Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and Around The World. We start this hour with Breaking News and a Military Coup appears to be under way in myanmar. The countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, president win myint and other Senior Party Leaders have all been detained in a series of Early Morning raids. Lets speak to our South East Asia correspondentjonathan head. What more can you tell us about what has been happening . It is what has been happening . It is not that clear what has been happening . It is not that clear from what has been happening . It 3 not that clear from here and bangkok. We are getting a lot of reports from contacts inside Myanmar Committee does appear numerous reports that the key leadership of the country including unsung suki have been detained by the military early this morning before dawn. Aung san sui kyi. In the capital which is not the main city but that has been more or less cut off and people are finding it very hard to get through on the phone o
spanish league. this is the player, brazilian international, viniciusjunior, who reported what he said was racist abuse while playing for real madrid against valencia on sunday. the game was paused, before continuing. after the match, vinicius, who has been the target of racist abuse several times during this season, said that the spanish top division, la liga, belongs to racists. la liga s president responded by saying that the player had twice not attended meetings to discuss what the organisation could do saying. that comment led to criticism and an outpouring of support in brazilfor vinicius, including this moment, when the lights illuminating rio s statue of christ the redeemer were switched off as a gesture of support. brazil s government has requested urgent meetings with officials in madrid over the matter. well the episode has reverberated in football around the world. here s former england international micah richards speaking about it on the bbc a little earlie
world? i kind of drove around the neighborhood looking for nuclear power plant. i just wanted to make sure. just wanted to make sure. there wasn t one within walking distance anyway. i mean, the thing about nuclear power is that it s got some stuff going for it in terms of carbon emissions in greenhouse gas emissions in everything, it s great. but you know? what when used as directed, nuclear power plants produce nuclear waste and we re not always great at working with. and a time of war zone, or unpredictability nuclear waste can become a mass casualty event really quickly and in this ukraine case, it s a huge plant right in the middle of a war zone, and it s a scary situation. it brings this problem in a way we haven t been quite able to find a way to see it so clearly before. yes, the nuclear waste last nuclear last 300,000 years or something like that. for me that was enough, you got me there i don t know how to solve that problem. but this, the notion that these plan
call and start saving today. all right that s gonna do it comcast business. powering possibilities. for me tonight. alex wagner will be here tomorrow. now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell good evening lawrence. good evening rachel and wish me luck sleeping tonight after listening to james acton talking about that nuclear power plant situation. you know it i did when i bought the one house that i bought in this world? i kind of drove around the neighborhood looking for nuclear power plant. i just wanted to make sure. just wanted to make sure. there wasn t one within walking distance anyway. i mean, the thing about nuclear power is that it s got some stuff going for it in terms of carbon emissions and greenhouse gas emissions in everything, it s great. but you know? what when used as directed, nuclear power plants produce nuclear waste and we re not always great at dealing with it. and a time of war zone, or unpredictability nuclear waste can become a mass
election. the way he responded to that is by creating an alternate universe in which he did not lose the election and the country is paying the price. three times. three times? losing in 2020, the new york attorney general case and now the 34 counts. the attorney general case with the massive penalty. you are right to point it out with the devastating nature of the blow in that case. hundreds of millions of dollars that he owes and now in this criminal case. he does not have the option to do it he did with losing the 2020 election. he does not have the option to say that didn t really happen. let s have an alternate universe in which the penalty did not happen, the liability did not happen and the criminal convictions did not happen. from your sense of how he moves through the world and deals with humiliation and failure, what do you think he has left to do that he can do in response to this that we should be prepared for? is going to blame everybody other than hims