Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner, and former leader of Myanmar, has been missing for three weeks. That’s when the 78-year-old was relocated for health reasons, according to prison officials. But her supporters and family have not heard from her since. The World’s Patrick Winn speaks to host Carolyn Beeler about Suu Kyi and the heat wave affecting hundreds of millions of people.
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