a military coup is underway the army has declared a state of emergency after detaining leader on santucci and other senior politicians from the ruling an l d party the military says it's in response to allege fraud in november's election which returned the national league for democracy to power a tory gate and b. has more on the event so far. the military made its move in the early hours of the morning detaining mammals democratically elected leader and son suchi and all the sea figures from the ruling party su cheese and l d government one november's election by a landslide but accusations of electoral fooled led to tension between the civilian government and the military. what my stance is is that one has had the upper hand in the internal network tree struggles but also they have gone back to a chinese arms and say look this is where we think you are going is not chinese government which is not inclined to support him ocracy has said you have that in the political crisis began last tuesday when a military spokesman refused to rule out the possibility of a coup the following day mammals

calls for the immediate release of new mourners ousted leader ali santucci as hundreds of thousands take to the streets their protest of the military.

and also more demands being made by the protesters some of the now asking for the release of an santucci others want ethnic minorities to have rights these demands seem to be varying do you get a sense that perhaps this protest movement is. going to be. finding difficulty in finding a common cause to rally against. whom we will no. longer. buy lou i'll give you a clue i'm going to look for you local school. in this country bus line people are not going to the are going to come in who are. what about the the issue of minority rights of the rohingya are people aware. and understand the issue about the rights of minorities and would they want to stand up for that now that this military is in power. i want to know i'm seeing a lot of people say a lot. while knowing people. go on please but i see a lot of people. so i want cool new realize that all these people are grown or not very smart very good barbecue goal and also you know i never. got most of well no need the only people this lawyer or you've got people. i'm field of people 8. welcome in all. of them who really look sorry. tony let me

protesters are urging arceo to recognize the november polling that put their deposed leaders including on santucci in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling an aussie on to get more involved we asked. to decide between the military 100 wish oppressed people right now. people were just trying to protest as they can to. lead. we will be. again this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after 2001000. years to engage with the crisis al-jazeera bangkok. joe biden is expected to speak to saudi arabia's king solomon soon before the publication of a u.s. government report on the murder of journalist. it would be biden's 1st conversation as president with a saudi leader the classified intelligence report is why do you believed to implicate the king's so

protesters are urging asio to recognise the november polling the put their deposed leaders including on santucci in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling an aussie on to get more involved we asked. to decide between the military 100 wish oppressed people right now is the side of people which is trying to protest as they can to. lead to that we will be. again this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power by overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after a 2001000 a lecture in political rivals called it badly flawed. so while the protesters are maintaining their pace of protests and strikes they are also stepping up pressure on regional players to engage with the crisis scotland al-jazeera bangkok the un's human rights council says sri lanka is unwilling to be held to account of its inte

rather 1000 people gathered in the largest city again gone to demand the release of deposed leader on santucci and a return to civilian rule. has been severe flooding in indonesia's capital jakarta triggered by heavy rainfall in some parts homes were submerged to 2 mishits of floodwater. time pro-democracy groups are rallying outside parliament demanding the prime minister's resignation and for the monarchy to be reformed thousands of police officers were on standby ahead of the protest or already has every city been cracking down on those who speak out against the royal family. 5 people have been killed in explosions in afghanistan's capital police say at these improvised explosive devices were used in the attack in kabul no one has yet claimed responsibility. those are the headlines don't go away though we'll have more news here on al-jazeera right after the bottom line which is coming up next. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question is white supremacist growing in the united states both in numbers and politically and can it be stopped let's get to the bottom line. president joe biden be

to not oppose the coup me on mars elected leader and head of the national league for democracy on santucci won a landslide victory in elections in november following a large loss of party's favor by the military that declared the election fraudulent now the head of the army is running the country. amid mounting international criticism people are now wondering whether their country's brief experience of democracy has perhaps come to an end cocktail of this of the young al-jazeera. or the united nations has been reacting they say that the charges against unsung 60 severely compromises the country's democracy will continue to call for her immediate release for the president's immediate release and all others who have been detained by the military in the last few days i think the charges filed against her just compound the undermining of. the rule of law in myanmar and the democratic the democratic process. the kovacs scheme set up to ensure poor countries get equal access to corona virus vaccinations has unveiled its distribution plans for the next few months the scheme backed by the global v

consecutive day against the military coup and earlier in the day the lawyer of the deposed leader and santucci said her detention had been extended so that she was detained 2 weeks ago and her court hearings been rescheduled for wednesday there's been a heavy military presence throughout the country on monday and overnight or authorities rist strict access to the internet while deploying troops to major cities but that hasn't deterred protesters crowds have also gathered in front of the chinese embassy they were accusing beijing of supporting me and mars crew dieter's let's bring in difficult calling for an update of years following developments from hong kong for us and we're hearing that security forces have opened fire on protesters in mandalay to what more can you tell us about that. that's right from what we understand they were getting reports that both security forces the police and soldiers are firing indiscriminately at crowds to try and disperse crowds in mandalay it's still unclear whether they're using live fire or rubber bullets and it's also unclear whether they're firing at the

