in burma. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from california, mr. royce, and the gentleman from new york, mr. engel, will each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california. mr. royce: mr. speaker, i'm going to ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and and to heir remarks include extraneous material. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. royce: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. royce: mr. speaker, for decades now the burmese military, the government there, has systematically oppressed the people known as the rohingya. this is a muslim minority that lives in rakhine state in burma. a 1982 citizenship law denies the rohingya people citizenship even though most of them have lived in the country for generations. ofy have been denied freedom movement. they have been denied access to education. the rohingya ha

are still in power and in fact the burma is government both the military and civilian government and are in complete denial about what they did they are not taking responsibility they are not saying even although some rogue elements committed these crimes the military launched an inquiry of itself and surprise surprise it said that we didn't kill anybody we didn't do anything and there is a media campaign in burma. that is saying that this is all fake this is fake news we've had our sons who choose. websites say that allegations of sexual violence were fake news and so i don't think anyone's going to be going back any time soon this agreement between burma bangladesh is just words on paper. it was cobbled together under pressure from china which wants to be seen as a regional power broker but no donor is going to support this now if people do go back it is absolutely essential to the united nations modern on the ground but we have to be very careful that they're not sent back to camps the worst case scenario for the rain it would be to be moved from camps in bangladesh where they hav

elephant owners have shown at least 14 wild-caught calves have been traded across the border from burma into thai camps. and we beeve this is just a fraction of the numbers. >> elephant advocates claim the presence of scarred baby elephants at the recent surin elephant festival also highlight the need for urgent action. >> the world has lost up to 90% of its asian elephants the last 100 years. and unless actually more is done to protect this species and stop activities such as the illegal live trade, then we're going to lose the asian elephant in the wild forever. what 're asking for is only a registration of cative bulcalves so that they're actually registered within t weeks obirth. and to make this ev stronge we're also calling for a dna dabase. >> now, with all this proof that we have, is really the moment to form an international community to, you know, push thailand to really enforce the law and finally really protect the ld elephants. >> until then, the plight of burma's wild elephants continues to hang in the balance. [animals screeching] man: ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

elephants is ilillegal in thailand, b but experts claim the practice is widespread in neighboring burma, and it threatens t the last healalthy populalations of asian elephants that reside there. baby elephants are particularly sought after. >> it's very attrtractive to tourists or thai p people, so everybody wants bababy elephant, and they are worth a lot of money. yoyou don't need any documents, no microchip, so it's susuper easy. you go iinto the jungle, you u catch an elephant, you train n them, andd a month later you can n get like 600,000 baht, and if you can imagine how much m money this s is in thaiad and how easy it isis to do.... >> teams of hunters surround herds of elephants, killing the parents and other adults who try to defend their young. investigations have revealed that as many as 5 adults may be slaiain for everery calf capapt. the defenseless calves are then smuggled across the border. these rarely seen imimages show elephants being forced to endure a cruel spirit-breaking ritual known as the fashong. these activities take place in remote camps o on the burmrmese bord

another large sender of refugees to the us is burma, two students from burma, many refugee families arecoming from iraq because they ally themselves with us during the iraq war and home is no longer safe for them, gets a family, two sisters from iraq, 22 students who speak 14 languages, 5 different alphabets. and in the end of the school year the best he can, he is an amazing guy, i was in our of him, he is a hero and an unsung hero, and english is a second language teacher, english language acquisition teacher, maybe even they deserve more praise and less celebrated than regular teachers, their colleagues teaching in english, students who understand english. eddie teaches in english and he will use spanish as well in his room when he needs to. he doesn't speak the other languages, his good job is to teach them english nonetheless and he does this by immersing them in an english environment and all kinds of ways to communicate to them the terms that they need and the language they need. after he says nice to meet you he starts pantomimeing with a professional shaking him saying nice to

