in the stories from people in places like palestine libya young man the sahara legion and so many others we go to them you make you afterwards we care we stay. reports of the 1st attack in myanmar by a coalition of ethnic rebel groups targeting police. hello i'm adrian for the good this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iran tests centrifuges that are capable of enriching uranium much faster than the ones allowed under 2015 nuclear deal. more progress to the north of ireland issues surrounding the u.k.'s exit from the european union are among the grievances that.

on both no worries in tunisia as film industry attention to make a pandemic comeback and. we start our a coalition of rebel forces reportedly launched a major attack on security forces for the 1st time at least 10 officers a set of been killed in the eastern shan state last month 3 rebel groups announced that they were joining forces against the military jointer and in bargo about 90 kilometers northeast of yangon details are emerging of a violent crackdown on friday activists say that the military killed more than 80 people out of serious 20 chuang as the latest. even before the sun rose the sounds of battle raged men miles armed forces moving into the city of fargo an important

gateway to the south behind the barricades the protesters tried to stand their ground but the military advance was fierce automatic gunfire and evidence that heavier weapons pictures posted to social media appear to show rifle launched grenades the reports that 3 of men miles ethnic rebel groups attacked a police station in the far eastern shan state on saturday morning unity amongst these disparate groups could be. the mattick for the military as it faces attacks on its outposts and civil unrest in towns and cities at a news conference in yangon the gintas spokesman said support for the protests was waning and the death toll is considerably lower than reported with an ominous warning. if we really shoot at the protest group using automatic rifles the $500.00 you referred to could be killed within hours but the evidence from mandalay on saturday suggest protesters is still out in large numbers marching through the

streets despite the threat of detention or worse. some have fled the cities however for the relative safety of the bases of the ethnic rebel groups along the border while the conditions may be basic the alternative could have been worse you will need you know you will need we know that if we were to get arrested the security forces would not let us live they'd kill us so we had to run away. and the steady flow of people heading towards the borders is growing as many now fear myanmar is on an unavoidable course toward civil war and a short time ago turning gave us details of the latest developments in the. it's been reported the attack was launched by these 3 groups at 5 am at the police station it's about 20 kilometers outside on the mandalay last show highway an important road heading towards the chinese border one which the myanmar military

control but somebody described it to me you know as the area a little while ago it was a soft target you could see from from pictures that it was defended with barbed wire but it must have been a fairly ferocious attack exemption status say that between 10 and 14 policemen killed in the compound families of the policemen were also living and a number of people are being reported injured. said that the military then sent a helicopter to fly over the area about an hour after the attack finished 7 am local time that then caused the 3 ethnic groups to leave the area although there are conflicting reports as to whether there are still fighting going on but i think it is very significant that they have shown they're prepared to launch this attack since the coup on february 1st there's been talk about the ethnic groups forming an alliance getting together and we've seen various agreements being signed within

some of these groups but it was also being felt they were disparate they had conflicting interests well now we've seen them actually work together on an attack that could make the military feel vulnerable in some of the more extreme outposts. on friday the u.n. security council heard pleas from the people of myanmar for action to stop the crackdown at an unofficial meeting of council members our diplomatic editor james pay is reports. that as the military continues its crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protesters there are also now reneging on their own promises a spokesman for the jointer says although at the time of the coup they pledged to hold elections in a year they now won't take place for 2 years at the u.n. in new york a meeting was held to give security council ambassadors a picture of the deteriorating situation people feel that they are left alone to face the brutal regime armed to its feet start from by the same international

actors who preventing action the military nor darkened a nation's housing a test of the security. with the council well council where over language in yet another statement are we apt to save the lives of the people myanmar's u.n. ambassador who opposes the generals called for a no fly zone an arms embargo and targeted sanctions. the the state action. this meeting was organized by the u.k. all security council members were invited but it wasn't a formal security council meeting both china and russia which object to an official open meeting only sent low level diplomats not surprisingly both countries seem opposed to any sanctions on the generals we share the same the main thrust of recent diplomacy has been in the region here earlier this week the indonesian

foreign minister meeting her u.k. counterpart i'm told a meeting of the leaders of the 10 countries in the regional as the only group is likely in indonesia in the next 2 weeks but how do you persuade the generals to talk and to give ground the un special envoy christine sharana bergen has had her permission to visit myanmar denied i'm told there are some countries that are contemplating the idea of appeasing the generals and giving them a future role in the governance of the country something that would appall human rights activists and those protesting on the streets jamesburg al-jazeera at the united nations western powers including the u.s. the u.k. and the european union have imposed economic sanctions to try to force the jointer interest or in democracy the ministry's cash flows through 2 large entities economic holdings ltd and the m r economic corp there are more than 100 companies from construction to tourism and

