with. france germany and italy suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine because of concern over the side effects. of care but this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. protests in rebel held city as across syria as it mounts 10 years of civil war with more than half a 1000000 people dead millions forced to leave their homes. funerals after the

deadliest day so far in 1000000 miles uprising against the military coup and yet demonstrators say i'll continue to fight for democracy plus. there is hope with the u.s. we meet the teenagers standing for election in the netherlands. concern is growing over the astra zeneca covered $1000.00 vaccine with even more countries suspending its use on monday france italy germany and it didn't also that be temporarily delayed rolling it out due to concerns of a beloved cults more than a dozen nations have now stopped administering the astra zeneca shot speaking a short time ago over the world health organizations head said they're looking into the astra zeneca reports but they're not overly concerned. this does not necessarily mean this events are linked to a boxing mission but it's routine practice to investigate them and it shows that

the surveillance system works and that effective controls are in place doubly true advisory committee on vaccine safety has been reviewing the villa bill data is in close contact with the european medicines agency and will meet tomorrow when it came is live for us now from berlin dominic what else did their director general of the w.h.o. have to say about the astra zeneca vaccine. one of the interesting things that was coming from the director general of the w.h.o. is in a general sense about the way that the astra zeneca vaccine and indeed countries have been acquiring stockpiles of not just the us was in a vaccine actually but all vaccines and and he drew attention to the fact that countries cannot vaccinate their way out of the pandemic on their own and indeed he

also went on to say that countries should not be buying up more vaccines than they need to immunize their entire population if that then means that it would prevent other countries elsewhere in the world from acquiring the stocks that they need the interesting thing here talking about where he was talking about the e m a the european medicines agency which is the body that regulates the approval of vaccines in the you know in the european union for use within the european union well it's just a few days ago was saying that it was aware of the concern of member states about the safeness the efficacy of the actual seneca vaccine that it had been brought to its attention that there'd been 30 cases of blood clots amongst almost 5000000 people to have received the vaccine and its view back then says on the 11th of march so a few days ago was that the benefits from having the vaccine administered outweighed

the potential for blood clots to ensue now 30 cases out of almost $5000000.00 that is one case per almost 170000 doses being used so clearly the numerical argument being the one that the e.m.e.a. was making well since that since the 11th of march other information has been presented to the m. and a from a succession of different european countries whose ministries whose health ministries have said look well we are aware of other cases in our society we think this is of concern and it needs to go back to the m. and a needs to be remitted. to the e m a for them to decide upon it and for them to make recommendations based on the further cases that that we are reporting on as it were now the suggestion is that there may be some form of statement at least from the e m a when it meets in amsterdam on tuesday lunchtime dominic so the w.h.o. then not overly concerned you know obviously still wants to say show that it that

it trusts this vaccine trusts vaccines what is this going to do though to the vaccine rollout in europe these days well we know that there are 3 vaccines that have been approved for use or that were approved for use until today that is in the european union the 1st of which we knew about pfizer biotech that vaccine that was 1st developed synthesizers were in germany and then the next one was murder and another vaccine began the principle of gaps between the administration of the 1st dose and the 2nd dose and then the 3rd one was astra zeneca astra zeneca had originally promised to give to the e.u. in the 1st quarter of the of 2021 in the 2nd quarter of 2021 a certain number tens of millions of doses it then said it couldn't do that and ended up promising something around 50 percent of what it was said it was going to

do which meant that e.u. countries had to find other ways other doses acquire the doses to immunize their population so clearly on the one hand you have countries who've predicated who based their strategy to a certain extent on having astra zeneca doses but they were always expecting to have fewer astra zeneca doses right now than the other doses clearly those other doses can be administered the question is how long they can hold on to astra zeneca doses that they can't use right now. ok thank you for that there dominic came there live for us in the linde. well dr peter drawback is and factious disease and global health analyst he says regulators are acting with an abundance of caution evidence how is the benefits of the vaccine far outweigh any risks these are difficult situations when you hear reports of adverse events when a vaccine or medical product has already been rolled out in determining whether

there's actually a cause it's hiv link or it just happens to be a coincidence and of course these vaccines are being given largely to people who are elderly or have other underlying medical conditions and may be at higher risk for developing things like blood clots irrespective of vaccines these went through rigorous clinical trials and blood clots were never determined to be a problem during those controlled trials and of course tens of millions of these vaccines have been given out now this safety pause i think is certainly the profit of the regulators in those countries and is a reasonable step however we have heard from the world health organization the european medicines agency and others that at this point the benefits of vaccination clearly outweigh the risks were operating in a fast moving situation where information is sometimes incomplete here's a we do know for certain there has never been a vaccine related death linked to any of the approved kovan 1000 vaccines that all of the approved cope in 1000 vaccines have 100 percent or near 100 percent