at least six thousand seven hundred rohingya muslims were killed in the first month of burma's armies crackdown on rock kind stat. that figure was released by doctors without borders this thursday and it's the highest death toll yet of the violence such a good an axis of over six hundred and fifty thousand rohingya refugees to neighboring bangladesh. amaro maxwell reports. the figures paints a gruesome picture. violence broke out in regards state on the twenty fifth august when the burmese army launched a clearance operation allegedly targeting rohingya insurgents. in the month following doctor's rapport this as i atat least nine ththousand rorohingyas diets. of the six thousand seven hundred were killed including one seven hundred children under the age of five. more around the seven zero results in from the stories of our patients and fix there is the issue the killing was. it is at the rohingya russian and that it didn't discriminate between children and adults. we sydney of food very harrowing stories of children in social. prejudice in front of the families. the ngos those up vio

another large sender of refugees is burma and he gets the two students. many are coming from iraq because they align themselves with us and it's no longer safe. he gets a family from iraq so on until he has 22 students who speak 14 different languages and use five different alphabets and it's his job to teach all of them english by the end of fiscal year as best he can. he's an amazing guy. i was in awe of him. i think he is a hero, maybe an unsung hero because i don't think that we celebrate teachers enough or english language acquisition. so, he teaches them english and spanish as well in his room when he needs to. he doesn't speak the other languages and the job is to teach them english nonetheless and he doesn't fight immersing them in an environment using all kinds of ways to communicate the terms that the median of the language that they need, so after he says nice to meet you he starts with may i meet with another paraprofessional shaking hands, nice to meet you. pretty soon he's teaching them english and he's pantomiming saving throw and they star

from burma when she married her husband 15 years ago and started working for caltrans toll booth over a decade ago soon after giving birth to her daughter. >> it's just really hard. >> and si si hann lived with he husband, daughter and mother who recently moved here from burma. abc 7. >> thank you very much. we want to get a live loong look at the traffic. closure earlier banged up tremendously. this is earlier in the day. you see the jam the lane closures created. the sea of cars stretched from the approach all the way through the mcarthur maze and continuing to the he east bay. >> the toll booth itself was completely wiped out the others were damaged but we should have it fixed by monday morning. >> they don't expect the destroyed toll booth to be ready for the morning commute. once again traffic was backed up to albany earlier today. >>> earlier morning the abc 7 news app let people to know multiple lanes were closed down at the bay bridge enable push alerts for instant note fingss. >>> a year ago tonight a fire known as ghost ship killed 36 people the deadliest fire in oakland's h

we remember hurricane burma that hit the caribbean. 0ne hurricane burma that hit the caribbean. pletely that hit the caribbean and completely devastated many of the islands in that region including the british territories. —— hurricane irma. the british red cross had a huge drop their especially to help the british virgin islands. we still have millions of people displaced, 6 million people not able to return to syria and 5 million people displaced within syria. and then yemen, the colorado, a million people, the largest cholera outbreak they have ever had. —— —— cholera. the famine continues in the country. do you look on 2017 as being unique or do you fear that we will see more and more of these events as the years go forward 7 i think we hope that 2017 was unique for the united kingdom in the scale of disasters we have seen. looking more globally, the predictions for 2018 and onwards are definitely not lightening up. we expect the conflicts to continue around the world. food insecurity continues in many pockets of the world. so yes, we still have a lot of work to do. thank yo

sure right now there are all already estimates saying that for instance about half the investments in burma might be lost in pakistan it might be even up to eighty percent. seriousness of the chinese economy there thank you very much philip bilski. china this. going to visit venezuela. which sits atop the world's largest oil reserves for in the crude price and gross mismanagement by the socialist government has crippled the country's economy inflation is style high two thousand percent just this year hundreds of thousands of venezuelans are leaving the country in desperation and try to make it elsewhere . jorge gutierrez is taking the bus not to work sadly his work is on the bus his selling money worthless money from his homeland of when this oil and. they get it do you know what i can buy with this absolutely nothing gentleman. because he left his country for neighboring colombia and is now panhandling on buses in bogota he explains his country's economic plight to local commuters hoping to store their horace. i left my country with two million body of ours when i arrived at the border the

