is this the evidence that could see myanmar security forces tried for times against humanity. forensic expert homer ventis says how. >>> welcome to the program, i'm christiane amanpour in london. expectations were low going in and they got lower by the minute. today's nato summit began on a note of unprecedented ferocity as president trump called out germany over a commercial int interprice, a natural gas pipeline deal with russia. >> if you look at it, germany is a captive of russia, they get rid of their coal plants, their nuclear, they're getting so much of the oil and gas from russia. i think it's something that nato has to look at. >> in her one-on-one meeting with president trump, chancellor angela merkel would not address those comments but is germany controlled by or captive to russia as the president claims? here are the facts -- germany imports about a third of its natural gas from russia and is not dependent, as the president accuses, because it has a gersh mix of suppliers from europe, the gulf states and even the united states so president trump's claim that 70% o

nick beake, bbc news, rakhine state, myanmar.igration policies. more than 600 events were planned, with major demonstrations in washington dc, new york and other cities. the marchers demanded that migrant children are reunited with their parents after being forcibly separated at the us border. 2000 children are still being held in detention centres. a privately developed rocket has exploded and crashed to the ground just seconds after lift—off in japan. hundreds of people were watching in shock as it fell from the sky in flames at a test site on the island of hokkaido. it was unmanned and there were no injuries reported. the rocket was developed by a company which is hoping to provide affordable commercial space flights. it was japan‘s second attempt at sending a private rocket into space. as you can see, it has gone up in flames. two british sailors take to the high seas today to attempt to solo sail 30,000 miles around the world non stop. the golden globe race sees 18 competitors recreate the extraordinary expedition which made

put pressure on the myanmar government.rohingya families as quickly as possible, but they are deeply skip full. they believe they are the people no country wants. they escaped from this lush landscape. we have managed tojoin a government chipped to rakhine state. build as a chance to see —— see peace and stability. but there is a dark history here, because all along the route we glimpse remnants of rohingya muslim villagers, burned to the ground last year. they torched their own homes, is the burmese army's explanation. for a moment come we lose our minders. this is pa rt come we lose our minders. this is part of the trip they did not want us part of the trip they did not want us to see but we have managed to stop you. this used to be a rohingya village. the people are long gone. if you look around you can see evidence of fire here, and all along this stretch of the countryside you find spots like this. they are trying to usher us away again. why can we not go in here? why can we not go inside? this is very dangerous. if so

two new reports reveal the horror of the rohingya violence in myanmar.ntry to bangladesh last year. one report comes from a medical aid group. they had a veg attacked nearly a year ago. their report says forensic evidence support the account of atrocities and abuses. >>> the report estimates hundreds were killed. security forces fired on civilians, raped women and burned down homes. myanmar security officials say they were conducting terror operations. the aid group says there is no way that is true. >> there is no indication this was an anti-terror campaign as all the fact that so many have multiple times of injuries, they have been exposed to physical violence and sexual violence puts the lie to this notion there is a terrorist company. >> another aid group says they plan to carry out crimes against humantarians. fortify right the game name of the group, documents the steps in a report. there are some of the preparations security forces made before they attack entire villages. >> the report says they disarmed rohingyas, taking away their knives and tra

speak of the future of the range of citizenship we must speak of its restoration by the government of myanmar and not use vague terminology such as a pathway to citizenship for doing so deny the reality of what types happened as well as the dignity of the people that it happened to and does not provide a durable and long lasting solution for their own injured populations for milan government is committed to ensuring a pathway to citizenship for the range of people however in reality for years to accept governments have placed the ring on a pathway. to citizenship rights that they previously enjoyed during their mission i have had the opportunity to have teleconferences with various individuals and groups and now must i am aligned by what i was told about the developments affecting the human rights of those in myanmar by all the people like spoke to on this trip in person and by phone opening bell like overwhelmingly the message that they gave me is that enough is enough for them to represent civil situation that exists for the people of myanmar must and today. it was reported to me that the d

