the fans from around the world love that we are grappling the extra mile they are the media don't go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. a growing list of countries suspend use of the astra zeneca vaccine despite assurances from health experts that it's a. santa maria with the world news from al jazeera. protesters in rebel held areas of syria market decade of civil war how 4000000 people killed millions more displaced. anger on the streets of london there are protests against

a new more giving that would give police more power to crackdown on demonstrations and this is oscar nominations diversity high on the agenda for the world's biggest film this. so portugal france germany spain they've all joined a growing list of countries which will stop using astra zeneca as corona virus vaccine this concerns about a few cases of blood to clausing among people who've been given the jobs but both the world health organization and the e use drug regulators say the data doesn't suggest there is a direct link between the 2 and they saying no cause for alarm when it came as a report from berlin. this is a vaccine that divides opinion in some countries it's a large part of the strategy to combat coat it in several others it's been linked

to blood clots in some patients and is now suspended from use across europe a succession of governments has called for more research to be carried out that this is your a.t.p.'s on. the decision which has been taken in conformity with our european policy is to suspend as a precaution vaccinations with the astra zeneca vaccine in the hope that we can resume quickly if the make gives a green light. in germany 2 senior ministers have acted to stop its use again as a precautionary measure meaning massive vaccination centers such as this one here at berlin's old tempelhof airport are now closed the many doses of astra zeneca vaccine within its walls are now in storage pending a decision by the european medicines agency later this week the contrast to this uncertainty in the u.k. is stark there the use of astra zeneca has been greatest and for the prime minister there are no such doubts. we have one of the toughest and most experienced

regulators in the world they see no reason at all to discontinue the back to nation program forever and they are for any of the vaccines that we're currently using either of the fact that we're currently using they believe that they are effective highly effective in driving down not just hospitalisation but but also serious disease and immortality is the nub of the issue is about the way astra zeneca interacts with a human body according to the e m a from around 5000000 doses administered to date there are reports of a few dozen patients developing blood clots with some individuals having died although as yet no link between the vaccine and their deaths has been proved for the world health organization and the e m a c the benefits of continuing to use astra zeneca as product far outweigh the potential risks but around many european capitals there is now fresh doubt what is

certain is that suspending the use of astra zeneca will slow their vaccination programs dominic kane al-jazeera berlin take through some of the covert news a nighttime curfew is being enforced in manila for 2 weeks to combat a rise in infections some areas of the philippines capital and other cities have gone into lockdown well i've got tougher curfews now in place the total number of cases nation wide as a part 620000 the 2nd highest level in southeast asia a jordan recording its highest number of daily infections since the beginning of the pandemic nearly 9 and a half 1000 cases and 82 deaths reported on monday jones health minister resigned over the weekend after 7 patients died in hospital due to an oxygen shortage. and facebook is rolling out new measures to combat misinformation about covert 19 and to encourage vaccinations it's facebook's launching a tool in the u.s. to show people where and when they can make an appointment to get vaccinated and

also label posts about covert 19 with facts from the world health organization facebook's faced criticism for allowing false claims to spread during the pandemic here is simon clark who is an associate professor of cellular microbiology who says companies producing these vaccines should also step up their efforts to combat misinformation on social media. 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 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 regulators are seeing something unusual a lot 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 nothing 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 get this 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. on to other news and thousands of protesters have turned out across several rebel controlled parts of syria marking 10 years since the start of the civil war it is a conflict that's caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises with more than half of syria's population not displaced and. our aim being here is to topple the regime and to overthrow its militia which we also am to unite our selves to keep syria unified and united i'm sure the regime will be toppled and after 10 years we are still ongoing and we haven't stopped if it's all the free people of syria with differently toppled the regime. as long as we have the will and as long as people from everywhere are here the regime will be toppled sooner or later and we are here today to convey a message to the entire world our message is that there is no power but the power of the law and the power of the syrian. meanwhile the u.n.

