changed after the course it gave me opportunities for my business women make change owner al-jazeera. play an important role. or. ringback protest scene senegal's capital as opposition leader as mansong gore is charged with rape but released on bail. we're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also ahead results from ivory coast as parliamentary elections are a net but there's a dispute over who's in the leaves fears of deportation more than 150 rohingya

refugees in indian administered kashmir could be forced to go back to myanmar and on international women's day we'll look at where women are making gains or osteo being treated unfairly. we begin in senegal where a judge has ordered the release of opposition leader song coal hundreds of people have been protesting outside the court west uncle was charged with rape opposition party and civil society groups have called for 3 days of math them inspirations some core supporters say the case against him is politically motivated is a rest has pos days of protests across senate out that speak to our correspondent nicholas hock who joins us from outside. was home in the car so next you outside his home what's been happening since his release.

well listen the utmost fear is electric protests have turned to jubilation and celebrations with hundreds if not thousands of people have gathered outside we have been some close house and they're all chanting that this this word and will of that is powerful there's a sense among these protesters. they were able to release some good himself that they bring a challenge the power of the presidency and through his release they see it as their personal victory the whole the the protest to strauss 2 days have not just been about the arrest of song call so what happens now. there is no you well you know that was done in the case of the sort of yourself there is still there is a rage against him so he still has sort of the koori to. the

president thinks it should address the nation this evening and his challenge is to address the deep grievances that this protests or these demonstrations. have brought out i.e. that the lot of people here are suffering because of the fallout of the economic crisis from the current of ours pandemic the restrictions put in place by the government has really restricted the income that many of these people have come out outside some close house cobb and they've been calling for more help from the government something unprecedented for the lausd here the government of senegal this started distributing food aid to its population only a 3rd of the population is under the poverty line and so there's a sense here now that the ball is in the government's course courts to try to answer the grievances that we've seen throughout this protest movement for me to scenes we've seen. these past few days in senegal in dakar in other places

a quite unusual for this country that has a reputation of being one of the most stable in the region and some of the anger we've seen naked has been directed at france the former colonial power tell us more about that. you're going to. hear it and absolutely you're really nailed it here the idea of stability and democracy and the the historic nature of this now there's always been a. lot of the passing of power between president has been peaceful in this country and the feeling among a lot of these protesters that what they're doing here is not defending the opposite opposition leader we spend some coke but they're defending the democracy in the history of stability to this country because because they see in this court case against who's been some go in attempting to politically eliminate a rival president mikey sells the part of the of the protest you don't trust the

president. in his attempt to charge with one song so also an attempt for him to change the constitution to run for a 3rd. question about the role of france here a lot of these people have come out to protest looted french supermarkets specifically one chain. store did open your supermarket chains inside for neighborhoods and the challenge for a lot of the speedo food very low deli incomes are fruit and vegetables sellers well the challenge for them is that they can't compete corporation a few $100.00 bringing movies for ration in their neighborhood and failing to protect them and a link to bring joy a lot of young people here. thinkers and thank you very much for that update nicholas hockey's our correspondent in carson is out with the latest on events that . ivory coast now and results are coming in from the parliamentary election but

there's a dispute over who is in the lead let's bring in ahmed eateries who joins us from abidjan in ivory coast so what's the latest on these results. as that one hour ago only the results not been announced $172.00 seats not so far been declared that was a break and then they will continue with that leaves a balance of. $83.00 more seats to be declared now since yesterday they have been claims and counterclaims between the opposition alliance and the governing party the opposition insisted that they have $1128.00 seats just one vote more than they needed in parliament to establish majority meanwhile the governing party itself is saying that it has won comfortably it was looking for $16148.00 seats and there are clear indications that right now the governing party

of president last water is leading and its supporters are saying that the lead is on a salable nuts until the election commission came down hard on both sides insisting that the authority to announce the election results and declare candidates winner rests with the election commission and 13 to sue anyone claiming to have won this election right now here you know which of course is a ruling party stronghold things up fired we are in the market now and things are going on peacefully as if there was no election or those no tension as witnessed yesterday so maybe they are certain that this is opposite this is going in part to stonewall and the confident that nothing is going to happen oh the feeling across because it may be the threat of violence is ebbing away or lee thank you for that live in abidjan ivory coast's. in other world news in myanmar local media are

