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rurts declaring one year state of emergency. soeldsiers now surrounding city hall around the largest city in miya myanmar. there have been growing tensions after the kyi party claimed a land slide in the election and mi military claimed irregularities in the vote. u.s. president joe biden has been prbriefed and the white hoe saying the united states will not impede the myanmar democratic transition. it will take action for those responsibility if -- responsible if the steps are not reverses. critics say this is a vieolatio of the constitution that the

military helped to write and said it would abide by. what's the latest? >> reporter: yeah, this is, as my colleague put it, a textbook definition of a military coup, a military that suffered a humiliating defeat in november's election where national league for democracy party that the military helped to put into civilian power even though the military retained control of key leaders in the government. the military proxy party got just 33 seats and there's acquisition of widespread voter fraud, one memo saying 10.5 million possible cases of voter fraud, which election-watchers say is highly unlikely, in fact the election authorities in myanmar have disputed that there was widespread voter fraud so what the military apparently has done now is detain, not only su,

kyi and top lieutenants but they shut off all military channels in the country and tried to block social media and even cut phone lines, making the information difficult fwoej getting out of the country and also for people inside the downtown communication internally. a state of emergency now in effect for one year and elected civilian leaders came in five years ago in a lined slide in the late election, now their futures are uncertainly as kyi is under house arrest where she

has been won more in november. >> this was an election in which suu kyi's party won 80% of the seats. is there any proof of such a change in land slide. >> there are other concerned about political parties representing ethnic minorities in myanmar which is a country deeply divided along political and ethnic lines and suu kyi's who was global movement for peace for many years, won a nobel peace prize in the early 90's and celebrated for her work in myanmar which had been

controlled by military government, isolated from the outside world, she was key figure to open it up but then fell because she was in the end in acquisition of genocide against a range of muslims more than 700,000 have been forced out of their villages to bangladesh and being murdered at the hands of the scuu kyi military but they say they were provoked though there was overwhelming evidence that was not the case. domestically for that tough stance against range of muslims who are widely despised by buddhists in myanmar her popularity levels have been extraordinary high at home,

which may be why her party won so many seats in november. but from military perspective to suffer such a defeat seems the generals decided no more and have stepped in to take things over. >> we'll be checking in with up there in hong kong, thanks so much. now in the united states, hopes for a new coronavirus relief deal rising as both sides have agreed to talks. president joe biden has invieded a group of republican senators to the white house on monday to discuss their new proposal. plans for a $600 billion relief package is of course much smaller than what democrats are pushing for. this comes after the u.s. reported its deadliest month from covid since the pandemic began. more than 95,000 deaths confirmed in january. far more than the previous

record-high which was december. despite all of this, the u.s. is seeing its lowest number of hospital admissions in two months, but even with fewer americans in hospital with covid-19, the country far from out of the woods. and one expert says he expected a variant of the coronavirus to impact the u.s. in a way the nation hasn't seen since this all began. natasha chin with more. >> reporter: in some ways americans may be feeling the beginning of the light at end of the tunnel, the number of people hospitalized from covid-19 dropped below 100,000 for the first time since december 1. only louisiana is seeing an increase in new cases compared to the previous week. more than 30 million doses of the vaccine have been administered so far. >> i feel now i can see my grandkids. getting a second shot has done wonders for me and has really boosted my confidence to the

point i feel i can take on the world. >> ron yabroudy is about to turn 89 and got both doses of the vaccine which showed 95 efficacy in the trials. >> there's nothing like having 95% on your side. >> moderna's trial did similarly well. modern signs of progress come amid a you troubling development, in the u.s. more than 400 cases of the variant first identified in the uk. >> the surge likely to occur with the new variant from england is going to happen in the next six to 14 weeks. if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we'll see something like we've not seechb yet in this kunitz. >> variants first identified in south africa and brazil have turned up in a handful of states this week causing hedge experts to sound the alarm. >> we need to do more surveillance. we actually trail our peers only this.

