279 schoolgirls are released in northern nigeria after being kidnapped by gunmen on friday. watching al-jazeera live from a headquarters and. also coming up. more violent protests in myanmar as neighboring countries hold talks with the military to find a way out of the crisis the biden administration defends its decision not to sanction

saudi crown prince mohammed bin sandman for the killing of journalist john montage of. hundreds killed thousands displaced allegations of war crimes being committed against civilians in northern mozambique. thanks for joining us we begin in nigeria that's where the government says 279 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northwest forest they have been released gunmen took them from a state run school on friday it's the latest in a series of recent abductions of students in the region by the dresses in the town of forest state where the girls have been taken. the government said no one is left in captivity no one was killed the 279 in fact all the girls that have been taken and all of them are safe now what we saw actually were girls limping because they

had to walk when they were taken from their beds for 5 days ago and they had to walk long distances one girl was telling me that she walked more than 60 kilometers they spent a night in the 1st come for for 2 days and then moved to another camp where negotiation process have taken place basically they are yet to meet their parents they just met to the government here government officials and as you can see now they're being taken in buses like this one and from here. to an accommodation. health will be looked after by officials before they are finally reunited with their families and i've also spoken to one of the people who was the intermediary between the government as well as the bandits we're going to continue with that flew through all of them that. they wanted to.

get. it because nobody can be able to give that. to. the. now what the governor was saying that there was a process between the government for a state and people who are engaged in banditry and kidnapping so run some he said negotiations peace deal has been signed by some of them and that he will continue the process not good probably set him on a condition put course with federal officials who are saying that they need to take action to stop all the criminality happening in the north west of the country and north central parts of nigeria because under treat and kidnapping for ransom is actually spreading like wildfire in fact it is one of the leave not the biggest criminal enterprise the fastest growing criminal enterprise in nigeria today. the u.s. state department is threatening further sanctions against me in mars' military for

its crackdown on protesters. there were street battles between security forces and antique demonstrators in cities across the country on true's day that's this by security forces using increasingly violent tactics to disperse the crowds at least 18 people were killed on sunday. we condemn burmese security forces brutal killing of unarmed people its attacks on journals and activists and ongoing unjust detentions the united states in close coordination with our partners and allies we have made clear to the burmese military that violence against the people of burma is a horror and the recent escalation in tactics by security forces is reprehensible the united states stands in solidarity with the 10s of thousands of people in burma who once again came out peacefully across the country with courage and determination to reject this military coup and to voice their aspirations for

a return to democratic governance peace and the rule of law well let's bring in scott high learn he's covering developments from bangkok in neighboring thailand despite the military crackdown protesters still seem to be out on the streets scott what are you hearing. that in they are we know that there are at least 2 areas within the gun where they are since or the protesters have gathered you know in some of the the usual spots if you will that they have been over the last 3 weeks plus there have been tear gas canisters fired there have been water cannon in other cities as well we're hearing we're getting reports that live rounds have been used in an area called kuhl a now that's on the western border with india near the western border with india we were hearing that live rounds have been used there again this is that in this is the kind of stepped up security posture the crackdown that we've been seeing over the last several days since sunday when we saw that the bloodiest day so far of these protests were 18 people were killed just on sunday so we're seeing more of

that we're seeing the the posture of the protesters change as well when you look at the the way that they've been coming out in yangon it's very different from what we've been seeing say over the last week or so where they came out almost party like atmosphere marching different signs. uniforms corkey outfits that is not the case. anymore right now these protesters when they come out to the streets and have been coming out to the streets across me and mar when you look at them in yangon they have makeshift shields and they're wearing helmets and they're ready for whatever will come at them and there has been a lot coming at them we've seen tear gas today we know that some of the protesters are taking the steps of of marking themselves writing their blood type on their arms and emergency contact on their arm so it has really taken a turn since sunday of things becoming much more dangerous and much more violence and how much leverage. and foreign minister is have on the military and meanwhile are considering they are meant to hold

a meeting in the coming few hours. on the 10 members of the regional bloc. they will have some leverage they do have the the idea with this meeting is that the foreign ministers will meet these are regional neighbors these are our nation states that myanmar has been working with for a very long time so this is i guess the 1st step down the long path of negotiation and trying to work out a situation a political situation political solution in myanmar but i have to tell you the deck is stacked against them because of the way the military is handling things in myanmar now and there are the person who is going to participate in this meeting is someone who has been appointed by the military that goes exactly against what the protesters are fighting for in the streets of myanmar they want their democratically elected officials back in office they want the governments the joint to recognize that the election in november was legitimate and that elected those

