with the rural population the poor the farmers but not very popular at all with the leads here in bangkok and it's especially not popular with the military and the military apparently saw a way of exerting pressure on. the just judiciary at least that is what some people here claim to get rid of an often opponent. tory in your book banished to flee the country before sentencing everyone knew that was a risk there's a history of that in bangkok thailand how could she be allowed to get away. yeah that's the thing and even though the military junta denies any role in. nobody really biased that because she had been under pretty much twenty four hour surveillance there is a very tight security grip on the military so for someone like you for someone like you not just to escape across the border into cambodia that's apparently what happened without the military knowing about it that it's hard to believe for everyone so my take and the take of pretty much everyone here is that the military ordered the police to how pro flee the country because the military thought this would be an elegant way of

florian notion that reporting from bangkok take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today afghan officials say there have been several explosions in and around the capital kabul the airport there in kabul the blasts coincide with a visit to the city by u.s. defense secretary jim matches and nato secretary general you. neither were near the airport at the time there have been no reports of casualties as. iraq's prime minister has called on kurds to a knoll the outcome of monday's independence referendum after the region's leader claimed victory for his campaign as fallout from the vote intensifies iraqi authorities have imposed a light and bargo on kurdish airports saying it will only end when regional authorities hand them over to central control. the latest effort by us republican lawmakers to dismantle the health care legislation known as obamacare has failed the party was unable to win enough support in the senate and decided not to put the bill up for about. and scuffles broke out in uganda's parliament to over efforts to allow the president there to ex

she's already fled the country and has given no sign of planning to return home we'll go live to bangkok to find out what happens next also coming up a bit more freedom for women in saudi arabia the ultra conservative kingdom is finally going to let women drive activists have been fighting for that right for years. how the push to defeat just how this is taking a heavy toll on the people of somalia we have an exclusive report. plus the long and winding road toward forming a government germany's general election last weekend means chancellor merkel has to persuade two other parties to join her conservatives could take months. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us thailand's supreme court has sentenced for prime minister yingluck shinawatra to five years in jail she was found guilty of failing to stop corruption in a government rice subsidies scheme shinawatra was not present when the sentence was read out she fled the country in august when the verdict was originally due. well for more on this story let's bring in our correspondent florian knows she's standing by for us in bangk

some excitement from the very large media contingent that's gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok as it appears that a verdict may be coming any time soon but as you say it's been a very long process because of their the fact there are nine supreme court judges and they each going through their findings in this case against the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra and delivering their verdict at the end of it so i'll to middle east she could face a ten year jail term some local media here reporting that it's more likely to be in the vicinity of five and she could also be banned from politics for life of course she is not here she failed to show on august the twenty fifth which was the original dates for the reading of the verdict it's believed now of course that she is overseas that she fled a couple of days before that original verdict reading date of august twenty fifth and is possibly in dubai with her brother another former prime minister talks in china what. is there a desire their side the courts not literally outside the court but operating external to the court system

more on the story i'm joined now by all of this tease from amnesty international he joins us from bangkok you know your organization has just put out a statement saying the government had quote their heads in the sand concerning the revenge refugee crisis what do you mean by that. oh you know thanks or i'm going to have you know i think the most confirm anything about institutions. you know but look to living here to violations of meaning in your kind of state of security forces was. that what many of the right decisions look it's clearly ethnic cleansing unfolding this is a vicious new trick and they didn't storm that thing though your populations all it's been protected by the army by the police or security forces fortunately on such a kind of shootings that it really took the talks against the army but she failed to do so. as long as she under government if it's recognized the reality of what's going on in myanmar it's very difficult to see a solution to see now sochi is obviously in a tight spot over the ridge a crisis with the military still calling the shots in myanmar does this who

