played important role particularly. germany italy and france are the latest countries to temporarily suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine because of concerns of side effects. and given how this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. protests in rebel held cities across syria as it mounts 10 years of civil war with more than half a 1000000 people dead millions forced to leave their homes. another kidnapping of

a school in northwestern nigeria students and teachers were abducted at gunpoint. libya swears in a new cabinet the latest phase of a landmark agreement to restore peace. concert is growing over the astra zeneca coated 19 vaccine with even more countries suspending its use on monday france italy germany and in tunisia all said that be temporarily delaying rolling it out due to concerns of a blood clots of a dozen nations about stopped administering the astra zeneca shot the drug firm and the world health organization insist it is safe to mccain is live for us now from berlin dominic's the european countries are falling following rather one after the other and how serious are these concerts.

the point that the federal health minister here in berlin jaensch plan was at pains to make was that the decision to suspend the administration of astra zeneca to german citizens was a precautionary measure was one that had been recommended by the government agency that approves the and disapproves as it were the use of vaccines in this country he said that it was not a political decision it was a decision that was recommended by expert suze job it is to monitor the use and and uptake of vaccines in this country and in saying that in and in remitting as it were the approval of the use of the vaccine to the european medicines agency based in amsterdam what mr spann was doing was falling into line as you were saying with what many other european countries now have been saying no the french government the italian government and others have all in different words have all

said the same sort of thing that they're concerned about a specific number of cases involving blood clots happening in patients who've received the astra zeneca vaccine that is so concerning that it needs to be referred to the a the european medicines agency which is based in amsterdam now there is a suggestion that the e m a is looking into this actively and may be in a position to make some sort of statement about it but around lunch time tomorrow that's choose day but one of the interesting things about this is that the astra zeneca vaccine clearly had its efficacy its safety clearly divides opinion because there are other countries whose leaders do not entertain any doubt about the safety of it so for example prime minister trudeau in canada has spoken in the course of this afternoon to say that he believes that it's safe we know that the united kingdom government maintains that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and has indeed administered millions of doses of asked. zeneca to its citizens so you have

a strange dichotomy a strange gap between what european leaders european health ministers are saying about this vaccine and the counterparts in other countries where this vaccine is being administered it in effect we were waiting to see now is what the expert body as a european level will say and as i say there is a suggestion a suggestion at least that some sort of statement might come from the a.m.a. in amsterdam to more lunchtime. dominico what will all of this do to the vaccine of all out schedule across europe and i guess also to public trust in their axing. well there are 2 questions there which are of fundamental importance aren't there the 1st one the effect on the vaccine strategies will certainly here in germany we know that the astra zeneca the capacity of astra zeneca doses that can physically

be administered to people is smaller than that of the other vaccines that had been approved for use in this country before the astra zeneca vaccine if you if you follow me so we know that the pfizer biotech vaccine and the modern of vaccine will that will carry on clearly because the efficacy of those 2 vaccines is not in question but clearly also we know that astra zeneca has vaccine the dosages were part of the strategy here and so for example just in the city of berlin one of the centers 6 centers for vaccination mass vaccination in berlin is dedicated solely to the use of astra zeneca in the former airport take a port in the northwest of the city well that that's not going to be operating now because none of the vaccines that are physically there can be administered and you can then extrapolate from that to the rest of the country that there will be mass vaccination centers solely stocked with astra zeneca that will not be able to

administer them until there is some progression from the a and clearly also other countries are following perhaps a different speed of administration of doses but they will all have in their minds a total of doses they were expecting to administer and the question will then be if the e m a takes its time if the a.m.a. does not come out with something definitive either way regarding astra zeneca then what happens to all those doses of the vaccine the just that are just sitting around do they have as it were an expiry dates beyond which they are no longer efficacious that was a question put to the minister shrine in the course of the last hour or so and he did not answer that question saying that it was too soon to be able to say any. thing about it and then on with the topic of the confidence that people have when we know that over the course of the past month perhaps 6 weeks confidence in germany at least in the astra zeneca vaccine was much poorer than in the overdoses

than in size of violent acts than in more downers facts seen so the question now will be if no swift decision comes what will people make of that we know that several leading politicians and said we want clarity either it's safe and in which case use it or it isn't safe in which case stop using it and that's what's going to be deliberated over over the course the next 24 hours and i guess as you say the way that this is communicated is hugely important to the public trust thank you for that donna came a life for us i found that on. thousands of protesters have turned out across several rebel held city in syria they're marking 10 years since the start of the civil war the conflict has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crisis with more than half of syria's population displaced said heart of the back of what began as a peaceful uprising and how it descended into war. this is the birthplace of syria's uprising in 2011 but opposition members call this moment the

