coming to a complete stop, 1st phase, it's unaware of any crashes related to the software and is carrying out more tests . ah, the headlines on al jazeera gimme the sounds. president test survived a coup attempt and says the situation is under control for them. tomorrow's the so call him barlow says the attack was aim that killing him. the prime minister and cabinet members. earlier there was gunfire around the government palace in the capital b sal this. today we have facing an assault. i was in the middle of the council of ministers with all the members, including the prime minister. and we were attacked with very heavy weaponry for 5 hours. but now everything is under control. and one thing i can assure you there is no side that is linked to the scope of teams. it is an isolated force, but it is also linked to the people we force. when i was elected president of the

republic, i promised to fight 2 things and corruption and drug trafficking. and this is also linked to the s, and i knew what the price was, but the fight continues. your british prime minister voice johnson is pledging more support for ukraine's army. he met with ukraine spreads range in kiev, and says moscow is trying to change the architecture of european security. meanwhile, russia's president vladimir 14 hopes, talks on ukraine, will avoid what is labeled negative scenarios, including war footing says the us and satellites have ignored the company's main concerns, including nato expansion, proofing it early. but i'm going to put you in the putting that means that we are analyzing the response from the u. s. and i have already said that our concerns have not been addressed. we have not seen any guarantees that nato will move its presence in our country. also has a right to choose its own security. we cannot allow one country to increase the security at the expense of another country. denmark has become the 1st you country

to lift all karone of eyes restrictions, despite a surgeon covert 19 infections. it's relying on the high vaccination rate toward off the only con variant vaccination passes and masks are no longer required to enter restaurants. shops all use public transport. pfizer has asked us drug regulators for permission to offer. it's called the 1900 vaccine to children, as young as 6 months old. the drive to vaccinate children has been spurred by the only con variant. and the u. s. has asked us security council to meet behind closed doors on thursday to discuss north korea latest miss. i launch the request was backed by diplomats from the u. k. and france. sundays tests with young, young 7th round of launches in the month of january. those are the headlines on al jazeera. i'll be back with more news right after inside story to stay with. ah

handy, another turn to democracy. a year after the military coup, public institutions and the economy have collapsed and international diplomatic pressure has stalled. so how long can the army resist giving power back to the people? this is inside story. ah. hello and welcome to the program. i'm elizabeth parent. m. a year ago, myanmar transition to democracy ended when the military seized power. the army has

ignored international pressure to reinstate civilian rule. the united nations is demanding more sanctions against the genta, calling it a criminal enterprise a pull. this video was one of the 1st signs of the army takeover and a memorable image of that day. a fitness instructor doing the exercises, while tags rolled into the capital navy door elected leaders, including young santucci, were arrested and jailed. military commander, menace. lang imposed a state of emergency and declared himself prime minister. ah, well, the qu triggered some of the biggest protest in yarmouth history. the military's response was swift and violent. some cities held small demonstrations on tuesday's anniversary, but most marked the crew would silent strikes as part the campaign of civil disobedience, state media. a military leader, men on lang,

has extended the state of emergency for another 6 months. he's ignored a plan by the association of southeast asian nations ozzy on to restore democracy. people in myanmar have been speaking to our cause aunt tony chang, to drive her m. yeah, must sit his everyday life. might look like it's normal. but look, a little closer. roads closed with barriers, barricaded, military positions, and uniforms. soldiers on the streets, montoya. i saw the army. this tried to protest. after that, i was very afraid. that's why i'm scared to go out again. but there were more protest beside my house, so i joy if they feel safe, i, i would joy to protest. mamma has been ravaged by coven 19 in the past 12 months. the situation intensified after the military target had medical workers for their involvement and protests and a civil disobedience movement. many were arrested,

others fled into hiding to day. even basic health care services are scarce, as i will not see, i won't forget that day. death hair walkers were arrested and she dare very badly by the army. they even kate, a medicare student, thus why i will return to the hospital in the sit, his food remains plentiful. the prices have risen sharply. elsewhere, supplies and production have run dangerously low. the world food program estimates it needs to provide food for 4000000 people across myanmar in 2020 to 4 times the number before the qu, the economy has gone into free, full banks, limit withdrawals, and foreign investment is pulling out fast. many people ah, lose the jobs and it is impending duty at the labor market.

