or is the worst still to come. i'm sunni so much kind of thank you for joining us at least 6 people have been killed and me and maher after security forces fired on them during demonstrations they were taking part in protests in the town of neon against last month's military coup which overthrew the elected government in the city of yangon and there are also reports that at least one other person has been killed this latest violence comes after the u.n. security council demanded the military restore democratic control in the box. which is absolutely essential to respect the results of the elections and to a low for a situation in reach we move back to a democratic transition so we can speak now to journalist andrew nak i'm sent he joins us from yangon hi andrew so we heard a clear message from the un secretary general there but just hours later we've heard that more people have been shot dead by security forces in the city of my own and also in yangon where you are so what has happened. well it seems like the military kind of chooses random days where it cracks down with much more severity we don't see any difference in the protests we only see a difference in how the military reacts and i think part of the purpose is to kind of instill fear into protesters so that they know any day that i go on the street i could be killed. well if we look at what the military saying the spokesman there are said that today security forces only use force if necessary and said the international community doesn't have any reason to be concerned on the other hand activists say they are being targeted in this crackdown so what is your assessment of the situation and yeah i mean i don't think the military is being honest they've been trying to claim that they're only using very soft methods and that other countries would crackdown much harder i mean we're seeing on our peaceful protests often teenagers often young women being shot in the head on you know a weekly basis so i think that played by the military is just simply not true we saw that the u.n. security council is demanding the restoration of democratic control and man maher and the military 2 has said the intel will hold elections soon so do you think that is a sign that these protests are indeed having an impact no i don't think so the military has said since they see is power that they were going to hold elections they've been claiming the reason they seized power is because the last election was brig they haven't offered any evidence of that i think if the military you can follows through with its promise to hold elections we can expect those elections to actually be rigged and we can expect and all day to probably be banned from participating do you see any any avenue for a peaceful resolution to this crisis. it's getting increasingly hard to see an off ramp any type of diplomatic solution the military is really dating mariel's and yet it's hard it's hard to see if there's no resolution right now. journalist andrew neck and joining us from yangon in me in mar thank you very much thank you. china's parliament has backed the communist party's plan to tighten control of hong kong by overhauling the city's electoral system the national people's congress overwhelmingly passed a resolution that grants beijing veto powers over candidates to ensure that the city is governed by quote patriots critics say the changes will effectively eliminate all remaining opposition and they're calling it a final nail in the coffin of hong kong's democracy movement. and let's go right to hong kong our correspondent standing by for us there hi phoebe tell us about this new electoral system and what it will mean for the people of hong kong so what is changing here. beijing has taken a controversial power to push their actually phone for hong kong by bypassing hong kong slow costantini so a new macand this a new factoring organization will be set up to screen all candidacy of the major local election in hong kong into the future and proposal also gives greater power to the actual commentary which is largely stacked 3 po beijing papers so that electoral comedies was originally only responsible for paying for picking the chief executive in hong kong but in the future more beijing loyalists will be added to that committee and they will also be in charge for this side to the side of candidates and also some of the winners of hong kong locals are just asia so although they thought he said that the size and composition of the electoral committee and home calls many parliaments will be expanded but it actually is. more difficult threshold for the opposition came to become canada's and not to mention the run for to do win the election in the future when we mention that beijing says that it wants to ensure that only quote patriots run hong kong in the future so how will that actually be judged. well that is indeed the crust of the problems of patriotism under the current context in hong kong and beijing is a fake and clear concept which is not legally defined so. the authority says he she also politicians must not endanger national security but again the definition of national security could be broadly interpreted that over the past few days we have her senior officials in hong kong and also that occurred to the beijing legislature claiming that patriotic. police take love to china in other words also support for the ruling communist party and no opposition to the incumbent government well critics say this one of the final nails in the coffin of democracy in hong kong isn't. well many opposition fakers there are deeply concerned about the new the push forward the actual reform this could be this could spell the end of their political career in hong kong where the hong kong has never enjoy food in marcus' the house we have a direct democracy over the past 2 decades but now it means that the remaining room for the opposition within the political institution could be the end under the new electoral reform and also interestingly some of the political analysts in hong kong they think that the new actual systems could also be a challenge to the probation came that they were in the future they will have to compete with each other in terms of the loyalty to beijing our correspondent t.v. congo morning there thank you so much. japan is marking the 10th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that destroyed towns and triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster. a minute's silence was observed across the country at 2 46 pm local time the exact moment a magnitude 9 quake struck and set off the deadly waves and bernardo hito and prime