whispering in journalist dave greene about here he's covered myanmar extensively and joins us now from kuala lumpur the military the protesters and the u.n. are all turning up the heat in myanmar how do you read the situation there now it's interesting the military shows no signs of backing down the demonstrators show no signs of backing down u.n. clearly supporting the demonstrators here most of all of us here's what stands out the most to me and what you see on the ground. it's this government work stoppage so many government employees receive using to work for the us if this continues to pick up momentum and grow and more once government employees reach used to work within the military is going to have a tough time keeping the government running and that happens is key sectors will senior gentleman on long and the head of that he's going to find himself back into a corner how does he respond then that's the key potential scenario we have to keep an eye on in the days and weeks ahead ok the military still has the upper hand for now though what can you tell us about the military's dep

father general aung saw and the independence hero who was assassinated when she was a girl that's dave green a bomb in kuala lumpur thanks much dave sure thing. germany has summoned the russian ambassador over the kremlin's expulsion of swedish polish and german diplomats russia accuses them of participating in a legal protest against the jailing of opposition figures alexina vonnie the kremlin made the announcement while the european union's top diplomat josep burrell was in moscow he described the blocks chuy's with russia as being under severe strain. it was supposed to be a day to mend strained ties between the european union and russia but when 3 diplomats from sweden poland and germany were expelled from russia friday evening the message was clear and so was the response. and we consider these expulsions unjustified and we believe this to be yet another expression of what we're seeing in russia it is far from the realms of the rule of law a moment in who pulled off this. russia alleges the diplomats had participated a print of ali rallies the linen sisterhood that staying informed abou

and we've got dave green about on the line now he's a journalist who spent many years reporting from myanmar and he joins us now from kuala lumpur so the coup has drawn condemnation from many countries the u.s. is threatening sanctions is that likely to have any effect on the coup leaders. well it seems we've lost our line to kuala lumpur perhaps we can get back meanwhile let's talk a little faith u.s. sanctions ok go ahead sorry so these these job these these these sanctions they get them on the bottom line but are unlikely to have any impact on the decisions of the general makes because or any of the generals might because they've been through this for decades in the past in the military owns up and had very little impact the real concern would be if there are broad based economic sanctions that have huge impact on the overall and comedy of myanmar which could take these people most of them live in absolute poverty and make things even worse for them so that's the calculation as to be made by the west would they really want to risk have that happening the key player here and a key

all i'm writing aims and will want to consider missions that will move us towards and we've got dave green about on the line now he's a journalist who spent many years reporting from myanmar and he joins us now from kuala lumpur so dave the coup what has drawn condemnation from many countries the us is threatening sanctions is that likely to have any effect on the coup leaders receive just these these sanctions they get and i'm about why most are unlikely to have any impact on the decision of the general makes because are any of the generals make because they've been through this for decades in the back of the military and have very little impact or real concern would be if there are broad based economic sanctions that have huge impact on the overall 6 economy of myanmar which could take these people most of them live in absolute poverty and make things even worse for them to back the calculation have to be made by the work would they really want to risk have that happening the key player in a key question is how does china respond because during the days of the dictatorship of. china was

and we are joined now by dave greene a bomb is a journalist who has been covering the anwar for many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur dave we understand that the junta has now put off facebook where many people were expressing opposition to the coup organizing civil disobedience therefore what impact is this likely to have on efforts to resist. it's certainly a blow because facebook is king of social media in myanmar a lot of people the only thing they know when it comes to social media the only thing they know when it comes to the web in fact just last year during the campaign season a lot of a political campaign because of course in 1000 happened on facebook now a lot of people say well you know you can give virtual private networks weekends to try to get around the block but the quality of the pm the cost of that is beyond the means of a lot of people and medium are. ok so so then what happens next i mean are there other steps that the country is also taking that the security forces are taking to counter opposition it will 1st of obviously people will find other means of my

