it states this year in the wake of the nationwide protests there is a growing number of calls to make it an official federal holiday. people see it as a great opportunity to take to the streets to continue to let their message be heard. at least 7 and protestors are killed in myanmar as the military makes new allegations against. their watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back to bore also ahead denmark suspends using astra zeneca has covered 1000 vaccine after reports of blood clots but says there is no evidence of direct links yet how to end the war in syria the foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey meet in doha on.

the air and 10 years on japan remembers the devastating earthquake and tsunami that trick at the fukushima nuclear disaster. memoirs military has leveled new accusations against deposed leader entente sochi a military spokesman says she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 while cross cold while in government the army also denied it was using excessive force on protesters but at least 7 more people were killed on thursday scott hide their reports from bangkok. protesters in myanmar again lead bullets on the streets of yangon live ammunition used elsewhere to protesters and several other cities and towns are facing a stepped up violent crime. down and more cases of security forces shooting unarmed

protesters in the head free protest peacefully but they cracked down on us while mentally demotic cracked out the strong good of revolution a we have decided the view continue into we've been in a news conference the military john to restated its intention of holding on to power only until new elections can be held election fraud in november's polling was its reason for the power grab yet the generals have provided no evidence of it. they also accuse deposed civilian leader aung sang suu kyi of taking bribes and others in her cabinet of corruption. well how did you pull the young gun regional minister. said he gave. himself $600000.00 in cash and 11 kilograms of gold between december 2017 to march of 2018 so i'm watching the news conference at a yangon tea shop call it one sided and question the jump to placing blame on

protesters for starting the violence when they have no weapons. and they are saying that the whole country is carrying out acts of violence it's horrible it's hurtful we have given our time we have given our lives to military does not care and say whatever they want. in another move they're just a has taken the eric an army off its list of terrorist groups it's one of 2 dozen ethnic armed groups in the country it's been removed from the list according to the joint because they have now stopped attacks in order to help establish peace some of the other ethnic armies have sided with the antic who protesters and across its eastern border thailand is preparing for the possibility of a refugee flow from ian maher those looking to flee the military's crackdown thailand's immigration department is converting a football arena into a processing center with health screening for now there hasn't been a large number of people trying to cross the border but in anticipation the time military has increased its patrols along the area scott toddler al-jazeera.

no way in denmark have temporarily suspended the use of the covert 1000 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca denmark says it was after a small number of cases of blood clots so curt however the country's health ministry said it wasn't yet clear whether the clots were linked to the vaccine the u.k. has responded and says the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective let's get more reaction from the u.k. and speak to paul brennan tell us more about what. astra zeneca in oxford said about this decision by denmark to suspend its vaccine. well at 1st glance this is a worrying development but it's important to put it into some context 1st of all the development itself and that is that denmark as you say has temporarily for 2 weeks suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine because of 2 cases one

involving a death from a blood clot austria has also suspended its use as well and a number of other countries are suspending the use of the astra zeneca vaccine from that particular batch so one particular batch that's 4 countries a stone. also it's only a norway as well the important context comes from what the european medicines agency and astra zeneca themselves are saying and that is that the 1st of all that there is no causal link yet between the blood clots that a picture of occurred and the fact that the people who suffered these blood clots were people who also had had the vaccine the european medicines agency is saying there was no evidence and that the cases of vaccine and and thrombosis were 22 cases up to march the 9th out of a number of people who taken the vaccine of 3000000 and that was in no way missed this what disproportionate so that what you would expect in the general population

and astra zeneca are saying that they will cooperate fully with the austrian side of the investigation and also that the safety of its vaccines have been extensively studied in human trials and the peer reviewed data had confirmed the vaccine was generally well tolerated so this move by norway denmark austria appears to be well founded on the basis that there have been cases but whether it is from an abundance of caution as opposed to something that really deserves widespread concern is yet to be established by the data meanwhile paul the european union has given johnson and johnson conditional approval. yes that's right $44000.00 test subjects have been administered the j.n.j. vaccine during the trials it's 66 percent effectiveness according to the data that

