Evening Edition: An Escalating Situation in Burma

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

On February 1st, the Burmese military arrested hundreds of lawmakers, alleging voter fraud in the 2020 Burmese General Election. With a coup seemingly underway, thousands of citizens took to the streets in Burma to display their opposition to these actions. As the protests rage on, FOX News Radio International Reporter Simon Owen speaks to Tom Andrews, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Burma and a former Congressman Maine, on what he thinks can be done to calm this situation and to protect citizens' rights. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's time to take the quiz.
0:01.7	Five questions, five minutes a day, five days a week.
0:04.3	Take the quiz every weekday at the Quiz dot Fox
0:07.3	and then listen to the Quiz podcast to find out how you did.
0:10.2	Clay, share, and of course listen listen to the quiz at the quiz.
0:13.7	Fox.
0:14.7	I'm Abby Hornisek.
0:15.8	This is Tucker Carlson.
0:16.8	And I'm Jessica Tarlev.
0:18.0	This is the Fox News rundown.
0:19.5	Thursday, February 18th, 2021. I'm Simon Owen. From bodybuilders to ballroom dancers,
0:29.5	tens of thousands of people are protesting in Burma against a military coup.
0:35.0	Tonight, a former US congressman now investigating human rights in Burma on what's happening
0:40.9	and what might come next.
0:43.0	My concern, my fear is violence.
0:46.0	That we will see indiscriminate shooting,
0:49.0	that we will see significant numbers of people die at the hands of the military.
0:53.8	That's what I'm terrified of because we've seen it happen in the past.
0:57.3	This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition. The last time Burma's military overthrew an elected government, Tom Andrews was finding
1:09.4	his way in Washington as a newly elected congressman from Maine.
1:13.8	I got to go to Congress when I won and they went to prison or house arrest or into exile when they
1:19.9	won.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from FOX News Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of FOX News Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.