we need to do more genomic sequencing. there's more u.s. variants but we don't do the work to identify them. >> >> it's not clear if those vaccinated can get sick or die from the new variants, troubling as we close january with the most deaths of any month since the first reported case in the u.s. a year ago. >> that's been really hard too because she's asking every day where's my daddy. >> some families like holley's have lost more than one relative, in her case, her husband and father in law died of covid-19 within 24 hours of each other. >> every day i wake up and think this night nightmare will be over and unfortunately it continues on. >> natasha chen cnn atlanta. >> now the european commission says the drug-maker astrazeneca has agreed to deliver 9 million

doses of it's vaccine in the first quarter of the year. this coming days after saying it would cut supply to eu because of production problems but on sunday ursula said after astrazeneca will expand deliveries sooner than expected. protesters gathered over the weekend to protest coronavirus restrictions. police in brussels say they arrested more than 200 people during what they described as unauthorized gatherings. protesters angry about a national curfew and ban on non-essential trips in and out of the country. and you're looking at vienna where police in riot gear stopped some 5,000 marchers

before they could reach the president's office. austria has been in it's third national lockdown for more than a month. with a week to go before donald trump's historic second impeachment trial begins in the senate, the former president announced that two new lawyers will head his legal team. he's been struggling to find attorneys willing to take the case. cnn reported the five members of his impeachment defense team quit this weekend. trump fell out with them over legal strategy. they wanted to focus on the constitutionality of convicting a formal president but he wants to use his disproven election fraud claims as a defense. one republican lawmakers pushing back often party's allegiance to mr. trump and looking to battle the poisonous conspiracy and lies that define the trump

administration and in a video says the republican party has lost its way but so far not many are supporting it. >> can imagine everybody that supported you, or so it seems that way, your friends, and family, has turned against you. they think you're selling out. i got a certified letter twice in the same people disowning me claiming i'm possessed by the devil. >> now to a republican strategist and former rnc communications director who joinings me now. let's start with why is the g.o.p. leadership so quiet in the face of the likes of marjorie taylor greene and others, in her case, someone who has been so damaging, why the silence at the top? >> two, one they're scared of the feedback that's not positive or members are scared of the freebd they're getting from the primary voters. one thing about trump supporters

they don't two quietly into the good night, they're lowe loud and vocal and i've heard so many stories from members of congress on e-mails, text messages they get from donors and supporter who's say they're not doing a enough for donald trump and saying it over and over in unkind words, they're reacting against their base. that's the reality. >> then you have house leader going to mar-a-lago to meet with donald trump. all of this talk keeping the base on site. but trump lost the house, lost the senate, he lost the white house, why this continue feel, we got the photo of mccarthy and trump in the gilded room. why this feelty. >> because one thing donald trump hasn't lost, he lost a lot no doubt about it, he hasn't lost the core base trump vote which is really dominant in the g.o.p. right now.

look, there are probsts guys that, one problem i would point out to you in carolina 58 republicans left the party changed to una fill jated. you're making that decision in january of an off year you're pretty angry. that's long term not sustainable for republicans. and recent history we've nominated terrible candidates kawcausing a lot of problems getting national attention for comments they made and ultimately lost. and in 2010 two senate seats we shuld have picked up in nevada and delaware but didn't helped to define republicans negatively so we lost those seats and get defined negatively, a parallel to what we're seeing now. marjorie taylor greene could define what republicanism is to a lot of independent voters and

even republicans leaving the party. that's dangerous. >> the problem is, there are risks in maintaining feelty to one man, especially since he's out of office. it's an extraordinary eckggs in one basket situation. if you had to think of the next leader head it's hard to do that. it's a one-man party. there's a lot of risks in that. >> there sure are around obviously we've seen them play out in the past few weeks and obviously on january 6th. it's take away for me that's so xfinity critical on this is in the interview today it's hard to look at american when luke at the beacon of democracy what we have held up to be in 250 years now and we've clearly fallen short and the world is watching. myanmar is also dealing with issues like this. the united states is supposed to

serve as an example. what we're seeing from the republican party in the last few weeks, much less past few years, has fallen short. >> i did want to ask you about representative kim who voted to impeach trump and challenging the trump wings of the caucus itself stand up. real quick, do you think it has legs? >> i sure hope it does. look those ten members stuck their neck out to do the right thing and are pay the political price. adam kinzinger is one of the best and smartest young theest house leader and i'm on board with anything he wants to do, it's usually a good i'd y5u. >> doug heye always a pleasure to have you on. thank you. >> thank you. >> coming up on ""cnn newsroom"" team from world health organization expands investigation in wuhan while

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organization has visited a seafood market in wuhan, china, where covid-19 was first detected. the market has long-been closed to the public. the w.h.o. team plans to conduct two weeks of field work there as part of their investigation into the origins of the virus. they've also visited two hospital that's treated the most severely-ill patients. more than a year after is that initial outbreak in wuhan many there are grieving the loss of loved ones, for some that grieve has turned to anger as they request why the government didn't do more to address the situation from the very beginning. cnn report ns now from wuhan. >> reporter: see this right here is the photo. matching the photo on his phone with his wuhan part where his last spent time with his father, he can barely keep it together.

