hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. i m shaun ley a. security forces in myanmar have killed at least 21 people in yangon in one of the deadliest days since huge demonstrations began against the military coup last month. a police officer is also reported to have died as clashes between the military and anti coup protesters continue for a sixth week. martial law has been declared in two areas of yangon, and after two china owned factories were attacked, beijing has asked the authorities to protect its businesses. our diplomatic correspondent. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports. they have built themselves barricades, they have fashioned makeshift shields. but when the security forces opened fire, there was nothing to do but run. this was the scene in myanmar s biggest city, yangon, where more than 20 people are reported to have died. some here see china as supporting myanmar s military rulers, and several chinese owned factories we
biden s policies are different, i get that, but reporters pressed its aides, but not the president who takes very few questions, about this grim situation. some journalists are buying the white house explanation the problem is complicated. that s obviously true, but the tone is drastically different. the old media narrative, trump was a heartless hardliner. the new narrative biden means well but faces a difficult challenge. no amount of sympathetic spin can change that joe biden is now responsible. this is media buzz. i m howard kurtz. journalists keep rising the border crisis at white house briefings while the pundits are pointing fingers. so, how are you say that s not a crisis? it doesn t matter what you call it, it is an enormous challenge. it s something front and center for the president. we re just seven weeks into the biden presidency and already he s facing a growing humanitarian crisis at the u.s.-mexico border. the difference here, a lot of these children
say the administration s immigration policies are to blame. it s the biden open border policies that are inviting even more illegal immigration and actually have created this humanitarian crisis. the border patrol officers told me that the biden administration policies they are enriching and they empowering the drug cartels in mexico. arthel: we ll get into this with our fox team coverage. griff jenkins is near the border in texas. david spunt is following the president in wilmington, delaware. what are you hearing. reporter: president biden is touting the covid relief, the $1.9 trillion covid relief package. the border is something the president will have to focus on. this is a big deal that fema is getting involved. it shows that the administration cannot ignore the influx of unaccompanied children at the southern border, no question about this at all. homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas, made the announcement yesterday that he s directing fema to shelter an
two women leaders, and their silence is deafening. it s an important conversation to have. and, joey, what s on tap? well, the grammy awards are tonight the, but some of music s biggest stars are setting it out. we ll tell you why. all right. thanks, joey. first, the president now turning to fee that to address fema to address the growing crisis at our southern border as house republicans get ready to travel to texas tomorrow to have a look for themselves. the biden administration enlisting the federal disaster agency to help manage the dramatic spike in unaccompanied migrant children entering our country. u.s. border agents detained more than 100,000 migrants in february alone, leading to overcrowding at government-run housing facilities. the administration referring to this dire situation as a challenge but stopping short of calling it a crisis, and that is not sitting well with republicans. it is a crisis. when a similar surge happened a few years ago, president ob
After authorities there raised the threat of a volcanic eruption to the highest level, that means it could happen in the next 2a hours. The volcano in question is mount agung. Thousands of people have been evacuated from the exclusion zone. There are fears of a full scale eruption for the First Time Since 1963 when about 1,600 people were killed. Tiffany wertheimer has the latest. Indonesians are used to sights like these, mount agung has rumbled back to life. Once again spewing black ash high into the sky. Right now vulcanologists have detected molten rock close to the volcanos surface, which means a powerful eruption could be imminent. Mount agung has been declared a danger zone and everyone within the seven and a half kilometre radius has been evacuated. The activity has entered the eruption phase, although it is still spearing ash at the moment, we need to monitor it and exercise caution for the possibility of a strong explosive eruption. It is this thick ash billowing 6000 metres