This weekend in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, the second phase of national elections is underway.

It's the first election since the ruling military regime seized power five years ago.

But with major opposition parties barred from participating, leaders jailed, and an ongoing civil war keeping many from voting, the process is widely

criticized as a sham.

Special correspondent, Kira Kay, has our story.

Saitis, you know, oh?

The newsroom of the Democratic Voice of Burma, DVB, is on countdown.

Their 2 p.m. broadcast about to go live.

Today's news is the bombing of a hospital by the Burmese military, who took control of the country in a coup five years ago.

Although the junta says they were striking rebels they are fighting,

DVB's reporters confirm that 34 civilians were killed, including a pregnant woman and a three-month-old baby.

You see all these bombings in Gaza or bombay in Ukraine almost every day on the TV.

And similar thing happening in Burma every day. We're seeing two or three airstriads every day on the TV. And similar thing happening in Burma every day.

We're seeing two or three air strikes every day.

H.N. 9, DVB's founder, relies on a network of journalists who risk their lives daily

to get footage out of the country.

The newsroom sits in northern Thailand.

And this is all across the country?

Yes.

It had been founded in exile in 1992 and now finds itself there again after the coup.

Life in Myanmar today is a far cry from its so-called decade of hope,

which began in 2010 when the long repressed country

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