the bloodiest day until 2 protests in 18 people are killed in the military crackdown the u.n. calls for international action. hello i'm daryn jordan this is out as they are live from doha also coming up iran rejects a european office a direct talks with the u.s.

to revive the 2050 nuclear deal. i may even decide to beat them for a 3rd time ok. still refusing to concede defeat donald trump tells supporters he may run for the presidency again but has no plans to start a new party. we have created. an agonizing wait for parents and northwest nigeria as the search continues for over 300 schoolchildren kidnapped by. the u.n. secretary general is demanding international action against the military in manama to security forces shot dead 18 protesters done a good test is says the violence is unacceptable and that world leaders have to send a strong message to the military u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has also joined the condemnation calling the violence of horror and he says washington will push for the army to be held accountable. well these condemnations followed the most violent days and

demonstrations began against the coup live rounds are fired at huge crowds in several cities across the country. as. 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. on 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 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 the 1st in many areas people blocked 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 al jazeera for. human rights activists he says he's not surprised by the actions of the military. you know i'm horrified i lived through the 1st military dictatorship i saw soldiers shooting you know in previous waves you know this is been going on for almost 60 years at this and 3 generations of dissidents and protesters and made it clear that we do not want to live under any form of military rule and that the per the burmese are determined and despite you know risks to their lives and livelihoods many of our relatives or friends and families are served you know 20 years behind bars in exile lives destroyed the livelihood destroyed the people this time are you know using this slogan the more you repress us the the

fiercer our resistance will become and so that this will this is going on for 28 days you know that since the 1st of of ferry and that the military gets progressive the more brutal and the people i am sure in great determination even young show i mean young men and women this is their you know we know we will be shot but we will not leave the country for the next generation to be rude brutalized and economically raped by this institution called the middle we do not have a national army that is sworn to protect the people that you know they're turning the guns that get them unarmed protesters as if like protesters are you know target practice that's what's happening. efforts to revive the 2050 nuclear deal between iran and major powers of stuart the white house says it's disappointed that iran is

not ready to hold informal talks along with its european allies iran's foreign ministry says it's too early to be back at the negotiating table terran wants the u.s. to lift unilateral sanctions 1st well gabler's on the joins us live now from washington d.c. gabe said the iranians say they want sanctions lifted 1st before they'll talk the biden administration clearly doesn't see it that way how is this playing out then. yeah this is the initial stages of posturing when it comes to diplomacy and negotiations and this was a meeting that was face to face meeting that was proposed by the european union it would have been the 1st preliminary meeting between tehran and washington and this is what tehran has said no to at least for now but the door still remains very much open especially here in washington the white house spokesperson a white house post person giving a statement out jazeera basically saying that they are disappointed in the decision by iran but we remain ready to engage in meaningful diplomacy to achieve

a mutual return to the compliance with the j c p o a the white house indicating now that they'll go back to the p 5 plus one the 5 permanent members of the security council of course united states france the u.k. . china and russia add the other being germany to see where they go from here bottom line is though what you said is that. tehran wants sanction relief before discussing anything the biden ministration has said nope we'll discuss it but we 1st got to meet and that's that is where the real roadblock is right now but this is in the short term certainly a road block but in the medium and long term there is still a lot of space to negotiate here of course a biden administration only barely 6 weeks into office now they've been focusing on the rollout of the covert vax vaccines and other issues foreign policy has taken

a little bit of a backseat but the bottom line here the big picture is both tehran and washington have indicated they want to get back to the 2 $1015.00 deal perhaps it's just a matter of how they're going to get there and when the negotiations might start all right gabe thanks for that so let's bring in james pattison he's a former u.s. diplomats and an expert on iran and the middle east he joins us live from washington d.c. james so terry says u.s. sanctions must be lifted 1st they clearly are playing hardball here what do you make of this move by the iranians and how they're playing the bite that ministration. well americans were told that during and after our joe biden was elected president that he would have to bring an expert team into what is a ministration especially a foreign power party because that's the area of the east nationalized and over the past 50 years and i want to know that the senate well mr wagner and his experts look very foolish right now in the eyes of the 'd world because they can't get that

