and by occupying burma, what they also did was they cut the burma route that they call the burma route of supplies from the allies that went from northern burma into southern china. and so after this route was cut, the allies began flying air supplies over the him layas, the -- the himalayas, the the famous hump route. and anyway, after the 15th army finished its occupation of burma, the japanese switched to the strategic defensive not only in burma, but also for the entire southeast asia area. and after they had done this, they were making this transition, while they were making this transition, the southern expeditionary army command which was in charge of all of the army units in southeast asia came up with a proposal to continue the offensive into india, into northeast india. the purpose of this operation to be to cut that airlift, to interdict the airlift that was going over the himalayas and do this while the japanese still had the initiative. this proposal offensive out of burma into india was proposed by the army general staff. and the reason they opposed it was basically the a

make sure that burma is complying with the court order. when thank you very much for talking with us that was kind of when from the burma human rights network thank you very much. now to greece and tensions over migration on the island of lesbos thousands have been demanding that the government close migrant camps there and on to other islands you know the reports now from lesbos where the community feels left alone with overcrowded camps where migrants live in squalid conditions but. it's likely to be the largest protest in the history of the island more than 8000 people have followed the call of this man. this post governor constantine is from the island's capital need to lead he wants to send a message to the government in athens the island can no longer bear the brunt of europe's refugee crisis here in america you know how do you feel. you don't want our islands back we want our lives back. you don't have to go far from this seem to see how the crisis has taken hold of the island. this is the notorious morea camp europe's fastest growi

to drop the genocide case against burma.g san suu kyi is a nobel prize laureate who spent over a decade fighting against the burmese military that she is now dedefending. 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." 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. this is rohingya refugee enamul hassan reacting to the court's ruling from bangladesh. >> for a long time, the government of mymyanmar tortrtud our rohingya people. they tortured d too much. raped our mothers and sisters, killed our man. after a long time, gambia filed a case on behalf of the rohingya people in the icj court. i the grace of allah, got a ruling on behalf of the rohingya people. for r that, we are very grateful to the gambian government. now we wait to go back to our country

because i iced to say in burma -- i used to say in burma, when we come, i challenge my companies to do this, we really invest. we are there to invest in every sense of the term. we'll invest in local communities, we'll train people, we'll give back, investing in the people. we really care about the success of that country. because the success of that country is in our interest. other countries extract. oilers are there because we want their resources, by want to export our workers, excess capacity, whatever it is. there is a different mindset. so there is certainly an advantage to our work. if we are smart about this century, i would say, being the fundamental is not about china, per se, it's about what are the values, norms, rules, that will govern the system in the 21st century. had a certain rule base and norm base that followed world war ii we were the head of the free world and hyper power for a while. but that's now in challenge. who is going to shape that? how will it be shaped? we need every resource we can and the private sector is a very strong resource, very powerful interna

she fled violence in burma for thailand when she was 13. how did you get from burma to thailand? >> 19 day i have to get thailand, we walking. >> reporter: walking? >> yes. >> reporter: she became a u.s. citizen in 2013 and helped by a program for immigrant and refugee entrepreneurs, now owns her own burmese-thai restaurant. >> we're not trying to bring refugees here to take on our low-wage paying jobs either. we are putting them on career paths. >> they are some of the most hardworking, dedicated people you'll ever meet. and that's what i would hope president trump would see. >> hi, guys! >> reporter: the mayors also hope president trump would see what asma is doing now. she is a public health major at westminster college in salt lake city and plans to become a physician assistant. and she volunteers with newly oprived refugees,ing to pay hforward the opportunities she had. >> are you going go to college? >> yeah. >> yeah? do you know what you want to be? >> i feel it's a cycle for younger folks raised in utah have the ability to become successful, and then they want to reciproc

