morning the. al jazeera. every. pfizer biotech say their covert vaccine protects kids as young as 12000000 who will be immunized in the u.s. before the new school year. other than how the markets and this is al jazeera life and doha also coming up. armed groups and their weights the revolution protests are being targeted by myanmar's military. indonesia recovers the cockpit voice recorder of

a jet that crashed almost 3 months ago killing all 62 people boards. frustrated. and emotional testimony at the trial of the former policeman accused of murdering george floyd day 3 is just about to get under way. a breakthrough in corona virus vaccine development of pharmacists go companies pfizer and by own sac say their vaccine has been proven safe and effective in 12 to 15 year olds they say trials involving more than 2000 are the lessons demonstrate minor side effects and the dose is 100 percent effective at preventing disease they hope to get emergency approval in the u.s. and begin immunizing young people before the next school year 112 year old

participant said he is happy to play his parts. is definitely a very special opportunity to be able to do something like this because usually i'm just there on doing online school and there's not much i can really do to fight back against the virus. which is appearing in this trial and potentially helping other kids to feel safe and want to get the vaccine in the future never comes forward plea available was really some way that i could actually help our. let's say good morning from campbell the whole kit she joins us from washington d.c. and kimberly this is a significant bit of good news is it not. the white house is certainly heralding this as good news the fact that this will end now allow children to get vaccinated and return to school in time for the start of the school year at the end of the summer so this is being celebrated even as the white house continues to combat

vaccine hesitancy while they have made some inroads with communities of color that have been not trusting of authority as well as some medical officials the area where there still is a problem seems to be among conservatives and particularly conservative christians so what we know is that the vice president will be meeting with some faith leaders in order to try and discuss the need to get everyone vaccinated even those who might be hesitant given the fact that there is a need for herd immunity in order for the united states to return to normal and kimberly have are things going more broadly in the united states the worst effects of country in the world in terms of coverts but the president must feel confident they're tackling the virus given he's doubled in school vaccinations to 200000000 in his 1st 100 days. that's right there is some optimism given the fact that

there is now a goal of 200 out from 100000000 vaccines in the 1st 100 days so the vaccination track is going well but of course there's still the economic track which is a struggle that's why we'll see the president heading to pittsburgh today to announce his infrastructure plan rebuilding broken roads and bridges in order to create jobs but there is still the problem of the pandemic itself not yet being and that's why there was a tearful message from the c.d.c. director rachel wilensky earlier this week where she said that there could be another wave like we've seen in europe in other parts of the world if americans let their guard down now that's why she's pleading for people to continue to wear their masks even as we're seeing spikes in increases in covert cases and we see some states reducing those massed restrictions that's the concern right now trying to

make sure that people keep up with these protocols even if they start to fill more confident that the risks are lowered when in fact the data shows that's not the case you can believe that their line from washington d.c. thank you can be yemen has received its 1st supplies of covert vaccines 360000 doses of the indian manufactured astra zeneca jobs through the international program and set to receive 1900000 doses this year humanitarian organizations say yemen's health care system has been crippled by the war so far the country has reporters around for thousands covert infections but experts say the real number is likely to be much higher. brazil's president to sign an executive order to provide more than $100000000.00 in pandemic relief package was signed on the same day the country had a record tally of more than $3700.00 deaths march is expected to be the deadliest

month of the pandemic for brazil with deaths on course to hit $60000.00 president gerry boyle scenario has been criticized for repeatedly done playing the break in south america's worst hit country papa new guinea has administered its 1st vaccines school with 19 infections soar prime minister james morone 1st job from a shipment of 8000 astra zeneca vaccines on shoes day they were sent by australia who are warning the country are urgently needs more doses astraea says vaccine hoarding by wealthy nations will leave papa new guinea's 10000000 people unprotected. chinese state media say the country's been vindicated by a world health organization report investigating the origins of the pandemic a team of experts visited will harm the 1st known location of the outbreak earlier this year and found that transmission from an animal was the most likely source for critics of question the credibility of the reports ask a trainee you explains. the world health organization may be facing growing

