today. military takeover in me and my us on the streets one o one east is on the ground investigating what it means for the future of the southeast asian nation on al-jazeera. at least 20 people are killed in equitorial guinea german and number of explosions at a military base. over there i'm out of my head and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. another escalation between yemen's who fees and saudi arabia energy facilities in the kingdom are targeted then saudi arabia launches air strikes again some are.

reports of 2 more people shot dead as pressure piles on the myanmar military to stop its violent crackdown on protesters. and fears of deportation more than $150.00 rangar refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar. at least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a military base in equitorial guinea where than 600 people were injured the government says negligence caused the blast and bats a city after serious nicholas huck has more. after the 1st explosion. because. a 2nd one that i mean the then a 3rd and 4th each. stronger than the other. this is where the blast took place

inside the. barracks one of the country's largest military bases. people ran for their lives. others rushed the injured to hospitals the statement of live on national television the reporter asks is the baby dead no she replies but her mother and. we don't know what happened to this man says everything is destroyed. the barracks were home to hundreds of families in the rubble people try to pull out survivors many are feared dead including detainees trapped in the barracks prison cells. hospitals quickly became overwhelmed and called for urgent blood donations. i'm asking for your excellent susan assistance from abroad the countries and international organizations to help the republican guinea in this lamentable situation we have we already have the

coronavirus health emergency and adding to that this tragedy in the city of boston on national t.v. the anchor read out a statement from president. he says negligence in the dynamite depot located on the base caused the explosion. given the scale of the destruction and in these times of lower oil prices made even worse by the cave in 1000 pandemic a call on the international community to provide all the help and assistance necessary. being has been in power for the last 42 years amassing half a $1000000000.00 in personal wealth in this oral rich country but according to the world bank 80 percent of the population live on less than 2 dollars a day his son is the country's vice president in charge of the military and the barracks where the explosion took place last year french court charged him with embezzling state funds with a court seizing his 100 $7000000.00 paris home critics of the regime see in these

explosions as yet another example of the family's continued neglect of the people of equitorial guinea. pig liz hawk al-jazeera. saudi arabia is promising to take all necessary measures to protect itself after yemen's who the rebels launched another attack on its energy facilities the saudi government has confirmed the iran call plant in tire and was targeted by a ballistic missile earlier joan hit rust turnour a ports one of the world's largest oil shipping ports saudi officials say they intercepted the drone and missile attacks and there was minimal damage but the who things say it was a much bigger assault. was the large oil or say all the artillery and drone divisions were able to conduct a wide offensive in the depths of saudi arabia with 14 drones and 8 ballistic

missiles we targeted around cole in ras noor a port and other military facilities in the mom more military sites were targeted in a series of design and the strike was precise. the saudi coalition responded to the attacks. by hitting who the targets in yemen as capital sana'a a residential area was struck and there are reports of casualties al-jazeera has covered the war in yemen extensively and explains know why the who things launched the attacks know. there are 2 things happening here the hope is are saying they retaliate into the latest us coalition in the area with. intensive coalition attacks targeting her 3 positions inside but at the same time by the end of this month the 20 the 6th of march is going we will be commemorating the 6th anniversary of the saudi led coalition against the who of these if you remember back in 2015

the narrative by the saudis and the emirate is was basically that there would be defeating the who these and reinstating president obama so handy the attack yesterday deeper into saudi arabia targeting vital refineries in the one coupled with the attack in 2019 which stopped sunday production of oil for 50 percent of the capacity of saudi arabia for most for most few days is a message by the who thinks they're far from being defeated that they will continue to gain ground that they will continue to expend their political and military influence and that now they're able to move closer to the saudi border the moment they get closer to the saudi border they've been using the same tactic jones rockets advanced rockets particularly by that and also book and they have some some advanced missile technology that they have been using to show the saudis the they are far from being defeated. local media in myanmar is reporting that 2 people have

