myanmar or burma?hat's original name since the, uh, 13th century. >> anthony: ma thengi, like u thiha saw, has also spent time in prison. but on emerging after three years, she became in the minds of many an apologist for the regime. fairly or not, i leave to others. >> ma: sometimes, outsiders, um, act as if, you know, it's only after the military junta went away that, you know, things happened. first we were sort of, like, in a frozen state, like snow white. dead. >> anthony: but her many well-known books on the culinary traditions of myanmar make her a compelling advocate for burmese cuisine. so you're very passionate about the cooking and the cuisine here, and -- >> ma: well, it's just that i like to eat and i eat like a pig. [ chuckles ] >> anthony: this is yangon's restaurant. >> ma: salads, i think, are the best of our food. i'm going to order a lot of salads that you haven't had. you know, it's going to be like a sort of a tasting thing. >> anthony: there's pic head salad with kaffir lime leaf,

democrats a taste of the very a in myanmar a. bus we begin in lebanon where house a million syrians have sought shelter from a civil war that has left their country in ruins. many of them are children looking to eke out a living on the streets of beirut own it is almost midnight but almost and use of some work day is far from over. the brothers from syria sell flowers on the streets of beirut three days per week from dusk till dawn. i wish that. i work because my parents are sick i need to support them i wake up at five thirty six in the afternoons i go and buy the flowers i work work work and then i go home . with. syrian children working on the streets of beirut has become a common sight seventy percent of syrian refugees in lebanon live under the poverty line leaving many parents like almost and use of swig no choice but to send their children onto the streets to survive he should be able to stay at home even if my mother and father is sick neither yousif nor his brother go to school on the streets they often experience violen

bangladesh and myanmar agree on the return of some rohingya refugees, but the un warns that it's not safe for them yet. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme: indonesia orders inspections of all boeing 737 max 8 planes as the lion air recovery operation continues. this is now the grim ritual that's taking place here at the port. these coastguard boats coming in, bringing back what they have been able to recover from the wreckage. let's get to work. and we talk to the football star wayne rooney about his new life and success in america. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9pm in the evening in the us city of pittsburgh. that's where president trump has landed to meet the families of victims of the deadly mass shooting at a synagogue on saturday. the white house has angrily rejected the suggestion that mr trump's rhetoric could be to blame for emboldening racist attacks. but one localjewish group has told the president he is not welcome in the city. from pittsburgh, our

myanmar says it's not true and denies ethnic cleansing led to those deaths.cess to a former village that used to be the home to 6,000 rohingya muslims. he found evidence there that was overwhelming. >> reporter: these people are rohingya muslims. some fled that what the u.n. calls a genocide. myanmar's government wants you to believe it never happened. >> our men are trying to save lives. >> reporter: to meet these people, it took several days and a rickety boat ride to get to this part of the state in remote western myanmar. so foreigners aren't allowed in this part of the city. the only way we're here is on a government escort. we're only taken where authorities want us to go. our first stop a village where there used to be more than 6,000 rohingya. rohingya? their existence all but remaker. that way? thank you. this is what's left of the rohingya village that was here. it's completely overgrown, it's hard to tell that there were any structures here at any point. the only clues that we have to the violence that took place here are trees like this, still a y

matt rivers went to myanmar to investigate.s joining us live with an exclusive report from beijing. matt, what did you find out? >> reporter: well, wolf, basically this trip is all about myanmar's government trying to change the narrative that's been accepted by the international community that you just laid out. so they invited us in, we listened to what they had to say, we judge it on its merits and we make a conclusion. here's our story. these people are rohingya muslims. some of those who fled from what the u.n. calls a genocide. myanmar's government wants you to believe it never happened. >> we are afraid our life. >> reporter: to meet these people, it took several days and a rickety boat ride to get to this part of the state in remote western myanmar. so, foreigners aren't allowed in this part. the only way we're here is on a government escort. we're only taken where authorities want us to go. our first stop, a village where there used to be more than 600,000 rohingya. the government says their forces did respond to terro

