this is coming to you live from berlin myanmar's military refuse a key demand of protesters and keep leader. in jail pro-democracy activists for another day of demonstrations calling for her release but there are signs a crackdown could beat them and. also coming up despite threats of arrest russian protesters put on a show of defiance flashlight flash mobs in support of jailed dissident alexei the bayani how will the kremlin respond. and if we look at the chaos calls by germany

new border restrictions with austria and the czech republic it controls aim to keep coronavirus mutations in favor took many people by surprise. blow i'm terry martin thanks for joining us myanmar's military junta has extended the detention of deposed leader aung san suu kyi she was due to be released today but will now remain in jail at least until wednesday protesters are once again in the streets demanding her release and an end to the coup that brought the hunted to power 2 weeks ago the military has intensified its crackdown on the protests sending armored vehicles to patrol the streets and imposing an internet blackout this after images were circulated online that showed the military. firing on

a crowd of protesters it's unclear whether live ammunition was used. let's bring in journalist dave grinning here he's covered me on more extensively and joins us now from kuala lumpur good to see you again dave tell us house the situation in myanmar right now how volatile is it. yeah i communicated with some people on the ground and yeah i got this morning and it's clearly things are very tense there as you said armored vehicles on the streets soldiers patrolling in fatigues you've got police you've got water cannons visible people are certainly on edge now there are reports that there are fewer demonstrators on the streets in the ngata now compared to previous days but it's early afternoon there are still see if those crowds pick up one thing that has also created a lot of tension are these nighttime raids and arrests that are going on the military has given itself sweeping powers they can detain people without a court order they can search property without a court order now people have created these sort of neighborhood watch groups to

try to keep an eye out for the police to alert one another to try to protect one another but they tell me this is leading to just a lot of sleepless nights so things are really tense i think a really key thing to keep an eye on over these next few days is this government work stoppage that is going on basically government employees were using to go to work if this continues and if it continues to pick up momentum and get more and more government workers on board it could make it difficult for the military to keep the government running and if that happens in some key sectors senior gentleman on long the man who's basically put himself in charge of the whole country may feel that he is backed into a corner and then how does he respond then that's the key thing we've got to look out for now that scenario and when this could be the civilian leave the defectives civilian leader own sons who she was arrested she's still in detention or lawyers and she will not appear in court today as expected she's going to be kept in

custody at least until wednesday do we know what's happening with her. it will basically corner laura that happen because that's what a judge decided the judge in a bit of a town keep in mind me m.r. does not have an independent judiciary so is long as the military is running the country they're going to find a way to keep her in detention for as long as they want to that's just the bottom line especially with those sweeping powers they've given themselves i just described a minute ago now the military is also shutting down the internet whenever it suits them severely disrupting communications now some of that apparently has been restored but social communications social media platforms are still severely restricted what does this mean for the protest movement in the country where facebook is the defacto communication main line of communication yes so the bottom line is these demonstrators they're finding ways to communicate

with each other some of them have gotten virtual private networks to get around shutdown some of them have been using sim cards from other countries such as singapore and thailand i mean if you look at the past days of demonstrations there's a sign i saw numerous times that really stood out to me and said you've mastered the wrong generation and what that basically says is that you've got technology today that they didn't have decades ago and that demonstrators protesting the a prior does and that this is a smart tech savvy generation and they're going to use that to their advantage they do not want to live under military rule like their parents and grandparents used to today thank you very much as always journalist a group there in kuala lumpur. for. now to russia where so-called flash light protests lit up the night despite days of effort by the kremlin to suppress the large scale demonstrations took place nationwide over the past 2 weekends but this time supporters of jailed opposition leader election of all they went small in

their show of defiance against political oppression. as dusk fell the lights in the so-called flash light protests went on across russia supporters of opposition figure head alexina volley switched on lights in a display of unity in the siberian city tomsk the protests motto love is stronger than fear shone down from the window of an apartment building. earlier in the day hundreds of russian women formed a human chain in central moscow this time to show solidarity for novell his wife yulian of and other women who have become victims of the crackdown since his imprisonment here to this same message love is stronger than figo the women took this message to the streets despite threats of replications by the state. that was there and seeing if i didn't used to protest i was scared and i'm scared now i don't know what consequences there will be but i'm more afraid about the thought

that if i don't come out if others don't come out then everything will stay the same it's needed we had need any sort of solidarity now because alexina valley is the most well known political prisoner now some people forget that there are also a lot of women in this team who are also being persecuted for their political opinions and for their work. against violence of any kind whether it's political violence or domestic violence that's why we're here for love. you see. that report by w.'s moscow correspondent emily sure went and warner. pullen now some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the west african nation of guinea has declared a new epidemic after an outbreak near the liberian border at least 3 people have been died there the 1st cases detected in guinea since 2016 the world health

