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the suez canal but no one knows how long it'll take what does that mean for all of us and the global economy. and as far as economy bounces back the governor trees fundament policies flew in the face of science claims he was right all along. but we begin in myanmar where the military has once again turned its weapons on its own people on armed forces day the army opened fire on civilian protesters across the country this is the bloodiest day since the february fast crew at least $114.00 people were reportedly killed in that crackdown that includes children that's on top of the at least $320.00 deaths that rights groups have already confirmed and this violence coincided with a military parade in the capital where the leader of the really. pledged to

safeguard democracy and hold elections without giving any time frame there has been a global condemnation of what the u.s. secretary of state the laces to denounce this violence in a tweet and a blank and says he's horrified by the day's events criticizing me on was military for what he calls a reign of terror tony chang has this report now on the day's events and a warning you may find some of the in the just disturbing from the outset. of the war the. war. the inconsolable cry of a father who's dead son in his arms the 13 year old boy was shot at his home in central myanmar as the security forces moved in. in muslim just city yangon looked and sounded like a battle zone the soldiers and police roam the streets burning barricades firing stun grenades and live rounds. and pain everyday lives

and these like these are the same these are engineers these these are these a community leaders and this is a student this wounded man was dragged visibly bleeding into the road rather than help provide 1st aid the soldiers beat him as he laid in a pool of his own blood in the southern city of daraa way these 3 men on a motorcycle or shot at random as they passed police trucks to manage to get to their feet and flee a 3rd wounded trapped beneath his bike and those wounded or killed dragged away unceremoniously to be bundled into army trucks. all of this on a day meant to celebrate forces but celebrate they did outside the capital naypyidaw on an enormous parade ground and or inspiring display of military hardware and might. the gentle leader in his address avoided the fact these

soldiers are now fighting their own people and reinforced his statement that members of the army are the guardians democracy. the armed forces unavoidably assume the state responsibility by lawful means due to the unlawful acts of the n l d led government in the 2020 election after the accomplishment of the state of emergency provision a free and fair election will be rerun and the handover of state responsibility will be continued while the military has faced little opposition so far men miles armed ethnic groups have been threatening to intervene if the violence continues her young. and i think continued to shoot at protesters and bully the people i think all ethnic groups would not just stand by and do nothing but its civilians who now face the military's role 7 year old bone. was shot in the head inside his home in mandalay don't worry everything will be ok but don't sleep say his parents

as they try to treat his room. children are now facing the full might of myanmar's military machine tony chang al-jazeera. now china and iran have signed a landmark 25 year cooperation pact that deal which has been in the works since 2016 was signed by chinese foreign minister one way and his iranian counterpart job in the rain beijing is expected to invest in case sectors of iran's economy as part of that agreement including energy and infrastructure the iranian economy has suffered under u.s. sanctions since washington withdrew from the 2015 year cure agreement a setback has more now from the iranian capital. increasingly iran has been turning to russia and china especially since the former us president donald trump imposed sanctions on iran sanctions are still in place today but this visit does come at a time where china has reportedly stepped up its purchase of direct oil sales for

from iran and also this is the highest chinese official that's visited iran since the election of president joe biden in january so both politically and economically iran has been turning to russia and china and back last year in october when the united states and the president donald trump was planning to put forth a motion to the united nations to stop an arms embargo being lifted the foreign ministry here told us that their understanding was and that they were confident that russia and china would intervene with that veto but this deal does have some does have some critics inside the country even though it's been backed by the highest authority the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei now the former president mahmoud ahmadinejad said that the details of this deal had not been made available to the public and the squid not be really passed by parliament but there were also rumors that iran would be handing over control of some of its islands to china now the government here have denied that this is that there's nothing inside

the deal that gives any country control of islands or chinese military forces presence in the country but it does have widespread political support inside this country and it's a way for iran to be independent and build a country in an economy that is sanctions resilient let's not bring in william laurance he's a professor of international relations at american university and a former u.s. diplomat he joins us now from washington d.c. professor at $400000000000.00 over 25 years that sounds pretty hefty but iran's economy is in a pretty dire state how significant is this for tara. i had some very significant for to herat it's very significant for china i don't think it's as significant for the west as some people think china has already been buying or a neulander at least for some years now would have continued to do so anyway i think the main difference as you mentioned in your 'd setup piece is that this will bring some badly needed investments to iran now that of course depends on the devil

