10 years on japan remembers the devastating earthquake and tsunami that triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster. and accused of forming a massive cocaine smuggling network our u.s. allegations against a hung jury president could affect immigration. to the program military has leveled new accusations against deposed leader and son suchi a military spokesman said she accepted illegal payments worth $600000.00 plus gold while the government the army hole so denied it was using excessive force on protesters but at least 7 more were killed on thursday scott highly reports now from bangkok. protesters in myanmar again police bullets on the streets of yangon. live ammunition used elsewhere to protesters in 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 cracked out a strong good of revolution a we have decided the view continue into we've been in a news conference the military john 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 cabinets of corruption. i did you know young don't read you know mr peel. 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. and they are 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 their military does not care and say whatever they want. in another movie is just a has taken the eric 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 that 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 it's got either al-jazeera. law in denmark have temporarily halted the use of the covert 90 vaccine manufactured by astra zeneca deadlocks says it was after a small number of cases of blood clots occurred however the country's health ministry said it wasn't yet clear whether the clots were linked to the banks in the u.k. has responded and says that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and effective let's get more on this from paul brennan who's monitoring events force and blood what else have astra zeneca been saying about this paul. that's a perplexing one this highlighting i think the differences between politicians and epidemiologists and also health regulators in the different countries because there is clearly a distinction between what some individual countries are doing and the overview that is being taken by the european regulator the european medicines agency they ask what the reaction of astra zeneca is well they've issued a statement saying that the safety of the vaccine has been extensively studied and peer reviewed and confirmed that the vaccine was generally well tolerated the european regulates of european medicines agency says that the number of from bo and balik events that blood clot type events from people in people who've taken the astra zeneca vaccine is no different to that scene in the general population the same $22.00 such cases being a sort of a drug to have as we go over to tom andrews his the special report target me about let's just listen in to what he has to say about the demonstrations in the country . gentle east systematically moving through neighborhoods destroyed pantry looting shops ever truly arresting protesters in passion and firing indiscriminately injured people shot there is shocking video of the aftermath of the checks including fatal gunshot gunshot range to the heads of protestors and video of the shoulders dragging or carrying away the dead bodies of their kitchens. as i documented in my report there hunter has systematically destroyed legal protections and freedom of expression assembly and association to the right to privacy it has given itself for 40 to invade people's homes without warning we moved to haiti of course of the right to appear before a judge to determine whether an arrest is lawful criminalized any criticism of the junta even making it illegal to call the junta wanted it unable sweeping surveillance of 40 steps summated the free press ban of most trade unions instituted nightly countrywide internet outages and banned gatherings of more than 5 people madam president the country of me and more is being controlled by a murderous illegal regime its current leadership perpetuated the atrocity crimes that are the focus of the charge of genocide before the international criminal court of justice as i documented in the annex to my report the crimes against the rigging of people continue since the coup the need more military has attacked and forcibly displaced several 1000 members of ethnic nationalities from their homes it is it should come as little surprise that there is growing evidence that this same me and more military led by the same senior leadership is now engaging in crimes against humanity including the acts of murder in forced disappearance persecution torture and imprisonment in violation of fundamental rules of the international law of course a full investigation and a trial before a court of law required to formally find crimes against humanity and i note that the independent investigative mechanism for me and more is collecting evidence on this point right now but i implore all of you to look at the facts available in light of international legal president finding crimes against humanity. crimes against humanity require one or more prohibited acts and i quote committed as a part of a widespread were systematic attack directed against any civilian population with knowledge of the attack and. these murders imprisonment in force disappearances and other acts against the people of myanmar clearly appear to be part of a cruel needed campaign rather than a series of isolated events directed against the civilian population rather than combat they are widespread in their frequency for example over 2000 people arbitrarily detained and with people murdered and at least 2810 ships throughout the country they are well organized with crew are needed efforts by police and military point to higher level command and control in other words these attacks on the people are systematic rather than accident and finally they are being carried out with the knowledge of senior leadership indeed senior gentlemen on line a leader of the junta has repeatedly commented on the attacks and the hunter issued a warning on state media of the loss of life if