be the hero the world needs right now. armed groups lend their weight to the revolution backing protesters who are being targeted by the admiral's military. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. a u.n. investigation puts the blame on yemen's who these over a deadly attack last december 18th. in tunisia recovers the cockpit voice recorder of

a jet that crashed almost 3 months ago killing all 62 people on board. the growing humanitarian crisis on colombia's border with venezuela as a battle with armed groups intensifying its. were beginning to be involved and nation gripped by political unrest bloodshed and now a looming armed struggle in the southeast thousands of men women and children remain displaced the military has been launching air and ground attacks against the armed groups national liberation army and there are warnings that other rebel groups may soon be joining forces for what they call a revolution if security forces don't stop killing unarmed protesters there are at least 6 ethnic armed groups who have now threatened to retaliate against the jump to the current national liberation army is one of bin mas oldest and largest rebel

groups and they control areas in the southeast the our economy is fighting for ptolemy and western because. 3 other groups controlled territory in the east from the shan state army in the south to the to our national liberation army and me and my national democratic alliance up in the fallen off the couch in independence army has also spoken out against agenda and has reportedly attacks police and military posts in recent days. and in me in cities peaceful demonstrations against last months have been held and gone protesters continue to demand a return to democracy despite 8 weeks of crackdown by security forces of in calling on the international community to act against the jointer and do more than just condemn the violence a local rights groups say at least 521 people have been killed and more than 2600 are to taint. when the coming hours the u.n.

security council will hold a closed door meeting on the situation in me and we'll hear from our diplomatic editor james bays in a moment but 1st let's go live to scott hyla who's monitoring developments in me and from neighboring thailand scott what are the chances that this could morph into an armed conflict. well kim one thing to look at you know when you look at these ethnic armies as we saw that map you know they're they're scattered all across the country they have been engaged in these battles with the tatmadaw the military in myanmar pretty much since the establishment of the country so when you look at armed conflict it has been ongoing in the country but what makes it very delicate now obviously is because of the post-coup activity because of the the violent crackdown on the streets across myanmar so you have these ethnic armies that have had their individual battles if you will with the tatmadaw some of them had been under ceasefire some of them had been in peace talks but now because

of what's been happening since the coup on february 1st they're saying that they want to directly go against the tatmadaw the government forces because of what they've been doing not their individual fights their individual flight fights have been going on for quite some time one thing that we can definitely isolate as an escalation you talk about attacks on outposts and things that kind of attacks those kinds of attacks have been going on for years but one thing that has happened just over the weekend that was something that we had not seen in quite some time and that was in this. area which is just across the border from here thailand into myanmar there are air strikes and that's why you mentioned jim we saw that the flow of people coming over about 3000 coming over to thailand fleeing that seeking refuge and medical attention and the thais said that there are still about 550 here in thailand at thailand's territory but the rest about 2200 were sent back tire

officials said it's because the situation was safe human rights groups say no they were actually pushed back when they didn't want to go but what we look at overall the situation yes you have these ethnic armies that have been using their own there their forces for individual battles with the government forces in myanmar now say they're willing to kind of work together if you will as they see that this escalation on the streets across me in mar and they believe that something needs to be done to stop that from continuing and i thank you for that update this call hi glenn. and has a diplomatic at us james bays looking at what to expect from the un security council meeting later in the day. the security council has already issued 2 strong statements on the situation in myanmar but they've been ignored and the violence and killing has continued in the streets the secretary general of the united nations antonio terrace in recent days has issued fresh condemnation and has called for united international action we need more unity in international community with

more commitment international community to put pressure in order to make sure that the situation is reversed what's your message to the generals right now my message to the military is very simple stop the killings stop the repression of the demonstrations really is the political prisoners and return power to those that have the receipt of their rights to exercise it. saturday was the day with the highest death toll yet at least 114 people killed in 24 hours. saturday was also myanmar's armed forces day and event attended by representatives of 3 members of the security council china russia and vietnam all of which have a degree of leverage over the generals but russia's deputy ambassador to the u.n. told reporters his country is reluctant to consider further action including sanctions as you know russia is not big down on sanctions russia. in its matters

and again i say that there is a lot of controversy in there is it being willing young we made me see it one way but the reality is on the ground might be a little bit different and then you know. everybody would be quite cautious because we there is a very thin line. between. condemning and blaming and inciting well joining the meeting the security council will be briefed by christine fran a burgen to the u.n. envoy for me on mars she wants to visit the region and to visit the country itself but so far she has not been granted permission. yemen's who the rebels have rejected leaked a u.n. report suggesting they are behind an attack on aden airport at least 20 people were killed including a politician report to the security council says the missiles use was similar to

