>> saying the myanmar navy is going to escort this boat back to bangladesh waters after giving the peoplewater and medicine and saying that because they have been told these people say they want to return to bangladesh and we also have news agencies saying these people will be returned to wherever they departed from but we spoke to the presidential spokesman just over an hour ago and the myanmar navy will be taking this boat and the people on board to yet an undisclosed location and refused to clarify whether this would be still at sea or on land but he said that from there they would then be transferred to bangladesh. now, this fits into the myanmar government narrative that these people, tens of thousands of people getting on boat in resent moves trying to escape wherever they are from are actually all from bangladesh and the government refuses to accept many of these people are rohingya and meijerty from myanmar and face persecution and on getting desperate boat journeys just to leave the country. this whole thing and one thing that is consistent is this lack of transparency that actua

in fact, the myanmar government's attitude is that this is a human trafficking problem. in fact, a lot of the people who have been found on boats only claim that they are from myanmar because they want to obtain international aid but in reality, they are all from bangladesh. this is how the myanmar government wants to address this issue, by sweeping it under the carpet. >> thank you so much. >> the italian coast guard is carrying out a rescue mission off the coast of libya the main route of people trying to across into europe. 20,000 migrants have reached italy this year. over 1700 have died in dangerous journeys across the mediterranean. other correspondent sent this update from an italian ship. >> we've been sailing for about 16 hours and we're about 24 nautical miles off the coast of western libya. the area where most of the migrant boats leave from. now along the road, we've seen for example a ship of the british royal safey. those of parts of the tries to know mission the european mission that is now in charge of -- search of rescue of these migrants who crossed the

but the myanmar government says it is not the problem, because these people are not from here anyway refuses to recognize that it is its policies that is driving tens of thousands to leave the country. >>> it has been a year since hamas and fattah formed a unity government, but they still haven't put aside their differences. stay with us. ♪ >>> welcome back. i'm shiulie ghosh let's remind you of the top stories. a bomb has exploded in northeastern nigeria. up to 50 people are reported killed. the attack follows another major blast on saturday when at least 30 people were also killed in the capitol of borno state. >>> hundreds of migrants found drifting in their boat off of the coast of myanmar have been escorted to an undisclosed location. >>> iraq's prime minister is describing the advance of isil fighters as a failure for the world community. he is accusing the u.s.-lead international coalition of not doing enough to stop them. >>> the u.s. say there is reports that the syria regime is help isil target rebel-held areas. government troops have faced setbacks which is now under rebel

and the navy then secretly off loaded all of the rohingya refugees in myanmar, that was the majority, there were 300 to 400 rohingya refugees, they were off loaded in secrecy back in myanmar and then the ship -- the navy escorted the remaining refugees to bangladesh, the migrant workers. and when they arrived they proved to the international community, hey, look, there are no refugees from myanmar on the ship, you know. and they gave credence to the assertion they are bengali, not from myanmar and they don't use the word rohingya, they don't acknowledge it exists. they were praised by the state department and the u.n. for the rescue. however, it didn't -- it doesn't really hold water because for me, because i met and spoke to several people who were on that ship, including one rohingya woman who was desperate to escape with her four children. who told us how men boarded the ship at night and ordered everyone from sitway to get off the boat and the rohingya were brought to shore. really, the fact is i mean, well over 1,000 rohingya have taken to the seas in a desperate attempt to escap

the row henga muslims of myanmar. so dillon recently visited the tate and spent two days touring a refugee camp that tens of thousands of row henga muslims call home. no country claims these people. the row henga have been stateless for centuries. they are descendants of people who live in what is now bangladesh. they are unwanted both in the land of their distant ancestors and in myanmar. this decade the plight of the row henga turned from statelessness to persecution. long simmering tensions between the buddhists and the poor muslim neighbors have exploded into violence. mobs armed with machetes have killed hundreds of row henga proximating more than 100,000 to flee. many thought they would find freedom through traffickers who instead left them for dead floating on ricketing boats on the sea or in near boats in malaysia and thailand. this might tempt us to look away. but matt dillon is making it his mission to make sure that we do not look away. speaking to the press after his recent visit to the refugee camp, dillon

