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
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
Children and adults are now starving to death, and that more than half a million palestinians are on the brink of famine. Ceasefire talks between israel and hamas have stalled after initial hopes that a deal could be reached by the start of ramadan this weekend. Desperately needed aid is being hindered by Rampant Lawlessness in gaza, the uns Emergency Relief Coordinator says, as the world body pushes for additional entry points and supply routes to the territory. Meanwhile, the us has continued to air drop food to gaza. The pentagon says it delivered more than delivered more than 11,000 meals by air already an effort criticised by aid agencies as insufficient. Reports emerged that five palestinians were killed friday after being hit by a airdropped package that failed to deploy its parachute. The bbc has not been able to independently verify the claims of Civilian Casualties, which come from a gaza doctor and the hamas run health ministry. However, this social media footage, verified b
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these were some of the celebrations on the streets of istanbul as mr erdogan celebrated with his supporters. but as well as dealing with a deeply divided country, he also has an economic crisis on his hands, with inflation that s the rate at which prices rise running at more than a0%. our chief international correspondent orla guerin reports. it was a long night of celebration for one side of turkey. supporters of president recep tayyip erdogan massed outside his presidential palace here, marking a hard fought victory. translation: i ve been voting for him since i was 18, yetter tells us. my generation backs erdogan. we won the election fairly, thank god. recep tayyip erdogan. i love you a lot. in istanbul, he did it his way. with a singalong for supporters of his ruling ak party and an attack on familiar targets. is the opposition pro lgbt?, he asks. could any lgbt infiltrate our party? no, they chorus. over at the opposition s headquarters, it was like a funeral. almost