in the details you know what is iran giving up and china does have a history of sometimes making certain predatory deals we've seen a lot of those in africa i mean remains to be seen what concessions iran is made privately to china as you say like clearly both countries are getting something out of this what does beijing get is this about oil primarily or is it about influence . it's about oil pricing merrily i think that. all the conflicts and various situations in africa that are falling against iranian interests us are against chinese interests have made it so that iranian oil looks more and more attractive because the reputational and strategic prices china piece working in the african context are now increasingly higher than whatever reputational tax there is what they're doing in iran but i think this is also something else is going on here

it's about global influence and global positioning and i think this may have a little bit less to do than some people think that our oil and oil the don't erode initiative and more to do with chinese overall global reputation and master diplomacy a big part of this deal that wasn't talked about much was all of accedes and other equipment that iran badly needs that china's going to be providing in iran was hit very hard by the damage and this is also going to be dear china to the iranian population so there is that aspect of chinese influence that they're playing a long game here and want to injure themselves but also the government and the people well let me ask you a little more about that you mentioned that we might be overstating the impact on the west now neither beijing nor tehran is on particularly good terms with washington so is this then potentially about greatest strength in unity when it comes to influence on the bible stage. yeah i mean there's this as you know there's

this block at the u.n. where sometimes china and russia go with the west on things as they did on libya for example and sometimes they vote against western interests as they sometimes do on whatever korea or iran and that's going to heaven slow in this deal really want step that i think for example right now if you look at the u.s. . interests these are the iran the big problems are how hard it is to get back at the chase or which of much greater positive impact on us reigning in u.s. european relations and a cold war that was recently reported on it could become a hot war between israel and iran that's affected shipping throughout the red sea and the mediterranean and i think when the u.s. looks at all of this there are more and more it about you know fighting or up ships smuggling iranian oil and about the j.c. they are about china's long term plan 'd or it well let's talk about the day c.p.o. way that in china or in the u.s. have very different approaches to how to try to revive the day c.p.o.

way where does all of this leave the nikkei dale. well it's sort of where it's been just ever since biden was elected there is still sort of 3 possibilities here to get back towards something there is what some people call a minus with a couple things but leave everything else out for now there's joining back into the chase if you want to the terms of the document and then there's a big deal that both the u.s. and u.s. allies and iran seems to want because they have all these grievances and all these other things they want but that's almost impossible to negotiation to negotiate and could take years and so the only smart happens right back to the g. c.p.o. way but there's 2 wrinkles there are 2 concerns one is the iranian elections which makes it very hard for ring to do anything until the elections are over and there's this window closing that you're he is worried about that it's at some point iranians behavior in the region become so bad that no one can make a deal with iran that it would be impossible to get back to the j.c.b.

oh it will very very interesting times indeed when i am lawrence that says a professor of international relations at american university take your thoughts on out there thanks for being with us a pleasure. now fresh attempts are being made to of the ship that's been blocking the suez canal and egypt for the past 5 days now the dutch salvage fam working to free the ever given says it could be a successful by the start of next week. reports. nighttime in the suez canal but work to free the giant container ship blokey one of the world's most important shipping lanes doesn't stop the stern of the vessel is now free and the egyptian authorities say they're hoping high tides in the arrival of more tugboats on sunday will help their operation the 400 meter long ever given ran aground in high winds on cheese day close to the south end of the canal but bad weather may not be the main reason why the ship got stuck. it could have been

a technical or human ever that will be revealed through the investigation many different mistakes might be the reason but we cannot prove anything yet the only clear reason is that there was strong winds under some storm. 12 percent of global trade passes through the suez canal in egypt between the red sea and the mediterranean goods passing between europe and asia without having to round africa the ever given this mishap has temporarily closed a route that's used by 50 ships every day with the canal blocked more than 300 vessels are now waiting in maritime traffic jams that either and more than a dozen ships have live animals on board and his tank is q oil prices are rising the blockage another blow to global trade already disrupted by cave in 19 well this you know $89000000000.00 a day actually is quite small relative to the overall global economy obviously there are there are ripple effects and we're already seeing. it remains unclear

when the ever given will be refloated the salvage firm hired to extract it says it could be free within days but some maritime experts are skeptical. it's going to take a month or perhaps longer they need to lighten the ship which is to remove various things the hurston earliest ones and i'm surprised this hadn't begun before is to remove the bunker fuel the oil used by the ship to propel itself ruble oil to lubricate the machinery and then the water on board ship the hope is a combination of tug boats dredging and high tides will succeed in dislodging the f a given if they don't plan b. will involve lightning its load something that could take weeks and would be another setback for global trade victoria gates and be al jazeera while still ahead here on al-jazeera the cost of connectivity scientists sound the alarm over the

