our documentary she slavery routes starts march 10th on w. . the book. the be. this is due to reduce life for girl and shots fired security forces in myanmar use live ammunition to break up protests in young got i am. the shootings the latest sign of deadly tension between the military establishment of pro-democracy demonstrators who say they have no intention of backing down also

coming up no time to lose european union leaders agree on the need for a vaccination certificates as a way to ease restrictions on travel and tourism for greece tells the block to move fast or it will create its own and. we are very much in favor of all negotiations at the e.u. level at the same time. if we do our job of the countries to come to an table at the same time in fact doesn't happen i don't think we are obviously going to do our own bilateral deals and amnesty international says it has evidence of the worst atrocities committed yet against civilians in ethiopia's to get i reach out and alleges soldiers from eritrea were involved. thank you so much for your company everyone will. begin our broadcast in mar

because that country's military has officially now know the results from last november's election almost a month after seizing power in a coup it has refused to accept the outcome which landed a landslide victory to the party of one sense to cheat all the pro-democracy you demonstrators are keeping up their calls for suits he's released at least one person has been injured and young gone after riot police fired live rounds in the air stun grenades and rubber bullets to clear protesters. the protest march was quickly gripped by panic as shots rang out you said you had gone. and witnesses say police fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the crowd and. hundreds of people have turned out once again blocking roads and me on mars commercial center their defiance openly on display. 'd

the police soon moved in to clear them banging the warning drums with their truncheons against their shields. them iraqi but there was an even more severe crackdown and me on march 2nd largest city mundelein with several people requiring medical treatment for their injuries. there have been daily protests and strikes me on more since the military took power on february 1st despite the threats of a violent crackdown and constant key looming. protests need to keep going but it's been almost a month now so some of us are feeling a bit disappointed on depressed we need to stay strong for the next month or 2 because it could take some time to remove this.

elected leader aung sang suu kyi has not been seen in public since the coup and her lawyer says he's been allowed no contact bureau. and the un concerned the right to access justice and legal counsel are being violated. you are going to. suit she's due to appear in court on monday and time is running out to prepare her defense. side her young girl mansion a group of supporters gathered to offer prayers for her release 1. all right i'm now joined by an activist in mandalay who wants to remain anonymous for security reasons so we're calling him david a very good day david as we've just seen some dramatic scenes there in me and mark what's the situation right now. just. i just finished hitting

pots and pants showing my. feelings towards the military coup and the whole city seems quite calm but the public is left with mind boggling questions and incidents that happened in gentleness or less mentally so just last night as police force snatched. tarts from the friend us and this morning the police force attacked a guy who is offering watts of bottles and after detaining him he talks. 4 packs of water bottles and they were sharing with each other and in mandalay also there was also another street vendor in her tray was looted by the police force and so those who are some of the highlights that we are now you know left why are they doing that also not just cracking down on. true democracy pushing protesters

but other than that we are now publicly or in our private messages discussing about . the upcoming days how we should approach how we should stay safe at the same time it's so this it has become like a routine that house would approach the by day and house would you know resolve. those kind of crackdowns and violence yes it is a very dire situation isn't it david because on the one hand protesters and activists like yourself do what do not want to back down and on the other hand you know its security situation is deteriorating very very fast are you guys still determined to continue. it's. we will never stop until he goes down that's for sure. some people are us that aren't we a phrase and the only thing we are afraid is to loose the freedom that we had to we

only have to feel living under that tree to ship us we kind of expected there would have such kind of violence and and we have prepared for it of course we asked our own family recently and we promised them to state that we will stay safe all the times but i am afraid i'm more afraid of living under a dictatorship than getting shot at or being bullied by a bunch of people who have gone it's just another militarily as you know has officially a knowledge of the election results which of course are resulted in. the party to win by a landslide is she still the main unifying figure for the protest movement. it's i would like to answer the questions in 2 points the 1st one is the announcement of the election results from the military is nothing more than as

a really badly composed comedy show just because the public is to not recognize that it legal people who are squatting on the country and and whatever the announced anything as we don't really take it seriously we have our own ways of responding to their comments so they only have tool t.v. channels and 2 newspapers and i mean i don't believe that they have script power to announce and make such announcements and for the 2nd part dollars and soon she. even before she. she won the election she has always been an eye on for the country as well as for the world so i don't think it really matters whether her party want to lose she will always be iconic for democracy for this country and the world and it will always stink that leads to thank you so very much activists david to

who are calling david for his security who wants to remain anonymous joining us from the mandalay in myanmar thank you sir it's. thank you want to turn our attention now to the european union the block has potentially a great to develop a covert 1000 digital certificates a vaccine certificate that could ease border crossings that allow people more freedom to travel again while it has it was one of the measures up for debate at a virtual summit of you readers aimed at better coordinating their pandemic strategy they also discussed ways to fight new variants of the virus and to speed up the block sluggish vaccination will out with slow bakshi nations coronavirus variance border chaos and summer holidays at risk there was no shortage of talking points at this virtual e.u. summit during a 4 hour video call leaders trying to find a united way forward in the fight against the pandemic the pressure is intense concerns can't just be waved aside with the e.u.

