as a children's names. you can it is dark secret. play an important role. ringback 60 years of war but now saudi arabia offers a ceasefire in yemen only if the hutu rebels agree. hello again i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the e.u. is imposed sanctions on myanmar that military chief and several chinese officials as it focuses on human rights issues around the world. are

going. to fire tears through part of a range of tamping bangladesh that houses more than 850000 refugees. and photos emerge of a crowded u.s. detention facility on the southern border where people are hoping to enter the country in search of a better life. it's almost 6 years to the day and saudi arabia intervened in yemen and created what is the world's worst humanitarian crisis but now the country is offering up a plan for peace in the past couple of hours the saudi foreign minister faced open forum has outlined the yemen peace initiative it includes a nationwide cease fire under the supervision of the united nations followed by a resumption of political talks to end the war it would also be an easing of the blockade on the part of the data and the reopening of some as airport however

according to the minister it all hinges on who the rebels and whether they accept the proposal. we will work with the international community with our partners and with the government of yemen to push toward this initiative being implemented we will do all we can to put the necessary pressure on the who thiis to accept and to come to the negotiating table and to lay down arms because we believe that a stop to the fighting and a focus on a political solution is the only way forward we will nonetheless continue to support the people of yemen and the government of yemen and we will continue to protect our borders and our citizens and our infrastructure from the attacks there is reaction coming in from yemen 1st the internationally recognized government which has welcomed saudi arabia's ceasefire proposal the who is chief negotiator those told reuters the saudis actually offered nothing new in that it remains part of the war he did say though they would continue to talk to saudi arabia amman and

the united states to reach a peace agreement is abraham hart associate professor of conflict resolution of the doha institute who explains what's different this time from previous peace initiatives. it's definitely an initiative. for conflict was a notion in yemen i hope it will work but it's still there is a long way to go and buy your festival list recognize that this is not the 1st time that saudi arabia makes such initiatives in the past or 20 years ago we have seen what was called in the decisive storm and in that it would replace that with the storm overall. but unfortunately that did not where we saw also as out there either support or think as the whole day that agreement that was the in sweden is when they want intervention that they're not too happy that it seems that this time

things are different a plea if from the previous times and one major difference is that we have seen the signs that we are seeing a strong political well on the bidens administration that has been openly talking about that this war must end that dukat that the what is as the south as of seeing there is a serious movement is taking place here as this could be seen and the escalation on the ground by the what is a skeleton moderate and attacking of different airports in saudi arabia and so that it also escalate think it setbacks in yemen in order to have the upper hand and preparing for the negotiation. now china has announced retaliatory sanctions against 10 european politicians for quite severely harming its sovereignty and spreading lies and disinformation this was only an hour after the e.u. sanction for chinese officials itself for their role in the abuse of weak and

muslims this is the 1st time the e.u. has targeted beijing for human rights abuses in decades also mean mars military was a big target the e.u. finally sanctioning 11 people there including the top commander min online the february 1st coup and the lethal crackdown that has followed all part of a series of sanctions targeting alleged human rights offenders around the world not just china and russia or libya or south sudan and eritrea are all in there as well butler in paris following this one for us today as i said to you last hour broadbrush they have gone big the e.u. on human rights abuses what do we look at me in march 1st of all. yes foreign ministers meeting in brussels have decided to impose sanctions on 11 military leaders in myanmar for their part of their role in the february and also

for the ongoing violence now there are sanctions against them as individuals but also against the businesses and the companies that they own or may run now what the e.u. says is that these penalties will take the form of any e.u. linked assets will be frozen there will be a visa and travel bans imposed on these individuals and any companies that would normally work with the businesses owned by these military leaders what they will no longer be permitted to do so they will be banned from investing or working with their companies so a very strong message from the e.u. to myanmar that the e.u. has repeatedly condemned the coup over the last few weeks and said there must be a restoration of peace and myanmar must return to the path of democracy this is the e.u. finally deciding to act at least with some of the toughest a penalties we have seen from the e.u. since the coup tell me about china as well natasha going after the big fish there

over the treatment of muslims. yes of 4 chinese officials and a chinese company all having sanctions are imposed on them by the e.u. again this decision because these 4 individuals and the company are all linked to rights abuses or on muslim week in china so again a very strong message from the e.u. foreign ministers also deciding to impose a raft of sanctions on individuals in many other countries in south sudan in eritrea in libya and in north korea for what the e.u. says is repression in those countries and under full killings so the you really again saying that such human rights abuses cannot be tolerated and this was that while the main message really that has come out of this meeting we are waiting to hear from the e.u. foreign policy chief burrell who is set to detail

