indonesian embassy in the young girl where you see crowds of protesters have also gathered let's join scott hyde our correspondent who's monitoring events for us in the thai capital bangkok and scott it does seem now that diplomats are pushing back from being gauging with being bar it's becoming a real regional headache and one wonders how naypyidaw is going to react. yes so it is quite a quite a headache right now but you have to look at what the approach was by you know this planned visit by indonesia's foreign minister to nato or to meet with the generals in charge of sensually you can obviously see that that would not sit well with the protesters but beyond that part of the reason they said they're going in this is kind of like a on which is the group of southeast asian nations initiative to try to find a political solution to the situation in myanmar but in the approach you have to look at it that it was almost doomed to fail if they went down this track mainly because the protesters pretty much said straight away you're this means that you're in the gym izing recognizing the military milit

despite that symbolic acts of protest against the janitor being seen and heard across the country scott hyde has been following developments the ministry of communication information said that they are shutting down through.

in myanmar they're putting their safety their freedom at risk scott many thanks for that update scott hyde at that for us. still ahead on al-jazeera. 3 months on and tens of thousands of refugees who fled violence in ethiopia and adapting to a new life. china state. problems with authorities in the u.k. . however there we've got more wintry weather on the forecast for north america big bulge of cloud into central parts pushing across the plains out of central areas of canada and that's all going to make its way further a switch so there's an expansionist snow coming into the northeastern corner snow there north of the border into quebec pushing across towards canadian maritimes and some very heavy rain running down along the eastern seaboard into the panhandle and across the gulf next batch of wintry weather waiting in the wings that's going to make its way in as we go on through saturday say clearer skies over towards easter saturday but yeah that next batch of very wintry weather will come in the potential for developing nor'easter coming in for the latter part of the weekend so that cou

a band large gatherings water cannon and rubber bullets were used against protesters on tuesday scott hyde was following developments for us cross the border in thailand in bangkok scott it speaks to the resilience of the protestors and how strongly they feel that water cannon and rubber bullets and a curfew haven't stopped them today. very true kemal they are coming out in the thousands again today and it's interesting we've been speaking with some people who are there in yangon for those protests we know that there were a couple of vents planned we know that there was going to be a gathering at the u.n. office in u.n. gone to elevate the international profile of what's happening there as well as at the japanese embassy and also there was going to be a prayer vigil at one location within downtown yangon that is because one protester was severely injured and is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head so they were going to have a prayer service for her in yangon today and also what's interesting speaking with someone who is that you get a different location you know the way i

to deter these protesters from taking to the streets florence italy al-jazeera or let's speak to scott hyde and i he is monitoring things for us from bangkok and neighboring thailand scott obviously with this internet blackout across the country i know it's hard to get information out but what do we know at this stage about what's happening there on the ground. the study we were actually able to make contact with a part of our team on the ground in yangon within just the last 20 minutes now the internet blackout as you were talking about really goes on for another 30 minutes we're i was able to communicate with him and he describes a very sleepless nights he said in yemen gone there were at least 15 patrols going around the city he didn't mention apc's own personal carriers that we have evidence that they are in yangon but he said these patrols are police vans and water cannon trucks and obviously that's concerning but particularly when you have a night where the internet was shut off and he said that the biggest concern are these patrols going after government workers who have joined the c

news agency at least 27 people have been arrested a man delay in the country's 2nd biggest city scott hyde has been following developments from bangkok we have seen mass protests over the last 4 days you know just before tuesday that the biggest thing we saw biggest action we saw kind of pushback from from the defense forces was use of water cannon on monday today we have seen that in multiple locations yes it was just in the capital neighborhood but today we've seen it tuesday in multiple locations and as you said this is also in april where. they fired gunshots into the air to disperse the crowds. hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lie he's accused of fraud and conspiring with foreign forces under beijing's controversial national security law since the most high profile person the months more than 100 people who've been arrested under the new legislation the 73 year old is to remain in custody until his trial is. nearly 200 people are still missing in northern india after a glass to collapse on sunday triggering flash floods rescue crews are digging through a blo

