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security forces in Myanmar have again used water cannon to disperse crowds after people defied a ban on demonstrated for 1/4 day against a military coup.

Some reports also suggest police have been firing gunshots into the air the junta is now.

It has now imposed a curfew on Yangon and Mandalay.

Pro democracy activists say they will continue to fight.

A ban on gatherings HASn't deterred thumb Here in the capital Napier door police fired water cannon of protesters rallying for their freedom, their demanding a return to democracy.

On the release of elected leader Aung Sang Suu Ki from Napier door to Mandalay to Yangon.

Ah, week of military rule in Myanmar has triggered a groundswell of demonstrations right across the nation everywhere the same demand e want Wanxiang Sushi and President win meant to be released quickly.

Way want all the people from the winning party, the NLD to be released?

In his first TV address to the nation, the country's new military leaders sought to justify the coup, repeating allegations of fraud in last year's election.

We're investigating the responsible authorities regarding voter fraud.

Hey promised fresh elections, but gave no timeline for when they might be held.

Theo comments have done nothing to quell the anger and defiance of these protesters, who say it's too little, too late.

They want the army out and say compromise is no longer an option from Yangon.

She's a journalist from Myanmar with her team of colleagues from the Reuters news agency.

She won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.

So what is the situation like in Yangon right now?

Just to be clear, I'm no longer with Reuters.

Um but the situation is much more defiance than it was yesterday.

I think if you were looking at the coverage from the protest yesterday, you saw a lot more families.

Ah, lot more people, Um, really trying to express themselves.

I think everyone kind of saw a lot of the really fun, that sort of protest side.

But today the scenes are much more prepared for violence.

I saw a lot of people wearing hard hats today from the sort of things that you see, A construction sites as well as a lot more people wearing sneakers, which e think, if you're not from here, you might not quite understand that.

Uh, Myanmar is a country where most people are wearing sandals even in colder areas where they might be wearing a scarf on gloves.

And so those its's a significant change We'll support seems to be growing.

There are reports off some firefighters, even a policeman joining the protests.

Yes, there there were marches of firefighters who've been joining eso.

The civil disobedience movement is definitely growing, you know, It started out with largely teachers of medical workers.

But the Myanmar state, on the amount of people who are civil servants and your mom are constant.

It's a very large amount of the population, and the protesters know this.

And because of this, a lot of the chance that we've been seeing the last few days have been really focused at the police to say you're the people's police.

You have covered the developments in Myanmar for years.

Do you feel encouraged when you see so many people out there on the streets to fight for that taste of democracy that they have been able to enjoy for a couple of years now?

I think it's really encouraging to see that people are now taking to the streets on doing so in such a focused, on specific way.

Andi, I think during the intro earlier as well.

Um, it's not just that people are asking for the freedom of outside Sergey and other political prisoners on the respecting of the election results, but they're also very vocally and publicly demanding for the Constitution that the Army wrote in 2000 and eight to be, um, t to create a new constitution, essentially and ah, lot of protests for that had really died down after the assassination of the NLD leader three years ago because he was one of the main people pushing for it.

In the report, we saw one of the generals promising elections.

Um, I will say that when you if you watch any of the Facebook, uh, live videos because they're not allowed to stream.

Since Facebook has banned military outlets from their platform, you will see that almost everyone is reacting with the hospitable, uh, and most of the comments are accusing him of being a liar.

So I think you get a good sense of the people sensitive from there.

It doesn't sound like this situation will be, can be solved with peaceful negotiations.

I do know that the leaders on the ground, in terms of the civil disobedience movement, their goals are largely to cripple or to to completely stop the state from being able to function on.

But people are able to band together and essentially rob the new regime of it.

Any legitimacy as well as any cooperation in terms of, you know, enacting their rules.

Then I think it is something that can be possible without violence.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist in young on Myanmar.