we're going from here an educator we believe everyone has a story worth hearing the word. diplomats loyal to myanmar's military john to seize the embassy in london a lock the ambassador out meanwhile inside myanmar the crackdown continues reports of 11 more people being killed by security forces and a prominent celebrity detained. hello there i missed on the attain this is al jazeera life and also coming up our review has reinforced the risk of suspect it's not a great remains extremely smooth regulators in the u.k. and the e.u. detect a possible side effect of red blood clots from astra zeneca has covered 1000 vaccine

but say the benefits of the job still far outweigh potential risks. with thousands displaced by armed groups linked to beisel in mozambique regional leaders from southern africa are meeting to try to find a solution. now me on those embassador to the u.k. says he's been locked out of the embassy in london by those loyal to the military and thus take yours while man recently broke ranks with the generals calling for the release of aung san suu kyi now he appeared with a spokesman just a short time ago and he the british government to take steps. here. feel free that you good government where continue to demonstrate their rejection of the as a lawful. military regime and the working to bring democracy in myanmar. he trying to go in the middle ground but there is no doubt which is the

right side the military council has good nearly 600 people including 40 children. they have adept at doing the teaching. 1000 the united nation reporter for human rights. didn't mind their action likely to be the leader of that for the prime. humanity. the british foreign minister has condemned what he calls the bullying actions of military. while inside myanmar. is likely to appear in court in the coming hours she hasn't been seen in public since the coup the 75 year old is facing several charges including breaking a colonial era official secrets that carries a prison sentence of up to 14 years. all the military has now widened its crackdown from protesters on the streets to prominent celebrities just in the past few hours pine talk on

a leading actor who backed the protests was reportedly detained now earlier this week the jump to put 120 celebrities on a wanted list still this crackdown has not deterred protesters from calling for democracy across the country nearly 600 people including 48 children have now died and the blood tracks are full well it's now speak to france russia's marching developments in myanmar for us from kuala lumpur in malaysia france i see the ambassador has still not been let into the embassy this morning. that's right he hasn't been allowed back into the building he hasn't been in since wednesday according to a spokesman he had been recalled on march the 9th now in the june to the military seemingly taking the stand that you are either with them or against them 100 percent and the ambassador had previously called for the release of aung san suu kyi the democratically elected leader of myanmar should won the elections last year

now the spokesman for the ambassador said in a press conference just hours ago outside the embassy in london has urged the british government not to recognize the military representatives who are now claiming that they are the u.k. that they are now the envoys to the u.k. now of course while all this is still being played out there could be implications for the other myanmar diplomats around the world now as for aung san suu kyi she hasn't been seen in public since she was detained she is due to appear in court on thursday via video conference but many of her previous hearings have been postponed with a court citing poor internet connection and she faces several charges ranging from the. one of breaching import export law simply for being in possession of unlicensed walkie talkies to the more serious one of violating official secrets act but the way the cases have been handled including the numerous postponements the 5 that have lawyers say they have had difficulty gaining access to her and the new

charges that have been appearing from time to time including one that appeared 2 months after she was detained all lending weight to the argument that she's not going to get a fair trial and also that these charges have been made up to kill her off politically because if you remember the junto has said that they will hold elections without giving a timeline and if she's convicted of course she won't be able to stand for the actions of course and friends looking at these wanted lists they include actors musicians even social media influences and those arrests have already begun. that's right punk a con is the latest public figure to be arrested his family said security offices came into the homes in the early hours in the early hours of thursday morning and took him away they don't know where he's being held and just a few days ago. security officers arrested going to a well known comedian now he's known for being politically outspoken he was critical of military leaders even when they were leading the country before the democratic transition in 2010 and now he's once again under arrest i mean the

