no special reason to protest we don't want to be seen as weak. but. neither do they armored tanks patrol the streets as demonstrators treat them with the 3 finger salute that has come to stand for democracy as soldiers bolster the police many civilians fear their assets will be seized with access to banks partially restricted. you know that they have by the military is keeping our money in the bank by force it's unjust isn't it they're limiting the withdrawal amount aren't they creating a riot. people here face deep penalties for opposing the coup those who obstruct the military or police from carrying out their duties could be imprisoned for up to 20 years the military insists it intends to hand back power after holding new elections there were a date for such a vote has not yet been announced. and we are now joined by the u.n.

special envoy on me and marcus inishmaan of broken or but we're going to thank you for joining us here on the w. as we mentioned we're now hearing that aung san suu kyi is facing a 2nd to charge you had the chance to speak to the deputy head of the junta in myanmar on monday were you able to secure any guarantees that the military will refrain from violence and also release her. well the sustained attention to our war a while and as much as possible because i think they are. very they didn't expect that so many people are going on the street and will not give up and they create a community of these obedience and they will not stop to protest on the street we also should not forget that we have around 28 armed organizations in the county who are against peace who sold the potential of wilen seas where we

have. these 2 great while lens hood and very senior situation and you have warrants of severe consequences if there is violence if there is this crackdown by the military what does that mean i mean what is the international community's plan here well internally in jamar i assess that. armed organizations would not be allowed. or so many counties already started to implement targeted sanctions can trace will probably follow i will have probably also soon to grieve and security council of even when the general asked the of the un and i see that you need around the world these are wary important that they don't accept this you mentioned unity within the un human rights council russia and china are already rejected

a resolution condemning the school are you concerned that you will not have unity in the security council that you might not be able to bring sanctions forward. well if there are. players who are not really. protesting against us who. we're also learning that the majority of member states are against so you know mark when you go in a certain isolation if the continue to do these therefore it's comfy in the interest of the myanmar army to continue and we should see also that it was the 1st time since i took up my monday poll that we had as a statement from the security council which was accepted by russia china i want to come back to on some suci now because there's also been some organizing

among parliamentarians in name are members of her party the n l d p have set up a committee on facebook we're seeing here the page here it's called the c r p h it says it is the sole legitimate government of myanmar and they say that they've reached out to the un and other multilateral institutions for recognition so misspoken i want to ask you can you confirm that they have contacted you and would you be willing to support and recognize this group. i am as special envoy who tried to negotiate scenes esrey us now and contact with everybody and also the people in myanmar they know me because before you call we pandemic crises i was it did me a morrow 8 times a year and stayed always announce we saw i know everybody there and clearly i am in contact with them that's also the reason i would like to travel as quickly as

possible back to myanmar which is. possible because i have a one year lease and i could travel but clearly i have to make also appropriate competitions for my new seat will have to live with there the u.n. special envoy on me and our christine a friend of o'connor thank you so much for joining us here on. new day. let's check in now and some other headlines from around the world russian opposition figure alexina of only is back in court where he's being tried for allegedly defaming a world war 2 veteran his supporters say the case is politically motivated and of all these already serving a 3 year sentence for violating terms of his probation at the time he was being treated in germany for poisoning. the european court of human rights has ruled in favor of germany in a case relating to a deadly air strike in afghanistan dozens of afghans many of them civilians were killed when a german commander ordered the 2009 air strike on oil tankers hijacked by the

taliban a father of 2 of the victims have accused germany of human rights violations. a group of prominent pro-democracy activists have gone on trial in hong kong they're facing charges in connection with the anti-government protests that rocked the city in 2019 they include the founder of the hong kong democrats market leader and media tycoon jimmy lai. spanish police have stormed the university and arrested a left wing rapper after a 24 hour siege there were after who goes by the name pablo has said had taken profuse refuge in the university of yeah after being sentenced to 9 months in jail for glorifying terrorism and insulting the monarchy. now there are growing concerns about fast spreading mutations of the corona virus one of the most transmissible variants was 1st discovered in south africa a country has paused the use of the oxford astra zeneca vaccine in response the government is now saying it wants to return