special envoy to syria says the conflict is one of the darkest chapters in recent history filled with unspeakable horrors pattison condemned the international community's failure to help he spoke to our diplomatic editor james bays and discussed his regrets over the un's efforts. has the u.n. and in particular the security council failed the people of syria. yes i am to be very direct and and all of us great you i think if you look at the 10 years to the syrian people to know how we lived through this no doubt that the international community and the security council the international system in half a period and as our as a whole the security council in my briefing today i personally strongly regret that the united nations and myself i'm not been able to maybe 8 an old car or a solution to this conflict that has

a man you know i was fortunate the tragedy the nearly namely every syrian in the family. you've been focusing your efforts on trying to get a new constitution for syria and yet it took 18 months to get the constitutional committee together you've been working on it now with talks in geneva for 18 months 5 rounds diplomats on the security council of told me they believe it's going nowhere why are you continuing the process that's going nowhere. reckon i was down there frustration you know i'm not so much perhaps to members of the security council but more of you know the perspiration that the syrian people when they see it you know they're not going to progress order to make considerations go in the any and that's why after the last round engine in your mind said no to the members of the committee and i also called the security council and i called the press it can't continue like this anymore you

know because we have to most that are through start drafting a constitution recall a new constitution how to build trust and monitor syrians under syrian policy and to be a dollar for a grew older political process mona lisa ambitions and be much if you're going to require a strong the assad government is going ahead with presidential elections soon we know what presidential elections alike in syria they will be a sham we know who's going to win what's the un's view on these elections do they should they take place and all their legitimate. elections are also mentioned in the security council resolution print if you're poor that was a doctor in december yes but they say that those elections should be under u.n. supervision and they should be free and fair these ones will not. my point is the polling or. big business of the regime is my mama obviously did you actually

start really take place. i'm late to either the spring or early summer it's not part of my mandate the u.n. will i'm nothing to do with these elections and therefore you know. since you are not invited to take part and it is not autumn i managed to make out for you it's important to make clear that this is it these are elections taking place as part of the whole constitutional question. u.k. politicians are debating a proposed law that would give police even more power to crackdown on protests activists say it's an assault on freedom of expression officers in london already facing criticism over the handling of a vigil for a 33 year old woman was last seen alive as she walked home alone and was later killed john has a report. says the right to peaceful protest to demonstrate one's views to be heard. potentially under threat in proposed legislation containing

a range of new powers for the police overall the bill has many elements of it which are quite a thorough tyrion they defer to senior police officers on judgments as to whether something can be considered criminal and that particularly sits in the part of the bill which deals with protests so if protests are considered to be causing serious annoyance or disruptive or causing a disturbance it can be up to senior police officers to decide that that process is then not allowed to continue to go ahead. here's why it matters scenes on the weekend of women being manhandled by police officers while attending a vigil in memory of a young woman murdered allegedly by a police officer the police say the vigil was unlawful under pandemic restrictions and the head of the metropolitan force president has resisted calls for her to resign civil liberties groups are calling for a rethink of the planned policing bill. as this bill might be held up as containing

measures to address violence against women and girls in reality it lays out measures which undermine our right to hold power to account that we can see how important is to be able to hold power to account and to be able to scrutinize and contain the use of state power in the context of the weekends in sorrow and in anger women gathered 1st at clapham common in london where 33 year old sarah everett disappeared on march the 3rd and then. outside police headquarters and parliament with cries of kill the bill they formed an emotive backdrop to parliament's debate opposition parties have echoed campaigners concerns that the policing believes deeply in balanced apart from unwarranted curbs on protests for instance it does too little to protect women while it does increase criminal sanctions for defacing statues and memorials they'll be longer jail terms they say for vandalism than for rape he says speaker let me turn to this weekend's events

this government is in fighting crime and keeping the public safe but in the interests of providing greater assurance and ensuring public confidence i have asked her majesty's inspectorate of constructor to conduct a full independent review. the government says it's taking a wide range of steps necessary to keep people safe despite some libertarian concerns among its own m.p.'s a large parliamentary majority will likely ensure the bill is passed joe the whole al-jazeera london. in the news ahead international pressure grows on me and miles military jointer after a violent crackdown on protesters. the charges against a former cuban leader in mali are dropped after a court ends his trial. it's

