For Britains National Health Service during the first uk lockdown is being treated in hospital after contracting coronavirus. Hello and welcome. Soldiers are on the streets of myanmar as the armed forces confirm that they have carried out a coup, and intend to hold power for at least a year. They say theyve responded to a fraudulent election won by the National League for democracy. Its head, and the countrys de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other seniorfigures in the party, have been arrested. State radio and television are off air, and phone and Internet Connections have been cut. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondent jonathan head. What more can you tell us . No more than what more can you tell us . Fir . More than that really, we only information from the military information from the military in main city areas, and things are pretty calm, people are focusing on trying to get food and money out of atm machines would seem to have stopped working nothing from the pol
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Burning in amazons brazil rain forest. The council on Foreign Relations hosted this hourlong event. Hello, everybody. We good to go . Hi, my name is mark. Until recently, i was the ceo of the nature conservancy. Im delighted to berece nthere, the moderated of todays s discussion. We have a greattdi scupanel. To my left is monica. She is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. To monicas left is daniel, director of programs at the climate and land use alliance. And then on the screen is my good friend peter, the cofounder and ceo of neoterro, a new ngo focused on a lot of the issues well be discussing today. Petetedaniel, direct ser wer is founder and ceo of Conservation International, where he is the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest. Weve been reading about it in the news. Of course, this raises so many issues. First of all, whats really happening . Its hard to tell on the basisl of the news how much ofl this due to