leaders so when you go into these negotiations the person sitting across the table is someone who is appointed by the joint so that is something that's not going to sit well with the protesters regardless of what the outcome is you have some nations in the region indonesia in particular in singapore who are trying to push forward with. reforms of what's happening right now in myanmar and that is to tamp down the violence it's going to be a tough call it's going to be a tough haul for the neighbors to really kind of come together with some action they can actually do that but it has to be said if you haven't a regional approach it's probably going to be more likely that will have some type of leverage with the judge in myanmar as opposed to international pressure that might be ignored and has been ignored so far because you have a history of a military dictatorship in myanmar they didn't crumble under sanctions so it'll be interesting to see if there's any progress or at least a path toward progress they can come out of this meeting with the us and foreign

ministers but again it's very early stakes and it's probably not going to be something of a big announcement at the end of the day but at least it's a process that is started right ok scott thank you so much scott had there reporting from bangkok. now president joe biden's administration has sidestepped any direct action against the saudi arabian crown prince mohammed bin that's despite a u.s. intelligence report on friday revealing his involvement in the murder of journalist . 0 us state department correspondent rosalind jordan reports. 3 days after the bike ministration declassified an intelligence report on the murder of journalist jamal 2 officials say they're taking a hard line regarding the mastermind named in the report saudi arabia's crown prince and de facto ruler mohammed bin solomon we have also conveyed very clearly and candidly through diplomatic channels that this absolutely can never happen again that our relationship will be different from what it has been in the past and

that we are going to be of course hold the option of holding saudi arabia to it to their commitment to to take reforms in place and make progress moving forward but critics aren't buying it they say the u.s. should have imposed the same punishment on the crown prince that it has imposed on $76.00 saudi individuals whom the u.s. believes have sought to threaten dissidents overseas including those implicated in these murder at the state department spokesperson argued the u.s. considers king solomon not his son to be the country's ruler and that officials are trying to preserve a critical relationship in the middle east it's important to u.s. interests and it requires continued progress in reforms to ensure that this important partnership rests on strong fundamentals and continues to advance our shared objectives in the middle east we seek to accomplish

a great deal with the saudis to end the war in yemen and ease yemen's humanitarian crisis. ending that civil war is one of president joe biden's top foreign policy priorities he's already taken a harder line with riyadh by cutting all future of fence of weapon sales the saudis have long been accused of using u.s. provided bombs to kill again many civilians on monday washington announced at an aid conference for yemen that it would give a new. there are $170000000.00 in humanitarian relief still not enough said aid workers to help the people suffering from 4 years of who are they need to lift the blockade on the blockade is preventing food medicine and essential goods including fuel from getting into yemen that. needs to be changed so it's inclusive fair and just by the administration specifically needs to stop linking the iran

negotiation with peace negotiations in yemen meantime another human rights question has been left unanswered whether in light of the national intelligence community's report the u.s. will ever give crown prince mohammed bin solomon and his family a waiver to visit the u.s. congress passed a law banning all foreign officials in their relatives from the u.s. if they were involved in cases of major corruption or a gross violation of human rights which many would argue includes. murder rosalynn jordan al jazeera 2 americans accused of helping orchestrate the escape of former chairman carlos go and have landed in japan a federal judge ordered the extradition of michael taylor and his son peter taylor just a month ago they're believed to have held go and flee from tokyo to 11 on a private jet and 2019 gun was accused of financial crimes in japan and was out on bail he denies the charges. 47 pro-democracy activists in hong kong are

back in court where they're facing subversion charges under a national security law monday's 15 hour hearing was adjourned when one of the defendants fainted and had been taken to hospital to be taken to hospital the court is set to decide whether they'll remain in jail or get released on bail they're accused of participating in an unofficial election primary for the territory's legislature. still ahead on al jazeera. thousands turned out in support of armenia embattled prime minister under pressure to resign for his handling of the conflict with as a regime. from the end he said palace to the prospect of a jail cell will have the latest chapter and nicolas sarkozy's fall from grace.

however with same rather more wet weather pushing into indochina recently some heavy a burst of rain affecting parts of the philippines easing across into a vietnam further south into indonesia has seen some very heavy rain just over towards the pop unique any heavy showers continuing here as we go on through the next couple of days but looking further north you can see we will see some western weather coming into northern parts of luzon in particular as that spread of showers there across vietnam through laos pushing across into thailand so some rather wet weather in the forecast over the next couple of days little wetter than it has been recently heavy showers continue to into borneo and heavy showers continue across a good part of indonesia some pretty wet weather to affect in the northeast of australia we've got a little circulation here which has now developed into a tropical cycle and this is called me around here we go this is the location of

the storm and it'll just bring some very heavy rains towards can sinking little further south which of these is as we go on through the next couple of days we have seen around 102200 millimeters afraid impasse with some very strong winds gusting as high as maybe 100 kilometers per hour that will gradually move out into the open waters as we go on through thursday elsewhere was fine and dry. make a change. change your life or the path of a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you 1st break you continue remold up to turn the status quo and fight injustice found out all month it in death and. now what is to. witness personal documentaries not photo deception on al-jazeera.

