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

lone were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten rangar muslims in mia miles rakhine state that they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence on them florence louie has this update from kuala lumpur. this is a case that really could have gone either way but i think the i mean the judge had admitted had said that he would at mit the evidence given by a police captain in april when the police captain had testified that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallow in one of the reporters to trap him so it really comes as quite a surprise that this case hasn't been thrown out but i think also going by how the men have already been held for seven months that they were denied bail for an offense such as this despite the pressure and it really shouldn't be surprised at the judge has decided that this case ought to go to a trial now there are certain things that are very troubling with this case not just because it seems that there is the defense lawyers have argued this was a case of and trotman that these men had been s

the family still here are ethnic rakhine, buddhists.she would be petrified if they return. we track down the village administrator. how would you describe the rohingya people come in three words? he only needs one. terrorists? the un says this corner of myanmar is not ready to receive the standard rohingya, that they would not be safe. —— stranded. so for now, they remain homeless, helpless, as the world watches on. 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 the rocket 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 start—up company, interstellar technologies, which is hoping to provide affordable commercial space flights. soldiers in thailand have continued to carry out evacuation drills as they search for missing boys in a cave. fate of the boys, aged between 11 and 16, and their football coach, has gripped the nation as they

judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on rakhine state a police captain also told the court in april that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallowed 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 court will see reason after this trial and so agree. the case is being viewed as a test for press freedom in this government is proving that they'll go to any lengths to sort of caution any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of aung san suu kyi a nobel prize winner who at one time which is a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well is a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom for now it's b

judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on rakhine state a police captain also told the court in a programme that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallowed to trap him. reuters president and editor in chief steven j. at that says the news organization is deeply disappointed with the ruling in a state when he said these reuters journalists were doing their jobs in an independent and impartial way and there are no facts or evidence to suggest that they've done anything wrong or broken any law the case is being viewed as a test for press freedom in this government is proving that they'll go to any length to sort of caution any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state and we have to keep in mind this is the government of aung san suu kyi a nobel prize winner who at one time with was a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well as a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom

kingdom not for a kind was conquered by the burman think of the boundaries god redrawn part of the rakhine came down became adal bangladesh and the adam og came out of nam mom off the independence the constitution said all people within the boundary of myanmar os it is so you could claim that there are two way and your mom became citizen. han young way some of them is first president it wasn't mine mom back then had to flee the country with his family it was after the military coup and the death of his father in prison under unclear circumstances. before the coup. we were on top of the. president's family ruling class after the cool people with dad to talk to us in case the military came for them as well. and didn't think i would get in. off in politics again when the people of burma started demonstrating against the military in one nine hundred eighty eight i decided i should get involved at that time city also rose to prominence i worked with her husband to try to free her i supported her for the last twenty thirty years. but when she was released from. house arrest and i was invited bac

length to sort of caution any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of aung san suu kyi a nobel prize winner who at one time with was a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well as a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom. for now it's back to prison for. to await trial the case is a judge and till next monday florence li al jazeera. al-jazeera news our three meter is in as many stages at this year's tour de france will be here with all the details coming up in sport. is good though and with the sport. barbara thank you so much twenty time grand slam champion roger federer has stormed days way into the quarter finals at wimbledon the swiss a thrashing frenchman adrian mannering no in the first match of the day at the only one cloud the six year old took the first six in just sixty two minutes six love the second was a little tougher seven five even wrapped up the third and final sit comfortably six for. w

alone were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten bring the muslims and members rakhine state they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence. it's been decided that brazil's former president louise in arceo lula da silva will stay in prison for now earlier a judge granted an injunction for looters really sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate the confusion has finally been settled by an appeals court chief justice who said the former president must remain in jail for the time being lula has been serving a sentence of twelve years and one month in prison for corruption. has more from one as ira's. there's been a day of high drama in brazil with different judges in different cities around the country disagreeing with one another on whether the former president of the suitable should be allowed out of prison he's serving a twelve year one month prison term in the city of quit chiba on corruption and money laundering challenges but one judge in the southern city of deliberate ruled on the writ of habeas corpus

the united nations said conditions on the ground and rakhine state are simply not right for their safe, and they have got a huge amount of animosity towards theirformer huge amount of animosity towards their former muslim neighbours. what happens now? the un have signed a deal with the burmese government which they say will allow more us access into rakhine state. —— un access. within this deal there seems to be no guarantee they will be given citizenship, that for the rohingya is a key, fundamental principle. if there is a time where they feel safe enough to return, they feel safe enough to return, they want to be treated with dignity and respect as citizens. stay with us on outside source — still to come... we are going to find out about extraordinary new tax in uganda. it's on social media. you will be paying five us cents a day to use it. the government says it is designed to stop gossip, that seems a little overly optimistic, but we will see how this is going to work... campaigners say budget cuts by councils have left bus services across england and wales in crisis. the campaign

