The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on myanmar, following a Military Coup in the country. President biden has urged an International Response to the power grab, and called it a direct assault on democracy. Those detained include the head of the largest party, Aung San Suu Kyi, and other memebers of the civilain leadership. Troops are on the streets of the capital, naypyidaw, and the biggest city, yangon and a curfew has been put in place. Our special correspondent, fergal keane reports. An army reverting to autocratic type, swiftly and ruthlessly deposing a democratically elected leader. Somewhere behind the guns, Aung San Suu Kyi is once more a prisoner of the generals. And even if people never trusted the military, theyre still shocked at whats happened. Translation the army assaulted i people as it carried out a coup i on the civilian government elected by our people. Our country is just a Bird Learning to fly. Now the army has broken our wings. Translation | am | s
Liverpool move to plug a hole in their defence. The premier League Champions bring in ben davies from preston, as well as a loan signing on a quiet transfer deadline day. Its not quite with the weather today, and Weather Warning for heavy snow across parts of Northern England. Valid until lunchtime. Widely three to eight centimetres above 200 metres we can easily see 15 centimetres to Sow Destruction is likely. All the details later in the programme. Its tuesday the 2nd of february. Our top story. Urgent tests are being offered to 80,000 people in england after cases of a new South African coronavirus variant were found, with no links to travel. People across eight areas are being asked to take tests, whether they have symptoms or not, after the government said the uk must Come Down Hard on the variant. Andy moore reports. 10,000 Home Testing Kits delivered to a fire station in woking in surrey. From today, the operation to deliver them door to door will begin. Across england, 80,000 p
Hours in the Oval Office Last night. The gop plan proposing 1 3 of the 1. 9 trillion democrats are looking for. It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a twohour meeting, but what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further. The devil of course is in the details. Theres plenty of kidisagreemen in the dollars in the plan. Its unclear how much republicans are willing to go up and biden willing to go down but a Top White House aide suggests not much. Everything here is to help people stop suffering from the pandemic. This will lift 4 million kids out of poverty this year. We are more than willing to keep engaging, but at the end of the day what the president and Vice President wont do is compromise their values or let the American People down. Democratic leaders in the house and senate have taken the first steps towards reconciliation, a Budget Maneuver that would allow the Biden Relief Act to pass with a s
Just drink at home. I honey . Eh its a late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight alone again, naturally. Plus, stephen welcomes Ryan Reynolds with jon batiste and stay homin. And now, live on tape from a safe distance, its Stephen Colbert stephen hey. How are you . Welcome back. So glad to see you here at a late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Its wednesday i think . That doesnt have the date on it. I think its wednesday. Its hard to tell. Because right now, every day feels like youre being humped. This is our seventh, i think seventh show . Seventh show without an audience. We did one in the theater before we left. We did three the week before the break, so this is seven. Happy to be here. Lovely to see you. Its strange, but its lovely. I actually did the math, and ive been selfisolating for 2 idate now. Did you know and i just found this out that the word quarantine comes from the italian quarantina, which means 40 days which is how long people were isolated during the plague . So
They are lit up and in bloom. Neil only trees that arent covered in white in the metropolitan area because as you can see. Jillian you are watching Fox And Friends First on tuesday morning. Todd a powerful winter Storm Pounding the northeast as much as 30 inches in parts of jersey. Jillian Live Team Coverage this morning, janice team tracking the system live that we start in time square with aishah hasnie. Reporter it is clear out here but snow is picking up in the last hour. Lets show you a live look at times square. The pavement you can see for the first time in a lie long time, they cleared that way. The roads are still slushy and it is still a dangerous situation so please do not get out and drive. Around the northeast, one person dead in pennsylvania as this winter storm slammed 70 million americans from georgia to maine, parts of new york, new jersey, connecticut and pennsylvania under state of emergency restricting travel. In new jersey 660 crashes reported since the storm began