and of money we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in now while the president because devastated many industries to give a huge boost to the video game sites are counting the cost on al-jazeera. mian mars military ignores calls for restraint killing another $38.00 protesters on the deadliest day since the coup. along barker sara this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the international criminal court says it will investigate alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories angering israel and the u.s.

2 months after the storming of congress capitol police say they've uncovered a possible plot by a militia group to breach the building on thursday and brazil's most populous state announces a partial covert lockdown as the country reports almost 2000 more deaths. a day after neighboring countries called for restraint me and mar has seen its worst day of violence since last month's military coup the u.n. says 38 protesters have been killed by the security forces who witnesses said use that live fire with little warning at least 2 of the dead are believed to be teenagers that's were reported in the main city young go on the 2nd biggest city of mandalay account in the north and the central town of green an earlier it was announced that the post president when mean is facing new charges including

breaching the constitution which could result in 3 years in prison scott had live reports now from neighboring thailand. new tactics and new equipment for the protesters as the crackdown from myanmar security forces escalates. but despite this wednesday's protest again turned deadly with live ammunition being used along with rubber bullets and stun grenades the protesters now wear helmets use homemade shields and even create smoke screens themselves to hide from snipers and gunmen. but when the smoke clears the protest barriers their line of defense are gone in mandalay a regular scene for gatherings during the month of protests they have also increased their protection against the police and military but even with the added measures there is little they can do against live rounds. and in the southern city

of daraa way the red flag of un song and all the party was hoisted images of the military leader men on by pasted on the ground. as the protests continued on wednesday also present when men will face 2 additional charges his lawyer describing what it could mean. with imprisonment oh i the description for a time pushed me extended 3 years a with 50 with. some feel that the charges against women and young songs hoochie are trumped up possibly to prevent them from ever returning to politics despite women being detained since one you don't know doesn't exist was lawyers and his lawyers haven't even received a copy of the child to see all the case file so these are fundamental trouble right . on top of everything else so as the protesters continue their stand against the coup on the streets across myanmar their elected leaders are facing their own battle in a judicial system that appears to be working against them scott hodler al-jazeera.

health care workers joined the civil disobedience movement against military rule shortly after last month's coup and since then many have been trying to offer medical help to protesters al-jazeera has obtained this video from a young gone grocery store at the c.c.t.v. footage it shows what appears to be officers forcing volunteer medics out of a vehicle before beating them with rifles and batons al jazeera has not been able to verify the footage medics accuse me and more police of repeatedly targeting them well a little earlier i spoke to a protester in myanmar who we are and naming for her own safety she told us what she's witnessed in the past few hours. right now the. fire. glass part of that partnership is. part of

the are also should the hospital i don't know why but the issue and. not being people right now even even i'm talking to you i live in latin township. bad novel about township. was a lot of people died today to date evening. as far as i know there were trying to keep 22 people die and. and over over 50 people guard injury. and. some are. trying to be. in critical condition you know that the military are sometimes firing live rounds so in light of that

how do you and other protesters try to protect yourselves we build a group of people who work at night group by group and. they watch. things 8 pm to 5 am in the morning every day to watch who are doing something bad. the international criminal court has launched an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories the palestinians who joined the i.c.c. in 2015 have asked the court to look into israeli military actions in the gaza strip in 2014 the prosecutor says they will take a nonpartizan approach into crimes possibly committed by both the israeli military

and palestinian armed groups that decision has been condemned designed piece of music by israel's prime minister and is opposed by the u.s. but it has been welcomed by the palestinian authority need to ybor him is in her my love for us she says palestinians hope the investigation will primarily focus on israeli settlements in the occupied palestinian territories. wide welcoming remarks from many palestinian officials and n.g.o.s that have been working with the palestinian authority on advancing this issue in the international criminal court this is the main point that palestinians were hoping to get to since the palestinians have to join this line. in 2015 and some even say that this is the reason why the palestinian authority has seek its diplomatic and international approach at the u.n. security council with the hopes to get a full membership of course this didn't happen they got a nonmember state status of the general assembly which has allowed them to go

forward and join their own statute and ask the i.c.c. to investigate crimes now one of the main issues that the palestinians hope that the i.c.c. would investigate is the illegal israeli settlement on the ground they hope that the prosecutor would look into this as the main violation of international law and they believe that this has been a policy by the israeli authorities it's not just a war crime here or they had they believe that the foreign minister has released the statement they say that this has been continuing and if these were crimes are ongoing which is why they want to i.c.c. to investigate and conclude its investigation urgently the view there from the west bank meanwhile harry foresaid has more from west jerusalem on israel's response. well this announcement has brought broad condemnation from a pretty big swathe of israeli politics chief of the critics of the prime minister

