has president joe biden kept his campaign promises we'll have special coverage and in-depth analysis of his 1st 100 feet in the oval office april out. the. the. survivors from a 5 day siege in northern mozambique but there she is dozens more have been killed while trying to escape. play watching al jazeera live from doha with me for the bad people also coming out . the pain of losing her 13 year old son dozens of funerals are held after the most violent day in on mars military crackdown

thousands of people flee fighting in venezuela to cross the border into colombia and a full moon and high tide raise hopes but now there's another delay in moving the ship that's rocking the suez canal. mozambique's military says dozens of defenseless civilians have been killed in a 5 day siege among them 7 people ambushed as they tried to escape a hotel in the northern town of palma foreigners are among those caught up in the violence harm reports. survivors from the siege in parma arrived in the port city of pinback just along the coast but many others weren't as fortunate defense officials say dozens of others were killed trying to escape the fighting and some of them were ambushed as they tried to leave by road in a convoy one of the courage to call. the defense and security forces regret this

loss of human lives and a drive that they continue to develop at this moment concerted actions of pursuit with the aim of eliminating some pockets of resistance. since wednesday when an armed group lost its attack on parma communications have been down and many families are still waiting to hear what's happened to their loved ones either you're going to need 3 it's been the situation of losing someone it's hard he don't know where this person is he can't reach them or know what condition they're in this is horrible and it's destabilize humanity it's really not fair. this is the only footage that has emerged from inside the hotel where up to 200 people have reportedly taken refuge hundreds of others have attempted to flee the town running into forests and nearby villages mostly. we don't know how we will get out of here if we can get to the sea or if we will be rescued by whom there are helicopters

flying over the hotel they checking to see if we can reach the beach to get a boat out but as you can hear we don't know if it's possible the situation is critical we have no food just water we're in god's hands no. gun battles have been going on for days between the armed group that calls itself al-shabaab and government forces trying to take back control of the coastal town. there's been fighting in northern missouri and beak mainly in kabul gado province since 2017 this is a region major gas discoveries have been made in recent years but the town of parma has been relatively safe for foreigners working on africa's largest liquefied natural gas project until this week the french in the g. giant hotel has now evacuated $1000.00 of its workers at suspended its operations it was due to restart a $20000000000.00 project after stopping work in january because of security

concerns that's now on hold. on. we're. trying to. project. more than 2500 people have been killed and half a 1000000 forced to leave their homes during years of fighting in the province it's really a toxic mix of various issues it is programmed the northernmost province or is marginalised people fear of frustrated they have been people who are of the land. mining activities they ruby mines specifically amnesty international blame several parties for war crimes it has accused armed groups and the government backed private south african military firm of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians it also says government troops have made arrests without reason

tortured detainees and carried out extrajudicial killings security forces say fighting is still ongoing with army officials are trying to eliminate pockets of resistance humanitarian workers say it could be days before the actual number of dead is known and they warn they'll be even more internal displacement as people try to escape the fighting. out either. now the news there's been another wave of violence in neon ma there are reports of armored personnel carriers on the streets of the biggest city young gone as well as airstrikes in can state as he to tony changes across developments for us from thailand is in bangkok tony what more are you hearing about the violence that happened overnight. is it where you mentioned those armored personal carriers on the streets of yangon central yangon that's a big step up we've also heard in chin state in cologne strategically important access point to this border state there were troops on the ground not just using

automatic fire machine guns but now deploying r.p.g. and hand grenades so it seems once again we're seeing another escalation both in the level of the violence but also in the tools of the armed forces are prepared to use now it was after the bloodiest weekend since the coup you mentioned also the texture from the force that is now forced more than 3000 people to seek refuge across the border in thailand we understand that there are many thousands more waiting to come across if those attacks continue and given the attacks we the 3 attacks we heard of last night which include both the dropping of bombs and machine gun fire from those planes we probably probably see more coming across today. and this is before the funerals and in mandalay alone there were 30 funerals yesterday as people struggled to bury the dead

a day after the killings and the funerals begin the coffin of 13 year old so why draped in the flag of the national league for democracy or an l d on sunday. well there were no protests where he lived in yangon the security forces still open fire on people as but as monks lead the funeral rites friends and family express their grief. was why are you leaving me behind crisis mother inconsolable can't you hear me she says how can i live without you my son. the was in the protesters continue to march here in the city of daraa way in southern myanmar people took to the streets with the now familiar chance for the military to step down. and there is no doubt now about the reception that awaits them