500 people have been detained since the start of a civil disobedience campaign nearly 2 weeks ago scott hyde lives in the thai capital bangkok with more on the latest charges placed on unsung cinci. there wasn't any appearance on wednesday that was supposed to be for the 1st charge brought against her by the joint and that was illegally possessing walkie talkie radios and this was supposed to happen monday they pushed it to wednesday but it didn't happen and presumably that's because there was a 2nd charge as we just heard put on her as well and now we're hearing the next hearing for her will be the court hearing for her will be on march 1st so it seems to be a bit of a pattern i think they just want to delay delay delay it so they can keep her essentially under house arrest in her property in neighborhood or the capitol that day started wednesday by this civil disobedience movement where the broken down car campaign is what they call it where people pretended that their cars were broken down and they parked in the middle of bridges and roads throughout the city and they're doing that again

news agency at least 27 people have been arrested and demonstrators have been hit by water cannon scott hyde has been following developments from bangkok we have seen mass protests over the last 4 days you know just before tuesday that the biggest thing we saw biggest action we saw kind of pushback from from the defense forces was use of water cannon on monday today we have seen that in multiple locations yes it was just in the capital neighbor but today we've seen it tuesday in multiple locations and as you said this is also an ape are aware. they fired gunshots into the air to disperse the crowds and i'm going against the joint is growing overseas in the last few days deal and became the 1st country to announce action against the military and suspending aid programs as well as high level military and political contacts iran has begun its mass vaccination program the health minister's son was the 1st person to publicly get the russian developed sputnik job to encourage trust amongst the people hong kong's top court has denied bail to media tycoon jimmy lai the 73 year old is accused of frau

so for the latest we're heading across the border down to thailand chiang mai that is where scott hyde lay is reporting for us from hi scott so bring us up to that 1st of all more arrests particularly when saying yes exactly when ted was taken wrested early morning on friday we know that because he actually was able to make a couple calls as he was being detained early morning hours now there's concern about him he is 79 years old he's not in the best of health he has been at aung sun suu kyi side for decades she's been one of his top advisers straight away through all the way at the top of the end of the and has been there for quite some time so him being detained obviously is a major hit but what's interesting he wasn't taken in that 1st round off on the day that the coup took place on monday he was taken he was taken you know several days later but just after the coup he came out and actually spoke to the people of myanmar and said that they should carry out acts of civil defense. in the in. the case of the coup is rooted in our country and this is the reason why our nation remains

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themselves new powers to monitor and the rest demonstrators let's call hyde was monitoring things for us in bangkok in neighboring thailand scott if i understand it correctly that internet blackout was supposed to be lifted i think in the last 30 minutes or so are we any clearer about what's happening on the streets in myanmar. rob actually we can update that in fact the internet at least in some some spots of yangon we can confirm that that internet ban or blackout has been lifted we know that in some areas some of our team on the ground there is saying that they are able to reconnect to why 5 they were able to speak with us earlier because they used a way to communicate with us via messaging app so we know that yes now at least in some parts of yangon we can confirm that the internet is back up and that is pretty much right on schedule it was supposed to come back courting to this ban in notification from the government that it would be lifted about 30 minutes ago and it sounds like at least in some parts that has indeed happened but what's also interesting now that we're back in touch with our team on the ground there that i

fisher graham grassley haggerty hawley hovan hyde smith in home johnson kennedy langford levy lummis marshall mcconnell moran hall portman ridge rounds rubio scott of florida scott of south carolina shelby sullivan then tillis to me tavor bill with her. young as president. all right so i think what what's happened was happening now is they're counting the votes and whether to call witnesses and i think we're going to bring allan in to confirm this i think that the impeachment managers it looks like this it looks like they have got enough votes to actually call her a bottle i think is that the lady they want to call testify. just running through the list some years they were seeing the votes that voted yes for witnesses they named mitt romney named susan collins and they named lisa murkowski all 3 are republican senators they also. had john meacham is name in there he is a democrat from west virginia but considered to be a swing vote in the senate often sometimes votes with republicans so it's clear to me just from those 3 names and i didn't catch all of them but from those 3 names there's more than enough there's more than 50 so it looks as if w

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should not implement such pelosi, i thank, inhofe, grad, hyde-smith, lee, rick scott and hoeven for joining me in this effort and i ask my colleagues to join me in supporting this commonsense amendment. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: this amendment is opposed by the center for american progress, america's voice, s.c.i.u., national immigrant justice center and many, many other civil rights and immigration organizations and the reason they oppose it and why i oppose it is -- oppose it is that this amendment applies to people charged, not convicted. now i'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is in this country we believe people are innocent until proven guilty. what this amendment does is vilify immigrants, many of whom are working and essential -- in essential and dangerous jobs right now, often for very low pay. mr. president, this amendment is not germane to the budget resolution as required by law, therefore i raise a point of order that the pending amendment violation section 805, b-2 of the national congressional budget act. ms. ernst: pursuant to the budge