his father spent time in the military but the early on set of the outbreak last year weeks past before government acknowledged human to human transmission when they did it led to city of 11 million locking down but by then his dad had contracted the virus and died days later. >> reporter: you told me when you're here a few emotions come to mind. obviously sadness, sorrow, missing your dad. also angry. with whom are you angry? >> translator: when the virus appeared wuhan in the early day the government could have put people and life first and taken measures to control the virus, he says. but they didn't. instead they covered up and miss a -- missed an opportunity. nearly 4,000 have died in wuhan from covid-19. john is now suing local

officials and the hospital that treated his father. he's not the only one channelling his grief. >> announcer: action. we met a woman who's brother was a driver and infected last year. but their claim was declined for compensation. >> translator: he felt he would leave financial burdens behind and i want to negotiation for proper compensation in exchange for his death so i can take care of his family and pay for responsibilities he couldn't complete. her efforts to persuade china's court unlikely to change anything given the court not taking any covid cases. she calls it spiritual justice

for her daughter. >> what is the truth as you know it. >> translator: the local officials didn't tell us about the pandemic. if measure where's taken i would not have sent my child to the hospital which was the source of the infection. last january her 24-year-old daughter had been treating for cancer and she contracted covid-19. the hospital was so over crowded she snuck in to attend to her daughter disguised in blue surgery garbs a friend gave her and she went into the hospital and blended in to take care of her child. she also contracted the virus and her daughter passed away. her brother also nearly died from the virus wanted to take his own life. following the outbreak in wuhan several local leaders were ousted from their jobs but she

wants to see more done. i think the government official who's covered it up need to be punished not just disciplined, she tells me, my question is why are those not punished. there's no explanation month justice no justice. china's foreign ministry said acquisition to cover up the outbreak are groundless. cnn reached out to local court officials for comment. they've not yet responded. these grieving family members believe officials should are done more and are risking their freedoms by sharing their pain publicly. john says given all his father sacrificed for his country as an army veteran he deserves better, even in death. my father was a patriot and i am also one and i believe it's a

patriotic act to speak out. cn n wuhan, china. coming up here on the program, the latest on our breaking news and military coupe in myanmar. suu kyi and other party leaders are being detail taned. we'll have detailed next.

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes and you're watching c nn news room. returning now to our top story, myanmar's military has seized power in a coupe against

democratically elected government. soldiers surround the main city and has declared one year state of emergency. military detained suu kyi in a raid on monday morning. the army claimed results of november's election are fraudulent and are reports of widespread internet and telecom outages in myanmar. tom andrews is the u.n. reporter often human rights in myanmar. he joins me now. good to see you, sir. there's been murmurs of this happening what caused the military to do this, what possible justification? >> there is no justification at all and it's a really mystery why they did this. first of all, they wrote the constitution they just over through. it gives them enormous economic and political power, control of key ministries, control of 25%

of the parliament. so, first of all, how and why they overturned their own constitution is inkreds. -- incredible. and 24 hours ago assured international community they would abide by the constitution. so it is outrageous and mystifies many why they would go about doing this, given the situation they were in, that they put themselves in, and given the assurances we had just 24 hours ago. >> the military never took its hand ofz the levers of power, did it? it kept control of key parts of the government. how damaging is this to myanmar's democratic future? >> well, it's extremely damaging, i mean, think about this, the people of myanmar have been through so much. they've lived through decades of brutal military rule. they're going through a pandemic. the economy is in tough shape for so many. this is something that the

people of myanmar who have suffered so much it is so incredibly unfair for them to have to go through this right now. as you mentioned there's a lot we don't know. we know that key leaders, the state councillor and others in the national lead for democracy have been detained. we also know there are others in civil society in a wide range of people and groups. there are people who we can't reach. so there's a lot that we do not know. but what we do know is that at outrage has occurred in myanmar and the international national community can't stand by while it does. >> last time the military took power elections didn't happen for 20 years. are you worried about what's to come? and this is a real test for the international community and u.s. president joe biden, one of his first tests. >> well, i am worried. indeed it is a test for president biden. it's a test for all of us.

