former president. al jazeera investigates stealing paradise. pulled the number 2 stories from asia and the pacific on al-jazeera. more anti to protest as a killed in myanmar now the government in hiding is also promising resistance to military rule. and forget this is a lie from doha also coming up syria's 1st lady is being investigated in a case that could see her stripped of her british citizenship. questions over the conduct of police in the u.k.

after they break up a vigil for a woman whose killing sparked a national pride. and recommends suspending use of the astra zeneca vaccine the latest country to act after reports of blood clots. we begin then where at least 4 more people have been killed during antique protests witnesses say the police fired on demonstrators in the town of yangon another protester died in the golden city of. thousands continue to defy curfews and the military crackdown to demand the return to democracy earlier the acting leader of ousted civilian government urged supporters to keep up pressure on the military government in his 1st public statement since going into hiding when cantante promised a revolution to own. but the military coup the generals justified their power grab

based on what they say was widespread fraud in elections last here many civilian politicians of since formed what's described as a shadow parliament. there are no men then oh dear this is the darkest moment of the nation and the moment when the dawn is close this is the time for our citizens to test their resistance against the dark moments. when forming our resistance unity plays a vital role despite our differences in the past this is the time you must direct our hands together to end the dictatorship for good al-jazeera study change joins us now live from bangkok in neighboring thailand turkey will come to that statement in just a moment and 1st bring us up to speed with the violence and we are not a day. yes the increasing number of photons is being reported to more the softer noon. as well as the the 2 you mentioned earlier in the day in. township in western yang gone we understand that in that

area chinese own factory has also been taught shrouding the whole area and smoke it's not clear at this stage it was torched by the protesters there's been a lot of anti china sentiment felt amongst the protesters because they feel china has been fairly supportive supporting the military government. in turn the military the security services they have pushed back their protesters they've been burning. obstacles they've been putting in their way so it's clear clearly something some of some of that has got out of control here but we are also on the stand in the last hour or 2 shots have been heard in mandalay mandalay yesterday on saturday it was the scene of a very brutal crackdown 6 people shot dead on the streets more than 20 severely injured there had been protesters out on the streets since the very early morning

today. i think to keep trying to show defiance of the brutal crackdown the security services had stepped back but i understand in the last hour or 2. local residents have been hearing shots so they may be pushing back again there and what are we to make that of the acting leader of the ousted civilian government is call for revolution. hard to say at this stage but of course this is a government its members the n l d the national league for democracy which was overwhelmingly returned to power in the general election in november so presumably these statements have a lot of clout with ordinary people the n l t has been a little clique cagey about its support for the protesters they only came out publicly about 10 days ago to say they did indorse these protests so i think they will wary of it they want to see where it was going to go and the protesters

themselves i think would say they are a separate movement this is a youth movement built by people who are very disturbed about the fact that myanmar could be going back to the dark days of the eighty's and ninety's but i think there was another message there and that was specifically to the ethnic groups. operating in the border areas of myanmar they are armed they are in a position to provide very substantive opposition to the military in some cases they have been supporting the protesters standing guard as protests have taken place is in place and some of those areas they haven't been clashes yet we know the c.r. period was share the administration has been talking to those ethnic groups if they have managed to find some kind of unity that would be a real problem for the military who could be facing some kind of unified armed force tony chang reporting live from thailand backstory

a british iranian woman detained in iran since 2016 is a period of course not slaves of her rockliffe is facing a new charge of propaganda against the system she was released from detention just a week ago after serving 5 years for a separate conviction a human rights charity has written to the u.k. government saying that cigar iraq cliff needs urgent treatment for her mental health. a police investigation into the wife of syria's president is on the way and britain. is accused of inciting and encouraging terrorist acts during the war in syria the case was opened in response to a dossier filed by an international law firm it could lead to facing prosecution of the loss of british citizenship toby kaplan is a human rights lawyer and founder of the international law firm that submitted evidence against assad he says that she's participated in crimes. our group has been working on this all for the last 67 months and so we submitted

evidence that sharon's involvement and incitement i mean current commit. terrorism in syria. some of which is what we would call convention offenses them so these are advances that involve the use of chemical weapons so when she is effectively in science in a plea especially they are doing is having and sciences. have resulted in death in syria meeting with troops making public statements glorifying the conduct of the army that has resulted in a 1000000 deaths and use of chemical and other forms of weapons i'm sorry you know it's not just that she is the life of the. president she has actively are allegations all she has actively campaigned actively participated in those crimes and so she must face justice for that it's once the investigation reads

