and. a big diplomatic mission for joe biden his new administration but already the americans arrival in asia is agitating north korea. blowing down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a 4th new health minister for brazil as it struggles to contain coronavirus even with curfews in place and its biggest as. the thai prime minister takes the job for the team he gets a dose of the controversial astra zeneca vaccine. and

a decade of devastation but syria's rebels remain defiant. 2 of the most powerful politicians in the u.s. have just started their 1st foray into key asian nations and already there's a wary eye being kept on north korea secretary of state anthony blinken and secretary of defense lloyd austin have started their trip with high level meetings in japan ahead of their arrival the sister of north korea's leader kim you know young warned the new biden administration to quote not do anything unseemly we'll get more on that shortly with pride in south korea but 1st let's talk to thought is salim a he's in tokyo safari this trip by anthony blinken lloyd austin maybe about strengthening allies and countering china but what is japan hoping to get out of this.

japan is very keen only affirming the strength of the alliance between japan and the united states tokyo has been very much concerned about the rising tension lately around sink acquire lands you know you called in china. there has been reports of increase of presence of chinese coast guard ships and other fishing boats around the world those of the islands which japan describes. as its territorial waters this increase of presence there and also in china as in acting of a new low that could allow its course got ships to. fire at ships which it says sitting in its waters all this. talk you're very much on they want to reaffirm the potence of the alliance this same time this is very. very important

visit from the ship from the american side this is the 1st report of both put in and defense ministers. after mr biden took office so it symbolises symbolizes how important japan needs and certainly japan is hoping to get a strong statement at the end of the talks today we headed towards china we heard that maybe for the 1st time both countries would name china by name and would ask it to stop its provocations and condemn its. attempts to change the status quo in the in the pacific region are there live for us in tokyo 40 thank you so let's look at more detail then at that warning from north korea kim jong the sister of the leader kim jong un has urged the u.s. administration to refrain from doing anything unseemly it wants to sleep in peace in the coming 4 years and she says joint military drills with south korea are a barrier to renewed diplomacy with mcbride joins us live now from south korea's

capital seoul rob so the bottom ministration wants to push ahead with dialogue over north korea's nuclear program but beyond young is already saber rattling with a warning to the americans. that's right these are quite strong words from kim jong especially as it's seen as pretty much the 1st statement from north korea since the biden of ministration came into being john calling on the bike then ministration as she put it not to cause a stink in this part of the world also threatening to rip up a military agreement with south korea but in reality that military agreement signed a few years ago when relations were far better was pretty much dead in any case and compared with previous statements from north korea this could be seen as being fairly tame stuff these statements obviously it's time to coincide with the visit by the secretaries from the u.s. but also showing north korea's displeasure with the resumption of military

exercises in south korea now these are fairly small scale exercises pretty much a computer simulation but still in the past and north korea is shown its anger by live fire drills of its own even launching missiles so it could be seen as being fairly tame and not very aggressive i think possibly of more concern longer term for the u.s. and its allies is just the complete lack of interest north korea has shown to anyone as a form of dialogue there has been repeated requests from the state department to reopen dialogue with north korea that we now learn have been simply ignored so it could well ok to the dire situation domestically within north korea at the moment where they're dealing with covert 19 asserter or it's waiting to see just what the bike had been astray sions policy will be towards north korea and i'm rob just quickly what about the south koreans then what will they be wanting from this new by administration particularly when it comes to north korea.

well when blink and a loss didn't come to seoul tomorrow wednesday through into thursday it will be a show of strength about the alliance but behind closed doors we can expect some tensions because of course the south koreans want to resume dialogue at a very high level with north korea possibly leading at some point to a resumption of talks between north korea in the u.s. but that as we know will take the permission of the senior partner the united states in this and the u.s. have given no indication that they are going to allow south korea that kind of leeway or right or wrong live for us there in the south korean capital rob thank you. the u.n. secretary general has condemned the escalating military crackdown in me and. called on the international community to help stop the killing meanwhile funerals have been held off for at least 50 protesters who were killed on sunday the worst day of violence since the military overthrew the elected government in february activists say security forces killed another 20 people on monday.

