To the precious metal. And the notorious Wolf Of Wall Street takes us through the whole thing. Storm orlena strikes americas north east coast heavy snow, and high winds bring New York City to a near standstill. And updated and re published ladybirds nature Picture Books are backafter inspiring a generation of children in the 1950s and 60s. Good to have you with us. The United States has threatened to impose sanctions on myanmar, following a Military Coup in the country. President biden has urged an International Response to the power grab, and called it a direct assault on democracy. Those detained include the head of the largest party, Aung San Suu Kyi and other memebers of the civilian leadership. Troops are on the streets of the capital, naypyidaw, and the biggest city, yangon and a curfew has been put in place. Our special correspondent, fergal keane reports. An army reverting to autocratic type, swiftly and ruthlessly deposing a democratically elect the leader. Somewhere behind th
Could have here in the uk. Also tonight. The army is out on the streets of myanmar as the military stage a coup months after losing an election. The fake covid Test Certificates with a negative result being sold online. And taking on one of the uks toughest races despite an unexpected medical diagnosis. And coming up in sport on bbc news its transfer deadline day for clubs up and down the country well have the latest, including the man set to join champions liverpool. Good evening and welcome to the Bbc News At Six. Urgent testing is to start in parts of england as the south african strain of coronavirus has been detected in 11 of the cases there is no known link to the country. Its raised fears that the variant is now being transmitted within the community. Door to door testing will be carried out in the affected areas of london, the West Midlands, hertfordshire, kent, surrey and merseyside. Health officials are confident the vaccines will work against the South African Variant but pr
good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
continues to rain terror from the skies in the form of missiles, rockets, airstrikes and drones. both near the battlefield in the east of the country and far from the front lines. in places like tel aviv and right here in the capital city of kyiv. when something that is evident. the aerate siren to become a part of everyday life here. there been multiple air raid sirens each day. one of them about two hours ago. well most ukrainians have come to live with them, hearing them, acknowledging them and a largely continuing on with their day. from my team and me, in a fury sarah does go off during the show, we will need to immediately leave this location and relocate to a more secure place. if that does happen, my friend and colleague jonathan capehart is standing by in new york to pick up our coverage until i m safe and said to rejoin. tomorrow, president joe biden is heading to poland were on tuesday, he will deliver remarks commemorating the anniversary of the invasion. since fe
that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don t see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let s begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? well, you know, there was a line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the re