police are trying very hard to confront a scenario that happened last week when thousands were rioting in cities across the battle. after some protesters started throwing stones at letting off fireworks and police on horseback moved in to clear the area. you are. at least 6 people are killed in myanmar. as the military intensifies its crackdown against anti crew protesters. hello again understand the attack and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up we say to america help is on the way the nearly 2 trillion $1.10 released bill passes its final hurdle in the u.s. congress offering financial help to millions of americans. 10 years on japan

remembers victims of its magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami the destroyed towns and triggered a nuclear meltdown for shame. and the prime minister of ivory coast is coming back to yoko played a critical role in mediation during the country's civil war. now myanmar's military has leveled new charges against a person leader aung sun suu kyi as it defends its decision to seize power a military spokesman says she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 plus goals while in government and secure demonstrators are continuing though to defy the military these images were taken earlier in the city of da way several deaths have also been reported during other rallies on state tourney chang is across all of this for us from bangkok in neighboring thailand tony we are talking about at least

6 deaths today what more do we know are. indeed we seem to have a confirmed death toll now 7 people in the central myanmar township of my own have died we understand one in mandalay one confirmed death and yang gone there are reports of deaths were so another bloody day all across the country crowds didn't come out today in the same numbers that we've seen previously but clearly the author it is a cracking down just as hard and some of the footage we're seeing from my own which shows that the largest told today 7 confirmed shows people clearly running in absolute terror of their lives you can hear the crack of live rounds in some of the pictures of the casualties or click but are clearly fatalities very brutal showing head shots very much consistent with the type of war weapons that amnesty

international in its report has said is being used by the military in effect sniper rifles weapons of war as they call them and tony these new charges against aung san suu kyi what do they mean for her continued detention. well we assume that when she has another court date these are charges which will be level that her. brigadier general saw minturn press conference today said that she accepted this $600000.00 in gold we know during the rest of the tension and sean turnbull an australian academic who's been advising government that financial records were taken the military spokesman said today that they these charges had been thoroughly investigated and proof of course he provided no evidence of that but we assume that these will be part of new charges which will be

used to extend her detention when she appears in court again he also said that president. when mint had been involved in corruption as head of the cabinet ministers they'd been trying to bribe election commission officials to ignore these accusations the military had said electoral inconsistences again the military's been saying this since well since the election itself but has used it as a justification for the coup they haven't proven any of these claims and in fact independent election. overwatch is who said they haven't seen any consistency of these charges either he also said that the military would maintain their control of the country for such a period until an election could happen nationally they said after the coup on february 1st that would be 12 months they seem to be stretching that out now potentially to even longer so no surprises here unfortunately. more charges being

for the against young son suchi we imagine in the next few days and a period of indefinite military control tony chang now with all the latest for us from bangkok thank you so much tony. well as tony was mentioning amnesty international is saying analysis of more than 50 videos shows that mia lost military isn't gauging and premeditated killings and the poing what it calls battlefield weaponry and warning some people may find or a battle plan is report to stopping. myanmar's military is using increasingly different tactics and weapons normally seen on the battlefield its target protests isn't bystanders across the country that's according to new research from amnesty international. the rights group verified dozens of videos like this one and says they confirm

security forces are engaging in what it calls systematic and premeditated killings it was around $28.00 and every we started seeing action more lethal force people being shot with live rounds and being killed. per says earlier on there had been a mixed use of life bullets and probably bullets but now what we're seeing is a mounting death toll. in this video recorded on march the 2nd in young gone on the sea international says a commander can be seen standing over an officer operating a sniper rifle and appears to be giving him orders to direct aspire to with specific protests as. well. since last month's military coup thousands of held daily protests across the country. an increasingly bloody crackdown by security forces is so far led to dozens of deaths. according to the

u.n. at least 61 people have been killed activists believe the death toll is higher. in another development i'm a senior national report some soldiers deployed to me on my 2nd city. mandalay belong to the 33rd light infantry division that's a division which has been accused of war crimes against the muslim or hindu in the west some reckon state in 2017 days per night into entry divisions that have been responsible heinous crimes elsewhere in the country that are now out in the streets shooting people. videos analyzed by amnesty also appear to show civilians being beaten at the harms the security guards but the demonstrators say they're undeterred oh the showcasing their resilience to military rule by continuously adapting their tactics no matter how much violence they face. the. groupers of

money al-jazeera. and moving on and a year after the global pandemic was declared the u.s. house of representatives has approved president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars in $1000.00 really feel it's one of the largest spending plans in the country's history that package includes funding for more vaccines and also extends unemployment benefits alan fisher has more now from the capital thank you you're going to pause the house deliver joe biden's 1st significant victory as president i want point 9 trillion dollar covert relief bill and all done without a single republican vote in support. this is a momentous day in the history of our country because we have passed historic consequential and transformative legislation thanks goes to the senators who are standing here are great committee chairs and all of our senators who pulled

