It's Friday, April 9th. I'm Achila Hughes.

And I'm Gideon Rezek and this is what the day the podcast they play at the White House

when they need Joe Biden's dog to calm down.

Yeah, and based on news reports, they're playing at 24-7. You know, this is their Jack

James. They love it.

On today's show, we give you an inside look at the military coup in Myanmar and then some

headlines.

As a reminder, that coup began on February 1st. On that day, the parliament was set to

hold its first session since the fall elections, where the National League for Democracy

or NLD won a majority of seats. But the military refused to accept the results and detained

leaders of the party in addition to other officials, including the NLD's president,

Anxan Suchi. From there, the military swiftly began to take control of infrastructure,

the media, and also suspended phone access and flights.

Then later the same month, what had been largely peaceful protests turned deadly when two

unarmed protesters were killed by security forces, including a 16-year-old boy. There

was also a protest in the form of a general strike on February 22nd, but with each passing

day, the military has become more violent towards civilians. The military has now killed

over 550 people and detained or tortured many thousands more, according to one human

rights group. Among those dead, more than 40 children.

And basic information has been hard to come by for the people in Myanmar. Under the military's

control, journalists have been arrested, non-state-owned newspapers have stopped publishing, and

internet outages are frequent. But despite all that, Amin Thant has been able to report.

...