they've had the advantage of the j.n.j. vaccine is that it can be stored at fridge temperature for up to 3 months it doesn't have to go into that high for cold storage the pfizer the fines a vaccine for example has from the european commission and the european point of view europeans clamoring to try and get more vaccines into the arms of their citizens have been in criticized for being rather slow compared to for example the u.k. and america in the uptake of vaccines this is the 4th vaccine that has now been given authorization for the conditional side of it means that it will be for one year and then will be reviewed at the end of that year but on the face of it it would be an it's an extra arrow in the sheaf of the of the armory of the vaccine in vaccinators who are trying to get this control of this this pandemic in europe paula thank you very much for that now really i spoke to syria's small source was

a molecular vajrayana just 10 says there's been no shortcuts in the developments of vaccines. we keep wondering this phrase all these things will develop too quickly i would like to flip the korean on point talk to everybody how fast we can take things from diseases we want to do something about if we put the investment of the time and the resources that we are able to respond to diseases very quickly that's how advanced we are scientifically so on top of that please understand all the clinical trials thought necessary what about for all these foxes that you just listed all the data has been publicly made available for it is not tucker to say that this was developed foss that coolness will know there were no conus cult if anything all the people about how tough. a role to play be approval worked hand in hand in the process to make it as fast as possible so i would like to say to people

you know well let's try and get society and economy to solve diseases of health care problems looking at this as a paradigm of how we can do things better rather than the other way around with regards to what could possibly go wrong the point is that those studies that were carried out didn't show that there is a anything on tool that we need to be learned from a so maybe a bit of favor for a few days which is a sign that your immune system is kicking and it's did what it's supposed to do so i wouldn't i would be worried too much about these observations that the authorities under the right thing to make sure that nothing untoward is helping. here. a year after the global pandemic was declared the u.s. house of representatives has approved president joe biden's $1.00 trillion dollars over 19 really fails the package includes funding for more vaccines and extends unemployment benefits alan fisher has more from washington. thank you scott

applause the host delivered joe biden's 1st significant victory as president i want point 9 trillion dollars 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 or 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 at lower incomes there's 350000000000 dollars for states cities and tribal governments 130000000000 for schools 40000000000 for further education and 50000000000 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 chesty 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 japan is commemorating 10 years since the devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed thousands of people the magnitude 9 tremor also damaged nuclear power plants that continue suppose a contamination risk rob mcbride reports. it was the biggest earthquake japan has ever recorded creating devastating tsunami waves that crashed into towns and communities along its northeastern coast it left around 20000 people dead or missing and it caused a meltdown at the fukushima nuclear power plant more than 150000 people had to be evacuated from surrounding areas satellite images taken before and after the

disaster showed the extent of the destruction and the scale of the task to rebuild the town of minamisanriku was one of the worst hit with almost 2 thirds of the population wiped out through me oh ito survived the rising waters and made it to safety he now leads tours of his town recounting to visitors his firsthand experience a name or how difficult i want everyone to know that unexpected disasters can happen i think it is our job as people who experienced a tsunami to share that with others all along this coast and you see defenses have been built and the government has turned the reconstruction effort into a symbol of national revival coinciding with the delayed summer olympics the olympic torch relay is jew to start from fukushima later this month carried 1st by noriyuki suzuki whose daughter my died along with 73 other students and 10

teachers at their elementary school. there are many areas affected by disaster in japan and i want to recover lympics to before all those areas i want smiles to overflow the country. present services have been held along the affected coastline while in tokyo and peru another hito and prime minister yoshi he'd a sukkah led a national service of remembrance outlook we are usually not my heart aches when i turn my thoughts to those who have struggled with various hardships with rest the changes of the living conditions including those who have lost loved ones and those who have lost their homes or jobs and been separated from the people of their communities. time to reflect on the disaster a decade ago and its legacy japan as a nation will have to deal with for decades to come rob mcbride al jazeera. still