punished for reporting on the rich will have the latest on the trial of two voices journalists in myanmar. lost relatives finances and now food crops we report on the plight of nigerian communities affected by deadly flooding. we're going to bring you more of the action from the world cup final between france and croatia. well again look at weather conditions across the levant and western parts of asia first of all we have got one or two showers in the southern side of the caspian sea so let's size chance of a shower towards tehran otherwise pretty brisk winds i think then across much of rice and lifted dust likely to be the problem here still plenty of showers around the caucuses particular for georgia and could be some flooding as a result those showers continue as we head on through into choose day otherwise eastern side of the mediterranean all looking fine and dry temperatures in excess of thirty degrees here in the arabian peninsula temperatures well an excess of forty degrees at this time of the year and with low humidity and a brisk wind and low temperatures in tow how to get up t

group forty five rights is calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officials in myanmar they are accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the country's community of a group bombed more than thirty police stations in august two thousand and seventeen the myanmar government says it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against. the state but the report documents how the army planned and committed mass killings rape and ask them against two thousand and sixteen months before the police station bombings the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from their homes at the same time providing weapons to normal people food and humanitarian aid to the hinge of a blockage in a bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seventeen crackdown the report concludes that myanmar's government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against. matthew smith is the chief executive officer of forty five writes the nonprofit group that prepared the report and he's urging the international community to act against those responsible for th

nick beake, bbc news, rakhine state, myanmar. elephant man — the story ofjoseph merrick, so severely disfigured that he became a circus exhibit to survive. but the role of the lead character has never been played by a disabled person — until now. amanda parr reports. step in and see! stand up, you bloody donkey, up! up! rollup, rollup, to see the elephant man. the star of victorian freak shows. a figure of keen interest to the medical community. and in this production, an iconic disabled role reclaimed. it's a strident step beyond whatjamie beddard calls the lazy and offensive casting of the past. the only elephant man i've seen was done by non—disabled actors, which i don't think is acceptable. me being disabled, me being an actor, me doing the elephant man, i really hope makes it a bit more authentic and a bit more meaningful. i need to do a good job to do itjustice. jamie says working with drama school graduates like this will normalise inclusion and exciting approaches to casting. not having that slightly strange feeling that

course she is the de facto leader of you know it when i started doing work about human rights in myanmar on sunset she was still in prison and if you would have told me then. that she would now be in power i would have said that's unbelievable and there's almost no way that you could have convinced me that she would be in power and would be cracking down on freedom of expression to this extent it's just it's mind boggling matthew thank you very much . now germany's chancellor is meeting the chinese premier in berlin talks between angle america only chang will focus on training and to follow his u.s. president donald trump in addition of new terrorists and goods from both china and the european union of which of course germany is part both leaders have criticized transfer me with china accusing him of starting a global trade war dominic cain has more from berlin. when they meet on monday angela merkel and likud chang will do so as partners on the world stage trade links between germany and china are strong but right now all eyes are on their collective commercial relationship with the uni

government myanmar authorities and myanmar military denying and downplaying what's happening with the will hinge a crisis in recalling the state now more than seven hundred thousand people have already fled were kind. had to skate to safety in bangladesh since august last year fleeing a military crackdown and these men these two reporters have been arrested for trying to document and trying to expose a massacre that they say were carried out by the myanmar military during the military crackdown and they've now been arrested to press freedom advocates are saying that this really harks back to a time when the myanmar military were using the same tactics to lock up and persecute people who were trying to expose the truth of course is a developing story we'll come back to continuously thanks very much for its leader in kuala lumpur. still ahead here are packed five to a soul the back of a car we report from behind bars in venezuela. oh you just told. me today the weather sponsored by qatar airways hello there we've not got a great deal of cloud across our middle east chart a tool over the

a bid to weaken them ahead of the two thousand and seventeen crackdown the report concludes that myanmar's government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against what we're going to get more on this now we're joined by matthew smith you the chief executive officer of forty five watts which is the nonprofit human rights group that prepared the report and he's joining us live from bangkok always good to have you with us on al-jazeera mr smith so very importantly your report you know it refutes that dominant narrative in myanmar and beyond that the army cracked down on the revenge or was a response to attacks by a group on police outpost and also details the army's plans you know to rape to kill it to displace or that they were in place long before the attacks on authorities. that's right you know the medium our military would like the world to believe that it was fighting terrorism in rakhine state and that this was a spontaneous response to the attacks of we have documented crimes by our so but more importantly with respect to the mass atrocities that have taken place we

