testes a nationwide strike began on monday a campaign of civil disobedience has all the while been growing louder launched by medical personnel protests have now spread across the country after the army chief seize power on february 1st the military detained later. and dozens of her party members accusing them of election fraud demonstrators are demanding her release and the restoration of her government. i'm supporting the young people demonstrating only if they fight against the military gentle can our country become better everyone must have this kind of courage for the sake of our future yet you know we don't want to live on the dictatorship rule we want to live under mother sue the rules people would love and care. for them along which a member i've decided to fight until the end until they are released the rallies have so far been pace full unlike bloody crackdowns during widespread protests in

previous decades pope francis on monday added his voice to growing international condemnation of the current with your these days my thoughts go in particular to the people of manmohan. to whom i express my affection and my closeness. the paf towards democracy undertaken in recent years. it was brusque li interrupted by last week's could a talk show us that the man is course. as the protests grow bigger and bolder demonstrators continue to be met with a great show of force from all foreign chase. and for more i'm joined by samuel cobb who an activist who is in the city of mandalay saniel thanks so much for joining us to share your experience we have reported that these news agencies are saying that martial law has been declared in some townships there in mandalay where

you are what have you been observing started on or forward for that you know i was you know this market possible is over before if you so you can go out of your face 2 and 4 have in the morning you can go out with 5 people what authorities ordered from their detention least 3 months to very. normally in just a little way. most of the city that they don't believe goes right now. meantime we know very. well sorry samuel i just wanted to quickly ask you we've heard that the military has sent clear warnings to demonstrators in myanmar saying that there will be action if there is any violence what is your reaction to that do you think that it will deter the demonstrations that we're seeing right now. you know i don't usually think. there are warnings or you know all.

right george people's struggle for democracy. well these are our offense was. oh. we for complacency worlds of getting to go in the future. what are the demands what do the people in myanmar want for their future as they take to the streets to counter this military coup. because the people were never. the old once released so far a leader is also searching including there. are other prisoners that are the same political leaders that the same by the previous military literally. we want the military to head over the problem to the elected. government and we

won't give up until. bans on that we will keep on fighting them you'll call the activist base in the city of mandalay in myanmar thank you so much. meantime at least $800.00 people are dead and more event $180.00 are missing in northern india after part of a himalayan glaciers broke off unleashing a torrent of water that crashed into a dam local authorities in the constipate say that rescue workers have begun recovering the bodies of the dead the flooding happened so quickly that people had no time to react search efforts for survivors are still under way. joy as rescue workers recover several survivors but the search is far from over some dead bodies have already been found several groups of workers are still

believed to be trapped in tunnels unable to get out. of us if it's just since this morning we have intensified all search operation in a 2nd tunnel we have information that around 30 people are trapped there and around 300 police officers are deployed there clearing the tunnel so that people can be rescued in the villages according to information from the local authorities around 170 people are missing 12 people were rescued by a team on sunday from another tunnel. this is the moment a small dam was swept away after part of a mountain glacier upstream broke unleashing a torrent of water and a brief one hydroelectric plant was destroyed another under construction was damaged or thora he said they were able to prevent further damage downstream by opening the gates to release water the tragedy occurred in northern india and the top of an area of the state of to recommend this region in the himalayas is prone

to flash floods and landslides in 2013 monsoon floods here killed 6000 people and led to calls for a review of development projects in the state authorities say the main flood danger has passed but the work for rest. it seems here has only just begun. and here are some other stories making headlines around the world floods caused by heavy rain have hit indonesia's capital jakarta the high water has triggered evacuations and power outages in some parts of the city households along the city's chile long river were particularly affected floors and landslides are common in indonesia especially during the rainy season which runs from november into march. the corruption trial against israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has resumed in jerusalem netanyahu is accused of bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3

separate cases he denies the allegations the trial comes just 6 weeks before netanyahu faces reelection. leftist candidate andres or always has won a 1st round victory in ecuador's presidential ruction early estimates given the 32 percent of the vote he will advance to a runoff scheduled for april the 11th 2 candidates are neck and neck for 2nd place . iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has said that the country will only return to the 2015 nuclear deal if the u.s. lift sanctions but the u.s. says that it won't lift sanctions just to get iran back at the negotiating table the deal limited iran's uranium enrichment capacity to make it harder for tehran to develop nuclear weapons. south africa has suspended its rollout of the oxford astra zeneca corona virus vaccine after a small clinical trial suggested that it offered only minimal protection against

mild to moderate illness from the covert variant that originated in the country south africa over sieved more than a 1000000 doses of vaccine and had planned to start an ocular to frontline health workers in the coming days authorities say that the vaccination program will proceed in the coming weeks but the vaccines by johnson and johnson and pfizer biotech instead. let's get more we are joined by professor salim of dual karim he is south africa's leading infectious disease specialist and one of the chief medical advisor is to the south african government thank you so much for your time this afternoon sir why is suspend the astra zeneca vaccine rollout is it limited protection better than 0 protection. so when we developed our overall vaccine strategy we always wanted to have a diversity of candidates and so as a senator was one of the candidates we selected based on the evidence that was

