this is news coming to you live from young large military rulers block social media platforms alleging they're being used to the stabilize the country following this week's truth protesters continue to take to the streets calling for the release of arrested leaders including 2 cheap she's being you can use of illegal imports the walkie talkies also coming up. german military medics arriving to help battle the president virus crisis the country's health system has been overwhelmed as factions final out of control and ukraine shuts down several t.v.

channels allegedly finance but oligarch with close ties to the prevalence country's president says the closures are necessary to limit russian propaganda. see it as an attack on free books. oh i'm terry martin good to have you with us people in myanmar have been cut off from facebook what's up and instagram the military blocked platforms alleging they were being used to the stabilize the country the disruptions come shortly after police formally charged alstad leader aung san suu kyi who is currently in custody the authorities accuse her of illegally importing walkie talkies that were made that were found in her home facebook had been widely used by pro-democracy activists to coordinate a national campaign of civil disobedience. it's against monday's.

acts of defiance too noisy to ignore residents of young gun buying pots and honk their car horns for a 2nd night major demonstrations against the military for now have not taken place earlier in the day health workers and hospitals across myanmar wore red or black ribbons and refuse to do any non-emergency work much of the civil disobedience is being organized online. activist fans aren't sure les ye is one of the driving forces behind the calm painting. and now yeah we have it up however it of i have to just this is the only us we've made use of this since the war our past few hours that we are opposing the military. and a heavy military presence is on full display here in the capital naypyidaw tanks

and soldiers were on patrol. the country's military chiefs appeared on state television and 11 members has been appointed and will rule under a year long state of emergency. the whereabouts of myanmar's i've said leaders including own son suchi remains unclear several charges have been brought against her including possession of unlawful communication devices the ministry have claimed the reason for the coup was allegations of fraud in last november's elections which suit cheez national league for democracy party one members of the party have condemned the coup. the military action to take control of the country is not a good thing considering we've had democracy peace the national ceasefire agreement . and we've had a well managed system to deal with covert 19 this isn't good at all for the

citizens. despite international condemnation and open disobedience mars' military appears determined to undo the course of the country's past to change. they've grown up as a journalist who's been covering myanmar for many years new joins us now from kuala lumpur dave the disrupted facebook and other social media services which people opposed to the coup were using to organize themselves how big of a blow is this for the protest. certainly significant blow because facebook is the king of social media in myanmar for a lot of people that's all they know when it comes to social media and when it comes to the web for that matter that's of the communicate amongst each other that's how they get campaigns going during the political season last year that's how a lot of the campaigning went on because of hope in one team now it will people will still find ways to communicate obviously was not long ago there was no such thing

as social media 10 years ago most people don't even have a phone in this country and people still found a way to organize and have demonstrations but this will definitely slow things down and complicate things for them so people are largely cut off from digital communications now in myanmar what steps can we expect the military to take next well just as i said people would find other ways to communicate keep in mind the military knows all about this and the military has an extensive network of informants inside the neighborhoods in the cities in the villages across the country these informants are as many people would call rats they're there to try to find out what people are saying to each other what they're planning to do and when they're trying to do it and then communicate that message back to their superiors the people who are paying them off in the security forces so right now becomes incumbent upon the people to think really hard about who they know how will they know them and who can they really trust now there's a lot of history here of conflict between the military and civilian population what

are the chances that we'll see the burma's people rise up day even challenge military rule this time will they really rise up and take to the streets in mass numbers of demonstrations what would take them over that line that's the big question because if they did that then they risk a serious backlash from the military. in the past over does they sometimes come back with violent force and sometimes deadly force it's hard to say what line would it take to get those people to take that risk thanks very much for this update that was generous dave from kuala lumpur. well all around the world people are pinning their hopes on vaccines as a way of defeating the corona virus well now a new study suggests the oxford astra zeneca shot could indeed prevent people from spreading covert 19 the research by oxford university is the 1st to show a vaccine stopping the corona virus being passed on as well as protecting against

the illness the university says the back seam could cut transmission of the virus by 2 thirds scientists also found that a single shot can offer a high level of protection for up to 12 weeks more than 10000000 britons have already been vaccinated british health minister matt hancock had this to say about the new study at this. report is a very good news at 8 backs the strategy that we've taken and it shows the world that the oxford vaccine works effectively and the really good news embedded in it is that it not just reduces hospitalizations that we know people in this part of the trial who hospitalized. do with covais that after getting the ox jab but also it reduces the number of people who have actually even asymptomatic