been killed after police fired on protesters in the northern town of michiana this shops and factories have closed in myanmar as largest city young gone trade unions of called for a total economic shutdown to protest against the military coup after more than a month large crowds of protesters are still gathering in many cities security forces are checking cars guarding hospitals and conducting overnight raids to deter the anti cool movement at least 59 protesters have been killed since the protests began well the strain has added to the international backlash against near mars military announcing its suspending its defense cooperation program we have reviewed our military engagement and i announced yesterday that those activities would be suspended we've also reviewed our development assistance because one of the things that i do not want to do and the distributors not want to do is to penalize the

people of myanmar the people of myanmar who are amongst the poorest people in as eon and who have been dealing with significant challenges for a long period of time let's get one from scott haidar he joins us live from bangkok in neighboring thailand scott the protest a general strike is underway but the death toll is continuing to mind. it is up in cats in state to protesters courting to witnesses and cording to local media have been killed during a protest up there we know that both the military and police were there pushing back against the protesters yes again this is another deadly day you know the as we've seen throughout the last month plus these protests you know it depends on the day quite honestly some days go by where they are pretty peaceful there are some some clashes some confrontation between security forces and and the protesters and

other days they did turn violent very quickly like right now what we're seeing in yangon the largest city there are protesters out there that have been tear gas canisters fired there have been rubber bullets fired but no casualties and it sounds like so far no major injuries but up in the north it's a different story as we're hearing these 2 to protest protesters have been killed and also nationwide as you mentioned khalid there's a strike and going on factories have been closed shops have been shut banks have been shut and this is the social this is the movement by the civil disobedience movement of people organizers to try and slow the economy down if not halted all together they say today is the beginning of a general strike and they want to continue on and scott how significant would you say this leads this move by a street what does it reveal about the sort of action the international community is willing or indeed able to take. well i think the key word there is definitely able. to has joined multiple other nations

and international organizations including the united nations the better come out independently some independent bodies i should say the human rights council in the united nations have come out and condemn what's happening condemned use of weapons on its own civilians inside myanmar so it's definitely kind of adding to the chorus of condemnation coming from the international community but when you look at the nations that really need to do things like what a story is done with the united states is done when it comes to the military supplying the military in myanmar it has to come from china and russia those are the 2 major contributors to the military in myanmar and those 2 are the ones who have veto power and have been blocking any kind of strong statements even just a strong statement from the u.n. security council so when you look at yes this trillions have joined this this ongoing chorus international community chorus condemning what's happening there

trying to take action to prevent it from continuing but the nations that really can really put the brakes on that or at least slow it down have yet to step up case that keep it across all the developments in the region from bangkok scott for now i thank you. the police in indian administered kashmir say at least 168 rangar refugees have been sent to holding center for possible deportation that's after hundreds were taken to a stadium in jammu on saturday officials want to find days if they have valid documents to live there an estimated 5000 muslim rangar are in indian administered kashmir they're part of the more than 1000000 refugees who fled me and more since its military crackdown began in 2817000 member yes out yesterday when i was at work the police had come and taken my wife away and she hasn't returned my children have been crying all night we are leaving we have no choice i have

a little again i have a phone numbers of some of the people taken so i called them but now their mobile phones are going to take in a way we're not able to speak with them and their children have been left behind well khaled when my son and daughter in law went to buy something only my daughter in law came back he was taken away. we can speak now with allie joe hart he's director of education for reading the human rights initiative and joins us now from dailies great to have you with us here in al-jazeera your organization works with have you been in contact with any of those who've been detained and can you speak to who they are what their state of mind is after these recent developments. if you were in contact with family members of the detained. since last saturday actually they were called for a medication. so i can bet it's a verification have been here as well but this time it will be different and more

than 155 people were detained and that has created chaos and all the community and . community members. don't want me out of few. i wasn't it justifying this move to detain these individuals and potentially send them back again mara specially given what we've just heard from our correspondents in the area it's a very tense situation in myanmar and potentially not safe definitely not it is this came after a direction on the high court actually last while the high court directed administration in me to identify and i later play within them on whether to go sions and measures taken by the state to identify them and deport their produce to their own country but given the situation currently in. development that are happening it is not quite conducive to send back there whether we're not sure these

people can be send beg there or not because within. a decade there are already more than 10 people in detention several detention and i mean are you hopeful they'll be able to stay with their families. the family members are being separated actually from some families it is on the head of. the. female member of the male member. to the community and their desperation is tall and their ministration is saying we cannot believe all they did attain 1st and but if their family members will they can stay with the whole thing in the holding center with. director of education for their engine human rights initiative thank you so much for joining us on al-jazeera. thank.

