rod mckenzie of the royal —— road haulage association. more now on the situation in myanmar.of the country's rulers over the killing yesterday of dozens of people protesting against the recent military coup. the us secretary of state antony blinken said washingon was horrified by what he called the "reign of terror", while the foreign secretary dominc raab said the killings "marked a new low". tom andrews is the un's special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in myanmar. the difficulty for him is that he is within the un organisation, but it does not mean that the un security council act on his recommendations. china and russia could veto any action. he said condemnation will ring hollow unless there is concrete action. it seems particularly if you are in myanmar, words of condemnation are beginning to ring hollow. i think what the people of myanmar would like and desperately need is for the international community to notjust condemn but to also take action and hold this brutal military fully accountable. there are many things that can be done that have not been done

earlier i spoke to rod mckenzie, managing director of policy at the road haulage association.dover before christmas when we had the kent variant and the french were very worried about that, so they imposed these tests on all lorry drivers heading for france. and there was chaos to begin with because we did not have an infrastructure. we have now got an infrastructure and those tests have continued up to now and it works well. so what has happened is it is the french now who have the problem, and they — as a result — the british want to check all lorry drivers coming in. and we are going to use the same infrastructure that is used the other way around, if you like. so, for your average lorry driver who is doing international work, this isn't anything new. he or she was having a test on the outbound journey for the benefit of france — that has now stopped. instead, they are having a test inbound for the benefit of the uk government. there's been widespread international condemnation of myanmar after the military there shot and killed more than 100 of its own civilians. defence c

let's get reaction to this from rod mckenzie, managing director of policy at the road haulage associationken rather a lot over the last few months, ever since all of those cues just before christmas. this question about covid tests has come up before. presumably, this is partly because of the big outbreak of fresh cases in continental europe? of fresh cases in continental euro e? . �* , of fresh cases in continental euroe? ., �*, , europe? that's absolutely right. if ou cast europe? that's absolutely right. if you cast your— europe? that's absolutely right. if you cast your mind _ europe? that's absolutely right. if you cast your mind back— europe? that's absolutely right. if you cast your mind back to - europe? that's absolutely right. if you cast your mind back to the - europe? that's absolutely right. if. you cast your mind back to the days when we were talking about the big queues at dover over christmas, when we had the kent variant, and the french were very worried about that, so they imposed these tests on lorry drivers returning from france, and there was chaos to begin with becau