Headquarters of the Main Opposition Party to arrest its leader charges he says often its a commitment to. Unclog twice facebook has agreed to reverse its new ban on australians. So the United States has imposed new sanctions targeting men most military leaders for this month the European Union says its agreed to do the same he has been increasing its use of force against a Civil Disobedience Campaign calling for the release of the paisley to intensity 3 protesters have been killed since the demonstrations began. Lets speak to tony chang and joins us from across the border in the thai capital bangkok so tony demonstrations continuing but would they be on the scale of what we saw on monday. They know there are as many people coming out today i dont think anyone expected them to be but but. They are still going on across the country and i think the point the protesters want to make is mentum is with them theyre still prepared to come out we are also seeing the Civil Disobedience Movement being fairly widely observe some shops have now opened but still transport links hospitals the Civil Service remains very slow paralyzed in some cases with a lot of people refusing to take part they say they Wont Take Part in the they wont go back to work until the the military coup is reversed also heard in the last hour or so protesters in yangon have focused their attention on the Indonesian Embassy and thats because concerned about reports that indonesia is trying to lobby behind the scenes amongst the association of Southeast Asian nations for a new election to happen the initial coup happened because the military said the election in november last year was not legitimate despite the fact there is no evidence of that this may be perceived as a way to find some kind of compromise away to some kind of way for the n l d to be reintroduced. To be released from military custody but the protesters are adamant that the results of the nerve for election should be on it and they dont want the indonesians to be meddling in their way and nonetheless at this stage theres no sign of it all the military is listening to any of these overtures we saw senior general minong lie on state television yesterday the only thing of substance he said was that Media Companies that referred to this as a coup will have their licenses taken away its been this slow cranking up this ratcheting up of pressure. To restore democracy what likely affect that. Heres what weve seen in the overnight more targeted sanctions from the e. U. From the United States in the last couple of hours a very strong statement from g 7 Foreign Ministers saying that the use of live ammunition against unarmed protesters is absolutely unacceptable and expressing condolences to those whove lost their lives in these protests we are seeing sort of mounting a unified chorus of condemnation and reaction i guess in many ways this is except expected this kind of opposition the Myanmar Military have seen in the past in the eightys ninetys when it was very much a pariah state but. 2021 me is very different theyve seen 6 years of International Investment theyve opened up not just to the region but to the outside world and i think the expectation is that sanctions if they are quick and they target members of the military who are behind this coup they may well just be able to persuade the military to reverse this but at this stage the military dont seem to be just right tony thanks very much for the following developments in the in life in bangkok thanks. Well more than a 1000 refugees and migrants in malaysia who were due to be deported to miramar have been granted temporary stay the decision follows appeals from human rights activists 1200 detainees including seekers and children he was scheduled to leave on tuesday in 3 navy ships sent by. The robertson is the Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch is injured division and he explains the danger the refugees face if they do end up being deported. Well these are persons who have been detained in malaysia over the course of the last year or so these are people including at least 3 of these people we know are refugees recognized by u. N. H. C. R. There are probably many more recognised refugees in this group at least 17 of these children are persons who will be separated from one or both of their parents by this group and theres a back to myanmar this is a group that has been held in the malaysian immigration has not allowed the Un Refugee Agency access to person in Immigration Detention Center since august 21000 so theres a lot of question marks about how many refugees and Asylum Seekers there are in this group and why the malaysian authorities are not allowing the International Community have access to them. The u. S. Death toll from covered 9000 has passed half a 1000000. Bells tolled 500. 00 times at the National Cathedral in washington in memory of the victims while the u. S. Death toll is the worlds highest in absolute terms several other countries including belgium the United Kingdom and its really have lost more people as a proportion of the populations christensen he reports now from washington d. C. President joe biden marked the somber milestone from the white house knowledge in the half 1000000 lost to cope with 19 not as a number but as individuals the people we lost were extraordinary they span generations born in america immigrated to america but just like that so many of them took their final breath along in america. As a nation can accept such a cruel fate. Well before i knew this pandemic for so long we have to resist becoming numb to the sorrow after addressing the nation the president headed outside for a moment of silence 500 candles lit 4500000 dead and were still not out of it a half a 1000000 deaths its just its terrible it is historic we havent seen anything even close to this the grim milestone comes after winter storm stalled Vaccination Efforts in parts of the nation so far just over 80 percent of the doses that are available have been administered Health Officials say they should be back on track this week thats a meeting at a rate of 1800000 shots per day while hospitalizations and pay tallaght is remain high most of any country in the world theyve begun to decline dramatically cove in 19. 