the international community has to speak very loudly and clearly and unequivocally that this is outrageous and that the people of myanmar are going to have people standing there with them. we're very cles to the situation, monitoring the situation and we stand with them. secondly the international community has to begin work right away to identify the very concrete steps that can and can be taken to apply what is necessary for justice to be done in myanmar. so it's a great challenge but it's something that we just can't turn away from. >> one military claims claiming irregular airities in which of suu kyi won by whopping 80% of the seats is there any irregularities and if that evidence is not forthcoming what do you say? >> well, whatever your

complaints are about the election and more observers agree that much of what they're saying is basically evidence-free claims of what happened, this widespread fraud. but at the very least, regardless of what your concerns or complaints are, you don't overthrow this developing democracy. you don't over turn this constitution that you have just pledged to abide by. it's simply outrageous regardless how you felt about the election and it's unacceptable. >> tom andrews, thank you so much we really appreciate you taking the time. important nomoment for myanmar. thank you. >> sure, michael. thank you. >> we'll take a break and when we come back on the program, russian police are cracking down hard on protesters. opposition movement isn't giving in. we'll hear why they're so motivated when we come back. you can choose any workout you want to fit within your time frame. there are a ton of zero point foods that i love. i never feel restricted.

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a russian watchdog group says police detained more than 5,000 protesters on sunday, a record number. crowds of people marching in demonstration as cross the country and the growing unrest obviously making the kremlin nervous. the protesters are demanding of the release of jailed opposition leader alexei navalny but that's not all. >> reporter: russian security forces showing no mercy cracking down on those protesters for the release of alexei navalny some telling us they want more fimtal fundamental changes in russia. this man says i came here because of the lack of freedom and demonstrative lawlessness that's going on. >> i want a free election. i want a change in our government 1678 . >> reporter: industry monitoring

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welcome back. nearly 75 million americans are under winter storm warnings or watches with a powerful noreaster bringing heavy snow and dangerous winds, many will see several inches of snow on the east coast, new york could get well over a foot. our meteorologist joins us now with more. what are you seeing out there? >> michael, it's been a long-time coming when it comes to the amount of snow forecast in the northeast in most densely

populated areas into new york city. in the past 24 hours parts of middleton west have seen mid-west have seen already a foot of snow. when you look at the prediction of noaa national storm prediction center when it comes to the level of concern, purple is indicative of one to four, the extreme level for new york city. so the impacts could be significant when it comes to strong winds, blowing 12snow. and accumulation of snow. wind chills are in single digit in portland, maine. in albany feels like 3 degrees. in new york and philly feeling like 12 degrees when you factor in the strong winds. the stage is set for a blockbuster storm system that could go down as one of the top ten strongest and heaviest snow events for new york city if the model play off.

it is just off shore and lingers for 24 to 36 hours from monday morning to tuesday afternoon and winds could gust upwards of 40 plus miles an hour. including in new york city. in the evening hours boston will get in on the stronger winds with the snow will push towards the northern tier of this region. winter storm region in place for foot of snow fall including philly, new york and boston. notice this, preemptively, 1300 flights have already been cancelled around the northeast. 86 across la guardia. 76 at newark and jfk seeing disruptions could last until tuesday with very cold temperature as allowing all of the snow and ice to stick around for few days as well. >> thanks so much. well, wall street enters a new trading week with a weary eye on retail traders.

investors on reddit wall street bets app made silver futures up 7.27%. and game stop stock is still up over 69%. richard quest explains how same game stop stock grew with historic week for markets. >> no one would predict the trade in revolution would begin here. >> game stop. >> it's tail all too familiar. a struggling brick and mortar retailer. target for short seligers. sellers. then something strange happened. >> video game retailer game stop up 15% pre-market. >> game stop is soaring once again. >> gamestop

set to continue their head spin ago sent. >> retailers organizing on reddit knew major institutional funds were predicting gamestop's demise so using trading apps like robinhood they snapped um snapped up shares on mass and put the hedge funds on foot. the same big investors who bet gamestop shares would fall suddenly had to buy those shares to protect their portfolio and position. on wednesday the shares more than doubled in a day. the reddit traders celebrated their victory. the hedge funds licked their wounds. and suddenly everyone wanted in. >> i just know it's got to be more of a full-time job and of course it is like catching a falling knife when things start to go the wrong way.