benjamin netanyahu he has long argued against this development from happening he worked very closely with the trumpet ministration as was to try to head it off and yet now it has happened and he's making his case again the decision of the international court to open investigation for war crimes is absurd. under the hood and he's in the height of hypocrisy without it into a situation that desire that our brew soldiers who do every precaution to avoid civilian casualties against the worst terrorist in the world will deliberately diverted. is our soldiers who are war rooms it was similar language from other leading israeli political figures the foreign minister gabi ashkenazi said that it was a morally bankrupt and legally flawed decision the president rivlin said it was scandalous that he was main challenger from the right in the election later this month get on the saw he said that the court had been hijacked by terrorist supporters it's worth

noting that the court investigates individuals not states that's something that benny gantz the defense minister referred to on tuesday when he was talking about the prospect of this happening he said that he as the former army chief in 2014 could be in the crosshairs of investigation and self as could hundreds of other military figures he said that soldiers would be protected by the israeli state there was some support from the left of israeli politics from the human rights organization that selling which said this was a necessary step to address crimes that have been going on for decades and was still going on now. the head of the national guard in washington d.c. says the lays at the pentagon stopped the urgent help being sent to gearing the storming of the capitol on january 6th this comes the security around congress has been tightened again after intelligence reports that some groups are planning to breach the area on thursday the washington post says the warnings have prompted the

house of representatives to scrap its thursday session from capitol hill here's alan fischer. there's been tight security around capitol hill since the day the complex was attacked high fences razor wire national guard backing up several police services know there's to be increased security after the f.b.i. and others picked up reports of another possible breach the idea is donald trump will be installed as president on march 4th the date of the 1st inaugurations in the u.s. until it was changed in 1933 the rumor spread on conspiracy websites understocked a protest to back it up the current security posture or the capitol and he wants we are working with our law enforcement partners as well as the national guard to provide a robust security around the campus of course that security posture is. we have an outer perimeter as well as an inner perimeter be seated the new security

measures announced as the senate tries to figure out what went wrong on january the 6th the latest to give evidence the head of the national guard in washington major general william walker says local officials frantically played for help he called the pentagon for approval to send troops a final decision inexplicably delayed by don't trust team at the pentagon are learned at the u.s. army senior leadership but that request. the approval for the chief science we course would eventually come from the acting secretary of defense and be relayed to me by army senior leaders and 5 always appear about 3 hours and 19 minutes later this congress continues to investigate an intelligence failure which appealed to support the threat on january the 6th one leading f.b.i. figure insisted there was nothing concrete to act on none of us had any intelligence or suggested individuals were going to storm and reach the capital and that was the intelligence that we lacked and with the new threat or warning of why

defenses are being increased agri anytime an adversary is successful others pay attention and so we're worried that this would be an inspiration capitol police say the threat has been assessed through increased internet chatter but there's nothing to suggest that there's any group ready to head to washington d.c. with a plan of protest or violence but after january the 6 no one is ready to don't play the threat or take the risk of getting it wrong alan fischer al-jazeera on capitol hill health experts in the united states a warning against any relaxation of covert 19 restrictions it's in response to texas and mississippi state leaders announcing plans to lift all current measures including their mask mandates that they rector of the centers for disease control has urged the public to keep following health guidelines of regardless of local rules. we are just on the verge of a while on the culmination of

a short scientific. inability to that any country in just a matter of 3 or 4 more months how this plays out is up to us the next 3 months a pivotal and asking you to read it to protect our nation and to protect your. weather mandated an arts as individuals and communities we can still take the right approach of actually protect ourselves and others let's cross live now to mike hanna in washington d.c. and mike's of the director of the centers for disease control there understandably worried about the lifting of those restrictions what other what are the reaction has there been well that is a position of health officials throughout the country certainly there's been intense warnings that this is too soon to stop dropping mitigating measures although the vaccine roland is going quicker than was originally predicted health

officials are insisting that it is too soon for people to drop their guard that people must continue to wear masks exercise social distancing carry out all those things that they should have been doing during the months of the epidemic so great concern among health officials about states like texas and mississippi opening up within the next few days the strongest criticism coming from president biden who's described the thinking behind these decisions as near the end the fall and saying that this is a huge mistake reiterating the fact that it's far too soon to open up even in the light of the vaccine rollout and mike speaking of president biden it looks like is covered relief bill is now a step closer to being passed. well there's still discussion going on in the senate the senate majority leader chuck schumer insisted that he wanted the bill to be passed in the senate or come before the senate later in the