and also a many people are jump list, but there are many jobs seek us. ah, cutting the joke, but be baked less than normal. even basic services like trains and buses of failing, the nationwide rail network has ground to halt of the work has joined the civil disobedience movement and bus prices of tripled as operators abandon standardized rules. don't need to go here. in my opinion, if we get rid of army rule transport services would go back to normal with properly working purposes, a normal ticket prices. historically, the people have, ma'am, are used to military rule. but after a decade of progress and development, the last 12 months is leaving many feelings as if they are returning to the past. tony cheng al jazeera. ah, well, let's bring in guests and the tie capital. bangkok is debbie. still hon. founder

and coordinator of all found burma, that's a network of organizations working on human rights and democracy in myanmar in london. ronan lee fellow at law for a university, london, and of the book young laws for hanging genocide and in vancouver, canada. we have yes, the overhang of human rights activist, a very warm welcome to the program. and i'll start with you mister todd in bangkok, given the state of the country, has the military coups been a failure? o, elizabeth, this school has been a tragic failure. tragic for the people in the country, but definitely a failure for the senior gentlemen of lying and his military crony set. and he did not expect the level of determination and sustains resistance, mainly from young people and women leading this movement. they still have not been able to gain territorial control of the country a year after trying to see power. and mr. lee,

if we look at the resistance that mister hart has spoken about to the military clue, and that resistance has led to so much violence in many parts of the country. now, the departing un special envoy to me on my, has said that the country is on the verge of civil war. do you agree? yes. so do the simple reality is, is that the me and my military has used every tool of violence and oppression at its disposal to try and convince the people of me and not to just quietly accept to acquiesce to a military coup that had 12 months. and after 12 months, this do not in control of the country. i mean the, the crew has been a disaster for the military. it's been tragic for the people that me or not. but this is by no means a successful code for the military 12 months, and they still cannot embed the code. the question that seriously must be asked now really is if they can achieve that in 12 months, can they ever and that's

a call to the international community to the un security council to, to get involved in this. because what seems to be happening is that the military cannot when the people are prepared to let them, when understandably at. but the military are prepared to fight to the last person standing in me and mom to have a chance of winning. and we just simply should not allow that. and there are so many people in myanmar that also seem to be willing to fight to the very last person. yasmina and vancouver has the military cou. i mean, it has been devastating and a disaster for most of the people in young maha against it, but what impact hasn't had on the countries ethnic minorities like the ringer? oh, well it's, it's just indescribable. and we've had the military targeting

us with, you know, all kinds of violence and intends to, to destroy the entire communities for many, many decades. and this is just a for ethnic community. it's just another day of being part of the ethnic communities. just 20 certainly just within this month alone, there has been a lot of arrest and penalize zation of movement for we're hang. yeah, we have 200000 people, or ringer are still stuck in apartheid like condition in term and can, who are not receiving the aid and you know, proper help from outside nor, you know, the authorities in bold. and the conditions have just worse and worse than for, for get people and other ethnic communities. it's just been help. and what we're seeing increasingly is that, you know, people who are against the military clue are joining the ranks of different ethnic

groups around the country. and challenging the military we've seen in recent months, the military has lost control of the territory, including and chin and rock kind stays the saigon region, the mog way division. deborah started, how does that impact the military's hold on the country? is how stretched is the military right now? how much pressure is it under? well, the, the who is relying on strikes now on civilian areas, including recently in strike on lloyd caught the biggest city, the state capital of cardio cur, any state. so what has happened is that besides launching all stretching out all the human resources to attack people, the military has also lost thousands of defective soldiers and police who defected from the time because they cannot bear what's going on. and instead, the military is now recalling retired veterans to active duty and forcing soldiers,

wife and children to do military training. what this is telling us is that they have lot themselves, as ronan says on a pass. oh, to fight till the last person standing there, not willing to make any compromise or show any mercy. and this in itself has also forced the civilian population to realize that they have 2 choices, fight or flee, and most of them cannot run away. so the folks asked are being forced to stand yet stay to still do to fight back or in order to guarantee the our own survivor. but let's also remember that what we are facing is the scale of atrocity crimes and conflict that in since september every month, the number of attacks hurting people military attacks, harming people in myanmar has actually been more than afghanistan in syria combine