the security services part with no restraint on saturday rubber bullets and live rounds from automatic rifles the pretense of protecting life and liberty has been stripped away and despite condemnation from around the globe little to make myanmar military. you're of the right any other steps in the world can change but they need to take these steps and all the condemnation of all is not going to matter very much the people of mean more if they can't see the wall standing up and acting as well as speaking out and we have. attitudes a hardening among the protesters too in mandalay they took air rifles to the barricades on saturday hardly a match for the weapons of war they face but now they know this is a fight to the death and more destruction after a fire raged in p.g. dogon township overnight the people living there but kept away by security forces

returned to find 60 homes burned to the ground now all they can do is pick through the ashes trying to save anything from the military's policy of scorched earth. and tony also strikes in karen states the armed ethnic groups seem to be targeted by the military are they going to be drawn into the fight. well i think those were the ruins waiting to see reverse the same them being more active in making statements both from sharon the shan state army the karen k. and you the korean national union. in kitchen state in the north that they would step in if the violence went too far well it has clearly gone too far this weekend we've seen a couple of isolated attacks on myanmar army installations and so this may be the army trying to strike back 1st but one wonders if they are going to stretch

themselves you know they are now fighting a war effectively on many fronts both against their own people in their main cities and towns in the villages but now in these areas which admittedly have been at war for decades and decades so it is nothing unusual but we've also been through a period over the last 5 years for example in the qur'an areas where there has been an uneasy peace but a peace which is largely held now the myanmar army seems to be going becoming very proactive you know the airstrikes for example we haven't seen those for years but there are concerns about that too people in those areas say they haven't seen strikes in the past but these were the 1st ones were strikes at night and it suggests that the military have new capability they know they've got new weapons from china if those are able now to strike at night they could pose considerably more danger to civilians in the area so there are concerns as this steps up to the

next level of violence tony in bangkok thank you for that update. foreign companies are being told not to mix business with politics if they want to keep operating in china the warnings come from a spokesman for john's regional government at a news conference where he was asked about the alleged use of waco forced labor to produce cotton a growing number of western retail giants including agent m. and nike are facing a boycott in china for voicing concern over the issue that sparked a backlash on chinese social media with dozens of celebrities dropping deals with the brands. chinese people including those in drum have already expressed their anger these companies are just harming themselves we hope global enterprises like internet can open their eyes to what's right and what's wrong and not just blindly impose these measures they need to be reasonable if they want to continue doing business in china or let's get some analysis of what's being said from adrian

brown who's in hong kong for us so agent tell us more for us about the message these officials from change on they're trying to convey here. well i think fully the message was quite simple and it was basically this don't believe what the western media is saying about the situation changing it bears no comparison with reality where's the evidence of sexual violence against women in these so-called vocational training centers which human rights groups call labor camps where is the evidence of forced labor in the cotton farms and cotton mills and cotton factories where is there evidence of of people being repressed when it comes to religion there is no evidence and that was the message that came through loud and clear and there was another i think theme throughout and it was this don't mess with china we've had you know years decades of being humiliated by the west we're tired of the smears we're tired of the lies the media who were in attendance

were actually invited to go to sion jang to see for themselves what of course as we've seen from the past fairly with the media go to shin jang they tend to be heavily chaperoned so this was an attempt also by the not just the shin gen government but also by the the central government to respond to the sanctions that have been placed on china those targeted sanctions by the united kingdom the united states canada and the e.u. because of the well documented repression they say is taking place and changing and of course china in the last few days has responded with sanctions of its own so this media conference was part and parcel of that those officials from the government included members of the ethnic muslim wakil minniti who all rejected the well documented evidence about repression. where they credible voices. well it was interesting the delegation comprised a number of people described as students from those vocational training centers 3

of them so what you had on monday morning were we got faces and we go voices denying abuses against the community in shin jang they all denied that the camps were places of repression they insisted that their teachers those who help them with benevolent and kind that said we got all the food we wanted and we went on to get good jobs after we'd been in these vocational training centers not china says these vocational training centers was set up as part of its efforts to combat what it says is a terrorism problem in shin jang so these were carefully selected students and you got the sense that they had been hastily pressed into service for this media conference adrian thank you for that adrian brown in hong kong for us. still ahead on al-jazeera. the players

and calls for justice for george floyd before the policeman accused of killing him goes on trial and solving the problem of the covered vaccine cold chain what's being done to help distribution and or a country's. now this satellite picture is fairly obvious that is a large a thunderstorm some of which were torn not tick as you well know on the picture is cold air coming up against that. and if anything is being in harm's at the moment but the picture if you're in northern tennessee much been typically this this is the front edge of a big thunderstorm followed by at least lightning that's all going away for monday going offshore and we can leave you quietly for monday tuesday and possibly wednesday in the southern states and that looks quite quiet for most of us but look