minister yoshihiko suga led an official ceremony in tokyo to pay tribute to some 800000 people who lost their lives nearly half a 1000000 people were displaced and towns around the fukushima daiichi power plant remain uninhabitable. the effects of the disaster are still being felt especially at the site of the fukushima nuclear plant specialists there are still working around the clock to keep the damage in check in a moment we'll have more on the impact in the aftermath of the catastrophe but 1st a look at how events unfolded 10 years ago today. march 11th 2011. japan's east coast is rocked by the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the country shortly afterwards a tsunami ripped through fukushima prefecture taking everything with it. this anomaly also cripples the fukushima nuclear power plant leading to explosions and meltdowns at 3 reactors. thousands of people lost their lives as a result of the disaster tens of thousands were forced to evacuate their homes. the fukushima meltdown would count as the most severe nuclear accident since the chernobyl disaster in 1906. to this day there is still only restricted access to 1600 square kilometers of land around the disabled tunable nuclear power plant at around 230 square kilometers from the contamination zone is much smaller but it will remain uninhabitable for decades to come. the fukushima nuclear disaster continues to contaminate the air the earth and the groundwater to this day bags are radioactive contaminated soil life scattered throughout the province it's still unclear where the waste should be stored in the long term the city of tokyo was saved by a stroke of luck wind pushed the radioactive cloud away from the city and out to sea shortly after the catastrophe radiation levels in a large number of marine animals measured much higher than the limit values considered safe in japan today those levels are down significantly but the fishing industry in japan is only recovering slowly in order to keep your goals in the reactors from melting tons of water a used each day to cool them at a 1000000 tons of contaminated water from the cooling pipes is stored in hundreds of tanks not a power plant but because storage space is limited and the tanks will soon which capacity the japanese government is considering discharging the contaminated water into the sea in 2022. residents fishermen and environmentalist say that plan offers no solution to an ongoing disaster we can speak now to journalists on your blast in tokyo hi sonia can you walk us through the commemorations today. yes sure since the early morning hours many people in the most severely affected prefectures. want to have been going to the coast they've been putting down flowers their hands together. they've been mourning and i guess a lot for a lot of them very painful memories have been coming up throughout the whole day. and while it's been 10 years since the disaster 10 years might seem like a long time but when we think about it only 2 or 3 years ago some people were finally able to move out of the container a lot of the container housing that was provided and sometimes into social housing or into their own houses so it's been relatively recent and while in most areas except. the buildings and the infrastructure are back in place now what is now actually only starting is through the rebuilding of the community. so yet 10 years later how would you say that this disaster has changed upin it's changed it in small ways i would say nothing to control matic in a sense. like if you compare it to germany for example phasing out nuclear power that has not happened and it's not likely to be happening anytime soon nuclear power is still part of the government's energy plan and some local communities depend on it so they really want to keep it even though the majority of the japanese would very much like to phase it out but. this is not likely to happen anytime soon. so how do people in japan generally feel about look nuclear power going forward for the future of the country. well some people have been wondering you know can we do without nuclear power when we have blackouts or will our industry be strong enough and have a reliable energy source if we don't have nuclear part but the past couple of years have actually shown that it's can be done and japan has managed to get by on 0 nuclear power in the past so i think it could do the same thing going forward is just a question whether the nuclear village so to speak will allow this to happen but japan can do it journalist speaking to us from tokyo thank you very much. let's get a round of now some other headlines from around the world u.n. secretary general antonio has called syria a living nightmare after 10 years of conflict said syrians had endured shocking atrocities and their suffering is now being compounded by economic collapse and soaring poverty fueled by corruption sanctions and the cobra 1000 pandemic as i've said before u.s. secretary of state employee blinken has described violence in ethiopia region as ethnic cleansing and called for the withdrawal of eritrean troops washington's most senior diplomat called for a reconciliation process to restore peace more than 50000 people have been killed since war broke out in november. a high court in pakistan has ordered the government to ban the social media app to talk it is a country 2nd bid to outlaw the platform over claims that it is spreading indecent content a previous band was revoked last october following assurances from the chinese own app that content would be moderated. today marks one year since the world health organization officially declared covert $1000.00 to be a pandemic the 1st coronavirus cases appeared in the chinese city of when han officials there claimed a seafood market was the source of the outbreak the virus quickly spread across the world with europe becoming the new epicenter lockdowns the border closures did not stop it from moving and before long almost every part of the world became affected by the pandemic germany was initially praised for the way that it handled the pandemic case numbers and death rates were kept low and testing was rolled out but the country's approaches started to falter restrictions are being lifted despite signs the country is already in a 3rd wave and bureaucracy is slowing down efforts to save lives through vaccination. what seemed far away suddenly became a painful reality here at the stock company in late january 1 of them play us was the 1st german to contract covert 19 from a colleague who had traveled from china the german health minister from maine up to mystic there's no cause for