believe in you know many centuries in burma they are not recognized as a group and they do not want us to know we need to look at our kind of. people where they can what their role in your community can double or where their own community can move forward for their future to escape you know father prosecution this is very important point we need to look at also and also we need very a strong media point for for their own issue where we can see the documentation and whether you know general side by marines government and military prosecutor that we need to keep that for the future and also internationally. historical big. kind of historical center we need it internationally that's what international community need to support on that same time during international community must not forget about what's happening to us until today where oil and gas are. being killed by every day in our kind of speed by the security force of the military ok thank you very much to do and security council ok thanks for talking to us coming up in sports. an embarrassing from for this skier will have that stor

a country like burma also producing a lot of refugees, they sent to students to the room. a country like iraq, another country we're seeing a lot of refugees from, they sent to students to the room. you can get to know people and really understand the crisis not as a big thing that seems overwhelming, but in a human way at a human scale. the kids were finally and hilarious and friendly and delighted to be here. they were h very thankful. they wanted to become friends with one another and flirt with one another but they didn't have a common language. that was pretty funny to see. their attempt. >> host: what was day one like with kids who spoke nearly 22 languages? >> guest: sell day one was really poignant because the kids were so scared and overwhelmed at the room was just totally silent. but by the end of the year, the trajectory was learned at such a fast curve that by the end of the year the room was filled with sound and noise and happiness, and the kids were flirting with one another and making friends and having sleepovers at each others home. the kids were giving e

look at what was on the news, the popein look at what was on the news, the pope in burma, the redactedct studies which the government released. chennai six. we needed to have these properly explained and other stories get dropped off to find out how he proposed?” other stories get dropped off to find out how he proposed? i think we cove red all find out how he proposed? i think we covered all the stories and have done over the course of the week. we lead with the muslim situation on monday when the pope didn't mention the rohingya by name. chennai six would have been your lead, wouldn't it? maybe, but the interest in the harry, meghan engagement was extraordinary. 5.6 million watched the news on monday at six o'clock. that is the biggest audience all week. the most popular story on the website by a long distance, nearly 7 million people read the main story. there is interest therein it. we continue to cover other stories in depth. they also had concern about the tone of the coverage of the engagement, didn't you? the tone of the coverage of the engagement, didn't you ?m the tone of the

then called burma was part of the british india now legal experts say that this law has a very very broad definition of what could be considered an official secret i mean basically anything that's not in the public domain through the official channels could potentially be an official secret for example as we often see in the western press when a proposed budget is going to come out before it actually gets submitted in the legislature parliament it often gets leaked to the press well under this hypothetically if a reporter were to report on that before was officially put into parliament that in theory be a violation of the c. of the official secrets act so it has a very very broad definition here now in this case it's quite serious i mean we're talking about possibility of a fourteen year prison sentence for these two parters reporters as your reports before said they had been reporting on the crisis and were kind state now there have been reports in the local media here connecting the arrests of these two reuters journalists to human remains that were recently found in northern rakhine st

the pope in burma, the redacted brexit impact studies, you know, which the government released with ae row, the chennai six. we needed to have these stories properly explained. they all get squeezed and other stories get dropped off for us to find out how he proposed? well, i think we did cover all those stories, and have done over the course of the week. we led with the rohingya muslim situation on tuesday, when the pope actually did not mention them by name in the meeting with ang sung su kyi. —— with aung sung su kyi. 0k, chennai six, on the day, that would have been your lead, wouldn't it? well, maybe. let's face it, the interest in the harry and meghan engagement was extraordinary. 5.6 million watched the six 0'clock news on monday. that's the biggest audience we've had for a news bulletin all week. it was the most popular news story on the website by a long distance, nearly 7 million people read the main story. so, there really is the interest there in it. the other stories you mentioned, we have covered and we continue to cover in depth. i think, like a lot of viewers, you also