clearly there is a long way to go in burma. i have lessons learned, but i can tell you at least how we went it about it. the lessons get to what we heard in the previous panel, i think. to some degree. first of all the really important idea of context. of understanding intimately, doing your tome homework and understanding every context is very different. derek: burm why to folks in the west is easey. it's always been black and white issue. you get now into the nitty-gritty of that country you realize just how incredibly complex. by their own count 135 different ethnic groups. 20 or so were involved in peace. context is essential and is essential and doing homework. the most important thing to get involved is do no harm if you are working outside. you can step on a land mine figuratively every step you take. number one. number two, the importance of building trust. if we are going to be in there, working on this stuff, they want to know that you get it. and the only you have to prove that. but then you have to build a relations

conference here and in london in march last year run by the british government for investment into burma myanmar how are they going to be able to do something like that again with this judgment on the table so the significance is there that we now have a determination preliminary yes but we have a determination that there's a case to answer as simon you've worked with the gambia as ministry of justice on this case could you explain for our viewers the genesis of this case. yeah absolutely i mean i think 1st of all the 1st i'd like to say about that is we should absolutely applaud the gambia you know the tiniest smallest country in in africa but it is kind of emerging as a giant in the world of human rights now because of the transition from dictatorship to democracy in their own country and look any state that is a signatory to the genocide convention could have brought this case forward but we approached a number of governments selves and our partners at the global justice center lots of talk but nobody was willing to take this case forward except for the gambia so i think they upheld t

her father was the founder of modern burma that didn't live very long because he was assassinated so she went off to europe and went to school in the united states and married a guy from britain and went back to burma 1988 to care for her sick mother when the movement started. and she was thrust into the leadership which had run to the country since the early sixties to decide to have a free and fair election. and the reaction was to arrest all the people who got elected and put her under house arrest in her own house where she would remain mostly for the next 21 years so we would flip notes to each other and often with others the distinction bills but ultimately that made a differencerm. >> you visited her not long ago? >> amazingly enough the regime began to crumble in 2011. so then we could talk on the phone. and i actually went to burma january 2012 and i got to see her in person and invite her to come to the mcconnell center and she did come september 2012 and now she is the de facto leadership of the country even though the cost of - - constitution prohibits anyone that's been

and killed fox invested in international affairs having taken off a great risk --ke a message out of burma when she was just a year out of high school. she eventually got a masters in conflict in terrorism at georgetown school of foreign service where she develop withed algorithm to predict terrorist attacks based on 200 years data. at age 11:recruited for cia where she analyze haded classified cables from foreign governments. soon afterwards she was selected for advance spreption training and d sent infiltrate terrorist next and middle east an asia working undercover as art dealer specialtizeing in indigenous art it is not a huge surprise to hearl her book called the john novel come to life. [laughter] and shanghai she and her husband who was also a spy rendered surveillance by the chinese so they have to talk in code all of the time. the housekeeper was fine. but people in the street were keeping track of their movement. the place was bugged safer i think one bathroom, and then as if it wrpght enough of a hall of mirrors, we found out that ca was spy on chinese who were e spying on them

>> you are asking how we sold burma while i was there. [laughter] clearly there's a lot more to go so i had lessons learned tha bui can tell you at least how we went about it and the lessons at least as to what we heard in the previous panel i think to some degree. first of all the really important idea of context, of understanding intimately, doing your homework and understanding every context is different and defend every one knows it's always been a black-and-white issue. >> you get now into the nitty-gritty in th of the countd realize how incredibly complex by their own top 135 different ethnic groups. at least 20 or so are involved in peace. so the context is absolutely essential and doing your homework in that way you do no harm. the most important thing when you get involved is do no harm. .. >> to demonstrate that you get it, that is a long-term effort that means you have to work at this and to know there's someone you can count on. but third, the ambassadors are very important, because that is one focal point on the ground that b

to the american volunteer group the military pilots and they fought the japanese over the skies of burma and china after pearl harbor. the flying tigers had the approval of president roosevelt and the american government and under contracts with the chinese government led by shanghai check so you i would like to ask each of the panel in turn to say something about your recent burke some of the challenges you faced in writing the book. >> thank you very much. it's wonderful to be here. my book is about us immigration policy under president roosevelt. with the years leading up to the holocaust in the early years of world war ii. it is a very controversial subject there has been a lot of books attacking the president and others defending him. what i wanted to do was integrate the story of what was happening in washington the political struggle in those years over immigration and refugee policy. with a specific group of people that we could identify those trying to reach the united states from nazi germany whose lives were in danger and in order to survive they needed a piece of paper with a