banking these companies are often run by family members or current or former military officials that also includes children of the leader of the military government general men aung climb that they've now been put under u.s. sanctions called david says they may have more policy advisor for the ngo global witness he says targeted sanctions will impact the military and have no effect on civilians. these companies are kind of set up with the explicit explicit purpose of benefitting members of the military and members of. and the military itself as an institution these companies are not providing significant amounts of jobs to nonmilitary people they're not from. members of the public are not a significant shareholders these companies do business with with international many international companies and that does that that certainly limit the amount of affective ness that they can they can have say 2 things one 1st of all it's

important to these sanctions are important just as a as a condemnation of the militaries behavior i think the international community is kind of been horrified by what they've been seeing hundreds of people murdered in the streets thousands of people detained in nighttime raids and it's important for the international community to take a stand and say that this is this is not acceptable. but also these sanctions need to be played paired with with intense regional diplomatic efforts we've already seen that the indonesian government and other governments within southeast asia have called for a reverse of this coup even the chinese government has explained express displeasure with the military for this so you know this is this is also part of this needs to be put sanctions need to be paired with a broader diplomatic push and regional engagement with countries that do have diplomatic influence in myanmar in order to make them more effective and also to push diplomatic efforts to resolve the current crisis forward iran says that it's

begun testing new advanced iranian and richmond centrifuges just ahead of another round of talks in vienna president tom rouhani made the announcement during a virtual meeting on iran's annual national nuclear technology day tehran has been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2050 nuclear deal since the u.s. pulled out on the donald trump of the policies of the deal a trying to revive it as i said big reports now from rob. this is. national day of nuclear chief this day came about back in 2006 when iran managed to enrich uranium to about 3.5 percent using centrifuges made in the country now we were expecting over 130 announcement of new achievements are in relation to its nuclear program now iran is using more advanced centrifuges and feeding into them but also began production of the centrifuges that's important because under the 2015 nuclear deal iran is restricted to using older and less efficient centrifuges

not these ones but also. apparently the production of the centrifuges was damaged because of apparent sabotage last summer and now iran says that they are producing this now this is all in the context of those talks that took place in vienna and did yesterday continue next week on wednesday and this is just iran showing that they will continue along this line along this path as long as those sanctions are not lifted and. the europeans are not living up to their commitments and iran has been pretty transparent about it they've told the international atomic agency of what they've been doing and as far as iran is concerned they're within the agreement to take what they see as remedial measures but the europeans and i think this is a breach but the supreme leader said just 2 weeks ago that iran will continue down this path as some of the other countries don't fulfill their responsibilities but it does add that extra layer of complexity to those talks because as time goes by iran continues to take steps further away from those restrictions imposed on its

nuclear program as part of that 2015 nuclear deal the president and ukraine have held talks in istanbul russia want. selenski and not delivering a joint press conference they've been discussing a wide range of issues including defense steals trade and tourism some consumer reports now from istanbul. this is the 2nd time as a lensky and don come together after last october and last october in 2022 countries signed many deals many economic cooperation deals and they're in mosig ones over worthy actually defense corp d s ukraine a is purchasing turkey's groans of the drones that turkey has been using in its on to terra peroration is in iraq syria and also in libya and basically at the new generation of drones will be equipped with the ukrainian engines this is also an

important defense industry cooperation between the 2 countries but of course it is important the time is this is important because given the latest tension over ukraine between moscow and washington and united states officials pentagon officials announced that they are deploying 2 u.s. navy ships or warships to the black sea and they notified turkey about those vessels and. as per the terms of the monterey groom and that provides turkey give permit to the war vessels those u.s. warships will reach the black sea on april 14th and 15 and russia's also russia sees all these as. as as provocations by ukraine and by united states against itself a weather update next to our sera berman lockdowns and swore in corona virus infections across south america we'll have a live update from argentina and archaeologists in egypt recovering the secrets of

the largest ancient satellite telephone in the country. i once again we've got more showers just around the eastern side of the merits. rainy and central and eastern parts of turkey remain on the cool side that cold air now slipping down across cyprus into that western side of syria lebanon jordan also seeing some of that cooler as i want to say showers making their way towards southern parts of the caspian maybe a sharrow to the northern areas of iran maybe a little bit of a wintry mix over towards northern parts of afghanistan but south of that generally not too bad a little legacy of cloud he can just make out says just moving across the kuwait that will eventually just drag its way just to the north of us here in cots temperatures generally getting up into the low thirty's over the next day plenty of