ahead on al-jazeera accused of forming a massive cocaine smuggling network our us allegations against the 100 year president could affect immigration and environmental effects are covered 19 why activists need your carriage and people to dates disposable face masks. however all set for a big change in the weather across japan over the next couple of days have lost a layer of high pressure keeping it essentially fine and settled as getting pushed out of the way every cloud here just sliding out of the yellow sea the east china sea rolling across the korean peninsula into q.c. runs could be heavy at times will make its way across southern parts of honshu on friday come saturday iran really setting in it's going to be very heavy could cause

some flooding as it makes its way towards tokyo and beyond that re stretching across a cute parts of honshu by the end of the day but clear skies to come back in behind 40 celsius for beijing and for so long as you drive to into central parts of china by the state but a few showers that down towards the south joining us now is that we have across the philippines some live showers coming into central and southern parts of the philippines but too bad it's a lose on for todd i think we will see those showers ramping up as we go on through the weekend elsewhere see usual case of sunshine and showers not too bad it's india china into thailand not too bad too of course a good part of india we have got a westerly disturbances moving out of northern parts of pakistan northern areas of india lot of cloud and right on that and that is some showers there to salute the east. back. welcome to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the

scenes. so you can relax and enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and when you leave with a smile we know la day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home. the air. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera mars military has added to the charges against peoples leader and son sochi and military spokesman says she accepted the legal payments worth $600000.00 plus gold while in government no way in denmark

have temporarily suspended the use of astra zeneca has called the 1000 vaccine after a small number of cases of blood clots but denmark's health ministry says it's not yet clear whether the crocs are legs to the vaccine. and japan is marking 10 years since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit its northeastern coast and triggered meltdowns at a nuclear power plant 16000 people were killed and 2500 are missing. in other world news a foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey have held talks here in doha they focused on finding a way to deliver human humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war now in its 10th year turkey's foreign minister has expressed hope for a breakthrough trouble that is not good that we are contributing without efforts for a sustainable political stability for syria of course unfortunately the conflict has

been going on for 10 years and we have witnessed many unfortunate events our wish is to see that syria's legitimate request will find a result within the criteria of the united nations and turkey. there is bernard smith has more on the major issues discussed. well we're 10 years on from those 1st and the acid protests in syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between the 3 countries was another way of trying to achieve a political solution for this start a process if the russians had their way would ultimately lead probably with the assad regime staying in charge we have the m.r.i. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league catteries when asked about that we weren't

interested in seeing syria at this stage back in the arab league and turkey which of course is not in the arab league but it said never to have a soul of the foreign minister of turkey said that the syrian regime wants a new military solution it doesn't believe in a political solution so despite least 3 countries getting together no indication that there are any closer than they ever have been to finding a political solution to what's happening in syria also on the agenda was afghanistan talks started here in september peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban they've been on off here in this very hotel since then they haven't achieved very much the u.s. last week sending a letter to the afghan president saying they want to find a new political solution to afghanistan so they can withdraw their troops and now the russians saying that next week in moscow they're going to have a meeting to try and find is another way forward for afghanistan but they were keen to point out that that was not taking away from the talks that are happening here

in doha. china has approved changes to limits democratic participation in hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress pass new laws to veto and screen candidates it follows mass protests in the semi-autonomous territory in 2019 calling for greater freedoms. the meeting made a decision of improving the election system of the hong kong special administrative region all delegates highly agreed and have expressed to the strong determination of the people of all ethnic groups of the country including holcombe patry it's to safeguard national sovereignty security and development interests and maintain the hong kong's constitution. on kong's leader kerry has welcomed the electoral reform she says they are necessary to keep up people who want to undermine the status quo some are doing her locally young russian we see in recent years that there are

politicians with a hidden agenda making use of loopholes and flaws in our electoral system to enter a political institutions they did not enter a stablish meant to help hong kong government to implement policies or to help hong kong people they embark on sub or touching our systems our lives and in recent years they advocate self-determination hong kong independence they even collude with foreign powers to threaten our national security al-jazeera as adrian brown has more from hong kong on what the electoral reforms will mean for the territory's activists. i think the future for the pro-democracy movement is very grim indeed according to the few commentators still prepared to speak out here they say that democracy has now been in their words extinguished here in hong kong in fact even one of kerry lambs key advisors bernard chan who's one of her closest advisors has said in many ways hong kong has gone back to the situation it was in in the