end of the dream of a democratic country it's 2018 and the government has just recaptured the southern province after 7 years of resistance. i almost had a breakdown after all the sacrifices when they raised the flag we felt stabbed the town had a lot of symbolism for the revolution. it was here where the wall of fear was broken we watched syrians turn against the police state we watched them bury their dead demonstrators who were killed by security forces was. going. protests spread. to other areas in homs tanks were sent to suppress the uprising. the city which became known as the capital of the revolution became a battleground and. the regime forced us to take up arms and turned the uprising

into a war it was no longer possible to face guns without screens. there was a siege on the rebel stronghold after months of heavy fighting months later the opposition agreed to leave the area. was among them he says they had little choice they were trapped without basic supplies running low on ammunition and abandoned by the world. 2 years later and after a 4 year stalemate the opposition was forced to abandon aleppo which weakened them politically. i felt broken when i got on the bus i still think about it but the siege was unbearable people were dying in the by bombs or hunger. is among the millions of internally displaced syrians who live in the opposition controlled north unable and unwilling to live under syrian president bashar assad's rule but he says he fears

a ceasefire agreed last year will not hold. already hundreds of thousands have been killed millions have been displaced inside and outside the country and there has been no accountability serious conflict is entering its 2nd decade with the majority of its citizens poor and with little hope. we have been forced to give up on our dreams the international community has failed the syrian people there is no reconciliation there is no peace 10 years of war has divided a country and its people sent to. beirut. one of the darkest chapters in recent history filled with unspeakable horrors that's the way u.n. special envoy pederson has described the situation in syria to a security council conference he's condemned the international community for its failure to help he says a ceasefire is more necessary than ever and must be supported by foreign powers all

syrians have seen that the international community has been divided trapped in gear or political competition called in their own competing merit is an offer focused on supporting one side in the conflict the road house lot succeeded in helping deliver the syrians as one people promote there so general has called a living nightmare a diplomatic editor james bass has more from the united nations. given it is 10 years on your hearing everyone on the security council talking about the misery of the last 10 years i remember in 20121 year into the war being in homs province inside syria and watching it then the very brief period that there were u.n. monitors on the ground and speaking to people in syria about their hope in the un well it's our hope that has been completely dashed by the u.n. and in particular by the u.n. security council which has been so divided on this issue if there was going to be

accountability for the crimes in syria then it would go to the international criminal court why has that not happened that's because of the u.n. security council and its divisions and the russian use of the veto the the use of that veto by russia and china probably almost certainly one of the reasons why assad is still in office in damascus as we speak the u.n. has tried to have talks to bring both sides together various rounds in geneva i've covered over the years why of those talks not succeeded well it's pretty clear to me because the syrian government representatives at those talks of not ever properly wanted to engage and have just tried to delay the protests and that's what's going on with mr persons current process on the constitutional committee it took 18 months to try and get the 1st meeting in geneva they've now had 5 rounds over another 18 months and absolutely no progress why because the syrian government is just stalling things ahead of another sham election that assad will win in

a couple of months time. to nigeria now where there has been yet another kidnapping gunmen have taken children and teachers from a primary school in northwestern cut down a stake about interest has more from nigeria's capital on the growing number of kidnappings. it's become the most lucrative criminal enterprise in nigeria today and it's expanding it's growing fast these incidents previously in the last 4 or 5 years 5 years ago what we hear is that these incidents happened only in the niger delta producing region in the south of the country but now it has become a very very big business criminal enterprise in nigeria as north and it's spreading fast it's not only criminal gangs book or all still is engaged in the abduction of people for ransom across nigeria for example in the state where the area we're talking about this is the 3rd abduction or attempted abduction in the last 5 or 6

days on sunday there was an attempt to raid another school where more than 100 students were that but security forces for that attempt and the school raided in the last one week in the area still there are 13 students who are missing 108 we were told 180 have been released early and then this incident this morning in kabul of state so it's going fast we these least incidents are growing not only in the northwest of nigeria but the north central and the north east and this is of course the 4th must school abduction in the north of the country this year. members of cabinet in libya's new interim unity government have been sworn into office in a ceremony into broke and spot of a u.n. back to effort to bring stability ahead of elections in december years of conflict divided libyan institutions between the internationally recognized government in the west and a rival administration in the east security will be

a major task for the government. still ahead on al-jazeera uganda's opposition leader bobby wiener arrested again despite meeting a peaceful protest. facebook makes changes to fight the spread of vaccine misinformation online. for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however say some pretty poor weather into northern parts of china recently you see this area clouds moving over towards the korean peninsula tucked in behind that what an area of low pressure with the winds coming in from a northwesterly direction it has driven this really nasty dust storm sand storm across the northern areas of the country then say spilling out of the gobi desert