supporters surrounded the supreme court in bangkok last month hoping to hear a judgment in favor of young like shinawatra but the former thai prime minister didn't show up her lawyers initially said her no show was for medical reasons but it soon became clear that young luck had left the country although there have been no sightings of her the case against the former prime minister surrounds her government's policy of paying rice farmers above market price for their harvest it's alleged there was widespread corruption in the scheme and that young locke was negligent in overseeing its long protests on the streets of bangkok eventually led to her government's removal in a military coup in two thousand and fourteen you'd like and her supporters believe it's all part of an orchestrated campaign to remove the shinawatra family from thai politics it's been aiding like is either in london or dubai where her brother another former thai prime minister toxins you know what lives in exile avoiding a jail term for abusing his power he too was removed in the military coup in two thousand and six. hasn

was no stopping some supporters of young election of what who gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok. i came here to give support knowing that i may not show up because i'm a supporter of the shadow us because of them at one stage as able to forge a better life the judges took four hours to read the decision before the former prime minister's legal team emerged to confirm a guilty verdict and a five year jail term. i don't know how to feel we have to. the court has done its duty to deliver the verdicts at legal time with allies have verdicts again how we have fought this case and see if we can appeal. the case centered on the rice pledging scheme it was a populist policy that helped party win the two thousand and eleven election and sort removed in a military coup three years later after widespread protests the scheme so far has paid above market prices for the high. first the court ruled that you knew there was corruption going on but didn't act to stop it she failed to show for the initial court session to hear the verdict last month after leaving the country two days earlier it's

jonathan head, bbc news, bangkok. stay with us on head, bbc news, bangkok.on bbc news. still to come... the investigate paris saint—germain over neymar‘s record—breaking transfer from barcelona. this is bbc world news, i'm ben bland. the latest headlines. kenny's supreme court has declared the result of last month ‘s presidential election invalid and ordered it to be rerun within two months. the bbc has uncovered the alleged abuse of detainees at a detention centre in southern england. nine workers have been suspended. full impact of the devastating floods across south asia is now becoming clear. heavy rain at this time of year are not unusual but the monsoon in india, pakistan, nepal and bangladesh is the heaviest in decades. millions of people have been forced from their homes. a third of bangladesh is still under water. justin rowlatt is there. those least able to cope are the hardest hit by the floods. budhia devi says her life has been ruined. translation: i have lost everything. i had a cow and a goat. they were both killed. my house is totally broken

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ok for more on the story let's bring in revenue source funding for inertial from bangkok florian was this the expected verdict. definitely brian it was nobody expected an acquittal so it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that. would be found guilty there was a maximum sentence of ten years now it's five years but i would say that is still a very harsh sentence especially when you consider that she had not been accused of corruption she had been accused of negligence in a rise subsidies scheme in other words basically just a welfare program for the local farmers here that went wrong and so but as for you know like herself i don't think that the actual sentence of five years really matters all that much because i don't think that she will ever be facing time i just is again she will probably not set a foot into thailand at least during the military regime but it's very important this this verdict is very important for thailand because it gives you an indication of what how much room for maneuver politicians here have under the military regime and the answer to that is basically not

and i rice subsidy case her government set up what left the country last month when has more from bangkok. it took the nine supreme court judges four hours to deliver the guilty verdict for the former thai prime minister yingluck shinawatra and to hand down a jail sentence in absentia of five years of course the verdict was greeted with sadness and disappointment by supporters of what he would gather outside the supreme court here in the thai capital bangkok but there probably also was an expectation that they would be a guilty verdict and some sort of jail term given that on the twenty fifth the bogus which was the original date that the verdict was supposed to be handed down there were some severe jail sentences handed down by the supreme court judges for others involved in deals linked to the rise pledging scheme like a former cabinet minister in. government and a rise exporter who were both given more than forty years in jail as being like what well her legal team says it will consider the verdict before deciding whether to appeal. the military crackdown a man mark using the army of r

in a very long line all the events attempts by the establishment and the military in bangkok to remove the chena wants from politics to good because they've always viewed them as a threat to their stability to their control over the country so certainly as i say that is being repeated now it's almost history repeating itself really with i compared with her brother but since that coup that you mentioned in two thousand and fourteen that removed government from office there's really being little room for any sort of political dissent any overt criticism of the military government because the really clamp down on those sorts of things fairly harshly since then and it's also a very sensitive time right now with the formation of the late king coming up next month and then the coronation of the new king in february next year so at the moment there seems to be very little room to move next year i once those official events are out of the way they could be some room to move for the political opposition in thailand particularly if the military government keeps pushing back the date for a return