eighty's when hong kong of course was still a british colony and he says that you know that's how bad the situation is you know what little democracy hong kong has had has now gone and remember this was a system that in many ways was already rigged in china's favor so in many ways it's also academic as to why china has had to do this because almost the entire leadership of the pro-democracy bloc is now either arrested or have fled the country now china has made clear that only patriots in future will rule hong kong or indeed hold positions of authority of power here in hong kong and just a few days ago we got a definition from a senior chinese official here as to exactly what a patriot was he says it's loving china under the leadership of the chinese communist party so in other words loving the country equals loving the party ivory coast says prime minister ahmed back a local has died marking the 2nd time in

a year one of the nation's leaders has died in office because of the illness. seen as a possible successor to president allison ouattara he was flown to france for medical treatment last month then went to germany where he dies the president of honduras is once again being accused after testing drug traffic is moving large amounts of cocaine into the united states prosecutors in new york say president juan orlando had amanda's received millions of dollars in bribes he denies the allegations money arapaho 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 and then this received bribes amounting to $25000.00 from giovanni fuentes is an alleged drug trafficker currently on trial in a u.s. federal court though the u.s. government is long viewed hundreds says

a 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 ed and his 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 heard tell them about the u.s. . everyone. is saying. work or not. this is rather and iran's president can only go up and say that he had a race it and that he used that he was. wrong. it

added. the united states government ok for his part the honduran president has denied any involvement with organized crime taking to twitter on wednesday to deny the latest allegations against him the false testimonies of the obvious lies that this woman would that for $25000.00 they purchased total immunity 2021 is intellect. and it's shaping up to be an important one for the country's relationship with the united states the bided ministration 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 atlanta's 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 al-jazeera. mexico has moved closer to decriminalizing cannabis the know house of congress approved a bill allowing use of the drug for recreational medical and scientific purposes it's passed by the president. over a door the bill now goes to the senate's. now in that mental campaign is in britain now warning of the impact of disposable masks they say most people don't realize the cheapest masks are past that and that way stops that he has a story. blue face masks a common sight in city centers around britain apparently only essential shops are open but as lock downs a loosens people will still be wearing masks for months or even years to come and that means an ongoing nightmare for the environment because this us all over their

religion on the lodger's this video shows staff at a wildlife hospital helping a bird that's been caught up in discarded litter it's a face mask one of the disposable surgical face coverings made of plastic. campaign group keep britain tidy have found disposable masks and gloves at 14 percent of sites they've surveyed since last summer they say such discarded items are now even more common than plastic bags were before a compulsory charge for the bags came in more than 100000000 disposable face masks like this get thrown away across the u.k. every single week that's enough to cover more than 230 soccer pitches now a recent survey found 70 percent of people using disposable mosse didn't realize they were using single use plastics and nearly one in 5 thought they could be recycled which isn't the case i know it's going to be waste but is it quick is the most easiest ones to use put on take out go again you know i mean with these cuts to our god they're not washable they're not reusable so you have the bible where

you put up notice a lot more in the mind of famous people discard them i haven't given any feel for us what happens to them afterwards the problem with single use plastic mask is they'll end up in a landfill site like this in an incinerator or simply discarded researches at university college london say if every person in the u.k. used one disposable mask every day for a year it would create $124000.00 tons of waste half of which would be on we site. contaminated plastic when we use it in health care they're classed as clinical waste so then health care workers will put it in state. like. separated from general general waste and then take it to incineration for the public domain there isn't actually this system at this factory they're trying to provide an alternative their mosques are based on specifications of old a children's hospital in liverpool which gets a percentage of the sales they have an antiviral coated unlike other such mosque's

can be washed and reused out to be something that was always practical comfortable . and happy produced locally so the mosque in the design we've come up with is ethical sustainable and entirely made in the u.k. it looks like facemasks will be part of many people's lives at least in the short term whatever country where they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it'll end up. al-jazeera london. hello again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera myanmar's military has added to the charges against the poles leader on sun sochi a military spokesman says she accepted the legal payments worth 600000 dollars plus gold while in government no way and denmark have temporarily suspended the.