by around 2 thirds. comments from the british health minister there well earlier we spoke to paul or hunter he's a professor of medicine at the university of east anglia specializing in infectious diseases and epidemiology we asked him about the significance of these new findings there's no doubt that the if you have the vaccine and it stops you actually getting infected that it will stop you as an individual spreading that infection on but they crucial thing that you've got to remember is that it only does that about 2 thirds of the time so there is still a substantial proportion of people who can still after the vaccine get the infection and potentially spread it on and couple of weeks ago we published a paper looking at the available data then which is still a political and we the our conclusion was that although yes it will reach to go

a long way to reducing transmission it won't be sufficient in itself and indeed no vaccine will be sufficient in themselves to reduce the r. value to less than one and so with most of the vaccines that we're using at the moment with reasonable estimates of how likely they are to be taken up in vaccine coverage i don't think we're at all looking at anything close to being able to stop transmission in communities from vaccination. well hospitals across portugal have been overwhelmed by what's become one of the world's worst covert 19 breaks international health is being provided german military medical stuff travel to the country they've delivered much needed medicines as well as hospital beds and ventilators but most importantly they're providing trained medical personnel. the much anticipated age on arrival h. doctors and 18 medics from the german military will remain in portugal for the next

3 weeks to help get the worsening corona virus situation under control an advance team was already in the country last week to assess the situation now the german medical personnel will assist portuguese health care workers to treat cope at 19 patients i'd be going to be able to be outside i have just sent a message to my german colleagues to thank them for best 2 parts and i've already received a reply from them that's what they wrote that's what friends are for especially all of it but he's settling for me and help us desperately need it intensive care units across the country are completely full portuguese media reporting that patients are spending hours waiting and your lenses before they can be admitted to hospital many portugese were relieved to hear it was coming from abroad and that is a situation is really bad so every little bit coliseum i could guess was no way of course it's just a drop in the ocean at the moment we definitely need more help but i did shows how

good it is to be part of the euro. by portugal has been shut down since mid january nevertheless infection rates remain high many experts believe that the rep it spreads of new virus mutations are to blame the arrival of the german medical team is a big topic in the portuguese public many commentators emphasize that germany is the 1st country to send a further delivery off medical supplies from germany is expected to arrive soon and other european countries including austria and spain have also promised to provide support. so you look at a few other stories making headlines around the world today canada has designated the proud voice extremist group as a terrorist entity all of us are just a group played an important role in the deadly riot at the u.s. capitol earlier last month separately the. u.s. justice department charged 3 members of a problem for their involvement in the attack on top. netflix is dominating the

golden globe awards with a whopping $22.00 nominations its film maker and 2 hollywood's golden age is leading the pack with 6 nominations 3 out of the 5 best director nominees are women including regina king for one night to me up miami rival streaming service. and syrian state media have jews to his real of launching missile strikes from the disputed golan heights the briton based syrian observatory for human rights says israel targeted a military post for regime forces and pro iranian militias syria's anti air defenses retaliated israel has not confirmed nor denied the operation. the government of ukraine has shut down several pro russian television channels allegedly financed by an oligarchy with personal ties of blood amir putin ukrainian president vladimir selenski justify the bet as necessary to fight from the

propaganda that undermines his country's power to the e.u. for critics accuse him of stifling free speech. independence objectivity doubts would journalists at 3 ukrainian news channel say it's under threat when 2 new sworn in seek are no longer in ukrainian t.v. the broadcaster say it's the start of an era. but in the day 3 for channels of stop broadcasting what does it mean for free speech and what does it mean for ukrainians . since the government shut down the channels have been blasting president vladimir selenski the opposition ukrainian leaders scared the reporting is damaging his government in the opinion polls. some ukrainian journalist say did channels have a point they believe the government's decision threatens free expression in a fragile democracy. against the president not being said here where the government of this country decides to impose sanctions against a media company based on a political consensus. but for others the channels pose

a threat to the country's security they say the broadcasters provide a voice to ukraine's enemies. the government alleges that a close friend of lot of ukrainian big dramatic choke is hiding his ownership of the television stations and that he's using them to broadcast views that undermine the country and its fight with russia over crimea in eastern ukraine. has been offset received in there enough evidence over those channels being financed by russian forces by russian authorities the national security council over ukraine adopted these very important decisions for now the channels are still broadcasting on the internet but that could change ukraine's government is asking you to take them offline you can. you're watching news from berlin coming up next we've got business for you with rob wants to stay tuned for the i'll be back at the top of

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