journalist dave greene bomb has reported extensively from me and maher and he joins us for more on the story hi dave how is this news of the protesters death going down among the activists. up to a to a kind she's become a symbolic figure for the demonstrators ever since dr said that she was struck in the head by a live round she turned 20 while she was in the hospital and i spoke to people who were on the ground i mean i got on today demonstrators and they tell me her death is becoming a rallying cry for them that it is just adding more fuel to the protest movement which already has so much momentum as you see by the massive numbers of people out on the streets and they say her death is just giving them more energy to keep going so does that mean we're going to see these protests escalate even further. it's all signs pointed out the very just going to keep going on and on with this and it's and it's not only you know like the demonstrators on the streets it's the government work stoppage that we see in a lot of people in the private sector that are better not working off so i mean the

and bring in dave green about him he's a journalist who spent many years reporting from the n.r.a. he joins us on the line now from kuala lumpur hi dave at the coo is consummated around the world the u.s. is even threatening sanctions is that likely to have any effect on the army commanders. it's likely not going to have significant impact keep in mind that for decades when myanmar was under a military rule there were crippling economic sanctions on the country which did have an enormous impact on the general population and the country went from one of the richest to one of the poorest with so many people living in the extreme poverty but the military generals and their cronies in the business unit the business elite still live very well so that's not likely to have a big impact they've been through this before now there could be targeted economic sanctions where you just target specific individuals pacific general but that happened before the senior gentleman on long as as had as a targeted sanctions they clearly have been cowed made these calculations before going through with thi

and journalist dave green a bomb has been covering me on maher for several years he told us why many believe the economic sanctions are unlikely to have much impact. well if the past is any indication of what could happen in the future well then economic sanctions are only likely to have a significant impact on any decisions that the generals make a case in point this country during the military dictatorship that ruled the country until about 10 years ago there were crippling economic sanctions from the west and most of the population it lived in absolute poverty because of it but the generals and their cronies in the business elite were still rich now you could have targeted economic sanctions where you'd just pinpoint the economic interest of a few generals or many generals but some of them already facing those type of targeted sanctions including the commander in chief of the military senior general not on one he's already facing targeted sanctions and he still went forward the coup on monday so again any economic sanctions are likely to have little impact of the generals make the

journalist dave green obama is following developments in and mom from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur and he joins me now there's been a lot of attention surrounding the the 2 people killed in mandalay yesterday and the live ammunition that was fired on demonstrators but we understand that a man was also killed overnight and yang gong can you give us some more details about that so they're going these neighborhood watch groups forming communities around the country and this is a response to the nighttime raids and arrests the security forces have been doing it's also a response to concerns over the 10s of thousands of prisoners that the military government released recently concerns that perhaps some of them would be used to rough up demonstrators at the nighttime in their neighborhoods so these neighborhood watches have been going around and according to local media our last night in one of the underlying outlying neighborhoods of one of these did watch which came across to police vehicles at least one officer got out and see the fire what was shot in the air the neighborhood watch g

spring in journalist dave green of here he's covered me on more extensively and joins us now from kuala lumpur good to see you again dave tell us house the situation in myanmar right now how volatile is it. yeah i communicated with some people on the ground this morning and it's clearly things are very tense there as you said armored vehicles on the streets soldiers patrolling in fatigues he's got police you've got water cannons visible people are certainly on edge now there are reports that there are fewer demonstrators on the streets in the ngata now compared to previous days but it's early afternoon there are still see those crowds take up one thing that has also created a lot of tension are these nighttime raids and arrests that are going on the military has given itself sweeping powers they can detain people without a court order they can search property without a court order now people have created these sort of neighborhood watch groups to try to keep an eye out for the police to alert one another to try to protect one another but they tell me this is leading to just a lot of sle

