roxana saberi is there. >> they drop out of work, can earn $15 a week tending cows or rice fields. but can earn more in the cities. >> he's only 12 and turned into a breadwinner. >> translator: when i don't work sometimes my family is all right, but sometimes not it depends on whether my stepfather can find steady work. >> others find work through brokers who take a cut of the children's wages. tonight with the use of an undercover camera we'll show you how this business works. a lot of people here tell us putting children to work in this country ask pretty much normal but children's rights activists say, if myanmar doesn't address the cycle of poverty inquad education and child labor the country's future will be in jeopardy. roxana saberi, al jazeera myanmar. >>> in, a nigeria a woman is dead after being mistaken for a boko haram bomber. no bombs were found on her body. >>> nigeria is marking a one year anniversary since boko haram kidnapped over 200 school girls. as haru mutasa tells us some parents and activists are hopeful that the new government will finally bring them back ho

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. >> in tonight's in context segment, roxana saberi reports. >> the u.n. says more than 3,000 eritreans have fled to southern italy this year, making them the second largest migrant group after syrians. butful die before they make it. >> directly affected by the tragedies, eritrea has been robbed of its youth and its bright young people. >> reporter: many eritreans leave to avoid doing military service or work for the government at low pay indefinitely. abdel made it to a migrant camp in france after deserting the country's army. he said he served eight years. >> like to be a normal man to have the family, to have a norm life here. that's why i'm out from there. >> reporter: human rights advocates list reasons so many are desperate to leave air trea, eritrea including the most repressive president. >> the government has curtailed most freedoms from movement to compression from religion to association. >> reporter: and this week, most censored country in the world beating even north korea. eritrea defended its system to the u.n saying there is no gross resi

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roxana saberi is back from myanmar and joins us with more. >> the u.n.s one third of myanmar's children ages 7 to 16 work. that statistic is a few year's old, but based on what i saw in myanmar, child labor is pervasive. >> reporter: like many mothers in myanmar, this woman faces a dreadful decision to see her family go hungry or send her young children away to work. >> translator: i wanted to go find work in the city so i asked my mom to look after the kids but she didn't want to. there are no jobs for women in the village, and my husband doesn't have much of a job. >> reporter: by the time her son turns 12, he may have to leave his school and family in search of work to support them. that's the fate of many children in myanmar. around 600 live here without running water, electricity or well-paying jobs many kids from here end up a 3-hour drive south. with more than 7 million people it's myanmar's largest city as the nation opens up businesses are booming. many are scouring the country for cheap labor. they are finding it in children who sweat, sell and

roxana saberi, new york. >> both have been nominated for the nobel peace prize. both are opposed to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. they say there is a danger of another disaster like the one at japan's fukushima in 2011. >>> munich is opening a new museum dedicated to the role of the nazis in world war ii. it will be shown as the birthplace as the rise of the nazi movement. they say its getting more difficult to look at the nation's past as more world war ii survivors die every year. they will open the doors to the public thursday. the news continues next live from london. >> welcome to the al jazeera news hour. these are some of the stories we'll cover in the next 60 minutes. responding to the devastating earthquake as frustrations mound. saudi arabia's king names his successor in a major shake up. >>> cries of fraud from togo's opposition parties. as the president of this west african nation is

roxana saberi went to myanmar to find out why. >> like many mothers, this woman faces a dread of the decision to see her family go hungry or send her young children away to work. >> translation: i wanted to find work in the city. i asked mum to look after the kids. she didn't want to. there's no jobs for women in the village, my husband doesn't have much of a job. we are poor and can't take care of the kids. >> reporter: by the time her sop is 12, he may have to leave school and the family. many kids from the village end up a 3 hour drive south. in one of the thousands of tea shops, we met his big brother. since moving here he has worked from six in the morning to nine at night for a dollar a day every day of the week. he is 12. >> translation: i have sent $70 back to my family. >> reporter: could your family survive without you working. would they have enough money? >> it could not be good. >> the owner of the t-shirt insists it's not child labour it's a service to society. >> we don't torture the kids or force them to work. we take them in support their families, and they have a bi

roxana saberi was here and talked to a survivor of the bombing of hiroshima. >> reporter: thousands areere calling for a ban on nuclear weapons. this rally is taking place just before the five-year review of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty at the u.n. it's meant to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. it is also happening nearly 70 years since the ah atomic bomb was used in war for the first and only time. the united states bombed the cities of hiroshima and gnawing sake. this is one of the survivors. she was 13 when the u.s. bombed her city. >> my little nephew was four years old [ inaudible ] well that image just lives in my brain. that image is -- just drives me compels me to speak. >> reporter: we'll hear more from her and another survivor this evening. they'll tell us whether these calls to ban nuclear weapons really can make a difference. >>> thanks for watching i'm randall pinkston. the news continues next life from doha. keep up on aljazeera.com. >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ >>> hello, welcome to the news hour on al jazeera. i'm live from our headquarters in doha. our