00 in the United States has been declining for 5 weeks with the 7 day average dropping 74 percent since the 7 day average d on january the president has promised to vaccinate 100000000 americans in his 1st 100 days in office and white house officials expect to meet that goal but that may be small comfort to those whove lost a loved one nevertheless the president offered the grieving a message of hope you could be ok and to heal he said we must remember kristen salumi aljazeera washington. To be president fernando is in mexico visiting and astra zeneca vaccine factory the 2 countries are teaming up to pay produce around 200000000. 00 doses of the job for most of latin america the region has been struggling to hit its about using targets. Q. H. Has announced its closing all land and sea border crossings this is from wednesday as it tries to get on top of corona virus infections and the closure will stay in place until the end of march but the government says it will not affect shipping operations and does exclude some Domestic Workers the gulf nation barred the entry of noncitizens on saturday q 8 recorded 2100 new 1000 cases on monday i dont man has imposed an entry ban on people from 10 countries to stop the spread of mutated virus strains the 15 day suspension which is effective from thursday excludes people arriving from south africa from sudan and also from lebanon to other news police in georgia have stormed the offices of the opposition and have arrested its leader melia is demanding new elections after last years disputed parliamentary polls georgias Prime Minister resigned last week in protest against plans to arrest many saying it would make the political crisis worth problem for a city walker as the latest now from to peace. Dozens of Police Officers surrounded the building at dawn and then we saw these dramatic scenes they used a 5 brigade aerial ladder to to climb up the multistory building an answer from from from the it looked like from the rooftop and from of course from below and then we saw how the opposition supporters inside try to stop them from arresting mr malley tear gas some claim to take us being used or at least pepper strobes pepper spray some people injured and also theyve been additional arrests as well as mr malley whod been seeking shelter inside the headquarters of the the largest Opposition Party for the last week and its been a fruit week in georgian politics because the previous Prime Minister had offered his resignation in fact resigned over this whole issue because he believed that arresting mr mallya wouldnt serve georges interests the countrys deeply polarized the Political Forces here weve got we had the election in october that all opposition parties claim was falsified and they have been refusing to answer parliament so parliament being boycotted boycotted as a Prime Minister resigning over this whole affair and now a much more hardline government led by a new Prime Minister who has promised to restore law and order because he says mr melia broke the law and now must pay the consequences. Still ahead here in. The beginning of a new chapter one history lankas a Muslim Community who put 2 day visit by pakistans Prime Minister could help. And not unveils breath taking video of its robot touching down on the red. And gives me goosebumps every time i see it just just amazing. How them place say we got some quotes weather now pushing into the philippines this tropical depression just fades away thats pulling out into the open waters of the South China Sea weve got some very wet weather there into the philippines though legacy of showers still in place 150 millimeters of rain in the past 24 hours that wetter weather will just start to pull away from central and northern parts of the philippines but still some rather lively showers into loose on for a time scattering of showers elsewhere across the country dont ship out into malaysia but some more very heavy showers coming back into indonesia weve have the flooding concerns in and around the cuts on the west the weather will make its way into central and eastern parts of java as we go on through the next couple days but much of indonesia will still see some very heavy downpours as we go on through the coming days 7 downpours 2 stretched across northern parts of australia but for much of australia things will become a little fine and dry it could go through the next couple days eastern parts of queensland will still see some rather heavy showers see some wet weather there very close to the races side of New South Wales ip things are turning a little. The sun but the wetter weather you can see just makes its way across the Blue Mountains as we go on through thursday elsewhere across australia its fine. To make a change. Change your life or the path of a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you push to break it continually mold to turn the status quo and fight injustice down the whole month iraq. Will. Witness personal documentaries not going to deception on aljazeera. But again you watch out there are many of our top stories and the United States has imposed new sanctions targeting mid march military leaders and this looks cute the European Union says its agreed to do the same the army has increased its use of force against protesters. More than a 1000 refugees migrants in malaysia who would you to be deported to meet mark have been granted temporary stay for his appeals from human rights activists who said that deporting the group could endanger their lives. The United States is now recorded more than half a 1000000 deaths to cope with 19 by far the highest toll in the world and like to read half mast in President Joe Biden on of the victims with a moment of silence. Now facebook has announced it will restore news content to its users in australia at the moment all Australian News pages are blocked from sharing material on facebook and all its users are banned from sharing links to australia new sources now the decision comes after the government agreed to amend legislation that would make tech giants pay for straitly news content facebook has committed to entering into good faith negotiations with a strain news media businesses in seeking to reach agreements to pay for content. These followed is a series of intensive negotiations with facebook since their actions. Lets bring 2 people is now whos the director of the Australia Institute center for responsible technology and joins us live by skype from sydney a paper welcome to the program so whats actually happened here the governments amended the law but facebook will have to pay for news content and thats a bit of a backtrack and look the legislation thats making