this is g.w. news coming to you live from berlin the military has seized power in myanmar the army has declared a state of emergency and is taking control of the country government officials including defacto leader aung sun suu kyi have been detained a number of countries are calling on the military to restore democracy immediately also coming up security forces crackdown on protesters in brusha tens of thousands had taken to the streets in cities across the country to demand the release of jailed kremlin critic alexina bonnie police arrested more than 5 miles. this

frustration grows over the slow rollout of paxson nations in germany the government and vaccine makers meet in an effort to find a solution. hello i'm terry barton good to have you with us the military in myanmar has carried out a coup d'etat they've seized control of the country and detained key government officials including the country's defacto leader also also cheap the military accuses the government of failing to act on claims of voter fraud in last november's election they announced a one year state of emergency on the news channel they own in myanmar. in order to perform scrutiny on the voter lists and take actions. of the nation's law making it governance and jurisdiction is handed over to the commander in chief

according to the 2008 constitution article 419. well there's been widespread condemnation of the military's takeover me on bar the new u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken expressed grave concern over the reports and warn myanmar's military to reverse its actions immediately and the un secretary general antonio terrence released a statement strongly condemning the detention of zones of cheap president when mint and other political leaders in myanmar he said the developments are a serious blow to democratic reforms in the country. well for more now let's cross over to philip sure well he's a correspondent for the sunday times and joins us from bangkok philip what more can you tell us about this coup. yes well what should have been happening in man march

today was that m.p.'s were shed year old to sit for the 1st time in parliament since the national league for democracy of on sun city won a crushing overwhelming victory in general elections in november the pro-military parties were in those same elections were humiliatingly defeated but since and those parties and the generals have been insisting that there was a letter for the parliament shouldn't sit today and all day we're sort of dismissing this we're pressing had so we would have had a parliament opening this morning just a few hours before that under the cover of darkness in the early hours the military moved in they staged raids on the houses on the homes of several and all of the leaders including suchi and. she has she has been placed under house arrest we understand. she's no stranger to the state of affairs she was a political prisoner under house arrest for 15 years during previous military dictatorships but you know they had just one or 2 successive elections and she was obviously expecting to be leading the country tree again and. we're not clear that

she's got any contact with outsiders but her facebook page has put out a message to her supporters not to accept the coup and to take the streets to protest so this is being seen as a real blow to democracy in myanmar by other countries at least the military are pointing to election fraud though as a basis for their actions have they presented any evidence to support their claim. they presented a lot of a lot of numbers and a lot of documents or indicating that there were maybe irregularities on voting lists the only people i've spoken to in me not me in math think that that the that there probably was some some list that didn't so exactly correlate but the point that is being made is that the the energy won this election by such as from the number that really these these these irregularities would be would be minor but the country's election commission has looked into these complaints and has rejected them military took now rather that parties took their protests to the supreme court

on friday and of broad to reach against suchi in the courts as well now now they were overthrown. just briefly how is all this affecting ordinary people in myanmar . yeah well the internet and phone lines are very badly disrupted seem to be being blocked the army are on the streets the main city young gong banks of clothes there was long lines at a.t.m.'s this morning prompting fears of a run on the banks. long lines of petrol stations at rush vendors people you know they've lived under military rule before and you know that they're very nervous about his return and not at the moment as far as we know protesting on the streets you know as i mentioned since he has called for that so really it's a very tense time and we're going to have to see how things unfold today and in coming days philip thank you very much that was philip sure well though there asia correspondent for the sunday times. phil robertson is deputy director of the asia division of human rights watch and he joins us now from

bangkok mr robertson what do you make of what is happening in myanmar. well frankly this is our worst fear this is a real nightmare i mean what we've seen is a election that with one in a landslide biomes on sochi in the national league for democracy essentially torn up over electoral fraud allegations that have not been proved in some ways are somewhat trumpy in the sense that they're making all these allegations are claiming that you know a huge number of irregularities took place but then they provide no information or evidence of that it's a real disaster for human rights and democracy in myanmar what impact do you think this is going to have on people's lives in myanmar. well people who are very strongly opposed to the return to military rule all along i mean one of the reasons that aung san suu kyi and the n.o.b.