perhaps they can free me and maher from the military that refuses to relinquish power journalist dave green obama is following developments in and mom from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur and he joins me now there's been a lot of attention surrounding the the 2 people killed in mandalay yesterday in the live ammunition that was fired on demonstrators but we understand that a man was also killed overnight and yang gong can you give us some more details about that so they're going these neighborhood watch groups forming communities around the country and this is a response to the nighttime raids and arrests the security forces have been doing it's also a response to concerns over the 10s of thousands of prisoners at the military government released recently concerns that perhaps some of them would be used to rough up demonstrators at the one time in their neighborhoods so these neighborhood watches have been going around and according to local media the m.r. last night one of the underlying outlying neighborhoods of one of these did watch groups came across to police vehicles at least one off

journalist dave greene a bomb is following developments in may in mar capital kuala lumpur and he joins us now for the latest hello to you dave so more protests today people seem undeterred by yesterday's seydel clashes with the riot police what are you hearing on the ground in the amman. yeah i mean we're already seeing video thousands of demonstrators out in the streets and yet god today out in the streets of mandalay today again these deaths happened yesterday these these this fatal incident is just becoming a rallying cry for demonstrators i've spoken to people in the biggest city since yesterday's fatal incident and they tell me that this is they are just rallying behind these people they see them as absolute martyrs it is just adding more fuel to the protest movement they have no intention of backing down the police the people just sound source and it's not just the mentally and don we talk a lot about them because they're the 2 biggest cities as well as in a bit of the capital but there are people demonstrating in cities towns and small villages across the country now much of the

journalist dave greene bomb has reported extensively from me and maher and he joins us for more on the story hi dave how is this news of the protesters death going down among the activists. 22 a kind she's become a symbolic figure for the demonstrators ever since doctors said that she was struck in the head by a live round she turned 20 while she was in the hospital and i spoke to people who were on the ground i mean i got on to day demonstrators and they tell me her death is becoming a rallying cry for them that it is just adding more fuel to the protest movement which already has so much momentum as you see by the massive numbers of people out on the streets and they say her death is just giving them more energy to keep going so does that mean we're going to see these protests escalate even further. it's all signs pointed out that they're just going to keep going on and on with this and it's and it's not only you know like the demonstrators on the streets it's the government work stoppage that we see in a lot of people in the private sector that are better not working off so i mean t

journalist dave greene a bomb is following developments in the in march from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur and he joins us now for the latest hello to you dave so more protests today people seem undeterred by yesterday's fatal clashes with the riot police what are you hearing on the ground in the line. yeah i mean we're already seeing video thousands of demonstrators out in the streets today out in the streets and the late again these deaths this happened yesterday these these this fatal incident it is just becoming a rallying cry for there was jitters i've spoken to people in the biggest city since yesterday's fatal incident and they tell me that this is they are just rallying behind these people they see them as absolute martyrs it is just adding more fuel to the protest movement they have no intention of backing down the police the people just sound source and it's not just the mentally and we talk a lot about them because they're the 2 biggest cities as well as naked of the capital but there are people demonstrating in cities towns and small villages across the country now much

and we are joined now by dave greene obama's journalist who has been covering me on maher for many years he joins us now from kuala lumpur dave we understand that the junta has now blocked facebook where many people were expressing opposition to the coup organizing civil disobedience therefore what impact is this likely to have on efforts to resist. certainly a blow because facebook is king of social media in myanmar a lot of people the only thing that you know want to come to social media the only thing they know when it comes to the web in fact just last year during the campaign season a lot of political campaigning because a couple 19 happened on facebook now a lot of people say well you know you can get virtual private network speak against it try to get around the block but a quality pm the cost of that is beyond the means of a lot of people in myanmar. ok so so then what happens next i mean are there other steps that the country is also taking that the security forces are taking to counter opposition. it will 1st of obviously people will find other means of my will is could slow th