>> just as the world was waking up to this, the trading plat formalities were forced to act. public interest was surging and as a result robinhood blocked certain trades. >> you know, we had to make a very difficult decision to protect our customers and our >> reporter: retail traders from several platforms were blocked from buying shares in gamestop and other companies that were being targeted. as gamestop's shares tumbled, the online trading community was furious. >> in the history of the stock market, don't ever hear the rich guys, the institutional firms, the hedge funds saying, hold on. we're making too much money. you better protect us in case it goes the other way. this seemed like it was just the little guy was winning and the rules changed on the fly. >> reporter: robinhood later relaxed some of the blocks. even so, where things go from now is anyone's guess. there are calls for congressional hearings. the white house and the sec say they're monitoring the

situation. and yet because this trading is at the very grassroots, the mania continues. gamestop shares are up more than 1,500% this year. a partner at one venture capital firm says it's only the beginning. >> this is a fundamental change to the market dynamics. it's not just a bunch of institutional traders. retail investors are a force to probably be understood, and in a humble way. >> reporter: none of this is a game, of course. the risks are very real, and so are the companies caught in the middle. whether it's airlines or phone companies or bricks and mortar retailers, companies must now deal with a whole different breed of investor that can be having dramatic influences on their share price. richard quest, cnn, new york. the u.s. senator elizabeth warren admits she doesn't know who's right or wrong in the

gamestop saga, so she's calling for the securities and exchange commission to make sure no group of investors is manipulating the market or preventing everyday investors from taking part in the free market. >> what's happening with gamestop is just a reminder of what's been going on on wall street now for years and years and years. it's a rigged game. they've turned this stock market not into a place where you get capital formation to support businesses, but more into a casino. and they've been doing all kinds of market manipulation, pump and dump, companies that buy back shares of their own stock so that they can inflate the stock prices. we need a market that is transparent, that's level, and that is open to individual investors. it's time for the sec to get off their duffs and do their jobs. >> the director of research at

the american economic liberties project and the author of "goliath: the 100 year war between monopoly, power, and democracy" joins us. so much noise from wall street about what happened. was this just the case of ordinary folks playing the same rules as the hedge fund titans inst ins instead of insider trading, it was outsider trading. >> it's not clear who was on the message board. we don't know who's seeding information. what we do know is there's a lot of bets going on both ways with a lot of borrowed money. it's fun to watch, but it basically reflects a disillusionment that most people have with wall street, which is why people want to think it's the little guy kind of rigging the market against the cheaters who are trying to push these stocks down. >> in some ways, does this mean that the game has changed in

some ways? the big boys, the suits, are they worried? >> i don't think so. i this this reflects a basic corruption of our society and a corruption of our financial markets. it's exposing that the markets are rigged. it's not -- but this isn't -- i don't think this is some sort of revolution in which the suits are getting, you know, are getting pushed out. i mean saying everybody should have the right to cheat on equal terms isn't actually going to establish fair markets for everyone. >> yeah, yeah. bernie sanders, i think, tweeted something like, you know, the rules on wall street are, you know, that it's basically it's corrupt. i guess one of the real questions is why are the hedge funds allowed to short the way they did with gamestop? why isn't that -- i was going to say irresponsible but illegal? >> well, you have a broader problem, which is you have a bunch of funds who borrow a ton of money, and then they bet on stocks one way or the other.

and then they talk those stocks up, or they talk those stocks down, and they do it on channels like cnbc. they do it through the newspaper. they also do it on message boards. it's what's called pump and dump operations, and it should be illegal. it is, in fact, illegal. and the securities and exchange commission should be stepping in and doing their job. and a lot of the problem we're seeing is the last 15 years, ever since the financial crisis but going through puerto rican bonds, there have been no cops there. there's no one on the beat. so the laws don't seem to apply to the powerful. >> it was interesting how the system, you know, robinhood app and others sort of circled the wagons, if you like, around the hedge funds, helped protect them from these so-called ordinary investors. you got to wonder why that is okay. and to your point, senator elizabeth warren is calling for an sec investigation. should there be one? >> absolutely. i mean we need a congressional investigation as well. what we need to understand is

what is happening in our markets because i think what's important here is to recognize that gamestop is simply one more incident that's taken place over the last 15 years that reflects systemic corruption. and i think that's why people are cheering for the people that are trying to rig the stock to go up. it is still market rigging, right? what robinhood is doing is enabling. the reason people are excited about it is it seems to be saying this is some way to actually deal with the cheaters, by kind of outcheating them. but that's not actually the way to address the situation because in the end, cheaters are going to win. what you have to do is you have to drain the poison from wall street. you have to start to apply the rule of law there and start to put some people in jail for cheating, which we haven't been doing for the last 15 to 20 years. >> great point. well made. thanks so much. appreciate it. >> thanks a lot. and thank you for watching

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