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cnn's will ripley is joining us with the latest developments. what is the latest on this military coup in myanmar and how damaging could this prove to be for the nation's democratic future? >> reporter: hey, rosemary. certainly there are a lot of questions whether this fragile democracy and government that just came into power five years ago with the assistance of the military, with a constitution the military helped write, now all of that is up in the air after the military has claimed because they won so few seats in november's general election that there has been widespread voting fraud. they even brought the possibility of 10.5 million votes even though election officials inside myanmar dispute there's anything close to that, and not the amount of fraud that could tip the election. the military under the constitution has taken control declaring a state of emergency for one year. they're saying potentially they could hold a fresh election after that. the will of the people in a country that was under a brutal military dictatorship that electe

cnn's will ripley is following from hong kong. good to see you, will. talk to us more about what you're learning about the military coup and how damaging it could prove to be for myanmar's future particularly when you hear the responses from world leaders. >> reporter: the con tris not responding with condemnation include china and russia. china, in fact, according to journalists on the ground working with cnn said there were meetings within the last few days with chinese officials in myanmar. they hope for a political solution. they have had a mixed record of working with myanmar's military dictatorship that was in place up until five years ago when they helped the civilian leadership take control. now it seems as if they are taking that control back or at least being quite overt about it because a lot of people suspected for quite some time that the generals were indeed the ones calling the shots particularly when the leader was celebrated as being a beacon of democracy was at the united nations defending the military's treatment of the row hinge ga m

cnn's will ripley is following the developments from hong kong. good to see you, will. what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: hi, rosemary. eye popping amount of money. the u.s. justice department giving us a hint of what the biden administration approach on north korea may be. the u.s. continuing to put pressure on north korea's military program. the cyber army which as of 2016 was asked to number some 6,000 strong, though it's hard to get some figures in a secretive nation. it's significant that you now have these three men named in a 33 page federal indictment. they are all, the u.s. justice department says, essentially modern day bank robbers. instead of using guns they used keyboards. instead of stealing wallets they stole cryptocurrency like bitcoin. virtual currency is untraceable once it's taken online. when you talk about the amount of money they are accused of stealing. the united nations stealing with cnn a report that they stole $316 million over the span of a year. to have these individuals who are likely inside north korea named by the u.s. ju

cnn's will ripley is live for us.orter: laura, it's hard to believe, but then again the last four years for many people have been hard to believe. you think about the very short list of world leaders who have ridden on air force one, like the former president or david cameron with obama in 2012. in 2019 president trump after canceling abruptly summer talks in hanoi with kim jong-un wanted to add him to that list, casually offering to fly him back to pyongyang, without consulting his aides, without considering the logistical nightmare, without considering kim had other plans. he said, no, come on board. obviously kim jong-un, according to john bolt cononbolton's book laughed it off and said, that wouldn't be possible, but it just underscores the lack of preparation, the lack of knowledge, the tone deafness that president trump brought to that summit in hanoi which many analysts argued it was probably the best if not only opportunity to fundamentally transform the relationship between the united states and north korea.

will ripley has the details. >> reporter: air force one, a symbol of american presidential power ande, in 2019, a stunning invite from then president donald trump to north korean leader kim jong-un. a former administration official tells cnn trump casually offered to fly kim back to pyongyang, as he was walking out of denuclearization talks in hanoi, vietnam. trump just it did for his friend, the former official says, creating a potential logistical and security nightmare. >> i think it's clear trump had no idea what will he was doing. and didn't really understand the kind of political constraints that somebody like kim jong-un would be under. >> reporter: trump's former security adviser john bolton detailed the collapse of the summit talks to his book writing trump offered to fly him back to north korea, cancelling his meeting in hanoi. kim laughed and said he couldn't do that. >> kuim jong-un, a five-day tran journey to get down there, lots of buildup and then to get dumped publicly i think that upset kim. >> reporter: after the failed summit, kim reportedly disciplined high-rankin

