southeast asian envoy to visit until the country is stable and ask an envoy was supposed to travel to the country as part of a 5 point consensus agreed between leaders of the association of southeast asian nations last month plans louis has more. the response by myanmar's military giunta in not allowing an ozzie an envoy to visit the country until the security and stability in a way shows just how impervious myanmar military rulers are to international pressure senior general mina lang had attended a special meeting by the association of southeast asian nations in jakarta last month but friday's announcement in a way shows myanmar military rulers will continue to do as they please and many in the international community including a group of more than 200 global organizations are urging a tougher stance earlier this week they host the un security council to impose an arms embargo on myanmar meanwhile anti coupe protests continue to take place across the country and clashes in ethnic army controlled areas are intensifying the latest reports we're hearing is that ethnic corrent fighters burned down a military outpost on friday morning now and this could lead to retaliate 3 strikes by the myanmar m

people and to stroll that democracy but now me and mas neighbors and members of the association of southeast asian nations don't appear to be standing up to the military in fact the head of the giunta gentlemen online attended assy end summit in jakarta on the 24th of april by james bays at the united nations in need. it was here in the u.n. general assembly got me on mars ambassador to the united nations. contrary to many people's expectations stood against the military to enter the army leaders try to fire the ambassador but the un still recognizes him many countries welcomed his brave statement including the u.s. let me be clear from the outset the united states continues to strongly condemn the military coup in miramar and we condemn the security forces brutal killing of unarmed people others like china have refused to condemn the military coup good you show proof. human don't. go from. here you wouldn't. be. the shoes you should keep. as the conflict continues to escalate will it turn into a civil war will the international community reach a consensus or remain polarized myanmar's ambassador to the u

association of southeast asian nations and india have been invited to the meeting for the first time.nal security analyst and correspondent for the "new york times." lovely to see you again. just wanted to ask you, mr. blinken arrived in london, no doubt the american message will be multilateralism is back. but is it that easy? >> certainly nort. and you've seen that already. first 100 days, i think it was incumbent on the administration to say we're listening to you, we want to hear your ideas. we're supporting nato, so forth. now they're into harder issues of how you actually manage some of these relationships. as you've seen even in the first 100 days, there are significant differences. united states is steadfastly against the gas pipeline running out of russia, route around ukraine. germans for example are still pushing for that. we have seen a reluctance in europe to take a hard line on china. in part because of the trade implications. so we're back -- good news is we're back to the more normal differences than you would expect to see between the united states and its european al

the association of southeast asian nations. r presence and representation and relevance in a time when china is the very big issue, it really speaks to the secretary of state taking the opportunity to be in the uk for the g7 and rallying other nations around. the british foreign secretary. this is what he had to say about china and russia as well. >> we want a constructive relationship with china whether it is intellectual property theft or standing up for human rights we are going to be clear on our values and russia as well. we have seen with the imprisonment of navalny, we want to be absolutely firm. >> one of the state department officials said they were very excited to come. it is sort of a test for the uk and others to see how they can run the main g7 leader summit in a month's time. there will be testing and screening and screens between some of the places where people meet. the delegation sizes are being kept to a minimum. in the era of covid but hoping to get back to work as normal. >> we will see how all of it goes. ma

and the chair of the asean nations at the moment as well. that's the association of southeast asian nations. this is important when you look at those countries that are coming because so many of them are in that sort of indo-pacific region around china. that's important for the united states, important for that narrative of the united states working with its allies, with democratic partners who support the global world order, the rules-based world order as it is today, respecting human rights, not engaging in intellectual property theft, all these allegations that are leveled at china. so this morning secretary blinken meeting with the japanese foreign minister, south korean foreign minister, brunei's foreign minister as well, before meeting with the british secretary of state for foreign affairs, dominic raab this afternoon. that meeting, again, china on the agenda, and dominic raab had words to say about that just this weekend. >> we want a constructive relationship with china, but on things whether it's intellectual property theft or standing up for human rights in hong kong and

g-7 is not just the g-7 nations, there are special invitees along, australia, india, south korea, you also have invited here the current chair of association of southeast asianis a g-7 that has a big indo-pacific add on and the reason for that add of all the diplomats here, we have the secretary of state blinken who met with the japanese foreign minister and meets with the fortune minister from other areas as well. the heavy pfocus at the g-7 wit usuals about covid, climate change and a drive to enable women around the world, and a push on get education to 40 million more girls around the world. you understand it's all about china and finding commonality on preventing human rights violations and on the international rules based order that things we have heard the secretary of state talking about there. what am i looking for? what is the language that defines how it's going to happen? what do the nations sign up for? there's been a lot of diplomatic work on it this year. let's see concrete wording and concrete results. >> yep, we will certainly have a lot on the agenda. thank you so much, appreciate it. we will be are right back. with the new freestyle libre

trying to continue with patient negotiations use their influence to support that's the association of southeast asian nations that's been leading the reconciliation efforts in me and mar so far all the statements from the security council have been in support of these regional efforts and what one diplomat told us is a divided security council it will help no one that's reference i think to the fact that china has said very openly that it does not support sanctions it says that should always be a last resort the ambassador said as much just a couple days ago here at the united nations and the concern is that a resolution would not be able to advance because of that opposition but what we're hearing from these groups is that the situation is now dire enough that it needs to be more pressure put on china and at least hold an open meeting on the situation to do anything else they say is the diplomatic equivalent of shrugging your shoulders and just walking away christine salumi live at the u.n. in new york but he thanks christine. emmanuel mccall has become the 1st french president in more than 2 decades to com

foreign minister of brunei will be there because they are currently in charge of the association of southeast asian nationsagainst the threat from authoritarian nations? that societies against the threat from authoritarian nations?— authoritarian nations? that was james landale _ authoritarian nations? that was james landale reporting. - authoritarian nations? that was james landale reporting. the . james landale reporting. the headlines on bbc news... at least 23 people have been killed and dozens injured in mexico city after a railway bridge — carrying a metro train — collapsed onto a busy road. foreign ministers from the g7 group of industrialised nations are meeting in london for their first face—to—face talks for more than two years. the uk prime minister announces new trade and investment deals with india worth £1 billion. plans to allow non—essential travel to europe will be discussed during a meeting of eu leaders later. proposals include allowing entry to those who have received both doses of a covid vaccine, with a clause to apply an "emergency brake", giving member states the option to limit tra

greenhouse emissions through an online summit hosted from the white house but leaders of the southeast asian nations association and have met face to face to discuss myanmar's crisis the talks held and strict social distancing and health measures the un general assembly annual meeting is one of the main events of the global diplomatic calendar but this year it was held virtually for the 1st time the podium was empty and there was no hustling and bustling of diplomats so there were no physical gas or cord handshakes or unexpected laughter by delegates as was the case in reaction to remarks from former u.s. president donald trump in 2018. let's bring in our guests in oxford tom fletcher has been simple of how to 1st college at oxford university on foreign policy advisor to 3 u.k. prime ministers in brussels there is her fall and she is the director of the center for russia europe asia studies from pretoria use of armani morocco's ambassador to south africa welcome to the program tom we're all trying to adapt to the new realities following the spread of covert 9000 how has it affected global diplomacy . well i mea