course of the day but still debate going on on rules surrounding it you have some republicans saying that they are going to insist on the entire bill being read aloud now this is seldom done in the senate but some republicans insisting that they need to look at every single factor of the bull that is finally agreed on to put before the senate now that reading given the size of this massive piece of legislation could take some 10 hours so it's still not clear when or even if this bill is going to be passed in the senate remembering too that democrats have a narrow majority and that is the vote of the vice president in a 5050 senate and certainly there's well there are some democrats who are unhappy with some provisions of the bull feeling that president biden has watered some of its provisions down so all of these debates all of these discussions are going on president biden himself is going to be speaking to house members within the next few hours he's been speaking to senate members in recent days and certainly he is

watching all of this very anxiously as are all who want this relief bill passed i can with the latest there from washington d.c. mike thank you. still to come in this half hour senegal's main opposition leader is of arrested accused of stirring up protests over a rape allegation and former french president nicolas sarkozy speaks publicly for the 1st time since his corruption conviction and cows are clear his name. over the past few days we have seen some very wet weather into northeastern parts of australia and down into the southwest up to us in northeast we have tropical cyclone and there around that is in the process of pulling away and down towards the southwest it got this area of low pressure which should be free to some very

heavy rain flooding rains in parts very close to perth again that will ease as we go through the next couple days that's thursday's pitch of the shall still in place and you can see how near and moves out into the coral sea clear skies come back in behind it in fact much of australia will be fine and dry as we make our way into the weekend shell is pulling away from the southeast as well cool enough still in melbourne at around 21 celsius and we'll see that shabby running gradually making its way into new zealand as we go on into the next complet day said tony weather wet and windy here some of the wet and windy weather making its way into japan over the next day or so is driving out of central parts of china moving out into the open waters so shanghai seeing some of that wetter weather will move across southern parts of south korea and eventually that will roll across the south of japan so key issues seeing the heaviest rain bits and pieces of rain into southern parts of honshu but still warm ahead of that with high of 18 in tokyo.

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a reminder of the top stories now on al-jazeera police in mi amar have ignored calls for restraint leading to the deadliest day since last month's coup un special envoy on me and maher says $38.00 people died on wednesday as security forces use that live fire to break up protests the international criminal court has launched an investigation into alleged war crimes in the palestinian territories it says it will take a nonpartizan approach into possible offenses by both israel and palestinian groups and 2 months after the storming of congress capitol police say they have intelligence on a new plot by a militia group to breach the u.s. capitol building on thursday. calls are growing for a nationwide lockdown in brazil after it suffered a record number of daily deaths for a 2nd straight day in the last hour the health ministry has announced another 1910

fatalities and more than $70000.00 cases sao paolo state which is the country's most populous has announced a tough new lockdown as its health system is pushed to breaking point more states are likely to follow despite president jalal sort out or threatening to cut off federal assistance to any governors who locked out their areas. since yesterday brazil recorded 1726 deaths the worst day of the pandemic 6 march 2020 we will now face the worst 2 weeks of the pandemic since the 1st case of coverage 19 was confirmed in brazil. for the sad reasons we will comply with the recommendations of the contingency center and the entire state of south paulo will go to the red phase starting next saturday. there's been an explosion at a coronavirus testing center in the netherlands the suspected pipe bomb went off and both in-car spell a town north of amsterdam the blast shattered windows but there were no reports of

injuries this comes after protests against restrictions and lock downs took place in recent weeks in january a testing site in order course set on fire by anti curfew rioters. dozens of people gathered in eastern afghanistan for the funerals of 3 women who worked for a local radio and t.v. station that women were killed in separate attacks in the city of jalalabad in one province walking home from work on tuesday they were aged between 18 and 20 police say they've arrested one of the attackers and claim he's a member of the taliban but the armed group denies ordering the killings and i saw has claimed responsibility 15 media workers have been murdered in afghanistan in the last 6 months. because of the government's recklessness the government is responsible for this incident 2 months ago one of the sister of ours was killed