protests continue protest indeed continued and more peaceful protesters lost their lives madam president if we accept that there is a strong likelihood that the me and my hood to is engaged in atrocity crimes against its own people right now as we sit here what do we do about. knowing as we do the price of international inaction what action must be taken immediately yesterday the un security council released a statement expressing their deep concern about developments in the they condemned the violence against peaceful protesters and expressed continued support for a democratic transition these words are welcome but they are wholly insufficient. madam president the people of me and mark are desperate they are appalling and defending the highest principles of this body and the united nations including their commitment to nonviolence but these principles and their very lives are under vicious attack the people of myanmar need not only words of support but support of action they need the help of the international community and they need it now i realize that not every nation is prepared to act but the reluctance of a few nations to act should not computer or limited any coordinated action and all the crew ordinated actions of nations working together will be the most effective actions various governments have imposed various sanctions against the military junta in me and this is welcome but sanctions will only be effective if they are unified and coordinated today i am therefore edging member states to commit to taking strong decisive and coordinated action as a coalition of nations and emergency coalition for the people of me and upon forming i urge this coalition of member states to consider taking 5 immediate steps 1st stop the flow of revenue into the illegal who discovers this can happen at multilateral sanctions should be opposed on both senior who do leaders and their major sources of revenue including military own and control enterprises and me and morrow oil and gas at a price. one of a half years ago the interim independent international fact finding mission i mean more critical to that no business and i quote should enter into an economic or financial relationship with the security of me and more security forces or be in more in particular the military or any enterprise owned or controlled by them or their individual members until then unless they are restructured and transformed since the coup some businesses have stepped forward and cut ties with the junta and they are highlighted in my written report however many continue to engage in business with military only enterprise if cunt companies won't willing to disengage then a president member states should step up. we have mars natural gas projects will generate estimated $1000000000.00 u.s. dollars in medical. without sanctions the illegal military junta of me and more will be able to use these funds to support their criminal enterprise and their attacks on innocent people more than 400 civil society organizations in the march share my concern as reflected in a joint that statement calling on the international community to ensure that roiling gas predators are used only for humanitarian purposes or held on to the legal control of the resources of the government or more can be a stent wish he were to see a coalition of the people of me and more should in accenture's that include me and marlin gas enterprise to ensure that oil and gas revenues do not flow to the hunt coalition member states should outlaw the export of arms to the a term military 41 countries have already imposed some forms of arm an arms embargo against india more military what is needed now is a crew ordinated in or go there will and the sale of weapons and the transfer of dual use technology to india this can save lives member states that have universal jurisdiction last should initiate investigations of these ongoing crimes and make preparations to file charges against me and morris senior security officials stop the flow of humanitarian and development aid through the junta work directly with local civil society aid organizations whenever possible and finally hire urge member states to deny recognition of the military funds and as the legitimate government representing the people at me precisely because they aren't. these are some are about some of the actions that nations together can take to fulfill our collective responsibility others can be considered but what is pretty clear important is that member states would lay their actions and work together in a coalition committed to standing with and for people under attack despite the widespread and systematic atrocities that lead in our military and police forces are committing to the people of me and more continue to rise up from every corner of the nation as a diversified yet powerful unified all they are doing so to demand democracy human rights and immediate end to the violence and to an illegitimate hunting but nonviolent civil disobedience movement or city and is effective and growing drawing its organic power really unflinching commitment of the 1000000 more people may lot has never appeared to be more unified but they need our help and they need it now medical resident i sincerely hope that the international community will rise to the occasion of this historic moment by following the lead and the inspiration of the people of myanmar by coming to their aid as a crew were elated and committed all they deserve no. thank you. thank you. according to our practice we should start by hearing the delegation of the country concerned and to the people what for now give the floor to the distinguished representative of many who in law you have 5 minutes cleans you now have the final. note of the presentation made by a special reporter there also i want to reiterate term your my position on. special reporter in my eyes consistently countries pressure of it which run want to read to their brain super soft universality impartiality objectivity and solidity our number of desertion in addressing the homeowner issue of the country concerning harbor looks like there's a government on there might have