dave thank you very much as always that was journalist david greene about in kuala lumpur well in just a few hours from now a special flights carrying around half a 1000000 doses of china's sign of farm coronas virus vaccine will arrive in hungary hungary will be the 1st european union country to administer both the chinese and russia's sputnik vbac scene the government has granted emergency approvals through the vaccines bypassing approval from medical regulators after criticizing the pace of the e.u. vaccine rollout. hungary is going it alone last friday it became the 1st country in the european union to administer russia's sputnik v. vaccine starting with a batch of $2800.00 doses on tuesday at the livery of the chinese scene a farm vaccine is expected to arrive another 1st in the e.u. this is a clear break with the e.u.'s vaccine rollout plan which officials in hungary have repeatedly criticized for being too slow. prime minister viktor orban said hungary is taking matters into its own hands. we can stop the virus without vaccines because it will always come back in new waves that'

dave thank you very much as always that was journalist david greene about in kuala lumpur. catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a group of prominent pro-democracy activists have gone on trial in hong kong they're facing charges in connection with the anti-government protests that rocked the city in 2019 they include the founder of the hong kong democrats martin lee and media tycoon jimmy line. new zealand's prime minister just into our den has accused australia of shirking its responsibilities in the case of a woman with dual citizenship detained in turkey for suspected links to islamic state militants australia has cancelled the woman citizenship australian prime minister scott morrison said he was acting in the national interest and calm during authorities incinerated nearly wanted to have tons of cocaine seized from drug cartels incineration comes as u.s. prosecutors investigate one during president on orlando one and as for accepting bribes to protect drug traffickers who shipped cocaine to the u.s. . the chinese government's cra

the radar you could see a little bit of rain coming in that's the green that you see on your skin screen we've got kron 4 meteorologist davehr he is tracking these showers for a yeah, we're looking at some precursor of rain before other major line down to the south of the peninsula been around half moon bay, we've notice this a little bit in from certain filling up a lot of cloud cover in the bay area but there it is the major line already getting some rainfall hitting the ground up to some northern sonoma county higher elevations last 6 hours of gotten in some cases almost a 10th of an inch of rain from all of that, but that's what we're watching to drop south. so much this evening but more into tonight, it looks like as well so let's break it down for you what you can expect turning mostly cloudy that should be mostly cloudy to partly cloudy somewhat by 07:00pm to the south and east because it's going to start from the north as we showed you rain showers for 10 o'clock pretty much for everybody depending on exactly where you are let's track amounts here freeze at about 9 o'clock here the heaviest rain to the north coasta

she was also an original co-sponsor of the green new deal now if she is confirmed this would be really quite the turnaround from trump's interior secretary dave bernhard who i believe was actually a lobbyist on behalf of a number of energy companies what do you expect to see if she is in cabinet well i think there's going to be moderation on all sides but really the past 4 years it's all been about energy independence that it came up already in the air today whereas in the biden ministration the focus is going to be on climate change and the middle is going to move a little bit more in that direction pretty much on all of these issues and use that as kind of a metric for our you go forward kimberly was just saying that mark that she could lose potentially the support of a democrat as a divisive figure could she potentially win support from some republican moderates perhaps. i think she might one of the thing that's just so significant is the date of american vote has become more and more important particularly in western states and you could see for example in alaska representing senator lisa murkowski with the alaska native community strongl

green light from their superintendent. the superintendent is disputing that claim, saying burlingame elementary did not give approval for any teachers to move ahead in the line. county supervisor dave canepa says this kind of situation can be harmful. >> if we bend the rules for others, that will get out to other people and, in turn, the processes become flawed, and in turn people don't trust the process. >> one medical has since clarified explanation a bit, saying teachers had an email from a quote, district leader approving the shots, not necessarily a superintendent. san mateo county started allowing teachers to get their vaccinations on monday. this is after all of this happened. now, despite progress across the bay area, there is a lot of concern over five particular zip codes hit hardest by covid in santa clara county. they're all in east san jose as well as in gilroy. now, slowly more vaccination sites are opening in those communities. nbc bay area's damian trujillo tells us the impact. >> reporter: well, today it was here at the east valley clinic on mckee and jackson in east san jose. this clinic will offer vaccinations five days a week with appointments, and today's openi

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