a little bit more about what was behind these sanctions and what is in them that will bring you that live when it happens and talk to you again then natasha butler in paris a major fire swept through a ring a refugee camp in bangladesh a fire at the camp in cox's bizarre as destroyed hundreds of tents and left thousands of people without shelter health centers and other facilities have also been destroyed no casualties though reported immediately at least 100 chandru following this one for us from darkies as the fires under control thousands of people have nowhere to go. there is no government bill shelter parcell where the strategy is can stay overnight you probably have to use the simple r.c. camp which is the camp office or they have to use probably some of the family places now lot of the danger comes from cooking cylinder they use that which is called l.p.g. gas cylinder because each family gets one cylinder for cooking this is to avoid

cutting odes in the nearby forest to have wide and garment of destruction this is all supposing danger because many of times this fire started from this gas cylinder that highly combustible and also this flimsy hearts are made out of pain and bambos and tarpaulin which is a clear gain here to save the children say there actually is in a statement just brought out today that at least 80000 people could be adversely affected by this fire in the area where they live and by the cali a lot of the children's learning center are damaged many of the schools that are temporary schools rather jerry and the children are traumatized by this incident here how do you tackle this sort of situation in the coming days the government has also shifted about 13000 refugees to their island remote island current passion charge they want to take about 800000 clearly to decongest the camp for security reasons as well as the congestion region but the safety concern in one of the large

largest camp in the world and densely populated is a major issue. astra zeneca corona virus vaccine is safe and effective according to a large u.s. clinical trial the study involved more than 30000 people and showed the jab a 79 percent effective in preventing covert 900 symptoms in 100 percent effective against severe illness several european countries of course whole to the astra zeneca shots earlier this month after reports it was linked to blood clots though some have now resumed their inoculations more from london now with not a bubble. a war of words that still going on between british the e.u. and. the british swedish company in the last couple of hours we've heard and the onus e.u. officials saying that the u.k. is not to blame the e.u. is not to blame clearly pointing the finger at the company for not meeting can catch contractual obligations now we know that prime minister boris johnson in the

next couple of days will be phoning his counterparts in the people like president michel of france and chancellor merkel he is also going to talk to is of underlying head of the european commission who at the weekend floated the possibility of the european union imposing what amounts to an export ban on all vaccinations from the e.u. from that bloc to the u.k. now everyone saying that they don't want that to happen but the noises out of brussels today are that they really do want astra zeneca to start committing to what it's promised the company says it's all because the e.u. signed contracts much later than the u.k. did last year and of course we know what's happened since the year u.k. has steamed ahead with its vaccination program compared to the e.u. which is stalled the current figures are that roughly 10 percent of the u.k.'s

adult population have at least received their 1st job compared that's the e.u. 10 percent of the population having received at least one dose compared to over 50 percent of the adult population here in the u.k. . heading to brussels now as promised the e.u. foreign policy chief yourself is to speak after that meeting of foreign ministers this was after as it was telling us earlier number of sanctions put on a great number of countries over human rights abuses most notably it was me and maher and china but also places like libya russia south sudan here's your support i'll have a good day. to try years from the tragic events that took place in brussels we paid tribute to the victims of these events stressing that the reason the next 3000000 men have no place in our societies.

we have had a long and intense fighting our 1st consul in which we took an important decision to promote and protect human rights around the world. to example we have got the sanctions linked to the not only case we have taking decisive actions against responsible for c.d.'s human rights violations and abuses in 6 countries the sanctions that the council adopted today concerning 11 individuals and 4 entities from china north korea leave south sudan and eritrea and russia. it is. appropriated that greed took the decision on a day when we also had an important exchange with the united nations high

commissioner for human rights we shared by chalet and set up us that their sick dialogue with head office the packet target that issue human rights regulations and have users in that been the lay of the place where they're being committed all it'd be interest to give measures comply with international law are not a subject to highest standard of the rule of law. as i said these packaging crude for individuals and one entity from china. who have had the knack to do for all in the design and implementation of the cheney's policies engine job. where where made there where during their meeting that china has retaliated to those sanctions and rather than changes policies another s.

our legitimate concern and china has against turned a blind eye and these measures are read to will the next unacceptable. there will be no change in the european union determination to defend human rights and to respond to city of regulation abuses as they said irrespective of where they are committed. the china richard 3 talia told the sanctions affects him and other us members of the libyan parliament scholars and entities or the political and security committee is a committee a new and right as well as to national foundation and these is something that we can see that unacceptable it doesn't answer our legitimate concerns we want china to engage in a dialogue with the un human rights not to continue to be confrontational.

