tony cheng elders are still to come this half hour from animal rights to universal health care chileans have their say on what they want. and then you constitution untrusting vaccines to battle. an army crone said, denmark comes the 1st e u country to lift its k the restrictions. ah, you're locked into your weather report for asia and australia. hello everyone right off the bat, a new record set here for the northwest of honshu, 432 centimeters of snow. this is the snowiest inhabitant place on earth, and it certainly living up to its name and to start february few days in more snow . coming out jim, meantime, so kill 11 degrees with sunny skies and for southern china, the rain continues. that includes for hong kong, rain and snow, cross the yangtze river valley. now for the philippines, a batch of what weather is creeping closer. this is on wednesday. let's press play . see where goes wednesday into thursday. it's going to inundate the southern islands, including the devout region of her se asia, indonesia, it's islands have seen in this. so and here anywhere between $60.00 to $75.00 mi

tony cheng al jazeera. ah, well let's bring in our guests and the tie capital bank cock is debbie's dos hon founder and coordinator of all san bernard. that's a network of organizations working on human rights and democracy in myanmar in london. ronan lee fellow at law for a university london, an offer of the book and young mas for hang a genocide. and in vancouver and canada, we have yasmin or la overhang of human rights activist, a very warm welcome to the program. and i'll start with you miss started in bangkok, given the state of the country, has the military clue been a failure? all elizabeth, this who has been a tragic failure. tragic for the people in the country, but definitely a failure. father hunter, senior gentlemen, are lying and his military, a cronies sent and he did not expect the level of determination and sustained resistance, mainly from young people and women leading this movement. they still have not been able to gain territorial control of the country a year after trying to seize power

she may find herself in a much diminished ro, tony cheng al jazeera, on the time he on my board of india has officially recorded more than half a 1000000 corona virus deaths. but some experts say the actual figure is much higher. the army kron variant is behind the countries. 3rd wave of covered 19. a study published in the journal science estimates about 3000000 people have died. the government says the claims are baseless, of natal has more from new delhi exports an estimate this milestone to have been crossed months ago. and that the actual death could be in millions. you know, what makes this even was, is that how undignified a lot of these episodes? well, of course, many of these debts reported an estimated war during the devastating debts. how will that happen? last summer, you may remember that at the time hospitals were overrun, so many people died just waiting for waiting for a hospital bed, waiting for oxygen. i mean hot for those ran out of oxygen. so many of these debts were actually preventable. crematorium were overrun, families had to wait, i was to commit their loved ones

all of which it denies will tony cheng spoke to the ex soldier who is now in hiding near the tie me on my border rebel fighters approach a convoy of burning vehicles on christmas eve. it was the scene of a massacre. they say more than 30 men, women and children executed their bodies burned at you. they say it was mere mas army. specifically, the much feared 66 light infantry mia mars military leadership have denied involvement and that, but those tactics a well known to captain, me unto whose name we've changed for security reasons. he served in the 66 light infantry until november when he deserted. now he's in hiding. he says he and his soldiers were taught to believe that any one who stood up to them was the enemy. and with angrily, diana, the army seized the ethnic groups like terrorists. now they tell the soldiers that all the ethnic groups are taurus, that's why they fight against them. they want to control everything. despite decades of oppressive rule, members of mere mas army or tap my doors, they are often called inside the country were held in high regard. their role as guard

tony cheng al jazeera, not the makers of the pfizer by and take a backseat, are expected to ask us regulators for permission to offer jobs for children and young. 6 months old. the us food and drug administration 1st approve, defined by and take vaccine for people age 16 and older. in december 2020, all 6 months later the f. d. a said the vaccine was safe to use on children as young as 12. and then in october, last year, it lowered the requirement to 5 and above official se uptake of shots has been slower than they hoped for. the bride by connie is a senior at clinical lecture at the university of extra medical school. and he explains why there's a drive to vaccinate younger people. now that we have got ample vaccine supplies, it is perfectly feasible to immunize across all the age groups. before we had ample vaccine supplies, it was imperative that we immunized the wonderful people, the people, the clinical doctors and nurses, and health care workers, and other essential workers. but now that there is enough global supply, it is perfectly okay to give vaccines for the younger age group, as w

