you know. and when you leave with a smile we know our day's work is done. welcome to our home. the un special rapporteur says there's growing evidence that military is engaging in torture and persecution that may constitute crimes against humanity. as a whole romany watching i was there i live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes the e.u. approves johnson and johnson's one shot covert 1000 vaccine giving a boost to the continent's slow immunization rollout also.

10 years on japan remembers the devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster also. the united nations holds a special meeting to raise awareness of the problem of hunger in yemen and parts of ethiopia. welcome to the program the un special rapporteur on human rights says there is growing evidence the military's engaging in crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture thomas andrews has also called for multilateral sanctions on see the urgent to leaders and me and miles and gas enterprise. credible reports indicate it means more security forces should murdered at least 70 people is a horrible truth that as soon as they issue

a report the number of murders is arbitrary detentions and mean more become outdated who introduced a chilling doesn't sometimes hundreds every day stop the flow of revenue into the illegal hooters congress is going to happen now while the lateran sanctions should be imposed on both she are going to leaders and a major source of revenue including military only and control enterprises and miramar or oil and gas. well be a mass military has rejected the report they say their actions have been necessary to maintain order and the reason these authorities concern have been being a dancer to maintaining law and order in the country authorities have been. more some restraint to deal with the violent protests said fiore that thought it's important to show off all 4 of their criminal procedure which prohibits gathering are fired on more people in public places and 146 dollars ship where violent protests and riot have created disturbances to the public or and the rule of law

let's cross over to our diplomatic editor james bays whose life was that the united nations in new york and watch that those 2 presentations with me live just a short time ago a tale of 2 narratives james one of restraint by me and bar the other of systematic murder according to the un special rapporteur but it was the tone of the presentation you might say of the spokes person that was really very odd. it was very odd and he appeared to be mumbling as he said those words that the authorities have been exercising its most restraint to deal with the violent protests which anyone who's watched television any time since the 1st of may knows is not the case i think it's worth speculating on who this man is chan who is leaving reading the statement he's the permanent secretary of the ministry of foreign affairs he is

a veteran diplomat and remember who used to be in charge of the ministry of foreign affairs that was the job the minister there was one of the jobs of the state counselor and son suchi you've just heard one of her right hand men in the past reading out this statement saying no we're where exercising restraint explaining the military's narrative and urging the un to show some understanding to the new rulers of me and my it does beg the question given his heart didn't seem to be in to in that speech whether he was speaking under duress whether he was in fear of reprisals whether he was speaking clearly it is interesting that in the human rights council we heard that it was a video statement from the myanmar foreign ministry contrasting of course with the end of last month where in the un general assembly in person we thought we were going to get a similar speech from the myanmar ambassador and he didn't give a speech like that he gave a speech denouncing the military coup which i think probably is worthy of me on my

our foreign ministry submitted something on video even if it wasn't particularly convincing to me i think that those representing the of the detained democratically elected politicians have got a fight on their hands yes they couldn't control the seat of the un in new york with their ambassador at the moment but elsewhere for example in geneva the views of the military are the ones that are there and views that are in very very. the stark contrast with the special rapporteur tunnel andrews who said that now he believes 70 people have been murdered and these are likely atrocity crimes their lies and many more questions really james the fact that you just touched on the fact that it is interesting that the me about to address speaking to the human rights council knowing that they have issues with the un ambassador and for the international. global audience you know wondering who actually speaks for the

country at the u.n. well we've already seen the military try to wrest control of the un seat here in new york as well at u.n. headquarters they put out a statement saying that the ambassador was no longer the ambassador of the deputy was then the master but the deputy ambassador then resigned didn't want the poison chalice of being the military's mouthpiece and i think you're going to say see this play out in terms of international recognition in terms of myanmar's embassies around the world i spoke to one of the representatives of the detained politicians who made an escape from myanmar dr suss in the last couple of days he's now working as the envoy for international organizations he believes he told me that the majority of myanmar diplomats are actually with democracy and their leaders who currently find themselves in detention more analysis of sure as the hours progress

for the moment james thanks very much for joining us from the u.n. . meanwhile mimosas military has leveled new accusations against deposed leader and son suchi a military spokesman said that she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 plus gold whiling government school time live reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. protesters in myanmar again flee bullets on the streets of yangon live ammunition used elsewhere to protesters in several other cities and towns are facing a stepped up violent crackdown and more cases of security forces shooting unarmed protesters in the head we protest peacefully but they crack down on us while mentally demotic a strong good of revolution the happy side of the view continue until we've been in a news conference the military judge 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. i did you know young don't read you know mr peel. said he gave. himself $600000.00 in cash and 11 kilograms of gold between december of 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. 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 their military does not care and say whatever they want. in another move they're just a has taken the erik 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 that 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 either al-jazeera. temporarily halted the use of the covert 19 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca doesn't look says it was after a small number of cases of blood clots occurred 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 pull brendan has more from london. what the danish are saying is that they have decided to stop using the astra zeneca vaccine for the next 2 weeks while they investigate whether there is a link between these 2 blood clots events and the taking of the vaccine austria is another one where there's been one death and one blood clot incident again austria not sure the reaction from the authorities as you say has been quite strong astra zeneca saying the safety of its vaccine has been studied in human trials and peer reviewed data confirmed it was generally well tolerated the european union's drug regulator the european medicines agency saying the number of events in people who had the vaccine was no higher than you would expect to see in the general population 22 cases in rippin reported among the 3000000 people who so far taken the vaccine in the u.k. were 11000000 people have taken the astra zeneca vaccine so far the regulator here