they are they are they are in the process of. trying to meet the demands of. the iranians and it's just making america look very weak in the world and when asked whether mr biden has a policy or i plan to take on or again you know last week a bar iranian militia of sites in syria and in retaliation now it seems that the iranians had bombed those regulators that ship in the gulf of oman and. the israelis are saying that there will be a very heavy price that some of this situation is escalating and you know it's one of the it's tense and it's as the lightning and it's not the time for the straits and here's a great team of the experts at our own iran at the state department to back down that they've got to assess that they're not meeting yet they're not that unique

sanctions off and in fact at the end they put what they can put more on so they've got to they've got to bargain from a position of strength ok and their. new way has to date yet several different things including you know. about human rights of forms of iran and. the escalation of that rain and not carry adventurism ok jenny let me let me jump in let me just jump in here yeah james let me jump in here because i push the time in terms of the main players in the middle east israel and saudi arabia see iran as the biggest threat in the region and they don't want to iran to develop nuclear weapons and they are against the nuclear deal anyway so how what they've uing president biden's handling of iran do you think. well again i think they see this is as well as we saw on the part of the body and his expert team to try to get something started here what they don't have to do is continue

with the pressure campaign that the trumpet ministration began they can't back down on that now the next step for what i hear is their turn by the ministration and their experts are going to have a release or some of the senate. and get what they want in order to go to the bargaining table to perhaps get even more of what they want so again this is just a position of weakness that the confusion. and it is experts are doing here and so i just am not i'm not feeling well i'm not feeling that he is with the president biden that is experts and i don't think the world should either all right james patterson great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you sir now former u.s. president donald trump has hinted he may run for the white house again in 2024 but has no plans to start his own party trump was speaking at the final day of the

conservative political action conference in florida it was his 1st public speech since leaving office and also repeat that is baseless claims of election fraud biden is failed in his number one duty as chief executive it's forcing america's loss. this alone should be reason enough for democrats to suffer with the ring losses in the midterms and to lose the white house actually as you know they just lost the white house but it's one of those. who have. who you know i may even decide to beat them for a 3rd time ok bye john hendren joins us live now from orlando florida john so this was a speech that was highly anticipated by trump's supporters and not surprisingly he attacked president biden sat of the speech go down.

well among his supporters each going down very well and he's about an hour and a quarter into his speech that by my guest might go 2 hours but he's still just really getting under way and it started out as a disciplined and focused speech sticking largely to the points we know he wanted to make because he sent out experts head of time saying that you give a detailed critique of the by administration is energy policy economic policy relations with other countries rejoining the world health organization rejoining the paris climate accords all of that was focused on the top and he also made another point about the republican party saying despite reports of the republican party is disunited he said the republican party is unified and that there are only a couple of in his words political hacks on the other side well. the other side is really what we used to call the mainstream republican party

a lot of people are now calling them moderates because they are essentially the anti trump party but here it's packed the conservative political action conference this is that part of the party that is very much aligned with donald trump who spoke on a stage in the shape of 45 which was his number as the 45th president after all the discipline talk the president man into a classic trump kitchen sink or rambling at great length on his election defeat in 2020 he did at least refer to the biden administration is the new administration acknowledges that he didn't win but then went on about how unfair the election rise in a number of ways so he's also talked as you as you mentioned about liz cheney a republican congresswoman who was critical of him in and voted to send his impeachment forward and he is still going so we don't know exactly what he's going to say from here but he did a hint that we might see him in 2020 he didn't say he was going to run but he said

he might run he might be a major power in the party one more time all right john hendren live for us there in orlando florida john thank you. are not also to come here not just there including armenia as political crisis deepens as the prime minister's opponents make strategic moves against the government without the latest from vera. and dozens of pro-democracy activists in hong kong have been charged under beijing's national security no more on that status. in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their family back to the most terrible thing in syria is to be. this has been the invisible weapon of the syrian dictatorship you don't have to sometimes i thought it would be better to die than continue to be sure really to torture. the disappeared of syria on

