daily protests and strikes me out more since the military took power on february 1st despite the threats of a violent crackdown constantly looming. the protests need to keep going but it's been almost a month now so some of us are feeling a bit disappointed done to press 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 she has not been seen in public since the coup and her lawyer says he's been allowed no contact. you know they're very concerned the right to access justice and legal counsel are being violated. sue cheese 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. 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 a day that as we've just seen some dramatic scenes there in me and mark what's the situation right now. well i just finished hitting pots and pants showing my. feelings towards the ministry cool and the whole city seems quite calm but the public is left with mind boggling questions and incidents that happened in gengel national lessons and the late so just last night as police force snatched. hearts from the friend us and this morning the police force attacked a guy who is offering water bottles and after detaining him he talks.

4 packs of water bottles and they were sharing with each other and in mentally also there was also another street band in her tray was looted by the police force and so those were some of the highlights that we are now you know left why are they doing that also it's not just cracking down it's pro-democracy push protestors 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 save the same trying to sow this it has become like a chain 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 you 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 just that aren't we a phrase and the only thing we are afraid is to lose the freedom that we had to we only have to feel living under that tree to ship us we kind of expected that we would have such kind of violence and and we have to pay for it of course we asked our own family recently and we promised them to stay so 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 cancer it's where the 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 and 2 points the 1st one is the announcement of that election results from the ministry is nothing more than as a really badly composed comedy show because the public is to not recognize that it legal people for us watching on the country and and whatever d. and nouns i mean seeing as we don't really take it seriously we have our own ways of just pointing to the of comments and they only have 2 t.v. channels and 2 newspapers and i mean i don't believe that they have script power to announce and make such announcements until the 2nd part dollars and soon she. even

before she asked her what 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 stay in delhi it's all right and thank you so very much activists david who are calling david for his security who wants to remain anonymous joining us from a mandalay and me and more thank you sir and we turn our attention now to the european union which has agreed to develop a covert 19 that sees certificate that could ease border crossings and allow people more freedom to travel again all that was one of the measures up for debate at a virtual summit of e.u. leaders aimed at better coordinating their pandemic strategy they also discussed ways to fight new variants of the virus and to speed up the block's sluggish

vaccination rollout. with slow vaccinations 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 try to find a united way forward in the fight against the pandemic the pressure is intense concerns can't just be waved to side with the e.u. legging behind them vaccination numbers and new variants spreading rapidly across the continent the b 117 is by now 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 to resume has made it back to the

agenda greek prime minister to talk 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. 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. but sick it's about schools now want to welcome marker boats into 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 stamps or cards 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 likely be behind both on the vaccine rollout on the vaccine purchases on the production capacity very simply you know we should ramp up production capacity as quickly as possible there with all those little acts are put with all due respect and i'm sorry for interrupting there that is not something that they can control 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 past recruits 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 of a 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 that 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 thirdly 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 contact or 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 it 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 have member of the european parlance or thank you for joining us. they're watching you to read news still to come the british woman who joined the so-called islamic state as a teenager loses her legal bit to return home we'll hear more about her case and why the u.k. supreme court rejected it. and prefers to catch you up on some of the other stories making news this hour u.s. president joe biden has authorized his 1st military action since taking office u.s. air force launch strikes in syria targeting facilities used by militia groups backed by iran secretary of defense lawyer to austin said he was comped confidence

they had hit the correct targets syrian authorities say at least 17 people were killed and an attack in western afghanistan has targeted the family of a murdered journalist reporter bismillah ideal i mock was assassinated in january will now gunmen have stormed his home killing 3 family members it comes amid a rise in attacks on journalists and activists no one has claimed responsibility for the attack and the head of russia's jail authority says opposition leader lets in a volley has been moved from a moscow jail to a penal colony of ali was sentenced to 2 years' labor for labor for breaching his parole while recovering in germany for a poisoning attack your human rights investigators are expected to issue findings i'm missin of all these cases on monday when i turn our attention now to nigeria where once again a mass abduction has targeted school children and their families will this time gunmen have kidnapped over $300.00 girls at

a boarding school in the town of django bay in some far off state 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 all schools and kidnapping children to hold them for ransom. all right let's get you the latest on this developing story i'm now joined on the line but you know fred in lagos fred what more have you learned about this case. so far there is nothing new actually more than $300.00 schoolgirls still missing and we just have. one from from a few shows in the office to the governor's going to have a press conference so where it's expected that he is going to announce measures may be. but we don't know what exactly he's going to see with that they're going to

do negotiations but we know that these are bandits and what they do is actually to kids not for ransom so a that way it may be their plans to negotiate with these by and it's and to make sure that they secure these girls under return back to their parents and that this is one of several recent large scale kidnappings in nigeria what's behind this. no one knows what is behind this there has been like a trend now it's like a chain happening that's a few weeks and last week there was in. parts of nigeria about people are just saying that there are these kind of business going behind these kind of kidnapping where kids are not making money out of these could you not be so this guy this is what people are thinking they think that you know there is