brazil's health minister has been replaced again as the corona virus outbreak hits record levels marcello kid oga will be the 4th person in charge since the pandemic began and replaces a military general who took the job in may brazil's most populous state has introduced emergency restrictions to curb rising cases infection and death rates have been climbing rapidly in sao paolo the state's health care system is on the brink of collapse so let's take a look at who's been in charge of handing the pandemic over the past year outgoing health minister eduardo took over in may as health minister was il's top court is now investigating him for alleged neglect that contributed to the collapse of the health system in i'm assuming a state his predecessor nelson types resigned after less than a month there were differences with president bolton r.-o. regarding the use of anti malaria drugs as treatments for covert 19 and before that luis enrique mann deta was fired by the president over his support for physical

distancing measures of money in mexico city he says brazil's vaccination rollout has barely got off the ground. arguably this is the reason why we're seeing the outgoing health minister being booted out of brazil ironically prior to the pandemic had a tremendous track record when it came to vaccination programs currently the program has stalled only about 1.4 percent of the population is fully vaccinated brazil is in the process of securing new vaccines more vaccines we know the pfizer we know about the chinese and russian vaccines and do deals there but just like is the case with many other cases of the world shortages persist so the expectation is that this is a dire situation that can only get worse when a growing number of countries the poor is their use of the astra zeneca vaccine best citing concerns about a few cases of blood clots among people who've been given the jobs one of them was thailand which is now cleared for use the prime minister. became one of the 1st

people there to be given the shot he wants to build confidence in the vaccine thailand will become a regional manufacturer in june and its reserve the 1st 61000000 doses for its population where portugal france germany and spain have all stopped using the astra zeneca vaccine for now following the reports of clotting but both the world health organization and the e.u. as drug regulators say the data doesn't suggest a direct link between the 2 and is no cause for alarm donna came reports now from berlin this is a vaccine that divides opinion in some countries it's a large part of the strategy to combat code it in several others it's been linked to blood clots in some patients and it's 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 before we do see a decision which has been taken in conformity with the 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 cane al-jazeera burl in but peter drawback is an infectious diseases expert and global health analyst he says regulators are acting out of an abundance of caution. 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 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 we're 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 back seems have 100 percent or near 100 percent protection against severe kovan 1000 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 vaccine i would take it into her being. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back the corona virus pandemic has heightened concerns about cyber security we learn more from an exhibition in qatar . they really think there's going to be a big audience. and netflix has kept many people company through a year of isolation now the streaming giant is hoping it can unseat old hollywood's hold on the oscars bar in the states.

it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways hello they're swarming up nicely once again across the middle east of los the dust and sand that we saw through the course of the weekend largely 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 eastward 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 dry to across the whole of africa although we will see want to 2 showers just coming into west central areas of somalia as we go on

through choose 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 east was joining up with some wet weather we have across northern parts of namibia into angola and heavy showers to the medic aska. qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i thought of all the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you in the to be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there

a. welcome back a bit recap of our top stories here this hour u.s. sect of state anthony blinken non-secular of the fans lloyd austin the holding high level meetings in japan head of their rival north korea warned the u.s. administration to quote not do anything and soon a. u.n. secretary general has called on the international community to help stop even to crack down in you know arsenals have been held for these 50 protesters were killed on sunday the bloodiest day since the coup in 7. and brazil is getting its 4th health minister since the start of time to make myself look at all that will take

over as infection and death rates climb rapidly in the world's 2nd worst affected country. now u.k. politicians are debating a proposed law that would give police more power to crackdown on protests it's an assault on freedom of expression police officers in london i face in criticism over the handling of a vigil for 33 year old woman who was last seen alive as she walked home alone and was later killed. 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 a 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 and. here's why it matters seems on the weekend 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. passed this bill might be held up as containing measures to address violence against women and girls in reality it lays out measures which underline 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 bill is deeply a balanced apart from unwarranted curbs on protest 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 mr speaker let me turn to this weekend's events this government has in fighting crime and keeping the public sense but in the interests of providing greater assurance and ensuring public confidence i have asked mattresses inspectorate of can staff to conduct a full independent lessons learned 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 jona whole al-jazeera london. thousands of protesters have turned out across several rebel controlled parts of syria they're marking 10 years since the start of the civil war the conflict has caused one of the world's worst humanitarian crises and. our aim being here is to topple the regime and to overthrow its militia that we were so i'm 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. you know measured i must. as long as we have the will and as long as people from everywhere or 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 syrians and the u.n.

