now there probably are just because there are so conservation the communities algis there are johnnies deeper to the right to follow a scientist untouched to save the flora and fauna so precious the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. the lessons learned from a pandemic that's killed nearly 3000000 people globally world leaders call for an international treaty on future and democrats. and the virus is mutating so raj that vaccines could be effective within a year it's got the details of a scientific survey decoded 90. given out this is there a law from dog also coming up escaped from me in march thousands crossing to

thailand to flee airstrikes and a military crackdown will have the latest on the ground. she died after her neck was broken outrage at the treatment of the refugee while in police custody in mexico. it has infected nearly a 130000000 people on the planet now health leaders are looking at how to best cope with future pandemics like coronavirus the world health organization and the leaders of 23 countries including the u.k. france and germany to create an international treaty to tackle future global emergencies the treaty would ensure universal access to vaccines and health tools during a pandemic it would also aim to make all countries more resilient with better systems dr sharon. it has exposed the gaps in national regional and global

prepared ness and response systems but also allowed us to identify opportunities to strengthen the international held architecture the time to act is now the world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one we must not allow the memories of this crisis to fade and go back to business as usual and above all it distorts us one brutal lesson not turn 3 no continent in the shade to condemn each alone it 3 crisis a global approach the us rather than the means and a collective commitment at the highest particular level the next been damage is not a question of if but when so we must be ready and we have no time to waste

it was about the joins us now live from paris to tell us more about this treaty what exactly does it. well you heard the head of the council shar michelle there say the next pandemic isn't a question of if but when and wash our michelle who proposed the idea for this international treaty is saying is that look the world has to learn the lessons from 19 we're still in this pandemic but we don't want to make the same mistakes that some of us have made in the future when managing this health crisis because it is a global health crisis and what it needs is a multi lateral approach michelle uses the imagery of the 2nd world war he says it's the worst crisis since the 2nd world war. after 2nd world war leaders came together a multilateral approach was what was needed to get through the crisis the same will be needed in the future what michelle said was important is the world leaders

cooperate more fully in any sort of crisis that means they cooperate on research and development so before there is another pandemic that they're working together when something happens when it looks as if a pandemic is perhaps looming that countries work together to share information perhaps a swipe china seen as not having shared enough information early on in this pandemic perhaps had they done so it would have been so widespread also said the pandemic has caused many national divisions we've seen recently for example the e.u. and u.k. embroiled in a raul over pharmaceutical deliveries of vaccines michelle saying the what we need is to work better together also with vaccines working together for better distribution making sure that vaccines are available to everybody and making sure that they are affordable well so far more than 20 countries including france and britain have back to the idea of this international treaty the next step said the

head of the show is to actually try and get more countries on board and really look at putting this within the constitution and transfer treaty is all very well but how could it be enforced. well that's a big question and neither the head of the w.h.o. or the head of the council waybill to answer that what they did say though is such a treaty would certainly have to be left up to nation states to try to member states to try and enforce rules locally but of course it would be ingrained in the constitution it would send a very powerful message that the countries who signed up to its are on board and there really is the crux of the problem the countries who signed up to it because what's going to happen is the will contact all its member states and try and encourage countries around the world to sign up to this treaty in the future perso far of those who have signed up an initial letters saying they supported this

treaty there are some major missions there's no us there's no russia there's no china and without those countries on board it would be very hard to see how such a treaty could really have the clout that it would need on the international stage right thank you then a town about where they live for us in paris the world may have a year or less before the covert 90 vaccines available right now and the longer effective that's the warning from a survey of nearly 80 scientists from $28.00 countries 2 thirds say that within 9 months the virus will have mutated so much that the rack seems willing to be modified nearly all say it's because of an equal access to inoculate sions too many countries haven't been able to vaccinate their people and that lack of coverage will allow the virus to adapt and change quickly new variants pose a threat to all countries whether people are vaccinated or not scientists say the key to avoiding this is to share technology the calling for companies to lift

patients so governments can increase supply quickly enough to stop their ince from emerging professor michael baker is a professor of public health at the university of otago in new zealand he says the warnings from the reports are accurate. you could disagree with some of the exact details i mean because that seems don't suddenly stop working we have several different vaccines and they all have different characteristics but i think the broad principle is really true and that is that we need to met some eyes for team coverage as regularly as possible and that's where multiple reasons have fiercly or prevent and the serious d.s. and long term disability that was solely our societies and economies to resume normal activity record label and as i think they're pointing out here the more rapidly we get high coverage the better the chance we have of keeping the here of viral evolution or fortunately some of the new vaccines particularly the are in