together as one unit. beating back killer amendments making sure the bill was as strong as possible the bill has overwhelming support across the country 61 percent approval but republicans claim it spends far too much and delivers far too little we are here today mr speaker because democrats made a choice i choice to put their own partisan political ambitions ahead of the needs of the working class the deal delivers $1400.00 stimulus checks to every qualifying american targeted mainly of lower incomes there's $350000000000.00 for states cities and tribal governments $130000000000.00 for schools $40000000000.00 for further education and $50000000000.00 in relief for small businesses the package was a big pre-election promise from biden he wanted to do it with republican support

but was happy to push on without it. everything in the american rescue plan addresses a real need including investments to fund our entire vaccination effort more vaccines more vaccinate tours and more vaccination sites millions more americans will get tested including home testing schools will soon have the funding and resources to reopen safely a national imperative biden is expected to sign the bill when it hits his desk on friday the administration says the 1st checks could start going out soon with many people receiving their money before the end of the month alan fischer al-jazeera washington. now the russian foreign minister isn't katsav on the final leg of his 4 day tour of the gulf region sergey lavrov is expected to meet the emir of qatar and the foreign minister lavrov has already held meetings with turkey's foreign minister on wednesday on al-jazeera as bennett's myth is following this visit for

us here in doha than it is fairly busy meeting schedule for lavrov just how significant is this visit. sergey lavrov has already been to abu dhabi to dubai to riyadh and finishes or for city tour here in doha he's meeting at the moment with the cattery foreign minister and the turkish foreign minister of foreign minister russia russia's foreign ministry says the purpose of this tour is to look for business opportunities business opportunities in power generation in industry in agriculture the peaceful use of space and also he says a need to settle existing conflicts in this region there referring to libya to yemen and to syria turkey and qatar on the side of the syrian rebels holed up along the turkey syria border russia has been backing the assad regime and in libya in qatar on one side of the fight and the russians on the other so much for them to

discuss but what's also interesting is that this visit comes just a week after the u.s. released that intelligence report suggesting alleging that mohamed bin solomon crown prince of saudi arabia ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi 28 tina and the u.s. to stop the sale of weapons that might be used in the war in weapon war in yemen weapons of might be used by the u.a.e. and the saudis so while the u.s. is recalibrating its relationship with some countries in the gulf russia is here on the ground and it's nothing with all the latest from that visit here in doha thank you so much bonnie. still ahead here on al-jazeera china's national people's congress has wrapped up we'll tell you about some of the new laws passed and what it could mean for hong kong. struggling to survive why business isn't bob way say the easing of coronavirus restrictions may do less prone to help them recover.

how i once again say more very heavy rain into central and southern parts of the philippines not a cloud showing up here some very wet weather too into indonesia 75 millimeters of rain in jakarta in the past 24 hours the average for the month of march is around $100.00 millimeters so a lot of rainfall here a lot of wet weather there across parts of indonesia and a lot of wet weather there as you can see just coming into central areas of the philippines fight in try meanwhile across much of india china so some settle weather here pleasant sunshine bangkok getting up to 35 degrees celsius so my conditions as we go on through saturday notice the wet weather will continue across much of the philippines started to see some showers just coming into luzon good scattering the showers across malaysia and then that wet weather will continue through much of indonesia so further flooding concerns into words as

a result of that heavy showers continue across northern parts of australia and we see some very lively storms just around paris been recently in fact we had a staggering amount of rainfall here over the past 24 hours so still some showers in play here you see bruce been in one hour 55 millimeters of rain coming down here has led to some localized flooding so it's a little trying to by saturday rain for the west. 11 on his. up early with its worst economic crisis in generations. exasperated by the coronavirus pandemic and then this. one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history shone a light on a nation already in economic and political freefall people in power travels across the country to find out what's next for the trouble states lebannon the state to

collapse on a just you know. the you're the one. i know that you're watching al-jazeera let's remind you of our top stories this hour myanmar's military has leveled new claims against deposed leader aung san suu kyi as a defends its decision to seize power a military spokesman says she accepted illegal payments with $600000.00 plus gold and government. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a nearly 2 trillion dollar pandemic relief bill it will provide stimulus checks for millions of americans as well as extend unemployment benefits and tax breaks. and the russian foreign minister is in qatar on the final leg of his 4 day gulf tore

