very hard for armstrong's hoochie to be released to be allowed to participate in political life in burma we thought that she would be a leader on human rights and democracy that she would free our political prisoners and that she would do her best to keep the army in check and then of things went wrong as they have when the military engagement and the like this that she would speak out and she would use her moral capital with the burmese people in ash community to try to prevent atrocities and as we all know she stayed silent she refused that were used the words were hanging. and she is basically apologizing given all of us to the military and then she stood up in court yesterday and pretended that burma's military justice system would hold people accountable which you know the lie she didn't use the word for india she failed to mention the sexual violence and rape that happened and she basically came across a diminished and shallow figure who actually was trembling at times because i'm not so sure she's ever heard this full and complete account in her presence because she has been surro

only one goal is to remain into the power party to get into the power and on the other hand inside burma what she's doing now is she's now using populism cut and promoting you know that muslims are threatening the nation interest so she had to defend that so i mean the now putting the whole muslim population in burma in a very great danger this is where our extreme concern well that let's be clear cure this is what she says now she says that she concedes that there may be disproportionate force used by the military but she is establishing this and setting this up as a security operation it is about sovereignty she's talked about counter-terrorism and yes says that civilians in the area may get caught up in this because really this is a military operation in her mind. so the key point here is a military operation ok and they're just trying to change the narrative here is the security operation or there is operation which is totally false let me tell you why before our organization has been monitoring on rohingya and russia france a long time now i mean we can see we can tell you that way

any of the things which she wanted them to do she wanted them to create peace along the borders of burma that hasn't happened she wanted the economy to improve dramatically which certainly wasn't up and basically the country sort of wallowing in money much as it was when she took power. by coming to the hague by being so obviously courageous in facing her hughes's all countries accuses she's a rotten house self in the flag and it's already done her a lot of good politically back home there have been a number of rallies round the country supporting the old enthusiasm among ordinary bernese people for her seems to have been renewed while you make her sound like a seasoned and experienced western politician you know if she's up for reelection so distract the voters you know don't make them think about the problems at home by showing them how great we are or how great the leader is on the global stage and she is she thinking that way. i don't think we have to regard this as a cynicism particularly i'm not think she's sincerely is is sees itself as a protecting her nation's on when it should

to the chinese china as is right on own terms border this been an ambivalent relationship between burma in china going life back to 148 when the country attained independence and and maoist government in china have fomented a maoist rebellion which threatened to destroy the burmese government so having good relations with china makes a lot of sense for burma and it's always been difficult but the of tragically really this destructive policy towards arrangement which has largely endorsed is something which is music to the ears of the presidency shouldn't bring in look at the way they're treating their weakness in xinjiang in china unfortunately this plays into into what is becoming increasingly the dominant discourse in asia likewise and that narendra modi did in india. toughened chauvinist equality against his words. you know problem joining us tonight from one peter we appreciate your time your insights helping us better understand unsung suchi thank you no problem thank you. british voters go to the polls tomorrow thursday for an election which could decide the fate of breck's it in t

the scene that you are nereferencing in burma was one of those moments that no matter where you are totake time to notice and pause given the tempo that so many of us are pursuing charging ahead that president obama just won reelection by such a substantial margin 2012. he is just the first us president to visit burma in the wake of the political party being able to participate in the recent election i issued a communiquÉ releasing hundreds of political prisoners making the agreement from where they had been barred from it was surreal. and i should say the context the aspects of my personal life had come before in the book are not of a functional romantic life. so the person i meet i end up having a romantic one - - wonderful romantic life and was an amazing presence in my life. so up until meeting him through the obama campaign i am very single and very much not a parent now suddenly here i find myself four years later with two children barack hussein obama has been reelected i'm in cheese house and with secretary clinton president obama and now active in political life because of wha