live the weather here she can see lightning strike in bangkok the big showers so they do stretch their way across cambodia vietnam into the philippines week showers there to into borneo some very heavy rain coming through his sliding a little further southwards as we go on through monday some wet weather there into java city some wet weather recently it's the central parts of australia has had forty two millimeters of rain since saturday and whether stretching south of the border into south australia sixty one millimeters of rain here twenty four hours this area cloud and right that will make its way further eastward queensland seeing some heavy rain eventually pushing into northern parts of new south wales that's no bad thing with that very wet weather just around the gold coast the sunshine coast as we go on through monday not looking to study them brits been at around twenty degrees celsius similar temperature there too for adelaide not too bad in melbourne at around seventeen degrees further west temperatures picking up in perth at twenty two but looking fine for central pass. on c

wasn't in court to hear the verdict as she fled the country last month when he has more now from bangkok. it took the nine supreme court judges four hours to deliver their guilty verdict for the former thai prime minister yingluck shinawatra and to hand down a jail sentence in absentia of five years of course the verdict was greeted with sadness and disappointment by supporters of yingluck shinawatra had gathered outside the supreme court here in the thai capital bangkok but there probably also was an expectation that they would be a guilty verdict and some sort of gjelten given that on the twenty fifth of august which was the original date that the verdict was supposed to be handed down there were some severe jail sentences handed down by the supreme court judges for others involved in deals linked to the rise pledging scheme like a former cabinet minister in china wants government and a rise exporter who are both given more than forty years in jail as being like you know what well her legal team says it will consider the verdict before deciding whether to appeal. ranger refugees who've

speculation she may have fled the country let's get more now from wayne hay he joins us live from bangkok wayne so what are we expecting to happen there today given the false start last time. yes well as you know as you said the reading all that verdict has begun it starts it's just over an hour ago that was a delayed start to the proceedings and it's expected it will take quite some time to get through all the reading all the statements all the verdicts before we hear that final decision on exactly what will happen with action and what there are nine supreme court judges who have been sitting during this case against the former prime minister so as i say it's expected the actual verdict reading will take quite some time if she's found guilty of negligence because of this rice pledging scheme as it was called while she was in power she faces ten years a maximum of ten years in jail and a lifetime ban from politics but as you mentioned she is not here for the second verdict reading days in a row she's failed to show and it's believed that she has fled overseas believe that she left a coupl

since the government was ousted in a coup back in twenty fourteen when hey with our report now from bangkok. under thailand's military government gatherings like this are banned but there was no stopping some supporters of young election of what who gathered outside the supreme court in bangkok. i came here to give support knowing that i may not show up because i'm a supporter of the shadow us because of them at one stage as able to forge a better life the judges took four hours to read the decision before the former prime minister's legal team emerged to confirm a guilty verdict and a five year jail term. i don't know how to feel we have. a quarter stand it's judy to deliver the verdicts at legal time with allies have verdicts again how we have fought this case and see if we can appeal in. the case centered on the rice pledging scheme it was a populist policy that helped party win the two thousand and eleven election and sort removed in a military coup three years later after widespread protests the scheme so far has paid above market prices for the harvest the court ruled that you knew th

with the rural population the poor the farmers but not very popular at all with the leads here in bangkok and it's especially not popular with the military and the military apparently saw a way of exerting pressure on. the judiciary at least that is what some people here claim to get rid of an often opponent. pro-union gook banished to flee the country before sentencing everyone knew that was a risk there's a history of that in buying call in thailand how could she be allowed to get away. yeah that's the thing and even though the military junta denies any role in. nobody really biased that because she had been under pretty much twenty four hour surveillance there's a very tight security grip on the military so for someone like you for someone like you not just to escape across the border into cambodia that's apparently what happened without the military knowing about it that it's hard to believe for everyone so my take and the take of pretty much everyone here is that the military ordered the police to how pro flee the country because the military thought this would be an elegant way of g