tony cheng explains rebel fighters launch a rocket propelled grenade at me and my army positions in reply, a thick burst of automatic gunfire. forces them beth. they are just outside the provincial capital. lloyd gore where fighting has been fierce throughout january. that their enemy was much better quit the fight is from the currently national defense was the k and the f. a new militia formed after the military coups nearly a year ago. but what had started as a gorilla campaign is now becoming a full blown conventional war. i was in the fall are 12 months ago. philip, a well educated man in his thirties, worked in communications, missouri. now he's a k and dear fighter from he entered thailand illegally recently and wants to keep his identity hidden too much. but he'll return to me on my soon to continue the fight against a vicious a bursary bug. bugger behalf nor, you know, rules due to everything goes smooth in order to civilians. the 2 women and children sticker it innocently rose the grievous, furiously door fight. all like you know how to say a normal, a standard army will do, you

tony cheng elders are a ban on religious head, scarves and classrooms in the southern state. and india is back before the court. on monday schools had to reopen the same day income nautica the been closed because a violent protest against the bad knee. mister reports from monday. the con, con has become a local hero. people from across india have come to take photos of themselves with her, and some give her gifts and money was con, shot to fame. after this, we deal with virus. she seen resisting a group of men demanding she removable car. i am not scared of anyone except the almighty. i thought of him, he was the one who gave me the strength and now all this respect. i am very grateful. i experience has highlighted a control over a ban on religious clothing in the southern state of canada that has led to a national debate about to do should feed him. women started protesting after they were banned from entering cloth, one very headscarf bis parked counter protest by him, the whoops, the marsh wedding, saffron colored scarves to assert the identity. the color is considered sac

if or when she is released, she may find herself in a much diminished ro, tony cheng al jazeera. on the time you're my buddha. hundreds of tibetan and legal are activists have gathered outside the international olympic committees headquarters just hours before the opening ceremonies of the beijing winter games, air kizzy, i or see of complicity in atrocities committed against ethnic minorities in china or them. 10 countries or staging a diplomatic boycott of the games. the u. s. speaker of the house, nancy pelosi has accused international olympic committee and sponsors of putting money before human rights. now the i o. c, aided by corporate sponsors, once again turns a blind eye with the 2022 winter olympics just to bolster their bottom lines. mr. mcgovern and as i said, if we right speak.

their refusal to accept life under military rule, tony cheng elders are us present. joe biden has signed an executive order to distribute $7000000000.00, housing afghan funds, half of the money will go toward humanitarian efforts in afghanistan, the other half to relatives of victims of $911.00 attacks and other attacks by armed schools. so he'll shaheen is a spokesman for the tommy bon. he said as the cash belongs to the afghan people. they said is that was for the purchased on bank product, the stability of the cutting chaplain currency. and it is the property of the people above one is found was of those funds out of boise money deposited by the people up on a sunday in the accounts and that was kept i would find some bank. so these are the many of the people and it isn't for me, is anyone being kept up or by the point is time bank potter? it's implementation of money policy. we are not in control. we are not using that the that either we wanted for anything of that either. that is the was the issue. and that is the issue. this was pros in you want and freezing on

she may find herself in a much diminished ro, tony cheng al jazeera, on the time me on my buddha, for senior aides to the u. k. prime minister, who resigned is the so called party gates, scandal deepens, include boris johnson's chief of staff and his private sector. ryanne, director of communications were a challenge, has more from the south of england. bonaire emma said in her resignation that i said you are a better man than many of your de taxes will ever understand, which is why it is desperately sad that you let yourself down by making a scurrilous accusation against the leader of the opposition. now the other resignations ah, basically being presented by lloyd as the prime minister, as part of this big clear routes that he promised of the downing street operation. following the su gray repose bought. i have to say it doesn't seem like he's in control of these resignations at the moment and that there's a sense that these all people leaving a sinking ship dominic cummings, of course, my friends of the prime minister, his former aid now arch enemy tweeted earlier on the day it's t