at this this massive snow in central canada and coming down through the rockies into the plains states the temperatures dropping denver's down to 6 because possibly in a snowstorm here that's a big contrast in temperatures when they come together in the same area possibly wednesday we've got the same thing about once a ball but let's leave it to wednesday and drops us for a couple of days it should be fairly windy through lesser antilles quite a few showers i think is more violence and is more likely more in the likelihood of rain in panama costa rica generally in central america including some parts of mexico as you can see in south america is likely we'll see some more big showers in some parts of western colombia. mexico's coded 1000 death toll is one of the world's highest with one in 5 of its inhabitants living in the capital was the deadly upsurge inevitable toys get off

a 1000000 visitors every day there's really no way that they persevered through god without focusing all has the governments on orthodox strategy lead to unnecessary suffering frontline mexico the fight against coded 19 on al-jazeera. the warm. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories dozens of people have been killed in an attack in the town of palma in northern mozambique after a 5 day siege among the victims are 7 civilians who were ambushed while fleeing a hotel another wave of violence has been reported overnight in myanmar where the

military killed more than 100 untyped who protest says on saturday u.s. president joe biden has called the crackdown absolutely outrageous and foreign companies are being warned not to mix business with politics if they want to continue operating in china a growing number of western retail giants are facing a boycott in china for expressing concern over alleged use of we go forced labor to produce cotton inching john. egyptian state media say efforts to refloat a container ship blocking the suez canal are on pause until more tugboat power is in place an attempt had been planned for sunday in a bid to take advantage of the unusually high spring tide a tory gates b. has details. despite the multinational rescue effort the ever given has hardly budged wedged across the su is can now the scale of the problem is to bring the machinery that had been seen as a solution dredges and diggers have so far removed thousands of cubic meters of

sand from underneath the giant container ship and a team of at least 10 tug boats has been trying to dislodge it for days but despite the considerable power of their combined engines heavy a tug boats are being brought in to try and shift the stricken vessel as each day passes more tankers and cargo ships carrying oil gas and grain stack up at either end of the canal and the impact on global trade worsens around about 7 percent of the world's oil trade goes through the need to series canal and it can't any any ship has the choice of taking the longer route round the south of africa takes around 2 weeks longer obviously cost more because the additional on shipping cost so ships are having to make their decision do they whites are in that queue of $300.00 or do they take need a longer trip the crisis is already having an impact on syria the authorities

forced to announce fuel rationing the supplies from iran are stark the news coming out of syria is deeply deeply worrying the country was already heating crisis point with the economic collapse heating syria and the daily lives of syrians and now these delays to fuel shipments will make an really bad situation worse salvage experts and canal officials say high tides over the next few days will help efforts to refloat the ever given but cargo containers may need to be lifted off to lighten the ship that would require a crane and other equipment that is yet to arrive and with nearly 20000 containers on board this is no quick fix victoria gate and b. algis there are. nearly $5000.00 people have fled fighting in venezuela and taken refuge in neighboring colombia some of them have accused the venezuelan military of abuses extra did including extra judicial killings they say the military is

targeting members of the disbanded fock rebel group which was previously engaged in an armed conflict with the colombian government. has the latest from keita in colombia on the border with venezuela. people here are getting ready for another night in the 18 shelters that have been set up in the town of i would keep an eye on other town and other towns along. the border as more people is arriving daily fleeing the fighting that continues and even a swell inside people here are sharing horror stories of abuse is on part they say . security forces in part to kill or at least in one case also extrajudicial killings a family of farmers people are telling us here now we haven't been able to confirm

that but what's clear is that people are clearly afraid of going back or afraid that what i have happened that they were totally surprised by. the violence that they saw happening in their towns this is an on precedented operation inside of venezuela stories that are similar to what used to happen here in colombia during their many decades of internal conflict but something that is completely unheard of or was unheard of until now inside. venezuela and it shows like the government there that has longer tolerated the presence of legal colombian armed groups. deciding to fight go after them especially some of these new groups that have appeared after the signing of the peace deal in 2006 in colombia. protesters in haiti's capital have been demanding better living

