with 3rd place eventis who were out to a one or spring on saturday thomas 2 goal is still on base and as chelsea's had coach his side you know with 2nd in the table manchester united in the premier league it was 2 goals 9th game in charge of chelsea who stay 5th united 12 points behind leaders and just a city there is a setback to leicester city's hopes of a top 4 finish and champions league qualification divisions 3rd place team would beat and 3 want to. devotees alexander lakas at nicholas pappas getting the goals for arsenal who themselves are chasing a place in the europa league the team is really improving. you know the reason that i like and then lose all the time and say this is only consistency and given

seems to go on and. there was an unfortunate moment in japan's top division at the jail the defend you talk displaying the kind of touch and he strike it would be proud of sadly they are in the wrong nets fortunately for him he didn't cause too much damage his team nuclear grampus going on to win the match to won. a world cup skiing event in italy was overshadowed by 2 serious crashes the women's super g. experienced 2 lengthy delays off to incidents always a vehicle fleet caught an edge of high speed before losing control when racing resumed schneeberger of austria had to control kate's new that's off of her run both the competitors had to be airlifted to hospital and being treated for neck injuries well we wish them both well of course that is all we will sport for now i'll be back with more later. thanks for that well that's it for me kimbell for the

new zone don't go away though there is a long very shortly from london with plenty more of the day's news and i'll see you next time upon. the pope was said to visit iraq on his frostrup a brood since the coronavirus on demick. while it's christian population continues to do window and security issues plague the country. can the pope bring hope to those who see him as an authority. told to own their own we know

in the case was for those of you compensated civilians when we listen to the only music you hear is the only the most beautiful music in the world is silent we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories the although to 0. in colombia in the mid ninety's coca fields covered homes stretches of land far from the cities which were now on the high surveillance the end of the ninety's people were talking about the potential from becoming an author stick with the guerrillas to help drug traffickers sought refuge in the jungles of mountains well out of the state's reach . my father writes militia of 20000 men in the united self defenders of colombia to fight the guerrillas. meanwhile colombia has made just so much military suffered ambushes by the fall saunders were abducted in the hundreds the systematic killing led to the displacement of millions of people the paramilitaries dictated that both

in the zones they took over the areas the state could never reach under pressure from the d.n.a. the criminals who came off the problem escobar hunted down the shell companies were dismantled under arresting increased. the in. the air to. me and more as military crackdown claims more lives 18 are killed in a single day of opposition dozens more are arrested. there are barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up in nigeria the search for more than 300 schoolgirls centers on a forest close to.