tony cheng elder sir, on the time. yeah, my border to the u. s. now where inflation has hit its highest level in 40 years. consumer prices rose by 7.5 percent over the past year. in energy cost, so the biggest jump up 27 percent president joe biden says he expect expect inflation will ease by the end of the i'm going to work like to don't want to bring gas prices down, which i'm going to work in to make sure that we keep strengthening supply change and bring the cost of energy, and everything else, goods and come to america. down by helping the poor, 247, by changing a whole range of things that you know, what's happened with coven, cobit as cost. significant increase in prices in the supply chain. jonathan new group is a professor of economics at the massachusetts institute of technology. it says the bottom line is, administration isn't entirely responsible for the shop arrive in inflation. i think they can take some blame in particular, as i said, pride the stimulus was big. although at the time many experts including myself thought it was right

she may find herself in a much diminished ro, tony cheng al jazeera. on the time man, mom buddha ball still had hail on al jazeera, west african leaders hold an emergency summit with a warning that democracy is in crisis across the region. and pressure grows on the u. k. prime minister's 4 of his top aides resigned within hours of each other. ah well, possibly the most severe winter storm so far is going on at the moment in the u. s . this is all the cold air. it's gone right down to the gulf coast. this is friday for august. high in houston of for new orleans of neither is wants. clearly that's where the coal comes to the warm. you get this particularly huge amount of snow. sometimes ice, you know, this is freezing. rain freezes on contact. that's the dangerous stuff. so snow 1st followed by really cold air. the snow falling in boston, eventually new york than it tails off the fed. the south you all was rain of course, headed whole system is moving. see if you got right now, you'll get snow later. here down in the southern states, these are maximum te

tony cheng al jazeera, the bankers of the pfizer by on tag vaccine are expected to ask us regulators for permission to offer jobs to children as young as 6 months old. the us food and drug administration 1st approved defies the by on tech vaccine for people age 16 and older. in december 2026 months later the f. d. a said it was safe to use on children as young as 12 then and october last year it lowered the age requirement to 5 and above doctor obama punk honda is a senior clinical lecture at the university of exeter medical school. and he's one wealthy countries are not doing enough to prevent the emergence of new variance. our richer nations must really improve their game because they've already gone on to the 3rd vaccines and in someplace his 4th vaccines. and they will not get better and they will not be any more protected unless they also protect the rest of the world and suppress infections in other parts of the world like africa. otherwise, variance of concern will keep one arising. we are still, of course, in a situation where there are people around the world who are refusin

tony cheng al jazeera, amnesty international release, a report calling israel and a pot height state over its treatment of palestinians. it says, policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion show palestinians in israel and the occupied territories are treated as an inferior racial group. israel has called the report false biased and anti semitic. the us secretary of state will continue talks with russians foreign minister later about the crisis in ukraine. the un security council has meant to discuss the issue, russia and the u. s. have blamed each other for escalating tension. the u. s. has designated cut out major non nato ally that follows a meeting between president joe biden and carters, amir 6, having bahama tani at the white house on monday. the french ambassador tamales being expelled from the country. this comes out to france's foreign minister, described the african countries transitional government. as in a gentleman and out of control. the u. k. government says prime minister ball is johnson can't answer questions about the so called potty gates scandal, because o

tony cheng al jazeera, it's ashley, he's a pro democracy activist and me and mom. i spoke to her a little earlier and start by asking her how life has changed in the years since the qu, we want and hiding, and we have been away from our family last one. and even we, we need to, we need to leave the see, are we living at the same time, lose in many friends being he'll be arrest aunt b toich her and also looking at other people in the family. a lot went and made the kobe and the food. so these have been extremely difficult for people, especially where people and situations, and as well as the young generations. we felt quite and starting with our future. there is no hope, and that is no future for us. so now we in that difficult proficient fight for our cell for our future, we don't oh hence, and nobody jewelry line or better just on i was so much so dick, this all we fell and tennis. there's been a silence. strike 2 to mark the anniversary of the qu, how wildly was that observed. now it's soon the reporter dance more than 100 out of $300.00 going in the find it's tr