cooperated with the country supposedly a special report. or of they are what bush country visit that despite this corp special report i generally feel to complain with code of conduct they are fall into the. previous government decided not to cooperate with how it would not be broader do for the people and the country. when i'm president allowed me to briefly touch upon the recent development in the m.r. of to observation of this disease that could lead to the fraud in the general election here on 8 august lecia dummer non-si a defining and requested their previous uni election commission to resolve in regard to the final reveal their drop off but did millionfold on this issue beyond the u.e.c. about $100000000.00 fold their lease which is about a one for dog 25 percent would lead to the keys of. the. front included. in divert your that could lead to busing involved in more than once and their inclusion of. nation there's going to need that hold those. are made to complain to the user. to address the issue of the dollars in regard to these and their requests was rejected by the u.c. in accord with the constitution and provision of the parliament through. your door and some one of the bodies. because of the laws or looked or union polymer to resolve this issue through convening a special session of bali well done but also for the woman of new. and to the solution that you see or unfold in regard to the request of the president to hold the nation as security and defense counsel to resolve the issue probably one of our own these attorneys were ignored and used for you to address that issued. in light of the feeling of the u.c. parliament and the government to address that issue and that. the convenes a new session of parliament before resolving the issue the president declared a state of emergency for one year on. in accordance with foreign several deceive constitution and transfer their legislative is a good different judicial babar to the commander in chief of the defense of his is in accordance with 418 of the state constitution. when i'm president the composition of the state a minister should consider is different from the type of military administration that was on s.c.c. central war you do the look at ministers included would be is an issue not civilian people our nation to resist after resumption of the responsibility or state sees you do not abolish the constitution to those 8 and it has made it a moment to consolidate the genuine discipline multibody democracy. the prevailing situation of the country and also express its commitment to comply with the international obligations and to follow the country's poor and policy and existing laws that c c. me or my nation at home. to continue to do and responsibilities that nars of future programmes which included. new you easy to carry out a very traditional food. enhancing their measures to combat. taking measures to address the economy stagnated and their government and restoring peace in the entire nation through a furtive implementation off nationwide cease fire agreement and handing over this state responsibilities to women by be haldin of free and fair minded by democratic generalisations when i'm president in the reason these bodies concerned have been being done to maintaining law and order in the country authorities have been. restraint to deal with their violent protests since february that i thought this important social level for their criminal procedure which prohibits gathering of fired or more people in public places in $146.00 a ship went viral and. created disturbances to the war and the rule of law. are you just heard a from the ministry of foreign affairs be a bar responding to the un special rapporteur turd beer bar who very clearly outlined his best to gay should as it is at the moment of what's going on be a bar let's cross over to our diplomatic editor james bays is live for us at the united nations in new york this was a drug assessment really to start with the special rapporteur of the situation be a bar where it is right now. yes absolutely but i think what you've just heard in some ways even though it's very hard to hear and he appeared to be mumbling is the most important thing you're hearing the representative of the mirror military regime saying that they have been paying attention to maintaining law and or law and order and remarkably saying they've been exercising at most restraint to deal with the violent protests this is an official from the ministry of foreign affairs chan a it's not clear he's the permanent secretary of the ministry of foreign affairs for the top civil servant in that ministry not clear to me whether he was in that job before the coup whether he's speaking under duress certainly didn't seem to be a lot of hot in his statement in which he also said myanmar would like to see the understanding from the united nations or the difficult situation the country finds itself and that in such contrast to tom andrews who is the special report to the independent expert the u.n. has hired to look at human rights in myanmar he is saying that the security cooke forces of murdered more than 70 people he said he can't keep track of the number of people being detained and he says that the military are likely engaging in crimes against humanity including murder and forced disappearance persecution torture imprisonment in violation of fundamental rules of international law strong indictment from the special rapporteurs and a remarkable statement from the foreign ministry of representing the myanmar military that they are using up most. they are at this stage exercising most restraint anyone who's seen those pictures i think would not describe that as utmost restraint indeed of course. tom andrews also suggesting a 5 point plan by the human rights commission of the international community to curb what the judge doing at the moment to me and bar and mistreat their financial potential to harm the public for longer. yes and that is important clearly tom andrews is an independent expert the un rapporteurs it's a position of some status as a say independent from the u.n. but appointed by the human