will ripley is following this story for us from hong kong. he joins us now live.ou, will. so, what more are you learning about the real story behind this? >> reporter: well, what happened in south korea, rosemary, the nis, the national intelligence service gives confidential briefings to lawmakers who write down notes and then sometimes leak information to the press. so you have the south korea lawmaker who posted one of the notes that he wrote alleging that north korean hackers targeted the u.s. biotech company pfizer which has made one of the successful covid-19 vaccines and he has doubled down on this. he said i heard them talk about pfizer. pfizer was hacked, this made big headlines but then nis turned around and said they never mentioned pfizer. they talked about other south korean companies that have hacked and basically denied the south korean lawmaker's claim which he then doubled down on when cnn followed up with them. regardless whether they mentioned pfizer or not one thing is clear time and time again. north korean hackers do seem to be, indeed targeti

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cnn's will ripley joins me now from hong kong. good to see you, will. the latest on the coup and what's the military's likely next move? >> reporter: well, they declared the state of emergency, rosemary. they continue to hold an unknown number of civilian leaders inside the government guest house. we've seen images of tanks, military vehicles, solders with weapons. clearly the lawmakers are not getting out of there as the military starts moving forward putting together its own government after essentially declaring the results of november's general election fraudulent without any evidence. the real story according to analysts is that the proxy parties that represent military interests which include financial interests when it comes to military owned companies or companies tied to top military officials, they received an embarrassingly small number of votes and the civilian party of the nlv actually received more votes giving the civilian leadership more power and in the eyes of the generals that controlled that country that was not acceptable. they say

. >> cnn's will ripley with us from hong kong. several more people were wounded here.s happening? >> reporter: christi, victor, it has been a devastating day for the pro-democracy movement in myanmar. the catholic cardinal tweeted the country is lake a battlefield and the images as well as the number of dead ticking up over the past few hours continues to reaffirm that crime that in fact it is chaos in several cities and towns across myanmar as protests come out in tee fyans against that coup on february 1st when the landslide victory was overturned by a military whose proxy party has a handful of votes. they declared a state of emergency and the people have been fighting back. they are fearful not just for their lives, but for being pulled out of their beds in the middle of the night being arrested. the number of killed since the start of the protest at least ten, and also one police officer, but seven deaths have happened today. the leader of the civilian gove government is do you in court tomorrow. >> will ripley in hong kong. >>> in a few hours a peek at the future

cnn's will ripley joins us now with the details.ohn, one source described it as a teenager trying to show off his shiny new car. you can count on one hand the number of foreign leaders who had the honor of flying on air force one. former british prime minister david cameron in 2012. that's it. president trump wanted to make number three north korean leader kim jong-un. >> reporter: air force one, a symbol of american presidential power and prestige. in 2019, a stunning invite from then president donald trump to north korean leader kim jong-un. a former administration official tells cnn trump casually offered to fly kim back to pyongyang as he was walking out of denuclearization talks in hanoi, vietnam. trump just did it for his friend, the former official says. creating a potential logistical and security nightmare. >> i think it's clear trump had no idea what he was doing and didn't really understand the kind of political constraints that somebody like kim jong-un would be under. >> john bolton detailed the collapse of summit talks

let's get right to will ripley in hong kong. what do we know? >> hey, pamela.ls are coming in very slowly because there are reports that the telephone lines, perhaps the internet, and even some television channels are being disrupted right now in myanmar. so information coming out at a trickle, but what we have confirmed, according to a spokesperson for the national league of democracy party, the ndl, that is let by aung sawn suu kyi, she and other leaders are been detained and are being held by the military. this is puzzling for a lot of people because even though aung san suchi was in and out of house arrest in myanmar for the better part of 20 years, her father was a war hero. she has been the civilian leader of that country, and she was regarded for many years, she won a nobel peace prize for being a beacon of freedom and democracy, but in recent years she has fallen in the eyes of many in the global community because she was actually defending the military that imprisoned her or put her under house arrest for so many years when they were accused by the uni

