do you mean he's not in some of the toughest living conditions you. can't use you can use them on marketing. and. on i'll just syria. confessions of mass murder and burning of whole rohingya villages how alleged details from 2 myanma soldiers could help bring a genocide case to the international criminal courts. there watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also ahead an opposition leader mariano nice nicole is detained at the

ukrainian border a day after she was reportedly snatched off the street spying masked men. severe flooding in sudan has killed at least 100 people and cause widespread devastation we'll have the latest update from the capital khartoum. and scorched earth in california wildfires burn through a war of the state spend ever before. thank you very much for joining us many have labeled it genocide now to myanmar soldiers may have provided the evidence needed to bring a case to the international criminal court there are reports 2 men are in custody in the hague in what could be a breakthrough in the search for justice over the killing of rohingya muslims the human rights school 45 wright says it has seen tapes confessions from 2 men who say they deserted from. in the lengthy videos the men at made it to massacre rapes and

the destruction of rohingya villages that also allegedly named the soldiers and senior commanders involved in the crimes as bring in mohammed john john has covered the ring a crisis extensively for us joins us now here in doha mohammed if this is confirmed tallis significant is it and how does it advance the case for genocide against. foley i should 1st update our viewers with the fact that we've reached out to the international criminal court and through a spokesperson we are told that these 2 soldiers are not in custody at the i.c.c. now that's all the information that we've got and we've also been told that we should reach out to the prosecutor's office at the i.c.c. so that's not to say that these 2 men are not that are not currently in the hague it's just that they are not designating their potential presence there as being in the custody of the court a small those ignition but it could be an important new wants in in the potential

case to come now if what these if this is confirmed and if these 2 soldiers are indeed giving these kinds of details to i.c.c. investigators that could have a huge impact on a potential case it's been well over a year now that the i.c.c. has been trying to build a case they launched an investigation they have opened a case but it has been tricky for the i.c.c. because of jurisdictional issues because me and maher is not a signatory to the rome statute they are not a member of the international criminal court they do not recognize the i.c.c. bangladesh however which has helped the i.c.c. in building this case is a member of the rome statute and the fact that in the reporting there has been about this we have heard that these 2 soldiers fled to bangladesh it's really going to be interesting to find out just how much of a role. played in trying to get them to the i.c.c.

of course having direct testimony from soldiers involved in what many have called these horrific atrocities committed against the rohingya that would be a huge development rohingya refugees since the beginning of the crackdown that was launched against them august 25th 2017 and have used the word genocide to describe what happened what was perpetrated against them so if now there is direct testimony that means that me and mark could be a lot more live right and i know you speak to the refugees in bangladesh regularly those in cox's basam what will they make of this and are they hopeful that they'll get justice one day. you know the they were hanging there among the most persecuted minorities in the world they have faced so much for decades now and yet they do retain their resilience and their hope that they will get justice one day i imagine that as the news gets to the camps in bangladesh where there are close to 1000000

rohingya refugees that they will be elated with this news that all being said though every rowing a refugee is a refugee that i've spoken with the past few years when it's come to talking about potential cases against me and more potential charges of genocide against me and more whether it's the case that's at the international court of justice or this case that's being built at the i.c.c. they are fully aware that these kinds of international cases could take years could take decades to prosecute and therefore while they are optimistic whenever there are developments of this nature they are cautiously optimistic because they know that they have not been able to get justice thus far they don't think it will happen any time soon and in the meantime things only continue to get worse for them just yesterday we heard of around 300 rohingya refugees who had fled potentially bangladesh and tried to get to malaysia and now they reach the shores of in indonesia they are being trafficked more and more by human traffickers because

refugees face such dire consequences where they are in bangladesh and that just really goes to show you how bad things are for them that even when there are cases that have been launched against me and more in both of these forums they still want to escape their their circumstances and they are still trying to get to countries where they feel they would have a more secure future thank you very much for that moment john chillen with the latest on the crisis. in other world news a prominent opposition activists missing since monday has been detained at the border with ukraine state media say border guards removed maria kolesnik over from a car at a crossing several hours ago witnesses saw her being snatched off a street in minsk by masked men and taken away in a van this comes as the russian and 7 armies prepared to head to bella ruse later this week to carry out joint drills and below russian opposition candidates atlanta taken off chaos says president alexander lukashenko no longer has illegitimacy to