those in the who the arsenal and were fired from areas under their control the rebels say any findings without an independent committee a biased and lack credibility the attack on aids was seen as an escalation in the 6 year civil war that targeted members of president robert months or how these governments it had happened as they were landing to meet u.a.e. back southern separatists after forming a unity government who these denied involvement and blame to the attack on saudi backed groups is saudi led coalition responded to the attacks with airstrikes on who do controlled capital sana the following day the 18 airport attack also prompted bend u.s. secretary of state my pompei you to designate the who these as a foreign terrorist organization was reversed by the current biden administration saying now because he is a pro who the journalist and he cast doubt on the accuracy of the leaked findings. this is still not. reported released by the united nations still some leaks

released by the way that is done by some of our website that's why we can take it as a fact but as muhammad ali al who have said yesterday that any conclusion or any report that come from the united nations security council with say without any independent . committee to verify those resoled he said are rejected on as well he said any fact that all of this is for. as he said field based he said they cannot be actually to through or for a fight i just want to add that after that attack on the border just maybe $3.00 to $5.00 days. united arab emirate with side based in the united states called a cat he has released this a report as it is could be based there but to be honest who is actually will benefit from the attack against the government of the so-called legitimacy of heidi

is only the united arab emirates just days ago united arab emirates supporters for $2700.00 have actually kicked out the government that's why they are actually the only one who are responsible benefit for this attack tunisia now where heavy gunfire was heard near the presidential palace in the early hours of wednesday just 2 days before president elect mohammed balsam swearing in ceremony. i. can be clearly heard on this video from witnesses in the capital the army details are not yet known in the government hasn't commented yet has a history of military coups sent to struggled with instability from attacks by armed groups such as poke around and interests in a neighboring nigeria he says local reports suggest an attempted coup. a lot of people in egypt believe that it was an attempted military coup that has been put down the incident started actually around 3 o'clock local time around 2 g.m.t.

and by 3 am local time 3 g.m.t. local time everything went quiet now whatever in 2 years whether it's a military coup or not it looks like things have been wrapped up for now things are calm from the reports we're receiving from may these attacks or this incident happened 2 days before mohammad is of use of mohamed bows out of office and ushering his successor mohamed for might to their minister of 44 former foreign minister whose election by the way is marked by violence by stupid resistance by the. community which held power for a very long time in the general public shortly after it was declared winner of that election and the 2nd round there was violence across in the army the capital targeting light skinned arabs and tourists who had businesses running across the

country and now that incident is no balling into some form of resistance as you may be facing it's not only the insurgency it out only its border areas with nigerian midget and burkina faso nigeria mali and burkina faso but also the internal resistance you will face from those who had held power in the country for a very long time for much of its 60 years as an independent country in the. and that's cases in indonesia have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a jet that crashed into the java sea in january a boeing $737.00 belonging to. went down shortly after taking off and heavy rains to casa all 62 people on board were killed officials say it could take up to a week to listen to the recording which may provide clues about what caused the crash jessica washington reports from jakarta. it wasn't a straightforward process we were there as the cockpit voice recorder was brought back to jakarta and we could sense the relief on the part of those involved in the

search operation because there were a number of complications to begin with the cockpit voice recorder would normally have a beacon which provides a signal and the casing around the recorder itself but in this instance those 2 components were found much earlier than finding the actual memory recorder itself what that means is that dorothy's had to resort to a manual search meaning that they didn't have any sort of signal to provide any exact location of this this device and in addition this crash happened in the midst of heavy rain during the peak of jakarta's monsoon season that meant there was a strong current heavy rains and a deluge of mud on the seabed off the job to see where the search was being conducted as a result authorities had to resort to what they described as a sort of vacuum technology to suck up the bulk of the modern debris from the sea bed and then they were able to retrieve this cockpit voice recorder so it was a long and complicated process but we could sense the relief that they were finally

able to find this recorder. still ahead on al-jazeera emotional testimony had the trial of george floyd's killing from an off duty firefighter who says he repeatedly offered 1st aid was denied. frustrated. yes. jaya both are not us military chiefs or resigned to the brazilian president thanks the defense minister candidate. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however say some rather warm weather it's a parts of japan recently just a couple of days ago sapporo had a warmest amount stay on record temperatures getting up into the the high teens

