suu kyi's style these days. in the last three weeks, 400,000 rohingya muslims have fled her country, and she has said very little. missd address to diplomats was miss suu kyi's chance to state her case to the world. we feel deeply for the suffering of all the people who have been caught up in the conflict. those who have had to flee their homes are many — notjust muslims and rakhines, but also small minority groups. this was miss suu kyi giving the "both sides" defence. overwhelmingly, the victims in this crisis have been the rohingya. as to who was responsible for burning villages, she refused to point the finger. then, to many people's surprise, there was this. we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are fleeing across the border to bangladesh. we want to find out why this exodus is happening. we would like to talk to those who have fled as well as those who have stayed. the speech will not satisfy miss suu kyi's many critics. a generous reading of it is that she is badly out of touch. but the idea that she put forward, that she does not know why hundreds of thousands of rohingya have fled into bangladesh i

suu kyi's style these days. in the last three weeks, 400,000 rohingya muslims have fled her country, and she has said very little. missing of all the people who have been caught up in the conflict. those who have had to flee their homes are many, notjust muslims and rakhines, but also small minority groups. this was miss suu kyi giving the "both sides" defence. overwhelmingly, the victims in this crisis have been the rohingya. as to who was responsible for burning villages, she refused to point the finger. then, to many people's surprise, there was this: we are concerned to hear that numbers of muslims are fleeing across the border to bangladesh. we want to find out why this exodus is happening. we would like to talk to those who have fled as well as those who have stayed. the speech will not satisfy miss suu kyi's many critics. a generous reading of it is that she is badly out of touch. but the idea that she put forward, that she does not know why hundreds of thousands of rohingya have fled into bangladesh simply beggars belief. almost without exception, they say they are fleeing atrocities being committed by burmese

the diplomats who are here today, and the wider audience, will be listening very closely to how miss suu kyiwhether she puts any distance between herself and the burmese army. she is in the very difficult position politically. she has to share power with the army. she doesn't direct their operations in any way. but i think people will be listening very closely to see if she acknowledges even the possibility that awful things are taking place in rakhine state, and she gives some kind of indication that she is willing to raise that with the army and she is interested in making sure that the army stops the abuses which are that the army stops the abuses which a re clearly that the army stops the abuses which are clearly taking place in rakhine state at the moment. and we are just seeing on our state at the moment. and we are just seeing on our screen state at the moment. and we are just seeing on our screen images from cox's bazaar, and of course she has another problem, that her voters, her supporters, i know supporters of the rohingya. yes, all of the indications are this military offensive i

miss suu kyi, have you become an apologist for ethnic cleansing?d, and why aren't your soldiers stopping the burning of villages? "this is their strategic plot." "the rohingya were the ones who started attacking security forces." "then they ran away." "they knew what they did, then got worried about it and ran away." clearly not aung san suu kyi making a speech, it wasjonah trying to speak with aung san suu kyi, but he did manage to speak with a very seniorfigure within the did manage to speak with a very senior figure within the burmese army. you can find the bbc reality check article online, looking at some of these claims. jonathan is on the border between bangladesh and myanmar. we asked him to assess the speech. it was a real sense of unreality. all the things she talked about, deep—rooted problems, in racking state, reconciliation, long time development, that is all well and good, but there was no acknowledgement of the scale of what her own armed forces have done in rakhine state. the un has called it ethnic cleansing, anybody who has seen e

is the un security council meets, myanmar‘s de facto leader, aung san suu kyi, has announced she will missl assembly next week. myanmar government spokesperson said she would not attend because perhaps she would not attend because perhaps she had more pressing matters to deal with, but added she is never afraid of facing criticism for confronting problems. aung san suu kyi will instead address the nation ina kyi will instead address the nation in a televised speech. let's remind you what is going on, rohingya refugees have been fleeing the violence, already 380,000 have crossed the border into bangladesh and are living in makeshift refugee camps. many lack basic supplies like food, water and sanitation. the myanmar military have been blamed for the violence, with the un accusing them of ethnic cleansing. they have defended this and say they are fighting rohingya militants. my colleague reeta chakra barti are fighting rohingya militants. my colleague reeta chakrabarti is across the board in bangladesh and askedif across the board in bangladesh and asked if the aid response is any better aft

if i could ask you about those comments from aung san suu kyi first of all, this iceberg of miss information and have fled across the border, where the camps are massively overcrowded and cannot cope, they should be looked after and the united nations should be able to do that and receive the funds to do that. the other thing is the fighting stops. —— essential fighting stops. there is wrong on both sides, notjust one side. this started with a terrorist attack and be attacked a number of police stations and killed a number of police officers. we need everyone to stop the fighting and the power to do that rests largely with the commander of the army. when do you think that might happen‘s is any prospect for the stopping sooner rather than later? i hope so. there is strong international condemnation of what was going on there. burma has made progress in the last few yea rs. has made progress in the last few years. none of us that we would live long enough to see this but under aung san suu kyi leadership they have made progress. she has considerable influence but she does not have power over t

storm heading up the other islands that were missed out the first time around, it feels a bit like that. thank you. myanmar‘s de facto leader aung san suu kyis giving her first address to the country about the violence in northern rakhine state, which has seen more than 400,000 rohingya muslims cross the border into bangladesh. but she said she didn't know why so many people had fled their homes. in spain police have raided the offices of a catalonia based delivery firm that's thought to be handling leaflets for an independence referendum next month. madrid has vowed to stop the poll and police are under orders to seize election materials. there has also been a rally in support of more than 700 catalan mayors who back the referendum and are to be questioned by prosecutors in barcelona. the wreck of a german submarine that sank during world war one has been found in the north sea. the u—boat is said to be in good condition, lying at a depth of 30 metres off the belgian coast. experts think it was sunk by a mine and could have 23 bodies still inside it. donald trump's choice for russian ambassador, jon huntsman, says there is ‘no question' th

missing. for a full summary of the news, you can go to our website, where you can get more details of all of today's main stories. myanmar‘s leader, aung san suu kyiry's rohingya muslims. nearly 400,000 rohingya have fled to bangladesh in the last three weeks. her spokesman said she had to stay and deal with the escalating crisis. a senior un official says the amount of money needed to help the refugees had risen sharply. 0ur south asia correspondentjustin rowlatt is into neill of the bangladesh and myanmar border and told us that they were receiving worrying reports of people drowning in their effort to escape. apologies in advance for the break—up on his line from bangladesh. these fishing boats are the way lots of rohingya refugees may a tea to bangladesh must have a travel from mr on these boats, around the bay of bengal and it isa boats, around the bay of bengal and it is a really perilous journey. they have to sacrifice what few possessions they have to make the journey and once they are a see it is very dangerous. we understand that a few hours ago, one of these boats sank and we are going down to find out what happened. awful scenes bodies