a 1000000 doses or share them with other african states because of concerns of the vaccine is less effective against a variant that originated in south africa the country has been hard hit by the pandemic with about 1500000 cases and just under 50000 deaths for some perspective on the story we can speak now to dr john and a qantas song he's the director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention and he. joining us from ethiopia's capital at dr nick i guess on welcome to think of you i want to ask you 1st about that piece of news that south africa has paused the use of the aspirin that seneca vaccine and even wants to return a 1000000 doses to the manufacturer and we have to say that the country has 40 percent right now of africa's reported covered 1000 cases how concerned are you about south africa vaccination rollout so that tank you for having me on your program 1st of all let me just say very clearly that that shows that the code

vaccine is very safe and has been proven to be if your case shows in and in the context where u.s. tested and also want to say that i mean south africa has been extremely foot coming and very transparent in sharing their findings as well as included identification of the new variant so how does said i think we are learning about a lot about these new virus and we are learning how do we rule out vaccines africa c.d.c. have issued guidelines on how to use the i started as an it guy vaccine 1st of all we have seen that in countries that have seen ecstasy if the spread of this variant that they may consider not using that vaccine med that the vaccine is t.v. very useful in other parts of the continent where they have not reported occurrence of that variant i think it was should be very clear that the vaccine is very safe if that's it is if you case shows in areas that do not have that variant and lastly

that this studied at south africa. reported is to look more information will be reviewed from when to south africa finally complete that study you know in a comprehensive manner so i just want to make sure that i understand your position here you do recommend the astra zeneca vaccine is safe but it might not be effective against this specific variant is that correct. that is a very accurate characterization they might not be effective because again as i said there are studies that. say and he's presented us with a limit to study on about 2000 bodies from the studies on green that's way south africa's temporary so spain in. the new stop using it but they were just kind of precautionary measure to be sure that did you know to do an extensive vaccination using a vaccine that is no responded to and it is very and dr that kind of thing if we

look at the broader picture here there have also been some studies indicating that somebody out of that we have on cases and deaths in africa on a whole is not reliable because there just isn't the capacity for mass testing are you concerned that covert 1000 might actually be far more widespread in africa than we know. so the think of it 9000 is a very is that spread in very rapidly and we have to i mean what we now know under continent as they reported cases based on molecular p.c.r. test the police there is chain reaction to has made. the exposure because we have seen from serologic data that many more people would have been exposed to these various we are currently reporting by the motor classes which is a good start that so i think that is one part of the story the 2nd part of that

story is that. question is that i did more deaths occur and we are not documented i think is no we have seen how many deaths more and more deaths of a could do in the 2nd wave of the pandemic done in the 1st wave and those deaths have been a record that i'm captured it best to the best of our knowledge i think it is there an extensive number of people are dying and no reported i think that this is absolutely not the case on the continent ok and i have to ask you about vaccines as well because we know we've heard that there's been some bickering over vaccines applies here in europe and how many countries how many doses which country gets and you have actually said that there could be a moral catastrophe if not enough vaccines are provided to africa what do you mean by that. so what we mean by that is that we should really make sure that we respect the principle of what we stated. when dystonic started

that we needed to express solidarity and cooperation to address the spine they make and we also all collectively stated that dependency they could get infection anyway and it would be a trip everywhere i think from that perspective we have very concerned as a continent that we have not started vaccinating at the same level of debt countries in europe and united states vaccinated and we also learned from history that in 2009 during the h one n one pandemic vaccines were already at a variable in developing countries after country dependent it was over if we beat as a continent experience related to drugs access to drugs against hiv aids that started occurring in 1996 and then to take 10 years for this drug soon finally be i mean is that in africa and between peter that is between

