Hello and welcome to the programme. We start this hour with Breaking News a Military Coup appears to be underway in myanmar. The countrys De Facto Leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the president win myint, and other Senior Party Leaders have all been detained in a series of Early Morning raids. Phone and Internet Connections have been cut and soldiers are on the streets of the Capital Naypyidaw and the main city yangon. The move comes after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military that stirred fears of a coup. All this in the aftermath of an election the army says was fraudulent thats been rejected by observers. State tv in myanmar has released a statement saying its having technical errors and is unable to broadcast. 0ur South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head is in bangkok. He says facts are difficult to confirm at this stage. Well, its not that clear from here in bangkok we are getting a lot of reports from contacts inside myanmar. It does appe
I will start with the good news, at the rain has eased in beijing and the rain has eased in beijing and the Weather Forecast seem to be protecting a period with little or no rain. This Second Typhoon Due to hit in the coming 2a hours may not actually reach landfall in the same place it was thought to be approaching, and that Weather Pattern may not also reach a beijing. Meaning it would give the rescue team is here a bit of Breathing Space to get a real handle on this situation. The other thing that has been worrying them is that they have been finding that many of they have been finding that many of the people who were missing. The big concerns are that that et al. Could go concerns are that that et al. Could 9 up concerns are that that et al. Could go up quite a bit but with every new person makes phone, that is more good news. The Western Suburbs of beijing that there are still areas cut off where roads have collapsed, theres no electricity or water, and theres no electricity or wat
Strategic and international studies. Those still in the hall, come on in. Look forward to having you here. My name is john henry. Im president at csis. My role today is entirely ornamental. Just to welcome all of you and to say how thankful i am to matt greene is here, bill lin will be with us later. You have made it possible for us to do the Global Security forum and we appreciate the opportunity. We have got a real lineup to a real lineup. We have the chairman of the joint chiefs coming. All six of the vice chiefs for the military services pit it is going to be a good day. The first panel is going to be a Stellar Group and we want to say thank you to michelle and tom and jennifer. Thank you for moderating. Kari is the genius who has been pulling this together. She picked the topic gathering storm. It refers to Winston Churchills famous autobiography really of the interwar period and how it was building up to what became the tragedy of world war ii. We dont want to imply that we are h
Those still in the hall, come on in. Look forward to having you here. My name is john henry. Im president at csis. My role today is entirely ornamental. Just to welcome all of you and to say how thankful i am to matt greene is here, bill lin will be with us later. You have made it possible for us to do the Global Security forum and we appreciate the opportunity. We have got a real lineup to a real lineup. We have the chairman of the joint chiefs coming. All six of the vice chiefs for the military services pit it is going to be a good day. The first panel is going to be a Stellar Group and we want to say thank you to michelle and tom and jennifer. Thank you for moderating. Kari is the genius who has been pulling this together. She picked the topic gathering storm. It refers to Winston Churchills famous autobiography really of the interwar period and how it was building up to what became the tragedy of world war ii. We dont want to imply that we are heading in that direction but we want
Ever. Japans Political Parties have agreed to quickly begin deliberations on the countrys next budget. The process has been delayed since a key economic minister resigned last week. Twelve Political Parties agreed to try to Start Committee deliberations after the new economic revitalization minister gives a policy speech and takes questions in the diet. The secretarygeneral of the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party called for budget deliberations to start as soon as possible. Translator the Global Economy is somewhat increasingly unpredictable. And japan must take steps in accordance with the current situation. We must come up with concrete measures through discussions in the diet. Such measures will be included in the budget. The former economic revitalization minister, akira amari, resigned thursday, saying his secretaries had mishandled funds. He admitted to personally receiving cash from a construction company, but he said the money had been registered as political funds. A Senior Mem