engage in diplomatic affairs freelance journalist has in minsk with more on maria kolesnik over this disappearance. we know mostly from i didn't state media will from the sources because her lawyer still hasn't gotten any information during the last 24 hours we've seen this morning the video with the want to her team member who was explaining then he has chosen to become tricked now we know there are 2 of them ben out in ukraine and maria kolesnikov i couldn't leave the country because she simply tore off her pa sport so she couldn't last into ukraine because of the incident so basically it proves once again that sees the park boston wasn't will and will to leave the country should that couple of days to get to me that she will be staying here till the end fields of a career and today what we saw once again proves that the roots and authorities

just tries to keep count of them from the country the main opposition figures so that they would not leave. even if they don't they defaulted but still they are very well known and people will respect them average so i talk to them on the street during that brought the. incident rules again that the bulletin board will continue the brush and now one journalist the editor of one of the main media outlets she was the rock then there are sort of the bachmann and the basically. the last sunday we see that the repression has gone back and that will continue in the next hours and the next say. let's bring in eddie mabo in london for us now deems that man a taken off the beneficent opposition leader has been speaking to the council of europe tell us more about what she said. well fully you are referencing her

remarks on diplomacy she's actually said virtue considers the government headed by alexander lukashenko as an illegitimate regime and she says that because he no longer represents bella reuss any treaties that he might reach with any outside party would not be recognized and respected by a democratically elected government in belarus in a future behind those remarks lie worries voiced by the foreign minister of lithuania the country where she is in exile on monday the foreign minister said that he was worried that better us might be moving to some to sign some sort of new deal on deeper integration with russia of course a country with which better as has a very long and historic economic and cultural ties so that was that part of her address to the european council remotely but again we heard spent lunna to kind of

skier reacting to this crackdown on the people that helped her campaign but also on the people have taken to the streets urging the international community to get tougher over what she sees as the repression of peaceful protests and a rigged election my country my knees she my people now we need help we need international pressure on this regime and this one did need to deal desperately clinging on to. we'll need some actions on individuals who issue and exemptions criminal orders the violates international norms and schuman rights while on those sanctions we are expecting in the next week the european union to announce a list of 31 belorussia individuals who it will place under economic sanctions

including the interior minister things like travel bans and asset freeze and does that barrel that you use foreign policy chief has been speaking about the crackdown in belarus urging that country to release all political prisoners in his words and the more than 600 people detained simply on sunday in the latest very large rally against alexander lukashenko. in london thank you very much for that severe flooding continues to devastate parts of saddam days after the government declared a 3 month state of emergency officials say about 100 people have been killed why more than 100000 homes are damaged reading this year has far exceeded records set in the 1940 s. causing the nile to rise to levels not seen in a century but the u.n. warns the situation may get worse with more heavy rain expected until the end of the month al-jazeera is hit morgan has more from one of the worst affected areas in

khartoum. first of all let's make it clear that this area up until 10 days ago was dry land people used to walk on their feet so they had no need for boats but then 10 days ago the nile flooded the banks and about 3 kilometers away it was all dry land now you can see it's filled with water not a dry land insights into the left of me you can see the houses have been completely damaged many people have been displaced they say that for the past 4 for the 1st 8 days of the 10 days the nile has been rising steadily and forcing people away from their homes destroying buildings that are not very concrete not very strong buildings that are well built you can see that they're still standing but there is water inside them so people have been forced to leave them now they say that the possum days the water has been steady and at the levels have not been rising but they can't go back home because the water is still there and they're looking for the government to respond they say that they need shelters they need proper tents

and overnight there was heavy rains here in the capital hard to so people once again work confident about more rains more water and more flooding because they expect that with heavy rains that have happened last night and that will be coming in the coming days there will be a rise in the level of the water more than already more than what we can already see still ahead on al jazeera india and china. firing shots in violating agreements in a disputed himalayan border region busted in a mood to party packing the beaches in brazil to mark independence day despite the devastating toll of covert 19. hello harsh and has gone through is still visible briefly in