will ripley live in hong kong. thanks, will. >>> so health organizations are warning about a vaccine inequality. ahead, why experts say not immyselfing people in poor -- immunizeding people in poorer countries could be deficit stating for everyone. ok. with everything from mel robbins to blake griffin, is there a more fascinating place than audible? no. and i've done the research. of course you have. audiobooks, podcasts, audible originals. all in one place. >>> welcome back. i'm robyn curnow. the international red crossies are is -- rered cross is launching a $110 million program aimed at immunizing some 500 million people against covid. this comes after a disturbing analysis by the group about vaccine distribution. it says the vast majority of immunizations have been administered in the 50 wealthiest countries. that's compared to a very tiny fraction being administered in the poorest countries. this also has been a concern of the world health organization and unicef. the irfc added that the disparity could be dev

well, will ripley is watching all of this unfold. will, hi. it's difficult, i know, to get information out of myanmar at the moment because a lot of comms are done. what do we know? what are you hearing from sources on the ground? given that tension has been building in recent days, between the military which wanted to delay the start of parliament, and the civilian government, which said the military's claims of widespread election fraud are unfounded and they were going to push ahead with forming the government. well, the military, then, stepped in and, all of a sudden, robyn, you have phone lines cut. internet cut. people finding it difficult to get on social media, even the tv channels that are not aligned with the military have been shut down. and now, they are showing propaganda. military propaganda, on television, for the first time in years. you have people who are out panic buying, right now. wondering what's going to happen because this is a country that lived, for decades, under brutal-military dictatorship, that just started to for

will ripley is following this story. good morning, will. pfizer is not commenting.now that this happened? >> we know that north korea, and this is according to multiple reports, has been looking for information about the covid-19 vaccines and have been accused of sending these kind of fishing emails to multiple biotech companies. there was one instance back in november that reuters reported, that north korea denied, that they were posing as world health organization employees. this is an ak pags also made by microsoft. what this south korean lawmaker is saying is north korea successfully hacked pfizer and actually stole data and technology related to covid-19 vaccines and treatment. this is puzzling because north korea officially claims they don't have a single case of covid-19. this lawmaker says he was in a classified briefing this week and he was told that they're trying to get as much information as they can about vaccines. the question is why. one theory is they could be trying to make their own vaccine. in order to do that, north korea would need covid patient

will ripley in hong kong, appreciate it. thanks for joining us there, following this story for us. >>> now, the u.s. has just suffered its deadliest month from covid-19 since the pandemic began. more than 95,000 deaths were confirmed in january, far more than the previous record high, which was just the month before in december. this coming as the u.s. is seeing more cases of the variant first detected in the uk. one expert warning that strain could make the crisis even worse. >> the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next 6 to 14 weeks, and if we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we are going to see something like we have not seen yet in this country. england, for example, is hospitalizing twice as many people as we ever hospitalized at our highest number. that hurricane's coming. >> a former fda commissioner says southern california is one of the places most at risk from that mutation of the virus, and that is because it is already on

security policy analyst michael maloof believes statements about russia are aimed to the ripley at his own polity. he needs an adversary and as caleb quoted that he didn't really names suffix he's just one of the act tough and that's actually point is democrat base they are very very anti russian these are no entities to moscow and they know how to deal with them and i think they're not surprised that as far as russia moscow is concerned there is nothing more to sanction probably where biden will stay will stay when it comes to russia initially are these international agreements and not get into any. close close association with moscow or now unless over time we see a change in attitudes toward countries but that may be because of people who will be guiding him who are much more in the russian within his administration now meanwhile the u.s. will also hold its planned withdrawal of 12000 troops from germany while the pentagon conducts a review of the trump iraq plans the news came just ahead of joe biden's foreign policy speech getting our global force posture right making sure that ou

cnn's will ripley is live with all of the breaking details. will, for all of the bogus claims of election fraud in the u.s., this is what happens, a real coup when the same system that has been working for five years. they have been gaining seats. they gained 396 seats in the last election. people voted these people in. the military, which had a dictatorship over myanmar up until recently, still contains large control over the government, they were disputing those. there were 10 1/2 points. and they wanted the election fraud demonstrated. when this didn't happen, they said they're going to move forward and start the operation. they stepped in, shut off the television channels except for the state media and it's showing military propaganda. banks are closed. soldiers are in the street. this country, a very fragile democracy just in the early years is at risk. some analysts say of being under a military dictator ship even though they are saying they have a constitutional right and maybe after that there were some reason, when the military didn't