tactic is to strike fear in the hearts of protesters to show that no one is safe from from arrest but this hasn't deterred people from taking to the streets in towns and cities big and small across now and we're seeing that again on thursday somehow protesters local media they're finding ways to upload photographs of these demonstrations on social media despite a near total internet shutdown by the military junta and people taking part in these protests knowing they could be killed or they could be arrested now and there's also increasingly reports that some protesters are beginning to fight back we're getting reports from local media that in the town of tansy at least 11 protesters were killed they were fighting back using fire bombs hunting rifles knives and these skirmishes these clashes continued into thursday morning and there's no sign of indication that either side is willing or ready to back down and analysts increasingly have rather gloomy predictions about the future for myanmar

which solution said in its latest report that the escalating violence against civilians and ethnic militias show that the military is increasingly losing control of myanmar and its predicting an armed a violent revolution between the military and armed opposition science friday there across all those developments for us from kuala lumpur thanks so much flown. well as flo referred to a humanitarian crisis is emerging in areas bordering myanmar and thailand thousands of people have recently fed ex strikes in corrent state there are reports of schools and homes being destroyed on wednesday clashes were reported between the army and fighters from the qur'an national liberation army the kenya has been a vocal opponent of the janitor well we can speak to soar to be the spokesperson of the qur'an peace support network we're joined from chloe or lay in myanmar's korean state thanks so much for joining us at this time i want to start you by asking what the situation is like on the ground at the moment i know there have been airstrikes

there over the last week is the fighting still continuing. yes. but all this market that's not been and the jet fighters fly over the kinda territory but we have seen a lot of drones continue to surveillance the areas and right now we have more than 30000 internally displaced people hiding in the jungle because they don't know where the jet fighters are coming again and they don't know where and when they go to drop the bombs again so distraught this more than 20000 internally displaced people is currently in its humanitarian effect and carignan has. put a very wrist at that border extract social materia effects that coming from thailand to cross that it is very much and the control type already and we

have not see. human assets being alone by already much so these people need immediate humanitarian access right now and we are requesting entire thought yes well to launch an attack such to these people and that even the jet fighters are coming in again and continue to drop bombs in this area than also requires the pentagon that you allow them to take refuge in parasite well it sounds like there's a huge amount of fear that how do you and your own family feel when it comes to a hasty both at home and outside. well actually i'm in another territory also can you not drive in the territory of where the bomb in strike now i mean in the previous week but 1 we have also see the jeff i guess i'll fly over in that church you went on today right now so the situation of whether there will be that they will bomb again this is not we do not know that so we have to be very

cautious about. that just by just by over our head so we have seen a lot of people are not diggin coast and at night time they cannot sleep in the vanish but they are sleeping in the bunkers in the in the forest well there was a truce in corrent state that cayley i know there's also been talk of potentially ethnic i'm groups across myanmar uniting to try to take on the military since the coup in february when all the civil society coalition there in qur'an how do you feel about that do you think you need to give up short term peace to gain longtime peace and progress right now this is a very critical time and we need all democrat to focus us clue dating and all the parties into the ethnic politics up by the a secluded did lead us off as in the group on as issues to come together to walk together with the spa from international communities to remove that military rule

from once and for and that these illegitimate littery this man to transmit to be nice to be and that immediately so that. the people are going to continue to live peacefully and give a lot. so we need to mention a calm individual collaborate with the people of myanmar we need the international community is not to recognize these illegitimate military who are not to recolonize the military government that is being set up now we need the international community is to take action against there by not engaging with these military government so that we can remove this military for oneness of all and then we can do to reduce a further do not read it country so when you know we can and will want and hopefully the country saw to be that the spokes person of the qur'an peace support network speaking to us from qur'an states thanks so much for joining us here. thank

you. to the pandemic now and health regulations of both the u.k. and the e.u. say they are still confident and asked was that it has been 1000 vaccine and its effectiveness even off to find a good many cause blood clotting in very rare cases that risk could be greater amongst younger people prompting some governments to restrict or advise against its use in low age groups. well india which is one of the world's biggest vaccine produces has temporarily put a hold on major astra zeneca exports the country is also battling a bigger and more severe wave of the coronavirus a record 126000 new cases were reported on thursday and that rises even prompted new zealand to temporarily suspend entry for all travelers from india for the next 2 weeks. india is struggling with delays in the arrival of astra zeneca