meum 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 have documented the way in which the military was making these systematic preparations weeks in months before august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen which is when that attack by running in militants took place we do have hope that this will spur meaningful international action the one thing that we've learned in the thing that the russians are community of all have learned is that following the october two thousand and sixteen violence there was almost complete inaction from the international community and that essentially paved the way for genocide to take place and so we do think that the international community will take this information act we have sent a report to the international criminal court we do have other information that we're making available to governments and others and right now un securit

meum 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 have documented the way in which the military was making these systematic preparations weeks in months before august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen which is when that attack by running in militants took place we do have hope that this will spur meaningful international action the one thing that we've learned in the thing that the russians are community of all have learned is that following the october two thousand and sixteen violence there was almost complete inaction from the international community and that essentially paved the way for genocide to take place and so we do think that the international community will take this information act we have sent a report to the international criminal court we do have other information that we're making available to governments and others and right now un securit

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 batteries what may be coming to pass that also consider that they share a repudiation of mr trump's policy r

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

judge to throw out the case arguing that journalists had been set up to block their reporting on rakhine state police captain also told the court in april that a senior officer had ordered his subordinates to plant documents on wallowed 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 court will see reason after this trial and so a creep. the case is being viewed as a test for press freedom this film is proving that they'll go to any length to sort of quassia any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of the nobel prize winner who at one time which is a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well is a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom for now it's back to prison for. to awa

government and the military continues to deny or downplay the seriousness of what's happening 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

or were arrested in december while investigating the killing of ten ring of muslims in mia miles rakhine state they pleaded not guilty to the charges and say police planted evidence on them president trump is due to announce his latest u.s. supreme court pick his decision will probably swing the called firmly towards the right i'm getting very close to making a final decision. and i believe there. this person will do a great job but i'm very close to making a decision have not made it official yet obviously that that made it viable but we're very close to making it is asian. where i say it's there let's say is that what people vote and they're actually everywhere you can't go wrong it's been decided that brazil's former president luis in a silver will stay in prison for now earlier a judge granted an injunction for lula's release sparking a series of contradictory judicial decisions over the politicians fate and you can follow those stories of course on our website at al-jazeera dot com more news in half an hour here but next on al-jazeera it's the wanted eighty do stay with us. you hope

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 the rind out of me i'm on. this point of the media tour around. and the border between the country and bangladesh for not acting there again why it generated the whole people. said brand new simon hundred thousand people. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time but there was one more question and by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you you're one of us he's a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure to come after you have. the center of the bridge. and you follow the great game the great game you are the rock at the back nobody gets past the you we need you to get down though in. a low and doesn't work and i'm really happy to join the fall of two thousand in the in a world cup in russia meet the special one. needs to just take the rino b.r.t. team's latest edition of b

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civilians, a group of civilians in a village, were attacked by both the military and by buddhist, rakhine buddhist civilians. we see children, women, and men were subject to horrific types of injuries, including blunt force trauma, injuries from gunshots, a burn, other types of injuries that when we examine the forensic truth in each individual injury we see this clearly did not appear to be any kind of anti-terror operation. this was a systematic attack on civilians using guns, using knives, using sexual violence. other types of illegal and horrific physical attacks. >> so doctor we'll put up two images of scars that you found and photographs on a 17-year-old rohingya boy and this is what you say -- or he said. that he sustained these wounds from an explosive device while fleeing the village into a nearby field and then apparently he told you all that he had to travel for almost 12 days on foot trying to flee, the 12-days on foot to neighboring bangladesh which is where we know a lot of the rohingya have ended up in refugee camps there. fill us in his story a little more and how difficul

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me in march charges two journalists with violating state secrets for reporting on mass graves in rakhine state and more than one hundred people killed in floods and landslides that have devastated large parts of japan. hello we begin with fast moving developments from thailand that's where two more boys have been brought out safely from inside a flooded cave an elite team of divers are bringing out two others from the narrow depths suffocate where they have been trapped for more than two weeks on sunday the first four of the twelve young boys and their coach were rescued they are set to be in good health zeros correspondents are in chiang rai tracking those developments closely we have stuff asa near the spot where the rescue mission is underway right now and scott heiler is near a hospital where the first four rescued boys are being treated well talk to step first to tell us what is the latest with the rescue operation right now steph. well yes we have our sources are telling us that now in total six boys are out of the cave for yesterday and two today we just literally one minute ago s

their arrest last december, they were investigating alleged army massacres of ethnic rohingya in rakhinetraordinary pictures from thorncomb beacon, in dorset, in the south of england. a paraglider pilot has been rescued after crashing into a cliff. the pilot, who is in his late 20s, was found on a narrow ledge around 80 metres up the cliff on sunday afternoon. a coastguard team abseiled down the cliff and hauled the man up to the top. thankfully, no one was injured. a mob of angry villagers has slaughtered almost 300 crocodiles from a breeding sanctuary in indonesia. they said it was in retaliation for the death of a local man last friday, believed to have been attacked by a crocodile. a warning, andrew plant's report contains some distressing scenes. dozens of people from an indonesian village pulling together the pope, hauling a crocodile over the walls ofa hauling a crocodile over the walls of a century based here, then dragging it across a field. this is what happened next to every animal inside the farm. almost 300 crocodiles in all. youngsters and adults killed with hammers and kni

