dateline london. hello and a very warm welcome to the first dateline of 2021. this is the programme that brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists and those who file their stories for audiences back home with dateline, london. with me this week are uk newspaper columnist yasmin alibhai brown, henry chu who s deputy news editor at the los angeles times. and here in the studio, at a suitable distance in this age of pandemic, the bbc‘s asia pacific editor, celia hatton. forget the week just ended, and a year many are glad is done. this is the week to look ahead. to january 20th, whenjoe biden becomes president of the united states, to september when the european union s longest serving leader angela merkel is replaced, and to november when nations agree, or are supposed to agree, how they ll make each other actually meet the promises they ve made to cut the emissions heating the planet. a year of possibilities, then. but recall too, that, ten years a
scotland beat england at twickenham for the first time since 1983. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. myanmar has seen the biggest demonstrations yet against last week s military coup. and there have been protests in the capital naypidaw, and also in mandalay. protestors are demanding the release of the elected leader aung san suu kyi and other members of her party. the military appears to have tried to stifle dissent with an internet blackout. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head reports. five days after the military takeover and people are testing the limits. this group included factory workers from the western suburbs of yangon. but led by young political activists, shouting their condemnation of the new regime and their support for the ousted government. translation: as a citizen l who was born in this country, i cannot accept the unjust takeover by the military. because of this military dictatorship, many of our lives have been
how about the timing of this news play out? welcome, everyone, i m sandra smith in for neil cavuto and this is your world. justice steven breyer set to retire after the current term. giving president biden a first crack at filling the seat on the high court. bret baier on what role this will play in the midterms. first to peter at the white house. we didn t hear any kind of a detail what comes next. the white house doesn t even want to say who, or which official works here who will be in charge of the search for replacement. president biden was asked briefly about this but he wanted his focus to be entirely on build back better . every justice has the right and opportunity to decide what he or she is going to do and announce it on their own. there has been no announcement from justice breyer. let him make whatever statement he s going to make and i will be happy to talk antibiotic later. joe biden was there at the beginning almost 28 years ago when justice breyer was b
even tell republicans they need to watch out. now we look at 2022. i want to tell my republican friends get ready, pal, you are going in for a problem. we have to keep making the case if we could i believe we are going to win. let me say this again for the present. we are going to win in 2022. as democrats, we know what we re for. what republicans don t seem to be for anything. name me something they are for. they re against everything. i don t know a single solitary world leader who wouldn t trade the problems of the president of the united states has for their problems. i don t know a single one. dana: and speaker nancy pelosi is gushing over the job president biden has been doing. they are blocking every effort to provide it s an honor and pleasure to be here at this time of challenge and with the coronavirus the national disaster, our country could not be more could not be better served than with this most experienced capable hands than your president biden.
people don t listen to politicians, but they listen to us. i don t want my kids to battle what i battled with. that is why i fight, because when life stops, we are still a human being. sport is not who we are, it is what we do. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. lewis hamilton is fizzing again after fighting back to win the sao paolo grand prix. the all conquering australians reign in t20. they re the new world champions, after a stunning win against new zealand. and red roses run riot. england demolish canada to extend their incredible winning streak. hello there and welcome to the programme. when the odds are against him lewis hamilton is used to delivering. and today was no different at the sao paulo grand prix. the world champion battled back from tenth place on the grid to sensationally pass the championship leader max verstappen and cap off a fine win to keep this year s title race very much alive, with just three races to go. andy swiss reports.