vaccines it will only receive $20000000.00 doses of those vaccines this year that's $30000000.00 less than expected the rest will only be shipped in 2022 well just to washington has all the latest for us from jakarta just how is this news of decreased vaccine surprise going over i can't imagine joker reloaders very pleased especially given what he's had to say about vaccine nationalism. well that's exactly right indonesia set very ambitious targets early on of vaccinating 118000000 indonesians by early next year by march 2022 now what's become much clearer in recent days is setting these targets and the reality of a vaccine rollout of 2 very different things now earlier we heard from president joko widodo who said that vaccine hoarding doesn't achieve anything and that all countries developed poor developing need equal access to vaccines because unless that happens this pandemic won't and we heard from the health minister earlier

today who said astra zeneca his actions are unacceptable because it's not only the delay that you mentioned of 30000000 doses pushed back to next year but potentially even more than that indonesia is waiting on $54000000.00 doses off the astra zeneca vaccine through the kovacs scheme but because of potential delays that are coming in because of vaccines manufactured in india there's a potential that vaccines expected to arrive this month in april might not arrive until may or potentially much later now indonesia's vaccine rollout has so far been relatively successful but it hasn't happened at the pace that the government would like an indonesian president has said that's simply a matter of supply and now $10000000.00 indonesians have been vaccinated but the program could slow down if supply becomes an issue jessica washington there with all the latest for us from the indonesian capital jakarta thanks so much to us want just in the past hour the african union has said it's dropping plans to buy astra

zeneca vaccines from india's serum institute and they will now pivot to johnson and johnson instead well let's bring in jerome ken he is the director general of the international that's in institute and he joins us now from seoul mr kim this statement from the african union that's really quite the move could other regions potentially follow. it's always possible in the at the bad news about asher zanuck is it really amplified by the fact that at this point we don't have many alternatives available that are approved by the world health organization and that could theoretically be available in reasonable supply by mid year to later in this year so you know johnson and johnson is still in the process of scaling up its production you know could it also have some supply interruptions or delays in production yes i mean we've seen that with all the vaccines including the i need section so i want to get into the logistics of mind that but i am curious and i'm

sure many of our view is to about why the astra zeneca vaccine but a more likely to cause cuts in younger people is it to do with a stronger immune response potentially. you know we don't have the answer to that question there is a very you know scientific explanation we think it looks like a very rare clotting disorder that occurs in in certain people who get. a blood thinner called heparin. but we still can't explain why it occurs and why it seems to be a little more common in young women is there an association with birth control pills is there you know prior coping infection or active code infection because a covered $1000.00 itself can cause blood clots so right now the sign we don't have a firm explanation for why this rare event is occurring but we do know that you know by and large the vaccine is safe it is preventing disease it is through venting hospitalizations and so countries have to really balance the risk of the

relatively rare complication of blood clots which is occurring between you know one in 100001 in 500000 jabs and the real risk of infection and deaths and also the the 2nd very important thing which is uncontrolled operates are the source of variance and these very and viruses are beginning to threaten the progress that we've made in terms of vaccine development so we really have a series of very very difficult choices to make about the deployment of vaccines and the availability of vaccines well obviously vaccines or any lack of people take them there's already so much back pain hesitancy that we're thing especially in parts of the developing well i mean all of the bad press can't be helping with that not just with the astra zeneca vaccine but sensual so with all those. yes absolutely and you know i mean we we have focused on the need for safe and