no i'm not calling for our resign i i want to see our son suchi and the burma is military leaders and religious leader alive we're out to and lead a coup in the defendant's dock at the i.c.c. international criminal court because i.c.j. does not try criminal matters and here's a question for you me and mother refuses to acknowledge wrongdoing. she has gone to the hague and called the allegations of genocide in complete misleading the berm is government said they will not cooperate with the un's independent investigative mechanism so what in your view is the best possible outcome of all of this given that even a court ruling in a few years' time won't be able to change facts on the ground in terms of what's happening to the road in places like iraq and stay. well what we're seeing is said you know the i.c.j. tribunals has exposed the the full collaboration among major institutions in the country you know the other monks of the civil society actors a majority of them including job ermes journalists from arrow or d. and other of lead so yes you are absolutely right facts on the grounds ar

but i'm in burma, president obama has just won reelection by such a substantial margin in november 2012 and is just become the first u.s. president to visit burma is in the wake of tea and her political party being able to participate in the recent election, i had negotiated communicate whereby the government had released hundreds of political prisoners and had made some agreements to visit ethnic areas they had been far from monday years. it was kind of this real thing i should say the context reaching out to cass, the aspects of my personal live that come before the book, are not that of a terribly functional romantic live. so cass is sort of the person the enemy might end up having a wonderful romantic live and connie's very close to him and to submit an amazing presence in my live. he has all the best lines of the book unfortunately but is a credit to him. and in real live. so i often tell me he can through this e-mail, through the obama campaign, i am very single. in a very not much a parent. this is that i'm very single. suddenly i find myself four years later, the two children ba

burma's de facto leader aung san suu kyi is arriving at international l court of justice at the haguetoday, where she will try to defend burma against accusations the burmese military has committed genocide against minority rohingya muslims. gambia brought the genocide case to the international court, accusing burma of trying to "destroy the rohingya as a group, in whole or in part, by the use of mass murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence." international aid groups say thousands of rohingyas have been murdered and a quarter of a million have been forced to flee into neighboring bangladesh. this is rohingya refugee jamalida begum, speaking from bangladesh. >> three military personnel rape to me. they detained hundreds of our women and raped them in front of their children and husbands. we have been demanding justice for all of this. now we demand a trial for suu kyi. amy: aung san suu kyi is a nobel peace prize winner who spent years fighting against the burmese military, which she is now defending at the hague. the u.s. supreme court has refused to hear a challenge to a kent

when britain made burma a colonial entity separate from british 937 the border between burma and india was drawn along the river nath where we find today's border between bungler gauge and. the historical kingdom of addict can have at times extended much further to the north than the river nath including most of fortis to do chicken district in bangladesh members of some are kind communities therefore felt that the border drawn by the british was too far south of the us that it was too far north. has never challenge this border since independence in 1948. britain did not use control reporters today in monotone township during world war 2 from september 942 a number of local muslim families offered fighters to the british irregular the force set up to collect intelligence and initially absorbed and the japanese bonds many muslim muslims gave their lives in combat against the japanese in rakhine the sacrifices made by muslim fighters motivated to call for the creation of an autonomous muslim space in northern rakhine centered on mondo whether or not this is encouraged by british officers

when it was made separate in 1937 by the british, the border between burma and india was drawn alongiver where we find today's border between bangladesh and myron ma. —— myanmar. the historical kingdom had extended to the north than the river, including most of what is today the bangladesh northern district. members of this community felt that the border drawn by the british was too far south. 0thers by the british was too far south. others that it was too far north. myanmar is never challenged this border since independence in 1948. britain did not lose control over what is today the township during world war ii. from september 1942, a number of local muslim families offered fighters to the british irregular setup to collect intelligence initially absorb any japanese advance. many muslims gave their lives in combat against the japanese. the sacrifices made by muslim fighters motivated a call for the creation of an autonomous muslim space centred on a myanmar. whether 01’ space centred on a myanmar. whether or not this was encouraged by british officers, britain rejected this call as

she is now defending that same military, while it continues to hold vast power in burma. this is rohingya refugee shamsul alam speaking from bangladesh after watching aung san suu kyi's speech at the hague. >> suu kyi was in jail. she is afraid of that jail, so she is lying to stay in power. she is lying to the court. we are crying in pain. we call upon t the u.n. and all nations to please help get justice from this genocide. amy:y: in india, the upper house of parliament has passeded the highly controversial c citizensp amendment bill, widely known as the anti-muslim bill. the legislation provides a path to citizenship for immigrants from a afghaninistan, bangnglad, and pakistan -- unless they are muslim. the bill is part of indian prime minister narendra modi's right-wing hindu nationalist agenda, and many say it's a major step toward the official marginalization of india's 200 million muslims. the indian union muslim league is petitioning india's supreme court to declare the bill unconstitutional. widespread protests against the bill have swept across parts of india th