international pressure over its newly released corona virus report but here and with the pandemic started people are pleased with its findings. the w.h.o. has off already western countries kept accusing china of causing the pandemic this report shows china is innocent as always with us i believe the conclusions in the w.t. report but i think it came out too late china has suffered a lot from the virus it shows china is not guilty on tuesday the un agency released a $120.00 page document detailing the results of a month long mission to china to study the origin of covered 19 the team concluded the most likely source of the virus was a bat or other animal and the least likely was a leak from government lab the report also thanked the chinese government for facilitating the visit. charges overcall difficulties to conduct joint research

with it our goal is to reflect our openness and transparency but critics say the mission was anything but orton and transparent chinese government officials curated and tightly controlled the visit chaperoning the experts at all times and controlling what intimation they could access janie metals has beijing also vetoed participants on the mission he drafted an open letter signed by 2 dozen experts calling for a new international inquiry into china. and investigation. a 2 week study tour with very limited access to records samples and personnel is not an entire waste of time but it's not even remotely close to the kind of hole and unrestricted international forensic investigation which we need the u.s. and other countries have signed joint statement raising concerns about the report

w.h.o. director general of 100 gay priests has issued his strongest criticism of china to date saying it was difficult to access and the lab leak theory required more extensive assessment. they never expected the mission to produce a definitive answer about the origin of carbon 19 and a 2nd phase that percentage is required but as international criticism builds of the china's role in the study they make find a new kind of comes increasingly like this moment in the market walked off in. between al-jazeera. to myanmar and i 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 genter has been launching air and ground attacks against the army's group carette national liberation army and there are warnings that other rebel groups may soon be joining forces for what they call

a revolution of security forces don't stop killing on protesters there are at least 6 ethnic cons groups of one threatens to retaliate against the jinsa the current national liberation army is one of me and most oldest and largest rebel groups and they control areas in the southeast the iraq an army is fighting for autonomy in western rakhine states 3 other groups control territory in the east from the shan state army in the south to the time national liberation army and myanmar national democratic alliance army in the far north the kitchen independence army has also spoken out against the jointer and has reportedly attacked police and military posts in recent days and in myanmar cities peaceful demonstrations against last month's coup have been held in the ongoing protesters continue to demand a return to democracy despite 8 weeks of cracks and by security forces we've been calling on the international community to act against the giants are doing more

than condemn the violence a local rights groups say at least 521 people have been killed and more than 2600 were detained scott heide lawyer is following developments from bangkok in neighboring thailand. 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 they want to directly go against the tatmadaw the government forces because of what they've been doing not their individual fight their individual flight fight has been going on for quite some time 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 career in area which is just across the border from here

thailand into myanmar there are air strikes and that's why we saw that flow of people coming over about 3000 coming over to thailand fleeing that seeking refuge and medical attention and the thais said that they are there so there are still about 550 here in thailand thailand territory but the rest about 2200 were sent back tied fishel 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 myanmar and they believe that something needs to be done to stop that from continuing. in the coming hours the u.n. security council will hold a closed door meeting on the situation in myanmar a diplomatic answer james bays looks at what to expect. 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 the right 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 an 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 the. insights well join the meeting the security council will be briefed by christine for on a bus going to the u.n. envoy for me on ma she wants to visit the region and to visit the country itself

but so far she has not been granted permission. daniel agger day is a senior lecturer international law at the university over hampton was based and young between 20142018 he says it's important to remember the zone death and groups have been fighting the military on the government for decades many of these conflicts have been going on for 60 years they're just not in the news regular the what is different is this idea that unifying all the different minority armed groups and the fact that we're even discussing this is really a testament to the failure of the region and international community to ensure accountability this is a military that operates with impunity and has done so since the since since its independence and since since the military has been in control of the government

so that it's a real failure to hold anyone accountable accountable everyone in the country is now facing this brutal regime that a military characterized by atrocities and they are deciding that maybe this is a moment to come together and have a kind of final showdown but that you're dealing with a military that is a real military armed by you know international arms traders and dealers and countries. that a centralized large scale military with hundreds of thousands of soldiers it's not something that will be easily beaten and in a conflict and at the national level but if if we're going to deal with that situation you're talking about potential for regional instability other countries being drawn in refugee flows it's it's really at a point where you have. a regional response is required and we don't see anything forthcoming.

