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now on bbc news, it s dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london, the programme bringing together bbc expertise with correspondents filing around the world. i m geeta guru murthy. this week, we heard president biden s new take on us foreign policy ending support for the saudi offensive in yemen, a tougher line on russia and a still strong stance against china. the challenges ahead are many. in the last few days alone, we have seen protests crushed and heard deeply unsettling evidence of the human capacity for evil. in china, horrifying news emerged of atrocities against the muslim uighurs. in russia, thousands were arrested for protesting in support of alexei navalny. and in myanmar, aung san suu kyi and civilian leaders were put in detention in a military coup. but there is a new leader in the white house, which, for many, is grounds for hope, and across the world we see almost unbelievable acts of individual bravery from those who will not be cowed. with ....
now it s time for dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london, the programme bringing together bbc expertise with correspondents filing around the world. i m geeta guru murthy. this week, we heard president biden s new take on us foreign policy ending support for the saudi offensive in yemen, a tougher line on russia and a still strong stance against china. the challenges ahead are many. in the last few days alone, we have seen protests crushed and heard deeply unsettling evidence of the human capacity for evil. in china, horrifying news emerged of atrocities against the muslim uighurs. in russia, thousands were arrested for protesting in support of alexei navalny. and in myanmar, aung san suu kyi and civilian leaders were put in detention in a military coup. but there is a new leader in the white house, which, for many, is grounds for hope, and across the world we see almost unbelievable acts of individual bravery from those who will not be cowed. with me ....
streaming further westwards. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. the oxford astrazeneca vaccine offers limited protection against mild disease caused by the south african variant of covid 19. but scientists say it will still help to beat the pandemic. the uk government has no plans to introduce vaccine passports according to the vaccines minister who says the focus should remain on the inoculation programme itself. the collapse of a himalayan glacier causes flash flooding in northern india three people are dead and at least 150 are missing. now on bbc news, geeta guru murthy presents dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london, the programme bringing together bbc expertise with correspondents filing around the world. i m geeta guru murthy. this week, we heard president biden s new take on us foreign policy ending support for the saudi offensive in yemen, a tougher line on russia and a still strong stance against china. the challenges ahead are man ....
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. thousands of people have taken to the streets of myanmar s main city, yangon, to protest against this week s military coup. they are calling for the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and others detained by the army. it s the first big demonstration since the military seized power. the crowds were chanting in favour of democracy, and against what they say is a dictatorship. the authorities have been quick to respond, although there are no reports of any violence yet. police with riot shields and barbed wire have set up barricades to prevent them entering the downtown area. the military, which seized power on monday, has ordered telecom companies to block the social media app twitter, following a similar move against facebook earlier this week. our south east asia correspondentjonathan head is following the developments. we do not know how much they have been replicated in the rest of the country. ....
predictably, still tough on china? some things won t change and he does have much wiggle room on china because this was a bipartisan area of concern before trump and that remains and given xi jinping s new authoritarianism which has been building since he came to power in 2012, i think it is very difficult for any american leader given, you know, the challenge that china is offering, he couldn t get away with it in congress, for one thing, even if he wanted to. it is something that they are just going to have to square up to. but part of his difficulty will be re establishing america s credibility as an ally afterfour america s credibility as an ally after four years of america s credibility as an ally afterfour years of trump america s credibility as an ally after four years of trump and given that china works a lot through trade and investment and how complicated trade deals are for a democratic president given by den s narrow wiggle room in congress i think that is g ....