to russian journalists arrested in myanmar last year have gone on trial the pair was investigating the killing of ten men and boys when they were arrested the in charge of violation official secrets act and could face up to four tedious and present sets lawson has more from bangkok. this is of course a trial that everyone around the world was watching me and mark is watching very closely because it's not only seen as a task for press freedom because as you know in two thousand and twelve it became much more freer for the media in them myanmar before it was extremely restricted it was one of the most restrictive media in asia but in suddenly there was this new spring a lot of more freedom people could go in journals could go and report on stories of i'm trying to achieve became the state conflict that was still going on there was still this freedom but then of course the rohingya crisis the whole crackdown happened against the ranger and of course this is now seen as a strong warning by the military to all media all journalist in myanmar not to investigate what actually has happened aga

a yankee league holding a press conference let's listen in government has not allowed me to visit myanmar to carry out my work and then dated by the human rights council. following their every middle of my mandate in march i was i had also requested the government of india to facilitate a visit to india so i could meet with refugees in new delhi shamu in kashmir. but received no response before i proceed further let me take this opportunity to thank the government of bangladesh for always about coming and facilitating my visit the un entities in bangladesh particularly the resident coordinators office have been extremely helpful in facilitating my visit i am grateful to the introspective courteney sheehan committee group and those who provided support in cox's but as our government denied my access to me on my own i was only able to meet people in bangladesh the neighboring country that hosts over one million refugees. i met with government un agencies and. and in this regard i met running into refugees in a number of counties and settlements as well as the government un humanitarian un h

still ahead on the bulletin a test of media freedom in myanmar as two journalists who reported on the one hand to crisis go on trial and the french of demolition looms over the school in the occupied west bank to have a live report. hello there we got plenty of rain over the philippines at the moment it really has been very wet here over the last couple of days and there's plenty more cloud with us at the moment that cloud also stretches towards the west covers many of us across viet nam and then into thailand to say this whole northern stretch of our map is where the wettest weather is currently and where it's going to be over the next few days we've also got a storm is developing to the east of the philippines so to keep a close eye on the weather here over the next day or say towards the south that's where it's generally dry and brighter so for many of us across borneo and into java and barley should be fine and settled as we head through the next few days that australia all the wet weather here has been in the south recently and that's where it's going to be over the next couple o

myanmar. nic: this trip seemed to have profound effect on the united nations secretary-general.eeted afterwards that he listened to heartbreaking accounts from the refugee people. he talked about the dreadful sexual violence the women had endured before they fled to bangladesh he said this was a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. the short-termai priority hed people tome 200,000 benic: this trip seemed to have profound effect on the united mo a place of battering from the monsoon season which continues to hit this place so are. he c community once again to do more to help these people. he said they are the most persecuted people and desperately need assistance. in the medium to long termthe is much more difficult to solve and that is trying to bring back the people to myanmar, theholace they call . however, the united nations said the condions on the ground are simply not right further safe, sustainable and dignified return. sti was ther weekend i saw with my ownti eyes that arell villagers who have been razed to the ground. what happens now with the eu when a deal with th

mirrors on the offices of ten different armies it may sound funny but in myanmar that at least twenty one different fighting the government when there is a clash the liaison officers are the ones who will intervene right away to make sure that the unintended cash is to not become big battles so in that way we are helping to keep that however in twenty seventeen in a way it wasn't allowed to intervene in the ro hinges situation his visa was revoked without any explanations given returning to the my and my media on those rare occasions when we were allowed to leave the bus we only met people willing to back up the authorities story. doing to need to be there to really get in this. time. to. move. to new gear john lewis will go. to court there. is no me. it didn't have the money that the court

nationals of myanmar currently. in the future you can say this but currently i don't think it's. the right way of expressing who they are right yankee lee we thank you very much for speaking to us from doctor. now returning to the breaking news out of thailand where we're getting reports of six boys trapped in caves have now been brought to the surface as a daring rescue operation seemingly happens much faster than first expected they have been taken to a field hospital near the cave in old twelve boys and their football coach need to be brought out through twisted narrow and jagged passageways they've been stuck for more than two weeks scott heiler joining us from chiang rai what are you hearing about those that have been rescued scott and what will happen to those that are still inside the cave where we know that those who have been rescued you know there's you said there's a field hospital right outside the cave entrance where they went into weeks and one day ago they were treated there immediately well they're m

