a direct link yet. in the us the push to vaccinate as many people as possible runs into some determined opposition. also the united nations holds a special meeting to raise awareness of the problem of 100 and parts of ethiopia. and asked with smaller to take care of them picked organizers deny reports they've already decided to ban a.b.c.'s founders and the international olympic committee strikes a deal with china to provide vaccines athletes around the world pairing for the games. to the new south the un special rapporteur on human rights miramar says there's growing evidence the military's crackdown on protesters could constitute crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture thomas andrews has also called for multilateral sanctions on senior john to leaders to be a bar zoila gas and to price. credible reports indicate it means more security forces should murdered at least 70 people is a horrible truth that as soon as an issue a report the number of murders is arbitrary detentions and mean more become outdated who does the changing doesn't sometimes hundreds every day stop the flow of revenue into the illegal hooters congress is going to happen while the lateran sanctions should be imposed on both she are going to leaders and a major source of revenue including military only and control enterprises and need more oil and gas. military has rejected the report they say their actions have been necessary to maintain order in the reason these authorities are saying have been being a dancer to maintaining law and order in the country authorities have been assessed as or at most restraint to deal with the violent protests said. that thought it's important to show off a few of their criminal procedure which prohibits gathering are fired on more people in public places in $146.00 shipped where violent protests and riot have created disturbances to the public or and the rule of law let's cross over to our diplomatic editor james bays who's live for us at the united nations in new york james i mean it was a tale of 2 narratives really one of restraint by me and bar the other of systematic murder according to the un special rapporteur but the presentation by that foreign ministry official was incredibly odd. it was very odd he was very subdued he seemed to be mumbling he seemed to be nervous it's worth telling you that this gentleman chung is a veteran foreign ministry official of me and ma he is the permanent secretary at the foreign ministry it's also worth reminding you that who used to be in charge in the foreign ministry because one of the jobs of the state counselor was the foreign minister and that was sung suchi so this is someone who used to work very closely with young sung suchi who now is defending the military crackdown and saying the authorities have been exercising most restraint to deal with the violent protests which clearly goes against everything that we've seen on our screens since the coup on the 1st of february and it does beg the question is he speaking totally freely or is he in fear of the current situation is he in fear of fear of any sort of reprisals against him and indeed of course it's interesting that judgment speaking to the human rights commission knowing that it already has issues with its u.n. ambassador who. wonders who really is actually speaking for the country at the u.n. . well there's the bigger issue of international recognition in embassies around the world and who they are loyal to and certainly a big prize for the military would be having the voice at the united nations coming from someone who is loyal to them and i have to say in new york i think they thought that was going to be the case when the ambassador at the end of last month got up and spoke and instead he denounced the military telling you the ambassador at the u.n. in geneva has resigned his post it seems the military got around this by submitting this statement from this official in myanmar but there's going to be a continuing battle i think on on the representation around the world who's in charge of embassies and who has the seat at the u.n. the situation right now it seems at the u.n. in new york it's the ambassador who is loyal to the democratically elected politicians most of who find themselves detained at the moment while in geneva they seem to be getting statements coming directly from myanmar and from the military running giunta we'll leave it there for the moment and continue to monitor haven't with you james our diplomatic editor james bays there for us the u.n. in new york well meanwhile members military has leveled new accusations against deposed leader and son suchi a military spokesman said that she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 plus gold while the government has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. protesters in myanmar again believe bullets on the streets of yangon live ammunition used elsewhere to protesters and several other cities and towns are facing a stepped up violent crackdown and more cases of security forces shooting unarmed protesters in the head we protest peacefully but they crack down on us while mentally demotic stronger developer lucian east the happy side of the view continue until we've been in a news conference the military judge to restated its intention of holding on to power only until new elections can be held. election fraud in november's polling was its reason for the power grab yet the generals have provided no evidence of it . they also accuse deposed civilian leader aung sang suu kyi of taking bribes and others in her cabinet of corruption. so how did you confirm a young gun regional minister appeal. said he gave. himself $600000.00 in cash and 11 kilograms of gold between december of 2017 to march of 2018 so i'm watching the news conference at a yangon tea shop call it one sided and question the jump to placing blame on protesters for starting the violence when they have no weapons always saying that the whole country is carrying out acts of violence it's horrible it's hurtful we have given our time we have given our lives to military does not care and say whatever they want. in another movie just to has taken the erik an army off its list of terrorist groups it's one of 2 dozen ethnic armed groups in the country it's been removed from the list according to the joint because they have now stopped attacks in order to help establish peace some of the other ethnic armies have sided with the antic who protesters and across its eastern border thailand is preparing for the possibility of a refugee flow from ian maher those looking to flee the military's crackdown thailand's