protection against severe kovan $1000.00 hospitalization and death so on the whole at both an individual level and at a population level i think that there is strong evidence favoring the benefit of these vaccines if i were offered a vaccine today astra zeneca or any other approved exene i would take it in a heartbeat. thousands of protesters have turned out across several rebel held city is in syria they're marking 10 years since the start of the country's civil war the conflict has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than half of syria's population displaced there hala looks back at how what began as a peaceful uprising descended into war. my apologies we do not have zain his piece there we will attempt to find it for you the u.n. special envoy guy a pederson has described the situation in syria as one of the darkest chapters in recent history filled with unspeakable horrors he spoke to

a security council meeting and condemned the international community for its failures he says a countrywide ceasefire is more necessary than ever and it must be supported by foreign powers. now we have a heart as peace. 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 there was still. 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 for. 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. and 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. still ahead on

al-jazeera defining moment in libya's war as a unity government is sworn in after a decade of diplomatic failure. the latest twist in a maritime boundary dispute thanks again and somalia. hello they're swarming up nicely once again across the middle east have lost the dust and sand that we saw through the course of the weekend last a clear skies lots of hazy sunshine let's push further north where the weather action is we've seen some big winds are rolling in across that eastern side of the mediterranean driving some showers there for cyprus towards the levant wintry mix there into central and eastern parts of turkey as we go on through choose day just pushing

a little further east which as we go on into wednesday to the south of that there we go we warming up southerly winds picking temperatures up here in doha to around 30 degrees celsius so some more pleasant spring was coming through lousy dry then as one would expect and it's largely dry to across the whole of africa although we also want to see showers just coming into were central areas of somalia as we go on through chiz day chance of wanted to showers just cropping up into southern parts of ethiopia where the weather will be across the democratic republic of the congo easing across into the gulf of guinea more heavy rain coming in here from time to time and we got some heavy rain so you into central parts of south africa some wetter weather just pushing through here not seeing a little further ace was joining up with some wet weather we have across northern parts of namibia into angola and heavy showers too from madagascar. join africa's largest trade and investment and rwanda into african trade to give me

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more than a dozen nations have stopped it as a precaution to plug. the world health organization says it is safe. thousands of people have turned out across the rebel held city as in syria 10 years since the start of the war the un security council has met and heard calls for a renewed cease fire and political settlement. a day after 50 people were killed in anti coupe protests across me in mar the deadliest since the military took power on february 1st live ammunition is again being used on protesters it's got harder reports. the deadliest area on the most violent day of protests on sunday was in an industrial suburb of yangon on. and on the 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 30 $7000000.00 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 and maher and is the biggest supplier of arms and military equipment to the tatmadaw me and mars' army. after sunday's violent crackdown and vandalism the judge 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 the go and san suu kyi ski's was

a jaunt to thank you for. this my. kids you cannot beat this you could not be conducted to this city 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. that they could have found 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 police in

southern india that minister of kashmir are locked in a gun fight with a suspected rebel on person a died and champion with a standoff is taking place security forces of cordoned off the area and trying to detain the gunman. iran's foreign minister says after 4 years of what he calls a u.s. economic terrorism washington needs to build good faith with tehran before any nuclear deal talks can begin to balance a reach made comments at a virtual conversation with the european policy center. on anybody who needed are not just punishing. them as you know so. then i can not pass that test in a miserable. we passed the test. as john kerry would say under our belt so let's. let's get something under the belt of the united states

some record some. and then come back and talk about it and then it will be the next administration you know down and my successor being discussed that. libya's new unity government has been sworn into office at a ceremony into brooke it's part of a u.n. back to effort to bring stability ahead of elections december years of conflict divided libyan institutions between the internationally recognized government in the west and a rival administration to the east security will be a major task for the government trying to has more from the capital tripoli for the prime minister abdul hamid has said that he plans on unifying libya's state institutions including the military now the military and libya's divided those in eastern libya controlled by belief or have to and in western libya previously by the g.n.a.s. so the hope is now to this military track that the u.n. is facilitating meetings have been ongoing to sort of unify libya's military ranks

but there's also other issues for instance according to the u.n. support mission there's over 20000 foreign fighters in libya so being able to come together 1st unifying libya's military and then and then forcing the foreign fighters out of the business one of the tasks that the governor of national unity will be. will have to focus on also bringing about elections now throughout this throughout last year we saw lections city of new supposedly elections take place in western libya and a few cities in the south but that hasn't happened in eastern libya and areas that are controlled by by have to whether or not elections can take place in december the government's main objective is to leave the country until elections so whether or not that will be able to take place some some people are concerned that that might not happen but for the most part libyans and i think now the international

community want to see libya move towards a democratically elected country so the hope is that libya will see a unified country and allow. it was in december. but jerry and officials say gunmen have abducted 3 teaches from a primary school in northwestern state of good sooner no children were taken the raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in nigeria coming just 4 days after $39.00 college students were abducted. ugandan opposition leader bobby wind has been arrested while leading a protest in kampala. time called all of our cities to free hundreds of his supporters arrested before during and after january's presidential election which he lost a longtime leader $71.00 disputes the results he tweeted that he's not been charged for his home surrounded by the police and military.