mission on myanmar told the u.n. security council that up to four hundred thousand ranger who remain in myanmar face severe restrictions and russian our diplomatic editor james bays. i think it was the meeting they tried to stop russia china and bolivia voting to attempt to block a briefing by the un zone fact finding mission on myanmar china said it was an internal issue here were even though over seven hundred thousand people fled the country into bangladesh to escape the violence russia said the report of the mission was biased and unreliable even though it runs to four hundred forty pages of searing testimony as the security council veto doesn't apply to procedural matters the chairman of the fact finding mission was eventually able to give his damning conclusions our report characterizes the recent events in the right hand. as a human catastrophe there which will see able and plan one that will have severe impact will many generations to come if not for ever the details of the report clearly had an impact on som

cnn takes you exclusively inside the aftermath of the myanmar genocide. fely. allstate helps you. with drivewise. feedback that helps you drive safer. and that can lower your cost now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? >>> we now know that paul manafort, former trump campaign chairman, now convicted felon, is a frequent visitor to the special counsel's office since reaching a deal with prosecutors in early september. manafort has come to robert mueller's office no less than nine times over the past month or so to talk with investigators. here to discuss cnn legal analyst jack quinn who served as white house council during the clinton administration and sara murray, a cnn political correspondent. jack, nine times in the last months alone, what does that say to you? >> it says he has a lot to offer to the special counsel. and he's giving it to him. paul manafort, his importance is evident by the effort the special counsel has gone to with him. he can talk about the trump tower meeting and the president's awareness of that, if any, he can talk about

of being brutally raped by members of myanmar military forces last year. the troops murdered her mother and sister in front of her, then kidnapped her and kept her for 10 days. six men stole her virginity, and gang raped her, repeedly. >> ( translated ): the military took us to a buddhist village, threw us inside of school and kept us there. there were three of us.gh one they went out to dinner, and the wife of one ofe ldiers helped us leave. >> reporter: she managed tope esnd fled to bangladesh along with 700,000 rohingyas muslims who made the same trek orst year, walking through the jungle with no fooater.tr >> ( slated ): i noticed some changes in my body. i wasn't getting my period.as i realized iregnant. >> reporter: she gave birth in this sweltering hot dark hut with the help of a rohingya woma both she and her baby are malnourished. >> ( translated ): i feel really weak and restless. i'y lost the energy to hold child. since i've been here, i haven't been able to get a proper al. i eat very little, i have no energy. i'm nohappy with my life. >> repor

the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to myanmar. and at the same time we're seeing a ring of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which gives you give you an indication of the situation on the ground there is tanveer child three has more now from bangladesh capital dhaka. both bangladesh and man martin sounded very optimistic they said there is a political will to repatriate the refugees the foreign secretary offered me on my or in a press briefing say they have set up the necessary facilitate to repetitive their own refugees he also went i had to say that they have trained the police and security personnel to shop against discrimination he also say their own ideas will be repaired they will have the provision to complain and sick justice for any kind of discrimination all repression sound optimistic harvard's contradictory to what the u.n. says in its recent investigative report genocide is still continuing in myanmar there are people still coming into buying with their stalls and saw them we spoke to refugee

at the united nations says conditions in myanmar as rakhine state are not yet conducive for refugees to return the warning comes after bangladesh and myanmar reach a deal to start returning the refugees by the middle of next month i mean my delegation visited the bangladeshi capital dhaka on their way to the refugee camps in cox's bizarre around three quarters of a million rahane just fled the military crackdown in rakhine state law thea we've seen the reports of the agreement between the decisions reach by the joint working group between bangladesh and myanmar u.n.h.c.r. which is the lead on the issues of refugees was not consulted on this matter. i think we can't stress enough that returns cannot be rushed or premature in the decision on whether or not for refugee to return should be determined by the refugees themselves when they feel the time in the circumstances or right. for u.n. h.c.r. the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to me and more . and at the same time we're seeing a ring of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which