this is about the sanctions and their answer from trying but the country of today had other important issues maybe the most important one because it's going to be considered by their leaders at their next training for study in the next european union council is turkey. with ministers we are said to be in union try to keep relations in view with a joint report and we prepared with a commission for the members of libyan consul next their state. because west broadly considered it a good basis for the debate of heads of state and government alone ministers provided also additional assessment. as the report recognizes since last december we have seen some senos into right direction for

under turkey's leadership and steps towards discoloration in the eastern mediterranean. drilling and exploratory vessels where we did all run this i put this clause if economy joan resort it has toned down and turkish authorities have expressed their interest in a stronger relationship with the u. . state will the process of deescalation industry metering and remains fragile and these glaciers efforts need to be sustained. your support the foreign policy chief moving on to issues to do with turkey at the moment but earlier we heard him talking about the sanctions that have been put on by 6 different countries today individuals in 6 different countries but but really focusing there a lot on china. and actually just as i seem to see the u.k.

is actually talking about sanctions on for individuals for human rights violations inch ingenuous well that's the foreign secretary the u.k. don't rob announcing that just in the last couple of minutes as well so there's some sort of coordinated effort perhaps of certainly a lot of falling on china today we'll talk to you in paris about this has been following the story today the word i notice natasha that your sapporo use the most there or used repeatedly was unacceptable taking that harder line on china. yes the e.u. foreign ministers in their meeting decided to impose sanctions on the 4 chinese officials and a chinese company for what they say is all human rights abuses all over muslim week is the engine shining now what joseph burrell then went out went on to detail was the fact that beijing has retaliated against these sanctions by imposing its

own sanctions on 10 e.u. officials now burrell said that this was simply unacceptable and that instead all for actually looking at it so human rights record and having a proper discussion and debate about this the beijing in fact has turned a blind eye and continues to turn a blind eye to its human rights abuses and is in fact just a following the wrong path so should really be facing up to what he's doing rather than taking taking out these sort of retaliatory measures so on except i will say to you several he also talked about. the fact that the foreign ministers had decided in this meeting to impose sanctions on several other countries south sudan eritrea libya north korea russia and myanmar 11 military leaders in myanmar facing sanctions over the coup in february and the ongoing violence years a brawl saying this was about the e.u.

taking a stand on a human rights thank you natasha but low in paris keeping an eye on e.u. politics today china has held a closed door trial for a former canadian diplomat has been detained in the country for more than 2 years diplomats from canada the u.s. and 20 other countries gathered outside the court in beijing to show their solidarity for michael coverage is accused of espionage was detained in 2018 after canada arrested a senior executive from way china held separate proceedings for another canadian facing similar charges but michael coverage trials have ended without a verdict. despite. the international agreement to china has signed under the vienna convention that would allow. consular officers access to hearings for their citizens we are being denied that access we've made

we've requested access to michael equal rights hearing repeated repeatedly but that access being denied. as you know. michael covert has been detained for more than 2 years now. he's been arbitrarily detained and now we see that the court process to itself is not transparent china those defended its handling of the covered case and accuses counted her of meddling in its affairs she was released it was natural hotshoe ending in canada has brought together some other countries diplomats in china and point fingers at china's handling of individual cases that is interference in china's judicial sovereignty we were ject that and will by no means accept such interference michael covert and michael spade or are suspected of endangering china's national security and china's judicial organs will handle the cases and guarantee their rights and interests more in this

one with katrina a year in beijing. this is really the climax of what has been a long drawn out legal process michael coverage along with michael spade will they were both arrested in december 28th and it took 18 months for them to be charged with espionage formally and now it's been more than 800 days that they've both been detained with very little access to the outside world and as we heard earlier canada is extremely critical of the way these cases are being handled by china in addition to what they say is a lack of transparency they've also raised questions about the amount of access both have had to chinese lawyers before the trial both respectively on friday and on monday today for michael crawford now of course this case has also attracted a lot of international attention for one the business community is really watching closely these cases sense chills down the spines of many who are involved in business and lived here in china as foreigners working here both covered and they

were well known in the ex-pat community and other governments of course have also been critical of these cases we had earlier today more than 20 diplomats from various countries including australia the u.k. the u.s. show up outside the court coverage was being trialled and they stood there in solidarity with him there u.s. president joe biden has also weighed in saying that the u.s. will do whatever it can to support canada and trying to have these men freed and turn biden said that these men should not be used as boss or in chips as it's widely suspected that this really is a case of hostage diplomacy. the leading opposition candidate in republic of congo has died the day after the presidential election gay priest was being transferred to france for treatment for covert 19 after being diagnosed on friday he was the main challenger to the veteran leader dennis sasser and guess all right now the votes are still being counted so is widely expected to win and extend is the 6