organization is helping to liberate vaccines and trying to contain the outbreak. in the u.s. state of florida families and survivors held a memorial for the victims of the parklane school shooting massacre 17 students and staff were killed there 3 years ago president joe biden used the occasion to call for tougher gun laws including a ban on assault weapons. and australian treasurer josh frydenberg says the country is close to reaching significant commercial deals with google and facebook with the online platforms paying millions to media companies for content shared by users google and facebook have yet to comment but they have recently threatened to discontinue some services in australia to avoid paying. a major travel shutdown in europe germany has tightened its borders with austria and the czech republic in hopes of keeping up more contagious strains of the

coronavirus the decision is causing headaches in particular for commuters who work in neighboring countries many people were turned back at the german border already on the sunday as the new rules came into force only people who work in a small number of fields deemed essential are allowed to cross regional state leaders could defend their quickly and active measures citing the rapid spread of new code and 19 there is a wealth of very latest let's take a look at the situation at the german czech border in the bavarian town of sharon doing it's a place where a lot of commuters travel to work in germany now our correspondent barbara basal is there for us and joins us now. so barbara house the border closure affecting people where you are. it's affecting people gravely because they really as we just saw don't know what to do can they come can they not come but what we're

seeing this morning of course is what was to be expected long lines of trucks here because after sunday when trucks can drive they all come out now and they're trying to cross the border here and it is a very slow process because every single one of them is being stopped and the drivers do have to show a negative corona test now for many drivers who just do this cross border traveling a lot they have to go to test center like every other day it is very slow it is cumbersome and they are complaining about it and saying it is really very difficult for seizure but this seems to have caught people on the check side of the border off guard barbara were they not properly informed. no they werent and that is one of the big problems of course people are angry people are really dumbfounded they don't know what's happening to them because this is their life i

mean this is about 90000 people who come across here every day we see on the other side there's still some private cars lined up but these people in there they're presenting their work contract and they don't know where the police will say yes you can go or you can't and then from wednesday on it will be even less there will be even less people allowed to come because then the rules become even stricter and there will be a more or less total shutdown here except for some trucks rolling and so this was badly communicated to the authorities on both sides of the borders didn't talk to each other and local people say it leaves a very bad taste because it sort of raises suspicion against each other and he had one unity and sort of togetherness of people in this big border region it could very easily be lost we're talking about unity the e.u. tends to frown upon internal border closures this closure affecting the czech republic and austria been coordinated with the e.u.

. absolutely not i mean it's been done more or less by by decision in munich by the federal government and the very a and they've just done it overnight and then just said we will close the borders finito and they didn't even talk to anybody and they didn't talk to the governments on the other side and say how can we organize this how do we tell people how this is going to work and the question of course is can you stop the virus can you stop it at the borders of commuters don't come over anymore is that really what has caused the spread of the british for ai and here nobody knows that there is no proof for it and so many people think that this is politically highly problematic and also of course this region here will be hit again which has already been hard hit by the corona crisis we see many shuttered shops and places that are empty and they would just have to take enough economic hit it is a very difficult decision it's also

a very cold there as i can see not fun for the people who have to sit in their car for hours our correspondent barbara ensure i'm doing very a thank you so much barbara. time now for a look at some of the other developments in the krona virus pandemic worldwide a large is really study shows that the biotech pfizer vaccine is highly effective at preventing serious illness israel has vaccinated more than more of its population that any other country knew daily cases in the u.s. or averaging below 100000 for the 1st time in months but public health experts warned that infections remain high and restrictions should stay in place the 1st vaccine doses have arrived in australia and new zealand quarantine hotel workers will be among the 1st to get the jobs and england opens its cornton hotels today in a bid to keep new code variants passengers from 33 so-called red list countries will have to spend 14 days under the new border restrictions. in sports and

germany's bonus league frankfurt's champions league dreams received a boost after beating cologne on sunday frankfurt or in top form and the goals just keep on coming as they continue to ease past opponents. the hooters frankfurt hadn't lost at home all season making them one of only 3 teams in the bundesliga to make that claim a win against cologne would bump them up into 3rd place. and after a scoreless 1st half frankfurt hit the target courtesy of andre silva his 18th of the season the 2nd most in the league and what a beautiful touch it was. and then frankfurt doubled their lead late in the half evonne and doing the honors this time in his pinpoint header and leaving the cologne keeper with no chance.

to nail is how it ended and audi who just frankfurt stay on b. net home and are staking their claim to a champions league spot. you're watching t.v. news from berlin coming up next we've got a documentary film for you about child trafficking and cherie marshall thanks for watching. young german. jewish. jewish does so what. does that mean in daily life at school. levin teenagers who live in stories. i'm jewish and so. young german and jewish starts feb 22nd on d w.