still to come millions of children across england are heading back to school and some pandemic restrictions are lifted for us i was silent. or you silent or were you silence. the last. suppressed within the palace prince harry's wife meghan reveals the reasons for their splits from the british royal family. how it was a move very heavy downpours into indonesia recently lots of heavy showers right across southeast asia the worst of which are across some possible asia into indonesia dying at surat 107 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours the heaviest

showers look like it is just not a little further into borneo and notice some other weather there it's a central and southern parts of the philippines over the next couple of days what it says showers still in place across southern parts of vietnam into thailand particular around the gulf of thailand having a showers there will be across border and continuing through much of indonesia with the prospect of flooding as we go on through wednesday and thursday then the showers join up with the wet weather that we have across the far north of australia again some sundry downpours here and you can see this this trough this black one which one of the chop there into central parts of australia this band of clouds will produce further outbreaks of rain as we go on through the next couple of days and some of those showers will be on the lively side so some wetter weather just around northern territory around the top and so on prosequi and then seeing some heavy showers in the northeast of new south wales also looking a rather just this cold a bit dry into were victoria warming up by wednesday with rain for new zealand.

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this is al jazeera quick reminder of the headlines this hour at least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a military base in equitorial guinea's largest city of butter more than 600 people have been injured the president says it was caused by the mishandling of dynamite's . saudi arabia is promising to take all necessary measures to protect itself after yemen's who feels launched another attack on its energy facilities on sunday saudi aramco all plant in daraa was targeted by a ballistic missile and local media in myanmar is reporting that 2 people have been killed after police fired on protesters in the northern town of michiana this schools shops and facts series of calls to myanmar largest city and kong trade unionists are calling for a total economic shutdown to protest against the military coup.

nearly 7. 1000000 school students in england's are heading back to the classroom for the 1st time since january that says the government's begins easing some coronavirus restrictions as lot and vaccinations dampen the infection rates school closures have put a strain on parents working from home and prompted fears over the effects on children's education teachers' unions have expressed concerns about reopening. have called for priority access to vaccines get more from paul brennan he joins us from portsmouth in the south of england and paul this is a very big day in england as schools reopened how is it going so far. it's been very exciting indeed for the children who have been returning out here a portsmouth high school as you say down on the south coast of england and this is an all girl school that was streaming in from early doors before 8 o'clock even

with big smiles on their faces hugely excited and relieved that this long hard isolated and disrupted winter of education that they've suffered and enjoyed is finally apparently coming to an end as you say there are in excess of 7000000 children of school age in england alone they won't all be returning to classes just yet the government has given school some leeway over a staggered return to allow the possibility for testing to take place children are going to have to be tested 3 times in school and some schools will have difficulty actually meant managing the logistics of that that said many schools have been able to do some pretty testing last week to allow a full return today there are concerns the unions for example are questioning why teachers weren't given priority for the vaccination program and there is also the.

concern about what this will have what impact it will have on the overall infection rate but after more than 2 months away from classrooms boris johnson for example this morning said this was an important step on the back on the road to normality well let's talk about that will map to normality this is of course the 1st step. others are set to follow what's that like carer the scientists taking this because they've been noticeably cautious and quite weary of of lifting these tight restrictions 70. yes the sciences kind of developed during the course of this pandemic you know the belief that very young children primary age children really were not an important vector or a source of much infection secondary school children obviously more mature physically and therefore potentially exactly the same level of infectious risk as

adults. the figures at the moment are such that that's why the government has been able to allow people to come back we've had 20 in excess of 22000000 vaccinations the our number currently is between north point 7 and north point 9 that's below the critical one level and the other thing is that the positive tests have reduced by 31 percent over the last 7 days now what they will do that road map is if the infection rate doesn't spike too high as a result of all these children coming back to school then the next stage is further release non-essential shops will open in april the 12th but it really does depend on what happens in this next 3 weeks as they monitor the data from the schools reopening ok paul brennan there live from the safe paul thank you now our international women's day is being marked around the world with celebrations honors protests and strikes in the philippines women are marching to