and so i sd, "facebook runs the risk of being in myanmar what radios were in rwanda."is platform could be used to foment hate and to incite violence. >> jacoby: what was the reaction to that at facebook? af>> i got an email shortlr that meeting to say that what had been discussed at that meeting had been shared internally and apparently taken very seriously. >> narrator: the viole intensified. >> massive waves of violence that displaced over 150,000 people. >> narrator: and in early 2017, madden and other local activists had another meeting with facebook. >> the objective of this meeting was, was really to be crystal-clear about just how bad the problem was,hat the processes that they had inid place to try ttify and pull down problematic content, they just weren't working. and we were deeply concerned that something even worse was lygoing to happen imminent it was a sobering meeting. i ink... i think the main response from facebook was, "we'll need to go away and dig into this and come back withsu somethintantive." the thing was, it never came. >> and how do you know t

>> we met with civil society organizations in myanmar far before 2015. an area where we've been focused. i think what we've learned overe s, it's important for us to build the right technical tools that can hp us find some of this content and also work with organizations on the grouna eal-time fashion. we are in the process of building those relatiohips around the world on a much deeper level, so that we can stay ahead of any kind of situation like that. >> narrator: in the past year, facebook says it's taken down problematic accounts in myanmar, hired more language experts, and improved its policies. >> jacoby: should there be any liability orny legal accountability for a company like facebook when something so disastrous goes wrong onour platform? there's all sorts of accountability. but probably the group that holds us the most accountable are e people using the service. if it's not a safe place for them to come and communicate,re theyot going to use it. >> we are working here in menlo park in palo alto, california. t extent that some of these issues

she and her family fled myanmar in september last year.ing behind, my house, my cattle and faced a lot of hardship. now we've just about settled down and they're talking about moving us to that ireland. i am really scared. i don't want to go there. the government plans to move 100,000 refugees from coxes is bizarre near the border with myanmar to the uninhabited island of vashan char in the bay of bengal. it only emerged from the sea less than 20 years ago —— cox's bazaar. i have travelled 200 kilometres from the refugee camp to the city of chittagong. that was a six—hour road journey. from this journey by boat it will take two or three hours or perhaps more in that direction to get to the island of vashan char. right now the navy has restricted access to it so this is as far as we can get, but we have been told that workers are in full swing to prepare the island to receive a mass of people. a chinese company has been constructing housing for the refugees. the island is of honourable to frequent flooding and cyclones. so a british firm ha

agreed to begin repatriations by the middle of next month officials from myanmar plan to visit rangar refugee camps in bangladesh around three quarters of a million rangar fled across the border after a military crackdown the un has described as genocide u.n. investigators warm atrocities are continuing and say refugees must only return on a voluntary basis one joined now by charmaine mohammed the head of refugee and michael writes amnesty international and of course the key point about this is that if people do have to move that they are move all in terribly from what you know of this plan at the moment are any members of the ranger community in bangladesh actually being aust if they want to go back well i think that's been an absence of the very beginning government in the manner of a government have already signed to agreements in the last year regarding returns for bringing the refugees and to date we've still not seen any true representation or consult with the refugees themselves as to what they actually want these are just consult about this issue as that would be affecting the

says in its recent investigative report it says that genocide is still continuing in myanmar there are people still coming into bangladesh stalls and some of them we spoke to get f.e.d.'s who spoke about atrocities being committed still now international human rights bodies and un agencies are also saying then vironment is still not right or wrong and just a return back to their homeland more importantly their own concerns their side and basic without a recognition of citizenship and timing them as and without having a hard body to assure the security and willing to go under this circumstance back to me and we'll have to see if this is just a diplomatic brinkmanship or they're serious about taking back this refugees by bats starting from made in november this year. and with al jazeera live from london much more still ahead the u.s. deploys thousands of troops to its southern border with mexico to stop a migrant caravan marching from central america also the latest twists and turns in sri lanka as the country's political crisis deepens. hello whilst much of mainland china is currently d