said safety was of paramount importance and we continue to monitor to make sure the benefits outweigh the potential risks but the danish authorities suspensions precautionary blood clots can occur naturally and are not on common. the u.s. vaccination campaign has now reached more than 93000000 people nuts or 20 percent of the population not 2000000 are being vaccinated every day but the number of people rejecting the vaccine is also quite sizeable liberal brunell's found out it's tangled up in party politics and conspiracy theories i am having. in recent weeks and months coated skeptics have stormed shopping centers denouncing customers wearing masks others disrupted a major vaccination center in los angeles claiming the vaccine is harmful and part of a left wing plot. people in idaho rallied to stage

a public mask burning ceremony. coppa deniers are busy spreading their message on social media this is the covert deception guys they want to see of us they want to control us they want to put this muzzle on our face this mask now researchers and lawmakers say anti-vaccination groups and covert deniers are merging with the pro trump armed groups whose followers attacked the u.s. capitol in january many anti vaccine leaders embraced conspiracies lights. and joined groups white supremacist groups like the proud voice so you see this alignments with these other conspiracy groups and right wing organizations. anti-vaccination propaganda is partisan in nature growing partly out of x. president donald trump's repudiation of mass wearing and his repeated denials that the coronavirus caused serious illness the seeds of science denial and that the

intellectual is a run very deep in culture it's stronger right now among republicans a february poll shows 42 percent of republicans say they will never get vaccinated . some of the covert conspiracy theories are outlandish on a par with the beliefs of q anon at harriet's about a global cobol of satan worshipping pedophiles there are the believes that the vaccine is being manufactured to oh oh bill gates to microchip people it's not a matter of intelligence it's not a matter of mental illness or frenzy these are mistakes that human even very well educated very intelligent people can make dr richard pan is a california state senator and a practicing pediatrician he says the conspiracy theorists endanger millions the

dangers of allowing people to spread lies about back scenes actually endangers all of us and it slows our ability to stop this disease which has already killed over half a 1000000 americans pan and others call for stronger social media fact checking and removal of conspiracist material online is a large group of americans continues to reject reality the by did ministrations goal of near universal adult vaccination and a return to some semblance of normal life may prove elusive rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles both still had hail down to south china's annual national people's congress is wrapped up we'll tell you about some of the new rules and what it could mean for home call stay with us here on to say.

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you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur on human rights hit me about there's growing evidence the military's crackdown on protesters could constitute crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture the military has rejected the report also norway denmark of temporarily halted the use of astra zeneca is capability back say after a small number of cases of blood clots butterballs health ministry says it's not yet clear whether the clots were linked to the vaccine. japan is marking 10 years since a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast killing thousands

of people triggered meltdowns at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant forcing entire communities to flee some people have since returned but the recovery is still far from over. the salami reports from for taba in fukushima prefecture. the port of ok though is just 5 kilometers from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant it would be easy from here to mistake the boat's masts for the water cooling towers and the cranes on the reactors at office it was only a year ago 9 years after the disaster the port was allowed to be used again as they live in over the asian had gone down to what are termed normal limits. it was something the fishermen were waiting for but today they are not in the mood what fishing. they want to mourn all those lost in the tsunami. because we hear

a lot and i would like his photographs of the additional celebrations in the town of soma the birthplace of somewhere i want years to provide inspiration haiti is not going into favor one day i mean i don't know maybe no one will come to see my photos but if somebody does i hope they inspire them with courage to overcome the challenges ahead. japan has undergone a massive reconstruction project since 2011 rebuilding homes and ports repairing ships and building hundreds of kilometers of falls along its coastline in case of another tsunami. i but when you travel along route 6 which she is just 3 kilometers from the fukushima plant you realize there are signs showing the amount of one of the asian in there. the fukushima plant has 6 reactors 3 of them to be removed. that could take at least 10 years then there

is another 30 years for the cleanup of the entire sites but there are also other challenges the 1st is getting rid of radioactive water more than 1000000 tons of it and there is no space to store more next year. you know we have no possibility of building new reserve was to conserve contaminated water we are awaiting the government's decision after careful consideration of the situation. but there is also the matter of contaminated waste 14000000 cubic meters of it the contaminated waste is temporarily stored for the future disposal in warehouses like here in for the town just 30 kilometers away from the nuclear plant but on to know no one knows how or when that will happen fred he said i mean i just put our. the united nations is holding a special session on the rising threat of hunger especially in yemen and parts of