of done so well in these elections is they're seen as a democratic bore to return to the battle days of military dictatorship which myanmar suffered from for over 50 years so i think that there's going to be a lot of opposition from the burmans people people are not prepared to go back to military rule and i think that there's going to be a strong reaction from the international community to really be m.-r. back into riot status on building facing economic sanctions i wanted to ask you about the international pressure we've been hearing from the u.n. secretary general from the new secretary of state the united states most putting pressure on myanmar stern rules to reverse this q do you think that's going to make any difference on the ground in the country. i think it will ultimately make a difference over a period of time i mean these things are not going to work overnight but part of the reason that the myanmar military let go of control back in 2010 was because of

the very very heavy impact of economic sanctions against myanmar that it was essential an economy that could no longer really function and i think that if it's faced with that kind of disaster going forward in terms of the economics of the of the country in the in the relation with the world that ultimately the myanmar military will have to listen to mr robertson thank you very much for talking with us today that was phil robertson of human rights watch in bangkok. now to russia where security forces have detained more than $5000.00 people at demonstrations across the country in support of opposition leader alexina body tens of thousands took to the streets of cities around the country to demand released from prison the police put on a massive show of force to try to break up the rallies. they were warned but they marched anyway anti-government protesters all over russia demanding the release of

opposition leader alex a. they defied a ban by the kremlin the response was brutal and a show of force many were arrested some are beaten some hit with 2 select devices. over. in moscow alone thousands marched constantly changing their route in an attempt to evade the police some gathered outside the president well like scene of ali is being held for many of them the protests are about more than just the opposition leaders the rest protesters also say they are marching against corruption and for more democratic freedoms in russia. i don't see used to being told what to do being controlled but young people used to organizing themselves that's why i came here today because i want to thank you what is happening in my country and watch over the ready it's a disgrace. they've stolen everything from us. i live near oil and gas fields and they're just standing is all that i mean yes i have

a 2 year old son and if putin stays in power for the next 16 years as he's climbing through then my son will grow up with him and i don't think anything will come of it for years though it's. moscow was still asleep sunday when protests started in russia's far east in siberia as dawn spread across russia phone of on the rallies spanned across the country's 11 time zones but so did the forceful response by the authorities to. russia's 2nd largest city st petersburg was no exception. some call this russia's most aggressive and fear inducing nationwide operation but others say the government's attempts to overwhelm the protests might actually fuel the flames of the russian opposition and the voices calling for change. you're watching news

still to come the government in honduras accuses rich countries of monopolizing vaccine supply and says it must have big internationally for enough doses to protect its population. plus the hong kong are hoping to start a new life in britain after the government opens up a path to citizenship but as we report for many it's anything but. first let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today hong kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon jimmy lie has appeared in court he's contesting an attempt by the government to keep him in jail while facing charges under a sweeping new national security law it's the 1st major legal challenge to the legislation imposed by beijing last year. after months of silence india's prime minister narendra modi is condemning the country's long running protests against agricultural reforms farmers have been demonstrating for more than 3 months events

took a deadly turn last tuesday thousands of farmers descended on the capital new delhi in clash with police one person died in hundreds were injured. and at least 12 people including several children have died after 2 boats sank close to a port on colombia's pacific coast officials say they don't know what coles the incident none of those who died had been wearing life jackets. thousands of brazilians took to the streets on sunday demanding president shire both sinatras resignation they accuse the government of mismanagement in the country's coronavirus backs the nation program and many say bolton are was a lack of leadership has led to an oxygen supply crisis in the amazon capital of. german media are reporting that the pharmaceutical company buy on tech could deliver an additional $75000000.00 back scene doses to the european union in the so