he's really never seen anything on this scale before in his life and he said that the government of myanmar needs to do much more now they have been these memos of understanding that have been signed between the government of myanmar and the united nations to try to begin a repeat tree a she crosses so that grow into refugees can go back to me anymore but this is at best problematic because details of that middle understanding leaked and it seemed as though it did not refer to the group as for in jet the did not clarify if they would get citizenship rights and so in the past week in speaking to a lot of refugees here were quite concerned about it they say first and foremost that you know wrote hinges should be involved in any discussions about their group their population and have that furthermore all the others that i was speaking with this week say that they don't believe that me and maher serious this is a population that would love to be able to go back home but they believe that they are in danger they don't believe that they will get citizenship and they don't think that the governmen

the myanmar government report that. the ira can go in just salvation army had attacked. the police post and government offices simul pena sleep the. ami was also already in place and rakhine state they had already brought in reinforcements to be able to deal with that so the question is how did they know to me a lot of these reports are not credible this was a good time to. try to move. out of now mom. this point of the media tour around my in ma. the border between the country and bangladesh why not act and then again why it generated the whole people. said ben is simon hundred thousand people. you know. it's a so-called new man's land where you find the most reluctant refugees they don't want to venture too far from the fence that separates them from my own mom never the less that most so afraid to return worrying whether they'll enjoy the same rights as before the government is actually clearing the little bit of a month to make new homes as well you want to go and live on the moon the all the holes i i knew or no i don't want to get counted them now we're going one w

human rights watch is calling on myanmar's government to compensate hundreds of farmers who've had their land illegally confiscated activists believe thousands of square kilometers have been seized by government and military leaders since the one nine hundred ninety s. a new human rights watch reports as many rural families are on the verge of starvation and with no access to basic necessities hundreds of farmers have also been prosecuted for protesting against the seizures are refusing to leave their homes leader aung san suu cheese party the national league for democracy campaign to end the confiscations bot farmers have seen almost no progress since the n.d.p. one elections in two thousand and fifteen well phil robertson is the deputy asia director for human rights watch and he says farmers lives have been destroyed. the loss of land for farmers means everything to them this is them losing their independence this is them losing their financial security earning enough to survive this is them not being able to send their children to school this is not being able to the hospital this is

the crackdown as containing elements of genocide as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing yet the myanmar government and the military continues to deny or downplay the seriousness of what's happening in riccarton state and as human rights watch puts it the authorities in myanmar appear to be falling back on an old tactic of locking up those who are trying to tell the truth . the british government's minister in charge of the u.k.'s negotiations to leave the e.u. has resigned david davis quit as secretary just hours after prime minister to resign may announced she was going to take her cabernets plan for leaving the european union to brussels in his resignation letter davis wrote that the current policy will leave the u.k. in a weak negotiating position may has struggled to unite factions within her governing conservative party over how the u.k. will proceed with its departure meanwhile british police have confirmed that a woman exposed to the nerve agent now every child has died and was last week dawn sturgis fell ill after apparently handling an item contaminated with the substance now h

the human rights group says calling for the arrest of twenty two military and police officials in myanmar they were accused of committing crimes that constitute genocide against the country's community of one hundred bombs one thirty police stations in august two thousand and seventeen the myanmar government said it says it was these attacks that led to a military crackdown against. the state but the report documents how the army planned and committed. mass killings rape and against one hundred two thousand and sixteen months before the police station bombings the military also disarmed by confiscating sharp objects from their homes at the same time providing weapons to the laundry hinge of people food and humanitarian aid to britain juba blocked in a bid to weaken them ahead of the twenty seventeen crackdown the report includes myanmar's government made extensive and systematic preparations for attacks against . well matthew smith is the chief executive officer of forty five writes the group that prepared the report and he's urging the international community to act against those respons

today there was a memo of understanding that was signed between the you win and the government of myanmar just recently and when details of that memo leaked to the press well the memo didn't even mention were hinges by name and it did not talk about them having the right to get citizenship if and when they returned to me and more to rock and state so a lot of the refugees we've been speaking with here today have said that that's something that greatly concerned and they're happy that secretary-general the terrorists have come here they're happy to hear about the fact that the world bank is now pledging about five hundred billion dollars five hundred million dollars. aid the bangladeshi government in the aid of orange refugees but they don't think that enough is being done to ensure that they get the right decision even when they return to me and more now one of the things that the un is doing is they are trying to relocate tens of thousands of or him to refugee families to other parts of the camp to really vulnerable families that live on steep hillsides that are prone to flooding they're

