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Welcome to the programme. A Military Coup appears to be underway in myanmar. Reports say the countrys de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian leaders have been detained. Soldiers are on the streets of the main cities and communications have been cut. Tension has been escalating since the november elections, which the nld was declared to have won by a landslide. The military, whose proxy party won only a few seats, has claimed the results were fraudulent. 0ur South East Asia correspondentJonathan Head is in bangkok. He says facts are difficult to confirm at this stage. Well, its not...

Midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, where the firestorm following President Trumps latest comments blaming both sides for the violence in charlottesville, virginia continues to burn. Business leaders have joined two former republican president s in condemning his stance. The bbcs North America Editorjon Sopel reports. Amazing grace. The Memorial Service for Heather Heyer, an anti racism protestor mown down by a white supremacist in charlottesville on saturday. But far from this being an occasion when a nation comes together, america seems more bitterly divided than ever. They tried to k...

Midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, where the firestorm following President Trumps latest comments blaming both sides for the violence in charlottesville, virginia continues to burn. Business leaders have joined two former republican president s in condemning his stance. The bbcs North America Editorjon Sopel reports. Amazing grace. The Memorial Service for Heather Heyer, an anti racism protestor mown down by a white supremacist in charlottesville on saturday. But far from this being an occasion when a nation comes together, america seems more bitterly divided than ever. They tried to k...

Shih Ming-teh, a democracy activist who helped lead Taiwan from authoritarianism to democracy and a former chairman of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, died on Monday, his family said. Aaccording to a statement from his family on his official Facebook page, he was being treated at Taipei’s Veterans General Hospital. “Our father, Shih Ming-teh, set off today on his birthday, reuniting with his family members and the comrades-in-arms that he had fought with through thick and thin,” said the family.

Nguyen Tien Trung says security forces chased him in Vietnam and Thailand.