concern or. a few weeks later things looked quite different infections were spreading throughout germany in mid march the chancellor took the unusual step of addressing the nation on t.v. . it's it is serious please take it seriously to say that there has not been any such challenge to our country since german unity not since what with chu that has demanded such great joined solidarity based action which has 100 and called germany's 1st lockdown started the streets of berlin were virtually deserted museums and theatres had to close and the economy came to an almost complete standstill. schools and nurseries also closed the living room became the new classroom but online teaching was difficult as laptops and software was scott's meanwhile supplies of protective clothing in hospitals providing no doctors for to keep people infected alive early may nearly 7000 of them have died the high number was relatively low in comparison with other countries infection numbers started to for the lock down worked that reduce the burden on hospitals. finally summer time restrictions were eased people return to the streets but the easing of measures brought new infections. by november the numbers was so high that people were told to stay at home again what became known as lock down life began. the months parts of the population have been protesting against the restrictions oh. yeah. but lockdown light wasn't enough shortly before christmas in fact numbers reached such a high and that public life was entirely shut down again with alcohol bans in public and even nightly curfews in some places at the end of the year germany's vaccination campaign had kicked off politicians promise that those who wanted the job would be vaccinated by the end of summer but many vaccination centers remain empty due to a shortage of doses but the fast rays of sunshine many are no longing for more freedom one after the outbreak restrictions are being lifted bit by bit but in the meantime you taishan send infection numbers are rising again. let's bring in our chief political editor michelle. so where does germany stand right now. well according to law who is the chief medic of the whole world call institute the chief advisor to the government there who's been seen alongside the health minister on the german chancellor throughout the crisis we are heading here in germany right into a 3rd wave he says we're in the midst of it and this is only a couple of days after the germans saw those long almost 3 months of a lockdown partially lifted some shops allowed to open some schools across the country and the government left that line of always responding with a lockdown to increasing numbers the incidence rate is rising sharply just over the past 24 hours and the big question mark now is after those partial lifting the germany might have to go in to get tighter docked and once again that decision though won't be made before the 22nd of march when angela merkel meets her state premiers again at the same time michelle if we look at vaccinations that there were plans to have family doctors or primary care physicians are start providing vaccinations in their practices that is now being pushed back i mean why has this rollout been still so slow. well the short answer is because there's simply not enough vaccine to go around this has to do with the fact that the e.u. and germany along with it was late 3 weeks later than britain for instance in licensing that 1st vaccine from biotech and that the e.u. is exporting almost half of what it produces in terms of vaccine towards the rest of the world whereas the united states for instance won't let anything out until every american has been vaccinated we also have the german chancellor criticized this at the same time germany is quite clearly very busy with its own federal structures when a speeding up of the process is needed and there's still those question marks over the astra zeneca vaccine with a lot of germans still reluctant to actually have that particular shot so still germany lagging behind here we've also heard the chancellor say there are still a few tough months ahead for the country and critics are saying her government is now essentially failed to handle the pandemic effectively is that a fair assessment. well the doom government has certainly failed in having a very fast vaccine rollout it's easy to compare with britain where almost a 3rd of people have had their 1st shot whereas in germany it's about about 6 percent but if you look at overall deaths if you still compare those 2 countries germany's seen some 73000 deaths britain today to see 125000 so the big question is how will your society how will voters actually measure the see in the end come election time but for now there is increasing a lack of patience with the government actually to get going particularly on the issue of vaccines and testing our chief political editor michelle thank you. in the u.s. congress has approved a sweeping pandemic relief package the 1st major legislative triumph of the biden administration the covert $1000.00 bill is expected to be signed into law on friday the measures include direct relief payments of $1400.00 for most americans funds will also be pumped into vaccination programs and billions of dollars allocated to schools local authorities and businesses the measure was passed without any republican votes across. brazil is suffering what one doctor is called its worst moment yet in the pandemic many hospitals across the country including in the richest state of south paulo have no beds left to treat koeppen 1000 patients the number of daily deaths pushed past 2000 for the 1st time on wednesday bringing the number of people killed by the virus to more than 270000 the surgeon infections and deaths is being fueled by a more contagious variant that emerged in the amazonian city of announced in january the situation there remains dire but as deep as reports many have become complacent. you see len addresses but he's back to live in a normal life and meet john why reach an early date when the health system in the now is collapsed she had been infected with the newest strain of the coronavirus and needed oxygen but this city had run out of feet by the sea we'll see how. it's aim to apocalyptic us was my head the more religious people said it was a sign of the end of the world around me probably it was a night in that you know i never thought i would experience such a dramatic moment the moment the film that i'm much less seen it's a moment to see descends to hop forgotten this is the main market in manassas even thought 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