tony cheng on thailand's border with me and mar, i want to bring in dr. saucer. he's the union, minnesota of international cooperation and spokesman for the national unity government of me and law. he's joining us live. thank you very much indeed for being with us on all just 0, many members of the national unity government or the next i'll outside me inbox. how do you feel when you watch what's happening in your country? to day as we mark? very sad anniversary of one year of the co. the last, the past 365 days has to be the days of that destruction's pain in the south, free and wholesale devastations across the nation's. many homes are be bonds. as a reserves want by to 1000000 people, mia more become homeless or hiding in a junker. it's including myself. and more than 6400000 people have no food to eat. half of my country populations are going to be under extreme poverty covina in crisis to a bonding across the nation. humanitarian crisis. these violence crisis and political crisis, which have killed powers and sov people in miramar, et god bless, are dying in

military forces assessing part of properties as they have bumps, leaving nothing behind but scorched tony cheng l to 0. and the time man, my border, the south pacific nation of tongue i is going back in to lockdown after detecting 5 cove and 19 infections in the capital. humanitarian aid has been arriving through the port after last month's underwater volcanic eruption and synonymy tongue that had not reported any cases before. the natural disaster. denmark has become the 1st, a huge country to lift nearly all corona virus restrictions. that's despite his surgeon infections in the past 2 weeks. it's relying on the high vaccination rate to ward off the only cron variance vaccination passes and masks, and no longer required to inter restaurants shops or use public transport. a bolt of lightning spanning a 3 us states has been confirmed to as the longest ever recorded. the circled mega flash is stretched for 768 kilometers across texas. louisiana, and mississippi. in april 2020 it bates a previous record search in brazil, back in 2018. still ahead on al jazeera south korea qualify for the 10th str

tony cheng elders or the u. s. is set to open an embassy in the solomon islands. it's being seen as diplomatic pushback against china is expanding, influence in the pacific, sexual se anthony blinkin is in the region to meet with pacific island leaders. as our talk max planes, the announcement to open an embassy in the solomon islands comes as a u. s. secretary of state antony blink and touched on in fiji. to hold talks with 18 pacific ladies on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's being seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. close its embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific, emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to send police advisors to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated the capital last november. the u. s. department says the embassy would start as a small set up

tony cheng al jazeera time here, whether update his jeff. hey there, here's our headlines for the americas. after days of rain, there's been flooding and central and southern ecuador. thousands of people displaced from their home states of emergency, declared the water powerful enough to carve out this road. that's not too far away from the capital kito and still more rain in the forecast on wednesday. more than a dozen people have died in flooding in sao paulo and look at this. it's still coming out you through wednesday, and it shift it further to the north and the east into rio de janeiro as wall warm and cold air fighting it out across north america. there's a cooler rate, they're meeting up with the warm air. so that's going to sparked some storms and it swath of heavy snow. so let's break it down region by region. pretty much from kentucky rate to louisiana. the risk of seen some storms here and around the great lakes. here's a swath of stow at this, going to be a multi day event. so toronto over today's could pick up to about 20 centi

for many under military vol, tony cheng, we fought a squad of soldiers marching through the dawn light. the men mas, capital nippy door, part of the celebrations for union to the parade marks. 75 years the signing for the agreement. the united mammals, ethnic groups, senior general men on lie who lead last year's military coups, the guest of honor, hugo, 11 ali, and his address to the nation. he praised the unity of all the people in myanmar, saying they'd come through thick and thin together. as part of the celebrations, state media or announced an amnesty, but 800 prisoners across the country. since the qu, more than 12000 people have been arrested as military, try to silence, protest as and stop descent. clo, whose identity we're concealing, was a student. when the protests against the crew started, he was arrested and jailed in march. the conditions he says were brutal regard. there were intimidating us in prison, not to fight against the gender. the authorities in prison use the criminals to repress us. if something happened in the prison, not only the prison staff but also the cr