another move in a very long line of attempts by the establishment in the military here in the capital bangkok to get rid of them from politics forever and in fact that this is a political move by the military and the establishment so i guess we'll know in the next couple of hours exactly exactly which way the supreme court is going to go all right thank you for that wayne hay keeping his eye on developments in bangkok for us. the president says if a war breaks out between the united states and north korea it will be devastating for kim jong un the latest statement in the ongoing change of tough words between the two countries is our white house correspondent kimberly halkett. the trumpet ministration is continuing to put pressure on north korea at a joint press conference here in the white house rose garden appearing alongside the spanish prime minister donald trump was asked about the statements by north korea's foreign minister that effectively the united states had declared war on north korea donald trump did not back down saying he will exercise the military option if necessary if we take

two thousand and one let's talk to our correspondent wayne hay who's covering that story for us in bangkok when there had been speculation it would actually be ten years do you know why the court has just gone for five. yes the maximum penalty for the offense that she was charged with ultimately convicted of did carry a ten year jail term and a lifetime ban from politics there is no explanation as yet so that we have seen from the court as to why they've only given her a five year jail term basically she was charged and convicted of negligence in overseeing this rice pledging scheme which was a populist policy really angered the rural poor aimed at farmers trying to boost the income of those farmers and they know there's no doubt that the scheme did go wrong there was massive corruption beneath her but at no stage did they really say that the prime minister herself benefited from this scheme but that she was really negligent in not keeping an eye on it close enough and not seeing some of the corruption that was going on beneath her so it took those nine supreme court judges four hours to d

this region we're seeing some pretty significant rainfall totals being reported all the way from bangkok in thailand to manila in the philippines more heavy rain is likely here and that's also going to include parts of central southern parts of vietnam through cambodia to become so third sportier not looking too bad cross barly it's fine moving out through them a pinch low we have fine conditions for singapore in kuala lumpur once you get further north in towards thailand that's where it is looking particularly wet at the moment so some heavy downpours are likely in bangkok heading down into a story of had some really warm air across southeastern parts of australia in recent days with temperatures into the thirty's bit of a change taking place now we have a series of up weather fronts pushing on through so as we look at the forecast for saturday twenty seven in canberra which isn't too bad and twenty five in melbourne which is certainly better than that has been heading on through into sunday though significant drop in terms of back to where we were temperature wise we want out across we

sold by a miner for £25 will be sold by a dealer like this for £250, and when it is in the us or in bangkokre than £5,000. shaolin is happy to show this stock. the mining may be against the law but the trade isn't. this is his favourite, sold in the us for more than $2 million. some sapphires are mined legally in madagascar but how can a buyer know? the truth is, they probably cannot. most big dealers come from sri lanka or thailand. in shaolin‘s view, they buy up malagash sapphires to pass off as their own. but now, there are calls for greater transparency, demands that each gem be traceable to the mine it came from — a worldwide agreement to reform the trade. there could be some kind of international regulations on the trustability of gems. so that, at the retailer's side, you can know where this came from and how it was produced, whether it was in a sustainable way. so you would call for some kind of international accord, rather like that which regulates the trade in diamonds? yes, yes — and we have started this discussion with the malagasy authorities. it has just started, so i think th

supporters say there is no way the former prime minister , the ousted prime minister, will come back to bangkok as she fled on august 25. the military on the other hand says they have no influence over who judges. the question now is what she will do, will she be living in exile like her brother, another former prime minister, who is currently living in dubai. past monther the alone, close to 500,000 rohingya muslims have been forced out of myanmar, the country also known as verma. they are running from the army and what the wood has called ethnic cleansing. the crisis began in august when the rohingya muslims attacked police posts in vermont, prompting the army to lead a campaign with killings, rape, and the burning of entire villages. the army says it is rooting at the militants who are linked to al qaeda. we spoke to the right hinge and militants in this exclusive report. the refugee canceled along the bangladesh army's border form a maze of elaborate. this is where we are scheduled to meet a local leader in the right hinge a salvation army. far from prying eyes, he has agreed to tell us tha