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to inspire a generation of female players across the middle east. football rebels bets their way. on algis the. hello again i'm a saucy tay in doha a reminder of our top stories here the salah myanmar has seen its worst day of violence since the military seized power nearly 2 months ago local media say children are among the more than 100 people killed in the latest crackdown against anti troop protesters. condemnation of the military's actions has come from around the world with the u.s.

secretary of state the laces to denounce the violence and i'm sorry blinken says he's horrified by the day's events and what he calls the army's reign of terror and . china and iran have signed a landmark 25 year cooperation pact that deal will see beijing invest in key sectors of iran's economy including energy and infrastructure the iranian economy has suffered under u.s. sanctions since washington withdrew from the 2015 new cure agreement. or let's get more on our top story now and that situation in myanmar we can speak to tom andrews he's the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar and he joins us now from washington d.c. mr andrews thank you for your time today i recall the last time you and i spoke it was early february no one about point had been killed now we're looking at a death toll of more than 400 more than 100 of them in a single day and i noticed a large proportion of them have been shot in the head can you talk us through the tactics that you're seeing now from the military. well the military announced

yesterday on national television that people were going to be shot in the head. and in fact that's exactly what they did they're they're shooting to kill these are horrific brutal tactics this was armed forces day and me and more and it was a day of infamy for the armed forces and a day of horror for the people of the country children also have been killed and they seem to be bystanders that does that indicate indiscriminate searching that's going on here it's completely indiscriminate it is just just absolutely shocking and horrifying to watch these soldiers walking down the street and just shooting at people randomly into see. parents screaming in horror when their children are are hit with these bullets killed by these bullets it's just absolutely outrageous that this military would be the rushing this this this is this

population that these people these innocent people protesters who are peaceful and even those who are sitting peacefully in their homes being shot at indiscriminately by this military it's a realm of brutality that we have had yet to see this is the 1st of what that worry and it's just horrifying to think what this military is capable of well as we've seen the brutality escalate we've also seen an escalation in fighting by ethnic militias outside the major cities how rare now is the threat of a full blown civil war here. you know there is enormous pressure on leader is in the country opposition movement. to take up to take up arms to fight back. with with weapons but they have been focused instead on this being a a national movement

a peaceful opposition movement standing up to the totality of the of this this horrible military with peaceful needs through a civil disobedience movement bringing the economy to its to its knees standing up and saying we will have nothing to do with this kind of brutality we are a people standing up for the people they realize that if this were to become a civil war if this were to look more like syria then there would be even more massive loss of life there standing up for their kids and their future and they know that the way to do that is to do it with using peaceful nukes but if so still difficult for them to watch their their children their families be murdered by the cowardice of these military forces in me and of course on the well that's what terry a sense the co we've seen strong words sanctions from the u.s. u.k. that all seems to have had very little effect what do you think needs to happen to

change things going forward. listen if this is cured a council of the united nations is there specifically for crises just like this and so it seems to me that the u.n. security council should take this up it should have a full blown the discussion debate look at the facts and then let the members of the security council and the stand up and be counted on what they think needs to happen of course many think that it would be a veto likely and that may be so but i think it's are torn for members of the security council to stand up and be counted because that is their job if they can do that job if they can stand up to the people of me and more than those countries who are willing to stand by them could should have an emergency summit in which various strategies such as coordinating the various the variety the large variety of sanctions that are in place right now we need to coordinate them focus them make

them work together to have the strongest possible punch against this military junta that we need to put them before the international criminal court if it all possible but we need a cut of their supply of what your of the rani of steps in the world can take but they need to take the steps and all the condemnation of the world is not going to matter very much the people of myanmar if they can't see the world standing up and acting for them as well as speaking out on behalf of you mentioned an expected veto that the security council so let me ask you then what do you make of the relationship between manaus military and russia and china the 10 largest on supplies i believe who are also attending that military parade that we saw today. well we know that they have supplied significant amounts of the weapons you know that there's going to well obviously significant a trade relations with europe particularly with china and people will point to both nations as factors for not bringing it into what the security council this is