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welcome back a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera the u.n. secretary general is calling for international action against me and military are violent days since anti crew protests began the army fired live rounds at huge crowds across the country killing at least 18 people. iran has rejected an invitation for informal talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal the government's insisting the u.s. sanctions must be lifted 1st the u.s. says it's disappointed it will talk to european allies about the way forward. and former u.s. president donald trump has hinted he may run for the white house again in 2024 but has no plans to start his own party he delivered his 1st public speech since leaving office on the final day of a conservative conference in florida so let's bring in henry olsen he's a senior fellow at the ethics and public policy center and a columnist for the washington post and joins us via skype from alexandria in virginia henry great to have you with us the look this is a highly anticipated speech by donald trump not surprisingly he repeated those

discredited claims that look democrats stole the white house what are you making of the speech he's still getting on any clearly are some old scores to settle doesn't it. yes he does as advisors and reportedly tried to talk him out of settling those scores and supposedly wrote a speech in which he would be primarily policy focused and then as your correspondent notes he threw that out the window after he read it and he's now going on and settling scores i think the speech so far is moved from being somewhat boring and old hippies that doesn't really speak to the current situation and now is rick reminding people why they voted against rome because trump did lose a fair and square election in november going to he had many high profile republicans like mitch mcconnell mike pence they stayed away from the conference so what does tough speech tell us about the divisions within the party and the future direction of the g.o.p. well this one it's shows that trump can continue to fight to have influence within

the g.o.p. and he'll fight without making any compromises on any of his issues or any of his tactics or any of his total 2nd i think one thing that's worth noting is that this is probably one of the most pro tempore and says a man general and yet in their annual straw poll they trump only got 55 percent of the vote among people that 45 percent would have preferred another republican or 2024 so he's speaking to a group that should love him and in the abstract he got 97 percent job approval in the same straw poll a number of people want to move on from him and i think that's going to be his big challenge is people want to move on from him and i don't think it speech is helping them change their mind yeah that's an interesting point you make henry because trump did hint at a possible 2024 election run but as you know u.s. politics is a fickle beast is he likely to see how the midterms play out 1st thing i think. i think that's exactly what he's going to do he's basically signaled both in his

speech and another thing that he's going to try and take out every single one of the republicans who voted to either impeach or convict him in the house or the senate and we will see what happens those elections will start until another year or year and a quarter from now and if he's able to win every single one or nearly everyone that would be a sign of straight but he may very well not because american politics changes quite rapidly and if he doesn't he really has no standing to run 21 or had real some great to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al jazeera thank you. now the syrian military is saying it's ad offense has responded to an israeli strike near damascus state media says missiles that fired from the golan heights but most were intercepted in the vicinity of the capital has been no official response from israel but to any comments on strikes in syria. nigerian officials say they are close to rescuing 317 girls abducted from a boarding school in northwestern state of zamfara it's given that families some

hope after the shock of the raid in the n.t. as of friday address reports from the school in john get what's left behind in these rooms indicates the goals left in hungary and probably in shock the attackers shot through glass windows to force them out post them effects strewn across the floor they were gone only for a few days but the dry weather casts theme layers of dust of what was left behind. at the school entrance the lone security guard who tried to stop them but field is back on his job watching the gate. after a short patrol of the school perimeter i went back in and shortly after i saw someone on the wall i pointed my gun at that intruder and he fell back i heard him telling others to shoot me i had and i called for help no one was able to help because they've surrounded the school. although there are 2 security posts within