here at 18 celsius which is particularly warm for sapporo high pressure in char so last a fine and try to go on through thursday temperatures at around 12 celsius it does say settled in sunny but we have got what's the weather spilling out of central and eastern parts of china well just roll its way towards q schoo as we go on through friday perhaps some wet weather through the yellow sea just not going towards the korean peninsula but ahead of that doing quite nicely thank you southern parts of china also to quite nicely hong kong with a top temperature of around 30 degrees celsius on friday the heat really is on there across northern parts of india new delhi has had a warmest march day on record the temperature touched 41 celsius on choose day afternoon a little cooler as we go on through thursday loss of 5 and sunny weather across the northern plains the whole also in the mix for some high temperatures temperatures here very close to the 30 degree mark you can see it is generally fine until i

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the announcement a tree is intensifying an offensive against rebels a car and state thousands of people fleeing into time left escape the fighting the u.n. security council will meet later on wednesday to discuss the armrest. heavy gunfire was heard many shares presidential palace in the hours of wednesday 2 days before president elect obama doesn't swearing in ceremony. indonesian search crews have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a passenger jet that crashed in january toped it could provide clues about what led to the crash killing all 62 people on board. about 120 prisoners loyal to libyan warlord who are being released by the new unity government its own official prisoner swap and it's seen as a gesture of goodwill those were they still believed to have earlier surrendered peacefully and not suspected of any crimes traina has this update from this roster

. when this new interim unity government came into power they were tasked with a few things one was to unify state institutions 2nd was to lead the country on to elections can take nationwide elections can take place later on this year in december other also tasked with leading a reconciliation initiative so this is a symbol of goodwill so libyans can turn the page start brand new and move towards bringing the country together after years of divisions and moving towards elections now it's important to note that for for these specific this over 100 fighters loyal to have to when they have to launch his military campaign on tripoli these fighters who are loyal to him came into the city of zawiya from the south they took over a checkpoint when they met some resistance they surrendered peacefully so they're believed to not have committed any crimes or been responsible for the deaths of

civilians so it's an easy move for this unity government to to take to start this reconciliation is initiative but in other places of the country the new unity government is going to have a hard time bringing libyans together so we're going to have to wait and see what kind of reconciliation process or serious reconciliation process this unity government can lead before elections in december. there were emotional testimonies on the 2nd day of the trial against a former police officer and charged with killing george floyd the u.s. city of minneapolis a teenager and a child were among those who spoke off camera because of their ages the court heard witnesses describe how they tried to intervene became increasingly angry as they demanded and take his knee off floyd's neck don't have it has. as he watched

derek show vanilla and george floyd's increasingly lifeless body donald williams called the police to report on the police at some point did you make a 911 call. the police. and why did you do that because i will leave out with a murder. williams testifying for a 2nd time on day 2 of the high profile civil rights trial can be heard on bystander video calling out to officers to stop the man a move yet bro the man on moon there broke the teen who took that viral video of floyd beneath the needy of former minneapolis police officer show ven testifying off camera because of her age says floyd seemed to know he was dying it's been nice i stayed. apologizing in.

the palace. for not doing more in not. facing. not saving his life but the fight. is not what i said and if what he said to me she was followed by her 9 year old cousin. and. her right is. in the catholic curtain and. she watched she said as paramedics had to push over an off an unmoving floyd. prosecutors use the witness video to show jurors that what plays out on the video is really all they need to know in the words of one prosecutor you can believe your eyes the defense seems to be building a case that the officers felt they couldn't move george floyd because of what they

perceived is a growing hostile and unruly mob around them. do you recall saying i dearly to touch me like that i swear i'll slap. both of you yes i did. mean to. so again sir it's fair to say that you grew angrier and angrier. group professional or professional i stayed in my body. you came out to be angry prosecutors are expected to wrap their testimony sometime next week that's when defense lawyers will present their case possibly including the testimony of the officer children is the one on trial but for many inside an l. side the court room what's on the docket is racial justice in america john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. and a father father who was off to sea at the time of the incident that led to floyd's death also testified on tuesday genevieve hanson described how officers refused to let her intervene in my memory i offered to walk kind of walk them through it are

taught that if you doesn't have a pulse you need to start compressions and that wasn't done you know. is this are these things that you wanted to do it would it's what i would have done for anybody . when you couldn't do that how did that make you feel. totally distressed. frustrated. yes. pharmaceutical company pfizer biotech say their covert 90 vaccine has been proven safe and effective in 12 to 15 year olds the result of trials involving more than 2000 adolescents could pave the way for us emergency authorization in weeks pfizer