. >> i'm will ripley in hong kong.king down its largest city of auckland after just three confirmed cases so far of covid-19. all in a single family, a mother, a father, and their teenage daughter. what is puzzling for health authorities is that none of these people had any recent travel history. this is new zealand's first case of community transmission in weeks. so they're conducting extensive contact tracing right now, trying to figure out where this virus could have come from. we do know the woman, the mother in the family, was working with a company that deals with airline hospitality. she was in laundry department, so she may have had contact with items that came from outside new zealand touched. that's one angle they're looking at, but until they get to the bottom of this, they are asking for people in central auckland to stay home unless they go to the supermarket or pharmacy, the kind of restrictions that have helped new zealand keep their numbers low and deaths to just 25 so far this pandemic. >>> new travel

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let's turn to cnn correspondent will ripley joins me from hong kong. this is what we've seen from the leader of new zealand. she does move very swiftly. what more are you learning about the situation? >> reporter: hey, rosemary. she has just confirmed that in fact all three cases are that more contagious u.k. variant. she told that to public broadcaster rnz as proof that this strategy of even with just a handful of cases, disrupting a large number of people for hopefully a shorter period of time, in this case it's 72 hours while they conduct contact tracing, try to figure out how this mother, father, teenage gaut ter contracted this u.k. variant given that none of them had any recent travel history. they're looking at the mother's job for an airline catering hospitality company. she is telling people until they figure this out, the safest thing to do and the formula that has worked well for new zealand thus far is to hunker down. >> now just keep in mind, we don't necessarily have to get to the bottom of the precise issue in order for us to lift restri

will ripley gives us more on what's been playing out in new zealand. >> for some people on the grounds on again/off again with these lockdowns that they just get a handful of cases. six months ago, auckland went into this massive lockdown where people have to stay home unless they're going to the supermarket or pharmacy. essential workers can work but everybody else is not allowed. and some may say, look, when you just have three cases confined to a mother, a dad and teenage daughter, why disrupt this many people? but the message from the prime minister is that this is the formula that has worked that has helped new zealand if not eradicate covid-19, drastically reduce it to the point they don't have community transmission for weeks and weeks on end or months on end. and that allows life to return to normal quickly. listen to what the prime minister jacinda ardern is telling people. >> now just keep in mind, we don't necessarily have to get to the bottom of that precise issue in order for us to lift restrictions. what we'd like to do, though, is really put a ring around things, make s

that's exactly what he did last week and what he will continue to do this week and ripley's with the urgency we have seen from members of congress as well. go ahead. >> does the president plan to address congress this month as it said he expects to? >> we don't know where the february 23 date came from. it's a great mystery. it was never plan to be in february, and we don't have a date for a joint session at this point back. the president looks for to addressing the public. we remain in touch leaders in congress about a a timeline ad informant and what that would look like. it won't look like it is look like in the past, that many of you have covered and i've attended where you all sit on the floor of congress and the president gives a speech, because of covid. but we're not getting any time one because that date was never advocate. >> one more on immigration. there's a federal judge in texas who will soon decide the fate of daca for dreamers. did he -- [inaudible] what is the administration prepared to do to shield his population from deportation? >> the daca program is important to

will ripley joins us from hong kong. you've reported extensively from north korea.ine, is that the covid-19 pandemic probably has had more impact on north korea's economy than 15 years of u.n. sanctions, since 2006, because north korea has found very creative ways and illegal ways to get around the sanctions according to the new u.n. report. they say north korea's cyber army is alive and well stealing $316 million through online hacking operations, stealing from financial institutions, stealing bitcoin, the currency that's untraceable. a lot of that cash going to develop new kinds of intercontinental ballistic missiles, medium range missiles and submarine launch missiles. this report says that north korea has the capability to put miniaturized warheads on many of those missiles. what's unclear is whether they have the ability to launch an icbm up into space and have it intact with the warhead intact upon re-entry. something critical for an often repeated threat from north korea. . what this means is the incoming biden administration could face a huge diplomatic chal