hazy sunshine and then notching up early next week plenty of hazy sunshine just around the horn of africa larry is the shallows there it's essential in southern parts of atheist and then the shah was about if they ramp up once again is the southern parts of uganda some heavy downpours over towards the democratic republic of congo i was saying some very heavy rain now starting to push its way up into the gulf of guinea the show is extend across the northern parts of angola know them areas of zambia well in parts of mozambique but to the south of that it's fine dry and sunny. but. frank assessments the world is on a brink. that model fabian is that a fair assessment you via catastrophic global hialeah to twice as valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be

sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines the inside story. hello again this is al jazeera the main news this hour reports are emerging that the a mosque military killed more than 80 people in the town of boggo on friday in a separate incident a coalition of the rebels is claiming its 1st major attack against security forces that. iran says that it's begun using advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges just ahead of another round of talks in vienna president hassan rouhani made the

announcement during a virtual ceremony to mark the country's national nuclear technology day and the presidents of turkey and you train up and holding talks in istanbul defense steals a free trade agreement with tourism a high on the agenda. several police officers were injured in another night of street violence in northern ireland protesters in belfast threw petrol bombs and rammed a burning car into a police vehicle despite calls for calm out of respect for the death of prince philip young pro british loyalists have been rising every night now for more than a week angry about post breaks it's issues from belfast under seventh's has more on the causes of the violence 2 decades after the good friday agreement brought peace to northern ireland. many had warned about the fragile peace in northern ireland being threatened by arrangements over bricks it coming back to the good friday agreement on this day it was signed 23 years ago and it is being the center

point of those bricks and negotiations the end result was to avoid a hard hard border to put it across the r a c that cause chaos and trade for northern ireland it led to a whole area of dissent and then into mingled with a whole range of other issues with republicans demonstrating quite clearly their strength during a funeral exactly well nearly just exactly a year ago the story and i are a member of a veteran i remember had died and the police did took no action with the 2000 people amongst them in fein leaders who broke coded regulations apparently now the loyalists of the unionist politicians have said point blank the police should have taken action and we have amongst this or all of this with the police under pressure a call from the 1st minister ali and foster for the chief constable of northern

ireland to resign which he refuses to do so you have that going on as an irritation to loyalists who are furious about that add to that the nature of the paramilitaries the loyalist paramilitaries being involved in organized crime some theories suggest that they are the cause of a lot of this violence they're actually organizing it and in fact calling for a low in all of the violence because of prince philip dying that was breached on friday night as we saw and now there is a worry that this could go on this is not going away by no means. is the director of. the european of us the institute she says that it was clear well before the referendum the brakes would be dangerous for all but island and current events were predictable. it's happening because there's an impossible problem there once the left is into markers in the customs union it has an international border

with the arn and it's a member state of the wind main so a border has to go somewhere and from the beginning it was realised that you can't simply couldn't police the 300 crossings of the land border and people who live on that border voted decisively against bretz it so they simply would not give their consent so then the only result to get the kind of threats that the boris johnson wanted which was sovereignty 1st breakfast was that there he had to a border in the irish sea having himself said that no british prime minister was doing so and this has undermined. the loyalist. their sense that london will take care of them it has raised issues of identity the demographics in northern ireland are shifting so the loyal loyalists immunise feel

more vulnerable now and this then comes on top of a lot of socio economic problems in loyalist areas so what we're seeing in the minority and today it's very dangerous it's not just a problem for the u.k. government i think london dublin brussels and i would also say washington needs to look carefully at the protocol grama time at the checks if necessary some of those checks should happen in fact before breaking the pay to northern ireland and now the e.u. see all of the computer and the computer systems and data systems on watches watches cross in and then d. dramatize everything but that still doesn't solve the political problem which is there must be a border and the one thing about the sea is people don't live on the sea where is a land border in my view is completely impossible. so the protocol will have survived but he they really and i don't just mean london but everyone involved with

power and authority need to make sure that ees streamlined to the extent possible that it is minimized to the extent possible but there still would remain a problem for loyalism at a time as i already said all that is significant democrat demographic shift in northern ireland and the group in northern ireland that neither identifies as loyal as unionist or nationalists are the group who will determine whether or not northern ireland stays long term in the united kingdom. and. thailand has set up 10 field hospitals in bangkok to deal with a surge in the number of coronavirus patients the new facilities can accommodate up to 3000 people time on a struggling with a new wave of infections with 500 new cases reported on friday. and new corona virus infections in india have hit a record high for the 4th day more than 145000 cases were reported on saturday.

