for those who are not aware of the situation in burma, a year ago the people of burma took to the streets. they engaged in general strikes to peacefully protest the military's overthrow of their fledgingly democracy. one woman who was part of the general strike committee, one of the main groups behind the protests, said she was participating because i have a little girl. she's one. i don't want her to grow up under a dictatorship like i did. before taking to the streets, she told her husband, take care of our baby and move on with life if i get arrested or die in this movement. and she finished by saying, we will finish this revolution on our own and not hand it over to our children. early last year the country's parliament was expected to sign off on the recent national elections in which the leading civilian party, the national league for democracy and its head had won more than 80% of the seats that were available. now, the burmese military was never under civilian control and it wasn't happy with these overwhelming results, these results for the national league for democracy. they had

in burma, aung san suu kyi has been sentenced to another four years in prison after a closed military court found her guilty of possessing walkie-talkies and violating coronavirus measures, in what rights groups say are more trumped up charges. suu kyi was overthrown alongside burma's civilian leadership in last february's deadly military coup. in related news, in neighboring bangladesh, a massive blaze at a rohingya refugee camp has razed the homes of over 5000 people in cox's bazar. destructive fires are not uncommon in the camp, which is home to some 850,000 rohingya muslims, many of whom fled burma following 2017's genocidal campaign. in nigeria, some 200 people were killed in the northwestern state of zamfara last week following a series of reprisal attacks by armed bandits whose hideouts were targeted by military airstrikes. armed gunmen stormed over a dozen villages in the region, shooting at residents, looting and burning their homes. an estimated 10,000 people were displaced, while others are still missing. an australian judge has reinstated serbian tennis star novak djokovic

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so burma, how can all this play out for the country and the region as a whole? well, it's a region on tenterhooks now, isn't it? not only do we have this insurgency going on in various countries, including booking, also would also enabling molly. and then we also have the history of recent cruise one failed to attempt india to. and molly, one successful coo and get a military contest in power in both quickly and guinea obama go in my lease, or there is quite a bit of nervousness about good work enough. also, perhaps the next and given the bullets i'll situation in the country and this big street protests and the fact that the soldiers are unhappy with the way they have been sent away to drink this problem of the hardest to search and see that is not unlikely scenario, let's say ok journalist from post to nurse. thank you. now military aid is arrive in m t m from the u. s. poland britain and other democracies as the green phases, the threat of possible new innovation by russia. one country so far, refusing to healthy green is germany, and it's coming on the press

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okay, we'll leave that debbie start up there in bangkok without see on burma. thank you very much. still to come here on the news for you. oh no one to place a dagger for throat of democracy in what was a searing speech that we carried yesterday. the u. s. president has torn and donald trump philosophy is capitol hill attack foot prices have risen dramatically across the world and it may lead to people in poor countries going hungry 5 ah, 4 make magic nights ago. this is me. nb coming out later on your news. ah. hello, the weather's looking rather more mobile now across a good pass off here, benz of cloud and rain sweeping in from the northwest into central parts. we have got a large area of high pressure that's keeping things a little settled here, but it will weaken as we go through the next hour. so more wet and windy weather also swelling away in the mediterranean. so some more heavy rain coming, his southern part of italy, grassy, making his way across into a good pass. his gray says that wet weather, that milder air, pushing into our western passa, ahead of that temperatures

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. >> reporter: on the river that creates the border between thailand and myanmar, also known as burma, a nightly ritual plays out. monks and local volunteers on the thailand side, watched by the thai army, deliver food, water and medicine to the river bank. it is then fetched by the displaced people who are sheltering on the myanmar side of the border. their villages inside myanmar were attacked by their own government in mid-december. thousands are now uprooted. it is just the latest development in a year of turmoil and violence for myanmar following a coup by its military that has now become a civil war between the junta and its citizens taking up arms. to show us the humanitarian crisis firsthand, volunteers took us to the border. >> the fighting started in the lay kay kaw area. >> reporter: 15th of december. >> 15th december, yeah. and then, after a few days, the military used airstrikes. so, they burned all the villages around this area, so they had to flee. and the battle won't stop 'till today. >> reporter: i think we are hearing some gunshots. it's still really close, what's g

tony chang, i was there where there is that hot, his found revealed tentative ass in network on burma. she says, sue cheese incarceration will continue to motivate pro democracy activists to rise up against military. there's been a huge amount of domestic outreach, although most people did expect that to cheat will be sentenced. will be subjected to the jail sentences. but i think what was shocking was that the hunter controlled court actually impose the sanction valley 48 hours after controversial visit. this is made. who and then the chair and itself a laughingstock. we've seen over this whole weekend, and probably all of this week is the continuing continuing protest, and what people are doing, the sites banging pots and pans for which they've been arrested, is also what we call slash marks, and lightnings. what we call lightning strikes, where people all over the country have actually gone out on the streets to wave bennett and some faces which were being bombed, people actually having what they call in the strike, where they actually held up and post the cell fees of them so hold