the court's decision is a sharp rebuke to burma's de facto leader aung san suu kyi, a nobel prize winner who last month pepersonally traveled to the hae to ask the court to drop the genocide case. president trump says he is planning to add more countries to his highly controversial travel ban, which already prohibits citizens of iran, syria, yemen, libya, somalia, north korea, and venezuela from entering the united states. trump is reportedly considering adding travel restrictions for citizens of nigeria, sudan, tanzania, eritrea, myanmar, kyrgyzstan, and belarus. details are expected to be announced monday. this comes as the state department separately says it is planning to issue new rules that could make it more difficult for pregnant women to receive visas to visit the united states and what the trump administration claims is a crackdown on so-called birth tourism. trump also said wednesday he may cut plans -- social safety net benefits. during his 2016 presidential campaign, trump vowed to oppose any cuts to social security and medicare. trump also announced wednesday that he plans

i offered along with some others burma sanction bills, that actually ultimately mayday difference. lamar alexander: you visited her not long ago. did you not. mitch mcconnell: amazingly enough, the regime beginning to crumble. in 2011. so then we were able to talk on the phone. and i actually went to burma in january of 2012, and got to see her in person and invited her to come to the university to the mcconnell center and she did come in september of 2012. and now she's tobacco elected leadership later of the country. even though the constitution prohibits anyone who is married to a foreigner who has been married to a foreigner to be president. putting into the constitution exactly to keep referring bring president. she's a de facto president. she put in a president who's a close ally. lamar alexander: you mentioned them a call center at the university of louisville. what is it. mitch mcconnell: is basically a scholarship program for the best and brightest kids. it started about 25 years ago pretty have to be from kentucky and there are ten interpreted ten freshman and ten sophomo

and many joins us now live from burma denio in brazil the scene of that disaster when well what's dueto happen that today to mark this 1st anniversary. it's a very somber day here in broome of the you know there are many activities taking place a lot of emotions playing out on the streets of the city as a march is taking place for actually just behind that march you can see behind me the people that are moving from one end of the city to another they're heading to a church to hold a ceremony to remember the lives lost again 270 people that were killed in that disaster exactly one year ago here in the city of new and this isn't the only ceremony this isn't the only event that's taking place over the last 8 few days there have been marches that have taken place in the city of bell with people moving in caravans that was planned to march but because of the heavy rains of the flooding here in here in the region people have taken automobiles to arrive in broome by the you know to pay their respects to the fallen now we're talking about those rains even now we're having a little bit more ra

well miriam interesting we enough the disaster that happened in burma do you know it happened within. the very beginning of now does it ministration here in brazil and we know that president wilson otto has has actually ease restrictions on mining now the company itself vialli has said has vowed to close 10 of their dams that are similar to the one that was that collapse last year that's progress we also know from prosecutors that we spoke to earlier this week that criminal charges homicide charges have been filed against individuals with the valley company including the c.e.o. . as well as employees with a nother company a german company to have sued for helping vali hide the fact that they knew that this that this dam was out risk whether or not the government is taking any measures to prevent this type of disaster from happening again we don't know for sure if anything concrete is being put in place but those charges against the executives against employees of ali is a good 1st step after all with the people of burma do you want the people of maine as you guys and the people of bra

live for us in burma didn't i thank you with the world who commemorated international holocaust day on monday but in germany there's growing concern at the rising levels of the semitism go to marry in the most you know with more of that on european broadcasts at america. yeah thanks than will one example of that anti semitism is the presence of historical sculptures and works of art that reflect the countries and teach english past particularly graphic example lies in the eastern town of which in bug well one specific culture is now at the center of a court battle dominic kane reports now from east in germany. that and back makes much of its link with the mediæval protestant martin luther from here he would preach of the faithful but it's what he and this church said about another faith which remains controversial for in the 14th century this sculpture was placed on the outside of the building it's called the you wouldn't know or jewish south considered by most people to be a deliberately derogatory depiction of jews and judaism michael do man is so incensed by it he's repeatedly gone