will ripley is live in hong kong covering the story for us.ositive and the whole city is going on lockdown. tell us about it. >> reporter: the reason why new zee land health authorities are concerned is because they tested positive for the u.k. variant. nobody has traveled. they're in the process of intensive contact tracing to figure out if the virus is out there in the community or if the mother in this family who works at a company that provides laundry services and catering services for dozens of airlines may have somehow picked up the virus at work even though she didn't have face-to-face contact with anybody coming in from outside the country. to lockdown new zealand's largest city and have three confirmed cases so far might be overkill. in new zealand the prime minister said this is a formula that has worked, that has kept their country of just around 5 million people in remarkably good shape throughout the pandemic. if you look at the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths, they have just over 2300 cases for the entire pandemic and 25 d

will ripley is live in hong kong. will, which developer, and what do we know?the american drugmaker has developed a successful covid vaccine. north korean accused of stealing that vaccine and treatments for the vaccine and this is not the first time. there's a dispute in south korea, the spy agency of the south korean agency said he got the briefing saying they never said pfizer specifically, but they talked about a number of different companies being targeted by north korean hackers. back in november, reuters said it was astrazeneca targeted. and microsoft claiming hackers were sending fake emails accusing employees trying to get into their system. i'd say, biotech companies, trying to help people heal from covid-19. this is interesting because north korea claims not to have a single case of covid-19. even new images released in state media showing kim jong-un, with his wife for the first time in public, there was speculation that his wife was laying low because of covid. but you saw the two of them in these photos, no mask, surrounded by an audience in a pack

cnn's will ripley is live in hong kong for us with more. what have you learned, will? that the north korea that president biden is inheriting is far more dangerous, far more heavily armed than it was when president trump took office. despite three face-to-face meetings with kim jong-un and president trump, pyongyang according to this new u.n. report has been upgrading its ballistic missile infrastructure, producing more material to make nuclear bombs and unveiling and parading new weapons, short range, medium range and long range missiles even missiles launched from submarines. the u.n. says it is likely north korea has the capability to put miniature rised warheads on these missiles. ka they launch one into space and have it survive in tact upon re-entry. they would need to conduct more tests in order to determine if they can do that. many analysts believe more tests could be coming given the north koreans consider the biden administration more predictable, much like the obama administration, strategic patience policy during which kim jong-un launched scores of missil

cnn's will ripley joins us now with more. so what happened, will?the headline, alisyn. one case in melbourne, australia, led to 22,000 covid tests. they checked the sewage water. they suspended the warm-up matches. and when all of those tests came back negative, only one person had the virus, they allowed tournament to continue, but to continue in a way that we can only dream of in most other places around the world. no mask, no problem. at this year's australian open, huge crowds, unimaginable in places like the u.s. nearly 400,000 fans will pack melbourne's tennis center over the next two weeks. >> i had goose bumps coming into the court, playing in front of the fans again. >> reporter: australia won't even begin vaccinations until later this month. how are they packing stadiums in the middle of a pandemic? every player arriving in melbourne had to quarantine for two weeks in a state-monitored hotel. if anyone on their plane tested positive, the rules got even tougher. possible exposure meant 14 days stuck in a room. no fresh air, no outdoor pract

charged more than 300 individuals interested more than 280 so far, one of those is richard machete of ripleyphia pit he was discovered after his former girl for the leman girlfriend called the fbi and said that he had called her and bragged about attending the uprising. the district attorney in los angeles county is under fire tonight over his hiring of a public defender who has called l.a. police officers barbarians, and is an advocate for the abolition prisons. chief correspondent jonathan hunt has the story. >> los angeles county attorney general campaigned on the idea that he would revolutionize the way that crime and punishment is handled in l.a. and now he is following through. but the d.a. is getting pushback from many prosecutors. the latest act over tiffany black mold, a former public defender who campaigned on the behalf now pointed to a high-ranking prosecutor role. a position in which she will need to work with the los angeles police department. that might be difficult given a tweet from last june when l.a. was rocked by a sometimes violent protests in the wake of the death of ge