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
jailed. we will be getting more lined in the coming hours. sui kyi. this is according to a government spokesman. he s a government spokesman. the man who led the ferrari formula one team to multiple world championships, who went on to become chief executive of ferrari itself. but for 12 years, jean todt has been head of the international automobile federation. during his tenure, he s overseen the launch of the electric racing series formula e, as well as major rule changes in f1 to make the cars much more efficient. days before leaving his role, mr todt met with our reporter theo leggett and explained how the motorsport business is driving real world change. all this research is profitable and that is why you hear that
and substantial quantities of gold. they come on top of six other charges and in one sense they are rather more serious because the previous charges filed against ms sui kyi was somewhat trivial in some cases. this one, taking large amount of money and corruption, would go completely against everything that aung san suu kyi has stood for. that is if people believe it but i don t think anybody will. as her lawyer pointed out, she has many defects but corruption is not one of them. she is known to be completely uninterested in material things and most of the population will dismiss this as a charade. in a sense, none of that matters, the judiciary is firmly under the thumb of the military government and if they want to there is no question they can convict aung san suu kyi to put her in prison for the rest of her life if they want. probably more likely they will use this to disqualify her from any future political office.
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Greta Thunberg has come under attack for using her bully pulpit to wade into political issues, such as the farmers protest in India, by Mohinder Gulati, former Chief Operating Officer, United Nations Sustainable Energy for All in his open letter to Thunberg.
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International child rights activist Greta Thunberg has come under attack for using her “bully pulpit” to wade into political issues, such as the farmers’ protest in India. Mohinder Gulati, Former Chief Operating Officer, United Nations Sustainable Energy for All, has written a letter to Thunberg, which is also marked to the United Nations Secretary-General.