A 22 year old american who had the worlds first face and hands transplant talks about his surgery, saying he feels grateful for a Second Chance at life. And hundreds of players and officials at the Australian Open Tennis Championship go into isolation after a worker at one of the events hotels tests positive for the coronavirus. Event s hotels. A warm welcome to the programme. In myanmar, police have filed criminal charges against the civilian leaders who were deposed in a military this week. There s been no word on the whereabouts of either Aung San Suu Kyi, or deposed president win myint, since monday. The United Nations said the charges just compounded the undermining of the rule of law in myanmar, and the democratic process, and they called for the Immediate Release of the leaders. For a second day , protesters banged pots and sounded car horns in the country s largest city. Our reporter Nyein Chan Aye filed this report from yangon. Pots banging people are showing their frustration
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
southeast asia. but it should be pointed out that we are still within the confines of the tourist triangle, areas permissible for travel. whole sectors of this country, much of it, in fact, are off-limits. simply put, there is shit going on they do not want you to see. a low-intensity conflict with the ethnic kachin tribe would be one of them, a wave of persecution and deaths in rhakine state. the country may be opening up at its center, but all along the edges it s waging a desperate war to hang on to the status quo. needless to say, the status quo is not good. philippe: all right. bagan, here we come.
much of it, in fact, are off-limits. simply put, there is shit going on they do not want you to see. a low-intensity conflict with the ethnic kachin tribe would be one of them, a wave of persecution and deaths in rhakine state. the country may be opening up at its center, but all along the edges it s waging a desperate war to hang on to the status quo. needless to say, the status quo is not good. philippe: all right. bagan, here we come. anthony: 1,000 years ago,
largest mainland nation in southeast asia. but it should be pointed out that we are still within the confines of the tourist triangle, areas permissible for travel. whole sectors of this country, much of it, in fact, are off-limits. simply put, there is shit going on they do not want you to see. a low-intensity conflict with the ethnic kachin tribe would be one of them, a wave of persecution and deaths in rhakine state. the country may be opening up at its center, but all along the edges it s waging a desperate war to hang on to the status quo. needless to say, the status quo is not good. philippe: all right. bagan, here we come.