the presidential palace to promote their rights and foist their concerns jamila island organ spoke with some of them in manila. hundreds. of money. for both we are. here to celebrate. but also. one of the highest number of. in the world business also in the world work force there's. also a. number of pregnancy in the region and we're income inequality remains a problem. worsened since the fall. we

are facing the worst economic crisis in philippine he says. with no. we are facing the worst. the biggest. every economic indicator for this spitting record. describe. the worst. and.

celebrate. and cooling. it was the largest. government vote that. that is. the. natural for the one with the world. as trailer is marking international women's day with the launch of a 14000000 dollar campaign urging people to speak up when they witness disrespect against women as parliament says facing questions over historic sexual assault allegations and dances put the spotlight on gender inequality and the treatment of women in australian politics. there are 3 daters spreading messages of hope and religious unity in iraq pope francis is heading home to the vatican a farewell ceremony was held at baghdad airport as the pontiff departed cheering

his visits pope francis to find security concerns with visits to regions devastated by eisel where he met members of one of the world's most persecuted christian communities police in senegal say opposition leader who will be released after his court appearance later on monday opposition party and civil society groups of cold for 3 days of mass protest against some goes arrest they say charges of rape against him are politically motivated. now both sides serve claim victory in ivory coast's parliamentary election despite polls showing a win for the governing party early results show a 58 percent majority for the r h d p party but the main opposition says the results are riddled with regularity the win would strengthen president alassane ouattara as position he wanted 3rd term in the vendor in an election marred by unrest that killed at least $85.00 people.

the formal extradition hearing against the controversial preacher is underway in malawi shepherd's bush eally and his wife mary are accused of money laundering fairford and frauds in south africa the millionaire and self-proclaimed prophets runs churches in multiple african countries and regularly drew tens of thousands of followers to his events if i had south africa in november saying their lives were in danger and they wouldn't scatter fair trial. health workers in vietnam have received their 1st jobs as the country begins its vaccination drive with 100000 astra zeneca doses happing distributed to major cities there vietnam expects another 1300000 to arrive through the kovacs squabble sharing scheme in april. president is expected to name his new cabinet soon after earlier asking all ministers to resign when it is faces growing pressure from protestors about the

government's handling of the pandemic including a slow vaccine rolaids it's been seeing record numbers of cases more than 8 thousands in the past week. meghan markle says the british royal family was concerned about how dark her son's skin color would be that you can duchess of sussex were interviewed by oprah winfrey for a 2 hour television special the interview comes after harry and megan decided to step back a senior members of the british royal family last year. all around the same time so we have in tandem the conversation we won't be given security is not going to give in a title and also concerns and conversations about how dark his skin might be when he's born. protesters in lebanon angry over the country's deteriorating economic state have been blocking roads in the capital

the protesters have declared monday a day of rage the lebanese pound is continuing to fall against the u.s. dollar man hasn't been a government in place since august. there's been process ahead over trial of a dismissed white police officer who was charged with killing george floyd's thousands of marched in the u.s. city of minneapolis demanding justice for the unarmed black man's death which sparked protests around the world the jury for the trial is set to be selected on monday floyd died in may after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly 9 minutes . tennis star roger federer says he has no plans to retire the former world number one is making a comeback at the qatar open after a 13 month injury layoff the 39 year old says he's preparing to go. i'm really here just to test it all out see how it goes and go day by day my 1st goal is really from now all the way to wimbledon use this time the best i can to build up step by

step i don't know yet what i'm going to play on the clay i basically don't know what i'm going to do next week yet so i'm just going to really take it one day at a time i have not had any setbacks the last few. month and that's been really positive for me and that makes me believe that you know good good times are ahead but. you know matches are different to practice or go a long way to go. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines at least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a military base negatory again is largest city of butter and 600 people were injured the president says it was caused by the mishandling of dynamite's saudi arabia is promising to take all necessary measures to protect its.