reporting that 2 people have been killed after police fired on protesters in the northern town of michonne our shops and factories have closed in some cities as trade unions call for a total economic shutdown to protest against a military co 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-cult movement at least 59 protesters have been killed since the protests began. meanwhile police in indian administered kashmir say at least 168 rohingya refugees have been sent to a holding center for possible deportation to myanmar that's after hundreds were taken to a stadium in jammu on saturday methylated 5000 rowing a muslim are in indian administered kashmir but reports. these ring the refugees fled violence and persecution in myanmar they sought safety in indian administered jungle kashmir but the indian all sources say they are not welcome here indian

security forces reportedly started rounding up the families on saturday some of the estimated 5000 remaining are believed to have arrived in this disputed and politically fraught region of northern india in recent years the member yes our yesterday when i was away at work the police came and took away my wife and she still hasn't returned my small children have been crying all night and we're leaving we have no choice being very worried for them my wife still has not come back home. sounds of ringing gunmen are women and children have been killed during repeated waves of violence against them in myanmar in recent decades i mean military crackdown which the u.n. called textbook ethnic cleansing forced nearly a 1000000 to flee into neighboring bangladesh in 2017 the buddhist majority myanmar government has for years denied citizenship to the mainly muslim are. they often

described as the largest stateless ethnic group in the world. india's hindu nationalist government of prime minister narendra modi has repeatedly asked state and territory governments to deport what is estimated to be tens of thousands of ringer who have sought refuge in the country it says the ring of our security threat. rights groups have long urged india to observe international human rights law which prohibits sending refugees back to places where their lives are in danger . my son and daughter in law went to buy something only my daughter in law came back on my son was taken away. there are reports of dozens of rigging being held at a makeshift holding center at a jail in jamu in preparation for them being returns to myanmar. saying we cannot. detain person but if their family members when they can stay with them. in the

holding center with. the security situation which has long been dangerous for the wringer has deteriorated across the country in recent weeks. protesters have been shot dead by security forces in a crackdown or for a military coup removed me and most civilian leader aung san suu kyi and for the 1st a leader accused around the world of not doing enough to protect the ring in 2017. and that means the future for families like these who face being forcibly returned to myanmar is even more uncertain and on safe. for al-jazeera. the coronavirus pandemic now and syria's president bashar assad and his wife have both tested positive for colby 19 they're said to show minor symptoms and are reportedly in good health syria has had more than 15000 cases and $1000.00

confirmed deaths from the virus but testing gave abilities are limited in the war ravaged country actual numbers are thought to be much higher and made a recent surge of infections health workers in vietnam have gotten their 1st jobs as the country begins its vaccination drive more than 100000 doses have been distributed to major cities vietnam expects another 1300000 to arrive through the kovacs global sharing scheme in april. israel has started vaccinating palestinians across into israel for work to work on the construction of illegal settlements are also be inoculated a faucet reports on the occupied west bank. after a small pilot program last week in a delay to the start of this process on sunday this is the 1st day proper of a plan to vaccinate more than 120000 residents of the occupied west bank those with permits to work either in israel or inside illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the process will see them over the 1st 2 weeks getting

a 1st dose of the madonna vaccine and waiting a month and then another 2 weeks to get the 2nd dose and become fully vaccinated we spoke to one young man who's a mechanic who works inside israel. it's protection for yourself it'll allow you to work freely you'd still have to wear a mask but hopefully things will be better in the future. israel has faced criticism from some quarters in the international community from human rights groups for not as they put it meeting its obligations under the geneva convention to more fully vaccinate people who live under occupation in the occupied west bank and in gaza israel maintains and indeed the palestinian health ministry has said that it is its obligation to vaccinate its own people but the numbers the disparity is very stark israel is vaccinated more than 5000000 people with at least one dose 3000000 with both doses inside the gaza and the west bank there's only been

a few 1000 vaccinated so far the palestinian authority has been given 22000 vaccines so far with another $60000.00 or so to follow this month but this comes at a time when there's a big spike in the virus itself inside the occupied west bank so those who are able to get the vaccine at this point remain the lucky few. nearly 7000000 school students in england are back in class for the 1st time since january but teachers' unions have expressed concerns about reopening and call for priority access to vaccines the government is easing some restrictions as locked down and vaccinations infection rates still ahead on al-jazeera we look at why afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for women as they fight for equal rights with 20 people killed and hundreds injured equitorial guinea 3 president says negligence was the cause of several explosions at a military base. however

