another escapade takes them south to areas such as malaysia and southern thailand. they have put out to sea the sailing season, in october when the season ended and waters became literally calm. in thailand, 1,500 are in custody, including 200 women and children. the thais would normally deport them. but facing international pressure, they have stopped that process for now. >> translator: we are to detain them until the government or other related agencies exceed in collaborating with other countries and we'll send them back. i must admit we're quite worried about this trend in increasing number of people. we have limited facilities. >> the fate of this 62-year-old man is questionable. he said he decided to flee after violence in myanmar. >> translator: our house was burnt down twice. our land, property and money were seized. i had nothing left, not even tears. i fled alone, leaving my family in myanmar. >> he was injured on the journey. he worries about what will happen to him. the worst outcome, he believes, would be deportation back to myanmar. >> translator: kill

plus -- >> in egyptian -- in a community in southern thailand, resisting pressure to find another new home. >> china is calling for calm and restraint after north korea said it is planning a new nuclear attack. the announcement was made days after the u.n. increased sanctions against north korea following a rocket launch last month. harry fawcett has more. >> if north korea's recent rocket launch was regarded as an act of defiance at the u.n., the security council resolution said that from peon yang reform p'yongyang there was more to come. >> we're not hiding from the fact that the various satellites and long-range rockets we will fire and the high-level nuclear test we will carry out are targeted at the united states. >> this was both a return to the kind of fiery anti-u.s. rhetoric that has been notable by its actions during kim jong-un's first year in power and the confirmation that a third nuclear test was in the works. that confirmation comes as no surprise to south korea. the defense ministry debriefing saying that the proportions of the test site in northeastern north korea we

route takes them south across the sea in search of security in muslim areas such as malaysia and southern thailand. more than 10,000 are told to have put to sea this sailing season starting last october when the monsoon ended and waters became relatively calm. in thailand, some 1,500 people are in custody, including 200 women and children. the thai authorities would normally deport them but facing international pressure, they have stopped that process for now. >> translator: we are to detain them until the government or other related agencies succeed in collaborating with other countries to repatriate them or send them back. we are worried about the increasing number of people, this trend. we have limited facilities. >> reporter: the fate of this 62-year-old man is in limber at the detention center near the border with malaysia. i says he decided to flee after violence in myanmar intensified. >> translator: our house was burnt down twice. our land, property and money were seized. i had nothing left, not even tears. i fled alone, leaving my family in myanmar. >> reporter: he was injured on the jour

this report from southern thailand. >> tired and confused, they arrived on foreign soil. 88 refugees spending more than 10 days at sea after leaving western myanmar. they said they had no choice but to leave. >> the soldiers would take women and daughters and rape them and then turned them back the next day. we had no freedom. we could not go anywhere. we had to make our own future. >> myanmar is predominantly buddhist, and the muslim minority are largely seen as illegal immigrants from neighboring bangladesh. after fighting between bouterse and muslims last year, more than 100,000 left homeless. this was all happening at a sensitive time for thailand. it has been ranked as a tier 2 nation on the watch list for human trafficking. if it is ranked again this year, it will drop to tier 3, meaning it will be ranked alongside north korea as one of the worst nations in the world for human trafficking. at the moment, the recent arrivals are under the control the police. but a corrupt system could easily see them fall into the hands of job brokers to sell them to thai cos. there then forced

thailand hopes this can be saved from extinction. fires andcase of floods and for australia's. the bushfire is continuing in the southernarshes part. did you showers in news out wells, but some of the lightning strikes have been causing problems with the bushfires and it's quite possible they have sparked a few of those fires in recent days. there will still be a few showers close to the coastal fringes of new south wales. there is some cause for good news there. further north, this is where we are talking about flooding. you can see this circulation that may well develop in the northern areas of queensland. this is also affecting indonesia. they say they are in the process of easing a bit now. making its way into the southeastern part of sri lanka, nothing nearly as wet as it was a few weeks ago. 5 inches across the portion of southeast asia. >> the top stories on al- jazeera. after a four-day siege in the saharan desert, algeria is warning the number of debt is expected to rise. 23 hostages killed and another dozen unaccounted for. west african countries did indeed urgent financial help from the united nations to help

out to thailand, where police have arrested a 26-year- old man on suspicion of killing a british tourist at a party. stephen ashton was caught in crossfire between local gangs at a bar on the southernsland. the island of draws thousands of backpackers to its famous parties. his family has been informed. jonathan is in bangkok. fill us in a little bit on what appears to have happened. >> the police are fairly clear in their minds about what happened. they say that in the early hours of the morning a fight broke out between two gangs. the man that they arrested, they say, and they say they have many witnesses to back this up, got involved in the fight, pulled out a gun, and fired it. stephen ashton, they call a very unlikely. he was struck in the side of the torso. he was not able to be revived once taken a hospital. they have sent police officers to oversee the case, not unusual when tourists are affected. in their view it is a straightforward case where the man did not intend to kill him, but is going to be charged with manslaughter, backed up by the witnesses they say they have. >> thank you, jonathan. and thank you for watching bbc world news. plenty more still to come, including