particularly china has a direct interest here and we've heard from china expressions of concern call for the release of political prisoners expressions that this is not what they want to see these developments are not what they want to see so these are statements that we have not heard in the past from china that we're now hearing still seems to me that at the very least it's worth quoting this one for the security council where china have it say that russia have it say let them stand that would be counted with or with the rest of the world tom andrews that the un special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar thank you so much for your time sir and we wish you all the best of luck with your work thanks for being with us thanks so much and moving on and a florida's governor has been facing shop criticism for refusing to shut down the economy as he must mandates or close schools but now the republicans on the

soundest claims the state's economy is booming and here's approach and tackling this pandemic was right all along and he got a reports. businesses shouted deserted streets and strict measures in tackling a global pandemic for most states in the u.s. these are familiar scenes but in florida it's a different picture there have been no statewide code restrictions for more than 6 months with restaurants and beaches open at full capacity republican governor ronda santa says his decisions which critics accuse of flying in the face of science based advice were right we actually have people opening new businesses here we actually have people hiring people our employment rates much less than the national average in way less than a lot of the walk down states like california new york today though we did we can build off this momentum that momentum is obvious in places like miami where tech finance companies and restaurants and relocating unemployment here is also lower

than states like new york and california but encouraging people to come to florida has consequences oh. the authorities in miami beach put a curfew in place after thousands of revelers many masculists flocked to beaches and bars the unusual move came after officials decided to spring break crowds posed a serious risk to public health and security there has been gun play opened brawling and other hazards and all that in the midst of a pandemic where mask usage and physical distance thing seems like an afterthought if that so we've had to implement measures we would prefer not to deploy but must the real metric that matters here is the state's reaction to covert 19 death rate per capita in florida places it 24th in the nation or right in the middle of a 30000 people have died and variants of covert 900 still pose a serious threat gov decided to spoil the policies have been vindicated some think it's too soon to say tourists

a still flocking to the state driven in part by loose restrictions cheap flights and covert fatigue but economists say it may be years before the true cause. asked is known we have a leave lens that we were going to have people knew this and this is part of the reason why they did come to florida for breaks. and again you cannot really measure the economics of it until you figure out all what has a cost in terms of lives what has the constant terms of security. and so on as the u.s. heads towards an uneasy return to normalcy challenges remain for the entire nation florida may have fared better than expected but the u.s. death rate remains among the highest in the world and agalloch are al-jazeera miami florida. now space x. is hoping to send tens of thousands of satellites into orbit over the coming decades or as part of a global internet service that staunching later this year but experts warn it may

come at a cost many fear that it all mosques company will create more space debris potentially hindering scientific discoveries nicola gage has the story for us from australia's capital canberra. 60 satellites launch into space on a lawn mosques 3 usable rocket falcon 9 it's part of a constellation of low orbit satellites from space 6 promising high speed internet connection to promote locations around the world about 1000 being deployed the goal is for that to grow to more than $40000.00 if you imagine the problems we have with space to brain space junk already that is just adding to it at a rate that we can't keep up we can't keep up with the risk that creates space x. now owns about one 3rd of all active satellites and more satellites means greater potential for collision millions of pieces of so-called space junk or already in orbit some as small as a fleck of pite but tiple damaging

a spacecraft pre want to have human exploration of the solar system we need to make sure we're looking after the nearest environment before we start going towards other planets the struggle in research is of developing groundbreaking software to manage traffic in space time to traducing the risk of collisions the reality is there's no policeman up in space there's no traffic rules so at the moment it's a bit like a free for all customers are signing up to styling but initial consumer costs are expensive and similar projects have previously sailed another issue is what the lower orbit satellites could mean for stratum is someone they will fundamentally china. the sky's appearance the stargazers potentially limiting scientific discoveries orbiting closer to earth their brush or in more visible blocking astronomers views the problem space x.

is trying to solve amazon and one web have similar satellite plans as well as china prompting calls for tighter regulation of spice the biggest challenge is how do we regulate to make sure that that commercial nature doesn't outweigh how out and out global interest in the global commons of space nearly half the world's population doesn't have access to the internet space x. is hoping its constellation of satellites will be part of the solution to connecting the globe nicola gage al jazeera canberra. however says al jazeera and these are the headlines man law has seen its worst day of violence since the military seized power in the 2 months ago local media say children are among the 114 people killed in this latest crackdown against antics or protesters or there's been a global condemnation of the violence they were secretary of state expressed horror

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