efficacious vaccine and fortunately right now we don't have a lot of vaccines to offer through the kovacs the syllabi because really and very critically all that scene's have to be reviewed and approved by the world health organization and right now the vaccines from china and the sputnik 5 vaccine from russia are not completely through the process yet although the world health organization did say that the chinese actions were safe and efficacious they stopped short of saying that the vaccines were approved and that means that there are not a lot of alternatives and particularly there are not ultra news that are available in the supply is necessary in order to vaccinate as many people as possible as quickly as possible to run in canada the director general of the international vaccine unsetting great to get your insights on out of here with us thanks so much for joining us once again. well still ahead here on out as. the u.s. commits to removing all remaining combat forces from iraq that questions remain as

to read perhaps. he was not attempting to solve the officers cake punch or anything of that nature in the trial of a former u.s. . here's more evidence that the force used during his arrest was excessive and unnecessary. hello we've got the usual rash of showers across much of southeast asia more lively downpours into indonesia where we have of course recently seen some flooding further north some rather wet weather there into thailand as well 59 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours the average for the entire month of viper's around $65.00 millimeters so a significant amount of rainfall the rains will set in properly from next month was walsh i was there in sioux were thailand into may potentially pushing down across

a good part of cambodia as well but he has showers in soo much of malaysia and we're still seeing that very wet weather there into java across a good part of indonesia more of the same as we go on through saturday notice by saturday some very heavy rain could lead some localized flooding in southern parts of cambodia more wet weather coming back into thailand i mean some very wet weather just off the west coast of australia of course we've talked about this for the past couple of days a little circulation here that is a tropical storm that's going to continue feeding its weight just stuff sure it may just keep the far west of australia as we go through friday with some very wet weather as we go on towards the weekend much of ours is looking fine and dry plenty of sunshine little bit of wet weather just around the nullable there pushing over towards the southeast and colder with rain that for the sealant. golems rightwing government and the catholic church are the very best of friends

the curse supports the government the government supports the church their critics claim they both draw power from demonizing others they find an enemy and then they try and scare the people with that and instead ideology hatred but have recent changes to abortion laws pushed the public too far. people in power investigates poland's church and state alliance on a physio. order week. oh. hello again i'm the solitary and let's remind you of our top stories here this hour . to the u.k. says he's been locked out of the embassy in london by those loyal to the military

he appeared with a spokesman for the british government not to recognize the military's envoy. health regulators in the u.k. and the e.u. say the benefits of astra zeneca is covert 1000 vaccine outweigh the risks among a handful of people they've identified a possible link between those jobs and red blood clots some governments have moved to restrict its use among younger people. and india has reported more than $126000.00 new coronavirus cases on fast outs a new record and struggling to contain a 2nd wave of infections come to new zealand to temporarily suspend and treat all travelers from india. now 6 southern african leaders are meeting in mozambique to address the growing of violence and instability in the region the latest in a series of attacks by iceland on groups has forced thousands of people from their homes the 16 member southern african development community has called those attacks an affront to peace in mozambique and the entire region. following all of this for

us from johannesburg in neighboring south africa for me to sort of has been grappling with this conflict for some years now without much progress has what we saw happen in palm and the huge number of people who've been displaced has not created a greater sense of urgency here. well it's certainly likely that the incident in palm as become a tipping point for regional leaders in this in this area we know that the southern african development community has been meeting since at least a major 2020 and very little as you say has happened until now but it's likely that mozambique the muslim beacon government will face mounting pressure from regional leaders around decisive action to deal with the increasing security threat in the north of the country for instance the south african intelligence reports that they are possibly south africans involved with those militants in the north of the country and also just following the attack in parma at least

a 1000 more muslim beacons try to seek asylum in neighboring tanzania they crossed the border on foot or try to at least but the u.n. was reporting that they weren't granted the asylum that they were looking for so this is a security threat and a humanitarian catastrophe really you've got about 6 or 700000 wasn't beacons have been displaced this is a situation that is affecting the region and it's likely that mozambique will have to make a decision today or in the coming days around regional intervention the southern african development community executive secretary saying that they're putting forward proposals for coordinated regional intervention and we know that to mozambique so fire has been resistant but we also know that the mozambique an army has had limited capacity to deal effectively with the security threat in that country made a military across that missing for us and has backed thanks so much for media on