had. well the 3rd day of the trial against a former police officer who is charged with murdering george fluent in the us city of minneapolis is about to begin. to move testimonies from witnesses he described they tried to intervene to stop terrorist shove and from kneeling on george floyd snake well john hendren is following the trial in minneapolis and joins says joins me now from there john deere i'd sign the quote horse with that trial is set to commence what are you looking out for today. well this suppose every witness comes as a surprise because we don't get a witness list ahead of time all we know is there's a list of 400 names that either side can draw from but we do know that the 1st witness today will be a firefighter her name is genevieve hansen we know that because her testimony was

cut off at the end of the day yesterday she was quite combative with the defense counsel who was trying to argue that the crowd of people around the police when they were on top of george floyd was somehow hostile and aroud and she fired back and she said i don't know if you've ever witnessed a murder but it's disturbing that got her an admonishment from the judge who struck that from the record said that she was being argumentative and unresponsive took the jury out of the room in order to give her a bit of a scolding over that and then when she talked back to him he said don't argue with the court either so this could be an interesting bit of testimony beginning the day with her she is the person who as a paramedic a firefighter came upon the scene and thought that she might come across some of her colleagues and then when she saw george fluid on the ground underneath 3 police

officers she grew upset she said he appeared to be unconscious and indeed of medical. help she offered the police to help and was told to get back on the curb one of the officers there 'd to tell is his name he was the crowd controller on the scene said if you really are a minneapolis firefighter then you would know not to interfere with the police so she continued to try to offer her help in the end watched as george floyd's lifeless body was carried away yesterday we had 6 witnesses she was the last and her testimony of course is ongoing today but we also had a martial arts fighter who talked about what he observed as someone who specializes in chokeholds so it's kind of remarkable that we had 2 people there who were in a sense experts in what was going on there one of martial arts experts who said he recognized the so-called blood show cold but derek chauvelin the police officer was

exercising with his knee on the neck of george floyd and the other a firefighter a paramedic a qualified e.m.t. who was able to respond to scenes like that but in this case she said she was not allowed to and then we had 4 different witnesses who were 18 or under one as young as 9 years old saying that the incident made her sad and kind of angry. one of the women who took who took that iconic video that we've all watched said she watched it and felt helpless and that she goes home many a night and apologizes to george floyd for being unable to help save his life ok so a lot salute forward see when that trial does get underway with of course becoming back to you joe and straight as a but for now i thank you very much indeed john hendren outside the courthouse in minneapolis. now the long awaited report in the u.k. is denying the existence of institutional racism it was commissioned by the

government last year at the height of the global black clothes master movement and was released this cheese day the report blames family social class and location for existing inequality instead says the u.k. is not yet supposed racial society but should be regarded as a model for other whites majority countries activists are calling the findings of whitewash say they're going against the evidence of lived experience. he shares government says there was no attempt to coop by soldiers at the presidential palace on wednesday morning. or gunfire can clearly be heard on this video from witnesses in the capital me army the attack comes just 2 days ahead of president elect mohammed person swearing in is salience reportedly came from a nearby military base and fled after the incident authorities say a manhunt is underway for those responsible i heard address has the latest from

a neighboring nigeria. the incident started at around 2 o'clock g.m.t. that's why don't we are called 2 o'clock local to 3 o'clock local time and it lasted for nearly an hour before security forces put the rebellion down it's not clear exactly who they call leaders for attempted coup leaders but what we hear now from security sources is that several people have been arrested many of them military they have been stepped up military presence in the capital in the i mean we also understand that security has been stepped up across the borders none borders in egypt although the main airport in yemen has not been closed down but we understand that security forces are in fact looking for several individuals many of them politicians and military officers who may be responsible for what we've seen what we hear and so this morning on wednesday now the inauguration of president

