bill robinson is a deputy director of asia with human rights watch. he says, man, most minute tree has been stretched to send across the country and is forced to fight on multiple fronts as well. this is a major blow them in our military hotel. this is the largest most important of the 6 additional type burma border crossings. give you an idea of the perspective between april 20, 2023 and march 2024 over a 1000000000 us dollars. and bilateral trade was conducted through this check point during peace time. uh that figure was twice as high. so, i mean, it's quite clear that this is a major, major blow to them. yeah. more military. and with the fall of that town and maya, why the much of a ethnic run state is now liberated from any sort of control by them in our military going to. so it is a very big deal. this is something that is surprising and how fast it fell. and. 1 it shows a real debilitation of the military's forces, particularly in the rural areas in the, in the periphery of the country. while there is very clearly a renewed purpose amongst the

robinson from bbc verify. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. georgia's parliament has approved the first stage of a billd sparked mass protests. western allies have repeatedly urged the governing georgian dream party to drop the bill. overnight police used tear gas to break up gatherings in the capital tblisi against the plans. these images were filmed late on tuesday near the parliament building — reports say several arrests were made. several local media outlets said police had attacked theirjournalists. the new law would require any independent ngo or media organisation which gets more than 20 percent of funding from abroad, to register as an "organisation pursuing the interests of a foreign power." critics says it mirrors a russian law on "foreign agents" — which they say has been used to silence media outlets critical of the kremlin. georgia's president has been speaking to the bbc. well, it's a major concern because it is exactly a copy of putin's law that was adopted in 2012 and then gradually increased and developed. it's a law against the ngos activities. media activity, and it's a law against

robinson nash. i am a neighbor and a friend, and i have known both men for 25 years. i do object to tony's hall attack on bill o'keefe. you could not find a more upstanding, generous, kind person and truthful. i object to his character being damaged by this. he deserves so much more. i am in favor of the variance, and i thank you for your time. oh, it's a purse, not a music box. good afternoon, commissioner. i'm in, i support the variance, and i'm here to show you a something that i came to see this, project for the first time in 2013. and and mr. o'keefe asked me to show, mr. hall, the proposed height for the new fence that he wanted to do. and. sorry about that. yes. can we go to the overhead, please? this is. in 2013, and it shows the stick that are to show the. the stick are showing the height of the new fence, the proposed new fence. and mr. hall agreed with the height at the time, and it was going to provide more privacy to his stop windows and help to stop the noise as well. he agreed with all that, and then later on, you had mr. o'keefe cut the fence twice, which he did in good neighborly fashion. but