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the south asian country of
myanmar also known as burma is where we
begin today's show
I'm Carl Azuz. We're glad to have you
watching the troubled country is located
between bangladesh and thailand
we say troubled because it's in the
middle of a military coup a takeover
and that military announced yesterday it
had removed and replaced myanmar's
civilian leader
and 24 members of her government the
burmese military has taken over before
in 1962 it ruled the country for decades
after that
and when it didn't like the results of
an election in 1990 it put an elected
party leader under house arrest
to complicate matters further the
nation's government has fought conflicts
with ethnic groups who want their
independence from myanmar
a militant group linked to the nation's
rohingya muslims
attacked government forces in 2016 and
2017
and the military responded by cracking
down on rohingyas causing hundreds of
thousands of civilians to flee to
neighboring bangladesh
so the instability in myanmar deepens
it is a textbook example of a military
coup
troops showing up before dawn at the
homes of elected lawmakers in myanmar
arresting them in the dark
an announcement read out on the
military-owned tv channel
declaring that this man military chief
minon hein
is assuming control of the government
ema told me
the state of emergency is in effect
nationwide and the duration of the state
of emergency
is set to one year now detained and held
in communicado
the country's de facto leader ansan
tsuchi along with the president and a
growing number of other top government
officials from her national league for
democracy party
we've also heard that you know activists
some student leaders
um politicians from around the country
not just in napier
and yangon they've been taken and you
know there's just no way to verify where
they are or what they're doing
for many in myanmar the military's
shocking power play is a traumatic
reminder
of what up until 2015 had been more than
a halfcentury of military dictatorship where
any public descent
was brutally crushed it's devastating
becausenow people are wondering are we going to
live under another
five to seven decades of this shadow
over us
during military rules suchid became an
international symbol of myanmar's
pro-democracy movement
winning a nobel peace prize while under
house arrest in yangon
for some 15 years that changed in 2015
when the military finally allowed the
country's first
modern democratic elections the people
who had decided that they must be
involved in the political process of
this country
people celebrated in the streets after
su chi and her party won by a landslide
she entered an uneasy power sharing
agreement with the military
but excitement over myanmar's transition
to civilian rule
faded in 2017 amid disturbing scenes
of hundreds of thousands of members of
the rohingya muslim
ethnic minority fleeing across the
border to bangladesh
to escape a brutal military crackdown
dalan sansucci was there ethnic
cleansing in rakhine state the nobel
peace prize winner defended the military
rejecting accusations of genocide
on november 8 2020 the people of myanmar
went back
to the ballot box in another national
election
despite the threat of kovitt 19 they
voted in huge numbers
expanding suchi's mandate and all but
crushing military-backed candidates at
the polls
without providing evidence the military
claimed electoral fraud
and has now used these claims to justify
its overthrow of the government the
burmese military has
proven themselves very capable of
slaughtering its own people so we
have a extremely you know troubling
situation from
here on uh because the pretense of
civility
in politics pretence of democratization
isfinished a country with a long
violent history now headed into a new
period
of deep uncertainty
trivia what is the only animal species
in the genus rincotin
whale shark meerkat grey parrot or lemur
answer here is the biggest fish in the
sea the whale shark which can weigh more
than forty thousand pounds
despite that and the fact that they're
as big as school buses
whale sharks are a pretty good choice if
you're going to be swimming with sharks
they're found around the world in warm
waters they've been an endangered
species since 2016
two of the biggest threats they face are
habitat loss and fishing
including times they've been caught by
accident but there are people working to
protect
and study this enormous fish
i love jumping in with whale sharks but
it can be intimidating
they're the biggest fish in the sea
they're as big as a bus
and to have such a huge creature come at
you out of the deep blue
it sort of does take your breath away
i've swung with whale sharks on
thousands of occasions but
i still get a buzz every time i go out
rock nest island has a long history in
my life we used to come here around our
school holidays
and it was here that i got to swim and
snorkelin this beautiful environment and that
really encouraged me
to want to go down the path of being a
marine biologist
well we're starting to find out areas of
critical importance to whale sharks
where
they're traveling to for important
aspects of their life
whale sharks are covered in a beautiful
pattern of lines and spots
but how do we compare one pattern of
spots against another
so we adapted an algorithm that nasa
scientists use
in the hubble space telescope to map
stars in the night sky
we mapped the pattern of spots on the
skin of a whale shark and then
like fingerprint recognition scan that
photo against the
thousands of other photos and if it's a
match it's the same sharp
the wild book for whale sharks is a
online database
that encourages members of the public to
be citizen scientists if they get to see
a whale shark and they swim with one to
take a photo
of the area the special id area which is
behind the gills
take a photo of that area send it into
the wild book well as we find more about
these animals
it's going to help us work out systems
and ways to protect them in the long
term
over the last few years the the numbers
of
sightings that are coming in is
increasing all the time it's so
important to have members of the public
assisting with our project by taking a
photograph and
helping us with our research we can all
work together to save this species
as forecasters predicted several inches
of snow have fallen on washington dc
this week
and it ain't just people who've noticed
and taken advantage
the smithsonian released this video of
two pandas at play at the national zoo
doesn't look like they need a sled and
it doesn't matter that these two animals
are in their early 20s
there are a couple of cubs in the snow
well there's
nothing wrong with taking a day to chill
they have below zero reasons not to
fancy a flurry of frolicking fun
and that's exactly the kind of ice to
see to give us all a little bamboos
we're glad they didn't flake out
hey we hear it's also snowy in elkins
west virginia
shout out to elkins mountain school we
hope you're having fun and staying warm
I'm Carl Asuz for CNN