immigration department is converting a football arena into a processing center with health screening for now there hasn't been a large number of people trying to cross the border but in anticipation the time military has increased its patrols along the area scott tyler al-jazeera. norway denmark and iceland have temporarily halted the use of the covert 19 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca denmark says it was after a small number of cases of blood clots however the country's health ministry said it wasn't clear whether the clots were linked to the vaccine the u.k. has responded and says the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective let's get more on this one correspondent paul brennan he's in london following events for us this sort of looks like it's escalating but how worrying is it. i think it is worrying it's worrying because there are potentially more countries going to get involved in this you know this started the smalling with just denmark and austria involved and now we have norway and iceland of 3 countries now who have totally stopped using albeit on a temporary basis they are astra zeneca vaccine and some 6 other european countries including its me and austria who have kind of stopped using one bachche one specific bachche of the astra zeneca vaccine but it's worrying because on what basis have they done this now it seems that there have been a very small handful of blood clot related illnesses and 2 deaths as we understand it and because of that the health authorities in those individual countries have acted but the overarching message from the regulators both in europe and in for example the u.k. is that the vaccine is safe the european medicines agency for example has said there's no evidence of a link between from the events that have been seen and the vaccine that said they were just 22 reports not deaths reports of blood clots among more than 3000000 people who've had the astra zeneca vaccine and if you think about more than 11000000 people specifically have had the astra zeneca vaccine here in the u.k. and no reports it's all of any blood clots or any problems like that it remains to be seen exactly how big a problem this actually is but now the danish for example they admit that they're being ultra cautious they're saying they're waiting for more details to come out from data it may be to 2 weeks from now that it clear it's all safe but what's worrying as well is the impact this might have on public confidence and trust in the vaccine indeed a bit earlier in the day paul you had suggested or reported that there was concern about one particular batch of the vaccine and that was the batch that perhaps was used between denmark and austria i mean can you give us any clarity on that. well that's what it's one batch it's around a 1000000 doses it was divided up between 17 different countries that know which batch it is it has a specific serial number so they can pretty easily isolate it but as i say what's not clear is whether there is actually any causal link whatsoever between that batch and any of the blood clots from bo and valek events as the a.m.a. courtney's and the people who've been vaccinated with that batch it's it's completely unknown at the moment now what the countries are saying is that they've suspended all 3 of the countries have said they've suspended it all together in order to look at the data and find out more details other countries france u.k. and spain say that they disagree with the conclusion of the danish the icelandic and the norwegians not going to carry on using the astra zeneca jap as they have been so it's clearly drawing a divide between different countries within the european. and as i say worryingly at a time when in germany for example the rise in infections is giving rise to the idea that there may be a 3rd wave and in france we're seeing pressure on the intensive care units there with a big increase in occupancy of bets we're leaving the finance for the update banks from that poor brother in law to. the us vaccination campaign has now reached more than 93000000 people to shy of the 20 percent of the population 2000000 being vaccinated every day but the number of people rejecting the vaccine is also a sizeable brunell's found out it's tangled up in party politics and conspiracy theories. in recent weeks and months coated skeptics have stormed shopping centers denouncing customers wearing masks others disrupted a major vaccination center in los angeles claiming the vaccine is harmful and part of a left wing plot. people in idaho rallied to stage a public mask burning ceremony. coppa deniers are busy spreading their message on social media this is the covert deception guys they want to see of us they want to control us they want to put this muzzle our face this mask now researchers and lawmakers say anti-vaccination groups and covert deniers are merging with the pro trump armed groups whose father worse attacked the u.s. capitol in january many anti vaccine leaders and braced conspiracies lights. and joined group white supremacist groups like the proud voice so you see this alignments with these other conspiracy groups and right wing organizations have. anti-vaccination propaganda is partisan in nature growing partly out of x. president donald trump's repudiation of mass wearing and his repeated denials that the coronavirus caused serious illness the seeds of science denial and then to intellectual ism run very deep in culture it's her stronger right now among republicans a february poll shows 42 percent of republicans say they will never get vaccinated some of the covert conspiracy theories are outlandish on a par with the beliefs of q. and on at harriet's about a global cobol of satan worshipping pedophiles or the believes that the vaccine is being manufactured to oh oh bill gates to microchip people it's not a matter of intelligence it's not a matter of mental illness or friends that these are mistakes that human even very well educated very intelligent people can make dr richard pan is a california state senator and a practicing pediatrician he says the. pearcey theorists in danger millions the dangers of allowing people to spread lies about vaccines actually endangers all of us and it slows our ability to stop this disease which has already killed over half a 1000000 americans pan and others call for stronger social media fact checking and removal of conspiracists material online is a large group of americans continues to reject reality the by did ministrations goal of near universal adult vaccination and a return to some semblance of normal life may prove elusive rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles talked on the spot or is an assistant professor of population health science and policy at new york's mount sinai hospital she says the longer people wait to take the vaccine is the more likely it is that will be taishan so much i think you know the main the main thing that we were need to actually remember is that it doesn't matter what vaccine to fund a view is out of vaccine that saving lives or about lives and that ones are protecting us there against the development of man's of their new need patient does not mean the he needs to spread was uncontrolled manner then we're going to continue continuously vans and some of those we already know this so a right question is at you know that you know if it had been trying to be safe yes only vaccine to 12 that they never been authorized and in use had been shown to be safe and. with the cabbage being that the ones that i would say that the ones that have been developed in the global north and in private the mcgann of the academic. dan j. that means and certainly the chinese that things have a track record not being in the states and i would say don't get started trying to effectively take it plenty more ahead here on the news hour including the foreign ministers of qatar russia and turkey hold a meeting in doha with the goal of addressing the humanitarian situation in syria. also top u.s. and israeli officials hold a video conference navigating a new relationship that comes with a new administration. and in sport with germany we'll show you how much a federal caught on in his 2nd match since returning from injury. the united nations is holding a special session on the rising threat of hunger especially in yemen and parts of ethiopia the head of the world food program has begun looking for private donations the agency needs an extra 6 $100000.00 to provide aid to yemen in the next 6 months nearly half a 1000000 yemeni children need immediate assistance to save them from starvation david beasley says those who've made it to hospitals on the brink of death of the lucky ones it's a horrific situation it really years i went to what would be the best hospital. room to room to room with us all children literally. the lucky ones that actually get into the what called the doctor how many years you had here and he said 25 are still what do you do with the worry that you know that curve and you don't have room for should we start the whole so what have we still hope. now food supplies are running dangerously low in ethiopia's northern region of the great were millions are an urgent need of support people arriving in camps for for the displaced in the region say that their survived surviving by eating leaves aid agencies say there isn't enough space for the thousands that turn up every day now the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has spoken out about the ongoing violence in ethiopia is 2 very region led to thomas greenfield called on all sides to come to a solution ongoing violence hips that humanitarians from helping a desperately hungry people activists in ethiopia including eritrean forces from across if you will be as orders have restricted humanitarian access to the rural areas where the most europeans live we can that allow the situation to hear it are there we call on all sides and i stress all sides to stop the fighting and allow this man made humanitarian situation to be addressed. cattles foreign minister has held talks with his russian and turkish counterparts in doha the talks focused on finding a way to deliver humanitarian aid to people in syria russia and turkey back opposing sides in syria's war now in its 10th year turkey's foreign minister expressed hope for a breakthrough double the cut could the we are contribution with our efforts for a sustainable political stability for syria of course unfortunately the conflict has been going on for 10 years and we have witnessed many unfortunate events our wish is to see that syria's legitimate request will find a result within the criteria of the united nations and turkey. to last we are constantly coordinating with our counterparts in russia and that's why we do not see any bilateral meetings as come. to the diplomatic process all the efforts aiming at peace all the bilateral meetings are supportive in other words as they are meant mentally to support the collective efforts towards lasting peace and they are all. transparency between clatter and russia and with fully appreciate the support provided by the russian 2 words the doha efforts with respect to the afghanis issue. ben smith was at the news conference in doha and has more on the major issues that were discussed. well we're 10 years on from those 1st and the acid protests in syria and we're 4 years on from the russian led a start the process is bringing together russia iran and turkey to try and find a political solution to the crisis in that country but we seem to be no further on the survey lavrov russian's foreign russia's foreign minister said today this meeting between the 3 countries was another way of trying to achieve a political solution for this start a process if the russians had their way would ultimately lead probably with the assad regime staying in charge we have the m.r.i. artie's yesterday or earlier this week calling for syria to be real out reintroduced into the arab league the catheters when asked about that weren't interested in seeing syria at this stage back in the arab league and turkey which of course is not in the arab league but it said never to have a soul of the foreign minister of turkey said that the syrian regime wants a new military solution he doesn't believe in a political solution so despite least 3 countries getting together no indication that there are any closer than they ever have been to finding a political solution to what's happening in syria also on the agenda was afghanistan talks started here in september peace talks between the afghan government and the taliban they've been off here in this very hotel since then they haven't achieved very much the u.s. last week sending a letter to the afghan president saying they want to find a new political solution to afghanistan so they can withdraw their troops and now the russians saying that next week in moscow they're going to have a meeting to try and find is another way forward for afghanistan but they were keen to point out that that was not taking away from the talks that are happening here in doha al-jazeera senior political analyst bashara says russia is crucial in and dig the conflict in syria. clearly since the russians got involved militarily in 2015 things m