no report there by deed obvious bastion hard and bastion is joining us today from bangkok bastion your report paints a harrowing picture of conditions in the camps what can bangladesh and the international community do to alleviate that situation. well i think bangladesh is already doing what they can you have to understand this is a situation that is completely overwhelming for for any country it would be four hundred thousand or more than four hundred thousand people poor ring in just the span of or in the course of just a few weeks and that will be difficult to manage for any country let alone bangladesh which is a poor country which is a developing country in which is let's not forget which is reeling still from some of the worst floods that it has seen in years so what really needs to happen now and what we're already seeing is starting to happen is that the big international organizations aid organizations like u.n.h.c.r. like i.o.m. come in and they're already doing that they're airlifting relief goods into bangladesh and now they have to get them to the people on the ground whi

she prefers self marketing over the internet selling her jewel wine successfully everywhere from bangkok to new york. someone tell me long ago it would be like this i wouldn't have believed it our entire export market was built through social media channels that's how people found out about us you get an incredible range. german white wine is trendy and you'll be on the l.r. is taking full advantage of that she and other young wine growers have started a network vine black hawk phone with the aim of giving new zest to the image of dry white wine. well the internet is where people can go to see the well that is also why we created our extra tours series so you get a chance to travel some way you haven't been able to visit we had a letter from even know. who may have been the media and she asked if we could explore a little more of the english coastline more specifically the southwest coast and the town of ascent i was on the north coast of cornwall. said i was used to be a fishing and mining village but more recently the tourists keep this quaint coastal town alive and kicking. it's a pea

just after knowing am in vancouver of eleven pm in bangkok and seven in the evening this sunday here in moscow every year joining us from welcome to r.t. international our top story this hour british police have raided apartments in the site west of the capital in connection with a terror attack on the london underground on friday properties in the town of sunbury been evacuated on court and put in place it comes just hours after the arrest of an eighteen year old man who's suspected of planting the bucket of in the incident islamic state claimed responsibility for what has become the fifth terror attack in the u. . this year i'm out around eight twenty in the morning an improvised explosive device went off inside a train pulling into parson's green station leaving twenty nine people injured including children many suffered burns witnesses describe seeing a fireball rip through the carnage with the city's mayor a previously said that londoners have to learn to live with the threat of terrorism that was a year ago and his words were preceded by a deadly wave of violence and terror acr

wasn't in court to hear the verdict as she said the country last month when has the details from bangkok. it took the nine supreme court judges four hours to deliver the guilty verdict for the former thai prime minister yingluck shinawatra and to hand down a jail sentence in absentia of five years of course the verdict was greeted with sadness and disappointment by supporters of yingluck shinawatra would gather outside the supreme court here in the thai capital bangkok but there probably also was an expectation that they would be a guilty verdict and some sort of jail term given that on the twenty fifth of august which was the original date that the verdict was supposed to be handed down there were some severe jail sentences handed down by the supreme court judges for others involved in deals linked to the rise pledging scheme like a former cabinet minister in. government and a rise exporter who are both given more than forty years in jail as being like what well her legal team says it will. instead of the verdict before deciding whether to appeal rights groups are welcoming the king of

going to asia to asia, asia to australia, and creating something we haven't before, and a hub in bangkoko grow rapidly in asia it means, and i think your strategic view is the same, it means you are going to have to get deep into china, and the sort of secondary and tertiary airports in china. correct. the problem there is the chinese government clearly favours its own big three state airlines. i don't... how are you going to move into china in that climate? we are the first airline to be given a foreign airline... the first foreign airline to be given a local licence. china and certainly the state government see our tremendous value that we've given to the secondary and tertiary cities. we have gone into cities that have never had direct connectivity. so, china values us as much as we value the china market. asia's not a one trick pony. india, also we are in. we are the first airline in india and china with a fantastic south—east asian market, and we have japan starting in two weeks. so we're nicely covered in asia. corrine png, she's a transport analyst in singapore, says the risk for

