prince william breaks his silence after harry and meghan s interview with a direct challenge to their most explosive claim. is the royalfamily a racist family sir? we are very much not a racist family. it s one year since the world health organisation declared coronavirus a global pandemic. since it first emerged in china, 118 million people have been infected. and 2.6 million people have died. the united states is the worst affected country, with more than half a million deaths. in the uk, the death toll has passed 125,000. anne marie rafferty is president of the uk s royal college of nursing. it s a sense of shock and it was quite profound and i think that continues to some extent although people have attuned to the pandemic, no one hoped it would last this long i think the psychological consequences of this have yet to completely unfurl. the great success of the last year has been the development of vaccines. more than 300 million doses have been administered worldwide.
A group of human rights researchers officially launched a website Wednesday that they hope will help get justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar, where one of the world’s less-noticed but still brutal armed struggles is taking place. Since the army seized power in February 2021 from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, thousands of people have been killed by the security forces seeking to quash pro-democracy resistance. According to the United Nations, more than 1.8 million have been displaced by military offensives, which critics charge have involved gross violations of human rights.
on the eve of the first anniversary of the myanmar military coup, britain, the united states and canada have imposed fresh sanctions, this time on top members of the judiciary involved with the prosecution of myanmar s ousted leader, aung san suu kyi. reports say the militaryjunta has now charged her with influencing election officials, in addition to previous charges. meanwhile, un investigators say more than a thousand people may have been killed in crimes against humanity and war crimes since the coup. i m joined now by yang he lee who was the un special rapporteur for human rights in myanmar from 2010 to 2014. founder member of the special advisory council for myanmar, it is wonderful to have you on the programme. i want to start by asking you we are a year into the cool, when more sanctions placed on officials overnight, but what else has the international community done to really put the pressure on me and meyer to change or improve the