a huge arc of cloud which will or has already fall apart as an act of circulation so it's now still a moving rain chance probably some storms flooding is inevitable again in this part of northeastern china and there's 2 showers come through on the western side of the korean peninsula and a good deal of rain in the form a slow moving showers throughout most of japan as for china well that rains building again in the west and drifting slowly in once reaching as far south as hong kong the heaviest stuff still out west so is drifting down the valley towards the shanghai done you'll actually get there but more active weather in china will say the regression of the monsoon rains means there's now a concentration for the south they have left pakistan is now dry picture here they've left much of the north west of india but if you're in the northeast in the middle or something down the west and gets that rain is falling heavily once again particularly focusing on carol by the time we get into thursday it's still hot in parts of middle east sousa city to know that any time the year but we've got

something of a mind a heat wave going on still move on jerusalem still in the middle thirty's and kuwait is forecast on tuesday and probably wednesday to be near a 50. frank assessments saying that. there's. like a week's notice or 2 informed opinions there's a therapy on the verge of a breakdown in many parts of the only at region are actually under a de facto state of emergency and critical debate of that is a proxy he does not represent the enters the philippine people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. the old.

you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories this hour 2 men who say they deserted from the myanmar army are reported to have given confessions detailing mass killings and the destruction of rowing to villages they're now said to be in the hague where they could provide a breakthrough for an international criminal court investigation belorussian state t.v. says a prominent opposition activist missing since monday has been detained at the border with ukraine maria kolesnik over was seen being stashed officer 8 in minsk by masks men and taken away in a valley state media i denying those reports and severe flooding continues to devastate parts of sudan days after the government declared a state of emergency officials say about 100 people have been killed one more than 100000 homes are damaged. but india and china are both accusing the other soldiers

are firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of control in the western region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called counter measures but india's military has laid the blame with china accusing it of what it called provocative measures to escalate tension both sides usually avoid using firearms in the area katrina you has more on the reaction from beijing. now china has called this a serious provocation and violation of the border agreement we know that things between these 2 sides have been tense for some years but if this is true this will be one of the 1st times firearms have been involved in about 40 years there had been agreement to keep firearms out of it but we do know that things have been escalating with both sides building up troops for the past 2 months staring at times at each other eyeball to eyeball the longest disputed areas an able to agree over this line of actual control which is further complicated by this complex

topography along the region now when our firearms have not been used but things did escalate in june where there was a skirmish between both sides and these 20 indian soldiers will last china says that it's conducting negotiations and dialogues with the indian side there have been talks at different levels for the past few weeks including very high level talks in moscow between both the defense ministers from both countries just last friday but it seems that those talks have been very limited in terms of what progress they have been able to make and india also says that china has captured 5 indian civilians and china's foreign ministry when asked about this said they didn't have any information saying simply that they were continuing dialogue with india that they wanted peace but china's foreign ministry has predictably laid the blame for escalating tensions completely with the indian side and elizabeth branham is in new delhi she says the indian army maintains he did not go across the line of control. they are saying that it was the chinese army that tried to close in on one

of india's positions and when they were dissuaded by their own troops that they fired a few rounds in the air they're also saying that despite grave provocation that indian troops exercised great restraint that they committed to disengagement to deescalation that china continues to undertake provocative activities to escalate and they're also saying that the latest statement by the chinese army about the firing that's an attempt to mislead its domestic and international audience now this happened just 3 days after that meeting between the 2 countries defense ministers at the shanghai cooperation organization summit it was the highest level meeting between the 2 countries since the current standoff began in may and we also had both sides saying that the other agreed to deescalate the situation

