level in five years and it s the under 25s who ve been the hardest hit and sprechen sie covid. the german institute of language says the pandemic has spawned 1200 new words. hello i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. there are still many unanswered questions about the insurrection at the us capitol onjanuary 6th. how much did law enforcement know about plans for violence that day? was intelligence properly shared? and just how could police have been so ill prepared for a riot that was organised in plain sight? today, lawmakers have been trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened at a senate hearing that s still underway. among those tesitfying are two of the top security officials who were at the capitol that day. it s the first time we ve heard from them in public. this is what the former sergeant at arms of the house of representatives said about the intelligence reports he d received in the days leading up to the riot. safety was always p
hello and welcome. we start with a shocking escalation in violence in myanmar, where the united nations says 38 people have been killed on wednesday alone, marking the worst day of bloodshed since the military coup. security forces opened fire on large crowds in a number of cities and at least two of the victims are believed to be teenagers. mass demonstrations have been taking place across myanmar since the military seized control on one february. the 1st of february. a warning that this report from our south east asia correspondent, jonathan head, contains some disturbing scenes. the conflict in myanmar is now a battle for control of individual neighbourhoods. residents and protesters barricading themselves in. police and soldiers sweeping through to get people off the streets. and sometimes shooting at those brave enough to film from their apartments. gunshot here, the protest organisers use fire extinguishers to obscure the view, to try to avoid being shot. because that i
hello. a warm welcome to bbc. the leader of myanmar s coup general min aung hlaing says he will try to handle the protests rocking the country softly, although he didn t clarify specifically what this would mean. this comes after threats that protestors could face up to 20 years injail, if they obstruct the armed forces or long sentences if they incite hatred towards the coup leaders. there ve also been cuts to internet services, and a further detention for the civilian leader, aung san suu kyi. meanwhile there are more reports of soldiers using rubber bullets against protestors as demonstrations continue. here s our south east asia correspondentjonathan head. gunfire. even for a country shocked at being back under military rule, it has been a stressful 2a hours. rumours of a full scale army operation were strong, and here in myitkyina, repeated bursts of gunfire from the security forces made people think it was already happening. most of the shots, though, were f
accused him of masterminding a covert nuclear weapons programme, though it hasn t commented on his assassination. our security correspondent gordon corera has more. the scene of an ambush. the highway where gunmen targeted a vehicle carrying one of the most important figures in iran s nuclear programme. mohsen fakhrizadeh was a scientist and senior defence official. but western intelligence services have long believed he was the driving force in iran s quest for a nuclear bomb. iran has always said its nuclear programme was peaceful but it s been claimed fakhrizadeh was leading work on project amad to develop a weapon. in 2018, he was singled out by israel s prime minister. this is how dr mohsen fakhrizadeh, head of project amad, put it remember that name, mohsen fakhrizadeh. so here he is, right here. and he says, the general aim is to announce the closure of project amad. but then, he adds, special activities you know what that is. iran s foreign minister quickly