burma's de facto leader aung san suu kyi has asked the international cot t of justice at thehe hague to drop thehe genocide case against burma. >> i request the couourt to reme in thee from its list alteternative to reject the provisional measures s submitte. amy: during the international court hearings, the former nobel peace prize winnerer repeatedly tried to deny y the burmese military has carried o out gegenocide against the muslim rohingya, althouough she never once used the word "rohingya" during her speeches. the burmese military killed and raped thousands of rohingya and forced more than 700,000 to flee into neighboring bangladesh in a brutal army crackdown in 2017. in india, police killed at least two protesters amid massive demonstrations against the citizenship amendment bill, which many have denounced as a major step toward the official marginalization of india's 200 million muslims. the upper house of parliament has passed the highly controversial legislation, which provides a path to citizenship for immigrants from afghanistan, bangladesh, and p pakistan -- unleless the

gambia brought the genocide case to the internatitional court, accusising burma of trying to "destroyhe rohingya as a group, in whole or in part, by the use of mass murder, rape and other forms of sexual violence." for more, we go to barcelona, spain, where we are joined by reed brody, a counsel and spokesperson for human rights watch, also helping gambian victims seeking to prosecute the former dictator yahya jammeh. welcome back to democracy now! can you talk about the significance of aung san suu kyi the genocidetive against the rohingya, others call it the rohingya, did not take place? >> this was a spectacular moment for international justice, with the eyes of the world live-streamed to myanmar, around the world. you had gambia laying out the case that the government of myanmar was committing genocide. and aung san suu kyi, the de facto leader, was there listening and participating. obviously, she went there for domestic political reasons, to solidarityhe was in with the military who continue to rule, in many ways, the country. in solidarity with those hateity in the country who

my 1st stop on the bergen war trail is the memorial site on burma washed ass and. it's the 1st stop for anybody wanting to learn more about the city's division rust colored poles and sections of the wall mark the location of the former border. 2 here a section of the wall has been reconstructed as it was during the division. the viewing platform provides the best view of the border fortifications true dimensions this is how that you peered up to 989 the main inner walls with the death strip in between. last year over a 1000000 people visited the berlin wall memorial on ben i watched last it includes this documentation center. historian hung up i got showed me around the permanent exhibition. display historical objects here that are important because they're now for an immediate experience especially for visitors who don't know much about it who don't know the details about the berlin wall. on the take and here we see pieces of homemade diving equipment that who bet hired by and used for his escape in 963. the north. why did the berlin wall even exist why did they p

the infant mortality rate among them burma is about 10 times higher than in the rest of the north macedonian population back here halim and her initiative have a long struggle ahead to improve health care for women and mothers. for a look at some more of the day's top stories google founders larry page and sergey brin are stepping down as heads of the internet giants parent company alphabet they'll be replaced by current google chiefs and our pitch pichai google facing growing criticism in europe and the u.s. over its previously policies like leave well known japanese doctor has been killed in an attack in afghanistan tatsu naca more devoted his life to helping the afghan people and 5 others were killed by a gunman attack his vehicle in the city of jalalabad in october doctor not to move were awarded honorary afghan citizenship. and if you know the nigerian city of lagos then you probably also be familiar with the slum city of m a cocoa known as the world's biggest floating city to about $300000.00 people but despite its size mark o'connor has never appeared on any city planning documents or

