Hello, welcome to the programme. Military leaders in myanmar have staged a coup and declared a State Of Emergency for at least a year. Hours earlier, they detained the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several of her fellow leaders in the National League for democracy. The military says its in response to alleged Election Fraud in novembers General Election which saw aung sang suu kyi returned to power by a huge majority. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. Just a few hours ago, elected politicians were about to convene a new parliament and just a couple of hours later it is now a Military Coup. An extraordinary sequence of events in a very short time period. What have the military been saying . Been saying . Well, they have siml been saying . Well, they have simply announced been saying . Well, they have simply announced that been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this i been saying . Well, they have simply announced that this is| sim
Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme, which brings together some of the uks leading commentators, bbc specialists, and those journalists whove worked as Foreign Correspondents, Filing Stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week will there be enough Vaccine Doses . The uk closes its doors to some but infuriates china by opening them to kong hongers. And what a disputed Prime Ministerial visit tells us about the future of the union. 0n dateline s panel this week janet daley, whose columns appear weekly in the sunday telegraph. Jeffrey kofman is a former tv anchor and Foreign Correspondent in canada and the United States. And here with me in the studio is vincent knee, a china specialist with bbc world news. Warm welcome to all of you. The European Commission has been Piling Pressure on the vaccine manufacturer astrazeneca all week, angry that millions of doses it agreed to supply to the eu before the end of march may be cut
The sunday times royal editor roya nikkhah. And the american journalist from Bloomberg News Stephanie Baker. Welcome to you all. Its 70 years this weekend since a 25 year old princess elizabeth, on safari with her husband, learned that her father George The Sixth had died. Suddenly she had lost a father and become queen. In the decades since, she has come to embody the British Monarchy and indeed modern british history a living link to churchill and the desperate days of the second world war, and also to the Winds Of Change as the British Empire collapsed. Royah nikka royal editor of The Sunday Times for a woman didnt originally expect to be queen, shes done a pretty good job . I think youre absolutely right. She has. And just listening to each the extraordinary 70 years is remarkable thinking that her link back to winston churchill, 1a Prime Ministers are now in the way things are going, borisjohnson might not be her last. She has seen so much and yet where the really extraordinary th
The sunday times royal editor roya nikkhah. And the american journalist from Bloomberg News Stephanie Baker. Welcome to you all. Its 70 years this weekend since a 25 year old princess elizabeth, on safari with her husband, learned that her father George The Sixth had died. Suddenly she had lost a father and become queen. In the decades since, she has come to embody the British Monarchy and indeed modern british history a living link to churchill and the desperate days of the second world war, and also to the Winds Of Change as the British Empire collapsed. Royah nikka royal editor of The Sunday Times for a woman didnt originally expect to be queen, shes done a pretty good job . I think youre absolutely right. She has. And just listening to each the extraordinary 70 years is remarkable thinking that her link back to winston churchill, 1a Prime Ministers are now in the way things are going, borisjohnson might not be her last. She has seen so much and yet where the really extraordinary th
The sunday times royal editor roya nikkhah. And the american journalist from Bloomberg News Stephanie Baker. Welcome to you all. Its 70 years this weekend since a 25 year old princess elizabeth, on safari with her husband, learned that her father George The Sixth had died. Suddenly she had lost a father and become queen. In the decades since, she has come to embody the British Monarchy and indeed modern british history a living link to churchill and the desperate days of the second world war, and also to the Winds Of Change as the British Empire collapsed. Royah nikka royal editor of The Sunday Times for a woman didnt originally expect to be queen, shes done a pretty good job . I think youre absolutely right. She has. And just listening to each the extraordinary 70 years is remarkable thinking that her link back to winston churchill, 1a Prime Ministers are now in the way things are going, borisjohnson might not be her last. She has seen so much and yet where the really extraordinary th