haiti is yet to receive a single covert 19 vaccine it's supposed to be receiving 3 quarters of a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from the u.s. but that's been delayed after the country missed deadlines for essential paperwork countries across latin america and the caribbean began receiving jobs under the kovacs came 5 weeks ago. colombia's capital bogota is being put under a strict 3 day lockdown the city of 8000000 is facing complete restrictions on mobility and the panel or alcohol sales coronavirus cases are surging across the country with the number of new infections doubling over the last month intensive care units are rapidly approaching capacity that of amber of cities and argentina has broken its record for the number of new corona virus infections for the 4th straight day more than 24000 new cases of covert 19 were reported in the latest 24 hour report the government has recently brought in tougher restrictions in an

effort to contain a new wave of infections live out of water. is monitoring developments for us that danielle has been an increase in deaths and covert 19 affections across latin america particularly in brazil some political tension also as a consequence what's being done to tackle it all. well certainly all of us a jew and i mean it seems to come and go we have restrictions imposed in one city or one country the rates of infection and deaths go up the restrictions are lifted there's opposition to those restrictions quite often demonstrations on the streets often politicians in the case of brazil president job also naro getting behind or promoting the opposition to those measures to try to control the pandemic so then you have individual states or cities imposing restrictions the really it is a whole of measures imposed around the whole region at the same time as you

mentioned we have rates are rising brazil is now reporting around about $4000.00 deaths a day during the past week the rate of infection here in argentina has gone up the health minister in paraguay is talking about the health system which is reaching a breaking point the same time where you mention that the vaccine started arriving here about 5 weeks ago but we're seeing very few of these across the region with the possible exception of chile which has vaccinated more than half its population the rest of latin america is struggling to get those vaccines in many are waiting for the kovacs scheme to kick in that will help poorer poor nations around the world to receive the vaccines but they are coming in dribs and drabs and as you mentioned haiti not at all 11000000 people there the official figures are the only 250 people have died about 12000 infected most observers observe suspect those

figures are much much higher it's a country embroiled at the moment in political and criminal violence many problems their infrastructure health industry infrastructure which is always been very poor off so a serious situation there was so accusations of corruption money being sent to the country is not accounted for. it's a serious situation unlikely to receive any vaccinations there at least probably until the end of may see yes a grim picture really right across latin america 0. reporting live from one of our as dale many thanks. chinese regulators find the alibaba group nearly $3000000000.00 for violating anti monopoly rules the world's biggest e-commerce platform has been penalized for reportedly abusing its dominant market position. has been under scrutiny from chinese authorities for criticizing the country's regulator system thousands of people living near

a volcano on the caribbean island fled after an explosive eruption experts of more explosions are child free reports. it had been rumbling for months before it finally. a choking cloud of gray ash plume of smoke filled the sky to free air erupted for the 2nd time there was panic and chaos as residents try to escape here let's get this load our exposure here that's. starting. so. there you go. thousands of people have managed to reach safer ground but some were late to heat warnings once as lucky and stranded on the side of the road desperately trying to reach safety. support to be moved. but it didn't materialize as

a result of course. looking for. the volcano has lain dormant for more than 40 years scientists are likely to keep erupting for days even weeks the government says out of the 16000 people who live near the volcano roughly 2000 have been moved to shelters thousands of others have been evacuated by ships and by road but it could be months before they're allowed to return to their homes marriage child 3. a lost city has been discovered an age of the largest ancient settlement ever found it was uncovered while searching for the mortuary city of king tut and col moon they look saw as reports. while piecing together the remains of an ancient civilization archaeologists in egypt came across something unexpected clay pottery wine vessels and colorful jewelry from

a city the has not been seen in 3400 years we believe that this girl didn't last the city is the most important discovery after the discovery of images on come what i call the golden because the rest found in the golden age of egypt 39 q n.b.c. i cared less city because it was lest moon only believed that the city could exist here. it's the largest ancient city ever found in egypt according to the team that discovered it several neighborhoods and homes with walls nearly 3 meters high a bakery kitchen and areas for making sandals and selling clothing and people who may have worn them it's believed this is where worship of the sun god antón began i wanted to see if in medina that he did have to facilitate the discovery of the city has given us insight into the daily lives of ancient egyptians we've always believed that ancient egyptian culture was one of death and resurrection but now we know these details about the lives of the ancient egyptian. on the west bank of the

nile river it's a once in a century finding dating back to the rule of king to thomas grandfather and egyptologist say they're just getting started and are chapelle al-jazeera. well if you enjoy that there are plenty more video reports along with the latest news analysis and comment and links to some of our best programmes documentaries at the website at al-jazeera dot com. it is good to have you with us hello adrian said again here in doha the headlines all out 0 reports are emerging that myanmar's military killed more than 80 people in the town of foggo on friday in a separate incident a coalition of rebels is claiming its 1st major attack against security forces 10 soldiers were reported to been killed in shan states attorney chang reports now from bangkok.