still ahead on the belgian a test of media freedom and myanmar has turned journalists have reported on the one hundred crisis on trial and the pressure of demolition rooms of a school in the occupied west bank would have a life or. are you just told. me today the weather is sponsored by qatar airways hello there we've got a bit of rain that's pushing its way into the northwestern parts of europe at the moment you can see it on the satellite picture here is giving us some wet weather it's also dragging the temperatures down a bit and it's also breaking up as it works its way eastwards so a few shopper outbreaks of rain on much during the day on monday and then as it works its way eastwards for tuesday it breaks up a bit but it's still bringing down the temperatures so london. will be twenty four degrees on choose day further towards the south it's still going to stay hot for many of us here in the hope weather will be giving us a few more thunderstorms most of those across the alps but also stretching down the coast of the adriatic as well for the eastern parts of europe is quite differ

in rakhine state and its human rights watch puts it the authorities in myanmar appear to be falling back on an old tactic of locking up those who are trying to tell the truth there are reports of another israeli attack on an airbase with a large iranian presence in syria's homes province syrian state media say the military struck an israeli fighter jet and shot down six missiles targeting the t four air base israel isn't commenting on the reports but has carried out dozens of air strikes on iranian targets in recent years before air base was also targeted back in april with syria iran and russia all blaming israel else where the syrian government has begun targeting rebel held areas of the city that's the spider russian brokered cease fire agreed to on friday the united nations is calling for unrestricted access to the southwest province to deliver aid to tens of thousands of people it says are desperately in need the fighting has displaced more than three hundred thousand civilians in the past two weeks that's the largest exodus of the seven year war xina hood has more from beirut

well still ahead here on al-jazeera a test of media freedom in myanmar as two journalists who reported on the brink of crisis go on trial. may change one thousand new faces enter parliament after a shock election victory earlier this year. hello there some parts of china have seen an awful lot of wet weather in the last few days and this is one province we've had flooding and this is one of the rescues that took place you can see just how deep the water is there that was out of this area of town taken stevie is still with us at the moment but i think over the next few days the wetter weather is going to be in the south and that's where we're going to have more problems already in the so the positron and the northern parts of it now there's lots of cloud at the moment this probably won't develop into a tropical cyclone just because it's too near land there's also very strong winds high up in the atmosphere and that will stop it forming but we are now seeing this area of cloud develop some kind of rotation and that's going to track its way towards the west and as it does say it will prob

cherish was visiting a camp in bangladesh where more than a million rangers have fled violence in myanmar on friday the world bank and now stuff five hundred million dollars grant to help bangladesh with the refugees basic needs but conditions remain poor and good carriage said countries need to offer more financial assistance mohammed jim jim joins us live now from cox's bazar in bangladesh so mohamad what is the latest that you could tell us there on the situation and the efforts to provide desperately needed aid to people in. how is it you know since we've been here aid workers have been describing what's going on in cox's bizarre as an emergency with in an emergency now let me try to break that down for you why they're saying that of course you have this crisis that has continued you have close to a million road humans are refugees here in cox's bazaar many of them in the critical long camp where we are right now but also right now it's monsoon season that means that on these steep hillsides that don't have education and where most of the are going to have their bamboo huts it's very

the crackdown as containing elements of genocide as a textbook example of ethnic cleansing yet the myanmar government and the military continues to deny or downplay the seriousness of what's happening in rakhine state and as human rights watch puts it the authorities in myanmar appear to be falling back on an old tactic of locking up those who are trying to tell the truth germany's chancellor is meeting the chinese premier in berlin talks between angola merkel and leaky chang will focus on trade follows the us president donald trump's imposition of new tariffs on goods from both china and the e.u. both leaders have criticized trump's move with china accusing him of starting a global trade war dominic cain has more from berlin. as these two leaders meet the areas that they agree upon all very clear and apparent and basically it's opposition to many of the decisions and the policies put forward by president donald trump and his administration they are united in their belief that they don't want to see a trade war between barack countries and the united states of america and they fear the bat