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they were investigating alleged army massacres of ethnic rohingya in rakhine state when they were arresteds president, barack obama, will deliver the nelson mandela memorial lecture later injohannesburg 100 years since the birth of the anti—apartheid icon. this is him on monday opening a school in his father's home village of kogelo in western kenya. more than 20 people have been injured in hawaii after a boat they were in was hit by debris from the erupting mount kilauea volcano. the group had been taking part in what's been described as a lava tour to view the continuing eruption. peter bowes has this report. lava has been spewing from mount kilauea on hawaii's beat ireland for more than two months. the tour boat was passing nearby when molten rock running into the ocean exploded and threw chunks of love onto the vessel. the so—called lava bomb smashed through the boat's roof and range smaller rocks onto the deck. some of them actually exploded 300 metres in the air. part of the lava actually landed on the vessel, damaged most parts of the vessel.- passengers and crew members were injure

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length to sort of quassia any independent or credible reporting of the conflict that's going on in rakhine state we have to keep in mind this is the government of a nobel prize winner who at one time with was a staunch defender of freedom of expression and now this government's overseeing ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity as well as a really remarkable crackdown on press freedom it's. a difficult thing to watch absolutely it would have been that long ago would it. like yours would have been in stores defense of. her own personal liberties which as we know were taken away from her for many years so how disappointed is article nineteen about the way on some cheese conducting government which of 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 ext

meum 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 have documented the way in which the military was making these systematic preparations weeks in months before august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen which is when that attack by running in militants took place we do have hope that this will spur meaningful international action the one thing that we've learned in the thing that the russians a community of all have learned is that following the october two thousand and sixteen violence there was almost complete inaction from the international community and that essentially paved the way for genocide to take place and so we do think that the international community will take this information act we have sent the report to the international criminal court we do have other information that we're making available to governments and others and right now u.n. secur

arrest in december for simply doing their jobs as report says the second concerns what's happening in rakhine state as some rights activists put it these two reporters have been locked up for trying to expose the truth about what's happening there where the myanmar military has launched a crackdown since august twenty fifth causing more than seven hundred thousand ethnic rule hinge on minorities to flee to bangladesh to escape persecution the u.n. itself has described 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 recalling 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 minister in charge of 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 cabinets plan for leaving the european union to brussels

chief of the international committee of the red cross says he doubts that commitment after a visit to rakhine states elizabeth piron and her guests debates if the revenge will ever be able to return on this episode of inside story you'll find on our website al-jazeera dot com. now mexican voters have delivered a landslide presidential election victory to leftists and dress money while lopez obrador whose fiery campaign hinged on promises to clean up corruption and put an end to ramp violence so he's expected to end up with about fifty three percent of the vote a remarkable margin that's not seen in three decades lopez obrador is already reaching out to the u.s. and canada as all three countries try to renegotiate the north america free trade agreement or enough john homan has been covering the elections for us joining us from mexico city we keep saying this john it really was a historic election just put the results in context for us. exactly that and you said a little bit about it already but to give you a few other details this would be the first leftist populist president for four decades

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 have documented the way in which the military was making these systematic preparations weeks in months before august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen which is when that attack by militants took place do you think that the you know one hundred forty page report i believe it is and the evidence that you have connected that this will now go to the international criminal court this will be referred by the u.n. security council and given. ally china is on the security council and the veto power they have and how they have protected me on my in the past. well we do have hope that this will spur meaningful international action the one thing that we've learned in the thing that the russians a community of all have learned is that following the october two thousand and sixteen violence there was almost comp

meanwhile government says the august attacks provoked a military crackdown against the ring get in rakhine state the report documents how the army planned and committed mass killings rape and arson months before the police stations were attacked soldiers confiscated sharp objects from running the homes and provided weapons to non rich people at the same time the rights groups say food and humanitarian aid were blocked in a bid to weaken them before the crackdown began me miles government is accused of making extensive and systematic preparations for the attacks on the rohingya kerry kennedy is the president of the robert f. kennedy human rights association she recently visited the rink accounts in cox's bazaar and described the shockingly terrible condition she saw there. it's been working on human rights and for thirty five years i've been refugee camps all over the world liberia to jordan to i just all of the and this nothing prepared me for were the degree of horrors heard. just now a rape and the. killing children in front of their family raped in front of parents divorced was horrible