available that showed it was effective against both mild and severe disease including hospitalization however the study that was just published that was just released yesterday showed that the if you can see again smile disease is quite low and that's supported by look moderates the evidence is well now we are uncertain about where the past is and to go back see and also prevents the disease and hospitalization against the 5 a one wife be to be happy and that is prevalent in south africa and so in that kind of uncertainty we thought it prudent to put a delay on the rollout of b.s. as an intervention until we 'd can establish the processes right click the information to this this ok and there has been some reaction we have to say to that decision professor sara gilbert for example oxford's lead vaccine developer she

said that the vaccine should still protect against severe disease that she has at least optimistic that that is still the case in the meantime we've mentioned your frontline workers your health care workers they were 1st in line to get this vaccine and that was supposed to happen in the in the coming days so what do you tell them now that it's on hold given that they are facing that risk on a daily basis. of course i wouldn't expect investigators to say anything negative about the product but the reality is that speculation doesn't help us we need evidence and the way in which we propose to collect that evidence is to actually roll out the answers and go back even the stepwise manner where the 1st group that gets the vaccine we would assess hospitalization rates and if we find it's below the threshold and we will continue the rollout of the has to seneca vaccine if we find it's above that social will stop yes to seneca vaccine because

we would like the approach that we take to be based on evidence we would want to see as rolling this out to health care workers only to find out later it doesn't prevent hospitalization and severe disease as for the health care workers we have managed to secure some doses of the johnson and johnson back c.n.n. and those will start to be all about within the next week or 2 so it's we haven't really impacted that much on our initial starting date what we have impacted is our scale up we now have to take a more prudent approach to scale up why are we scaling up the johnson and johnson vaccine we will in paddle out also be doing so with the asters and it had to assess its efficacy against hospitalization just briefly tell us what makes you think that the other vaccines will have better results. so as it stands right now the johnson and johnson vaccine has actually been studied in south africa in

a very large trial that included the elderly as well and so they already have the evidence to show that against the variant in south africa no one has 5 or one y. b. to be a johnson and johnson vaccine is efficacious against that and it's 85 percent if a case is against hospitalization and to be a disease so bad basis we feel quite confident to move forward with the johnson and johnson we do however want to ensure we have a diversity of products and so we do need to assess its effect of the efficacy of each new vaccine whether it's as to seneca of pfizer or i think those will have to be assessed as part of that all out. and that was salim abdul karim south africa's leading infectious disease specialist speaking with me a short while ago let's look at some of the other developments in the pandemic british authorities say it's likely that people would need to receive a booster of the couvade $1000.00 vaccine and then subsequent annual vaccinations

like the flu shot the u.k. like many countries is raising to inoculate its population in the face of new variants authorities in south korea's capital seoul have launched a testing program for pet cats and dogs after the country reported its 1st covert $1000.00 cases and a kitten test will be limited to pets showing symptoms of the virus who have been exposed to someone who tested positive and the u.s. has passed 27000000 cases of the virus the highest number in the world that's as president joe biden warns it will be difficult to vaccinate 75 percent of the population and achieve herd immunity by the end of the summer hj. northern and central germany have been hit by heavy snow and icy conditions with disruptions to public transport likely to continue into monday authorities are urging people to stay at home road crews have been working hard to keep the highway safe germany's railway service warns travelers that some services may be canceled parts of the

country could see up to 25 centimeters of snow on monday i mean i've never seen so much snow in my life it's really fantastic. but not everyone is as pleased with the big freeze that's a german you this weekend western areas got more than their fair share of the snow more than they've seen in years but still less than was forecast. this expressway had to be closed highway police in the west and northwest responded to hundreds of accidents thankfully just a few serious ones. this in for the snows drifting and of the drifts that bear ice we simply don't know where to start or when this will end. cars are stuck on gradients and parking spaces and some even in the middle of intersections where they just can't move forward despite their winter tires for our document formats in central germany frozen rain stopped traffic on a major expressway snow plows and grit are out in force.

the weather is proving too much even for many trains the german train service already started reducing connections on saturday like he wants many long distance trains are staying put. major hubs like hamburg's main station really empty thankfully many travelers were forewarned and stayed at home. those who did stay at home have their own little challenges to face. sure it's fun to keep you in good shape but if a tree is again well then things could become more problematic if the snow gets hard and heavy that could be a problem on the roofs. one of the things that coronavirus got me working from home so this is a welcome little change of pace for me and i think mr mccarthy. in the capital fun loving berlin us young and old took advantage of the snowy sunday to get some