continue my education i want to get a job so i can send money for my siblings to go to school in myanmar i'm the eldest of seven children i want all of them to have an education like me. the plight of the stateless children is in the spotlight since a team's dramatic rescue. i was happy to say that the stateless boys weren't treated any differently to the others some people were suggesting they should have been taken out of the cave last choice tyo non time we all have the same human rights that's far from reality for most other stateless children many growing up without their parents for five instincts part of you to do the fighting spirit of the sadist members and the wild boars for buffy from an early age they learned how to deal with hardship and survive in a country that doesn't officially accept them now many hope we haven't face to face that chance and hope to be rewarded citizenship the local district chief says he has yet to receive the applications for citizenship and they will only be successful if they were born in thailand and have birth certificates so while the team spirit

news hour including two journalists to be reporting on the refugee crisis and road to stand trial in myanmar. an historic visit as eritrea and ethiopia reestablish diplomatic ties after two decades of conflict. and how this french legend will go against his countryman in the last for the world cup peter will have the details in support. of britain's prime minister's been falsified a replacement for the man she put in charge of bracks it negotiations after his sudden resignation david davis announced his decision in a letter to theresa may in which he wrote that he couldn't abide by the government's current departure plan dominic rob who was the housing minister will take over the post the turmoil is another blow to mrs may who struggle to unite factions within the governing conservative party over rex it well it's been a rocky road ever since a narrow majority of voters in the u.k. wed fifty two to forty eight percent opted for leaving the european union in a twenty sixteen referendum the following months to resume a became prime minister replacing david cameron who resigned in the wake of t

in myanmar, we talk to people looking toto make their r fore drillingng for oil..ut first we head to iran, which is only now starting to face up to its drurug problems. accordrding to the u united nat, aroundnd 31 million n people worldwide regularly consume harmfulevevels oillicicit ugs. iran has one of the world's highest numbers of drug addicts relative to population size. 1.25 million people, according to u.n. figures. ththe country shares a 900 kilometer-long border with afghanistan, the world's biggest producer of opium and its products. in recent years, large amounts of drugs of all kinds have been confnfiscated in i iran. drughave l long been a taboo subject there. and addicts are only just starting to get some help. reporter: shirin earns her living making handicrafts,s, whh she sells on the streets. this would have been unthinkable just a few yeaears ago. shirin was a drug addict. she was hooked on crystal meth for eight years. her father was also an addict. he introduced shirin to alcohol when she was a child. shirin: my father fermented his own wine whe

rape and torture at the hands of the myanmar army. i'm alex crawford, and this is "hotspots."ht, we're gonna take you behind the scenes of some of the world's hardest-hitting stories. we're in northern iraq, where stuart ramsay has an amazingly lucky escape. ramsay: the chance of surviving that, a flip of a coin, i suspect. crawford: our cameras are rolling when things get out of hand in spain. [gunfire]

so that means in places like cambodia, the philippines, myanmar, facebook is the internet. in a place like myanmar which only recently got phones as recently as 2014, were it only recently got any sort of internet connectivity, facebook is essentially the entire media ecosystem. not coincidentally it is the site of horrendous genocide against the muslim minority population. we have seen this sort of thing the time of the gentleman has expired again around the world moved acutely and most brutally and myanmar. how did this happen? that one number i'd like you to remember, 2.2 billion. i mentioned before, the most important thing you have to remember that facebook. as ephedra 2010 facebook add 2.2 billion users around the world. there is nothing that comes close. there's nothing that comes close bpc doesn't have that many listeners around the world. cnn international doesn't have that many viewers around the world. that is a stunning number, right? that also means at that scale is almost nothing facebook can do to alleviate the very problems i've already described. it's almos

laid on us the charges lead to condemnation worldwide and are seen as a test for press freedom in myanmar you have had evidence introduced which effectively said that the case against the two journalists while alone and jaw so it was a put up that the police intentionally handed them documents precisely so they could arrest them and charge them under the official secrets act by any international measure of judicial process has been a farce so far right it's been a travesty of justice the government of nobel laureate aung san suu kyi is facing international condemnation after a military crackdown on the range a minority that the u.n. has called textbook at nick lancing it is estimated that thousands were killed more than seven hundred thousand have fled to bangladesh in a recent interview she did night the case against a two journalists is connected to the investigation into the killings of. what i'm trying to achieve while the elections three years ago maybe i'm ian martin from one of the most restricted in asia to one of the freest of these new freedoms didn't last long rights groups say

mirrors on the offices of ten different armies it may sound funny but in myanmar that at least twenty one different fighting the government when there is a clash the liaison officers are the ones who will intervene right away to make sure that the unintended tasha's do not become big battles so in that way we are helping to keep that however in twenty seventeen in a way it wasn't allowed to intervene in the row hinges situation his visa was revoked without any explanations given returning to the mayan media on those rare occasions when we were alone to leave the bus we only met people willing to back up the authorities story. doing too much of you certainly didn't mr.