a vaccines can actually be modified very rapidly and this is again. minor changes to keep it here of the of our evolution that reformulation process so i think we have got tolls to beat the virus it may be that we have a booster every 6 months or 12 months and this is not unusual i mean we do this with influenza vaccine already we expect to have a vaccine every year partly to boost immunity and partly to keep the hit of the viral evolution but one thing i think is really important is that we don't stop our focus on public health measures because you know at the moment the elimination approach using public health measures is protecting almost a quarter of the world's population from this pandemic so i think the future success relies on using both elimination approaches public health measures combined with the record vaccine rolled out in very strategic ways and i really think that

one of the goals may be progressive elimination of the virus across the planet and even the possibility of global reddick patient i think needs to be considered. and australia the city of brisbane is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after more than a dozen new locally transmitted corona virus infections were detected queensland state premiers says that the cases are of the highly infectious ukase strain on the latest restrictions people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping care duties or exercise schools will also be closed we have had a lot of people now out in the community infectious so that's why we need this 3 day lockdown to get on top of all of the contacts of all of these positive cases and work out where they've been and having everyone in their home instead of out

and about in the community just helps us get on top of all of the context and minimize the risk of further spreed. chillies health care system and funeral services are under increasing pressure discovered 19 infections search the country recorded 7000 new cases for the 5th day in a row on monday cemeteries in the city of el paso you saw having to store bodies in containers chile is under an extensive lockdown to curb soaring infections despite having the highest vaccination rate in latin america. 3 female health workers have been shot dead in afghanistan the women were working for polio vaccination program in the eastern city of jalalabad the government says it's not yet clear who carried out the shootings earlier this month 3 female journalists were killed in the same city are still claimed responsibility for that attack. thailand says it has no policy to deny entry to refugees for me and there's thousands flee violence and current state of the activists accuse the thai army of forcing people back at the

border or than a dozen refugees who arrived on tuesday have been given medical treatment meanwhile the military has launched airstrikes against the ethnic current rebels of the region more than 3000 people are thought to have fled to thailand from story joins us now from kuala lumpur in malaysia florence so the thais are denying accusations that is sending people back who are fleeing these airstrikes and me and ma so what's actually happening at the border. well we've got 2 contradicting statements here the tieing government saying that they they don't have a policy of turning away refugees who are fleeing conflict and that they will accept people on humanitarian grounds but we're also hearing from activists that many people hundreds and possibly more than a 1000 people have been turned back into myanmar these are corrent people who have fled the airstrikes that happened over the last few days in corrent state and other

reports say more than 10000 people have been made homeless from the recent air strikes well so we've also seen video of people being for the carrying just their possessions on their backs in bundles and parts being forced to walk back across the border and that's what activists are saying is happening now we're also getting reports that dozens of people have been allowed to enter a thai border village to seek medical treatment and for what we're seeing in the videos and in the pictures these people put on stretchers being taken to medical clinics where they were where they received medical attention some of them look like they have been warned wounds quite consistent with possibly the airstrikes carried out by the myanmar air force over the last few days in corrent state now. as it has been happening over the last nearly 2 months protests are still taking place every day across towns and of course cities in the country hundreds of the

world turning up on the streets to protest against the coup we're not yet getting reports of the myanmar military pushing back with force against protesters on tuesday but we do know that on monday according to an engineer that's been keeping track of the fatalities and the number of people arrested since the coup at least 14 people were killed after security forces crackdown on protesters the majority of them were in south a township in yangon city now and protesters are also changing tactic they're calling for what that. describing a garbage strike asking people to leave their rubbish at main intersection of cities this is to show their opposition to the coup but at the same time also not getting any any indication that the myanmar military is going to soften its stance despite calls from the international community from the head from the secretary general of the u.n. for a stronger and firmer commitment against the military authorities in. right thank

you for that are there florence lloyd across developments from kuala lumpur still to come here on al-jazeera. determined to see justice for george floyd the trial over a police killing that reignited the black lives matter and. despair on the border we speak to families course on the violence between venezuela's army and colombian rebels. it's been raining fairly heavily in the southern islands of the philippines and more recently west papua that seem to be drifting away so now the concentration is still a little bit further south a bit further west java or to the east and in the north of sumatra running up into

these small islands in the by bang go but that might just be a brief passage that they're less likely stay there there is heavy rain likely in what is known as the top end of all stratas that's up at around darwin maybe your butt into this very obvious breeze now along shore breeze in new south wales and slight young shore in queens and all this will tend to induce showers a little bit inland nothing like as heavy as they were but it's still over what is for some places flooded land in new south wales they're back to a normal pattern nice and still late was in perth a $28.00 degrees or so but the rain is now take a different course coming across the bite usually get fronts that go into words new zealand was the circulation going on the vibrance so this is a stationary system drawing in tropical left north there off flood warnings out for north island and they're probably going to last into wednesday that might even go beyond into thursday but it does look like a drawing trend here and christ church is not cooled down to 70.