just some days but the doctor was killed in his clinic we don't know what is going on before these killings are happening in the villages and now it is happening in the cities as well i think we must leave the city and go back to our village is. senegal's opposition leader was run suncor has been arrested after hundreds of his supporters protested of rape allegation against demonstrators burn the tires and threw rocks at police who responded by firing tear gas to disperse them the crowd followed sancho's convoy on its way to court the opposition figures lawyer says he's been accused of disturbing public order and participating in a band demonstration sancho has the night of the rape allegations saying it's politically motivated and an attempt to remove him from the 2024 presidential race nicholas soch was at that protest in dhaka. police have been firing tear gas and if you look right behind me over there there are hundreds of protesters in one of the

main arteries of the capital there are supporters of opposition leader with one song go and look there over here to and inside the university which is a stronghold force on coke now they're protesting because he was arrested earlier this morning on his way to meet a judge over a case of alleged rape he says that case is politically motivated but the authorities say it's a criminal case and since he has refused to attend those meetings with the police he is now in detention he's also in detention for causing public disorder and what you're seeing right now. the opposition accuses the government of heavy handedness previously the courts in senegal have charged rivals to mikey cell including the son of former president. the former mayor of deckard all ended up in jail with this arrest of this bears and other significance because he's

seen as the voice of young people young people that have suffered during the coronavirus pandemic young people that are fed up with the restrictive measures put in place to prevent the spread of the virus and have suffered economically for this and so much of this protests is less about the opposition figure but more about young people trying to express their discontent towards the government for the french president nicolas of course he has called his conviction for corruption a profound justice speaking for the 1st time since he was handed a suspended jail sentence he said he would appeal has more from paris. well former french president nicolas sarkozy was certainly in a very defiant mood on a primetime television news show here in france it was the 1st time that we've seen sarkozy in public since monday when a court in paris convicted sarkozy of influence peddling and corruption and gave

him a 3 year prison sentence with 2 years suspended now sarkozy reacting to that said it was a travesty of justice he called it an untimely cratty decision he said he was innocent and during the trial he has maintained that this is all the result of a political smear campaign that there are those in the justice system perhaps in the police service or simply against him now sarkozy said that he intends to appeal he doesn't know how long that appeal will take but he is determined he said to clear his name. if once i've come to sage the french people i am a man who was always assumed his responsibilities i will keep my head high because i am being blamed for acts that i did not commit it is an injustice i will fight to the end until truth prevails wenneker sarkozy said that long before this trial he had already decided to step out of politics that he was always going to of course

take an interest but he wanted to spend his time with his family doing other things however there are many people many of his supporters on france's right in the french conservative party that are perhaps hope the nicolas sarkozy might even run for president in next year's presidential election he said though that simply wouldn't happen it is clear though the nicolas sarkozy's political career is over not only because of this conviction but also because he faces at least 2 other trials. the chairman of the world's biggest mining firm says he has to take responsibility for blowing up an ancient australian site and he quipped rio tinto has the structure of aboriginal rock shelters that had stood for tens of thousands of years calls uproar nicolay gauge reports. this video shows the irreversible damage caused by rio tinto when it blew up the ancient you can go

drop caves in australia's remote pilbara region. countries be disappearing. nearly a year on after pressure from investors its chairman solomon thompson has announced he won't seek reelection as a board director saying he's ultimately accountable for the caves destruction but he won't be leaving until next year and there coles for him to step down immediately. started thomson was one that i just say i am a coach at that and the. exploration which i am ready to pay the $1.00 that actually you know it's late 3 for. the rock caves contained evidence of human activity 46000 years ago as well as some of the oldest examples of boeing tools in australia rio tinto as chief executive john sebastian jacques has already quit along with other executives some are saved significant payouts despite being forced

to leave i believe that there are still some on the board who should be reflecting very carefully about their role in the actions subsequent to the destruction of cape and gold in the enabling of that culture other companies have also been accused of damaging aboriginal heritage slots in australia without the permission of traditional owners the western australian government has promised to update indigenous heritage laws that allowed for rio tinto to legally destroy this you can go it caves we want to shift the power dynamic we want to put some control back in the nation's faithful today and have a stand i know what happens here each of reaction kerry tonight country rio tinto says it's taking steps to change its processes and approach to cultural heritage gauge al-jazeera. country music singer dolly parton has received their 1st stoesz

of the covert vaccine singing her unique rendition of the hit song jolene to mark the occasion x. in that scene that scene that i exceed barely know if you please don't hesitate to x e x e x e thered see what should be had in that too. 75 year old urged her followers to get vaccinated as she received them a burner job she helped fund the vaccine to the tune of a $1000000.00 during its development. and other top stories on al-jazeera police in myanmar have ignored calls for restraint leading to the bed since last.