doctors that. the do respect the will. of the group was that during the march. to respect the right to life of the bond. kenya is boycotting the start of an international court of justice hearing to decide its maritime border with somalia the neighbors both lay claim to energy resources off the coast of somalia 1st asked the international court of justice to rule on the maritime border in 2014 u.k. politicians are debating a proposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests that would allow officers to intervene of protests cause serious disruption civil liberties groups say it's an assault on free expression it comes as london police faced criticism of the handling of a vigil for 33 year old woman who was killed while walking home. i've already said

some of the footage circulating online of captain com is upset in so whilst the police are rightly operationally independent as the metropolitan police are reporting to what had happened this government backs up these in fighting crime and keeping the public safe but in the interest of providing greater assurance and ensuring public confidence i have asked her majesty's inspectorate of can stop or to conduct a full independent lessons learned review. tens of thousands of people have rallied in marches across australia protesting against the abuse and harassment of women it's been triggered by allegations of rape and assault centered around australia's parliament gauge reports from canberra. thank you protestors outside astrologers parliament demanding action of violence against women in recent weeks allegations of right have rocked

a struggle in politics prompting a growing number of people to speak about sexual assault and harassment i don't want to go up the world where women are listened to and i think that we should make a change it was sparked by shocking allegations that former political star for britney he was right by a colleague in the defense minister's office. we're here because i'm fucking of ringback but we're still having to fight this same stale tired of. the struggle as top floor officer attorney general christian porter is also accused of an historic right dating back 3 decades which he categorically denies police have closed the case but the government is facing growing calls for an independent inquiry we just don't think that it's appropriate that a man who holds the highest floor office in the country can have an untested and also apparently on a ridge right allegation sitting out there it makes women feel very unsafe and

unsupported allegations of miso jenny and sexism in australia's parliament and nothing new the nation's 1st female prime minister julia gillard called it out in 2012 having but stories of a toxic culture continue it's still very much a bloke's world here a man's world and even if you work in the building as a woman you know are very clearly that you're not in charge of the government says violence against women is a priority and has set up an investigation into workplace culture but many don't believe that goes far enough this isn't just about women in politics many others here have their own story about being harassed or sexually assaulted they're calling for recruitment crying from the top down like the women are treated equally . some are calling this latest movement a struggle is 2nd be to wave stories all too familiar right across the globe.

because gage al-jazeera canberra. to the netherlands now where there's been a resurgence of young people from politics more than ever before they're running and parliamentary elections a 10th of the candidates for wednesday's vote are the 1st and the youngest is just 16 years old steadfast and followed her on the campaign trail. they are 1617 and 19 years old and campaigning for a seat in the dutch parliament christina middleton napal represents the young party or young and along with leash are here they're 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 the 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 nataline's to stop global warming among them young politicians we've seen to date are doing bear for 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 true

. as a new force to be reckoned with a new generation more interested in politics and with international views and above all they want change and change that will eventually happen says political analyst order a collective well the average voter in the netherlands is over 50 years old the influence of younger generations is in africa bill he says the age differences in foetal behavior have never been as large internationally as they are today since world war 2 most of all the young generation folks much more often and for radically progressive parties like green parties we see that almost every country. 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 20 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 their campaign 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 fasten al-jazeera the hague. he also has made grammy history by becoming the most decorated female x. of the awards adding 4 more to her collection she secured her 28 trophies and she won best rb performance for her head back right and singer taylor swift has become the 1st woman to win album of the year 3 times at the grammys her one song of the year for black lives matter anthem icon free. i want an outsider netflix's crashing the academy awards after a year of lockdowns the streaming service has received $35.00 oscar nominations

across 16 of its productions previously a film had to have been screened at the center in los angeles for at least 7 days to be eligible for an oscar consideration last year organizers allowed streaming services to be part of this year's awards after theaters across the world shut down due to the crowd of our span demick. result is there and these are the top stories france italy and germany are the latest countries to suspend the use of the astra zeneca vaccine more than a dozen nations have stopped using it as a precaution due to blood clot concerns the world health organization insists it is safe this does not necessarily mean this is linked to box emission but it's routine produce to investigate. only. the surveillance system

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