conditions and an end to a campaign to change the country's constitution botches brasseries while trying to reach a national palace but were stopped by police it came presidential in on ways this time should have ended last month but is instead pushing for a referendum to consolidate his power to say they're frustrated that government has done little to combat unrelenting violence. national civil rights leaders in the u.s. a calling for justice for george floyd's they held a prayer service alongside his family just hours before the start of barry bonds murder trial for minneapolis based officer is accused of killing foid in may last year the case is expected to center on the question of what led to floyd's death if convicted she could face decades in prison john hendren has more from minneapolis. george floyd's death reignited the u.s. civil rights movement instead of a racial revolution in american streets. it energized the black laws matter

movement in harden the country's racial divide now the trial of the police officer accused of floyd's murder could either close a bitter chapter in american history. or rekindle the arson fueled riots of the summer of 2020 across the united states another will be similar to what took place when this happened you know we felt it all the way in chicago or you know people are angry. but to their frustrations will say they know how the murder trial of fired police officer derrick children is perhaps the most intimidated civil rights case here in the u.s. in the 21st century it will mark a test case of racial justice in 2021 in the case of a black man who died beneath the knee of a white police officer who held him there for 8 minutes in 46 seconds. that jury will see show than in this disturbing video as floyd cries out for his life at the

bridge. these are the images we don't take anything for granted we have to keep our eyes on the prize to make sure that he doesn't get away with murder as so many other police officers have done to people of color in america not since the racially charged trial of the white police officers charged in the 1991 beating of rodney king has one legal case so captured a moment in american racial history. when a largely white suburban jury found the defendants not guilty the streets of los angeles a rock did in violent fury in black america police are now often seen in the darkest light now people are not viewing the police as a welcome presence and to me rather as an unwelcome presence as it's been referred to over the years and accu prime orse. as minneapolis anxiously boards up for new demonstrations many fear what could happen if children is allowed to walk

free people gonna be outraged because it again has proven that the system is not protected and so i think people gonna be upset and down why all right we have 15 this time a racially diverse jury of $12.00 and $3.00 alternates 9 white 4 black into mixed race will decide the fate of another white police officer. and that could set the direction of the american civil rights movement for years to come john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. record rainfall has cost flash floods in the u.s. state of tennessee killing at least $4.00 people more had to be rescued in the nashville area several homes and a church were flooded roads and dominance. the president of chile says he'll ask congress to postpone next month's election

because of a surge in coronavirus cases sebastian pinera wants a vote for an assembly to write a new constitution to be moved from april to may chile has seen a new wave of covert $1000.00 infections since the end of the summer holiday season last month on sunday the government announced new lockdown measures to curb the spread of the virus the australian city of brisbane meanwhile is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after for you locally transmitted corona virus infections were detected wins and state premier says the cases are of the highly infectious u.k. strain under the new restrictions people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping care duties or exercise schools will also be closed. the 1st batch of astra zeneca vaccines from the un backed kovach scheme has arrived in ghosts of all the 24000 doses which will be used for health care workers and elderly people. sisco civil as the only country in europe that's hasn't started seeing its

population. now one of the key elements in the global rollout of covert 1000 vaccines is a cold chain the network of freezes and refrigerate is used to protect vaccine ingredients from degrading and becoming less effective the oxford astra zeneca vaccine remains stable at refrigerator temperatures of between $2.00 and $8.00 degrees for at least 6 months the pfizer biotech vaccine requies special freezes providing temperatures of minus 90 to minus $62.00 remain stable for up to 6 months unicef hopes to have $65000.00 solar powered for ages in no income countries by the end of the year pfizer is also working on a pop powdered form of its vaccine yera cop why is a virus and director of the one health center of excellence at the university afford it she says wealthy nations must end the weaponization of vaccines. many world leaders have advocated for vaccines for all and this is because

we do not want pockets of viral circulation in areas where there are largely unvaccinated populations and the only way to achieve this is actually investing now in technology so that we can do without the cold chain because as you know there are parts of the world where the cold chain just cannot work what i can see is that i fear weaponization of vaccines and this is something that i really think we need to fight against so we know that there is a lot of talk about how the united states has exported no dosis europe has exported approximately half of instances so i don't really think that we should have different positions we should be united and make sure that vaccines are not weaponized and are not used as

a way to exercise. difficulties or hardships on certain countries for staff on ecuador's capital silence have discovered a suitcase containing $185.00 baby turtles invasion endangered reptiles were less than 3 months old and were found individually wrapped in plastic 10 had died and the rest are now recovering at the national park a highly sought after in asia where they can sell for tens of thousands of dollars . the at. the end again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera dozens of people have been killed in an attack in the town of palma in northern mozambique following a 5 day siege among the victims or 7 civilians who were ambushed fleeing a hotel and now the wave of violence has been reached.