on the one on the top stories on al-jazeera this hour 279 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northwestern nigerian citizen far have been released gunmen took them from a state run school on friday it's the latest in a series of abductions in the region. the u.s. state department is threatening further sanctions against me and was military for its crackdown on protesters there were street battles between security forces an anti who demonstrators in cities across the country young choose that. the biden administrator is defending its decision not to sanction saudi arabia's crown prince

mohammed bin for the killing of journalist. it says it wants to recalibrate not rupture the relationship with riyadh. armenia's prime minister says he is ready to call a snap election to bring to an end to his nation's political crisis nicole passion iana address thousands of supporters in the capital on monday just hours earlier protesters who want him to resign stormed a government building from year of on robben forestier walker reports. the street power is how all media is prime minister forced a corrupt government to resign 3 years ago the street power old monday was his way of answering calls for his own resignation he stands accused of failing all media in its war against azerbaijan you have been marked by robin are you i throw this challenge to the parliamentary opposition let's call for snap elections let's call

for snap elections and i beg you to support the school. has played he's called a democratic solution to a political crisis yet by contrast the opposition hopes the play a role so. the president has refused to sign passion yearns order to dismiss our media's top general. and thanks to everyone who's read us today armenia is inviting the armies reviving we must stand strong here so that the president and the constitutional court do not decide to dismiss the chief of the general staff to trigger elections mr will have to stand down as per the opposition's demand but they want an interim government 1st not an election for the prime minister's supporters that is hypocrisy 1 hard to fire opposition he's calling us to transfer power to then we doubt the lections bypassing the people so they call

us illegitimate but they think we're legitimate enough to hand on the power to them bypassing the people that's not going to happen. but. what repetition have been saying that nicole pressing the on is are unfit for office finally these are answered his detractors say it's up to the armenian people to now choose who should govern this country at the ballot box. monday's rallies also marked an important and in 1st series 13 years ago the former government used force against protesters 10 people died passion yan has told armenians that that chapter in the country's history must not be repeated robin 1st year walker al-jazeera yet again. the former french president nicolas sarkozy has

been found guilty of corruption he has been sentenced to 3 years in jail although 2 years were suspended if the conviction is upheld on appeal he may serve his sentence under house arrest but as that's the reports from paris it's made a political comeback unlikely. nicolas sarkozy arrived at caught in paris for the verdict in his trial a judge found the former french president guilty of corruption and influence peddling he was given a 3 year jail sentence with 2 years suspended he left the call to that comment but is or is later said that he would appeal so cozy was convicted of trying to influence a magistrate in 2014 to obtain information about another legal case against him during the trial he denied the accusations but the judge said that sarkozy and his 2 kohak used knew exactly what they would doing the judge told the court he took advantage of his status and the relationships he had made since being voted out of

office and 2012 sarkozy has sought a political comeback even ran for the presidency again in 27 saying but the guilty verdict in this trial is likely to deal a devastating blow to his ambitions some in france's conservative party had hoped that sarkozy would run in next year's election a lot of his face will within his own party remain hopeful that he could stage a comeback today that is over and that is over particularly because even if party faithful will still adore nicolas sarkozy is that the kind of charismatic political leader that commands this kind of control within the country there's no way you can have a president with such a educational case behind him as president sarkozy projected an image of a tough talking conservative with a taste for luxury now he's become the 1st former french president to be handed a jail term and with at least 2 more corruption trial is expected it's clear that

sarkozy's legal problems are far from over. al-jazeera powerless. and mr international says war crimes are being committed in mozambique's couple delgado province in a new report the. it's group says hundreds of people have been killed since 2017 it's documented extrajudicial executions human rights violations and indiscriminate attacks the u.n. says the violence has forced more than 500000 people to leave their homes dave in the china is a researcher for southern africa at amnesty international he says the rights group has been documenting civilian suffering since the conflict began. we are talking about people who are caught in a triple bind of violence on the one side you have insurgents who are committing atrocities beheading people burning their villages looting their property abducting women and girls forcing them. to marriages