>> i think it has always been a very difficult case in myanmar. i think it was a necessary but not sufficient moment to have the elections they did. they have a long road ahead. but i think they truly want change. now, i'm not dealing with the rohingya issue but just wanting change to open the society, and it is going to be a struggle. >> that is interesting. so you actually are drawing a distinction and saying that you don't believe that what is happening there represents the end of this trajectory toward democratization. >> no, i don't. i don't think it is ever ended. i think people want to have a free voice. people want to have development. they want a government that delivers for them. they don't want to go back to a military dictatorship. and they are better off than they were eight years ago. overall. the best line was someone in 2013 or 2014, in mand were alay, who says nothing here has changed but we don't want to go back to the way it used to be. and that encapsulates, fundamentally, nothing had really changed but yet a lot had changed. t

security council that up to four hundred thousand who remain in myanmar face severe restrictions and repression diplomatic editor james base reports. i think it was the meeting they tried to stop russia china and bolivia voting to attempt to block a briefing by the un zone fact finding mission on myanmar china said it was an internal issue here were even though over seven hundred thousand people fled the country into bangladesh to escape the violence russia said the report of the mission was biased and unreliable even though it runs to four hundred forty pages of searing testimony as the security council veto doesn't apply to procedural matters the chairman of the fact finding mission was eventually able to give his damning conclusions our report characterizes the recent events in the right hand third as a human rights catastrophe there which will see able and plan one that will have severe impact well many generations to come if not for ever. the details of the report clearly had an impact on some i never thought in my diplomatic career that i would hear a briefing to the security c

that came out with their recommendations saying that they believe that members of unions millett of myanmar as military should be charged with crimes of genocide do you think we're any closer to that actually happening to the international criminal court somehow stepping in and prosecuting members of myanmar as military for this i wish i could say that we were security council has been completely paralyzed in terms of referring the situation of me and maher to the international criminal court as you know china not would not support that kind of referral as a essentially a protector of the me and my government and the united states itself under the top administration has. vehemently criticised in a sea of its this court and so in many directions there is not that likelihood what we have instead is a possible referral through crimes and bangladesh to the criminal court because the genocide committed by the government of me and maher has extended into an across the border yes. tony from from your perch there in d.c. how much do you think the need to movement has as played an inspiration in the

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the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to myanmar. and at the same time we're seeing a ring of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which gives should give you an indication of the situation on the ground. from dhaka. both bangladesh and man martin sounded very optimistic they said there is a political will to repatriate the refugees the foreign secretary offered me on my or in a press briefing say they have set up the necessary facilitate to repair their own refugees he also went i had to say that they have trained the police and security personnel to shop against discrimination he also say their own ideas will be repaired that will have the provision to complain and sig justice for any kind of discrimination all repression sound optimistic obviates contradictory to what the u.n. says in its recent investigative report it's a genocide is still continuing in myanmar there are people still coming into buying with their stalls and saw them we spoke to refugees who spoke about atrocities being committed still allow

the conditions in right kind state are not yet conducive for return to myanmar. and at the same time we're seeing reading of refugees continue to arrive from rakhine state into myanmar which gives should give you an indication of the situation on the ground. german chancellor angela merkel has urged businesses not to underestimate africa's huge economic potential and she was speaking at an investment forum in berlin attended by several african leaders as part of merkel's initiative to boost development on the continent in the hope that it could curb illegal migration to europe the plan is to help african nations attract private investment in return for reforms like fighting corruption but the speaker of sri lanka's parliament has told president sarah sena he must recall parliament by friday at the least the president is accused of violating the constitution of he fired the prime minister and appointed a replacement but ousted leader running we could have a single has refused to leave his all fishel residence political tensions rise across the capital bernard smit

the un has warned it's too soon to return wrangle refugees off to bangladesh in myanmar to begin with by the middle of next month officials from myanmar plan to visit rang the refugee camps in bangladesh around three quarters of a million rangar fled across the border after a military crackdown that the u.n. described as genocide u.n. investigators warned the atrocities are continuing and say refugees only return on a voluntary basis and the chadri has most in dhaka. bangladesh and man martin sounded very optimistic they said there is a political will to repatriate the refugees the foreign secretary offered me on my or in a press briefing say they have set up the necessary facilitate to rip repaired to their own refugees he also went i have to say that they have trained the police and security personnel to workshop against discrimination he also say there. will be repaired that will have the provision to complain and sick justice for any kind of discrimination or repression this is sound optimistic harbor it's contradictory to what the u.n. says in its recent investigative report it s