19062006 1000000 africans they died was really. more of a catastrophe at that time and we don't want these 2 to repeat the same without that nothing we can easily move towards him or a catastrophe even we do not collectively make sure that africa has is that it there right shares of vaccines should vaccinations population and you timely manner and important message there from dr jan john and making us on director and thing africa centers for disease control and prevention thank you very much for joining us. you're welcome. let's get a look now at some of the latest developments in the pandemic german media reports say free rapid tests could be made available to all citizens starting march the 1st as part of the country's efforts to track the virus a court in the netherlands has ordered the government to immediately lift a nighttime curfew that's been in place since january the courts of the curfew lacked any proper legal basis and japan is preparing to roll out its vaccination

program on wednesday that is despite worries that a shortage of special syringes could lead to millions of doses of the pfizer biotech that scene being wasted. now a special flight carrying around half a 1000000 doses of china's sino farm coronavirus vaccine has arrived in hungary hungary will be the 1st european union country to administer both the chinese trot and russia sputnik the vaccine the government has granted emergency approvals to both bypassing approval for medical reddick regulators after criticizing the pace of the e.u.'s vaccine rollout. hungary is going it alone last friday it became the 1st country in the european union to administer russian sputnik vaccine starting with a batch of nearly 3000 doses. now another 1st in the e.u. on tuesday this shipment of the chinese seen a 4 maxine arrived in budapest. this is

a clear break with the e.u.'s vaccine rollout plan which officials in hungry have repeatedly criticized for being too slow. prime minister viktor orban said hungary is taking matters into its own hands. to know in new york who number 2 do we can't stop the virus without vaccines because it will always come back in new ways that's why our country's most important task is to get as many vaccines as possible. not later as promised by brussels but quickly. the russian and chinese vaccines were granted emergency approval in hungary but they have yet to receive the green light from the u.s. regulatory authority the e m a. they haven't been reviewed by hungriest medicines regulator either instead getting approval via government decree that strong criticism from scientist the

prime minister orban has been looking elsewhere for inspiration neighboring serbia which is not in the u. member was the 1st country in europe to administer china seen a farm job this helped make serbia the country with the 2nd fastest vaccine rolled out in europe after the u.k. . in hungary morgan said he hopes to inoculate 2500000 people by easter about one in 400 thanks to the chinese vaccine if successful hungary's decision to go it alone could further undermine the e.u.'s common vaccination strategy. our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena is following this story for us hi aleksandra hungary is now pursuing its own vaccine strategy because it says the e.u. roll roll out as we heard there is just going too slowly is that allowed. yes it is member states are allowed to purchase vaccines outside of the contracts which the

european union signed collectively for over 2000000000 and with american and european from a city called companies so hungry it's not violating any agreements however its decision to approve and administer chinese and russian vaccines has drawn some criticism from the european union which is worry of yet another example of to organise government going its way and trying to undermine. and we just have to remember that the european union's decision to procure big scenes together and to coordinate their roll out and european union was about a year rope's solidarity yeah alexander what do you think that hungary's european partners make of this. well hungary is not the only member state that is struggling to get enough vaccines for its citizens so when. it's about saving lives i think

that our member states understand that at the same time brussels also knows that it is also about politics there will be elections in hungary next year and oregon is under a lot of pressure to reopen the economy he has been at odds with the european union over a number of issues over its hardline stance on immigration over the rule of law corruption and to media freedom and hungry so his way of trying to do seeking closer ties with russia and china is also his way of saying we can find partners elsewhere and that has been criticized also in the european parliament with some members saying accusing orbán of using big scenes as a political game to to weaken the european union and also did you think we could see other e.u. member states follow hungary's lead here on the vaccine role or. well i think we

cannot rule that out czech prime minister bobbish for example visited budapest not long ago to discuss russian and chinese vaccines and even have you waits in europe such as germany seem to be open to this idea of buying russian or chinese vaccines once they are approved in the european union so i think it's really depends on whether the european union is able as it is promising to speed up big scene roll out our brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena joining us thank you very much. sports now in tennis arena williams has overcome the 2nd seed here simona halep in the australian open williams brushed past in straight sets 6363 the 39 year old american is going for a record equalling 24th grand slam title next up is a semifinal meeting against japan zomi who beat williams in the 2018 u.s.