to cross the northwest of china yellow warnings quite actually in force here as those strong winds have pushed that dust and sand across the northeastern corner of tries to go on through the next couple of days things quieten down in terms of the winds we could do with some rain to help clear the air that's not going to come for the time being chance of wanted to shower was just to the west of beijing wetter weather into central parts of china easing out of the east china sea rolling across japan and wet weather moves through cools off a little bit freshens up behind in tokyo to run 19 celsius 16 celsius in so 15 celsius in beijing there we go with a chance of want to wintry flurries there over towards beijing not really making too much progress the previous showers meanwhile across southeast asia the heaviest of which look likely to be across the philippines northern parts of borneo more big downpours there for a good part of indonesia with flooding for java. to put. qatar airways on counting the cost of the perfect storm pandemic droughts and china's

demands prices hit 6 year highs argentine beef soaring inflation sounds demands would slow this is the 1950 s. ethiopia seeks help was it that burden becomes too much. counting the cost on al-jazeera part of the plan for more dollars on the love god we are the while traveling the extra mile where all the media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. they want you all just there are a mind of our top stories this hour concert is growing over the astra zeneca covered 19 vaccine with more country suspending its use on monday france italy

germany and to be sure also the delay in rolling it out due to concerns of a plot calls. thousands of people have turned out across rebel held says he's in syria to mark 10 years since the start of the war the un security council has mass and heard calls for near the effort for a cease fire and political settlement. gunmen have kidnapped children and teaches at a school in nigeria that happened at a primary school one could do in a state it's the 2nd mass kidnapping in the state in the last week. parents of protest is killed on sunday holding funerals for their children and me and at least 50 demonstrations died in the west of violence 1 in a month and a month and a half long crackdown on the antica movement protests defied martial law on monday where they were again find on with live ammunition killing 6 more.

the deadliest area on the most violent day of the anti coupe protests on sunday was in an industrial suburb of yangon an armed protesters were killed with live ammunition some of the protesters there targeted factories financed by china many protesters say the country is supporting the coup global times a chinese state run newspaper said factories were attacked and set on fire by so-called instigators and causing $37000000.00 in damage it prompted the strongest statement yet from china calling the situation very severe and urging myanmar's generals to stop all acts of violence punish the perpetrators and protect the chinese people and companies its large influential neighbor to the north china is by far the largest trading partner with me anymore and is the biggest supplier of arms and military equipment to the tatmadaw me and mars' army. after sunday's violent crackdown in vandalism the joint to announce that at least 6 areas in yangon are now under martial law. in smaller groups than on sunday protesters came

out again on the streets of mandalay on monday marching against the giant and supporting their democratically elected leaders. ousted civilian leader aung sang suu kyi was to have another court hearing on the charges against her including one added last week accusing her of accepting illegal payments but the hearing was pushed back to. a jaunt to the new food. this might. not be this could not be conducted. today because we have got no internet in the country for the whole country these 6 weeks on the protesters resolve has remained constant. but according to some they've had to increase their willingness to sacrifice. their duty to come from the meaning of the tattoo is freedom from fear they threatened us with weapons but our revolution

won't win if we have fear so we must get rid of this kind of fear to prevail in our revolution. the term revolution now increasingly being used by those out on the streets protesting but it's now also being used by civilian parallel government saying revolution is needed to overturn the coup scott hodler al-jazeera kenya is boy causing the start of an international court of justice to decide its maritime border with somalia the neighbors both lay claim to energy resources off the coast of somalia 1st off the international court of justice to rule them out on border in 2014. the disappearance of a tribal shaped area although about 100000 square kilometers somalia argues its maritime boundary should run toward the south east to match the direction of its land border the kenya says the border should take a roughly $45.00 degree turn at the shore on the area is believed to be rich in oil

and gas and is considered one of east africa's richest fishing grounds catherine so explains why kenya is boycotting the herring. well kenya had been asking for a postponement all these hearings this would have been the 4th time so the judges rejected that hence why the belcourt now kenyan lawyers basically saying that they feel that the court is biased against the country that the judges have been not flexible in not listening to the pleas by kenya for delaying the hearing the judge is also saying there are they don't see why this hearing should be should be happening in the middle of a global pandemic the judges have said that they've noted kenyans concerned that they're going to use kenyans will return a submission to what's going on now is that the somalia side the agents and lawyers are presenting the oral arguments this is going to happen today and tomorrow so what the lawyers are saying that is that somalia never agreed to any boundary line

