thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh mela

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thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh meladu festival. officials have put a number of measures in place — including testing — to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india's government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone half past four now on bbc news: hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. it seems myanmar�*s military is prepared to kill as many pro—democracy protesters as it takes to safeguard its grip on power. so what options do the opponents of the coup have left? well, my guest is doctor sasa, representative of the committee which represents the ousted parliament to the united nations. why has myanmar�*s democratic transition gone to so tragically wrong? dr sasa, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me, stephen. it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i cannot say where you are because i know you want to keep your location secret. but it is clear that you escaped from myanmar in the hours and days after the february one coup. as i

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thousands of pilgrims are gathering on the banks of the ganges river for the start of the kumbh meladu festival. officials have put a number of measures in place, including testing, to help stop the spread of coronavirus. india's government says devotees who flout guidelines will be prosecuted. now on bbc news — wednesday in parliament. hello again, and welcome to wednesday in parliament — as borisjohnson denies cutting nurses pay. we're increasing pay for nurses. we are massively increasing our investment in the nhs. but labour's leader isn't convinced. when i clapped for carers, i meant it. he clapped for carers, then he shut the door in their face at the first opportunity. also in this programme — the equalities minister on why she joined a vaccines trial. we could see the misinformation laround the vaccine being testedl on ethnic minorities| and things like that. and aren't you glad you can't go on holiday? here's a postcard from heathrow. it's not uncommon to see queues of three hours, and we have had queues extending out to nearly six hours on occasion. but first, prime ministe

this is from india where people, you can see are gathered en masse on the banks of the ganges river. festival and pilgrimage in hinduism celebrated in 12 years cycles at four riverbank sites. government officials have put a number of measures in place including testing to try and help prevent any further spread of over 19 during the celebrations. —— covid—19. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: ten years on from the fukushima nuclear incident, we'll be live injapan, where our correspondent has returned to meet the people whose lives were changed by the disaster. the numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. this, the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. in less than 24 hours, then, the soviet union lost an elderly sick leader and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior. we heard these gunshots in the gym. then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. god, we were all petrified. james earl ray, aged 41, - sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when he's 90, i travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an

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gathering taking place in india hindu pilgrims from across the country have taken a death in the holy river ganges to mark the most species day of the festival at dawn hundreds of thousands gathered by the river banks to take the plunge in one of the several bathing days over the next month authorities are expecting 2500000 people to gather for the festival but because of the pandemic the government has curtailed the festivities and a negative test certificate is required or at least in theory this is compulsory. up next on t.w. news it is complex on where my colleague chips about string girls german conservative politician andreas think i'm sarah kelly and thank you so much for watching us take care. of. going. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian germany humanoids follow soon all of us felt like these days also freshens emotional criticism of its new street to just deal with mosco from those who say shoes for the sole function of my guest this week from voters the christian democrats and andrea isn't it this is good news policy to joke food lives in favor of the conflict zone. next to tell

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in cases in 4 months the government is warning that a huge hindu festival taking place on the river ganges could be a super spreader event and japan has ended a state of emergency that was in force in the tokyo region vaccine rollout has been slow and infections are still rising. and let's get a run up now of some other headlines there have been violent clashes in the british city of bristol at a rally against a proposed policing bill at least 20 officers were injured the bill would give police sweeping new powers to clamp down on public protests. a group of a ton kong pro-democracy activists released from jail in china have been detained on their return home they were arrested at sea last year on charges of illegal border crossing it's believed they were trying to flee to taiwan to escape prosecution for their involvement in anti-government protests in hong kong. a member of parliament from uncle michael c.d.u. party has died after collapsing on a flight back to germany from cuba challenge plans was 53 the cause of death is unclear the tabloid billed as reporting that she was not travelli