after that but we have had so many rounds of talks at different levels since may and each time they maintain that they are committed to disengaging and get we've had more incidents including the most serious between the 2 countries in june when those 20 indian soldiers and a number of chinese soldiers were killed we do have a meeting between the foreign ministers off the 2 countries coming up again coming up rather again at that shanghai cooperation organization summit on thursday. 2 australian journalists have returned home from china after a tense diplomatic standoff which left them fearing of arrests chinese families had demanded interviews with the man and initially bought them from leaving the reformers one from the state broadcaster a.b.c. any other from the financial review sought refuge in australian diplomatic compounds while a safe departure was negotiated it comes after the arrest of another australian journalist chong a whole works for china's state owned channel c g t

a. but i'll just say at the very what you are that i think there is the way out. into. the country with genuine rule of law but. 5 you know this is a whirlwind kind of. got to begin to experience. marcus trauma as a president of australia's media union the media entertainment an arts alliance he says china is using journalist says diplomatic bargaining chips we're very glad that the 2 of them are back home and safe because in china they're clearly not so and this is a very disturbing pattern we've seen no chung they is in custody not a number of reasons that we are unclear of and also we have another member of a union in june who's in john has been sober for 18 months facing is charges so unfortunately this looks like

a pattern that the chinese government is using journalists those are just tools in a diplomatic guide you hear very little about what happens up to journalists at the times we know that that has received consular assistance but that's that's about it and this appears to be a pattern of intimidation by the chinese authorities to try to get the story of china to hold in the way it wants and i mean it also appears to be a bit of. it's attack tied in with trade disputes china's long struggle with this united states maybe a stray here is seen as a as a whole warner a patsy for the united states it's very unclear what's going on and it's very disappointing because i mean china does not have a civil society where freedom of the press exists so it's disturbing that that pattern is being rolled out against western and other journalists you know

a diplomatic game that is very dangerous for members and other journalists to cover china the u.k.'s chief wrexham negotiator as called for vale is them from the e.u. ahead of another round of trade talks on tuesday david frost says there's still time for the 2 sides to reach a post breaks a trade deal and after prime minister voice johnson made october 15th the deadline to strike an agreement is in westminster way he says recent talk of changing customs will say northern ireland has added more tension to these negotiations. it is always about the border with us and it always has been it's the essential contradiction really of the u.k. trying to divorce itself in entire at sea from the european union while not pushing up a trade border between the north in the u.k. and the relative islands in the european union back which seems like a very long time ago to reason may when she was prime minister tried to do this by keeping the border open having this thing called the irish backstop the

conservative party didn't like that so they got rid of her and replaced with boris johnson who then signed a withdrawal agreement with the european union which put the trade border in the sea effectively between the island of islands and the u.k. mainland but the whole thing is contingent on there being a deal if there is no deal then where's the border going to be where the trade borders and so that's why the british sides have now flac this as an issue because time is running out is supposed will get done by the end of the year and the british are now saying if there is no deal what's going to happen with the border but of course the whole thing is absolutely insane the europeans because they say to boris johnson angle you sign this withdrawal agreement right we thought you were doing the same good faith and now you're saying you're going to introduce new legislation potentially to change the terms of that and we the european side don't even know what that is and said negotiations are starting guess again this afternoon in an atmosphere of nothing but bad blood. the coronavirus pandemic now

and 17 cases have been confirmed at greece's overcrowded morea migrant camp more than 12000 people in the camp on the island of les pauls have now been placed under quarantine after its 1st case was reported last week aid groups are warning social distancing and basic hygiene measures are impossible to implement in the cramped facility brazil meanwhile has marked its independence day with the pomp and ceremony of this annual military parade because of the coronavirus pandemic but that didn't stop brazilians from celebrating despite the country being what dealing with one of the world's worst kobe 1000 not breaks when it has more from mere dish ne'er. a toast to independence in rio de janeiro overlooking new crowded beach. you could be mistaken for thinking brazilians are celebrating not just their freedom from portugal but from the cool vid 19 pandemic as well with no social distancing and barely any masks. president

jalal so narrow himself didn't use one during the short independence day ceremony in the country's capital but he did cancel the usual military parade a stark reminder that brazil is 3rd on the list of most infected countries with almost 127000 dead stack in rio his supporters made up for the lack of festivities with a rally on topic up on a beach it lacked believe it or like the president don't please the virus he says it's a pretext to silence bolts on matters voters'. masks a muzzles to show that super lifted invention to subdue the brazilian people but we will continue defending those scenarios against congress and the supreme court who don't comply with his wishes as they should. not everybody out of the credit reporting presents a look on aagot. that grow up not be right for the monarchy they walk like