diversity as long as it doesn't get in the way of profits for a back story here the university of burma opened its campus in the united arab emirates last year offering a range of course is set to u.k. standards is currently expanding with plans to accommodate more than $4000.00 students however some lecturers have refused to take up positions of the emirate over human rights concerns there is some of the advice in a bit more detail that the university says is to protect students and staff do not do anything that may be perceived as a public display of affection by the same sex or opposite sex even if it's intended to be innocent try to avoid dressing in a way which is not traditionally associated with your perceived gender if you are in public do not wear any clothes or accessories which could be considered to be a form of the l g q advocacy early here that we discussed whether or not an educational institution like that should be offering this kind of advice at all. there are thousands of. people who work in the united arab emirates and do saw for many many years i have friends there

mosque and we know that people from that region are and were in syria would be the same story with burma you know when it happened when there were problems with them or the minority that but it's very interesting you know they say go with liberalism formally it's about all been border you know supporting internationalist spirit kind of but where they fight their enemies and these are usually big countries such as russia china. immediately they pick the enemy it's you know their neighbor or that mine or it gets inside this congress and the west supports what kind of crude national going to say action of yugoslavia which actually knows a lot about the idea of a croatian fascists against serps ukrainian polish nationalists against russia now more than fundamentalist against china so it's one of them mazing traits and latent features of these noted that if they're not going to liberate it using into all others in the name of human right back that's the coverage that it had on hand and internationalism in the name or walk. i think you pretty much covered them above one thought one thing i thi

minorities the irony here is that you know you have for example india borders man mind the borders burma in which you know you have no india so they're doing a presumption or be included in the ambit of this bill the tamils all 3 longer you know one of the another minority group that the suffered genocide are not included in the ambit of this bill you know this bill is really playing to the ruling party so we don't know right now you know it's all up in the air that's the big part of the story right now there is there is confusion within the government there is no clear messaging on what the aims of this bill are other than to polarize in the. developing story now to tell you about this sunday some of the worst violence in 2 months of demonstrations replaying in the capital level in these live pictures of michelle and it's pretty quiet of the moment but i'll tell you more protests have been taking to the streets so far they're pretty peaceful you can tell it's edgy there overnight there were some intense clashes between demonstrators and the authorities there in beirut which is why from

of a century i am makes trimly sad in and at the same time outraged by what i see as a emergence of burma in society you know similar to what we saw in the 1930s nazi germany our son suchi is no simply defending the burmese military which is the only and all can of the state and son suchi is there defending myanmar as a member state and its racist society so so are not known among all not know that is she there at the hague defending the military and her country and the government and the state is she doing that as a puppet of the military as some people believe she's in a tough position or if she does not because she. wants to do it she's there enthusiastically of our own free will happily defending what is going on in rakhine state from where the rohingya have been displaced what the fact our son suchi had the result of to stay at in captivity for 15 years on and all of the pushing for our own agenda which we now know that is not to be human rights or protection of minorities or democratization it's our own person all the personal ambition to be the head of state legally now she is head

so far as concerned that was also a fight about independent state of rakhine in burma and these are bengalimuslims and their 1st you know contact is with bangladesh and that is where they 1st refuse under the un law if they move forward then it is considered an on board room and not on the basis of religion that are just cannot be given on the basis of religion so any movement beyond bangladesh should be considered for any other reason not for religious persecution here their expression let me just ask you for letting us know yes isn't it better to just quickly tell you what is wrong to do more no there are 2 more important issues out here somebody just talk about article 14 you know this is the a a by looking article 14 there is a concept called reasonable classification inherent in our constitution under which the special and higher rights have been given to muslims and other minorities it is on the basis of same concept this has come if you like that this principle then you attack the special privileges given to minorities. already there's a vision given to certain sections so this is no

here thanks to the advice i've given to the mother that i will the infant mortality rate among the burma is about 10 times higher than in the rest of the north macedonian population some the epicure halim and her initiative have a long struggle ahead to improve health care for women and mothers it's to the world of contemporary art now and one of that world's most prestigious awards the term prizes the shared between the shortlist and artist or finalist themselves decided to split the prize money worth an estimated 47000 people the artist formed a collective after being nominated they asked the judges to break with the past and not select just one when her guard said awarding the prize to all of them would show solidarity at a time of global division. this is deja vu news and these are our top stories. the democrat led u.s. house of representatives has approved a report that makes a quote overwhelming case for impeaching president trump republicans in the house did not back the report and the white house dismissed it saying it failed to produce any evidence of wrongdoing. leaders of nato

