aung san suu kyi appears in court but her words go unreported. the president could face detention for the rest of her life. u.n. says the case brought by the military junta is politically motivated. this is live from paris. thank you for being with us. the leader of the military coup in sudan said he acted to avoid a civil war breaking out. the general clarified the situation facing the premise or. he says he's being held under house arrest for his own safety. protests continued against the military coup. the events that have unfolded in sudan have been condemned. investors from 12 countries have taken a stand against the coup d'etat, including the ambassador here in paris. we hope to speak to the foreign minister whose position has been taken over by that coup. first, this report from khartoum. reporter: in april, 2019, h stopped following orders and began calling the shots. e man who had been a reliable general was telling him to bring his three decades in power to an end. after the overthrow, he was sworn in as the interim leader and tasked wi

rohingya, allegations of genocide and sitting no further away from me and you are today with aung san suu kyire thinking, "how can you possibly defend this now?" this is a nobel peace prize winner ofjust a few years ago and now, she's standing up in court defending, effectively, mass killing. you are a highly educated man and you spent years, decades on this very question of how and why people who appear to be ordinary like you and me can become killers, mass murderers. have you found an answer? i asked myself very often, "could i do that?" and have to put my hand my heart say, "i hope not," but who knows? under circumstance, there is a common theme that runs through the historical work that i've done on nuremberg, but then the most recent cases of yugoslavia, rwanda, and the common theme is this, i don't know whether to answer your question. you're able to do this to human beings when you treat them as the other. when they are not treated as human being like you, the perpetrator — you — consider yourself to be — that's always a theme and the threat that runs through. so the act of othering —

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the dissent followed aung san suu kyi being ousted from power by the coup.g themselves in. police and soldiers sweeping through to get people off the streets. here, the protest organises used fire extinguishers to obscure the view. to try and avoid being shot. because that is what the military government is prepared to do to reassert its control. the security forces are also arresting large numbers of people. in this neighbourhood, it is seen arresting every resident they could. if there is a strategy in this shocking scene, it is perhaps to crash what is now a nationwide rebellion with brute force in the hope that the rest of the world will in time accept the reality of military rule once more and me and mark. ? myanmar. this release of these prisoners follows myanmar�*s military leader being excluded from a summit of the association of south east asian nations, asean. it meets annually — this is a picture from 2018. and has 10 members in the region. in a statement on myanmar�*s exclusion this time, our country is governed in line with the constitution. the

there's no longer a fledgeling democracy because the military conducted a military coup and put aung san suu kyinder arrest. when we fail to call out genocide in myanmar, it undermines the legitimacy of the strength of our position on genocide elsewhere, including in shin dong province. i'm calling for consistency in calling out horrific human practices when they occur. >> thank you very much. senator cruz. >> thank you, mr. chairman. ambassador burns, welcome. i've long believed china poses the single greatest geopolitical threat for the united states for the next century. there are many domains on which we're standing up to china. one of the most important concerns taiwan. and i worry that the threat to our taiwan ease allies is becoming acute. chinese filled ships with dozens of military tanks and practiced in preparation for, quote, future battlefields. earlier in the month, 149 chinese aircraft made incursions into taiwan's air defense zone over the span of just four days. u.s. commanders have publicly assessed that an invasion of taiwan is, quote, much closer to us than most think. meanwhi