basically so we have sexual physical and emotional violence again against women and girls now you have also the muslims we can you know government forces that are involved in extrajudicial killings. imprisonment and torture of those that they are accused of providing aid and comfort to the insurgents and you have also a south african military company that was hired by the most american government to assist in the conflict that is shooting indiscriminately from there using machine guns and grenades without being able to distinguish between civilian and military targets hundreds of people in bangladesh have protested for a 4th day against the death of a writer inside a high security prison they want an investigation into how much stock died there

was a critic of the government and was arrested under a controversial cyber law turn your child your reports from dr. there is widespread anger and condemn a nation across bangladesh these protesters want to know why 52 year old writer and dissident died while in detention moshtarak ahmed was arrested last year under the controversial digital security act which critics say stifled freedom of speech died on thursday in a high security jail in the district because of his that was not immediately clear rights groups a mushtaq ahmed and cartoonist on the show where tortured by police while in. cost you know you had let me get back to look i don't use writers and cartoonists are i'm able to express themselves and the independence of all media is sisterly curtailed now by ciphering the free expression of people is in a way an effort to destroy a nation i was the writers that has led to violence seems like the in the past

several days as police attempt to break up the opposition and that protests dozens of people have been injured including officers police have arrested several protesters. does it tell us what did you do security he's not making citizens any more secure rather it's designed to startle free expression of the people. has to be abolished and all those who were convicted and arrested on additional including a cartoonist will have to be freed rights groups and other organizations are concerned international law goes along with ambassadors from 13 countries have demand and i'm investigation into that that. he was arrested for his calling on his social media criticizing the government's response but call it 19 and other nations bangladesh's prime minister sheikh hasina has dismissed accusation our government is not doing enough to protect human rights. to come want to know death is desired

nor is it desired that unrest will be created focusing it. what can be done if someone full 2nd dies. on friday the home minister outside there's a man can ordered an investigation people are scared of expressing their opinion and this opinion if you look at the platforms in our country beneath limited political activities left in our country in the last couple of years so because of these people were resorting to express their opinion in the social networking sites . u.k. based rights group article 19 ses as many as 457 people off all professions were prosecuted under the digital security act of this figure 75 were journalist while the rest included teachers students folk musicians and cultural artists among others while many still remain in jail the protesters say they will soon announce what they intend to do next sadly child real jazeera dhaka bangladesh. the

argentinean president alberto fernandez says he will not rush into a new deal with the international monetary fund there's concern argentina may mess and may deadline with the i.m.f. to agree on how to repay a loan of more than $40000000000.00 to risible reports from want to. i want to find a man this went to congress on monday to present his plan on how to help the country recover from the pandemic he spoke about plans to reactivate the economy industrialize canaries and investigate the loans granted to argentina by the i.m.f. creditable numbers being. a lesser into italy but it got out try to put an end to the adventures of indebting a country it is necessary that doing so isn't free and they cannot walk around and teach about how they carry out these debts that's why i have to initiate an investigation into those who took part in the biggest fraudulent administration

then our memory can recall. the president is hoping to investigate former president . and some of his closest allies in $2800.00 former president mauricio muggeridge argentina was granted the largest lending panel given to real well the international monetary fund over $40000000000.00 the argentine and the i.m.f. are currently in the legal medical association of how to pay not know what internet economic troubles have been exacerbated by the pandemic and that's why the net ministration of president. is one thing that we did it with the loan that was granted during the previous administration. argentina is struggling with a rise in poverty unemployment and a drop in economic activity the government is also having to do damage control after it emerged that several politicians and their relatives jumped a queue and got vaccinated folk over 1000. this scandal has raised questions about

the government's credibility and angered many people who took to the streets last saturday in protest. but monosyllable data says he voted for freedom and this and hopes he will do what's necessary to help millions of argentinians recover from the ongoing crisis. i voted for him because i believe he can help us the government gave us some money to survive these past months but it's not enough i'm still living on the streets i'm watching for a pinch and that will help me survive. one of the demands by the i.m.f. is to cut down government spending for man the center left peronist administration faces midterm elections you know kto over and is unlikely to impose austerity measures that will hurt him politically but economy saying the i.m.f. may prove to be more flexible but in the past. i.m.f. knows that there is no chance i didn't do not piers the loan in

a timely manner this structuring has to happen the thing is it has to be in good terms and with an accord the agreement may happen because of the pandemic and it maybe the i.m.f. should be more flexible so. argentina is the i.m.f. largest sovereign borrower and that's why ideally is crucial to help the country recover they said well and to see what a sight is. following on the headlines on al jazeera $279.00 schoolgirls kidnapped in the northwestern nigerian state isn't far have been released gunmen took them from a state run school on friday it's the latest in a series of abductions in their region one of the dreams has more from some far states the government no one is left in captivity no one was killed the 279 in fact all the girls that have been taken and all of them.