thailand is prime pandita is from the advocacy group international river where he's the thailand and burma campaigns director it is welcome and i just quite clear that rampant dam building is having an adverse impact on the make wrong the question is why is it still happening. it's already been taken the care that the community is along the my choreo has felt and experienced downstream impacts were. built in china already 11 power station there and in the lower reaches to dams already be constructed the. dam both in laos on demand stream rivers i think the reason why. impact has been going on is because there is no political will to. 6th riper in countries that chair de meco river to be. sincere to the problem and negotiate and try to manage the meco river in good governance manner it's interesting you mention the mekong river commission because it was set up precisely to monitor the river it's an intergovernmental body so are you basically saying the river commission exists in. yeah pretty much because the member country are only for downstream countries thailand cambodia and vietnam whic

peace prize and for the listeners not familiar, her father that was sort of the founder of modern burma but he didn't have a very long, she went off to europe and married a guy from britain. tto hear for her sick mother whn the movement started and she was sort of thrust into the leadership to have a free and fair election there reaction to getting creamed in the free and fair election is to arrest all of the people that got elected and put under house arrest. and offered along with some other sanctions bills that actually ultimately made a difference. >> host: you visited her, did you not? >> guest: amazingly enough, the regime began to crumble in 2011 and that we were able to talk on the phone. in january 2012 got to see her in person and invite her to come to the university later that year and she did come in september of 2012. and then as the de facto leader of the country even the constitution. to keep from being president, she's a de facto president who's a close ally. >> host: you mentioned the mcconnell center at louisville. >> guest: it is for the best and the brightest kids th

burma was british, but somewhat unstable. india, of course, was in the middle of agitation for independence, agitation for staying out of the war. many people argue that india should stay out of the war. a wasritish side in malay not 100% solid by the british borneo. nor was japan is a floating colony and very attractive, that they were also attracted to germany. there was some concern, the japanese diplomatic service, that the germans would sign them them, to themselves. they would be signed over to the germans rather than the japanese. that kind of pressure, which sounds kind of exotic to us, it was important to realize that was a real possibility. japan had one ally in asia at this time beside the puppet and china.manchuria thailand was pro-japanese. they were not formally in a military alliance, but they were a reasonable accord. thailand was the only other country in the far east that has colonization -- semi colonization, if you want to be nice to china. it maintains that liberal independents, and so had the japanese em

called them in the newspaper and i try to open their bait but they only thing i got from them was about burma and ignorance that's because it's embarrassing to the trade department to see these treaties that they negotiated being used against the country if you're a foreign investor and you want to leverage against the government of course you would have an interest in many cases to keep it all confidential because if you keep it confidential and the government keeps a confidential then they can do deals. to do. so when they also say. in an exit dodge i may do so why don't you see until the deal lets you know could be divinely kid because it's us you know i think you dislike democrats a 50 year old can't see. what's up please don't you see 20 seats next that dog isn't back use enough so i know. so many blunders that this only. world is driven by. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. my uncle the kid's name compensate the boy to deny him nobody and. simple no prove nothing and they can. go and. get the kind of. move on the us i didn't get showed up to move this guy who i'm listening to nicholson i

up until the end of the 1900 centuries the station was called burma siobhan hall for bohemian station and the line was the saxon bohemian state railway . today the electrified mainline between dresden and it seemed put moakley in the czech republic is called the elba valley railway. industrialization and burgeoning tourism saw the amount of traffic increase so rapidly that an expansion of the railway station became essential. in 898 the bohemian railway station was renamed to dressed and hauptbahnhof or central station which remains to this day. the local railway service taking passengers to the border with the czech republic runs about every 15 minutes and connects dressed in with the saxon and bohemian switzerland regions. it's a popular railway route not just due to the charmingly diverse natural landscape by the river elbe. its frequent and fast connection to the sandstone mountains make it a truly convenient alternative to the car. the 1st stage of our journey took us from dresden to budge on down near the czech border with then switched to a railway that runs on non mainline tra

