The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on myanmar, following a Military Coup in the country. President biden has urged an International Response to the power grab, and called it a direct assault on democracy. Those detained include the head of the largest party, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other memebers of the civilain leadership. Troops are on the streets of the capital, naypyidaw, and the biggest city, yangon and a curfew has been put in place. Our special correspondent, fergal keane reports. An army reverting to autocratic type, swiftly and ruthlessly deposing a democratically elected leader. Somewhere behind the guns, Aung San Suu Kyi is once more a prisoner of the generals. And even if people never trusted the military, theyre still shocked at whats happened. Translation the army assaulted i people as it carried out a coup i on the civilian government elected by our people. Our country is just a Bird Learning to fly. Now the army has broken our wings. Translation | am | s
live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it s not something we say very often, but congress appears on the verge of actually accomplishing something. more than 350 house members, even speaker johnson himself have signed on to a multibillion dollar deal that could give a tax break to millions of families and businesses, but will senate republicans end up sinking it? for the first time in a long time, we heard from defense secretary lloyd austin pinning the blame directly on iran for the deadly attack on u.s. service members and insisting they ll pay the price. we ve not described what our response is going to be, but we look to hold the people that are responsible for this accountable. but the question is when and is the delay getting iranian backed militants time to get away. and the government is gearing up for a price war with big pharma, with billions of your dollars at stake. hhs secretary xavier becerra will join me later in the show to talk about how it coul
things for ourselves. what do you think? is limiting foreign labour about embracing opportunities and spirit as brexit, as the home secretary will say? that brexit enables us to build a high skilled economy that is less dependent on foreign labour, or is this cutting is on the national nose to spite the national face? does the uk need to reduce its reliance on foreign workers? are british workers ready and willing to fill the gap? our british workersjust our british workers just as good? do we need foreign labour? get in touch. here is the news. the uk is set to give more monetary support to ukraine, including air defence missiles and drones. downing street made the announcement as president zelensky arrived for talks with rishi sunak. senior doctors in england are voting on whether to strike. their union, the british medical association, said pay talks with the government ended on saturday, with the final offer it called unacceptable. the government urged to bma to consider
stopping that interview. deadline: white house which has a lot more about this starts right now. hi there, everyone, we come on the air with a whopper of a breaking news story for you. a settlement has been reached in that massive $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by dominion voting systems against fox news it was that kind of day. everyone waiting for a vatican-like puff of smoke a lot of delays. a lot of pontificating and a lot of wondering what might be happening and now, we know nick confessori, the judge in this case, at 3:57 as we sat waiting to come on the air, quote, the parties have resolved the case do you have anything to say about that look, this is a very big deal it surprised many people, today was going to be the opening day of arguments there was a two-hour delay after lunch. no one came back with the arguments. we saw the two parties in the courtroom, waiting in the courtroom, exchanging some paper. and before air time, we get the announcement f