its way through the extra empower them at the moment is to create a psych unit to force commercial negotiations on what our competition regulated designated to be a monopoly advertising businesses google and facebook theres been pushed back by both of those to be subject to legislative code forcing that negotiation and what google has done is say to do a series of jails for the code becomes law facebook was resisting the idea of the card fitting into the law and whats happened to die is that the governments offered a number of procedural amendments to stretch out any process that would be treated in the event that the coyotes treated but the assumption is that facebook were now into negotiations to really tight the nape for the card all the time this was a wise legislation to force negotiations between big tech in the maybe that werent going to happen without the Senate Intervention at the end of the dive facebooks accepted the premise that there needs to be an accommodation between the their market dominance in advertising and the Public Interest having journalism and news content in a strike so its curious is that when you look at it youd think that facebook and platforms like it they more useful to news organizations in the other way round when i read there was Something Like 5000000000 clicks on you sites through facebook. He had. The idea of the code which comes out of a night a month inquiry from a competition regulator is not actually devalue the exchange all the clicks or locks or whatever. You put on an individual pace of news it was to look at the market imbalance and the impact of a monopoly industry in advertising its impact on the is made in journalism so the argue of the card is actually to get to develop a mock up and a prize for fact bice Public Interest journalism which is actually creating effectively a new a new market in truth and it was always going to be a difficult process they are the platforms negotiating under the pressure of legislation and maybe i should if they couldnt ration agreement is what really has kept the prices moving and we have say in a number of significant agreements with google and news outlets already and now there is an expectation that they will occur with price book as well so i think there was always the sense the platforms were prepared to pay for the value of news and then networks it was that they did not want to have this precint globally of heroin regulation sitting underneath that process but nevertheless this is no doubt the beginning of the project to regulate big tech in the Public Interest in the. Well the end date and its worth noting our regulator who looks out to buy competition and Consumer Rights has recommended a ryans of reforms including reviewing citizen privacy and access to personal information putting greater pressure on the platforms to deal with misinformation and disinformation and critically looking at the creepy ad taking industry where were at the market in our attention is up for grabs every time we go to a website so that theres a lot more work to be done. Integrated approach with the bogen in code is the 1st step has obviously attracted interest from around the world yeah interesting thanks for that peter lewis the director of the australian Institute Center for responsible technology thanks. Shes now District Council is the other elected officials in hong kong will soon have to swear an oath of allegiance to keep that position the loyalty pledge is included in a draft bill Just Announced by hong kongs government and those who violate the oath will be barred from elections for 5 years lets get the latest reaction out of beijing from where katrina you know reports life 1st katrina tell us more about this what happens now. Well this change if it goes through essentially inwards hong kong one step closer to resembling any other chinese mainland province makes it very difficult for those with dissenting voices in hong kong to hold Public Office in hong kong now according to hong kong officials which gave or who gave a press conference this afternoon in hong kong theyve announced a draft legislation which will require all district counsellors in hong kong to take an oath of allegiance to the Hong Kong Government and essentially to beijing and any of those who were found to be violating that or the violation that loyalty to the Central Government will be banned from that position and it also applies to lawmakers in hong kong now they can appeal this banning but while this appeal is going in place there will be suspended from that position and it will also require District Councilors to sing the Chinese National anthem when they take this there or if of allegiance as well now this basically means that beijing can ban any politicians who are considered by china to be a threat to National Security from Holding Office in hong kong and this will affect hong kongs 400 or so District Councilors and they are the lowest level of government in hong kong but crucially many of them who won their seats in the 2019 elections prodemocracy figures or opposition activists so many of the them will now be questioning how how long theyll be able to stay in that position and also there was another election planned and originally from last year which was postponed due to the 19 which was due to take place later this year and analysts were also forecasting another prodemocracy landslide so this in a sense is what beijing is way of getting in and preventing that from happening now this law is still in its draft form then its expected to be tabled and also passed if it does go through at the National Peoples congress which is chinas top legislative body which is use meet no early march get through this part of a bigger overhaul of hong kong political systems. Thats right and beijing has been starting this transformation since the prodemocracy protests that took place in hong kong which bars infuriated and embarrassed beijing and this started really with the intimate implementation of the National Security law which came into effect in hong kong in the middle of last year and that essentially banned any subversion against the Central Government or any colluding with Foreign Forces against beijing and already more than 100. 