legging behind them vaccination numbers and new variants are spreading rapidly across the continent the b 117 is by no in all member states but one. the south african variant is in 14 member states and the brazilian variant in 7 so there's a lot of challenges ahead of us apart from ramping up vaccine manufacturing and easing production bottlenecks the e.u. will put more energy into detecting these more contagious and dangerous mutations through a dedicated program. with the spring on its way tourism has made it back to the agenda greek prime minister. his was one of the 1st leaders to call for an e.u. wide vaccination certificates in the attempt to east travel restrictions and save the summer holiday season that's something all leaders could get behind but how and when exactly this vaccine passport could be rolled out is uncertain.

as we expected to be done by summer i am not a programmer so i cannot make any guarantees like i cannot guarantee vaccine deliveries but the political requirements are to reach this goal within the next few months. but for the moment member states have agreed that tourism and all non-essential travel is not an option. it's a brussels now want to welcome mark a vote he's a member of the european parliament and part of the left group a very good day sir thank you for taking out the time you leaders now seem to have reached a preliminary agreement on the creation of a digital vaccine certificate but you are unconvinced what are your concerns. well my concerns is that once we start tribute ing rights fundamental rights on the basis of health status we're going down a slippery slope especially in this shit situation where we've seen that we've got a shortage of vaccines true of the european union in many member states and hence

not everyone has access to the vaccine so attribute ing rights to people on the basis of health status is dangerous it's even more questionable as long as people don't have access to the vaccine i mean let's guarantee 1st that people get the vaccine and then we can debate on what kind of stomps or carts or whatever we want . of course they have to be prepared obviously they can't just remain in damage control mode forever certain member states economies heavily rely on tourism without a certificate system or a passport of some kind how do you suggest that they rev up their economy again. well how about we start by targeting the virus you know it's been absolutely incredible what we've been seeing from the european union will lag behind both on the vaccine roll out on the vaccine purchases all the production capacity very simply you know we should ramp up production capacity as quickly as possible so with all those little arcs are but with all due respect and i'm sorry for

interrupting there that is not something that they can control right those are the manufacturers who control production and they are having serious problems i think is it a fallacy to say that the ability to travel will only be based on a vaccine passport chris already to go to certain member states you need a negative p.c.r. test certificate so already we need to be able to show that there were fit to travel. well there's 2 points to that 1st of all there is something you control about production capacity if you lift bait and then you give the d. ability to many more companies to produce the vaccine so that is the only thing that we do control that is realistic i mean it would take one to 6 months for different vaccines but it is realistic secondly you made a good point when you look at p.c.r. testing i mean this is sufficient today with quarantine to say you know we allow travel as long as you have a negative p.c.r. test so why did we not roll this out and then insist on this and dirtily there is obviously contact tracing and source tracing we're not doing enough of that and

this is where you know member states have been lacking and they should take their responsibility by developing this contract they're seeing and this source tracing to make sure that we can kill the virus a.s.a.p. because the longer it's out there the more we're going to get different varieties and the more we're going to be struggling to actually get this pandemic under control but the fact of the matter is that without a common except it's individual e.u. member states we just heard greece will just go it alone isn't it better to have one unified system or well individual member states have been going along all along the crisis you remember export bans on medical equipment you remember parallel vaccine purchases so this is not new now what i remember is that in 2015 when greece tried to introduce some social measures the european union was very quick to crack down on that i think the european commission could here as well take up a role to actually guarantee fundamental freedoms like the freedom of movement within the european union mark going to happen member of the european parlance or thank you for joining us. to west africa now and nigeria where once

again a mass abduction has targeted school children and their families this time gunmen have kidnapped over 300 girls at a boarding school in the town of john good day in some far off states witnesses told local media that hundreds of armed men attacked security guards before they took the girls in recent months heavily armed criminal gangs have ramped up attacks on schools and kidnapping children to hold them for ransom and now earlier we spoke to. who explained what we know so far well this school goes where abducted and the friday morning in the augusta country school in jane get it down which is on back to la to my foot on local government to present what we're hearing is that nigeria and i meet possum there and that desk

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