special envoy for syria says the war is one of the darkest chapters in recent history our diplomatic efforts at james bay. the b.b.c. meeting of the security council is called to order for 10 years the security council has held this monthly meeting the u.n. though is not just an observer to the war in syria it's been a key part of the tragedy the council remains deeply divided on the issue diplomacy is stalled and despite the mounting war crimes over 10 years no one can be held accountable after russia and china use their vetoes to block or refer to the international criminal court has the un and in particular the security council failed the people of syria it is clear that if award last 10 years the international security governance system that we have. he's not effected and this is something that should be

a source of reflection about everybody involved i put the same question to the un special envoy pedersen who's been holding talks on a new constitution for the country talks that have made no progress whatsoever in almost a year and a half has the un and in particular the security council failed the people of syria . yes could be a very very. serious people going to live through. the security council the international system. mr patterson believes that the new format may be needed for international diplomacy on syria there's already a start up process involving turkey russia and iran but he told me that the u.s. needs to be among the countries at the table to decide the next steps for syria.

out to syria at the united nations a court in mali has dropped charges against a former military officer and several others accused of staging a coup in 2012 and charged with killing $21.00 of its soldiers during a rebellion nicholas has a 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 a go soldiers rounded up when he took power in a coup 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 ali did military can commit cruel acts criminal acts without ever having to face justice to court is in their hands even better day will use the law of amnesty and reconsideration to cover up their

crimes. the lawyers of those she accuses deny any wrongdoing saying there is 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 sun ago 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. i don't belong to a political party i'm not a political man i'm not a willing to have a political career. 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

at least $25000.00 in compensation for a 5 bedroom house and the state funeral for the deceased. i'm shocked by the court's decision i would have 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 hark al jazeera. nigerian officials say government of abducted 3 teachers from a primary school in the northwestern state of could do no no children were taken comes just 4 days after 39 college students were abducted by armed men on the outskirts of continuous city. now businesses around the world have to work during the coronavirus pandemic and that's creating a cyber security challenge i'm involved visited an exhibition and so look at the latest protection. as usual it's the heavy military. first catches the eye.

with some of carriers machine guns semiautomatic rifles pistols and ammunition but there are more here thus far less visible but just as crucial. one of this year's major themes is cyber security and how to protect people and intellectual property billions of people who work from their own homes instead of the office a small test and the latest technology aimed at outwitting cyber criminals is on display 5 a security is a real challenge for the way i mean people call pennies are placing more and more challenges and actually we see with the pandemic situation that companies but also hospitals have a right to raise i've been i've been attacked so their word and cattle as well need to be prepared and equipped to fight against cyber crime this could be the largest official international event to be organized in the house since the beginning of

the 19 prevention measures in march last year. has managed to keep the infection rates reasonably low and organizing this event might be an indication of a commitment to words restoring normalcy a sign as possible. only it seems unlikely that thinks will ever be the same again says this cyber security expert the cyber security is more important than ever before and it's simply because we are not working in the same way as we used to we're now actually the governments the companies even the people are much more isolated than ever before mr moore says his company's already laid out a futuristic blueprint for 6 g. the next generation of internet connectivity he believes that fast connections coupled with transparency and reliability could neutralize many of the digital threats facing businesses and individuals you know world changed beyond recognition by the pandemic. i'm just. now once an outsider netflix is down

dominating the academy awards after a year of lockdowns the streaming service has a c $35.00 oscar nominations across 16 of us productions runnels has been. in a year that saw theaters shuttered and movie fans marooned in front of their t.v. sets the netflix drama menke about an alcoholic screenwriters foray into 19 thirties 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 judicial the black messiah promising young woman the father sound of metal and the trial of the chicago 7 these defendants had a plan and the plan was to incite a right to women directors were nominated a 1st in the 93 years of oscars chloe zhao for

a no man's land in the emerald fennel for promising young woman what happened and left under i'm usual circumstances given what happened right why i dropped out i'm not the only one didn't believe it all a record number of 76 nominations went to women film professionals it was a kind of historic all the way around for actually spreading things out and getting more diversity across gender lines and also race but i think there are still so much more that needs to be done also for the 1st time an asian american actor was tipped for best actor steven un was nominated for me nare the story of a korean american family trying to make a go of farming in the rural south places tend to be good programs when i say they even friends some of the. but you know a lot of their face sort of movie need being nominate in that supporting

actress role in. did you cry other best actor nominations went to anthony hopkins for the father. for sound of metal and a posthumous nomination for chadwick boseman in ma rainey's black bottom becoming goldman's death from cancer last year at the age of just 43 shocked and saddened his many fans. got about the kind of got it all that got he did i think a lot of people would say he's the sentimental favorite not just for his performance in the ring is black bottom but truly for his body of work in the best actress category frances mcdormand received her 6 us her nomination for nomad land and viola davis got her 4th nomination from a rainy black bottom the other actresses nominated are carey mulligan.