years in power and nationwide internet blackout on sunday though added to concerns over transparency here is malcolm webb in brussels. if we spoke to who saw him last week said he was visibly on well he had a cough and a fever then on friday was meant to hold his final rally in the center city center here of brazil but he didn't turn up he was on well by that stage it was saturday evening he published dramatic video from a hospital bed holding an oxygen mask saying that he was fighting against death and he was on well and this morning we heard the news that he died while being medivac to france or possibly while in france now we're in the back congo area of brazzaville the capital at the moment where a very many supporters and for them this is something that's very hard to accept and really now in many areas a lot of skepticism or people believe that the election won't bring any change but

in this part of the city and some other have been areas close supporters are definitely motivated to sell more voters in polling stations in there was areas that we did in in other areas but with regards to affecting the results i mean a lot of people especially the opposition who are boycotting the rights activists say that there's no way that there would be any outcome other than start to ingress so the president of nearly 40 years being announced the winner whether that was an authentic result or not so that's in the sense not expected to change but what we can expect to be much more sensitive now is the reaction of killer supporters to that result. in the united states a democratic congressman is released photos from inside a detention facility on the southern border the images reveal crowded makeshift conditions as the longer term centers fill up the congressman described them as terrible for the children release the images to raise awareness of the growing

crisis the binded ministrations defending its handling of the situation and on sunday the president acknowledged more needs to be done but also that migrants must apply for asylum from their own country. migrants stay home. that's more work can be done. for profit. groups make sure everything is. ready just before they wait very very vulnerable. kimberly hellcats at the white house for us kimberly i've just been looking on my screen saki white house press secretary has been speaking as she addressed this issue at all. yes she is getting hammered if you will to use the vernacular in terms of these questions and having some difficulty at the moment coming up with some good answers let's start with some of the news she's been talking about she just mentioned in the last few moments that the state department

is broadcasting radio digital ads on facebook instagram down in central america to try and get people to change their minds about coming northward to the united states in other words trying to send the message that the border is not open and discourage them from coming this is a bit of a media effort to try and counter the message that's being sent by human smugglers that have since joe biden has been elected said the exact opposite that the border is open that people should come so this is just been announced in the last few moments and also in the last hour we understand as part of that effort there by joe biden who says that he is aware of the situation and that he's working on it he is sending service top immigration officials to the south of the united states to mexico and then later she guatemala to meet with officials there to discuss what they say are the root causes of migration northward to the united states in other

words trying to address how the united states can help when it comes to do issues of corruption of economics that are causing people to flee sometimes very desperate situations now to that end for those that have made the cross into the united states we're now getting new pictures of what that looks like and a lot of criticism of the by the administration now in its 3rd month that it doesn't look that much different from the policies of the trumpet ministration which many called inhumane accusing the trumpet ministration of keeping children in cages on the floor with just 10 blankets but that's exactly what a democratic congressional delegation witnessed one. they had the opportunity to visit some of these facilities also the numbers not clear but certainly well in excess of 10000 children and climbing the white house press secretary talking about this situation saying that if the message is that the border is closed yet we're

seeing images that show it's very much open and people are being processed there are some mixed messaging going on to which the white house press secretary didn't have an answer so this is turning into a real humanitarian crisis on the southern border and also potentially a political one for joe biden so the white house press secretary. continuing to say that she believes this is a transparent administration she's providing information as it is available but we should note is still not allowing media access into these facilities the only pictures we have are from congress members from the president's own party who are highly critical saying this is not the place for children kimberly how could with that update from the white house's jen psaki the press secretary speaks inside thank you. turkey's currencies plunged on monday after present reject timecode one son to the central bank governor but the replacement of 15 percent for stabilizing

10 percent down the dump the head of the central bank in a surprise move over the weekend after he raised interest rates the president is strongly in favor of rates cuts. and funny strange government has ordered emergency evacuations along its east coast after the worst flooding in decades the waters continue to rise across parts of new south wales and natural disasters been declared in some regions floodwaters also spilling over the wire and gabaa dam which provides much of the drinking water for sydney. busy news day on al-jazeera let's take you through the headlines saudi arabia 1st of all announcing a peace plan for the war in yemen it includes a u.n. monitored cease fire resumption of talks and the easing of a blockade on her data port richey rebels i said is nothing new in the of further they continue to be open to die.