a business they're making money because at the end of the day these girls they know that they're going to be returned to their parents as wrong as they have not been kidnapped by the book or had these are just bandits and all they want is just money but so far nothing has been announced with our there is no it was going on between the government and the kid not pres haring situation for the families there are fred to move reporting from lagos nigeria thank you for the update the human rights organization amnesty international says it has evidence that eritrean troops massacred hundreds of people and he appears northern to guy region last november used witness accounts and satellite images to document the atrocities they report suggests that eritrea troops carried out war crimes in their attempts to take control from rebels in the region. this family way they've

escaped the fighting in ethiopia's tikrit region and have found shelter and sit on . the news and back in november when the just arrived. we cried and our children cried with us they wept in front of us and i think the shooting started while we were eating we just had to leave. even the. their home in ethiopia has seen almost 4 months of fighting between local rebel forces and the ethiopian military the last are allegedly receiving support by eritrean troops gaining an accurate picture of events in tikrit has been difficult to impossible journalists have been blocked from entering the region phone and internet services were at times cuts completely and humanitarian organizations have struggled to get in. in early december un human rights chief michel basher lay said

there is an urgent need for independent monitoring of the human rights situation in the t cry region for all necessary measures to protect civilians and for accountability for violations that came about 2 weeks too late for this woman and some 800 others in ethiopia as holy city of axim that's how many people are thought to have died in an alleged massacre near an ancient orthodox church a recent investigation by the associated press found that the perpetrators were soldiers from neighboring eritrea and a new report by amnesty international backs this up the human rights group says it's collected evidence that ira trained soldiers went on a rampage in acts i'm on the 28th of november after an earlier attack on them by a small group of rebel fighters knesset mary's church witness accounts describe them roaming the streets and shooting at fleeing civilians with automatic weapons and precision rifles i saw the people being shot on the ground when they were running approximately 10 people or more all of them young men everyone was scared

and run away. eritrea's government has denied its forces were involved in any massacre after the a.p. investigation was published the country's information minister called the story a horrendous lie relevant ethiopian institutions had long ascertained to the us a fallacy of the story he posted on twitter fighting in tikrit is said to be ongoing and it will be hard to verify what really happened in axum in late november but in light of amnesty international's new allegations the eritrean government may face pressure questions about its involvement in this bloody conflict that's playing out away from the eyes of. what's direct our attention now to do you k. where the supreme court there has ruled in the case of a british board woman who left london as a teenager to join the so-called islamic state in syria shamima bagan wanted to return to her country of birth the u.k.

but the judge ruled she would pose a security risk the 21 year old wanted to challenge the government's 29000 decision to strip her of her citizenship which left her stateless the u.k. argued they could revoke her citizenship because she was bangladeshi descent. let's bring in our editor. and a london charlotte please tell us who is. well thought on the stand misspoken story really do have to go back to 2015 that's when she into another 15 year old school go through left here bethnal green in east london to head to syria they transited through turkey arriving then in syria where miss peggy married a so-called islamic state jihadist spices she remains there then for several years giving birth to 2 children who both lost the lives in infancy she then turned up

in 2019 at a refugee camp 9 months pregnant where she spoke to generous saying that she wanted to return home to return back to the united kingdom it was then the then the former interior minister here in the u.k. decided to strip her of her purchases and ship as he said and he claimed at the time that she was of bangladeshi heritage and therefore could claim citizenship that that is something that the bangladeshi authorities later ruled out in essence leaving that mistaken state lists she then appeal that ruling often losing her child also in infancy saying that she had a right to be overturned back to the u.k. of an appeals court then that indeed she should at least be allowed to return to b.k. to fight the stripping of her citizenship nowadays the supreme court has said no that won't be happening so how did the court justify its ruling charlotte.

well the ruling at the supreme court the u.k.'s top court was unanimous in this case the subject comes down to conflict today between issues of national security and the right to a fair and effective trial and that has begun as defense and said that she wasn't able to mount an effective defense while living in that refugee camp still in syria the judges ruled those that this was a national security issue essentially saying that her rights to that that child doesn't trump issues of public safety now they acknowledged in their written response that this was not a perfect solution as they put it and it sort of reflects in fact the di lemma that is currently being faced but what is very clear here is that ms begum has no clear route now to any return to the case. this is such an important. one for us

its importance is its significance well this case has since back to 2015 being considered a test case. others like it others of course did also believe to serve going to syria to join so-called islamic states in back in 2015 there was a huge op uproar here in the u.k. often how it was possible the 3 young school go went to the way to go to syria and now the question what happens now that they have a child a child something reporting from london thank you. now if you were a remarkable escape from a burning building in istanbul a mother had to drop her 4 kids one by one from the upper story window before springing to safety yourself. a mother's love put to the hardest to test. a turkish woman had to throw her 4 kids from

a 3rd floor window in order to save them from the flames. residents stretched out a blanket so they could catch them. they were moments of terror but the children made it out safely local media reported they were in good condition. that's true of anyone who has kids will feel a lot more profoundly about this so this is a well there was great despair there that was one of those kids that wasn't able to jump down was about to faint. i broke down after he saw. his heartlessness it was heartbreaking to little and then got no one lost their lives a little too. the incident happened at a 5 story building in the european side of istanbul. firefighters later assisting

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