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announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robyn curnow. despite condemnations from the u.n. and major world powers, myanmar s military crackdown on protesters is only getting bloodier and more dangerous. a human rights group says as least 38 demonstrators were killed on sunday. it is the deadliest day so far since last month s coup. and there could be more deaths we just don t know about. the military junta has now declared martial law in six districts of yang orngs which is myanmar s largest city. i want to go straight to our paula hancocks who s been monitoring all of these latest developments and of course this increase in violence on the streets against protesters. what more can you tell us? hi, paula. reporter: well, robyn, it s very clear to everybody that the level of force that security forces are now using against protesters is increasing. it is definitely on the rise. as you say, yesterday being the deadliest day so far that we know of ....
demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know there s more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. reporter: last week congress passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the road to promote the legislation. it s already broadly popular in the polls. it won t hurt that those $1,400 per person covid relief checks have already started hitting americans bank accounts over the weekend. but president biden wants to make sure people understand other benefits in the bill including expanded child tax credits, aid to state and local governments, expanded health care subsidies, and also aid to small businesses that didn t qualify for previous rounds. the sales job will in ....
efforts to maximize every penny of the stimulus. the president and vice president and their spouses hit the road today from vegas to near philly for what the white house is calling the help is here tour touting the massive legislation. this comes as president biden is setting new goals for the nation to begin the path out of this pandemic and to help reach those goals the biden administration is now devoting $250 million to try to encourage skeptical americans, many of them trump supporters, to get the vaccine as cnn s phil mattingly now reports. shots in arms and money in pockets. reporter: with stimulus checks already hitting bank accounts president biden now in an all-out sprint to promote the $1.9 trillion covid relief law. the american rescue plan is already doing what it was designed to do, make a difference in people s everyday lives. reporter: and ensure there are no errors as it s put into place. the devil is in the details. reporter: biden naming g ....
From flooding by slowing heavy rainfall with their dams. They want creatures like this reintroduced nationwide. Not all are convinced. But the beavers here are making their own watery case. Roger harrabin, bbc news, devon. The weather looked nice there but how is it looking today . Nick miller has all the details. Icy rain icy sunshine sunshine and showers today, and mixture, not everyone will catch a shower. Scattered about scotla nd will catch a shower. Scattered about scotland and Northern Ireland, heavy ones with thunder, may catch mixed m, ones with thunder, may catch mixed in, drifting east of england and wales into this evening but they die away. Most places away from the Northern Isles, which they showery, look dry. Mid single figures away from the town and city centres, the grampians remaining freezing, maybe fog around on sunday. Morning sunshine tomorrow and show ....
From flooding by slowing heavy rainfall with their dams. They want creatures like this reintroduced nationwide. Not all are convinced. But the beavers here are making their own watery case. Roger harrabin, bbc news, devon. The weather looked nice there but how is it looking today . Nick miller has all the details. Icy rain icy sunshine sunshine and showers today, and mixture, not everyone will catch a shower. Scattered about scotla nd will catch a shower. Scattered about scotland and Northern Ireland, heavy ones with thunder, may catch mixed m, ones with thunder, may catch mixed in, drifting east of england and wales into this evening but they die away. Most places away from the Northern Isles, which they showery, look dry. Mid single figures away from the town and city centres, the grampians remaining freezing, maybe fog around on sunday. Morning sunshine tomorrow and show ....