we are happy going to asia and australia and creating something we haven't before, and hub in bangkokns, and i think your strategic view is the same, it means you are going to have to get deep into china, and the sort of secondary and tertiary airports in china. correct. the problem there is the chinese government clearly favours its own big three state airlines. i don't. .. how favours its own big three state airlines. idon't... how are favours its own big three state airlines. i don't... how are you going to move into china? we are the first airline to be given a foreign airline, the first foreign airline to be given a local licence. china and certainly the state government see the tremendous value we give to the tertiary cities. we have gone into cities that have never had direct connectivity. so, china values us. asia is not a one trick pony. india, we are also in. the first airline pony. india, we are also in. the firstairline in pony. india, we are also in. the first airline in india and china with a fantastic south—east asian market and japan starting in two weeks. we are nicel

it's very and i guess in bangkok phil robertson deputy asia director for human rights watch joining us from yangon in may and abdul rashid founder and chairman at the rehang foundation community and in london one zani a human rights activist very warm welcome to all three of you dual rashid at this rate are they going to be any ringle left in manama yaf course i still have many rangoli left inside of a canister by their own a very serious situations. they are very face a huge problem for the fort as if would exist there don't have a food so many people is on the way to bangladesh so many people a few days or maybe many days on the way so we don't have food in the water so this is huge tourist traffic as well the people facing inside the memos where we are hearing that almost forty percent of ring of villages are empty i mean from a military perspective that's almost a job done isn't it. of course as the footage we're receiving information we're receiving is about a half of the population or looted destroyed and more than four hundred thousand already left went to the bangladesh and our

we can speak to him now from bangkok.e un on what it thinks is happening in myanmar, what do you expect all, what would you like to hear, from the un today?” think that we have already heard from the un secretary general and the high commissioner for from the un secretary general and the high commissionerfor refugees. what we're seeing is ethnic cleansing and we agree with that assessment. the question is now what does the un expect member states to do. that is the trick is questioned. so far we have not seen anywhere near the level that we wanted of reaction to this atrocity being committed against the rohingya. there has to be a much higher level of response, there needs to be more engaged international community prepared to say to the burmese generals that there are going to be problems if you continue. this will not stand. people need to be allowed back, there must be support provided for them and there needs to be a place for them in burma. this crisis did notjust emerged last week, last month or even this year. it c

which is one every toy election since back in two thousand and one when following the story for us to bangkok weigh in what's your reading of this five year sentence. yes so peter that confirmation coming from the supreme court just in the last few minutes now and expecting the legal team now for the former prime minister yingluck shinawatra to emerge from those doors behind me and give more details about their response to this verdict it took a very long time for those nine supreme court judges to deliver the verdict to read through their findings into this case and ultimately to hand down the guilty verdict and a five year prison term for negligent negligence it took them out four hours to deliver that verdict i think it's probably expected peter i mean there was talk there was a maximum penalty of ten years for this and a lifetime ban from politics so i think given that she fled the country that there have been suspicions as well certainly in the time media that perhaps there was some sort of deal done to allow her to leave the country prior to that original verdict reading dates on august

that happened in the supreme court in bangkok. young induction watcher has moved to dubai.watra another thai prime minister lives there in exile. there were definitely some behind—the—scenes discussions between her side and the government's side here about what deal there might be over the sentence. those discussions clearly did not produce some leniency for her. we do not know if the sentence was harsher because of her fleeing the country. this is definitely on the country. this is definitely on the harsher side of where could have been. the maximum sentence for this was ten years but many people viewed the charge itself as very unusual, but prime minister was being charged not for corruption herself, but for a policy which turned out to be corrupt and so there was a sense, during the trial people thought there might have been more leniency 01’ there might have been more leniency or perhaps a suspended sentence. what we have today is clearly a sentence which pretty much eliminates her from the foreseeable political role, whatever kind of arrangements might be made in the f

emirates say she left a boeing in september the eleventh and headed for london when he has more now from bangkok. prior to the verdict being delivered on wednesday the prime minister of thailand general pryor china china said that he knew where the what was and would tell everyone after the verdict well we now know that the former prime minister yingluck was given a five year jail term for negligence and he now says that she is in dubai the prime minister saying the police will now have to proceed and coordinate with the foreign ministry and interpol in reality though if she is in dubai it seems there is very little that the thai government will be able to do to get her back because presumably she is in dubai with her brother taxon chin what another former thai prime minister who has been living in dubai for years after he too was ousted in a coup in two thousand and six and cynics in thailand would also suggest that the prime minister. knows where young like is because she had help getting there there's been speculation that she may have made a deal with the military government to allow her to