. in quarter of the year news comes as the e.u. battles to buy more vaccine producer astra zeneca said it was unable to deliver the number of doses that originally promised the german government is holding talks later with vaccine producers to try to speed up in occupations as we report the rollout here is beset by problems. in berlin this exhibition centers being used as a massive vaccination clinic taxis delivers seniors to receive the shots it looks like everything's going smoothly but appearances can be deceptive jim and city say the country's rollout has been plagued by logistical problems. we need to know when the vaccines are arriving and in what quantities said that we can schedule appointments it would reduce the public frustration as he gets off the top. 3 vaccines now approved in germany but they all in short supply jim and politicians now want to work closely with the pharma companies to overcome the shortfall. it's like it's

not enough to tell companies to skylab we have to come up with an emergency plan be prepared to pay compensation for redirected manufacturing capacity we have to do movement to pull. the plan could involve the state ordering pharma companies to produce facts sainz even vaccines developed by that compared to or another would state intervention in the manufacturing process the green support that idea they say companies haven't done enough to speed up manufacturing. to me for. companies really doing enough to scale up operations that would mean increasing manufacturing gradients training lebar tree capacity and then vaccine production we have to take a close look at all of that and the state has to get involved with things out working out including by forcing them to lock their products to. the left parties also in favor of piling political pressure on vaccine produces museum god and upon

to me this pandemic is proving that the idea of the invisible hand of the market solving everything doesn't run but that doesn't mean the government should do it for them companies must be forced to act health minister can make them jim and lauren powers him to do so or human. much is at stake at the german government vaccination summit as people white impatiently for their jobs. let's get more now from our chief political correspondent linda crane well it sure isn't political leaders are meeting today under massive pressure to accelerate vaccine rollout what to expect. we can expect 1st of all a lot of talking and perhaps not a little bit of argument in fact we're seeing the health minister trying to do a lot of expectation management in the run up to this meeting saying that he doesn't expect any concrete agreement on particular measures but powerful

politicians both some of the leaders of the federal states and and others are calling for concrete concrete plans for a road map that will show exactly how the government plans to get to its go all of offering every german who wants one of the back scene by the end of the summer so there will be pressure to have some form of measures put out there at the end of this meeting what's also important to note terry is that we are going into election season here and a lot of these calls for a roadmap are coming from s p d politicians that's a junior coalition partner in the current government and it's looking to differentiate itself of course from the leading coalition partner and conservatives in the report a mill into that we just read a moment ago we heard leading politicians calling on the government to order other

order private companies to assist in producing vaccines those politicians making those calls from opposition parties how realistic is that. not only from opposition parties and that also makes that interesting in this election campaign context because in fact we saw the powerful minister president of the area who is a member of the chancellor conservative sister party the c.s.u. he called for such measures and so did the head of germany's green party the drug manufacturers are represented at vaccine summit today and certainly there will be discussion about the feasibility of such measures but policymakers are by no means agreed that drastic action to compel production needs to be taken at this time i think what we're likely to see is germany's typical sort of round table approach

where they agree to talk about options on this scale but here too the health minister is saying look even if we did that we would not be able to ramp up production within let's say 4 weeks meanwhile we're hearing from different back same producers that things are looking a little bit better we hurt astra zeneca saying it's going to make up some of the shortfall it announced a no it got encouraging news from biotech this morning tell us more about the. well 1st of all to astra zeneca even these additional does this that have now been announced would only bring the total from ask you seneca to $40000000.00 of the $18000000.00 that have been promised in the 1st quarter we also are hearing from biotech pfizer that they are going to deliver a considerable number of new doses they've been working on a new plant here in germany which will open soon and they say that over the course of this year it will produce as many as 750000000 doses so basically all of that

they're eating out what health minister has been saying they think that once we get into the 2nd quarter of the year and beyond that the situation will ease considerably but as he and the chancellor often pointed out the weeks until then are going to be tough melinda thank you very much as always our chief political correspondent melinda cray. hold dura says it will receive its 1st batch of code 900 vaccines later this month through the kovacs program by far the world health organization kovacs is aiming to deliver back seems to nearly 100 low and middle income countries this year but the government in honduras fears it will not be enough it accuses rich countries of monopolizing supplies. of hope in the battle against the pandemic in honduras in february the country said jill to receive its 1st shipment of vaccines against it 19 the initial shots will go to frontline workers the elderly over 3600 people are known to have died after

