A 22 year old american who had the worlds first face and hands transplant talks about his surgery, saying he feels grateful for a Second Chance at life. And hundreds of players and officials at the Australian Open Tennis Championship go into isolation after a worker at one of the events hotels tests positive for the coronavirus. Event s hotels. A warm welcome to the programme. In myanmar, police have filed criminal charges against the civilian leaders who were deposed in a military this week. There s been no word on the whereabouts of either Aung San Suu Kyi, or deposed president win myint, since monday. The United Nations said the charges just compounded the undermining of the rule of law in myanmar, and the democratic process, and they called for the Immediate Release of the leaders. For a second day , protesters banged pots and sounded car horns in the country s largest city. Our reporter Nyein Chan Aye filed this report from yangon. Pots banging people are showing their frustration
Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are Telegraph Chief Political correspondent, christopher hope, and columnist for the Evening Standard and times radio presenter, ayesha hazarika. Lets ta ke lets take a look first at tamaras papers. Tomorrows paper. The telegraph says the chancellor, rishi sunak, fears scientific advisers are Moving The Goalposts on the requirements for ending lockdown amid a growing split within the government over when to lift restrictions. The i marks the news that more than ten Million People in the uk 15 of the population has now recieved a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine. The metro quotes englands Chief Medical Officer saying we are past the peak of the pandemic. Professor chris whitty hailed a continual steady decline in the death toll but warned Infection Rates remained incredibly high. According to the guardian, the nhs has been urged to rethink safety for thousands of Frontline Staff after new Re
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Alexander lukashenko still sits in the president ial palace in belarus, six months after an election which he probably lost. Europes last de facto dictator continues to brutally repress protests and imprison political opponents. My guest is sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, the woman who believes she won last augusts vote, and who, from exile, calls herself the leader of democratic belarus. But is toppling lukashenko any closer to reality . Sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, in vilnius, lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, thank you. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. There you sit in vilnius in exile. Alexander lukashenko is still president of your country, belarus, and it is now the six month anniversary since you are convinced you won the president ial election. So, im just wondering how you feel today . Oh, thank you. I feel responsibility, first of all. Responsibility for the belarusian people who believed in me, who believed me, and they know that on
And captain sir tom moore The War Veteran who raised tens of millions of pounds for the Uks National Health Service during the first lockdown has died at the age of 100. Hello and welcome women in chinas so called Re Education Camps have been systematically raped and tortured according to first hand accounts obtained by the bbc. Its estimated more than a million men and women have been detained in the camps, which china claims are Education Centres to De Radicalise Uighurs and other muslim minorities. Our correspondent matthew hill has spoken to several former detainees and workers and you may find some of their accounts distressing. Reliving a story she can barely bring herself to tell. She was held one of xinjiangs so called Re Education Camps. She was held in one of xinjiangs so called Re Education Camps. These Satellite Images show the site were she says she was held, sharing a cell with 13 other women with a bucket for a toilet. And she is haunted by one image. Masked men coming d