reach the certain status it is she is something fresh recruits obviously expects that the british cooperation from the syrian regime of course requests can be made for exhibition request can be made through 3 we can next system well let us say that remains is that she will be unable to in syria and she will effectively determine. we know that she is campaigning to assume this what leadership and she sees a future i suppose it will be so it is not insignificant miracles well what could result is the string of assistantship even though we are close we don't want that to happen we want to face trial. 10 years ago on monday the protests began in syria would descend into the civil war more than 13000000 people are either displaced within the country or sheltering overawed many are in camps and lebanon's bekaa valley from that al-jazeera zaina hodder reports. in the midst of war

a generation grew up in exile at least 1000000 children have been born since 2011 when syria's peaceful uprising began before it turned into a war home for many has been informal counts like this in neighboring countries in lebanon's bekaa valley life has been one of poverty and uncertainty that as you know there are around 200 children under the age of 10 in this camp boys and girls whose lives have been destroyed their future is nothing. more than 13000000 syrians that's half the pre-war population remain displaced inside and outside the country nearly 900000 are registered in lebanon the highest number in the world relative to its population and as the conflict enters its 2nd decade with no political settlement in sight there could be further displacement.

which is actually. syria's economy is collapsing and international aid organizations are warning it is pushing millions deeper into poverty many are jobless and hungry the united nations says 60 percent or $12400000.00 syrians don't have regular access to enough food. but economic uncertainty is not the only challenge there are those who fear for their safety in the absence of a political settlement some are vulnerable where they are and need protection like resettling them in a safe country. about 570000. needed but there are other only 9300 refugees for this.

not the country and this is a very large number considering that. despite the battlefield being largely quiet for a year aid agencies say the daily suffering of syrians is worse than it has been at nearly any point throughout the conflict and the hardship has not stopped at syria's borders that. our life has been reduced to this in syria they waiting for a box of aid and here we are waiting for our box of aid we lost hope of going back . for those who have already lost so much it may be a long wait for political change in damascus or for humanitarian conditions to improve to allow them to return home. because valley eastern lebanon. police in london are under scrutiny over their handling of an unofficial vigil ordering a woman who was killed. at one point police

were seen handcuffing several women and pulling them away a judge had ruled the vigil to be called off to 2 pandemic restrictions of organizers complied however hundreds of people still turned up. except that the actions of orifices have been questioned. we absolutely did not want to be in a position where for some time action was necessary. but we were placed in this position because of the overriding needs to protect people's safety. let me end by saying that across the mains we review every single event that we police to see if there are lessons that can be learned. this event will be no different. sar ever odds remains were found on weapons say more than 80 kilometers from london a serving police officer has been charged with the 33 year old's kidnapping and murder the killing has spurred a national conversation about sexual harassment and violence against women.

protesters in the us are demanding justice for briana taylor she was shot dead a year ago in a posh police raid at her apartment in louisville kentucky no homicide charges have been filed. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera bolivia's former interim president arrested a bit allegations of heading a coup but she says she's facing a political persecution. why france is under pressure to compensate victims of nuclear tests in french polynesia. it's time for the perfect general. sponsored plan qatar airways high we've got plenty of spring showers now moving across japan and we've seen some rather wet weather here recently but this little hook of cloud this area of low pressure that's in the process of moving out into the open waters but it did bring

some very heavy downpours in tokyo 66 millimeters of rain in 24 hours it was wettest still in sendai 81 millimeters of rain but as i said it is a mobile feature it will clear out of the way brighter skies come back in behind making way for the next system actually some western weather coming across the yellow sea into the korean peninsula some snow on the northern flank of that same area of cloud and rain links back into central parts of china again some rather wet weather coming through here shanghai at 21 celsius on monday falling back to 15 degrees on shoes days that cool the west weather just makes its way out across the east china sea and by that stage we will see more rain sleet and snow over the high ground there into japan pushing up towards the north of the country but by skies again will gradually come back in behind such a bright skies across south asia pretty much a wall to wall sunshine we got a few showers just coming into the far south of in the air some showers there into sri lanka but for the most part there's plenty of warm sunshine around or some

sleet and snow to find both. google sponsored poll qatar airways. wants city to alice. now posted to a movie in. follows the journeys of we women teachers daily struggles with isolation and battles with physical hardship. sacrificing their lives for the education of future generations women in the wind on al-jazeera. the.

