But as the military steps up its campaign of intimidation against the ousted civilian leadership, protesters took to the streets for 1/5 consecutive day off nationwide demonstrations.

That's despite facing water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets.

In recent days.

A night curfew is also in place.

United Nations condemns the use of force against the protesters.

It's calling for the release off.

Santucci and other elected leaders on the European Parliament is debating sanctions on Myanmar, but you foreign policy chief Joseph Burrell is urging a cautious approach.

We should avoid rushing into measures that good adversely affect the most vulnerable part of the population.

This often happens when you take restrictive measures at the end of the poor, is among the poorest who pay the consequences, have engaged with Asian India, the US, Australia on also discussed the situation yesterday with a Chinese foreign minister.

We all agree on the need to quick responses to avoid allowing affect a complete that can last quite a long time.

Joseph Burrell speaking there now for more Let's bring in a Min Tun.

She's a freelance journalist based in young on How likely is it the military will listen to this international pressure?

Um, well, I think it depends on how the how consistently the pressure is applied.

Um and whether or not there are, they have supporters in countries who in the past have supported them.

Right?

So in the case of the Rohingya crisis, we saw that especially in the U.

N.

Security Council, a swell as in the international efforts toe hold them accountable for the atrocities that were committed against the Rohingya.

Um, they had allies with China and Russia as well as a couple of other countries.

And if those if any efforts by the international community are not consistently applied, then there there's always ways for them to continue to make money and continue to avoid accountability.

Well, the military have now raided the main opposition party headquarters, and the protests, on the other hand, are continuing.

Are there any signs off a peaceful solution?

I mean, I think the civil disobedience movement is really good place, toe Look in terms of, uh, Nonviolence, Nonviolence, resistance and a way in which, you know, even without street protests, necessarily people would be able to resist the governance of the military regime.

Um, but at the same time, you know, the military's response to protesters is clearly escalating.

Andan the intro You said earlier that there were rubber bullets used, um yesterday there was a protest.

Ah, protester who was shocked.

Andi was taken to the hospital and her doctor confirmed that it was a live bullet that went through her head.

Mm.

Does the military, you think, still have the backing of other authorities in the country like the police or local governments?

Eso We have seen a number of people essentially defecting from the leadership of the military.

And so there were quite a few videos of police officers who either broke the police line in order to join the I mean, yes, there were videos of police officers who essentially broke the police line in order to join protesters.

And there's also reports of police officers simply quitting the force.

Andi yesterday as well, the mayor of Mandalay resigned from his post.

Well, you have been covering this situation in Myanmar for many, many years.

How did these protests compared to the previous, eh?

So I started covering Myanmar in 2018.

And so largely the protests here have been, uh, there's been sort of rallies in support about San Suu G on against international condemnation regarding the Rohingya issue as well as labor movements as well as free speech and, um, Internet access of pro Internet access movements.

Um, and nothing has ever compared to anything like this, uh, the sheer amount of people who are involved, the level of solidarity that we're seeing between different ethnic and religious groups.

A swell as the fact that, um, it's just the entire country, right?

As opposed to very small segments or very specific locations.

Thank you very much.

I am intent there from Yangon.