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surge in cases in 4 months because of me is warning that a huge hindu festival taking place on the river ganges could be a super spreader of it and japan has ended a state of emergency that was in force in the tokyo region that same role that has been slow and infections are still rising. well the u.s. city of miami in florida has imposed their nighttime curfew after crowds of party revelers ignored social distancing rules restrictions on play to remain in place until after easter the city is one of america's tourist hot spots especially for students. thousands of people flock to miami for spring break and from here this march they are the target of an emergency contact ound. huge crowds have brought chaos and disorder in parts of the city including south beach and smile i mean the church. people like you know i don't know i don't know if anybody learned from last year's experience we did in the sense that we know younger people are going to not wear masks i'm hoping they did but i think a lot of younger people are feeling like they want to get out and go crazy and we're trying to let them know

hundreds of thousands of dollars and arrested multiple gang members coming at the flow of migrants continues uninterrupted through rough terrain once the river is crossed. large groups of more than 100 have been detained in the past 72 hours from honduras, nicaragua, guatemala, and mexico. the paths are well-worn strong with garbage and discarded clothing, many scary small children on their shoulders. no one here stops anyone today and instead signs direct them towards a processing center underneath the highway overpass. some will be released almost immediately, no time to safely hold new arrivals in a pandemic in order for notices to appear in court to be given out. while customs and border patrol has shut down media access, the texas state troopers are eager to show their hard work. >> the point that the state troopers are making over and over again is with a surge in illegal migration comes a surge in crime. that crime doesn't stay here on the border. instead, it moves inland into the rest of the u.s. >> bret: steve harrigan on the rio grande, thank you. the biden administration is opening a second property in texas to house unaccompanied

gangs. >> and the fox news droned back with us in the sky over the rio grande river at our live position herevernor greg abbott now putting state law enforcement teams on the case. specializing in child and human trafficking and smuggling. he says it's important to help identify and stop the flow right from the source of those organizations. and also he says it's very important to have access to those children. in other words, bps troopers need to be that in he says to these holding facilities so that they can interview the kids to see if they have been criminally exploited or a lot of the other horror stories that we here can happen along the way. harris. >> harris: we have so many of them to gain access to now for all of those agents. that is a tremendous job. casey stegall, thank you very much. we're seeing border agents have their hands full. talk about -- aside from the migrant surge that's playing out, a former texas border captain captured this terrifying video of a cartel gun battle in mexico right across the river from texas. watch. >> gun battle. >> it's important at the american pe

gangs in spain as well as colombia morocco and northern europe. not just outside paris hundreds of marched in memory of a 14 year old girl who drowned after allegedly being thrown into the river sent a 15 year old boy and girl are being held on suspicion of premeditated murder they face up to 20 years in prison the suspects were classmates of the victim alicia last month and each has mother father bullying complaint against the pair after they shared intimate images of her daughter. german chancellor angela merkel's christian democrats have suffered big losses in 2 state elections on sunday exit polls and a partial vote count so it shows social democrats and the green party as the main winners experts say it's a sign of what's to come in the national elections in 6 months time the mccain reports from berlin. it's a personal triumph for higher social democrat prime minister of the rhineland class a nucleus lost 8 years after sunday's vote now able to plan another 5 years in government anger yes mark i and i would like to thank all our citizens for this great trust they have placed in us thank you very much to all of you and of course i thank my party because we worked so hard

gangs and with the migrants. >> martha: not a great situation. steve harrigan. he got a ride-along with dps as they patrol the rio grande river.r on the front lines warning of drug cartels using children to seize on the border crisis. you might have a mother with three children and the cartels say you can cross with one child. we'll take two children and use the two children to smuggle two others and pretend that those are family units. in moments, marsha blackburn that says that she saw first hand how all of this is playing out at the border. first, we go to griff jenkins today at a migrant camp in tijuana, mexico where people are increasingly concerned about the infiltration of drug gangs. hey, griff. >> they sure are, martha. officials say nothing crosses this border without the cartel's knowledge. here at this camp, conditions are terrible. they're waiting to cross illegally to get into the u.s. faster. one of the migrants is worried about the dangers if he chooses to go illegal in the cartel's hand. listen. >> might use them for other things. my cell, part of the body or things like that. they might use you to cross drugs