elegant this is al jazeera let's roger the main news this hour at least 4 more protesters have been killed during antic should have instructions of be on well earlier the acting leader ousted civilian government urge supporters to keep up pressure on the judge or. u.k. police of war stood best against beds of the british born wife of syria's president as well al assad is accused of inciting of encouraging terrorist acts touring syria's 10 year conflict the police of love that are under scrutiny over there have blink of an unofficial vigil ordering a woman who was murdered police handcuffed several one of them took them away. island has become the latest country to consider suspending use of the astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine officials made the call after norway's health authority raised the alarm over a possible link with blood clots denmark norway and iceland all suspended use of

the vaccine on thursday will those reports are investigated let's get the details now from joe how who is in london so just a new blow for astra zeneca and the e.u. vaccination campaign and yet the world health organization says there's no need to poor. well to be fair other regulators have said the same thing it is certainly concerning for astra zeneca and for us to send a vaccine as you say the republic of ireland joining a string of other countries in calling a temporary halt to the rollout of this particular vaccine as part of their wide of accident vaccination strategy the deputy chief medical officer in ireland dr ronan glynn putting out a statement on twitter early on sunday morning citing as you said that norwegian health authority report that was out on saturday that 4 cases have been discovered of quote serious blood clotting events in people who just received a jab now at the norwegian report talked about health workers who just received the

jab some of whom are now being treated in hospital for blood clots and related issues around the same time on thursday when that report came out. and in denmark were also calling a halt also citing similar small numbers of blood clotting events so-called and concern has rippled out to include most recently garia in the e.u. and even much further afield thailand temporarily suspending its rollout of the astra zeneca vaccine now the company itself astra zeneca u.k. based of course has been very quick to jump on this. robustly defending its vaccine and pointing out that safety data acquired compiled over the last couple of months is the vaccine rollout has continued including $70000000.00 doses of the vaccine so far minister to show no evidence of any increased risk of parliamentary embolism or thrombosis type events beyond what would be considered normal across that size of unvaccinated population other words if you took $17000000.00 people who hadn't had

the jab you would expect to see at least this number of people having blood part type events occurring naturally and the european medicines agency as i mentioned at the very beginning has also essentially given the jab the all clear saying on thursday that the vaccine benefits outweigh the risk. that people should continue to receive their jab and that has been echoed by the big european union countries not the u.k. but also germany france and the netherlands you've all come out in the last few days and reassured their citizens about the safety of the astra zeneca taxi john howell reporting live from london journal many thanks police in brazil armed with machine guns have raided a legal posse and a light club district more than 600 people packed into a windowless room despite social distancing rules in the city of some pollo the event organizer is facing criminal charges states have been getting tough on

enforcing covert 19 rules deaths of such to around 2000 for the 4th day in a row. concerts and other performances alone in the united states thanks to the growth of our us some musicians a found a safe way to play for a live audience that doesn't involve an internet connection of 0 as kristen salumi reports from new york. charles. and pianist peter do. have played both carnegie hall and the kennedy center. but these days if you're lucky you'll find them playing an empty storefront on a random street corner on manhattan's upper west side. the musicians aren't exactly roughing it steinway donated the grand piano. and they're getting a decent salary thanks to a local philanthropist who came up with the idea this is not typical performance

experience by a long shot but it's one of the 1st shows that we've been able to do for an actual live audience and. we're very grateful that we can do it here for people that might not go to a concert hall or an arena and just hear different kinds of music that they might not have like before. still these are precarious times for performers according to the local chapter of the american federation of musicians 95 percent of their 7000 local members are out of work we've never experienced anything like this certainly art of careers pretty much disappeared. for online before including things like that but it's just not the same feeling and of course there's not as much work to go around concert halls and performance spaces like the iconic lincoln center were among the 1st places to

close in the pandemic and they're likely to be the last ones to reopen not only depriving musicians of their livelihoods but also new york. of its life blood. 60 shows with 100 performers have been scheduled organizers can't say where or when for fear of drawing too large a crowd. word is starting to get around this neighborhood known for the arts just give me this energy that makes new york a bit more of the way i think new york feel to be that close and be able to see the proportion interact with each other was really fascinating and usually can afford seats that are. a bit like a musical scavenger hunt in a time and a neighborhood where such a performance is the ultimate prize. cristen salumi al-jazeera new york elections are underway in 2 german states in the country's 1st major election will