a. little says constitutional monarchies work better than republics in brazil once an empire already has a near to the throne and. anything is better than communism we've already been through 13 years of leftist governments. 3 recent pays the bill so not a would defeat his opponents as presidential elections were held today but many who voted for him are disappointed with his family's alleging involvement in corruption scandals and the president's lack of response to the virus and what they need it will call for. a vote a triple scenario because i was sick of the corruption scandals but he is responsible and has done everything one must not to in a pandemic setting about example he is unbalanced she says the government's handouts during the pandemic have helped boost balsam matters popularity the

president has just reduced by half the emergency aid of $115.00 a month which has benefited millions of brazil's poor but he also promised to keep paying it until the end of the year after november's municipal elections. monika al-jazeera rio de janeiro have been protests for a 6 night in new york state over the case of daniel prodi a black man who died after being arrested demonstrators in rochester are calling for the 7 officers involved to be charged and convicted have been suspended with pay prude was arrested in march police put a hood over his head and held him down he lost consciousness and later died and in the state of oregon hundreds of president on time supporters have rallied near the city of portland they later fought with counter protesters near the state's capitol building but he's made a number of arrests. saying in the us wildfires in california have burned more than

800000 hectares of land this year it's a new record for the u.s. state which continues to battle with extremely high temperatures and dozens of fires. reports. residents living near the angeles national forest have been told to prepare for the worst full cost to say strong winds will push a large wildfire in that direction the number one priority for this fire is the protection of my property situation that we have right now. a life threatening situation with the weather forecast that we have for the next 3 days. the forest blaze is one of 23 raging across california and we really need to pay attention to any instructions on evacuation the fire is likely to move south toward 6 communities a lot of people a lot of property to the south of this fire right now california has suffered more

the 900 wildfires since mid august extreme heat and lightning strikes have been blamed but one fire was started by a follow x. display during a family celebration started hours pushing to the east and then to the north and then big westerly wind shifts and then today was moved to the south 8 people have been killed during this year's wildfire season the challenge now is to help bring the blazes under control barbara. sara. kelly get i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera 2 men who say they deserted from the myanma army are reported to have given confessions detailing mass killings and the destruction of rahane get villages they are now said to. b. in the hague where they could provide

a breakthrough for an international criminal court investigation june has covered the running a crisis extensively and has more. having direct testimony from soldiers involved in what many have called these horrific atrocities committed against the rohingya that would be a huge development rangar refugees since the beginning of the crackdown that was launched against them august 25th 2017 have used the word genocide to describe what happened what was perpetrated against them so of now there is direct testimony that means that myanmar could be a lot more liable belorussian state television says a prominent opposition activists missing since monday has been detained near the border with ukraine maria kolesnik over as seen being snatched off a street in minsk by masked men and taken away in a van state media are denying those reports severe flooding continues to devastate parts of sudan days after the government declared a state of emergency officials say about 100 people have been killed one more than

100000 homes damaged india and china are both accusing the other soldiers are firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of actual control in the western region on monday and opened fire but india's military has laid the blame with china accusing it of what it called provocative meshes to australian journalists have returned home from china after attends diplomatic standoff which left them fearing arrests chinese police had demanded interviews with them and initially barred them from leaving the reporters one from the state broadcaster a.b.c. and the other from the financial review sought refuge in australian diplomatic compounds by the safe departure was negotiated. those headlines on al-jazeera as always much more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's inside story i.o.p.

to stay with us thanks for watching. a month of protests in belarus has failed to push alexander lukashenko from office no opposition leaders are missing or fleeing to exile so how much longer can the president hold on this isn't a story. hello welcome to the program on the wrong. insists he's not going anywhere despite a month of protests against the belarusan president's disputed reelection tens of

thousands of people rallied again on sunday to them on a new fight saying last months old.