and i saw this when i was in myanmar. as we know now, the facebook influence in myanmar, i saw that in realtime. i was very concerned about that and couldn't quite get the attention necessary. we have something -- we have an office in silicon valley, ndi does. one person is there. we're going to meet with a bunch of folks. we have a program called design for democracy, with the idea we need to work with these companies, many of whom are not in good order right now because of their lack of responsibility for what they have unleashed. but they need to design these technologies and take responsibility so it affirms people's voice, affirms democratic values, and does not alienate and doesn't polarize, everything we're seeing in our country and everywhere else. i have felt for some time that social media technologies are anti-social media in that they are pernicious to democracy. they're actually dividing people. not bringing them together. it's not just about breaking down authoritarians and allowing individual voices, there

has warned that it's too soon to a town wrangle refugees off to bangladesh and myanmar agree to begin repacks relations by the middle of next month or than seven hundred thousand rangar fled the military crackdown and beyond mossback kind stay last year. well more now on foreign influence in washington off to a report we mentioned earlier from the center for international policy detailing the millions of dollars they spent every year on influence in capitol hill i'm joined by rubbish messenger a writer and commentator based in washington also the author of a cold white house ghosts presidents and their speechwriters thank you very much for speaking to us now as you pointed out this report demonstrates the growth of the professional industry but does it capture the full extent of foreign influence in spreading ideas and influencing policy decisions through think tanks universities for example well that's it that's a great point and the report itself notes that that it is limited in the in the kind of data that it has access to so the report looked at lobbying disclosure data and campai

they had plenty of information, if they chose to look at it, to know that the generals who run myanmarere encouraging genocide against the rohingya muslim minority. in 130blem is this is languages in 190 countries, and the goal they had was to get there. now they are there. they don't know what to do to prevent it from having dramatically negative political consequences. there are certain kinds of politicians popping up in turkey, in hungary, in myanmar, in plenty of places, brazil, in italy, where they don't really want to follow the rules. they want power at all costs. and they will do whatever they have to do. and facebook is a system that is easy to cheat inside. and facebook does not have the tools yet to prevent that cheating. it is something we at techonomy have made such a priority. we have a session at our conference in three weeks with two of the sources of our story, including one who has a sri lankan activist who tells the most shocking story in that article i published today. it is shocking how much facebook has allowed to happen. it is unacceptable. they cannot solve ever

it's deeply concerned for the safety and security a seven room hinge amende deported from india to myanmar on thursday the un says the men were denied access to lawyers and their applications for asylum were not assessed it says sara removal has left thousands of muslims who live in refugee camps in india worried that they could also be deported hundreds of thousands over again jeff in very fleeing violence in myanmar in the past two years most of them seeking shelter in bangladesh. preuss former president alberto fujimori says if he is forced to go back to prison he will die they tear old record or a dramatic message on a mobile phone from his hospital bed in lima on wednesday the supreme court overturned a medical pardon he was given the decision could mean for him henri returns to jail to serve out the rest of his sentence for human rights abuses here. today i would like to tell the all thora teasin politicians please do not use me as a political weapon because i no longer have the strength to resist it i would like to ask the president of the republic and the members of the judiciary o

we will continue with myanmar on its path toward democracy. it is a difficult process. we all knew it. our support to the democrat's session of the country will not stop now but it definitely means that we will not close our eyes to violations. a u.n. fact-finding report said at least 10,000 rohingya are believed to have died in the violence. the report also calls for top military general to be prosecuted for genocide and crimes against humanity. andese leader she's in pain president trump reportedly will meet at the g20 summit in argentina next month. that is according to the hong kong newspaper. earlier this week a white house official said a meeting between the two was likely. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. >> live from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm vonnie quinn. >> in toronto, i'm jon erlichman. we are joined by our bloomberg and being them bloomberg audiences. vonnie: china's challenges mount. investors are tol

