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Welcome to CNN 10. My name is Carl Azuz
reporting from a remote studio location
this week but it is not a green screen
as someone on twitter asked yesterday
first up in today's international
coverage takes us to the southeast asian
country of myanmar
it's also known as burma it was taken
over by its military in a coup
on february 1st and since then there
have been violent confrontations between
the military and the civilians who've
been protesting the takeover
an advocacy group based in neighboring
thailand says more than 550 people have
died in myanmar's violence and that
thousands of others have been detained
by the military
it blames the demonstrators for causing
violence and anarchy in myanmar
but witnesses say troops have used tear
gas rubber bullets and deadly force
against the protesters
and it's blocked all wireless internet
services operating in myanmar which
observers say is an attempt to control
the information that gets out
the u.s central intelligence agency says
burma's military has been heavily
involved in the nation's politics since
it was founded
it took over in a coup in 1962 and ran
the country for five decades afterward
last november myanmar's civilian
government won a significant victory in
national elections
but the military did not accept the
results it said the vote was fraudulent
and since its coup in february it's
arrested and accused civilian leader
aung sang-su chi of committing several
crimes which her lawyers say are made up
the military did give cnn permission to
enter the country
it's the first international media
organization allowed to work there
troops have been escorting the cnn
journalists monitoring their movements
and those who speak to them
clarissa ward interviewed members of the
public and a member of the military
on one day we were finally allowed to go
to apublic space to an open market and it's
important to underscore here
that we have not solicited contact with
any activist with anyone who's part of
the protest movement because
we know given the context that we're
here and just how dangerous that could
behowever when we took our cameras out in
this market
and started shooting video people
started coming up to us
people started giving the three-fingered
hunger games salute that has become
the emblem the symbol of this defiant
movement
and they came up and started telling us
their stories they told us they were
frightened
they told us there is no peace there and
we let them
say their piece we felt it was important
to give them the opportunity
to have their side of the story on the
record shortly afterwards however
we found out that many of them were
detained one woman actually ran
after me while we were still at the
market trembling like a leaf on the
phone with someone who said that three
people we'd spoken to
had already been arrested we had the
opportunity however
to sit down with myanmar's senior
military
senior military leadership the
government spokesman himself
and we asked him why on earth these
people have been arrested and we urged
himto release them take a listen
we went to a market in yangon and
a lot of people approached us because
they wanted to talk to us they wanted to
tell
their side of the story we subsequently
found out that at least
five of them were arrested we have
verified this independently we have seen
photographic evidence
in some cases to confirm this can you
please explain
why you would be arresting people for
talking to us
what possible crime did these people
commit
and i asked how many were arrested
11 got arrested the security forces
were worried that they would provoke
others and start the protest in the
market
and that is why they got arrested
howeverthe government is arranging to release
them as soon as possible
we are now very relieved to be able to
confirm that at least
eight of those 11 people in all eight
that cnn knew about
have now been released why does the
military want you there or why have they
agreed to allow
cnn to be there if they're just going to
arrest everybody that you talk to
the military wants to get its side of
the story on the record too
and that's important and we gave them up
the opportunity to do that
they see the protest movement as being
violent as being dangerous
as being disruptive to the economy they
say that if people allow the process to
play out that there will be elections
again
within the next two years they paraded a
series of
victims before us who told us stories
about being threatened by the protesters
by
humiliated by the protesters they took
us to buildings that they said had been
vandalized by the protesters
ten-second trivia what was the largest
naval battle of world war
ii battle of the philippine city battle
of the coral sea
battle of midway or battle of leyte gulf
fought in late october of 1944 the
battle of leyte gulf is widely
considered the biggest naval battle in
history
it was a decisive victory for the united
states and a major defeat for japan
the asian country lost dozens of ships
hundreds of planes
and hundreds of thousands of japanese
troops were killed or injured
america lost seven warships along with
more than 23
000 soldiers and sailors according to
the defense department
not only is the battle of leyte gulf
among the largest naval battles in
historythe maritime clash in 1944 marked the
last time
battle ships fought against each other
some of these wrecks are still being
discovered today
near the philippines and miles beneath
the waves of the pacific
this is the world's deepest known
shipwreck located more than four miles
or some 6500 meters below the surface of
the pacific
the numbers 557 identify it as the uss
johnston filmed for the first time
underwater
by remote controlled submersible this
destroyer was one of several u.s navy
ships sunk
battling a vastly superior japanese
fleet
during a furious battle off the coast of
the philippines during world war
ii these little ships fighting a
desperate battle to time
used everything in the book to stay
afloat
how did you feel seeing the id numbers
of the uss johnston in a way it's
painful but in another way it's
inspirational
former u.s navy captain carl shuster
says he and his fellow officers
studied the story of the johnston and
its commander
ernest evans the first native american
naval officer to be posthumously awarded
the medal of honor
he moved without orders he saw an
imminent danger to the fleet
and he moved on it on his own authority
evans bought time for
vulnerable american transport ships by
attacking a fleet of
23 japanese warships his actions
started a charge if you will that
ultimately saved several thousand
american lives at the cost of his own
and much of his crew
186 crew members including commander
evans
died aboard the johnston the johnston
was mapped by calidan oceanic
over the past decade several other world
war ii wrecks
have been discovered in the pacific by
expeditions led by the late microsoft
co-founder
paul allen navies around the world treat
these sites
as sacred war graves i see them as
the tombs or cemeteries of brave men
who died fighting for their country
whether they're german
japanese or american the mapping of the
uss johnston brings some closure for
surviving relatives of the ship's crew
a grateful people will remember their
names
the gambia bay the uss hole
the johnston the samuel b robert
but the final resting places of the
three other ships sunk during the same
deadly battle have yet to be found
ivan watson cnn hong kong
the united states and japan have become
close allies since world war ii
and decades before the war the
friendship between the japanese and the
american people was demonstrated in
mutual gifts of trees
in 1912 japan sent more than 3 thousand
cherry trees across the pacific
in return america shipped dogwood trees
to japanthree years later the japanese gift
bloomed into an annual highlight on
washington dc's title basin
every year in late march and early april
visitors walk through a springtime
wonderland of white and pink flowers
well trees the season and you don't need
to pedicel us on such an arboreal
unreal beauty it would give any city
bracting rights to be able to branch out
and show off the roots that
tip the bud scales to such a cherry
atmosphere. I'm Carl Azuz and
cicero illinois is our last stop today
want to give a shout out to morton east
high school
thanks to everyone for watching cnn