now, just recently over pranks giving -- pranks -- thanksgiving i led a delegation to burma. burma has had horrific circumstances occur, they have a population of muslims called rowinga and -- rhoinga. many of them came 200 years ago and they came because they were imported for labor and they farmed the rice paddies and fished their boats off the coast, but they've never really been accepted by burma. burma recognized in their 1982 law 182 minorities but not the rohingya because the minority has a kind of hostile relationship with them. they have always been treated as second-class citizens. so much so that in the middle of the state there are about 120,000 people living in camps. they are not allowed to leave the camps, they are not given citizenship rights. in the northern part of the state 300 villages were burned, engaged in systemic rape, proceeded to shoot people as they left their villages and now 600,000 people have gone into bangladesh. the reason i raise this is not a parallel situation, but there is at its core a similar issue, and that issue is whether a nation th

two journalist working for reuters are in custody in burma. governments accusing them of attaining secret important papers from police officers with the intention to share it with foreign media. the officers have been working in the region where burma has forced more than 625,000 minority rohingya muslims to flee to neighboring bangladesh. some of the other stories where following beyond our borders tonight. we'll be right back. shut down cold symptoms fast... ...with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. ♪ tired of sore throat lozenges that only last a short time? try new alka-seltzer plus sore throat relief. the melts dissolve quickly. plus, the powerful pain reliever provides long-lasting relief for up to six hours. try new alka-seltzer plus. ♪ >> these text messages prove what we suspected, high-ranking fbi officials involved in the clinton investigation or personally invested in the outcome of the election. clearly let their strong political opinions cloud their professional judgment. >> instructed to not say anything about -- h

. >> i see jesus again and the children i met during my recent burma and bangladesh. it is my hope international community will not cease to work to ensure that the dignity of the minority groups present in the region is adequately protected. amy: the u.n. general assembly has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution demanding burma end the military campaign against the rohingyas, grant the persecuted minority group full citizenship rights, and ensure the safe return of the hundreds of thousands of rohingyas who have fled into neighboring bangladesh. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in honduras, where on friday, the united states congratulated the incumbent president juan orlando hernandez on what it said was his reelection. this came one month into a standoff between the honduras government and the opposition over the disputed vote tally, and days after the government-controlled election commission declared hernandez the winner. previously, the oppositi

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de facto leader, aung san suu kyi, committed genocide against burma's rohingya muslim minority. speaking with the bbc, zeid ra'ad al hussein said an international criminal campaign. >> giviven the scacale of the military operation,, clearly, these would have to be decisions taken at a h high enough level, and then there is thehe crime of omission that if you camame to your k knowledge that this wasan cocommitted anand you do nothino stop it, then you u could be culpable as well for that. amy: insula, -- in chile, billionaire former president sebastian piÑera easily won a new presidential term sunday in a run-off vote that pitted him against senator alejandro guillier. during his previous term, piÑera sparked massive protests by unions and student groups over his moves to privatize public services, including education. back in the united states, nevada democratic c lawmakerer n kihuen said saturday he will not seek reelection next year, as a fourth woman stepped forward to accuse the freshman congress member of unwanted sexual touching and sexual harassment. kihuen, who denies th

they take away our culture in burma, so this is...reporter: nasir zakaria was one of hundreds of thousands of rohingya that originally fled to bangladesh. he then traveled to thailand and malaysia before coming to chicago as a refugee. he says he landed a job as a dishwasher at rivers casino before becoming the full time administrator of the culture center, and says there are few people that love and appreciate their new country more than the rohingya. how is your life in chicago? >> it's amazing. life in chicago, right now we are free. >> reporter: the culture center says there are more than 1500 known rohingya living in chicago, and that that's the highest rohingya population of any city in the country. the culture center offers free english and assimilating to american life. but the optimism the chicago rohingya feel is counterbalanced by the constant fear of what's happening in myanmar. >> i'm always worried, every day. i'm worried about my family. today they are alive. tomorrow, i don't know if they are alive or not. >> reporter:

up to 14 years in prison for allegedly violating burma's official secrets act. wa lone and kyaw soe oo had been reporting on military-backed violence against minority rohingya muslims in rakhine state before their arrest on december 12. reuters' editor-in-chief called the arrests a blatant attack on press freedom, and their arrest has sparked international outcry. back in the united states, in texas, the immigration lawyer for detained mexican journalist emilio gutierrez soto says the board of immigration appeals has reopened gutierrez's asylum case and vacated his deportation order. this means gutierrez cannot be deported at the moment, and that the board of immigration appeals will now issue a new ruling over whether to grant the journalist asylum. gutierrez first sought asylum in the united states in 2008 after receiving death threats for reporting on alleged corruption in the mexican military. he and his son are currently imprisoned in a u.s. detention center in el paso, texas. this is gutierrez speaking in an exclusive jailhouse interview with democracy now

. >> han is originally from burma but lived in st. lorenzo. she was a cal trans toll worker and has been since 2007. >>> another live look from our emeryville camera again at that toll plaza. no traffic now, smooth sailing. in a few hours it will be different. four toll lanes will stay closed so make sure to tune into abc 7 mornings from 4:30 to 7:00 before you head out the door. we'll have the latest on traffic conditions. >>> a different problem late tonight on the bay bridge. a little after 9:00, police were called to treasure island for a domestic violence incident. at some point san francisco police say an armed man ran onto the bay bridge as he was chasing a woman. both the man and woman were detained on the bridge. the man tossed his gun on the ramp before police were able to arrest him. it's not clear if he was arrested on the upper or lower deck of the bridge. right now traffic is back to normal. >>> a suspicious package is on its way to a federal crime lab in washington, d.c. after it was found in an oakland mail box. postal inspecto

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language on friday a truly the one he had so diligently avoided sunny days earlier during a visit to burma. leading up to the track the topic of how he would address the crisis. and a subject of much speculation. his advisers hardwood franz's that using the word rohingya one of them. could aggravate a tense. support the country's. more christian population grows. politically speaking muslims have lived in the country's restive rajoy state for decades. analog recognized as citizens. they have limited access to education. health care homes implements. a deeply moving speech on his asian tour the particles for the given is. form of the rohingya minority has suffereded in t the face ofe world's indifference. a group off sixteen refugees have the opportunity his speaker leader of one point two billion catholics world lines. he listened to the stories and times. crossing the homes. more than six hundred thousand rohingya refugees have fled irma since august twenty fifth streaming across the border to neighboring bangladesh which is struggled to deal with the influx. acetatate when e lease is bru

shelter in the coup to prolong refugee camp he says the first time he fled violence in what was then burma was when the british were fighting the japanese during world war two but he has fled military crackdowns on the ranger three times since then in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight one thousand nine hundred ninety two and two and a half months ago and this time he says he won't go back. i feel bad for my home but i'm afraid to go back because they could you know like you says there's no point in sending us back to myanmar because there is no security force there. rights groups say the ranger have suffered systematic atrocities by the myanmar army in recent months hundreds of range of villages have been destroyed and burned to the ground the un says women have been gang raped by myanmar soldiers. it's estimated that hundreds of region men women and children have been killed but the bangladeshi and myanmar government so already working on a plan to send bank hundreds of thousands of refugees to myanmar. they say will be voluntary and he ain't to start in two months. so what would the