. that's how serious the conflict is. absolutely thousands of civilians have been killed around 1500 in the protests that followed. the military crew often peaceful protests around a 3rd of those who were in custody and from torture. but we've had many others have been killed in the fighting that's been going on in the countryside, often this civilians. mr. lee, what is it going to take, you know, for the international community to do more we have had the united states, britain and canada impose a new sanctions on young muslim tree. after the past year of chaos, they've been blacklisting. more people who are linked to the gender, do you see these latest round of sanctions making? any difference to what's been happening in the country over the past year was anxious the target, the military's economic base would certainly help. but the international communities to be much more than imposed sanctions, the needs to be

a global arms embargo on me. and i mean the me or my military should not be able to die and tomorrow, and next week to continue to buy weapons to turn on its own people. and that's the responsibility of the united security cancer. and the has, it hasn't been a vote on that at the security cancer. it's time the u. s. i in the u. k. and others stepped up and put this to avoid at the united nations security cap. so let's actually work out where the political will is for action and we're, it, is that, and if the problem here is that china would threaten a visa, or would we? so then this becomes china's political problem that china won't want that, because china has a very long land border with me and it doesn't want to catastrophe next door. but it's philosophically against intervention if you can avoid it. and it will be signaling perhaps to others that it might feature, but i'm not sure that it will in the current circumstances, the atrocities that we saw from the me and my military during december. i mean burning alive. 31 people who were fleeing violence. i mean with that was on

christmas 8th. there was a peaceful protest in yan gone. during december, the military drove a truck at the protesters at full speed, other instances, and other parts of the country where we've seen collective punishment of civilians . so if there was militia action against the military and the military, losing quite often when them, when these militias take them on, they punish the local community by bo, burning alive, 11 people, including children. i mean this, this is a brutal and cruel military that should not be in power in me and my, and i would, and there are and, and there are a number of people who are saying that there needs to be that they, they can't be any weapons or money being supplied to the military gender, but who is it that is supplying those weapons and money? mr. lee? well, china and russia are selling weapons among others to the children. i mean that there

john is the biggest supplier to the john to russia, as has also emerged, particularly since the code as coin involved in terms of providing arms to, to, to the toronto with me. and my, i mean, russia gains access to a port on the, by a big goal because of that. but russia doesn't share a border with me. and so russia really cares a lot less than china does. i don't think china wants. i mean, china had indicated it was not happy with the fact of the code, whatever about the situation afterwards. i'm not sure china wants to face the potential of years and years of catastrophe in a country where she has a 1500 kilometer land order. i mean, people will flee across that border and that will be a problem for china. i mean, i think it's in china's interests as much as it's in the interest of the people that me in march to resolve this as quickly as possible. and i want to talk to just a little bit about how we've got here, you know, to this point,

because how much has the international? yes, ma'am, and i'll bring you in here. now, how much do you think the international communities, lack of action so far? has been reminiscent of what happened you know, the lack of, of the response or lack there off to the $26.00. 17 for hang a crisis. when condemnation wasn't matched with actions and how much do you think that lack of action has contributed to the military. his decision to launch the current could, you know, convinced that it might face condemnation, but little else from the u. n. a western governments, as, as mr. lee has been writing well there are a lot of elements of economic interest with me and are, and there are very specific enterprises, including b, m, e, l, m a c, and the military, oil and gas company that have been actually getting revenues from the foreign investors that includes the u. s. canada and south korea and many other democratic nations that actually did not hold the investment or revenue flow in to me,

and our military companies doing or after 2017 genocidal campaign. so in that case, the genocide of your people has proven to be quite profitable to the military because they actually did not stock foreign companies and international community from investing within the mar, from actually, you know, adding on to the, to the power and impunity within, within the country and that actually resulted in so many different deterioration within, within the domestic institutions within the bar. and that includes, you know, criminal justice system and it actually has helped emboldened the military. so my thought it actually, you know, today we're, we're seeing the coo and the cycle of violence. never ending. we have seen in the last, just recently debbie's thought had, we've had you know, energy companies,

chevron totaled these pulling bit and pulling out of me on my are you hopeful by those sort of court push actions? do you think that they could lead to more and lead to some more pressure on the military given that the military does an a lot of revenue from those companies? well, let's face the fact that chevron total and also woodside is st. leah, and now there are withdrawal from the country also because the reputational and operational risk they were facing outweighed any benefits the profits they could get now or in the future. and that's because the, the hunter itself has wrecked the economic infrastructure, the company of the country. but between now and 6 months ahead, when they pulled out, when they actually pull out, they share due to hand over a couple of $100000000.00 of revenue to me and my oil and gas enterprise,