you know the irony here is that you know you have for example india borders now mind their borders burma in ridge you know you have been doing the so during your for example not included in the ambit of this bill the tamils of sri lanka you know one other another minority group that have suffered genocide are not included in the ambit of this bill so you know this bill is really playing to the ruling party the baraka sort of party bring about 30 seconds on a practical level how many migrants are expected to come in and i'm going to worry about how they're going to be dealt with we're going to go yes on. you know so the b.g.p. has gone all over the place at one point to see very few megan's are going to come in because you know there are some skids that fear being one by one of these you make mince and some other point this year there we expect a lot of migrants to come in because of their domestic beef so we don't nor right now you know it in all of india that's a big part of you know the story right now that is there is confusion within the government that is not clear messaging on what

and i have to say you have to know you have to say that you clean a bungalow as he in burma but never mention that that insert he done the job we done the job after only 4 months of arriving in tripoli at the same as your militia groups are extorting from you you know that exactly when the country is invited you have to work 1st and you have to have priorities which hour by hour to cleaning up the country from isis or fighting the militia mr matic if you don't stand for law and order and an end to corruption you don't stand for anything at all no we really don't we do but we get to our country and our country had a long war with isis for more than a year and a half once we done with isis we started up to rebuild our financial institutions and when we get to our financial institution we find a problem with asia and we have problems with our oil production at the same time we find have to attacking oil field and we don't want to go in conflict with him because we have our internal problem with the militia so we have a priority and as i explained to you we have ability isis issues arise

and four indid up captivity, mostly in russia and egypt, but also in places like india and burma. many did not return to the ottoman empire. the gigantic loss of human capital had a norma's social -- enormous social consequences for the whole population. the states that were established in the region following the demise of the ottoman empire, this is not the subject of our talk today. i'm not going to talk about socialism in the ottoman empire. but let me give one interesting example that i hope you find interesting. this is a map that shows the ratio of woody hood -- of widowhood according to the 1927 census. even after a full decade, after the war, in the ottoman empire, the number of widows reached 50%. that's an enormously high number . this is despite the fact that -- of the problematic nature of with the young republic not strong enough to take a consensus. still, by enormously high 1927, numbers of widows throughout the empire. .his sort of misleads you the numbers could not be that low. this was an indicator of the weakness inic's taking census in those remote areas of th

in the neighboring state of new south wales scenes repeated the community of burma gooey kempt at the local surf club with the ocean is the excess and this was some day during the new year's holiday coastal towns a popular vacation spots with already said verge tens of thousands of holiday make is to go or harm or cancel their plans because the pavement for evacuation center. work is really bad it's hard. apocalyptic this is the middle of the day the major cities have not of skanks the choking smoke and flames on monday 100000 people were urged to evacuate. from 5 moments suburbs this was filmed in western sydney on tuesday. the strain is wildfire season is breaking records. the 1st major fires started in early september before the arrival of spring the product of soaring temperatures dry ground and strong winds they've now destroyed more than 40000 square kilometers of land at any given time dozens if not hundreds of fires are burning the full heat of summer has yet to arrive shell of dallas al-jazeera well let's stay with this nobody is a former chief executive of victoria's currenc

in the neighboring state of new south wales scenes repeated the community of burma gooey kempt at the local surf club with the ocean is the excess and this was some thanks one day during the new year's holiday coastal towns a popular vacation spots with already severe tens of thousands of holidays. make is to go or harm or cancel their plans but preparing for evacuation center. really bad parts. are probably picked this is the middle of a very. major cities have not escaped the choking smoke and flames on monday 100000 people were urged to evacuate from 5 suburbs this was filmed in western sydney on chewstick. a strain is wildfire season is breaking records. the 1st major fires started in early september before the arrival of spring the product of soaring temperatures dry ground and strong winds they've now destroyed more than 40000 square kilometers of land at any given time dozens if not hundreds of fires are burning the full heat of summer has yet to arrive shell of dallas. a shia armed groups the brigades is promising revenge over the u.s. airstrikes that killed $27.00 of its figh