contracting the corona virus in honduras the deputy health minister says it's unfortunate there is no international law to regulate the distribution of covert vaccines like the one made by biotech pfizer. by he says the rich countries have practically monopolize the vaccine and are denying developing countries access to more vaccine doses they have access so a lot when i think our local idiocy where the hung jury and health ministry says some 4000000 doses are needed to immunize 20 percent of the population it's unclear whether one juror's will meet the target this year alongside the doses acquired through the kovacs initiative the government's also purchasing vaccines directly from manufacturers but global supplies are limited and expense of it's not my

experience of the lamb in the sea we have to beg internationally why because one jurist as a poor country has already used the money for other things. so we don't have money to buy vaccines from buy on tech pfizer. or there are several 100 people will get there for you sort of based on current orders placed by the government the one juror in medical association estimates that far less than 20 percent of the population will be inoculated this year and many hundreds believe the government should shoulder part of the blame. we put our trust in god above all and hope for positive results despite the negative expectations of some patients. but we have met the 3rd if the government or doctored faster we would have had vaccines here long ago. one has to know that they were meant to never. were lacking good management the problem isn't

a lack of effect of vaccines despite the vaccine skeptics it's simply simply what i personally know i thought they didn't about. the vaccines can't come soon enough new infections and deaths grew sharply in january in honduras. sailors' father envelopment in the pandemic around 2000000 people in australia have entered a strict lockdown after the discovery of one corona virus case in perth pakistan has received its 1st batches of back scenes the health ministry says half a 1000000 doses of the chinese sign a form of shots have arrived in the country and china has recorded its lowest daily increase in new code in 1000 cases in more than 3 weeks. britain has started accepting applications from hong kong herbs for a visa offering a fast track to citizenship the move was introduced in response to china's controversial national security law and its ensuing crackdown on freedoms hong kong

hours with british national overseas status and their close family members are eligible for the visa but as chelsea until reports for saw the path to a new future in the u.k. still presents many difficulties up until. wife and his 2 young children had never set foot in england now they've left their home and their loved ones back in hong kong to start a new life here in the u.k. . they support combest. their belief. that means i have to leave my mother but choice i have no choice because of my children i have to raise them i have to let them know the truth they do have the right to leave the. says he's long been concerned about democratic freedoms in hong kong but it was beijing's decision last pays a sweeping national security which proved the final straw. we don't have freedom to

speak we had just been told something we already we should have. we we are having before we stop to think there's no future in hong kong hundreds of thousands of hong kong as are expected to follow you and his family of the next few years a leap of faith made possible by new u.k. visa scheme it's open to those born before the british mandate or of hong kong to china in 1997 as well as that dependence you know if it's some 5000000 hong kong as a pathway to citizenship so long it's a lifeline but the true test is still to come activists say there isn't enough infrastructure in place to support the arrivals and questions remain if the integration officials admit this is a work in progress clearly there are going to be some challenges there's a lot of work going on to make sure all of the essential things are in place around housing around how to settle and integrate and you know if children well get

children in schools that some things are everything you would expect in terms of and now you bring people to settle china has slammed these are all for accusing the british government of meddling in internal offense while others in the u.k. say the scheme doesn't go far enough i welcome the government in providing a safe lifeboat to many hong kong ors but i do feel that those who are not eligible like me are a bit left out of the scheme. douglas is active in the pro-democracy movement he fled hong kong after the security law was introduced like many activists he was born after $997.00 and isn't eligible for the visa without his parents here alone his savings are running out and now so too this is tourist visa he'll soon have to leave the u.k. but with kofi travel restrictions in place around the world he and others like him a finding that doors a firmly closed. as we always say during protests no matter we go up or

down we go together i hope that those who are eligible for be a know will think about those who are not and bear in mind that some are still struggling to find a safe place to settle. me that douglas nor little know when they'll go back to hong kong. loans hopeful that his children's futures and now secure. but for douglas even the next few weeks are unclear. streamliner the top story we're following for you here today on t.w. news the military has carried out a coup that could a time in myanmar they have seized control of the country and detained key government officials including de facto leader aung sun suu cheap they cues the government of failing to act on voter fraud in last november's election where. you are watching d.w. news rob watts is coming up next with all the latest business news remember our

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