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BBC OS: 2023/02/02 16:06 GMT: Myanmar: State of emergency extended

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Myanmar: State of emergency extended

2023/02/02 16:06 GMT

2023/02/02 16:06 GMT: Myanmar: State of emergency extended

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It is two years since a military coup removed Aung San Suu Kyi from power

It is two years since a military coup removed Aung San Suu Kyi from power.

The military government in Myanmar has extended the state of emergency imposed after it seized power in a coup two years ago by a further six months. The coup and the harsh repression which followed it have led to widespread armed resistance to miliary rule in Myanmar. Our South-East Asia Correspondent Jonathan Head has been covering Myanmar for 22 years and speaks to us from Messot - a town on the border of Thailand and Myanmar.

A former Russian army officer has told our Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg that he saw Russian soldiers torturing Ukrainian prisoners. WARNING: Some descriptions in his report are disturbing.

Our reporter in Washington has been speaking to serving and retired black officers in the US about what happened to Tyre Nichols, the African-American man who died after a violent encounter with five black officers in Memphis, Tennessee.

We find out why people are talking about mascara in their Tik Tok videos.

(Photo: Myanmar protesters residing in Japan raise photos of Aung San Suu Kyi during a rally to mark the second anniversary of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Tokyo, Japan February 1, 2023. Credit: Issei Kato/Reuters)

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