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her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend.. but she kept this small secret diary. i took my little diary and my little pencil, and you canjust about see it, tiny little writing. "slept on stretcher," oh, yes, " balanced on two kitchen chairs. "a rotten night. " i should think so. for somebody of 27, 28 to be able to do that in those days — and even in these days — was enormously unusual. you know, she was the forerunner really of, you know, women, if you want to go and do something, go and do it, basically! post—war, the dresses and the pictures capture dame vera with some of the biggest names in entertainment. but there are also personal items — the travel iron and the make—up box, the tools of the trade that made glamour possible. the exhibition runs until easter. it's an intimate look at a woman who lived life to the full, and whose voice meant so much to so many, bringing hope and light to the darkest of hours. john maguire, bbc news, ditching in east sussex. a 16th century villa in rome is up for auction this lunchtime, a

also ahead: burma's ousted leader aung san suu kyi is jailed for another four years as the military triesrengthen its grip following last year's coup. new york is in shock after 19 people — including nine children — are killed in an apartment block fire in the bronx. that's all coming up here on impact. welcome to the programme. novak djokovic has won his court battle to stay in australia and defend his grand slam title, but ministers have threatened that they might exercise powers to cancel his visa anyway. we are exepcting his family to give a press conference from belgrade shortly, with the world number one joining via video link. a few hours ago, a judge in melbourne ruled that the men's number one must be released immediately from immigration detention. djokovic arrived at the airport last week to defend his australian open title, which begins next monday. he says he was initally granted an exemption from covid vaccination rules after recovering from the virus last month. djokovic�*s lawyers argued that cancellation was unreasonable — the government conceded this, and judge anthony k

. >> burma, thailand, malaysia, the philippines, the kamera rouge. in latin america, the shining path guerrilla movement. >> even a nuclear apocalypse of the acceptable to mau in his great struggle. if worst came to worst, and half of mankind died, he said, imperialism would be a race to the ground and the whole world would become socialist. mau's successor, jinping, had a different approach. his main goal was to make his pov poverty-stricken country rich. so he opened his borders to trade and sought equal co existence with the west. >> dunjau ping came up with a strategy. just nudge your way into the economy. >> china funded the u.n. and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turnaround from the days of mau. >> the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. >> but when xi jinping took power in 1912 -- >> what can tchina expect from i jinping? >> the time for biding time was over. xi declared a great rejuvenation for china, a return to its historic place as an undisputed world power. china once called itself the land between heaven a

. >> burma, thailand, malaysia, the philippines, the kaka mere ruth in cambodia. >> they called it the movement. >> in america the shining page movement. >> even a nuclear apocalypse was acceptable to mao in his great struggle. if worst came to worst and half of mankind died, he said, imperialism would be raised to the ground and the whole world would become socialists. mao's successor xiaoping had a popular approach. his main goal was to make his poverty-stricken country rich, so he opened its borders to trade and saw peaceful coexistence with the west. >> dong xiaoping came up with a theory he called hide your strength and bide your time. just steadily invest in the chinese economy and just ease your way in to the international system. >> the first peacekeeping engineering unit. >> china funded the u.n. and provided humanitarian aid, a remarkable turnaround from the days of mao. >> the chinese communist party is about to announce a new leader. >> but when xi jinping took power in 2012 -- >> what can china and the world expect from the leadership of xi jinping? >> -- the time for hidi

have tried to buy the grain from in the food, specifically the rice card which were thailand this and burma and all three of those places had been under japanese occupation since the events since 1941 braden so you cannot get any grain from there either so what churchill did was to ask the prime minister's of australia and canada and president roosevelt to get food to india and really he did as bt as they could in the broadened hundreds of thousands of tons ultimately but not enough time and unfortunately as a result there was mass starvation. this would not of been a case if there had not been a world war going on and completely untrue and unfair is the idea that winston churchill, made the situation worse he did not do that and it's disgraceful allegations to suggest that he did. and any number of reasons that these tactics and judgments but the idea that he was a deliberately genocidal essentially a war criminal is certainly not predict. >> forward trying to guess how this builds up. >> is pretty straight forward, there are historians who hate her shelf anyway see this is a great opportu

would you then listen hard to lowball zoom, hollis mill her. mccarthy doesn't camilla with burma to lucille her to the soul, intel or sagacity. and me or the michael hallelujah, boucher, the delicate shirley. i'm surprised that a young man should feel so strongly about holding onto this tradition. when so harmful, if effigy mister end, changing men's attitudes will be central con thing we did, and they had not done invested to hospital collect detailed information on trends in female cutting mckinley. now since 2002, all antenatal patients are off, what kind of cuts have had. and if they intend to cut their daughters in, i did wish i had, they were kind of in a tongue of little listening. this is rare and to see a woman who is a i will lead due to my daughter in 2297 percent of female patient had undergone the for when he cut and most intended the same for their daughters for what about but that has changed, hears improvement into time, and the return to add, having now into one touch to which date calls sooner. but even more is getting cut. in time one is the one that they said limit the t