through saudi arabia and the united arab emirates sergey lavrov is expected to meet with the cattery a man on the foreign minister lavrov has already held meetings with turkey's foreign minister in doha on wednesday. how japan is marking 10 years since a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast and triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant nearly 16000 people were killed in the 20 left in disaster and 2 and a half 1000 others still remain missing the tsunami smashed into the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant destroying its cooling systems and then during the next week 3 of the parents react as exploded hundreds of thousands of people forced to flee their homes by the saddam a has more now from fatah but in fukushima prefecture. this is very emotional for people because 10 years is a landmark year 2 at least to recovery and lots of the sort of that followed the

disaster but still people are in the highest emotions after they heard today the announcement of at the same time when the tsunami struck this area behind me 10 years ago at 246 minutes. more than 10 meters of tsunami just went through all this area destroyed all the houses everything in the area at the same time people are also reminded of the. critical situation in the area last month on the 13th of february also. witnessed the 7.3 earthquake just reminding people of how vulnerable this wishing is still here in the area as news have been far from the headlines lately but the situation there is still very critical we have to remember that the myth of the nuclear fuel is that in 3 of the reactors. nothing has been done to move to

remove it also another. point here is the accumulating water almost 1240000 cubic meters are accumulated during that 10 years this water is the polluted water from underground that has been withdrawn and the storing facility or the sorting space is about to run out on out by autumn orders or some of next year . china's i knew all national people's congress has wrapped up in beijing and leaders have passed new us restricting democratic participation of hong kong candidates running for office that will be vetted by a committee appointed by beijing this is meeting also saw chinese president xi jinping announce that his government had ended extreme poverty in china katrina you has more now from the chinese capital. well this national people's congress has an annual opportunity for 3000 members of the chinese communist party to passed bills in china now this is a largely ceremonial events many of these bills and documents are approved way

ahead of schedule and also we expect that all of these will be pos so they voted on 10 different bills today and those include the budget for the next year china is 5 and 15 year plan but of course the one that we're really looking out for that the international community was waiting for was this bill to reform hong kong's political system now when it comes to the vote today in beijing is great hall of the people we had $2895.00 officials approve this bill and only one abstention so it was pretty much unanimously passed as was expected now we've just gotten more details of what this includes it was released by that china's state media and there were 9 articles to this bill basically these changes can be summarized in 2 ways one that there's going to be a major overhaul to the make up of hong kong's legislative council that is the mini parliament that elects the hong kong leader more seats will be added to the electoral system and they will be stacked mostly with poor beijing figures the 2nd

may just change is the introduction of essentially a screening mechanism to ensure that all of those holding public office in hong kong a loyal to the chinese government considered patriot's essentially by beijing now china has said that these changes are necessary to ensure the security and the stability of the territory but of course there are many inside and outside of hong kong who are hugely critical of these changes saying that this is crushing the democratic freedoms that were promised to hong kong for at least another 50 years. well the biden administration has announced plans for its fast high level face to face talks with china secretary of state and the bank and says he'll be laying out his concerns on a range of issues at next week's meeting in alaska and they include the enforcement of a controversial security law and hong kong as well as china's treatment of ethnic minorities i think it would be very important if china claims that there is nothing going on

that it give access to the international community to the united nations if they have nothing to hide show it to us show show the world and so we'll be calling for that and then i think there's a series of practical things that are very very important for example we should make sure that we are not exporting and others are not exporting to china any products that can be used for the repression of their people and their minorities similarly we shouldn't be bringing into this country products that are created by forced labor including from changing. lawson jordan is in washington d.c. and she says the u.s. is seeking to cooperate with china while still holding them accountable for rights violations we've heard secretary blinken say several times now in the past week that the u.s. is going to be cooperating where it can with officials in beijing and climate change is one course one of those issues there's a very small working group that has been set up under the auspices of the g. 20 currently being run by the u.s.

treasury department along with the their chinese counterparts to work on these sorts of issues involving a warming planet but that does not mean that the u.s. as we heard there from blink ins testimony on wednesday that the u.s. is going to be overlooking china's human rights record particularly against its minority weaker community in the western part of that country the administration is taking the position that the previous administration took which is that what is happening to the weaker community in china is in fact genocide while ivory coast's prime minister hun that has ties marking the 2nd time with any yet one of the nation's leaders has died in office due to illness. was seen as a possible successor to president alassane ouattara he was trying to france for medical treatment last month and then to germany an address has more from the sun. he died of advanced case of cancer and this is