membership issues or burma for a long time, the kind of near abroad for china. in the obama years, because of what putin is doing, you saw a list of things you couldn't make progress on. the list of issues before the security council expanded, but the list of issues where you couldn't get past power issues expanded, because ukraine is on the agenda, very little you could get through the council and alsof russia syria, the redline, boot and treating it as if it is near yemen, where in many ways the russian position on the inclusivity of the peace process -- peace process and so forth that led it to block actions might be alongside the position of what people in the room today might wish was our position, but to be a spoiler also and try to create equivalents from what the coalition was doing in yemen and what what russia and syria were doing in places like aleppo, burma again with the rohingya and today, so many of the other crises, it is just block libya, r.an, cashmere -- kashmi so if you think of a conflict in the world, someone has a dog in the fight, even su

explores this turning point of the burma campaign, a japanese defeat largely at the head of british and indian forces. this was part of the national world war ii museums annual conference. announcer: ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. as we get into this next session, i'm sure you noticed on e

india when forces under japanese general maraguchi launched an offensive from their stronghold in burma. world war ii scholar shinto explores this turning point of the burma campaign, a japanese defeat largely at the head of british and indian forces. this event was part of the national world war ii museum's annual conference. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. as we get into this next session, i'm sure you noticed on the official program that we're one speake

another disaster can take place and that's something that's very much on the minds of residents of burma doing something that people here in the state of maine as it is' and the people of brazil very much want to avoid. or as time now to catch up with all the weather his rob i will stay in brazil i think cheri catchable not story of flooding unfortunately taking 30 lives as far as on his so far it's seasonal right is the wet is time of the year for south america and particularly for brazil it's just the heat and the tropical air well combined together that's typical sort of a lot better horizontally is the capital of the state and it of the last 2 days recorded 231 movies are very hard to compare or mean well just one day that was a new record a record that stood for 100 years so unfortunately they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time for these heavy seasonal rays or you seen some of this video rather already but this is typical of. course mankind in the area he ran to get something and landslides were the unfortunate result but as you heard the chance ours can stay rainy

they said that burma as does very bad cooperation with the u.s. on information sharing many of these countries eritrea kurdistan don't use passports electronic passports where the u.s. can access information off the passport these countries don't use it so the u.s. says that's a problem nigeria they said there's simply an elevated risk in threat environment there sudan is still considered on the state department's list of countries that are state sponsors of terrorism so that's why they say sudan is on this list so they give a whole host of reasons but they're pretty general for the most part bottom line is the u.s. said they've done a thorough review of multiple countries and these are the 6 they claim just simply do not meet the standards on information information sharing with the u.s. security personnel that they have an immigration people that they think is necessary and that's why this ban is going into place a reason to thank you very much president tom is also running back obamacare restrictions on the use of landmines which have been bann

has more on this remote hilltop base more than 180 recruits complete basic training with the free burma rangers or f.b.i. . they say there are humanitarian movement working to help free the oppressed in myanmar. gem one is from the northern shan state where he says ethnic groups is suffering at the hands of the country's military. there are many human rights abuses people got raped and tortured it's happening to us and many ethnic groups in myanmar i think men and women take part in fitness drills and training scenarios to deliver aid and treat civilians wounded in areas of conflict these people come from the states of catchin schon and rocky and where there are fragile cease fires and sporadic fighting the f.b.i. is privately funded and was founded 25 years ago by former u.s. special forces member and past david events and he wants me amas government to be held to account shelling a displacing villagers that's attempted murder and is some cases of murder and burning their homes so that's another war crime many here are members of ethnic armed groups who say they helping to protect ethn