time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however say sim 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 sandstorm across northern areas of the country then say spilling out of the gobi desert to cross the northwest of china yellow warnings quite aptly in force here as those strong winds have pushed that dust and sand across the northeastern corner of child as you 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 just wanted to showers 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 that we go with a chance of want to wintry flowers there over towards beijing not really making too much progress the precious maymont 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 qatar airways. when afghan filmmaker has than 1st really catches the taliban's attention the bounty on his head full. says him to flee with his family desperately seeking sanctuary they journey across continents chronicling their multi-year saga on their phones. midnight traveling an odyssey of hope resilience and ultimately one family's love for each other and witness on al-jazeera.

this is al jazeera and these are the top stories spain france germany and italy have all joined a growing number of countries to suspend the use of astra zeneca coronavirus faxing these are the concerns about a few cases of blood clots reported among those who got the japs. u.n. special envoy for syria has expressed profound regrets that the un has been unable to broker peace to end the civil war here patterson was briefing the security council on the 10th anniversary of the conflict and protesters in london of around they began demanding better protection for women from violence is also anger over a proposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests. let's

look at me and the u.n. secretary general has condemned the escalating military crackdown there. called on the international community to help stop the killing funerals have been held after at least 50 protesters were killed on sunday the worst violence since the military overthrew the government in february activists say security forces killed another 20 people on monday more in this report from scotland. the deadliest area on the most violent day of the anti coupe protests on sunday was in an industrial suburb of young gone. unarmed 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 and mark 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 just announced 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 she 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 go. to the new food. this might. not be just could

not be. this to me because we have got no internet. for the whole country these 6 weeks on the protests is resolved has remained constant. but according to some they've had to increase their willingness to sacrifice. you know 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 libya's new unity government spin sworn into office in a ceremony into brooke this is part of

a un backed effort to bring stability ahead of the elections in december years of conflict of course divided libyan institutions between the internationally recognized government in the west and a rival administration in the east. a court in mali has dropped charges against former military officers. and several others accused of staging a coup back in 2012 they were charged with killing $21.00 elite soldiers during the rebellion more from the story. not in his usual 4 star generals uniform but a gray suit former coup leader amadou son ago walks out of the tribunals a free man along with 15 other soldiers he no longer faces charges of torture killings and rape but this woman says she was among those on the go soldiers rounded up when he took power in a coup and 2012 and she was held in captivity for 19 months and raped every night to her the court's decision is wrong it's over from ollie to military can commit

cruel acts criminal acts without ever having to face justice to court is in their hands even better day will use a lot of amnesty and reconciliation to cover up their crimes the lawyers of those she accuses deny any wrongdoing saying there's no proof to her allegations the court did not issue a verdict but instead the judge cited a $29000.00 rican solution law offering amnesty to specific crimes committed during the 2012 crisis that's when armed groups took over the north and captain sanogo took over power in a coup in an interview with al-jazeera at the time he said his plan was to bring back the rule of law and end political corruption as a soldier i'm not and i don't belong to a political party i'm not a political man i'm not a willing to have it when it will come. during his short 3 weeks rule sunnah go ordered the arrest of 21 soldiers of the presidential guards accusing them of fermenting a coup against him they were tortured blindfolded and thrown into a mass grave before being shot for rights groups this amounts to international war

crimes from all these military rulers these are not crimes but past events that do not warrant a trial under an agreement brokered by the states the victim's family will receive . $25000.00 in compensation for a 5 bedroom house and the state funeral for the deceased. i'm shocked by the court's decision out of preferred that there were sentences many victims and survivors see in the court's decision a rushed attempt to reconsider in war torn mali and they say they have been denied justice and are unable to heal and move forward nicholas hawk al jazeera nigerian officials say gunmen of abducted 3 teachers from a primary school in the northwestern state of no children were taken out of this raid the latest in a string of attacks on schools in nigeria just 4 days after $39.00 college students were abducted by armed men on the outskirts of katrina. ugandan opposition leader