. >> roxana saberi, al jazeera. >> to put this into context we turn to california representative mike honda he last long called for an official apology. i asked him why an official apology matters. >> the reason why it's important today is because human trafficking and violence against women went on then and it's going on now and continues in the future if we don't stop it. and prime minister abe has -- would have had a beautiful moral ground to stand on by saying i accept on behalf of the japanese government the full responsibility and unequivocally apologize to the victims of our military sexual slave system. >> congressman the prime minister talked about being deeply pained this week about what happened to the comfort women. that doesn't go far enough for you though. >> well, he says he was deeply pained by the sufferings of the women who were victimized by human trafficking. well at least he recognized that there was pain. but the victimization was done by the military system during the '30s and '40s and the idea that it was human trafficking he admits it was human trafficking if

are in new york and are backing the ban on nuclear weapons, one of them shared his story with roxana saberi putting it in context. >> reporter: from above the atomic bomb named little boy looked like this. below in the industrial city of hiro seema this 13-year-old saw a bluish-white flash, and the walls around her crumbled. >> then i had the sensation of floating in the air. friends. classmates who were with me in the same room. burnt to death alive. >> some carried their own eye walls in their hands. no one shouted for help. they were asking for water. >> most of her family was out of town safe. her sister and nephew were killed crossing a bridge. >> my mother said she identified her daughter only by the special unique hair pin she was wearing. you couldn't tell who was who. whether it was a man or a woman. >> three days later the u.s. dropped another nuclear bomb on japan. this on naga sacky. the u.s. energy department estimates more than 100,000 people died significantly in the two blasts. >> i have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government. >> within a week the wor

roxana saberi is here with more. >> reporter: the journalist faces four serious charges.was officially charged in december but this is the first time the nature of those charges have been made public. the "washington post" calls them ludicrous. nearly nine months after jason was locked up in tehran's notorious prison his attorney she has finally discussed his case with him for the first time. she told the "washington post," she learned iran is charging him with espionage, and three other serious crimes including collaborating with hostile governments. for example, she said the indictment claimed he wrote to president obama. the state department says iran should drop the charges immediately. >> these charges are as we said in the past patently absurd he should be freed so he can return to his family. >> reporter: and the "washington post" is calling the charges baseless. the executive wrote: hard line iranian media have been reporting on the charges over the past few weeks, one newspaper printed a front page article with the headline uncoding jason. and a news agency accus

our roxana saberi is here to explain. >> iranians i spoke to today say they hope the new deal will lead to the lifting of the sanctions and they hope that will improve iran's economy and their lives. on tehran's longest street, iranians celebrated the news of the nuclear deal. >> translator: i was very happy when i heard the news. many things were definitely improve relations between iran and europe and other countries will greatly improve and the pressure on the people will ease a little. >> on social media iranians posted videos and photos of their excitement. in the past years many iranians have suffered under sanctions and what many consider economic mismanagement. in 2013, iran's owl revenues fell 60%. iran's currency lost two-thirds of its value against the dollar. that made imports more costly and at one point inflation soared to 40%. raising the prices of housing clothing and food. the official unemployment rate is around 10%. but many economists believe the actual rate is much higher. experts still need to work out details of the nuclear deal and some iranians are skeptical. >>

roxana saberi looks apt the genocide much the following report contains graphic images. >> the images are haunted. whole villages families wiped out. packed to pieces or blown up while hiding in churches much the vast majority of the victims in the genocide were from the ethnic tutsi minor city executed mostly by the hutu majority but also include moderate hutus trying to protect tutsi neighbours. 800,000 were dead at the end of the day. the genocide displaced 600 million rwandans, many fleeing the border to now the democratic republic of congo. the hutus and the tutsis live in the same area speak the same language and share traditions. tensions between the groups existed throughout rwanda's history. when belgium columnists arrived they gave rwandans identity cards. under colonial rule the tutsi minority became powerful and resentment grew. rwandan gained independence but struggled through a civil war. after a power-sharing agreement, reached in 1993 the groups remarried. tensions were easing. that changed on april 6th, 1994. the president died after his plane was shot down. many hutu

roxana saberi joined us now with more. she's just gotten back from myanmar. na. >> that's right john, when i was there i saw at of signs american businesses moving in and coming face-to-face with the problem of child labor. he is 12. but for the past three months he's worked 15 hours a day every day. >> translator: i get up early in the morning and help open the tea shop. then i bathe then we wait on tables all day. at night we close the shop. >> he's one of an estimated 1 million child workers in myanmar. most leave school for big cities to support their families. activist tim a. hardy is trying to help. >> what we are doing is like a drop in the bucket. this issue is so huge. >> he started the myanmar mobile education project last year. he and his team are teaching 400 kids like him basic reading math and life skills. today's lesson is on hygiene. [speaking at the same time] >> he fled to america from myanmar in 1989 after taking part in student protests in the military government. he came back in 2012 as the country began opening up to the world. and he saw