investigators say revenge of muslims in myanmar still facing genocide ahead of the u.n. fact finding mission on the anmar told the security council that up to four hundred thousand reinjure who remain in me and ma face severe restrictions and repression seven hundred thousand others fled to bangladesh last year after a brutal military campaign china tried to block investigators from briefing the council those are the headlines we're back in half an hour right now it's the strain. ok and i really could be here in the stream allegations of bias at one of the most selective colleges in the us the university will look at an ongoing lawsuit and what the case could mean for the future of race pace university admissions policies you can share your thoughts with us through our live chat or via twitter. does harvard university discriminate against asian american applicants that is the question being asked in a lawsuit company being heard in the u.s. federal court the plaintiffs students for fair admissions says asian americans all held to a higher standard in the admissions proce

no i'm maryanne demasi and london you're with al-jazeera also coming on myanmar and bangladesh agreed to start returning hundreds of thousands of rango refugees next month. divers in indonesia retrieve the belongings of those lost with the lion f like six want to search for the flight recorders goes on and how human passions of consumption are destroying natural habitats and causing a massive drop in animal no less. the u.n. human rights chief is a saudi arabia to reveal the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi. calling for an independent international investigation into the journalist mudda in the saudi consulate in istanbul four weeks ago turkish and. saudi prosecutors have now met for a second time to discuss the case but turkish sources say the saudis are not being helpful alan fisher has long. arriving at the scene of the crime so to rebias top prosecutor on his second day in istanbul came to the consulate were jamal khashoggi was killed earlier side went in for a second day of talks with the prosecutor in istanbul the two met on monday but both sides left unhappy at the level of detai

myanmar and bangladesh agreed to start returning rangar refugees next month but the u.n. is warning that the conditions are not ready and conservation is one of the catastrophic decline in animals around the world because humans are destroying their habitat. and then he descended into a hole with all your support roma group. same sort of coach something i will say a lot he says the players are hurting following the sacking of couldn't take it more coming up later this new to. the un human rights chief has urged saudi arabia to reveal the whereabouts of jamal khashoggi body the journalist was killed after entering the saudi consulate in istanbul four weeks ago michelle bash is calling for independent experts to be involved in the investigation into. the turkish president has once again called on saudi arabia to reveal everyone involved in the killing. says no one should be protected in the investigation meanwhile turkish and saudi prosecutors have met for a second time in istanbul to discuss the case sources tell al-jazeera the saudi prosecutor has refused to answer questi

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she and her family fled myanmar in september last year.d faced a lot of hardship. now we've just about settled down and they're talking about moving us to that island. i'm really scared. i don't want to go there. the government plans to move 100,000 refugees from cox's bazaar near the border with myanmar to the uninhabited island of bashan char in the bay of bengal. it only emerged from the sea less than 20 years ago. i have travelled 200 kilometres from the refugee camp to the city of chittagong. so that was a six—hour road journey. from this jetty by boat, it will take two or three hours, or perhaps more, in that direction to get to the island of bashan char. right now the navy has restricted access to it, so this is as far as we can get, but we have been told that workers are in full swing to prepare the island to receive a mass of people. a chinese company has been constructing housing for the refugees. the island is vulnerable to frequent flooding and cyclones, so a british firm has been hired to build flood defences. bangladesh's gov

other stories now from bbc world service: myanmar has cleared 8,000 rohingya muslims for repatriationnister. it's not yet clear when they will be repatriated — but if this happens, it will be the first time rohingya refugees return to myanmar since the start of this crisis in august last year. that's from bbc bangla. an aid worker with the international committee of the red cross has been killed in nigeria by islamist militants who kidnapped her in march. hauwa liman was killed days after a deadline set by her kidnappers — who are a faction of boko haram. a fellow midwife and aid worker was killed by the group last month. that's from bbc hausa. the ecuadorian embassy has given wikileaks founder, julian assange, a set of house rules, including cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat. julian assange has been in the embassy since 2012 after seeking asylum to avoid extradition to sweden on a rape allegation. in 2014, 13 people, women, men and young children, were shot dead in cold blood by peacekeepers, serving in the central african republic. human rights watch agents dis