bobby winds been arrested while leading a protest in kampala. one was calling on authorities to free hundreds of his supporters they were arrested before during and after january's presidential election which won lost to the longtime leader you even spammy disputes the results. of. such as that matter i'm not. an american you do respect the little the rest of us were you really feel that you're a telemarketer the amount of what you want to respect the right to life of the good for the gander. jailed kremlin critic alexei navalny says he's being held in what he called concentration camp in russia's vladimir region in a message shared on his verified instagram account number and he says he's in

a high security part of the camp under kilometers outside moscow he says he's doing well but is under constant surveillance and valley was jailed for parole violations charges his supporters say which is politically motivated. the u.s. senate confirmed congresswoman debbie holland as secretary of interior she is the 1st native american to lead to a cabinet agency harland will oversee the government's relationship with more than $500.00 recognized tribal nations heidegger castro with this report now from capitol hill. and there were 3 republicans who crossed party lines to join democrats in voting for the confirmation of hollande now she is the 1st native american cabinet secretary in u.s. history and on a personal level this is history coming full circle for hollande she is a member of the tribe of new mexico she says that her family dates back 35

generations living on that land and like so many other native peoples in the u.s. resend trees her family had suffered at the oppression and the mismanagement of the broken promises from the very federal agency the agency of the interior that hollande will now lead as part of biden's cabinet so it's certainly a very meaningful moment for her personally also for the 2000000 native americans who call this country home and as the secretary of the interior she will oversee the bureau of indian affairs which is responsible for managing the welfare of those native peoples and she will have a challenge that she's lived through and that she will confront she knows that the poverty rate for instance of native americans is more than double that of the general u.s. population a lot of time a lot of progress to make up for and we heard chuck schumer the top democrat in the

senate summarizing the historic nature of holland's confirmation saying that this is a reset moment for the government and for native american communities a reset in this relationship to become one moving toward trust some entertainment news and beyond has made history by becoming the most decorated female perform at the grammy awards for more to her collection she got a 28 trophy in winning the best r. and b. performance for a song like her right. also taylor swift became the 1st woman to win album of the year 3 times in a row and her one song of the year for the black lives matter and than i can't breathe. and to movies once outside a netflix is not dominating the academy awards after a year of lockdowns the streaming services received 35 oscar nominations across 16 of its productions record number of women and people of color as well have been

nominated for brownouts as the details. in a year that saw theaters shuttered and movie fans marooned in front of their t.v. sets the netflix drama manc about an alcoholic screenwriters foray into 1930 s. hollywood won the biggest number of academy award nominations with 10 including for best picture david fincher was nominated for best director and gary oldman for best actor other best picture nods went to no man's land minori judas and the black messiah promising young woman the father sound of metal and the trial of the chicago 7 these defendants had a plan and a plan was to incite a right to women directors were nominated a 1st in the 93 years of oscars chloe zhao for no man's land and emerald fennel for promising young woman what happens in life under i'm usually

a certain sound for him in the white house right while top down i'm not the only one didn't believe it all a record number of 76 nominations went to women film professionals you do write also for the 1st time an asian american actor was tipped for best actor steven un was nominated for me nari the story of a korean american family trying to make a go of farming in the rural south other best actor nominations went to anthony hopkins for the father. riz ahmed for sound of metal and a posthumous nomination for chadwick boseman in my rainey's black bottom become close friends death from cancer last year at the age of just 43 shocked and saddened his many fans. know nothing about the kind of was god he did in the best actress category frances mcdormand received her 6th us her nomination

for nomad land and viola davis got her 4th nomination. in form are a nice black bottom the other actresses nominated are carey mulligan for promising young woman but s. a kirby for pieces of a woman and andra day for the united states versus billie holiday. no crimes no money no no the oscars award ceremonies will be held mostly virtually on april 25th robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. we have passed the hour here on al-jazeera these are the headlines in spain france germany italy the whole joined a growing number of countries to suspend use of astra zeneca as coronavirus fact saying they are citing concerns about a few cases of blood clots reported among those who've got the job but but the world health organization and the.