could be pretty weighty of bangkok to say should be fairly wet but further south kuala lumpur should be drive with highs of thirty one. germany's birth varian alps where stunning scenery is playing host to europe's latest arrivals. separate in origin. a common room. and together dream of a german future. welcome to german café vald left eye witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. here with al-jazeera live from doha your headlines today mean last second vice president has told the u.n. the violence in the state of rakhine is easing but teams on the ground say that is not the case more than four hundred twenty thousand range of the bangladesh since a military crackdown began last month. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says he's optimistic about the u.s. president donald trump's peace plan for the middle east at the commons during his address to the u.n. general assembly. and three days of mourning i've been declared in mexico were at least two hundred thirty people have been killed in the worst earthquake to hit the country in thirty years rescuers pulled one survivor f

james gomez he's the amnesty international regional director for southeast asia he joins us live from bangkok. he's come under growing criticism for failing to condemn the violence against the rangers so why do you think she's making the speech today that. well i mean it's centrally a statement. to the memories people so i think she wants to lay out. her position visibly her support base in me in mind also bearing in mind the fact that the military is watching her every move so this is one reason another reason is also to respond to the global criticism. over her silence not speaking up for the rowing communities so i think these two things will weigh heavily in terms of you know the actual content of the speech you know later today and it is quite extraordinary isn't it because the criticism against her has been quite vociferously that she's failed to use have political and indeed her moral authority to stop the violence against the rangers. yeah and that's precisely the point you know because i think there is an important moral position to speak up you know for the ethnic minority and a lot

day and only into wednesday bangkok on both days with temperatures around thirty one degrees celsius showers started to push their way further south as they should do so we are expecting to see more wet weather coming into indonesia over the next season rather weather recently into the southwest of australia courtesy this area of low pressure that's been fading some welcome rainfall into perth there of low pressure bringing some disturbed weather blustery showers long spells of rain and that still the case as we go through tuesday may mark sprouting up over towards the southeast and conus getting up to around sixteen celsius in melbourne back to around twenty one in sydney but warming up as we go on through wednesday and by way to stay a little more cloud easing towards tasmania with a chance of some thunder showers. with . documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. again the top stories here on al-jazeera iraqi kurds are voting on a controversial referendum on the region's independence turkey's prime minister says that any change resulting from the outcome will no

we can speak to fill robertson, the deputy asia director at human rights watch, currently in bangkok.ed a pretty hard—hitting report just a couple agency issued a pretty hard—hitting reportjust a couple of days ago accusing the military of myanmar of an ethnic cleansing campaign. that's exactly what is happening. what we haveis exactly what is happening. what we have is the military forces of myanmar surrounding villages, shooting into them and stampeding people out of those villages. and then putting the villages to the torch. we have villages in northern rakhine state on fire right now. 400,000 rohingya across the border so 400,000 rohingya across the border so far into bangladesh and many more on the way. this is quite clearly ethnic cleansing. i expect we may be moving further towards a determination that it also consists of crimes against humanity. and this is now a major test for the world community. what are they going to do to stop the violence, and what will they do to help all those refugees who have gone across the border into bangladesh. the myanmar military say they are s

kuala lumpur and some heavy rain push into parts of thailand with highs of thirty three expected in bangkok. the weather sponsored by cat time race. a deadly attack destroyed her family and left her badly. timed to california and little girls. was very timid when she came as a time progress she became our family. that would touch the hearts of the people around. this time. to watch al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories the u.n. security council has expressed deep concern over the violence in myanmar struck in state in the four hundred thousand people have fled me and for neighboring bangladesh that all hinges say they're facing persecution or the me and claims it's taking action against groups. eight of the people who died during hurricane one in a florida nursing home which lost power during the storm it's believed they suffered heat stroke when the building lost its air conditioning. as syria troops advance on i saw held there so or more talks to end the war in syria set to begin on thursday the sixth round of talks in the capital of kazakhstan brokered by russia turkey and iran they'r