the un has warned it's too soon to return rango refugees after bangladesh and myanmar agree to begin repatriations by the middle of next month officials from plan to visit rangar refugee camps in bangladesh around three quarters of a million rangar fled across the border after a military crackdown that the u.n. has described as genocide u.n. investigators warn the atrocities are continuing and say refugees missoni return on a voluntary basis. as the head of refugee in my group write to amnesty international she says myanmar and bangladesh have failed to consult with the rectangle refugees themselves and many of them won't want to go back you have to consider the issue of voluntariness it's not just about somebody saying yes i want to return it's also about being informed to make that decisions about includes about the conditions of where they're going to what the situation is in their home but also includes having other options and that includes having the option to stay in bangladesh if they choose to do so and so we would like to see those. bare minimum standards around voluntarine

bangladesh and myanmar have agreed to begin the repatriation of rohingya refugees next month, despite a warning from un officials that conditions are not right for their return. and this video is trending on bbc.com... the world's tallest statue, standing at 182 metres tall, opens in india. the statue of unity is twice the size of the statue of liberty, and has taken more than 3000 workers nearly four years to construct. that's all. stay with bbc world news. now on bbc news it's time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. my guest is a former business executive—turned—politician. he is saulos chilima, the vice president of the small southern african state of malawi. he was president mutharika's running mate in the elections in 2014. now he has left the ruling democratic progressive party, and says he will run against him in the presidential elections next year to, as he puts it, save the country from destruction and corruption. why is he criticising a government of which he still is a member, and if corruption is really as bad as he describes, why doesn't the vice

that especially for example are solar skein crisis marco that was mentioning the recent flooding in myanmar and you know the relatively smaller crisis with significant impact on the nations that are all clinton. or just on the side of the fire i think because prior to all of that infosys new ways of working and new ways of using the resources that we have that i was mentioning before all top work a lot with local organizations local communities are all of that in the local realities and having a connection with the different groups and when the congress relationships also with the government. like the like generate a new way of working which is work in the insurgency but that a lot of which we call the kosi money that leadership means the radical new approach to respond to emergencies through no harvest through no communities and that's where. the lack of attention if you will in some cases. where we're bringing the humanitarian aid assist you do more and more room and we were talking a lot of course by natural disaster but what about manmade problems i mean how much are they an issue i'm t

money discussed as i mentioned i mentioned recently there the dam collapse in any now or flights in myanmar but also in call me a for instance and it's happening or i remember also in in ukraine in belarus where we have induced spills out. as my colleague was saying in my known perceive us and maybe you're some major issues that we for local population in the east may receive and for going to places that that and address the needs of the people that for us this still remains a priority is not the size of the damage of the bentleys our capacity to address those needs paolo you know many people don't really understand the intricacies of how difficult it can be to negotiate with a particular government to gain access to a particular country whether there's a disaster or not i mean i mean we're living in a time when many countries kick out u.n. workers you know so i want to ask you about in this day and age is it getting more difficult for groups like yours to go into countries and help or is it getting less difficult to get the permissions to go and try to do the work that you need to do. what

than go back to myanmar now if i had to come out about motherhood you know they matter. there's no electricity for too little fresh water and hardly any sanitary facilities the danger of epidemic is ever present conditions in the refugee camps are desperate but people are afraid of being forced to return to me and mar. here at least the row hinge are among the most of us. our lives are in a loss hence we depend on have more than a year later i don't have any tree. as for my children i might die while giving birth to my child or i might survive that's in our last chance that is what policy good. business must have repeatedly called for age of heart a holy war against me in mar we are told that the first hunts set up in the refugee camps were months the money came mainly from saudi arabia and from the run schools in chicago and dhaka. we wonder how a poor country like bangladesh is coping with the arrival of so many refugees. the village of which lies adjacent to the refugee camps has a new mosque also built with aid from saudi arabia. but first the villagers here sympathi