which is controlled by the who. and this is why we've been advocating for sanction so that these companies are compelled to, with this revenues in a trust account, instead of heading it over to the winter. because that money could be used to kill more people. and i would just want to go back to our growing and he was saying about china. on the 28th of january, the china's representative at the un security council shocked us all by talking about the urgency of halting violence in so the beijing is finally admitting. and that is that what is happening in the country does affect china. and hopefully china will, will back up those concerns by not supplying any more weapons. so i think that the space is now there the security council for some type of action to be taken. and,

and we shouldn't be high of we shouldn't be afraid of countries exercising the, the, any vito on burma, me and my, if they do, then it's time for them to actually own the support for this brutal he hunter. instead of trying to prevent anything from being tables in the 1st place. yeah, i mean, it was really, really interesting for china to make that comment saying that there was that urgent need to stop the violence and the on my again, given, you know, what does that mean for it's part and again, vote and lee is this the time you know, to, to strike while the ions hall is china signaling that perhaps it would, we'll use a veto power to vote in a way that you wouldn't expect it to the un security council. well, i think when the crew was launched, the chinese ambassador to me and my made a very strong public statement for chinese ambassador,

which was that the crew was not in chinese interests. and that was a strong signal at that time that, that china did not want to encourage the coo and was was, i think, pushing for that to be a negotiated settlement. the chinese authorities had a very good relationship with on sense that she and the national lead for democracy government. so it's that they weren't keen on the curb. i think the issue though now for china is that what they faced with is a situation that is a prolonged conflict within me and my on its doorstep. that's the choice. the choice is to continue back in the military and accept that there'll be a prolonged conflict because the military won't go quietly or take action and bring this to a head sooner and let the people of me and my be the people who be the one to determine who governs their country and the alternate for china is they can have peace within me and my with, with the people determining who's in charge or they can have chaos by continuing to

back the military. i think it's inciteful to that. those major multi nationals are announcing now that they're withdrawing because i think in some ways that's an indication that they see the writing on the wall to they see that the military is likely to lose at they want to be able to have a working relationship with the new civilian government in the future or, and that's a positive side. yeah, absolutely. jasmine owner, what about as he hands? roland? all of this, you know, me on my, as a member, do you see it playing a more effective role in stopping the violence at the moment? i unfortunately don't, but it does not mean that we cannot continue to engage them. i think there needs to be more international pressure that mounting you know, upon us and to actually do more, especially because of the time burma border and you know, because of the, the airstrikes and many,

many ways of violence that have happened. there are many roles that i see and can play in at the very least ensuring that people are actually kept safe. and i want to ask a question to debbie sauce housing, because she's actually in bangkok in bangkok and thailand has been the, one of the supporters in assay on of the, of the military. but while there is so much violence along the border, and you have thousands of people crossing into thailand from myanmar which thailand doesn't want, couldn't, can you see that ty authorities changing their view on their support for the military jointer? i think at this point that when we're talking about pressure on the winter by the international community, that also needs to be active encouragement and pressure for us to get it act together. and in this case, allowing in humanitarian a millions and millions of dollars of humanitarian aid to flow across high borders

to was communities in sergent need in burma also means a potential of economic recovery in the country. it's already hit by the covey condemning. so i think it's, it potentially is a win win situation for thailand. it's not in in thailand, interest for chaos to rein in law because they, because of the board is situation because of the fact that alongside this violence there's also a cobit pandemic in progress. that's actually out of control in burma. so it's entirely in interest to actually contribute to a buffer zone, a safe buffer zone for ethnic and displace. because it has, in the past few months, is when, when the military, who does artillery, fire launches mortify on people. the current state and state on the border areas,

some of that has actually affect the time people call the tie site. so yeah, so i think, i think in terms of human security in terms of economic stability, income of dealing with the private pandemic. it's actually in thailand's interest to the rest of the international community to ease the security. let's see if these countries such as thailand and china can work not only in their own interests, but most importantly in the interest of the people of me on my, i'm afraid we have run out of time, but i want to thank all of you for the discussion that is debbie start. hard run the and yeah, meant allah and thank you to for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com and for further discussion do go to our facebook page. that's facebook dot com, forward slash ha inside story. you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at ha, inside story from me. elizabeth brought him and the whole team here. bye for now.

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hours, but now everything is under control. and one thing i can assure you there is no side that is linked to this.