certainly anything related to taiwan or membership issues, un membership issues or burma for a long time, the kind of near broad for china and then in the obama years because of what putin was doing you saw the list of things that you couldn't make progress on. the list of issues coming before the security council expanded but any issues on which you couldn't get past great power differences really expanded because suddenly ukraine is on the agenda and yet there's very little you can get through the councilbecause of russia . syria, the bright line almost as if it's ukraine, adding to that then yemen in the tail end where i think in many ways russia's position at least on the inclusivity of the peace process and so forth which led to block different as actions. it might be a position more along the lines of what people would wish our position had been. but it was mainly just to be a spoiler also and to try to create an equivalence between what the coalition was doing in yemen and what russia and syria were doing in places like aleppo but burma again with the rohingya off-limits but not b

them in burma and across the world you see what's happening continues to happen in palestine israel and you see all of these realities playing out and unfortunately a common thread in the common narrative is you see the particularities of absolutism nationalistic narratives where where for me to exist others have to be eliminated and that's a disastrous toxic orientation unfortunately that does not represent the essence of the human condition what unites us what brings us together as human beings is far more beautiful and profound and and for purposes of political power. see and influence people personally on the fears that fears of people fears of individuals who may not know me as perhaps robertson just relationships getting to know someone is the greatest and to fear and hatred because you realize that there is an inherent beauty unites us as human beings are we as individuals as faith leaders as people who care who just have a heart and that goes for every single person have to realize that we have a huge responsibility to play to turn down this noise by turning on our hearts and so

china has formally accepted the invitation to washington and come burma vice premier and will lead the delegation while monday through wednesday you.

on this remote hilltop base more than 180 recruits complete basic training with the free burma rangers or f.b.i. . they say there are humanitarian movement working to help free the oppressed in myanmar. germ one is from the northern shan state where he says ethnic groups is suffering at the hands of the country's military. there are many human rights abuses people got raped and tortured it's happening to us and many ethnic groups in myanmar. men and women take part in fitness drills and training scenarios to deliver aid and treat civilians wounded in areas of conflict these people come from the states of catchin shan qur'an. where there are fragile ceasefire and sporadic fighting. the f.b.i. is privately funded and was founded 25 years ago by former u.s. special forces member and pastor david eubanks and he wants government to be held to account shelling in displacing villagers that's attempted murder and in some cases murder and burning their homes so that's another war crime many here are members of ethnic groups who say they're helping to protect ethnic groups from the country. but

another disaster can take place and that's something that's very much on the minds of residents of burma doing something that people here in the seat of mean as it is' and the people of brazil very much want to avoid. still ahead on al-jazeera that it can iraq's capital forces move against an anti-government protest camp we'll have a later. on the ground. and we're at the gambia where victims of abuse under the former regime must still waiting for justice. had some very heavy amounts of rain across southern and central areas of china this is a satellite of the last few hours some very heavy amounts of rain coming in with that very very bright white cloud look at this we could well have some localized flooding is moving fairly swiftly but as i say some very heavy amounts and of course beginning to push cross taiwan and eventually pushing across into the islands and then as we go on into monday it will work its way steadily east was pushing into southern sections of the korean peninsula and on into more western areas of honshu no particularly cold one celsius in tokyo with a chance the few

ceremonies and released balloons to remember those who died earlier of apollo was at the memorial in burma do you know. apart from the sadness in the morning from the residents of brazil there's also a lot of fear a lot of trepidation given the ongoing rains in the heavy flooding that's taking place in the state of minas is it ice we unfortunately can confirm that at least 30 people have died within the context of these floods and you if you see behind me if you can see behind me this is the river that flows through downtown through my the you know you can see that it's already spilled it's spilled its banks here some houses are already flooded here and not only that there's there's a concern given that there are other dams this disaster that took place in 2019 reminds people that there are other dams that are categorized as at risk by the brazilian government so many people here fear that the question of of if there could be another disaster like the one that took place in 200-1000 many people here fear that it's only a matter of time before another disaster can take place and that's some