well as close family members biting also called for the immediate release of state councilor on santucci and president lynette. and praised the thousands of bernie citizens demonstrating for an end to the clue violence against those asserting their democratic rights is unacceptable and we're going to keep calling it out the people of burma are making their voices heard. and the world is watching will be ready to impose additional measures at the state department a recognition of just how much diplomacy it will take to end the crisis i think what we are most concerned with is the restoration of civilian leadership and putting into these anti-democratic actions this coup the new me and more sanctions and biden's announcement that the pentagon will review how it engages with china all part of a day designed to focus on the president's role as commander in chief by and vice president kamel harris whit to the pentagon to meet with defense secretary lloyd austin and to boost morale as we face global threats to our climate and to our health to our physical security and cyber security your work

me on mars a leftist leader and head of the national league for democracy on santucci won a landslide victory in elections in november following a large loss of parties favored by the military they declared the election frangela and now the head of the army is running the country. amid mounting international criticism people are now wondering whether their country's brief experience of democracy has perhaps come to an end. this is going on al-jazeera. down the fall is in young go on with an update now on what's happening on the ground now the info x. will act is incredibly will be written it's notorious under the military regime for creating political prisoners and it was thought that when i'm sent to a cheese party came into power they might revoke all or look at least reform a lot of these laws and this is definitely one of the most militaries on so they presumably kicking themselves mad that they didn't prioritize that and and there were a lot of questions about why they had what happened to address that. other headlines and inspectors from the world health organization a visited o

will be further delay this unclear now presumably the military is very concerned about having on santucci appear in any kind of public forum if she's seen as the symbol of this democratic movement and having her out in public could just galvanize the protest movement now given that the military government has changed the laws over the weekend and these laws once again will affect both on sun city's trial and also the way things operate on the ground in one of those laws is of particular concern to the protesters especially as we're coming up to a curfew now where many of the protesters will be heading home in about half an hour but also along with the cover of darkness comes the arrests and one of those laws basically gives the security forces the ability to arrest people without any court orders and that's what's been happening these security forces and police have been going into people's homes searching them making random arrests without any charges and so far $400.00 people have been arrested they include allies of on some suchi politicians human rights activists protesters student le

school while dozens of others have been detained there refusing to back down until deposed leader on santucci is released on monday the u.s. imposed new sanctions targeting married military leaders and the european union has agreed to do the same. speak to tony cheney who is monitoring the situation in myanmar for us from across the border in thailand is live from bangkok so tony g. 7 ministers today united in their condemnation of the military and this call the pressure as we said is really on on the military both internally and externally but does it matter what does it change on the ground. well i. think it's very difficult to we've certainly seen historically mars generals soaking up this kind of pressure and shaking it off in the eighty's and ninety's it was a pariah state or all sorts of sanctions in place against the generals but it didn't really make a huge amount of difference to them but this is a very different it's been opening out for the last 5 years they were working on this road towards democracy so they may world be far more concerned now than they have been in the past for t

protesters are urging asio to recognise the november polling the put their deposed leaders including on santucci in office. one group earlier organized a protest at the bangkok indonesian embassy calling it also want to get more involved we. to choose decide between the military wonder wish oppressed people right now decide out of people which is trying to protest as they can to lead to one though that we will be and the rule of the military against this is not the 1st time that has reached out to thailand since the coup about a week after the takeover myanmar's military leader min on length sent a letter to the thai prime minister asking for help on the democratic process and. a former military chief also rose to power overthrowing a democratically elected government in 2014 he stayed in office after a 2001000 a lecture in political rivals called it badly flawed. so while the protesters are maintaining their pace of protests and strikes they are also stepping up pressure on regional players to engage with the crisis al-jazeera bangkok well western countries have moved quickly to speak out again

me on mars elected leader and head of the national league for democracy on santucci won a landslide victory in elections in november following a large loss of parties favored by the military that declared the election frangela and now the head of the army is running the country. amid mounting international criticism people are now wondering whether their country's brief experience of democracy has perhaps come to an end cards hello this is going on al-jazeera. the latest now with a young horse one of the few foreign journalists actually based in me in my alley what more can you tell us on the stage. well we have. filed charges against him and the president and we've seen some documents from the police requesting the court to keep them under a monitor for the next 2 weeks for the uncensored cine the charge is under the import export act will be having it have his actual communication devices and full the president when you needed the charges are under the national disasters and all that code restrictions basically and that's not. during be. election campaign. when campaigning was banned beca

interest as well as close family members by also called for the immediate release of state councilor on santucci and president lynne mint. and he praised the thousands of bernie citizens demonstrating for an end to the clue violence against those asserting their democratic rights is unacceptable and we're going to keep calling without the people of burma are making their voices heard and the world is watching will be ready to impose additional measures at the state department a recognition of just how much diplomacy it will take to end the crisis i think what we are most concerned with is the restoration of civilian leadership and putting an end to these anti-democratic actions this coup the new me and morsi. and biden's announcement that the pentagon will review how it engages with china all part of a day designed to focus on the president's role as commander in chief by and vice president kamel harris whit to the pentagon to meet with defense secretary lloyd austin and to boost morale as we face global threats to our climate and to our health to our physical security and cyber security your wo