open final. in football byron munich returned back to bundesliga business after winning the club world cup in qatar and found themselves in the middle of a blizzard on monday night byron were expected to steam past the le felt but the visitors began the match looking much more at home in the conditions. it was a less than warm welcome home for biron after they were crowned club world champions in the heat of qatar it looked like they'd become a little too used to the middle east and weather as bielefeld caught them cold. michelle club made it one nil after just 19 minutes. you'll feel it feels confident seemed to intensify with the blizzard a most people gave them a tuna lead to take into half. with the pitch cleared for the 2nd half by and looked on sure a shooting. made 821148 minutes but bielefeld went code and restored their 2 goal lead a minute later through christian gave off the austrian forwards picking

a great time to score his 1st but does leave a goal so it cannot be measured a ball for quarantines aliso to make it $32.00 just before the hour as byron fought back. more good work from the winger equaliser through alfonso davis who rendered off the scoring with 20 minutes to go 33 it finished to leave disappointed faces all road just dropped points in the title race and blew their chance of a famous victory. the champions league round of 16 gets under way tonight with germany's rb leipzig hosting english champions liverpool like 6 home leg will actually be played in the hungary in capital budapest german authorities wouldn't exempt liverpool from travel restrictions for people coming to germany from the u.k. due to the coronavirus mutation there now the matter south hits 2 german coaches against each other like 6000000 august man and liverpool's you can cup who've seen diverging fortunes for their teams in recent weeks. if you see another government

wants to get one over on his compassionate now is the time his right side won a fool's game winning round that's keeping them in the bundesliga title race. tonight's opponents liverpool on the other hand have lost 5 of their last 7 matches but now government is taking nothing for granted we know that it was still a very good team with a lot of world class players a good idea what it could come to pressing with good movement speed the difference if you have to have space and you have no pressure on the ball high praise then for this man you can club whose style of play has influenced many a coach including now goldman but this season the liverpool machine has been creaking another defeat at the weekend left club conceding his side's title defense was over it's led to some questioning his future as coach but he insisted he doesn't need a break. i might not look like this because the weather is not. great it's.

great all these kind of things yes i don't sleep a lot that's all true that's all. fun but i'm full of energy honestly the situation is a challenge i see it more as a as a no i don't want to have to see to it but now we are in the as it is a job the interesting challenge a challenge that's taken both sides to budapest you to germany's coronavirus travel restrictions liverpool have the pedigree leipzig the form and the home away from home. let's get a reminder now of our top story here and you got the you need more police have filed a new trial gets to post leader aung san suu kyi she's accused of violating coded 1000 regulations protesters have called for her release and fresh protests against the military take over the junta has denied it staged a coup and has promised to hand over power after new elections. coming up next on d.-day of you new se asia. how china tries to stifle dissent.

beyond its borders a weaker businessman tells d.w. he was forced to spy on his own people traveling abroad to describe the tragedy that followed. piers finally has that story and more coming right up on to the news asia stated.

do you. feel w.'s crime fighters are back a bit of africa's most successful radio drama series continues only because those are available online course you can share and discuss on t w africa's face for feature and other social media platforms for crime fighters to mindanao. the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

how has the rate of infection been developing. what measures are being taken. what does the latest research say. information into context. the coronavirus update the coalition seems functional monday to friday on t.w. . good. news. of the morning. i can't sleep because you know for using love. in this war smaller. moves lol

hers knows. there's no use in the love of a good for the wicked. because it. gives me a. chance. it's. just. me. this is the w.'s asia coming up today cost into spying for china. this week up on claims chinese state security force tempest fawaz we go just leave it outside china he's now fled to safety in germany and his warning of china's intentions. to get against china knows exactly how to find its adversaries how to get them.