got to return to love the warm spring sunshine for japan over the next couple of days of course because every of high pressure just nestling in here so that'll keep it generally quiet and fire lupus. faces a cloud into that he says sort of honshu yes at the moment that will grassy just not out of the way 13 celsius in tokyo then on tuesday afternoon similar temperatures there for salt had woman there in a beijing but as we go on into weddings they can see how those temperatures thoughts just ate up in the right direction 719 in tokyo at that stage of pleasant sunshine in the light winds it really will fill presently warm $66.00 in found high that is wet weather down towards southern parts of china see some heavy showers here which are just as they way down it's in more than parts on the vietnam war some wet weather to say making its way into shoreline for over the next day also

some heavy showers just starting to slide in across southern parts of the by of bengal mostly some of those showers just beginning to nose their way across into tom will see some west to where the creeping hit for much of india the warm sunshine and sees me warm sunshine does continue still getting up around 38 celsius and that pool has 100 in found hot we have got a few showers around the foothills of the himalayas could see a westerly disturbance spring up across northern pakistan by thursday. but. welcome to down from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes. so you can relax enjoy breaking you. and when you leave with a smile we know

a lot day's work is done counts are always welcome to our home. the air to. be watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a judge has ordered the release of opposition leader it was months on call in senegal hundreds of people have been protesting outside the court west uncle was charged with rape its supporters say the case against him is from italy motivated results are coming in from the parliamentary elections in ivory coast but there's a dispute over who's in the lead at the ruling party said it's gotten 60 percent of the seats while the opposition is alleging irregularities and police in indian

administered kashmir say at least 168 rohingya refugees have been sent to a holding center for possible deportation is an estimated 5000 working and living in the beaches. now at least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions that a military base in equitorial guinea's largest city of bata more than 600 others were injured the president says it was caused by the mishandling of dynamite. to maybe an hour the parliament is gathering for a crucial vote on whether to endorse a new interim unity government prime minister designate abdul hamid dabashi met with members ahead of the vote the u.n. is overseeing the process which it hopes will unite the country following a cease fire deal between libya's 2 rival administrations if the government is approved it was steer the country towards elections in december let's get the latest with miley train our correspondent in libya he joins us from misrata so what's the latest mulligan one of the chances that this unity government will it

will be appealed. the parliament has been divided since they were elected in 2014. when after began his military operations on the capital tripoli a rival those against the military campaign started a rival parliament in tripoli. there have been attempts for them to gather in the last 6 months a failed attempt in the city of adamus in october another attempt in february failed as well in the city of sobriety. but now over $132.00 members of parliament have arrived and currently they've just entered the conference hall and they're discussing now whether to approve this government now this is this could be crucial according to the agreement signed in geneva early in february by members of the libyan political dialogue form the parliament has 21

days to certify this government if that doesn't happen that power will then return to the participants of the libyan political dialogue forum so i think pieces are much more motivated now because they feel a bit threatened by this by the body by the libyan political dialogue form that their power will be stripped away and given to these 75 participants that the u.n. has hand-picked what's important to note is that for the 1st time ever the this this prime minister elect has nominated a female foreign minister so if this government is approved we can see history in the making. today thank you for that smiling life i say misrata. saudi arabia is 'd promising to take all necessary measures to protect itself after yemen told the rebels launched another attack on its energy facilities the latest escalation comes at a time when the u.s.

administration has been trying to restart peace talks among shielding factions. reports. more soldiers loyal to yemen's u.n. recognized president of the problem and so hardy are facing their biggest challenge in years preventing who threw fighters from taking control of mareeba the province east of the capital sanaa is birch in oil and natural gas it's also had his last chance to regain control of yemen. but the whole things have been sending reinforcements they know the battle of could decide the future of the country. further south fighting has intensified around the city of tire as government forces have launched an offensive to retake military bases controlled by elite army units moyal to the her thirty's. iran backed rebels hold ground in to prevent government forces from advancing to was mad if the north violence is spiraling out

of control why that's going on the whole things have launched an attack targeting oil facilities inside the arabia was a learned go in was 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 coal in ras port and other military facilities and their mom more military sites were targeted in a syria and design and the strike was precise. but saudi arabia says its defenses intercepted the drone and b. sila tax return ation was swift the saudi coalition launched airstrikes in the capital sanaa. the escalation comes as the u.s. on voyage to yemen is visiting the region to rally support for an and to the conflict table to land the king is hoping to bring all the parties and give