test during the pandemic voting stations a relatively calm and right hand published notes and books off of the regions 11000000 eligible for mail in ballots to covert 19 chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats i'm not in power in either stage. bolivia's for president obama says backing a crackdown against politicians queues of conspiring to push him out of power for interim leader judy that this was arrested on saturday accused of staging a coup against morales she says the charge is a baseless. reports. 4 months ago janine on yours was president of bolivia now she's under arrest accused of staging a coup against her predecessor evel morales shortly after being detained in the city of the me that she was flown to the capital costs to face charges of terrorism sedition and conspiracy anya is

a conservative senator and at odds with the socialist party that now covers under president luis atsic he's a former prodigy of moralists the former president she's accused of pushing out in 2019 to seize power she says the charges are fueled by political revenge. even though it's an irregular detention because i was never summoned in addition as a former president i'm in a unique situation even amid all the abuse and the outrage i'm here was a group of opponents and supporters gathered outside the prosecutor's office that was a again no there was no coup the former president was involved in fraud and she took over the presidency through constitutional succession. although divisive her detention isn't a surprise while in power our news was accused of siding with security forces to

shut down dissent cheek came to power undemocratically and within her 1st week she oversaw 2 different massacres and offered immunity to the soldiers that carried out the massacres and for the next year carried out a slew of human rights abuses was the political crisis goes back to 2019 when protesters took to the streets a queue. the moralists of stealing his reelection under pressure the once a steam president resigned and fled bolivia. the news then proclaim herself interim president more protests followed and dozens of people died after she took office now other politicians in her party also face charges from a colombo. we're talking about 2 former ministers the former minister of justice and the former minister of energy people who have conspired or committed crimes of sedition in our country will be investigated. while some say the arrest of on yes

could lead to her political downfall it's already reigniting tensions in the south american nation. colleges era pressure is building on france to compensate more people in the south pacific who are exposed to radiation from 3 decades of nuclear tests it follows a report accusing the government of hiding the extent of contamination in france french polynesia nicolas cage reports. france carried out its 1st nuclear test in algeria in 1960. 6 years later the operation moved to the south pacific 193 tests took place in french polynesia over 3 decades up until 1990 seeks a new study claims france has concealed its true impact we are now reaching search of 3 history in terms of. relations. researches along with the

french news sites disclose used a classified military documents and testimonies to recreate the impact of a number of the tests calculating around 110000 people in the overseas territory including into haiti were contaminated almost the entire population there is a compensation making is a little but it's not very good at that pressure will continue with the french government to live in a. way that it happened during that it be a testing period and to allow greater access to compensation. the tests have been controversial since they began sparking violent protests in french polynesia and a $985.00 french secret agents attacked an environmental activist ship on its way to the region sinking it in new zealand there are calls for france to fund a study into potential intergenerational illnesses the environmental impact and for it to formally apologize is elected. suddenly.

so that the people. know that this is the flu. this is not something that it's over and i'm happy that the international community starts to really understand how the story. front has previously short french polynesians of its continued financial support following a doctor chapter in the region's history nicholas cage al-jazeera. is a former french diplomat who's currently the head of arms proliferation at say the geneva center for security policy he says that france has finally become a knowledge of the impact of tests and is creating a framework for compensation. and it took her you know over 10 years after the end of nuclear testing before this started to come into place

and i know of course when you look at not periods in the 19th sixty's you can steer a combination. of time transparency kora and the same time. attempts to justify into great explainer on the suppose you know without any negative consequences but the government was forced under pressure from journalists n.g.o.s civil society hiring terry and of course to review more and more facts the reality of what happened and this is nature's nest egg ation was the result of declassifying number. until then in secret documents by the ministry of defense. space x. is making history again it's launching its reusable full combine rocket for

a record 9th time. it lifted off from mrs kennedy space center in the u.s. state of florida the rocket is carrying the latest batch of space x.'s internet beaming satellites starlink once complete the satellite constellation aims to offer high speed internet to the world's most isolated places. it is good to have you with us hello adrian said here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera at least 4 more protesters have been killed during empty demonstrations in myanmar earlier the acting leader of ousted civilian government urged supporters to keep up pressure on the joint tony chang reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. and once again we're seeing the protest is going on.