mohamed by the president an economic boom is due in in 48 hours from now. probably this was an attempt to prevent that from happening and we don't know exactly what is going to happen whether this settlement would be scaled down because of the incident this morning or it will go with the pomp and pageantry that we used to see during presidential you know gracious in the. yemen's heathy rebels have rejected a leaked u.n. report suggesting that they are behind an attack on aid in airports at least 20 people were killed including a politician reports the security council says the missiles used were similar to those in the hoofy arsenal and were fired from areas under their control the rebels say any findings with an independent committee are biased and lack credibility the attack on is an airport was seen as an escalation in the 6 year civil war it's august members of president robert months were hard these governments the attack

happened as they were landing to meets u.a.e. back southern separatists after forming a unity government there were these denied involvement in the attack on saudi backed groups the saudi led coalition responded to the attacks with air strikes on with you controlled capital sana'a the following day the aide in airports attack also prompted then u.s. secretary of state and peo to designate the who these as a foreign terrorist organization that was reversed by the current biden administration who say in a highty is proof the journalist and he dies on the accuracy of the leaked findings . this is still not over shall i report released by the united nations still some leaks released by the way to them by some other side that's why we can take it as a fact but as mohammed ali al jose have said yesterday that any conclusion or any report that come from the united nations or u.n. security council with the say without any independent. committee

to verify those a result he said are rejected on of the world he said any facts that. these reports that are not. as he said feel debased he said they cannot be actually to throw over a fire and i just want to add that after the attack on the airport just maybe $3.00 to $5.00 days. united arab emirate with site based in the united states called a cat he has released the same report as it is could be based but to be honest with who is actually will benefit from the against the government of the so-called legitimacy of heidi is only the united arab emirates and just days ago united arab emirates supporters from 1700 have actually kicked out the government that's why they are actually the only one who are responsible for benefit for this attack. around 120 prisoners lone tree in libya more fully faster being released by the new

unity government not an official presence for films a gesture of goodwill whose police released or who used to have earlier surrendered peacefully and are not suspected of any crimes by the train system change from misrata. 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 into 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 $100.00 fighters loyal 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 are 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 take to start this reconsideration and this should it 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. and the nation's search crews have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a passenger jet that crashed in january as hopes it could provide clues about what led to the crash killing all 62 people on boards jesca washington reports from jakarta. a long search finally comes to an end in january.

carrying $62.00 passengers crashed into the java sea minutes after takeoff search crews have since been looking for the cockpit voice recorder. was the last of search by the ship we're praying that hopefully we could find it and thank god last night on the last night of the continued we found it. divers found the devices casing and beacon in the early days of this search but poor conditions made it difficult to find the recorder itself and there was no beacon signal to help the box was retrieved often mud was sucked up from the sea bed now investigators can cross check its findings with that of the other black box the flight data recorder . a message from the president is to be as open and transparent as possible to work out the reason so that similar incidents did not occur in the future early findings from investigators found technical problems with the 26 year old boeing 737500. the cockpit voice recorder is now safely in jakarta and in the hands of indonesia's

transport safety commission it's up to them to investigate its data and work out what went wrong on flight. according to a preliminary report problems with the automatic throttle created an imbalance in the thrust of the aircraft's engines the cockpit voice recorder is expected to have recorded the conversations of the pilots that investigators will study they need to know what the crew was doing what they were in a what they were saying to each other and from the conversations that could determine where there were or encountered problems or they didn't see what was coming. it will take around a week to analyze its data and the final report is likely to take months it's a process that's not uncommon in indonesia that has one of the worst aviation records in asia jessica washington al jazeera jakarta the leaders of all 3 branches of brazil's armed forces have resigned after the sacking of the defense minister

the dismissal was part of a cabinet overhaul by president gerry boyle scenario mccain a care for ports from rio de janeiro the commanders of the army the navy and the air force jointly left their posts after president jalal sinatra fired former defense minister fernandez available in a cabinet overhaul the new defense minister general but i got released a statement saying that all 3 commanders would be replaced. brazil's armed forces haven't seen anything like this in decades the 3 former commanders into finance minister made it clear to both sonority they will not allow the military to be involved in politics nor will they support any attempt to close congress overturn coronavirus curfews and lock downs imposed by governors and mayors. of crisis comes as brazil faces the worst phase in the cove in 1910 demick with daily deaths reaching almost 4000 at least 6000 are waiting for beds in intensive care

units being followed on from people have been talking for months about the risk of the public so.