Welcome to the programme. A Military Coup appears to be underway in myanmar. Reports say the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders have been detained. Soldiers are on the streets of the main cities and communications have been cut. Tension has been escalating since the november elections, which the nld was declared to have won by a landslide. The military, whose proxy party won only a few seats, has claimed the results were fraudulent. 0ur South East Asia correspondentJonathan Head is in bangkok. He says facts are difficult to confirm at this stage. Well, its not that clear from here in bangkok. Were getting a lot of reports from contacts inside myanmar. It does appear there are numerous reports that the key leadership of the country, including Aung San Suu Kyi, have been detained by the military, very early this morning, before dawn, that the capital, naypyidaw, which is not the main city, that has been more or less cut off. People are been having troubl
Could have here in the uk. Also tonight. The army is out on the streets of myanmar as the military stage a coup months after losing an election. The fake covid Test Certificates with a negative result being sold online. And taking on one of the uks toughest races despite an unexpected medical diagnosis. And coming up in sport on bbc news its transfer deadline day for clubs up and down the country well have the latest, including the man set to join champions liverpool. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. Urgent testing is to start in parts of england as the south african strain of coronavirus has been detected in 11 of the cases there is no known link to the country. Its raised fears that the variant is now being transmitted within the community. Door to door testing will be carried out in the affected areas of london, the West Midlands, hertfordshire, kent, surrey and merseyside. Health officials are confident the vaccines will work against the South African Variant but pr
On the west coast of maui. Firefighters are continuing to battle wildfires with officials saying they are 80 contained. This report from our North America correspondent sean daly. A community in smouldering ruins. Many homes here burned to charge rex. The church and the harbour among the Historic Site wiped out by the flames that tore indiscriminately through the former picturesque tourist town. The us marines and National Guard among the Emergency Workers on the ground. The us President Joe Biden has declared the situation as a major disaster. We situation as a maor disaster. We are situation as a maor disaster. We seeing situation as a major disaster. Are seeing loss of life here. As you know, the number has been rising and we will continue to see loss of life but we have extraordinary professionals working on this job. We also have seen many hundreds of homes destroyed. And that is going to take a great deal of time to recover from. To take a great deal of time to recover from. ,. ,
Whove been persecuted in their home country of myanmarfor decades. Life in the camps is hard. Rations have been cut to 8 a month, employment is prohibited and crime is rife. Five rohingya gangs now operate in the camps and theyre Killing Hundreds of their fellow refugees. At 1 30am, we get reports of another murder. Entry to the camps is forbidden at night, but our team is just outside and have made contact with the victims family. His name was muhammad yusuf. Nabi hossain is a rohingya drug gang that uses the camps to Traffic Methamphetamines from myanmar to bangladesh. As muhammads family wait for the body to be released, they tell us the gruesome details of how he was killed. With the gangs stalking the camps, its too dangerous for refugees to speak openly about the violence. But this man has agreed to meet a secret location. Mohammed taher was a Community Leader in kutupalongs camp 16. Two years ago, gangs started Smuggling Drugs through his area. Taher was blindfolded and taken to
match of the day sees andy murray face stefanos tsitsipas. there s a host of grand slam champions elsewhere too and keeping across it all at the all england club is chetan pathak. chetan, bring us up to speed. the rain going on with the death first and second round matches played this in time but the sun is out in tennis is relentless. cheer on centre court behind me when liam brody the british wildcat he was a upset last year is playing casper ruud who is the fourth seed who has reached three of the last four grand slam finals and brodie has levelled things up and is two set since heading to a shoot out on centre court and whoever wins the deciding set will be in for the third round and other casper ruud is not a natural glass course player and his biggest success have come in a different court and he says he is still figuring out at the surface but the whole crowd is getting behind him. he beat british world champion before. three time grand slam champion is through to the