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the myanmar government report that. the ira can go in just salvation army had attacked. the police post and government offices simulate pena sleep the young mommy was also already in place and rakhine state they had already brought in reinforcements to be able to deal with that that he attacked so the question is how did they know to me a lot of these reports on not credible this was a good time to. try to move the rinds out of nemani. to further this point of the media tour around my and the border between the country and bangladesh for not acting then again why it generated the whole. sad end is seven hundred thousand people. you know world of big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to be deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. when the whole make this manufacture come sentenced to public wells.

and the people of myanmar must call for these perpetrators to be held accountable.so they had all of the focus on the first commercial fight.

the bbc‘s myanmar correspondent nick beake joined the trip.ingya village. the people are long gone. if you look around you can see evidence of fire here. they are trying to usher us away again. they are saying it is time to move on. why can we not go in here? why can we not go inside? because it is very dangerous. something could happen. we do not know is do not come in there. we wa nt we want to go back to our homeland. myanmar‘s government insists it wa nts to myanmar‘s government insists it wants to bring them back home. but they are sceptical they feel no one wa nts they are sceptical they feel no one wants them. how would you describe the rohingya people in three words? he only needs one. "terrorists." bats often get a bad rap. i'm thinking vampires here. but they're actually essential for agriculture, they keep insects down and fertilize crops. however, a fungus that causes deadly white nose syndrome is spreading across the us. it's a wildlife wipeout, killing millions of bats. but in hard hit pennsylvania, scientists are hoping to slow

so far, they are not accepted by myanmar, bangladesh hasn't given them citizenship.s, with the monsoon risk and the flooding risk, it's important the world remembers these people and doesn't forget them. thanks very much indeed. weddings amongst couples in lgbt communities are on the rise, but unfortunately some of their parents are unwilling to attend, leaving people on their own on their big day. well, to combat this, one woman from the us state of oklahoma has offered to step in as the ‘stand—in mom' to fill that void. sara cunningham came to terms with her son being gay. now she helps others disowned by their parents. throw the rice and blow the bubbles, whatever you need... if you need a mum to come to your same—sex marriage because your biological mum won't, i am your girl. ijust started again hearing about parents who were not accepting the relationships between the couples, not recognising their marriage as holy. it is the most profound day of their life. i was that mum too. i was that mum wondering, could i go to my own son's wedding? i had to reconcile my o

the two reuters journalists have been charged under myanmar's official secrets act they were arrested in december shortly after they were handed some documents by policemen who had asked to meet them the two reporters had been working on an investigation into the killing of ten was the in rakhine state the military launched a crackdown there in august after a hinge of fighters attacked some police posts more than seven hundred thousand range have since escaped to bangladesh amid allegations of murder rape and acid attacks by security forces the defense lawyer had urged the judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on the kind state police captain also told the court in april that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wadlow to trap him the chief operating officer for reuters says he's disappointed in the judge's ruling on the face of it and certainly following the line of evidence we think they should be freed we think the charges shouldn't have been laid to begin with but we certainly hope that the cour

all these people here in these tragic circumstances and these if myanmar have no responsibilities for them is not acceptable we need to push and will be pushing in the right direction and fully in line with the principles that have always been the principles of the united nations in motion to. the need for every citizen to have a country that they can call their. own have a genuine has more from cox is bizarre. the u.n. in the past few months trying to do a donation drive to get money for the war or hinder refugee population it's only been twenty four percent funded thus far that really goes to show how much this population is neglected secretary-general good terrorism spoke a lot about the fact that there were hindu population is perhaps the most discriminated against population in the entire world he said that he went to iraq and say you know ten years ago and saw the kind of difficulties that they were living with even then and it's only gotten so much worse now one of the things that i asked secretary-general the terrorist specifically about is something that's become a bit of a b