well the international community rejects what is going up or. that leaders of the world or united and there were bullshit of. this illegal action. on the streets of new more the 2 is seen as a sad setback for many little more than a decade after it celebrated its transition to democracy. didn't you know you know that you got by feel the army assaulted when estates distil when the civilian government and a government elected by our people. are not then you are countries just a bird learning to fall for like you know all the army programs that give another go oh my god when i go there will think of a kind i. asked me in mars catapulted towards an uncertain future many are rushing to stock up on essentials bracing for an end to democracy because they know it and we are joined now by

a young he lead former un special rapporteur tour on myanmar she is joining us from seoul south korea thank you so much for your time this afternoon what is your reaction to what is happening right now in myanmar this is really an outrageous situation and it's a direct assault to democracy and then memorize people's well when they elected. the 2nd democratic government. what do you think that this means right now for the country's experiment with democracy is there any hope left that we might see some progress on that front. it's going to . and it's strife for democracy for many decades now i think and it's really too early to see how the situations will unfold in myanmar but i really think that people's efforts to achieve democracy will be set back quite

a while we've seen international condemnations coming forward from from from rights groups from from leaders around the world what do you make of the international community community's ability right now to put pressure on the country amid this could well i think 1st of all the security council needs to convene and it would be necessary for them to send a delegation into myanmar to see to monitor what is really happening and try to and the type to do engage in talks with sites you're very familiar with the military you're also very familiar with the united nations and its inner workings you know that that what you've just mentioned there how do you see you know the realistic prospects of the military allowing that into the country. true or not but i think well especially with this military.

indications that the man i live in the chief commander has then endorsed blessings from china and from russia and so other to permanent members of the security council wouldn't will not. hear too many requests to send a delegation and i think this is where the international community should really pressure apply more pressure on these 2 states. how would how could they possibly do that i mean because as you've mentioned to me on maher the military has these 2 pac very powerful back for backers china and russia and do they have any interest in a more democratic meehan mark. i'm afraid that's why the problem lies they really do not have an end more interest in a democratic memo and i think this is where. the u.s. and israel is up to another test and how see how the secretary general

navigates his power or his negotiating. to go see ating skills into seeing that now right now for once and for all we will have. not to go down this dark lane and this is where the international community failed me on its people and the u.n. has automatically failed me in my and it's well presumably there might be talks at this hour of of sanctions similar to the ones that we saw previously on myanmar you know arms embargo we've also seen in the past just walk us through those measures and the impact that that that they have had in the past and what lessons have potentially been been learned from what measures might be quieter now going forward . the targeted sanctions against corporations economic into prizes held by military it's cronies and it's associates these well

work and we have seen that they have to have started to work and i think this is what scares me now lying is that once you lose his power his assets his fortunes will disappear or he will not have access to his fortunes and this is what prompted me now lying for this to staged this coup of course the people of myanmar huge concern at this hour can you can you just walk us through the impact that all of this is likely to have on them well you know this is a. kind of virus and emic people have suffered a lot and for years they still they suffered. crimes against humanity war crimes and there was a genocide in rakhine and ethnic states there is still. migrant or and clashes and people have already suffered from. lack of access to basic.

fundamental human rights and now what this could do bad circle media. news outlets well aside from government news internet and there will be another curfew and so the lives of the people it's going to be. behave that people are going to be in a more dire situation and out having said this treatment or testing for corona virus i really worry if people will be tested or if people will receive treatment if they're tested positive with current of virus you know we thank you so much for joining us with that sobering assessment of what is happening right now young heelys former un special rapporteur on myanmar we really appreciate it fank you. let's get a quick check now of some other news coming to you from around the world here on

news and the kremlin says that many of those involved in protest against the jailing of opposition politician alexina volley are quote hooligans and provoke a tourist spokesperson dmitri peskov was speaking a day after tens of thousands rallied in cities across russia to call for an of all news release more than 5000 people were arrested during the demonstrations critics accuse the police of using excessive force. they were warned but they marched anyway anti-government protesters all over russia demanding the release of opposition leader alex saying of all me they defied a ban by the kremlin the response was brutal and a show of force many were arrested some were beaten some hit with tears alike devices. over here in moscow alone thousands marched constantly changing their route in an attempt to evade the police some gathered outside the prison were all excited 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. in a political battle so used to being told what to do being controlled by the big young people used to organizing themselves that's why i came here today because i want to stake in what is happening in my country who are children go ready it's a disgrace. they've stolen everything from us. i live near oil and gas fields and they're just standing as all that i mean yes i have a 2 year old son and they've put in stays in power for the next 16 years says he's climbing through them my son will grow up with him and i don't think anything will come of that little 4 years old. 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. that's bringing it up your correspondent emily sure when emily a walk us through the russian government's reaction here. well sara we heard today as you said from the kremlin spokesperson who called the protesters hooligans and provocateurs he basically said that the police force that we saw yesterday was justified because you can't talk to hooligans and what we also

