Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

In Myanmar a young democracy under threat.

While in Washington, the world's oldest democracy tries to clean up its own house.

I speak with Derek Mitchell, former US ambassador to Yangon's and

constitutional scholar Noah Feldman breaks down the issues in Trump's Senate trial. Then. Day off from Kyoto,

4 the 10 months to grow 7-11.

She's called a voice for a generation with little hope.

I speak with breakout singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridges. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London. Democracy is

under the spotlight and not just in Washington where former President Trump's

second impeachment trial is underway. Thousands of miles away in Myanmar protesters are on the streets

for the fifth straight day. Following a military coup against their young

democracy, they are demonstrating peacefully and in a carnival-like atmosphere,

demanding an end to military rule and the release of their civilian leader

Aung-Sung Suu Kyi.

One woman has already been critically injured when police allegedly opened up with live fire.

Now under President Obama, the United States pursued Democracy in Myanmar rallying around Suu Kyi,

who was the country's democracy icon and also a Nobel Prize

lawyer. The military then finally released her from house arrest and she became the

de facto leader after the country's first democratic elections in 2015.

She won the latest elections in a landslide as well.

Hugely popular at home, she's fallen from Grace around the world for defending the military's brutal

campaign against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority. The United States Ambassador to

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