i'd who is the founder of the alternative asian network for burma. it works to support human rights and democracy in the m that she joins us from bangkok. hello there, debbie, thanks for being on this news. our. these latest convictions will no doubt deepen this nation wide discontent. what has the reaction been there? i think there's really a huge amount of domestic outrage, although most people did expect that on thanks who she will be sentenced or will be subjected to further jail sentences. but i think what was shocking was that the, who in duck controlled court actually posed these sanctions barely 40 hours after who since controversial visit. this is me who said the chair ikea and asked him itself a laughingstock. how can it just returning to more of the public's reaction? how can the public protest given the correct crack down? will we be seeing tactics like the banging of pots and pans to showing ango, which we've seen in the past. what we've seen over this whole weekend, and probably all of this week is the continuing continuing process. and

tony chang, how deserve to restart is a founder of the alternative assay, a network on burma. she says, su cheese incarceration will continue to motivate pro democracy activists to rise up against the military. there's been a huge amount of domestic outrage, although most people did expect that to cheat will be sentenced. will be subjected to further jail sentences. but i think what was shocking was that the who controlled court actually impose the sanctioned valley 48 hours after controversial visit. this is made who and send the chair and ask in itself a laughing stock. we've seen over this whole weekend, and probably all of this week is the continuing continuing protest. and what people are doing, the sites banging pots and pans for which they've been arrested. is also what we call slash small, lightnings. what we call lightning strikes, where people all over the country has actually gone out on the streets to wave bennett. and some places which were being bombed, people actually having what they call in the strike, where they actually held the track and post the cell fees

though we have seen democracies wither, and militaries steal power away from civilians in guinea, in burma, and most recently in sudan progressive reform movements all around the world are working every day to show that democracy delivers. in zambia, moldova, and nearby in the dominican republic, for example, we have seen landslide victories for elected leaders who campaigned on strengthening democracy, embracing the rule of law and fighting corruption. what we and other democracies need to do is show up -- show up and help leaders show tangible benefits as they move towards freedom, more respect for human rights, and more accountability for democratic institutions. established democracies also need to help set global rules-of-the-road for surveillance technologies and digital disinformation as autocrats grow savvier in their attempts to control and manipulate people. we need to help support a free-and-fair global press to hold leaders to account. and we need to tackle, with all the seriousness it demands, the scourge of global corruption. corruption is basically development in reverse. it

her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend.ting. "slept on stretcher," oh, yes, " balanced on two kitchen chairs. "a rotten night. " i should think so. for somebody of 27, 28 to be able to do that in those days — and even in these days — was enormously unusual. you know, she was the forerunner really of, you know, women, if you want to go and do something, go and do it, basically! post—war, the dresses and the pictures capture dame vera with some of the biggest names in entertainment. but there are also personal items — the travel iron and the make—up box, the tools of the trade that made glamour possible. the exhibition runs until easter. it's an intimate look at a woman who lived life to the full, and whose voice meant so much to so many, bringing hope and light to the darkest of hours. john maguire, bbc news, ditching in east sussex. that takes us to look at the weather prospects. it was a bit of a chilly one with some frost and fog. for most places, temperatures lifted quite nicely. the temperatures will peg back into the l

and she was made a member of the burma star association.our possible. the exhibition runs until easter. it's an intimate look at a woman who lived life to the full, and whose voice meant so much to so many, bringing hope and light to the darkest of hours. john maguire, bbc news, ditching in east sussex. inspirational. there is a lady who was ahead of her time. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning, i'm asad ahmad. drivers could soon pay to drive in london per mile. a charge of up to £2 a mile is being suggested by the mayor of london's office, in an effort to meet emissions targets. a report released today — suggests the new pricing structure would replace the congestion and ultra low emission zone charges. transport for london says it will gauge public opinion first, with any new charge being implemented in two years' time. a memorial service will be held today to mark the 41st anniversary of the new cross fire — and remember the 13 young black people who lost their lives in what's still believed by many

her visit to the 14th army in burma became the stuff of legend. the forerunner really of, you know, women, if you want to go and do something, go and do it, basically! post—war, the dresses and the pictures capture dame vera with some of the biggest names in entertainment. but there are also personal items — the travel iron and the make—up box, the tools of the trade that made glamour possible. the exhibition runs until easter. it�*s an intimate look at a woman who lived life to the full, and whose voice meant so much to so many, bringing hope and light to the darkest of hours. john maguire, bbc news, ditching in east sussex. now it�*s time for a look at the weather with chris. i'll i�*ll be back with the papers at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening. now it�*s time for a look at the weather with chris. hello again. most of us have had a fine and dry day. the sunrise was earlier this morning was absolutely spectacular. this was one of the weather watcher pictures showing a layer of outer cumulus being lit up by the rising sun. it was a decent day acr

also ahead: burma's ousted leader aung san suu kyi is jailed for another four years as the military tries