a few 100 meters of the school in this northwest of state of them for not enough support rich to a police officer who attempted to stop them was shot dead by the attackers or wanted to shoot to is among students who evaded capture then asked her to shorten short and shouted everybody out if anybody inside didn't without me i went to. so just came in running to the gate. is my ilisoni still waiting for the news of his 10 year old daughter sister and a friend's daughter. never being such a confused state i haven't slept much you know eaten well since then there is no joy no laughter anymore in this house back at the school a few parents hanging around for news of their children with them a few security personnel guarding empty classrooms and hostels. just

a few days ago these hostels were full of life 550 girls were he i chase in their dreams some wanted to be doctors others teachers then as they prepared for the night armed men bussed in they herded and drove 317 girls into the night now the holes of residence are empty the government of them for a state has now shut down all boarding schools in the state. for some the damage has already been done some parents insist the daughter's on going back to school saying the nigerian government has failed them a few students who still want to continue with their education say they may consider going back but under certain conditions. they've been at least 6 mass kidnappings from schools in northern nigeria in 6 years 2 of them this february the attacks are happening in the region with the lowest levels of school enrollment in high dropout sparking fears the region may

fall farther behind the rest of the country how many degrees al jazeera joined nigeria. the united nations says 15 people have drowned off the coast of libya after a boat carrying more than 100 migrants capsized elsewhere in the mediterranean 363 refugees migrants have been rescued the humanitarian groups see what's carried out 5 operations over 3 days to transfer the migrants from dangerously overloaded boats to see what's missing. from the fallout from hong kong's pro-democracy battle continues protesters are expected to swarm a courthouse on monday as $47.00 activists and former politicians are set to appear they've been charged under the national security no imposed by beijing they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary as a john brown reports. 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. the hong kong people no matter where you are you'll keep faith and to be hopeful and to count in you our struggle to do you believe you'll be disqualified you are no commie i had i 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. i don't know but i'm safe if you don't. shoot was a candidate in an unofficial poll held last july to pre-select candidates for

legislative elections due 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 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 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 3 is in thailand of these tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters rallying outside the prime minister's home demanding he step down activists say the elections in $29000.00 the rich and the demonstrators in bangkok are also demanding constitutional reforms to make the monitor less powerful they say laws protecting the king from criticism are being used to silence dissent. armenia's political turmoil is showing no signs of letting up prime minister nicole passion again his supporters to march in the capital on monday more counter protests are also being organized by opposition leaders opponents have been calling for passion young to resign over his handling of last year's war with azerbaijan

robin for us to walk our post now. they continue to occupy the street outside parliament but armenians opposition needs more than music condones to bring down nicole passion his government its leaders hope the security services will join other institutions of power in calling for his resignation waiting for the be a change in their behavior changes in their behavior to understand that their way out in. the national interest of armenia the sun without the sun with the people because their. main goal of the political side of the nation but not the prime minister ghost of a beauty i mean is embattled prime minister tried to fire the head of the armed forces for insubordination this week but the country's president on saturday refused to sign the dismissal documents the issue may now go to the constitutional

court and you know like the country's top chess players who competed in the national championship final on sunday passion years opponents are making strategic moves against the government they have the country's top army generals the church and the president on this side right now the political crisis in i mean it is playing out like a game of chess with the opposition trying to tactic laid out a new book the prime minister they call passion yet. his popularity has fallen since armenia lost its recent war with azerbaijan but observers believe the prime minister's position is more secure that it seems the opposition on the other hand may. have the momentum of the shock from the post-war defeat but is largely discredited and deeply unpopular due to their links to the former corrupt government having said that even the addition of the army and the church as

additional challenges to the partially on government isn't enough to change the mathematical equation. the army generals have a budget up their words with tanks. in the opposition the noisy hasn't proven it has widespread support. in chick but he's not yet in checkmate. brought in for a steel rule out 0 unified. time for a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera the un secretary general is calling for international action against me and mas military for the most violent days since anti to protest began. me if i had live rounds at huge crowds across the country killing at least 18 people the un's human rights office described it as a worrying escalation.