diplomacy a chance but the last breakthrough in yemen was short lived in 2019 the u.n. convinced the warring factions to agree on a ceasefire a prisoner swap and political talks on the future of the country weeks later the deal collapsed and fighting has not stopped ever since. 0. in malawi the formal extradition hearing against a controversial preacher has been postponed until next monday shepherd was sherry and his wife mary are accused of money laundering fecht and fraud in south africa the millionaire and self-proclaimed prophet runs churches in multiple african countries and regularly to tens of thousands of followers to his event him and his wife fled south africa for malawi in november saying their lives were in danger and they would get a fair trial in the u.s. jury selection is underway in the trial of a white police officer charged with killing george floyd a vigil is being held outside the minneapolis course these are live pictures from

there many are calling for a day of prayer and justice for the unarmed black man his death floyd died in may after an officer kneeled on his neck for nearly 9 minutes. now this is international women's day is being celebrated at a time when the world is confronting staggering health and economic crises the coronavirus pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women and the u.n. secretary general antonio terrace warns its consequences could last a long time priyanka gupta reports. this 3 need to france was meant to guard mexico's presidential palace from protest is on women's day instead it's big. a towering symbol of the violence women here face these are the names of those who have been murdered because of their chanda last year 939 were killed between

20152020 the number of women have died for this reason increased by nearly a 100 at 30 percent. today we come to give a voice to these women who are no longer here today we come to write their names to remember them so that they are never forgotten and that justice is done for them. 6 in pakistan activist rally demanded shelters to protect women from abuse around the world aid agencies say the pandemic and lockdowns have led to both cases of domestic violence women of course. been confined so in the case of women who are living with an abuser they are trapped in that 2nd layer of course it's been much harder for women to access this so some services have to close down during lockdown periods or absolutely not be physically accessible for women. and we've also seen

a very very concerning trend of increased violence online in france activist granted against existing inequalities made worse by the pandemic. in the philippines protestors blamed their government for a rise in unemployment and poverty the pandemic and government restrictions have made women more economically vulnerable and added to the invisible burden of unpaid domestic and care work out estimates show that across all regions women have become more likely than men to become economically. it was also so that when his wages have been. so women's total wage bill in the countries where we have a fallen by a point one percent according to bed is 5.4 percent for men and women have. on the frontlines of the fight against corporate 90 simply percent of health workers and 1st responders are women yet the gender pay gap suits at 28 percent.

the u.n. says an equal future is within reach if everyone chips in but for now it's largely women who are bearing the cost of the pandemic. to 0. all international women say in india saul women take center stage at the months long farmers protests more than 20000 gathered at the site mia delis border with the state of haryana the protesters are demanding the scrapping of new laws they say will ruin their livelihoods and in the next few hours the u.s. secretary of state is expected to honor 7 afghan women who were assassinated last year they were activists journalists and front line workers and they're being praised for their dedication to improving lives in afghanistan under the taliban women and girls couldn't go to work or leave the house without a male escort the situation has changed but recently there's been an alarming increase in the number of targeted killings of women and it remains one of the most

difficult places in the world to fight for women's rights earlier i spoke to a fallacy a coffee was an afghan negotiator in the talks between the government and the taliban she is also president of the movement for change body she says of ghana stan has experienced a lot of transformation but there's still a long road ahead. we have a constitution that guarantees equality of rights and also caught a whole woman in political participation. out of the 11000000 children that go to school 40 percent or girls this is in a situation where only 20 years back i was not allowed to go to my to continue my education as a medical student at the university and i had to stay home and then continue home school for other girls and boys who you know were not even able to go to school so these are of course changes and i think the major changes that social transformation the fact that people 6 you know are able to talk about what they want is

a major change but i must say that all of these changes are very fragile and if we do not have international support and more mobility at peace talks there are risks that we will lose some of it but the government has tried to recruit women in different positions like political empowerment however the insecurity all over the country has resulted in you know the target killing and there has been no accountability and that. in many places the schools for women are closed still and there has been no action to reopen them still there is injustice and discrimination when it comes to recruitment and access to jobs access to resources you know the rule of law when it comes to protection of women is still a challenge because of the war i mean some steps have been taken to empower women as comparing to the past but i must say that these are limited to major cities and

we still have a long way to go with it comes to gender equity. thank you and i have to 1430 g.m.t. our top stories on al-jazeera judge has ordered the release of fan accounts opposition politician whose man some call hundreds of people have been protesting outside the court where he was charged with rape his supporters say the case against him is politically motivated nicolas sarkozy santé from the car. the honest fair is electric protests have turned to jubilation and celebrations with hundreds if not thousands of people have gathered outside we spent some close house and they're all chanting that this this word in will of that is powerful there's a sense among these protesters that they were able to release some call themselves that they braved the challenge the power of the.