00 people have been arrested under that war now many foreign governments as well as Rights Groups have condemned this move in a certainly expected to condemn this change and also saying that china by doing this is violating its one country 2 systems promise which said that hong kong would essentially be allowed to be autonomy for 50 years following the handover from british rule katrina talks about katrina you the. Demonstrators in barcelona have thrown bottles at police during the servant night of protests against the jailing of the Republic Police say around 700. 00 people took part in the most peaceful rally their lives from guilty of criticizing spains more mickey and glorifying a circus group it set off days of protests in the great beyond. One protester has been killed and several others injured by Security Forces in southern iraq on monday crowds gathered in the city of nasiriya calling for an overthrow of the local governments are also demanding more Job Opportunities and Better Services in the city 550 people have been killed since the protest Movement Began in 2019. The congolese government is blaming a rwandan hutu rebel group for an attack on a u. N. Convoy that killed the italian look at her. Bodyguard and driver also died in the ambush its president has condemned the attack as cowardly catherine soy has this report thank you are on a mission to chill in loft people province to visit a School Feeding program one of the many World Food Programme projects supports in the democratic republic of congo there johnny ended here in the National Park several kilometers from the provincial capital they tell you his bodyguard and their driver were killed in a crossfire between park rangers and gunmen during an ambush on their convoy several other people injured. We are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants of the state of have suffered from and lost their lives. But beyond the shock of what has happened questions will be asked as to why the convoy did not have a un National Police or army escort in such a dangerous area the authorities in north keep saying theyre not aware embassador was in town the ses it had been cleared to use that tool without escort the location of this attack is almost exactly the same place where 2 british tourists were kidnapped in may 2018 so its kind of real evidence of this longstanding security lapse in the region it was also very close to where 6 were in the guards were killed in the last month this is a fast major attack on a big u. N. Organization like the deputy if be but the park is steaming with rebels who target game ranges civilians and other enjoy convoys to steal kidnap and demand ransom the security problem however goes beyond this spot in the war than 70 rebel groups control much of eastern democratic republic of congo extorting villages and attacking their homes at will in beni north of many thousands of people including u. N. And government soldiers have been killed and more displaced by the allied Democratic Forces rebel groups thousands of soldiers are on the ground battling different armed groups but with a limited success were looking at a kind of longstanding funding issue for the for the Congolese Army in the area a lack of kind of security planning as well as strategy when it comes to trying to combat the armed groups who operate in that area. Obviously the u. N. Peacekeeping force that has been operational for a good number of years has a lot to answer for with regards to insecurity in that area. Many congolese in this area lived in constant fear hoping but not confident the forces that have struggled to defeat their rebels for yes well one day succeed catherine saw. The u. S. Secretary of state has told his israeli counterpart that a 2 state solution to the israeli palestine conflict is best for the future stability of the region early this month down to the brink and refuse to commit to the idea of occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the future palestinian state the city which has been illegally occupied by israel since 967 remains at the heart of the decades long middle east conflict i guess Prime Minister is on his way to sri lanka for a 2 day visit the 2 countries are expected to sign several economic agreements which are lankas Muslim Minority has high hopes for a different reason and often and as reports now from colombo. Sri lanka imports more than half of its onions and the dangers from pakistan they are part of the range of food items including vasant vihar rice and mandarins that are brought in from pakistani ports up a market to go to Pakistan Pakistan is a big help to our market we can get what we need quickly and easily and at a good price driven commissary media focus of Prime Minister imran khans visit to colombo but thats not all hes been urged to discuss sri lanka is my knowledge and resume community has complained of being marginalized in recent years it seems cool that 19 has made things much worse with the government forcibly committee on victims disregarding its a practice for big meanie. Prime minister khan who is for treat is a champion of islamic rights has been asked to help in the practice when Community Members politicians Civil Society big games themselves have appealed to muslim countries including pakistan. So in that context hes. Very critical khans visit comes as the un human rights chief presents a highly critical report on sri lanka it highlights the countrys failure to ensure justice and accountability 12 years after the bloody end of the civil war between Government Troops and the time the tigers officials here were hoping that Prime Minister imraan khan would help rally support against any critical resolution at the un in geneva but the government forced cremation policy of 1000. 00 victims which has angered its Muslim Population could make that support unlikely even if a man there are just they are. Not so has released the 1st pictures of its perseverance River Landing on the surface of moles in the case should support. Navigation have a parachute has applied and we are seeing significant the celebration it be touch down on the red planet on what scientists describe as 7 minutes of terror the video is the 1st of its current recorded of a spacecraft landing on another planet rovers looking for signs of aging. So this is out there these are all the top stories the United States has impose new sanctions talking me in mosman a treaty to say that this moves to the European Union says its agreed to do the same the army has increased its use of force against protesters to check has more from the thai capital of bangkok. Hospitals are running on skeleton staff at the moment because many of the doctors are going in some cases