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you're watching al-jazeera the remind of our top stories this hour the world health organization and leaders of $23.00 countries including the u.k. france and germany are creating an international treaty to tackle future pandemics that aims to increase preparedness and share resources. new survey from nearly 800 scientists is warning current vaccines could be ineffective against covered 1000 invested a year the calling on companies to share vaccine technology so the world could be vaccination quickly enough to stop the virus from mutating. thailand says it has no policy to deny entry to refugees for me and as thousands flee violence and current state and south activists accuse the thai army of forcing people back more than a dozen refugees who arrived on tuesday have been given medical treatment. the use driven protest movement in thailand fighting for a form of government government and the monarchy is trying to regain momentum most of its leadership was jailed during a recent legal crackdown using

a revived well defamation law it's called heartless been speaking with parents of those behind bars and reports from bangkok. defiant at their corner rivals earlier this month protest leaders put it she would lock known as penguin. and upon the cool known as wrong. but they were hidden from the cameras this week at least made certain to keep them out of sight as they arrive for criminal court hearings both face charges of sedition and royal defamation. at a tribute for the arrested protesters penguin's mother she will lock is now growing more worried about her 22 year old son but says she's staying strong for him. been in jail since february 9th and 2 weeks ago started a hunger strike until bale was granted. a couple of poland. he always tells us to be patient to make sacrifices and be proud of him no matter what happens to him he's not harming anybody only expressing his honest opinion to make his homeland

a bit a place both penguin and wrong have been charged with multiple counts of insulting the monarchy and king maha watching corn each one could carry a 15 year sentence they've been denied bail repeatedly just last year prime minister said the king told him not to use the last majesté law but clearly that directive has not only changed as now the war of defamation law is being used to intimidate and scare protesters and their leadership around 80 cases have been filed since november. proctoring supports the monarchy and strongly believes in thai traditions a mother herself she feels that parents need to take action if their kids are protesting for royal reform any. kids have to listen to their parents when told they shouldn't criticize the king it's a sacred institution of our country it's fine if you criticize the government runs parents and penguins parents really should have ruined their children. rooms mother

city rotten a cool says she has some regrets for her daughter taking care of wrongs cats while she's away gives her comfort. like i will if i could go back in time i'd still give my daughter the same warnings i gave before if you want to involve yourself with politics they'll be consequences you may go to prison you may not be able to bail yourself out and you may lose your freedom. and at this stage both protest leaders have traded their freedom for what they see as the battle of their generation deep reform of thailand's power structures it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. china's top legislative body has unanimously approved sweeping changes to hong kong's electoral system the number of seats increases from 70 to 90 those directly elected by the public will be slashed from 35 to 20 plans for an overhaul we were unveiled during this month's national people's congress beijing says only so-called patriots can administer the semi autonomous territory. thousands of people across central

america are demanding justice for an el salvadorian refugee who's died in police custody in mexico. there have been protests in mexico and el salvador for victoria. she died after being arrested in the tourist resort of to live an officer was filmed kneeling on her back an autopsy showed her neck was broken for police officers are facing charges of famous. the mexican president has promised justice barbour and go provides. face down and barefoot salvadoran refugee viktoria speranza salazar died on a roadside in the mexican resort town of to learn police officers threw her body in the back of a pickup after restraining her on the pavement a state prosecutor says offices used excessive force. the police

technique of body control that was applied of the level of force used was disproportionate immoderate and with a high risk to life. salazar's mother says police treated her daughter like a man and more. importantly they already gave her reports that my daughter's nick was broken and they broke a lot of ribs because there were 3 men and a woman on top of her. the death is an embarrassment for mexico. just as it began heston a u.n. summit on gender equality on monday mexico has one of the west straights of gender based violence in the world last year an average of 10 women died every day and the day before the summit families of femicide victims rallied outside the president's residence president lopez obrador says those responsible for silence as staff will be punished that she dies from yeah i want to say to have family members to salvadoran and mexican women to the women of the world to all men and women today's responsible will be punished they are already in the process of being prosecuted

