anchor: scott idler's monitoring the protests from bangkok in neighboring thailand. another day beginning with the funeral for a dead protester, but that didn't stop them from coming out. the second largest city, mandalay, a protest there turned deadly. in the largest city, yang gone, police forces and military throughout townships are using stepped-up tactics we have seen this past week that really so i crackdown on the protesters. in some cases, they are firing tear gas canisters into people's homes, as international pressure is stepped up. the u.s. is increasing pressure through economic and political means. regional neighbor singapore, the foreign minister saying it was a national shame the junta is using weapons on its own citizens. this came as youtube announced it is taking five channels connected to the military in myanmar off the air because they say they have been spreading misinformation through their channels. anchor: soldiers are using tiktok to issue death threats protesters. a digital rights group found more than 800 such posts over the past month. som

i'm scott idler on the tide myanmar border high authorities are saying they are preparing for the possibility of a flow of refugees while on the other side and ethnic army saying they are sheltering hundreds fled the violence. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways the weather slushy quiet across central parts of europe at the moment family outs of sunshine just coming in here because you still have our area of high pressure and chachi scratchy going to get squeezed out of the way down to a southeast still some storms rumbling away here some wintry flour is there still affecting a good parts of turkey that was the southwest we got this little circulation just around the canary settle bring some light showers in here over the next couple of days but the wettest weather the windiest weather that is in the process is a streaming across the british isles it will bring outbreaks of rain blustery showers are rolling through as we go on through the next couple of days actually cooling off a little as well as those winds start to come in from the north westerly direction s

country there and announcing their military coup and calling for the release of their elected leaders scott idler reports. the campaign of intimidation reaches new levels in yangon hundreds of young protesters were trapped after they were surrounded by police and myanmar's military in the city's ascent chowed district threatening door to door searches they fired guns and use stun grenades as they patrolled warning that anyone hiding protesters would also be punished but. it lasted all night the protesters were finally able to leave in the early morning hours after the security forces pulled out in a rare and risky nighttime gathering protesters in yangon broke curfew went to the streets calling for the release of the others there were reports at least 2 dozen were arrested overnight unfazed by the heavy hand of the security forces across the country protesters came out and faced the continued crackdown just a few hours after the trapped protestors in yangon were finally able to leave. since the february 1st coup an advocacy group estimates 1800 people have been detained several lawyers have stati

i'm scott idler on the tide myanmar border high authorities are saying they are preparing for the possibility of a flow of refugees while on the other side in ethnic army saying they are sheltering 511 of violence. and struggling to survive we look at why unemployment in indonesia is at its worst level in more than a decade and sports news will tell you who's setting the pace ahead of the opening race of the formula one season in bahrain. we've got warmer weather at long last coming in across turkey still a fair amount of cloud here we have seen some very snowy weather recently still a little bit snow to get out of the way just pushing across the eastern side of turkey towards georgia just around the caucasus south of that stand we fine and dry temperatures here in doha to around $38.00 celsius a brisk wind system lifted just a cent to watch out for over the next couple of days with that wind coming in from a northwesterly direction the small way and temperatures picked back to around 32 degrees on sunday further north there we go clear skies coming back in and around the black sea anchor at

and more in february including asylum seekers scot idlers following both of these developments is joining us from bangkok in neighboring thailand scott let's start with the situation inside myanmar or what's been happening over nights. well overnight daddy now as you mentioned there was a situation where there was a park the neighborhood of yangon that was pretty much sealed off by the security forces that's because they were trying to get to a couple of 100 protesters young protesters who had been out on the streets most of the day on monday they wanted to go in and arrest them was a bit of a standoff they had patrols going through essentially it happened almost all the way overnight early morning hours they finally fell back the security forces and the protesters were able to leave but it was a very concerning situation that so we had the international involvement because it was completely restricting freedom of access freedom of movement so that's why there was a lot of attention paid to and that's why some of the other protesters came to the streets to call for their release if you will because the they were sealed in this this n