rights council that is what that position is and he's a man with a reputation a former u.s. congressman from the state of maine but everything he says our recommendations on member states what might be important is this draft resolution there's been a very long draft resolution lots of recommendations being put forward to the human rights council by the european union portugal put to them next week but again the human rights council which is where we heard these 2 gentlemen speaking in the last few minutes doesn't have the real teeth the real teeth is the in the u.n. security council they came out with a statement i can tell you that most human rights campaigners are unhappy with the statement from the u.n. security council it's basically repeated what they've already said it's more words and they took out some of the words they didn't use the word coup and they took out an item that was in the draft threatening that they might take tough measures in the future why is that well that's because some members of the security council notable among them russia and china i think also vietnam is an important regional player are concerned about having those words it in such a statement and human rights groups all of them i think are saying that words really are not enough when you see the ongoing the ongoing slaughter and arrests and human rights violations in myanmar there needs to be action there needs to be according to human rights groups a global arms embargo and specific targeting of the generals who are leading the country i'm sure we'll get more analysis and fallout turf of what's just been said in the last few minutes james and of course we'll come back to you for more analysis in the coming hours thank you. now japan is marking 10 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated its northeastern coast killing thousands of people it triggered meltdowns at the. because she may daiichi nuclear plant forcing entire communities to flee now some residents have since returned but the recovery is still far from over far they selema her reports from for taba in fukushima prefecture. the port of ok though is just 5 kilometers from the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant it would be easy from here to mistake the boats masts for the water cooling towers and the cranes on the reactors that office it was only a year ago 9 years after the disaster the port was allowed to be used again as they live in or for the asian had gone down to what are termed normal limits. it was something the fishermen were waiting for but today they are not in the mode what fishing. they want to mourn all those lost in the tsunami. because we hear a lot and i would like his photographs of the additional celebrations in the town of soma the very place of someone i want years to provide inspiration haiti is not going into favor one night i mean what i don't know maybe no one will come to see my photos but if somebody does i hope they inspire them with courage to overcome the challenges ahead. japan has undergone a massive reconstruction project since 2011 rebuilding homes and ports repairing ships and building hundreds of kilometers of falls along its coastline in case of another tsunami. but when you travel along route 6 which she is just 3 kilometers from the fukushima plant you realize there are signs showing the amount of one of the asian in there. the fukushima plant has 6 reactors 3 of them to be removed. that could take at least 10 years then there is another 30 years for the cleanup of the entire sites but there are also other challenges the 1st is getting rid of radioactive water more than 1000000 tons of it and there is no space to store and more next year. with no possibility of building new reserve worlds to conserve contaminated water we are awaiting the government's decision after careful consideration of the situation. but there is also the matter of contaminated waste 14000000 cubic meters of it the contaminated waste is temporarily stored for the future disposal in warehouses like here in just the 30 kilometers away from the nuclear plant but on to no no one knows how or when that will happen. for the. china has approved changes to limit democratic participation hong kong's elections its annual national people's congress pass new laws to veto and screen candidates it follows mass protests in the 7 autonomous territories in 2019 calling for greater freedoms wave model why the meeting made a decision on improving the election system of the hong kong special administrative region all delegates highly agreed and have expressed to the strong determination of the people of all ethnic groups in the country including hong kong compactor yes to safeguard national sovereignty security and development interests and maintain the hong kong's constitutional order. hong kong leader carrie lamb welcomed the electoral reforms she said that they are necessary to keep out people who want to undermine the status quo some are doing her locally young russian we see in recent years that there are politicians with a hidden agenda making use of loopholes and flaws in our electoral system to enter a political institutions they did not enter a stablish meant to help hong kong government to implement policies or to help hong kong people they can sabotage in our systems our lives and in recent years they advocate self-determination hong kong independence they even collude with foreign powers to threaten our national security cartels foreign minister result all this with the russian and turkish top diplomats 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 all turkey's foreign minister expressed hope for a breakthrough double that and cut 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. washing officer of the cell robin a reminder of our top stories the un special rapporteur on human rights in myanmar says there are growing there is growing evidence the military's engaging in crimes against humanity including murder persecution and torture since its february the 1st takeover thomas andrews has called for multilateral sanctions on senior gentle leaders and oil and gas enterprises.