have been seeing is a bit of a crackdown even over the past few of the past week since the last protest that happened last week on opposition activists on protesters with criminal cases being opened with administrative cases being opened for taking part in an unsanctioned rally for blocking traffic and for breaking the rules of gathering during a pandemic today. news wife was fined for taking part in a protest that apparently blocked traffic so we've been seeing and we continue to see now a bit of a crackdown on the opposition and on state t.v. the reporting has basically just been painting these protesters small very insignificant and also painting the protesters as violent. given that reaction and really just could just put it into context for us how how big of

a threat is this on grounds to these protests pose to vladimir putin. i think that any protests are a real threat to the kremlin that basically street protests are the kremlin's nightmare i would say and these peaceful mass protests that we've been seeing that we saw this weekend that we saw last weekend as well are particular threat because they're not just taking place in moscow and st petersburg which is the normal scenario for russia they're also spread much wider over cities across the country over 11 time zones you know from cities in the far east and bloody well stop siberia to the urals so that's a new an unprecedented elements to these protests and also it seems that a lot of the new people have been coming out people who usually don't take part in opposition protests a lot of the speak people that i spoke to here in moscow said it was their 1st time last week and this week as well apparently around 40 percent of protesters last

week had never taken part in opposition protests before and many of the people that i spoke to said that this is about much much more than they said that this is about corruption in the ruling elites also the way that alex enough viney has been treated by the prison service by the court system which many perceive as unfair and they say they just want a different russia a more democratic russia and we just briefly what is likely to happen to not only. well there's a court hearing tomorrow that could turn his suspended sentence into real prison time we'll have to wait and see whether he gets that jail time and how long he'll be put in prison and i think that most likely the kremlin people in the kremlin are thinking about what to do with him especially after these big protests they don't want to make a martyr of him and to cause more people to take to the streets correspondent emily

sure when with the view from moscow thank you. well now to some other stories making headlines around the world hong kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon jimmy la it has been denied bail after being charged with violating hong kong's national security law it was the 1st major legal challenge to the legislation imposed by beijing last year. in the whole i'm sure months of silence india's prime minister narendra modi is condemning the country's long running protest against agricultural reforms farmers have been demonstrating for more than 3 months of events took a deadly turn last tuesday thousands of farmers descended on the capital delhi and clashed with police one person died hundreds were injured. thousands of brazilians took to the streets on sunday demanding president i have both scenarios resignation they accuse the government of mismanagement in the country's coronavirus vaccination program many sable sonar as

a lack of leadership has led to an oxygen supply crisis in the amazon capital human else. the european union's a vaccine rollout has faced criticism for its sluggish start amid production shortages but there have been some promising developments pfizer and its german partner biotech have said that there could be production of up to 70 $5000000.00 extra doses and the german government to set to hold a summit with vaccine producers in a bid to speed up the pace of inoculations. but what does the german public think well many people are frustrated the facts nations are not happening fast enough. but how about those with. the i feel like if only b. you had started to come up with the vaccination strategy months earlier. we would now be at the same vaccination breed as the u.k. . oh it's chaotic not because people have to wait for the vaccine but because the

media is whipping up a frenzy the government must tell us how long this is going to take and we simply need to wait. and i don't know that maybe there was too early to have done in terms of getting the vaccine doses. and that's why people who haven't been vaccinated yet are unhappy with the big one as i did a phenomenal 300 for the pharmaceutical industry i think there's some of the same surely as a sales meeting. as far as the politicians one can only hope that the negotiators have been thoroughly briefed by health and pandemic experts expect. an immediate chief political correspondent linda crane is standing by in london as we've been hearing germany's vaccination drive far behind other countries around the world people could be frustrated at what has gone wrong and will today's summit finally bring some urgency. well the fact is that the e.u.