says it hopes to begin immunizing young people before the next school year the company also says results show 100 percent efficacy of preventing disease and only minor side effects. of new guinea has administered its 1st vaccines as covert 19 infections soar prime minister james made up a god the 1st jab from a shipment of 8000 to astra zeneca jabs on tuesday it was sent by a stray view that warms the country urgently needs more strayer says vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations relief of a new guinea's 10000000 people unprotected. lebanon is looking to the private sector to help speed up its vaccination drive only a fraction of the population is fully inoculated and there are concerns that contract our backs a nation distribution may lead to nepotism and benefit those who are most in need of reports from beirut. this initiative is supposed to speed up the coronavirus vaccination campaign in lebanon the government is allowing private companies to

import vaccines to make sure the country's collapsed economy stays open a good book to do and i am so happy we are finally getting vaccinated because we work at the airport we are exposed to many people and we on the frontlines we are safe now for now vaccines can only be sold to companies unions institutions and n.g.o.s that are supposed to offer them to their employees and their families for free but many say they are concerned lebanon is notorious for corruption and vaccines are sold in hard currency which few people now have the minimum monthly salary is worth $60.00. but also in the money is those who can afford to pay i don't $40.00 at that scene which means today live on on it is this sort of 5 of the richest the poor will remain without vaccination officials disagree they say public health authorities and the private sector will work together the government or the

public money is very heavy in the bin and of course immunization can pain is costly at its very course defect. however so if we can get the public sector involved then we can reduce the cost of the vaccination campaign we can speed up the vixenish in campaign the nearly bankrupt government purchased vaccines using a loan from the world bank it also received help from the u.s. led program kovacs that assists developing countries so far the amounts are limited the vaccination rollout is in week 7 but it's been slow at present each day fewer than 10000 people are receiving a job so far only one percent of a population of an estimated $6000000.00 people have been fully vaccinated. the private sector may reduce pressure on the government but it's giving politicians leverage some are promising to secure vaccines for people in their electoral districts for free and it would allow for private placement is basically blocking

off large quantities of sex scenes for specific populations that are. when the campaign was launched officials insisted everyone would have equal access to vaccines they are now being accused of bypassing regulations designed to ensure that happens. to their beirut brazil's president has signed an executive order to provide more than $100000000.00 in pandemic remix the package was signed on the same day the country hit a record tally of more than 3000 $700.00 deaths march is expected to be the deadliest month of the pandemic for brazil with deaths on course to hit $60000.00. the humanitarian situation on colombia's border with venezuela is getting worse as fighting intensifies 5000 venezuelan refugees are already in temporary shelters in colombia. she reports from the border town of archita. 9 days

after the start of venice well as military campaign against colombia's rebel forces the situation in the colombian border town of i'll keep is critical they have. almost 5000 refugees are housed in shelters but that number only tells part of the story hundreds more are staying in overcrowded private homes got a c.e.o. fled from the vinous wayland town of lovett daria says she's sharing this space with 63 other people and they haven't received any help. they say assistance is primarily for the shelters nothing is a right yet for us we don't want to go to a shelter we have many people with diabetes high blood pressure many kids and we're scared of call that. refugees are crossing the border into rural areas to at least $100.00 share this farmhouse and are extending it to protect new arrivals from the rain. to me pneumonia from the united nations refugee agency says under

reporting as an issue but a proper camp for at least $500.00 people will soon be ready. for the contrast the places which are the moment are very full of people and all sorts for those people who live with families very crowded environment that will remove them here the base revealed prioritization of the basis of vulnerability many of the refugees are colombians who fled to venezuela decades ago at the height of colombia's conflict between give the us paramilitary instate forces most now save in a swell as government help create this crisis by long tolerating the presence of colombia's rebel forces in their territory. rebels graffitti like this one fail appear on the walls of houses here in the colombian side but the violence associated with the conflict has been greatly reduced at least in this region while

the delicate balance there maintain the peace on the various well inside as now broken down. we had heard rumors that the government was going to confront the guerrilla but would have never expected such a brutal repression against the civilian population especially by government that pretends to be revolutionaries we lost everything for years that river dividing the 2 countries helped contain fighting in colombia it appears the economic and political crisis in venezuela has allowed to damp conflict to resume on the other side a confrontation that one sparked might again prove difficult to tame i listen to them i'll just add oh. this is just there and these are the top stories in the coming hours the u.n. security council is going to hold a closed door meeting on the.