them occasion by kenya as the country suggesting they said is no treaty no written agreement and that kenya has been taking advantage of the political and security situation in somalia to use that disputed territory which the into somalia lawyers are saying 10 is already exploring these already fishing going on which is against international law so after that the judge is going to eventually make of bad acts which is binding but it's also important to note that the i.c.u. does not have in enforcement powers and we have seen in the past many states ignoring the ruling of the international court of justice. ugandan opposition leader bobby wine has been arrested while leading a protest in kampala. one called one of our cities to free hundreds of his supporters arrested before during and after january's

presidential election he lost that vote a long time leader you know what he was 70 disputes the results he tweeted he's not been charged with hovers around his. jailed the kremlin critic alexina the says he's being held in a concentration camp and the message is shared on his verified instagram account developing sent greetings from a high security area of the camp 100 kilometers outside moscow he says he's doing well in the camp is not violent but he is under constant surveillance develop he was jailed for parole violations charges his supporters say are politically motivated facebook has begun labeling posts about covert 19 effort to combat misinformation called ted about vaccines will have labels were facts from the world health organizations the tech giant says it will expand its coronavirus awareness efforts to its other platforms instagram whatsapp facebook has faced

heavy criticism for allowing false claims to spread during the pandemic simon clark is an associate professor of cellular microbiology he says misinformation ram astra zeneca jab could be mitigated if regulators will clear about their concerns. across social media and in particular facebook is where a lot of people get their news from these days so i think. while we have the possibility. of fake news with regards to the vaccine appearing on platforms like facebook it's incumbent upon the the owners of that platform to take steps to warn people that what they might be reading isn't necessarily correct we hear. they think that the chance of increased blood clotting after vaccination. blood clots happen in people normally and really the numbers that we have at the moment as far as we know suggest they're no more common in the vaccinated population and they are

in the un vaccinated population if the regulators are seen something unusual or or of concern they really do need to be a bit more forward a bit more honest about what it is that the problem that they've they've come up with is they feel bad about asking questions it's ok to ask questions and it's for people like me and and medics and nurses to take splayed why the thing is safe millions of people of had this this vaccine and there is no evidence yet at all for any side effects that are that severe that there is a problem sure some people give us a sore arm after infection that's fairly normal with vaccines but most serious complications there's no evidence they occur any more frequently than they do in the unvaccinated population. politics in the netherlands is experiencing

a resurgence among young people more than ever before arriving in parliamentary elections a 10th of the candidates for wednesday's vote are under 30 and the youngest is just 16 years old sebastian followed her on the campaign trail. they are 1617 and 19 years old and campaigning for a seat in the dutch parliament because tina middleton napal represents the young party or young and along with alicia here they are the youngest candidates running in this week's parliamentary elections all the time i was working for you only an idea and now it's now i can see where i am where i am right now you're on the official list. as a number 2 here these are the 16 year old grew up in a foster home and decided to run so she could fight for more protection for young people everyone in the 2nd chamber is talking about the younger people would not live with them so that's what i decided to that's when i decided to join young so

are they will they will have to talk to me and to my colleagues. climate change is one of the main reasons young people are entering politics thousands have sounded an alarm all over the nat'l and to stop global warming among them young politicians we've seen to date are doing bear who you see black lives matter all over the world but there has to be a group of people that says we love that activism and we're going to translate it into parliament and 1000 year old bibi really is number 6 on the list of fault a rapidly growing party would bases all over europe and a large number of young candidates as a group that's going to pay for the crisis that we're facing so the economic crisis after the corona won and especially the climate crisis we're going to pay the bill so we should be the ones making the decisions well the election campaign has been dominated by traditional parties mostly focusing on the mastic issues this is seen as a new force to be reckoned with and huge. in a ration more interested in politics and with international views and above all

they want change and change that will eventually happen says political analyst holder a cracker well the average voter in the netherlands is over 50 years old the influence of younger generations is in africa bill he sas the differences in foetal behavior have never been as large internationally as they are today since world war 2 most of all the younger generation folks much more often for radically progressive parties like green parties we see that almost every country and we see all also in almost every country that the traditional center parties like the social democrats and the christian democrats perform really poorly among this youngest age group the polls show that newcomer of old may win 3 seats in parliament while this is not enough for a seat for the party is already seen as a surprise of these elections young will be lucky enough to get one seat but dechen pain is paying off until today. before we met them i didn't think about it so i don't know yet but it made me think yeah yeah if elected christine i'm in

the list not yet allowed to work as a member of parliament as she's under age her seat would go to the next candidate on the list visiting the parliament building for the 1st time she can't wait for the day her career in politics get started step fastened al-jazeera the hague. dissolved there and these are the top stories concern is growing over the astra zeneca covenanting vaccine with even more countries suspended its use on monday france italy germany and indonesia all said the delay rolling it out to the concerns of a plant plots the drug firms and the world health organization insist it is safe donna came has more from berlin to many other european countries now have been saying no that the french government the italian government and others.