while on the lake, we were taken to one of myanmar s most revered pagodas. in the past, it would ve been packed with visitors praying for good fortune. the crowds are much thinner now. a woman approached me and warned me to be careful. it s not safe since the coup, she said. we wish we could go back to how it was before. it s a forlorn hope. their military rulers keep telling them that there is no turning back. jonathan head, bbc news, inle lake, myanmar. the eu s ambassador to sudan was attacked in his home in khartoum, as fighting between rival generals enters its fourth day. hospitals have also been sheued hospitals have also been shelled with almost 200 people
compete without conflict. china has said that the united states has said that the united states has to get rid of this mentality that they can control the world, that they have to allow for more open competition. so we havejust seen these tensions, these new ones when it comes to the spy balloon, now this, set back any kind of opening for the two sides to have real talks, to make progress. we willjust have to see though, in the future, if they are able to get those talks going. antony blinken, if he is able to meet with his counterparts in the future. to myanmar, where two years after the military seized power, deposing the government led by aung san suu kyi, the country is trapped in a civil war. the army is increasingly reliant on the air force to attack insurgent held areas. at least 140 people were killed in one such attack last week. 0ur south east asia correspondentjonathan head has been allowed to visit myanmar for the first time since the coup. his movements were restricted and
much of myanmar is off limits to visitors these days, but the military government did allow us to come here to inle lake, in shan state in normal times, one of the country s most popular destinations. it s very quiet now. interviewing people directly is risky. you can be arrested for saying anything deemed negative. but the boatmen we met told us times have never been harder. we never dreamt it would get this bad, they said. we used to have freedom, then it ended so suddenly. well, we ve been to several places along the lake and so far, i ve seen only three other foreigners. for an area that is so dependent on it, the collapse of tourism here has been catastrophic the economy is in terrible shape. and it s worse than that for people living around here, because they say they have a deep, abiding loyalty
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insurgency has become. no one in the market wanted to talk about it, though. instead, they complained about rocketing inflation, of not enough people spending money. back in yangon, there is an air of normality. yet, barricades surrounding the city hall hint at the underlying insecurity. there are still occasional ambushes and assassination attempts. thousands of political prisoners are still being held, many behind this gate at insein prison. one of them, a veteran activist released last november, was the only person willing to speak to us openly. translation: if the right to protest was restored i today, people would fill the streets again tomorrow. from past experience, we know the people of myanmar will never accept any form of dictatorship.