ethiopia the head of the world food program has begun looking for private donations the agency needs an extra 6 $100000.00 to provide aid to yemen in the next 6 months nearly half a 1000000 yemeni children need immediate assistance to save them from starvation david beasley says those who've made it to hospitals on the brink of death are the lucky ones it's a horrific situation it really years i went to what would be. the best hospital in samara a room to room to room with us all children literally. the lucky ones that actually get into the hospital i caught the doctor and i said how many years you had here and he said 25 last year what do you do with the worry that you know that curve and you don't have room for should we stop them oh so what happens. food supplies are running dangerously low in ethiopia's northern region of to grey where

millions are in urgent need of support people arriving at camps for the displaced in the region say their survived they survived by eating leaves aid agencies say that there isn't enough space for the thousands turning up every day while the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has spoken out about the ongoing violence in ethiopia's 2 very region linda thomas greenfield called on all sides to come to a solution ongoing violence hips that humanitarians from helping a desperately hungry people activists in ethiopia including eritrean forces from across the o.p.'s borders have restricted humanitarian access to the rural areas where the most europeans live we can that allow the situation here in part we call on all sides and i stress all sides to stop the fighting and allow this man made me an attorney and situation to be addressed. because our

foreign minister has held talks with the russian and turkish top diplomats in doha the talks focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war now in its 10th year while turkey's foreign minister expressed hope for a breakthrough job rather than a cut good that we are contribution with our 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. but it's myth was that the news conference in doha and has more on the major issues were 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 that 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. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league the catheters when asked about that 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 limit democratic participation in hong kong elections its annual national people's congress pass new laws to veto and screen candidates that follows mass protests in the semi autonomous territory and 2019 calling for greater freedoms katrina you has more from beijing. in beijing is great all of the people almost 3000 communist party officials closed

china's national people's congress by voting on a road map for the next 5 to 15 years the priorities achieving 6 percent g.d.p. growth increasing the domestic market and creating 11000000 new jobs. lutea we would certainly be happy to see robust growth but we are also aware of the uncertainty evolving china's economic rebound global economic development is also uncertain also approved by nearly all of the delegates with just one abstention a bill to overhaul hong kong's political system. the reforms will see seats added to the territories legislative council allocated mostly to prove beijing figure is a committee will be established to vet those who hold public office ensuring them loyal to the chinese government or considered patriots by beijing ted why a former opposition politician who fled hong kong fearing punishment unabating new national security law has just arrived in a strange and says he's heartbroken by the reforms it took the lie decades to.

confirm and to develop. the finish that is in the design of the 2 sions but it only took 2 or 3 months so happy to have that totally destroyed and so we feel betrayed of course the traitor and we feel miserable of losing our freedoms the us is leading growing international criticism about the changes saying there are an attack on hong kong's democratic freedoms strained ties between the 2 countries were a focal point of this year's national people's congress washington has called beijing a strategic threat china's leaders have responded by pushing for more innovation driven economy china has much more focus on using damasio resources and increasing demands to a mass amount in basic research like biology semiconductors

so i think now the competition between china and us would stay for a long time make economic sense for china to be more self-reliant president xi jinping has called for an increase to china's military capability time as it is that they want to work with the biden administration to expand into its top officials from the west and china are expected to meet in the last game next week to discuss the rings and this is the wrong place to disagree with things to overshadow the talks the builders and was the root. china's communist party says its approach to the weakest and hong kong are strictly domestic affairs and swayed by so-called foreign difference. the u.s. judge has reinstated a 3rd degree murder charge against the former policeman accused of killing george floyd that's on top of the 2nd degree murder and manslaughter charge due to be

brought to trial at the end of the month the former officer is accused of killing floyd by kneeling on his neck for around 9 minutes his death sparked racism and police brutality protests around the world. mexico has moved closer to decriminalizing cannabis the lower house of congress approved a bill allowing use of the drug for recreational but this will and scientific purposes it's backed by present and dress matter look as over the the bill will now go to the senate it's the international olympic committee has struck a deal with china to offer the credible as danks into athletes will be taking part in the upcoming games in both tokyo and beijing the collaboration was announced on thursday by the president thomas joining the committees in the meeting but also said that the i.o.c. would pay for extra doses for the general public in countries whose athletes take up the offer the i.o.c. will pay all these additional rigs. not only for the olympics

but also for the paralympic. program or. for each of these additional dollars for an olympic and paralympic team the i.o.c. will be want to go more which can be made available to the population in the country according to. watching al-jazeera means the whole rob a reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur on human rights bar says there's growing evidence the military's crackdown on protesters could constitute crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture thomas andrews's also called for multilateral sanctions on see the nation to leaders the military has rejected the report.