people are leaving remote for many decades you know there been facing the silent killing field in burma so we can get a lot of more information through this way so you know it is a good move forward for ruling the people for the future. thousands of indigenous people in southern mexico being displaced because of a territorial conflict at least eleven people have died of cold and hunger emanuel rapido reports on the state of us. these are prayers of desperation by so people who have been internally displaced they are the victims of a decades long dispute over land boundaries between the neighboring municipalities of chinelo and done father marcello a member of a nearby parish says that in recent months hundreds of families and we've done have been driven from their homes by armed groups a dozen houses have been burned and others sprayed by gunfire. they block the road. where the armed groups hide and then they shoot hearing gunshots at night is a form of psychological control people. a child has died a two year old who fell sick from exposure their grieving parents say they have nowhere

the myanmar government which doesn't recognize the ethnic group just citizenship in what was then burma was drawn in one thousand nine hundred eighty two it's hoped the pope's blessings of just a few of the hundreds of thousands of refugees here in bangladesh will draw greater international attention to their plight they are often described as the world's largest group of stateless people child strafford al jazeera cox's bazaar bangladesh time for a short break here now just when we come back. disappointed that. it's not lived up to the expectation of the people of zimbabwe perhaps not the force for change he promised zimbabwe's new president fills his first cabinet but plenty of old faces plus. the system will be three three times more powerful than any system in the on earth it could be the beginning of a new era in renewable energy the world's largest lithium ion battery is unveiled more in that state. welcome back as we look at the weather conditions across the americas many areas are actually drawing quite bright a bit of cloud around but you what they're looking at a dry day and h

of whatever because i want to see more you for your coverage in burma liberal. because. the more young africans there are stepping up our dogs are change once you do it. we have a period by the police in liberia and. after the reconstruction the infrastructure. of that deal but. the one that has those the bus that. still to come in this half hour of news we're going to look ahead to the u.s. midterms next year which are being seen as a litmus test of president popularity plus apple apologizes and cuts the price of replacement batteries after a. hello and welcome back now look at the weather conditions across europe we've got a cold front pushing its way across more eastern areas ahead of it had some quite warm but things will cool off as a system pushes through the circulation across parts of greece and turkey and that's given some very heavy rain over the last twenty four to forty eight hours yet more snow for the arts been an incredible season so far but behind it you can see we've got the westies coming in so it's looking pretty mild across parts of the u.k. and then

at the other end of the table there was plenty of late drama, burma scored an 88 minute winner against swansea but even later as they will completed a remarkable turnaround against watford, scoring in the 86 and 90th minute. sacked last week by sheffield wednesday, celebrating his new side's victory six days later, carlos, how will tell you that a week is a long time input all, let alone one year. alex howes, bbc news. pretty good goals and there, would there? elsewhere, the matches between huddersfield and burnley and newcastle and brighton finished goalless. there's two matches in the premier league today — west brom take on arsenal but before that, leaders manchester city visit crystal palace. a win would not only take them 16 points clear at the top but would also see manager pep guardiola equal his own record in europe's top division for 19 consecutive victories. palace, though, will have plenty to play for — they're onlyjust out of the relegation zone on goal difference. against crystal palace, if you win 3-0 against crystal palace, if you win 3—0 or a distance of three goals any

fifteen years after the afghan taliban blew up the bridges of burma and the international criminal court gave a nine year prison sentence to a man who helped destroy the fabled trines of timbuktu in mali it was the first time the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage was judged to be a crime. ancient sites have now been rebuilt and archaeologists are returning to the rubble of ancient treasures elsewhere but given the atrocities often committed alongside that destruction caretakers will also be mindful that many here rich sites are no longer just to aristos to nations. and al-jazeera. recap of the headlines here and al-jazeera libya has agreed to the emergency evacuation of refugees and migrants facing abuse and its detention camps the plan has been drawn up at a joint e.u. african union summit in ivory coast. it's not clear how the deal will be enforced but migrants are expected to be sent back to their home countries. the saudi led coalition says it's intercepted another ballistic missile fired by who the rebels in yemen it was reportedly shot down near the southwestern saudi cit