gave regulatory approval later than countries like the u.k. or the us there were some legitimate concerns about little liability and and also about the thoroughness behind that but therefore the vaccine rollout didn't get going here until just before new years and even after that it took a while for the gaps in inefficiencies in the rollout to become apparent that's because germany's federal system divides up responsibility for vaccine procurement and distribution and that contributed to a lack of transparency and also accountability for bottlenecks but the sense of urgency definitely is there now and in the run up to this summit the heads of several federal states have been calling for decisive action including a road map with quantities and dates that would detail exactly how the government plans to meet its goal of administrating vaccines to all citizens who want them by the end of the summer the health minister though his practicing expectation

management saying he doesn't expect today's summit to provide concrete solutions tell us a little bit more about about those calls from some politicians calling for more radical measures namely an outsourcing of vaccine production directed by the state is it realistic. well the fact is some leading politicians from both governing and opposition parties and bear in mind that we are at the outset of an election year here in germany they are calling for the government to actually intervene to compel pharmaceutical firms to produced increased quantities of vaccine and to collaborate with one another in doing so even if that means overlooking patent laws now in theory the government does possessed such emergency powers but the fact is it's unlikely to happen there's been a good deal of push back and clearly for the health minister the preferred approach would be voluntary cooperation with companies and we heard just that from him today let's listen. to those miners he says that in my opinion it's very very important

that we both had today's vaccine summit in there after all explore together with the companies what can be done more quickly in the short term in many different areas all moreover that we move at the same time to secure production capacity and also support cautionary measure for the uk for that reason when the federal government wants into place orders either via the e.u. or for european colleagues your view that's one nationally so that we secure vaccine doses also for 2022 and especially from producers here in europe you know. just briefly that concern there about 2022 has to do with the fact that the health minister is worrying about mutations possibly requiring option of vaccines that are already produced and also the need for a booster shot so he wants to get well ahead of the game. meantime melinde let's

move on to some some some promising news hopefully tell us a little bit more about bio on tac pfizer and buyer they had some announcements this morning what's the context here. indeed we heard a moment ago about biotech and pfizer that they will be providing over 70000000 doses of vaccine in the 2nd quarter and this morning ringback we also heard that the german pharmaceutical giant. does plan to work together with cura back to produce up to $160000000.00 doses of cure of xico $1000.00 backs in and that would essentially implement on a voluntary basis exactly the kind of cross industry collaboration that some german politicians are calling for mandated by the government chief political correspondent linda crane thank you fan along with the frustration of the slow pace

of vaccination and many you countries some people are also angry about government measures to try and slow the spread of the virus the netherlands has witnessed scenes of rioting and violence in recent weeks the vast majority of people there support the government's efforts to protect the population but a seat up use max sander reports a small minority is determined to challenge the rules. don't mistake this for a festival this is a protest each of the participants showed up with their very own message there is no virus you cannot stop the spread of an iris it's impossible so i find that the measures that government takes a disproportionate it's not a matter of that we deny it can run out but we think there's a different way. it's going too far at the moment the one thing that unites them is their discontent with how the dutch government is handling coronavirus for the 3rd

time now this an authorized event has drawn different groups of people to the museum plain square and amsterdam police presence is high this afternoon and with reason. a week ago cities across the netherlands were overrun by protesters rioters attacked police said vehicles on fire and broke into shops 3 nights in a row and 9 o'clock curfew that was put in place by the government on january 23rd is believed to have triggered the protests the rioting and the looting here in the netherlands has stopped for now but boarded up shops like these service a constant reminder that the threat isn't over yet violent episodes like these shouldn't necessarily come as a surprise sociologist jacqueline from declan book tells us we have to like a little bit a little bit and then disclosed and then that close and then sports was not allowed anymore and so on and talk but that was never never a full package it might well be that eventually. people got

extremely fucked up with it by the by the curfew being on top of it and you know in the netherlands freedom is a big thing. this man is worried about his freedoms as well we should haitian is one of the initiators of the protests at museum plane but because of last week's violence he's not participating today to underline his peaceful intentions he asked to meet us at the national monument for the victims of world war 2 the rules are too heavy for the problem ok there is a problem as i say there is a grown up fighters is there and it is a problem but the rules are too heavy 14000 deaths people means 0.08 percent and if you see the problems we're having in the whole country. shops are. terrible for everybody. and supporters want to see restrictions rolled back and the who to government leave office following the elections in march

. but with a majority of dutch people still in favor of both the government and its pandemic strategy this seems very unlikely to me why. across town hall riot police have cleared the square this protest might be over but the next one will follow soon. and in other developments in the pandemic around 2000000 people in australia have entered a strict lockdown after the discovery of one coronavirus case in perth china has recorded its lowest daily increase in new covert 900 cases in more than 3 weeks and israel has extended its 3rd nationwide coronavirus lockdown the country of 9000000 people is still registering more than 5000 new cases every day. coming up next on news asia. history winds in myanmar as the country backslides into another military dictatorship. china threatens to retaliate after britain

extends residency rights for potentially millions of hong kong hours. those stories and more coming up with my colleague melissa chan i'm sorry kelly in berlin is always more on our website t w dot com you can also follow us on twitter and instagram at g w it is thanks for watching take care. to.

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