a man who is seen by many here in ivory coast as a possible successor he's been groomed going by his profile is that the minister of defense the prime minister as well as minister of interior it tells you how much trusted he is. by a loss of what and what the future had in store for him before this now this is this 2nd. loss and what a success a possible successor who has died in the last 8 months he inherited the position from. who died 8 months ago and was seen as a possible successor to us and what i what i gave the reason for his contesting the presidential elections last last year as because he lost somebody you could have trusted to handle the job and as a result the constitution was picked and then he stood and won the election of voice disputed by the by the opposition now. the prime minister the late prime

minister maybe i have a weight in government circles but he's not that much he doesn't cut that much figure in politics in the ruling out a tea party he is seen as a lightweight so some other senior political big weeks out there and but they also knew that this is the preferred candidate of president alassane ouattara. well now the president of honduras is under a new scrutiny accused of promising to protect drug traffic is moving large amounts of cocaine into the united states prosecutors in new york say president juan orlando hernandez received millions of dollars in bribes and described the 100 leiva as forming part of a massive cocaine smuggling network and as has denied those allegations but he could still face fallout in his relationship with the united states reports. plundering president one would lead to an end as has been accused of trafficking

tons of cocaine to the united states this according to u.s. prosecutors who went as far as calling honduras a norco state. investigators say president members received bribes amounting to $25000000.00 from giovanni fuentes midis in alleged drug trafficker currently on trial in a us federal court. though the u.s. government is long viewed hundreds says the strategic ally in the region this week u.s. state department spokesperson ned price distanced the biden administration from its counterparts in the adnan this government we are committed to fighting corruption in honduras and we will support and work with leaders who are committed to fighting corruption any leader i think it's fair to say fair to say not prepared to combat the corruption won't be in a position to enjoy a close partnership with the united states allegations of criminal conduct against president edmund is have been mounting for years in 2019 a u.s. court convicted the president's younger brother tony of 9 days for cocaine

trafficking charges ever heard tell them about the i asked. him about it so you are saying. work or not. this is rather and president can only go up and say that he is headed for a ship and that he used that he was to bring. it out it's. you know it was the. united states government ok for his part the hunter and president has denied any involvement with organized crime taking to twitter on wednesday to deny the latest allegations against him the false testimony of the not because her lobbyist lice the not just testified under oath they purchased full immunity for $252021.00 is an election year and it's shaping up to be an important one for the country's relationship with the united states the buy to the administration has allocated

$4000000000.00 to combat the root causes of migration from central american countries. along with violence and poverty political corruption linked to the government of president and is has been a driving factor behind the waves of mass migration out of honduras but the white house says that as little aid as possible will go to corrupt governments setting conditions like transparent elections as evidence of good governance manildra up a little al-jazeera. now brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from 1001 day since this pandemic began more than 2000 wednesday's figure takes the overall country's toll to more than 270000 brazil is struggling to deal with a surge in cases that's pushed many hospitals close to breaking point health experts say it's being fueled by more contagious strains of the virus. well meanwhile zimbabwe has eased its coronavirus lockdown and overnight curfew that were imposed in january it's now allowing businesses to reopen after the rate of

new infections there slowed many are now trying to recover after months of disruptions the has this report from harare. tasty girl burgers some chicken and anything else on the menu will soon be ready but not for a sits down meal cloven 1000 mr chinn's in zimbabwe don't allow that for now it's only takeaways part of the government's plan to bring down infection rates for restaurants and fast food outlets also known as quick service restaurants or. this is not good for business as you can see now or an empty restaurant will only be able to trade till 7 pm and even then we might have a few people who will come through but restaurants are not primarily catered for takeaway business and even if you look at some of the logic u.s. our businesses there are only still operating in 50 percent because they have designed themselves to allow saddam patrons so it's a significant impact in the business and going forward significant impact and we're

looking at job losses and companies closing of the businesses have fully reopened as the country tries to recover from a 2nd wave of corona virus infections lockdowns in 2020 and early this year acted zimbabwe's already struggling economy we certainly are past the worst in terms of course at 19 and unfortunately at the beginning of the 1st little of the lot. and what really looking forward to is where. it started coming in but since we may not have to resort to lock downs again we should see you know performance and profile for companies. that zimbabweans are taking advantage of being able to move around without restrictions there is high unemployment most people here live hand to mouth this is somebody one of the oldest and busiest. operate markets in the capital harare informal traders can understand the way muslim practice social

distancing but not everyone is a. threat as winter approaches in this region health officials are warning of a 3rd wave if covert 19 regulations on to follow that business owners on the brink of permanent closure say the contract for another lockdown. al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera these are the headlines myanmar's military has leveled new claims against opponents leader aung san suu kyi as a defends its decision to seize power a military spokesman says she accepted illegal payments where 600000 dollars plus goals while and government 20 chang has more from bangkok and neighboring thailand . when she has a number called charges which will be level that her. brigadier general zalman.