and nobody no impunity. it's not clear why silas i was arrested but have family members say they'll fight to get for the dignity she was denied in death barbara and i'll just. leave. it was the death of spot america's latest reckoning with racial injustice and ignited protests across the world now the man charged with murdering george floyd has gone on trial in their opening arguments on monday the prosecution and defense lay differing narratives on the use of force and of the cause of floyd's death john hendren has more from minneapolis or her mother penalty of perjury the most watched civil rights trial in america opened with a stark accusation of murder mr barrett shaaban betrayed his badge when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of mr george

for. that he put his knees upon his neck and his back grinding and crushing him. until the very breath no leisure gentleman until the very life. was squeezed out of them as opening arguments began in the trial of the police encounter that sparked a racial revolution in the streets the lawyer for the white former minneapolis police officer accused of murdering a black man named george floyd shot back you will learn a direction when did exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19 years. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of police this morning about the prosecution's 1st witness a police dispatcher who watched on police cameras as officers knelt on the back and

neck give george floyd then she did something she'd never done before she called the police on the police alerting a sergeant to what seemed to her like an unusual use of force floyd was on the ground so long she said she thought the video had frozen i don't know if they had to use force or not they got something out of to back up the squad and all of them sat on this man the central question in this case is this did chauvelin kill floyd using unreasonable force as the prosecution suggests or did a combination of drugs covert 19 and heart trouble kill him as the defense contends those arguments are the beginning of what's likely to be a month from long trial filled with painful and potentially inflammatory testimony . with jurors watching new evidence and really watching that disturbing 9 minutes of video with george floyd using his final breaths to cry out for his life at the. minneapolis is boarding up and bracing for the final verdict and the possibility it

could revive the riots of the long and violent summer of 2020. outside the heavily fortified courthouse floyd's family made it clear it is american racial justice that is on trial they say choice the system. they want us to trust a system. where this is a chance to show us. we can trust you. judge peter cahill says it's a police officer that's on trial not race but once the jury has its say in the racially charged case of a black man who died under the knee of a white police officer the crowds in the streets of minneapolis and cities across the u.s. will render their own verdict on racial justice in america john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. brazil's president jaya balsa noddle has replaced 6 government ministers and a shake up foreign minister who nesta at it with joe has the highest profile casualty his attacks on china are blamed for hampering access to corona virus

vaccine it's also not a has been under growing pressure on the spiralling scale of the pandemic but livy is former president evo morales has led thousands of people in celebration of the ruling socialist faction supporters of the movement to socialism policy a mocking 26 years since it was found its president suicide is to join the festivities the party returned to power last year after more audience was forced to resign following a contested election and widespread violence. venezuelan refugees in colombia are accusing their country's army of killing innocent civilians nearly 5000 people have fled fighting between the military and rebels in venezuela and sought refuge across the border other sounds around here the reports from the border town of i took it 6 . for the ramírez interim well enough families the pain is unbearable. yet. the 4 of their relatives were killed last week during

a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accuse them of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat but neighbors and family members insist they were innocent taken from their homes and executed just that up in the end i was looking out for my brothers i saw them in their house and gestured to them then ran back into my home because soldiers were threatening people that's when i heard an armored vehicle stopping in front of their house. neighbors saw our house soldiers took them away so she ran out again let me get a look at it i told the other soldiers they took my family they said go home that i didn't need to worry that they were taking them to the battalion for questioning before returning them home instead they reappeared in pictures circulating on social networks bed some dressed in fatigues with pistols or a grenade at the side of their body when yeah anybody who knows my sister in law

will tell you she hated boots she never wore boots like those you don't need to be a forensic expert to know that this was staged. many of the almost 5000 refugees who fled the clashes share similar stories accusing the military of illegal detentions as well as looting and burning homes. under pressure venezuela's defense minister vladimir putin enough said the armed forces were to defend the country from the regular groups but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated have been this well as former prosecutor general now in a poser of president nicolas maduro told al-jazeera that will likely not be the case or you know if there is no type of accountability today in venezuela you know any institution that investigates look at how the prosecutor's office controlled by their staff has took 5 days before announcing they're going to investigate events at the border such serious facts should be investigated immediately like countless

other colombians from this border region that i meet as had fled to venezuela over a decade ago at the height of the conflict between get 3 years in state forces in the country but now the same kind of violence seems to have reached them on the other side of the border alison i'll just see it and i'll keep her. results is there and these are the top stories the world health organization the leaders of $23.00 countries including the u.k. france and germany are creating an international treaty to tackle future pandemics it aims to increase preparedness and share resources. it has exposed the gaps in national regional and global preparedness and response systems but also allowed us to i don't.