how the u.s. has agreed to withdraw all their remaining combat forces from iraq which were deployed there to fight against eisel the talks with iraq's government haven't settled on a timeline mike hanna reports now from washington d.c. the u.s. was represented by secretary of state turn to be blinken in his 1st direct virtual talks with the iraqi government. foreign minister fired hussein head of the iraqi delegation emphasizing the high level nature of the discussions and his national security adviser made clear that the u.s. military presence in iraq was top of the agenda. and the 2 sides agreed that there will be no american military bases in iraq and therefore there will be no foreign bases this is what was agreed upon today at the end of the 3rd round of the strategic dialogue relations between the 2 countries have been fraught particularly following the u.s. airstrike in january last year that killed top iranian general custom sort of money

and an iraqi militia leader near baghdad airport. in the wake of the attack iraq he lawmakers passed a non-binding resolution on u.s. led coalition forces leaving the country and though relations have improved slightly off to mystify me took over as prime minister some parties like the iran backed fatah bloc continue to demand u.s. withdrawal. the calls for the field after president biden ordered an air strike on a militia base on the syrian side of the iraqi border in january. u.s. soldiers and contractors are the targets of regular attacks by militia groups and the biden and ministrations says it will not hesitate to respond if the iraqi government doesn't. despite all these factors the u.s. does not in visit imminent withdrawal

a pentagon spokesman making clear that though this is a subject of ongoing discussion there is no timeline. the mission still valid the invitation by the iraqi government is still in place and we're continuing as we have been even before today's talks to talk with the iraqi government about what that what that mission in that footprint supposed to look like all u.s. troops were withdrawn from iraq by december 2011. president obama ordered their return 3 years later to assist iraqi forces in the battle against i saw some 2 and a half 1000 troops to remain in what the pentagon says is increasingly a training capacity following the latest round of talks it appears they too will leave the question that is when mike hanna al-jazeera washington.

now an expert in the use of force has testified at the trial of the former police officer who's accused of killing george floyd jodie steiger said derrick 7 used inappropriate deadly force when nearly on for its neck for more than 9 minutes he added that the pressure from savings body weight could also cause a form of a fix alan fischer reports now from minneapolis. back in the witness box on day 8 the man employed by the prosecution as a use of force expert sergeant jody steiger walks with the los angeles police inspector general's office he investigates police wrongdoing he analyzed what happened to george floyd his verdict this was the unnecessary use of lethal force you have an opinion to a degree reasonable professional certainty how much worse was reasonable for the defendant to use on mr floyd after mr floyd was handcuffed placed in a prone position and not resisting. yet as in my opinion was that i know for sure

that the news once. he was in that position. the defense has argued the police officers attending to george floyd were distracted what about a growing frustrated crowd that insisted mr steiger was not an issue because i did not perceive them as being a threat. and why is that. because they were merely filming and they were most of it was their concern for mr ford. and. i did the agent in charge of the investigation of the death of george floyd told the court the size of the investigation dozens of agents hundreds of statements in reply to defense question he agreed to 20 george floyd seem to suggest drugs was a factor but then later corrected himself saying he was no clear about what he had hair harry heard in context to tell. mr foreigners saying yes i believe

mr ferguson and i do not drugs. little different than what you were asked in a. portion of the video yes thursday it will start with legal arguments can the man who was with george floyd on the night of the incident give evidence morris hall is what he that is answers could put him in legal jeopardy that if. is keen to hear from an. al-jazeera at the derrick sugar murder trial in minneapolis. kind of at us as al-jazeera and these are the headlines and back to the u.k. says he's been locked out of the embassy in london by those loyal to the military.