sledding in. and out to the biggest event in american sports where quarterback tom brady shone as tampa bay's buccaneers beat the kansas city chiefs on their home field in the super bowl brady secured his 7th super bowl title the most of any n.f.l. player and he gave the city of tampa bay a big reason to party. even the pandemic couldn't keep these fans off the streets masks and social distancing were nowhere in sight not after the tampa bay buccaneers stomped kansas city $31.00 to $9.00 to win the super bowl the victory exceeded all expectations oh. crazy to me that brady does come in and win the super bowl when every field i get like that is kind of a very nice little box where my whole life or you could go to the big chill grew out. all my buddies i call you know in case i was you know all of them are betting

against the boxing you can't bet against tom brady bats and you really can't tom brady threw 3 touchdown passes he also see a record 7th super bowl title and a 5th m.v.p. award but was this championship more special. girl special order or. it's been amazing year maysan your wrist your good start 7th you and i had the rough stretch where we kind of identity and played a lot better football down last december january and just really proud of our guys proud of the coaches after we put in to understand just how impressive all this is no other player in the n.f.l. has won more than 5 super bowls brady is also the oldest player to win the championship he's 43 but age is just a number and tom brady continues to fly high.

and in the bundestag eintracht frankfurt collected 3 important points on sunday after completing a 31 win at hoffenheim frankfurt coach ivy hunter has now face hoffenheim 6 times during his tenure at frankfurt and he's won on every occasion sunday's triumph saw him tracked accent a sparkling run of form and even move up into the champions league places in the german table. with 16 points from a possible 18 this year frankfurt of the in-form team of 2021 every reason then for coach of the hood sets a field relaxed ahead of his trash with hoffenheim. in the 15th many feel it cost each was 63 on frankfurt's left flank and the serbian had the back of the net in his sights keep the last of his shot past all of our men and into the bottom corner to open discourse. hoffenheim drew level directly off to the break with

a despot who kept cool in possession before finding the very same bolton corner with pete's finish. but just past the hour more frank put him back with 2 goals in quick succession. first off a cost each free kick was noughties home by defend evan. and 2 minutes later provided another this time setting up on dry silver for the predicted portuguese strike his 17th league goal of the season. 3 warmed the final score as frankfurt school exceptional run of form continues the hooter saw it on now up to 4th in the blue disney gets a ball. and here are the results of the put to sleep as matches at the weekend frankfurt got past hoffenheim earlier on sunday league leaders fire in munich beat how to belin 2nd place leipzig handled shocker wolfsburg maintained its good form

with the win dortmund lost again cologne beat rivals gladbach leverkusen beachhead gart once took a rare victory over one young berlin and the weather forced postponement of the failed to bremen match so let's look at the bunch like a table which shows the fire munich is still leading the way by a hefty 7 points leipzig remain 2nd with will spur 3rd frankfurt r. and forth with leverkusen just behind the 2nd half shows at the very bottom shelf and minds in the automatic relegation places. a life 6 champions league home match against liverpool will now be played in hungary that's because the german government has blocked almost all entry from britain to try and restrict the spread of the new variants of the coronavirus the round of 16 legged will be played pushed us arena in budapest on feb 16th the site chosen after the under state aside the quest for it travel exemption for lever for was

turned down. meantime this year the traditional carnival festivities are being called off across europe because of the pandemic but organizers of the venice festival have decided to go ahead with the celebrated party and are marking the festival with a new live stream format where they could we don't learn who they are that's carnival is going for to alysia with some of unspin shown on line. but a few revelers have ventured out onto the streets following a relaxation of italy's coronavirus restrictions. before the plan to make the carnival brought in roughly $17000000.00 euros a year to venice but with no tourists and travel restricted within italy itself the city's artists are encouraging residents to take part in the celebrations.

just there one made dave in a gentle boris the venetians are generally reluctant to take part in the carnival this year as we need participants we encourage them to come by offering masks and costumes at a lower price we hope they will feel involved and help us because the nation crossed a need to survive because the obvious one that is out of the us is a very very easy another. but for some of the city's artists the change in tone from the usual celebrations is undeniable that. they get you the g.'s e u r g q today which is the 1st day of the carnival i sold 2 mosques to a woman who came from verona with her sons to meet her mother i have been working in this industry for 35 years and i have never seen a carnival like this one. not on my america is it however this city is showing a sense of humor despite the ongoing pandemic and some welcome the change that.

the mark of the play doctor is the one that best shows this difficult moment for our city. or my also recordable to be like it was in the eighty's not like in more recent years it was very beautiful. whether this new style of carnival is here to stay depends on efforts to fight the pandemic but for some of those taking part it's a reminder of the city's resilience. then it is strange this year it is shocking to see it so empty with all the shutters closed we are here today to say that venice can live and be reborn as it has several times in its history we are sure and optimistic that it will be back to mystical causes. and coming up next on news a u.k. wide ban for china's state broadcaster for links with the communist party an expert tells us why it was the right thing to do. and working instead of studying was

school closures mean for millions of children in india's forest region. that's coming up on the w. news asia with my colleague there ashburner g. i'm sara kelley in berlin warner web site c.w. dot com on social media we are apt to use thanks for watching take care. to.

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