the birkin bag phenomenon from a business point in a fashion standpoint this this bag was conceived burma's for back because. this is sure is named after the famous celebrity actress jane birkin allegedly made by irma's on her behalf but what this bag has done it is rained world champion of luxury and sophistication to women around the world if you are a guy who deals in bags types about high end bags if you've got i guess an instagram presence yes we do and a quarter you say you do fifty five million dollars in revenue since two thousand and one two thousand and twelve to two thousand and twelve excuse me in bags yes and this bag would go for what in your market in our marketplace. if someone walked into erma's and bought that at the store which is otherwise impossible to do it's a twelve thousand dollars bag the customers around the world that want us to get that on their behalf depending on how hot the color was that's a hot color they're paying us between eighteen and twenty five thousand for a twelve thousand or so and this is a limited edition obviously bag right that mean they know t

myanmar government which doesn't recognize the ethnic group range of citizenship in what was then burma was drawn in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. the pope's blessings of just a few of the hundreds of thousands of refugees here in bangladesh will draw greater international attention to their plight they are often described as the world's largest group of stateless people. strive for al-jazeera coaxes bazaar bangladesh an autopsy is revealed the bosnian croat war criminal poisoned himself in front of un judges on wednesday likely died from heart failure after swallowing potassium cyanide investigators are trying to determine exactly how some downed pre-x. model the bottle for security a seventy two year old has just lost an appeal against a twenty year sentence for war crimes during the one thousand nine hundred. zimbabwe's new president has disappointed many by filling his first cabinet with senior military figures and ruling party loyalists but no opposition politicians a soldier who announced the military takeover on the national broadcaster has been named the minister of fore

this is a lot of dates back to one thousand nine hundred twenty three when me and maher then called burma was part of british india now legal experts say this lot has a very broad definition of what can be an official secret i mean basically anything in the government domain that's not been put in the public domain to be official check could be an official secret so for example as we see so often leaked in western press a budget proposal that hasn't been officially proposed yet gets leaked to the press so it comes out in the press first under this broad definition that could be considered an official secret of the press gets their hands on it that they could potentially be charged now in this case we're we're talking about something more serious than that these two orders journalists had been reporting on the crisis in rakhine state like your reporter just said before me now there have been reports in local media here in the last twenty four hours connecting the arrests of the two warders journalists to human memory and remains that were recently found in northern rakhine state so this is

myanmar government which doesn't recognize the ethnic group range of citizenship in what was then burma was drawn in one thousand nine hundred eighty two it's hoped the pope's blessings of just a few of the hundreds of thousands of refugees here in bangladesh will draw greater international attention to their plight they are often described as the world's largest group of stateless people. strafford al jazeera cox's bizarre bangladesh. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then more our top story the investigation into ties between donald trump of russia plus. one final talk. about fighting the. train of death and the fact that boy and i'll be reporting from the. sky by the time you are is the sun sets in the city of angels. hello again the weather across much of southern china is looking quite good at the moment really all the way from shanghai then to on kong looking pretty good with sunshine now for vietnam we've still got fine conditions for high noise but you see more central areas there's a lot of activity there so flooding remains a risk moving on through into sun

myanmar government which doesn't recognize the ethnic group range of citizenship in what was then burma was drawn in one thousand nine hundred eighty two. the pope's blessings of just a few of the hundreds of thousands of refugees here in bangladesh will draw greater international attention to their plight they are often described as the world's largest group of stateless people. strive for al-jazeera coaxes bazaar bangladesh. the united nations is not a record of pale for more than twenty two billion dollars to help victims of conflict and humanitarian crises around the world the u.n. says more than one hundred thirty five million people across the world aid and diplomatic as a james bays reports from geneva. the u.n. says it's the worst humanitarian disaster on earth in yemen the people are suffering from conflict and a continuing cholera epidemic the situation only made worse by a saudi blockade stopping much of the food and medicine from getting to those who so desperately need it the u.n. appeal for twenty eighteen estimates there are in the country twenty two million people in nee