official from the country accusing him of exaggeration. myanmarorting a boat crammed with hundreds of migrants to an undisclosed, safe location. we meet the kurdish campaigners trying to loosen the grip on power in turkey. ♪ hello, iraq's prime minister describing the advance of i.s.i.l. fighters as a failure for the world community and he is accusing the u.s. led international coalition of not doing enough to stop them. foreign ministers from 24 countries are in paris and they are there to find tune their strategy against i.s.i.l. but the meeting is being marred by mutual suspicion and blame for what has been going wrong. crossing over to mohamed who is joining us from just outside the venue of that meeting in paris and at least he was speaking before that meeting started, the meeting took place, have we heard from other participants mohamed? >> not as of yet. we are expecting there will be a press conference probably in about one hour from now maybe a little bit less. hopefully at that point we will be hearing a bit more about what exactly was d

government about the exercise, but myanmar has not publically. >>> al jazerra has found evidence of a russian troop buildup and military ma moves near the eastern ukraine again border. but moscow continues to deny its helping separatist fighters in eastern ukraine. charles stratford reports. >> reporter: russian military equipment on a train close to the ukrainian border. al jazerra has no way of verifying where these vehicles are being moved to or from. the equipment includes armored personnel carriers, medical supply vehicles and tanks. the russian military insignia and number plates have been removed or seemingly painted over. we drove out of town to an area where we had heard there was a makeshift military camp. across the fields we noticed clouds of dust in an area around what looked like a farm. large military vehicles were moving in convoy along the mud tracks. around 10-kilometers behind me is the border with eastern ukraine, the russian military say the reason why there are so many troops and military equipment in the area is because it

they keep sang these people are from beige los angeles dish, the myanmar has not accepted that they aret of the problem problem of the my plants, that many people from myanmar are fleeing because they feel persecuted and discriminated guns but the myanmar are saying it's not their problem it's a human trafficking problem. that the people leaving on the boards are from bangladesh. >> thank you very much for that update florence, we'll cross over to you later on for further updates from myanmar, thank you. >>> a cruise ship with 458 people on board has capsized in china. at least five people are confirmed dead but rescuers have heard some people crying from help -- for help from inside the ship. most people are elderly tourists. chinese state media say the captain and chief engineer got out and have been detained for questioning. it sank in china's south. crossing over to rob mcbride who is joining us. this rob is really likely to put marine safety back under the spotlight in china. not only this incident but incidents in the past and tell us what you are hearing about this maybe and the

some came from unscrupulous people including the burmese navy, the myanmar navy. who should protect them if they are nomads and don't belong to a state. >> they should be gip citizenship. in burma they are eligible for citizenship, but the government doesn't take the steps to ensure they be given i.d. cards allowing them to go from place to place. in thailand it's difficult. they are not given citizenship and they are suffering, being deprived of access to services and facing eviction from lands

so far the pressure of myanmar is applied by the u.s. government is in diplomatic ways for the assistant secretary of state for human rights they said the right things publicly musset's stronger things privately but the u.s. that the european country they are subdued in addressing the issue of the rohingya. if diplomatic pressure is on suffice then this is not for us to decide but if course the west cannot be alone to see the of one of the engagement with tools at their disposal to not be imposed by government by companies individually. >> it seems like the current crisis comes after democratic reforms in d.c. any connection in-betweens the events? is the conflict based on religion? are muslims living in a buddhist country is that the trouble? >> what is happening with the process of the democratization is populated by a those that are not from burma they all have the issues the central government with the process there is the aspiration to have the better say in the political life there has ben war protester demand to lower those strong

and they say they have informed the myanmar government that we haven't yet had a response from myanmar. >> florence, thank you. >>> now, the u.n. is allocating $50 million in aid to help people escaping the political unrest in burundi. 10s of thousands are in neighborhoodsing tanzania and burundi. opposing the president's plan to run for a controversial third term. we have a report. >> reporter: isn't sure if it will be safe to go out on tuesday, so he's doing it now. opposition leaders in burundi are planning to protest against the president's decision to run for a third term which violates the contusion. >> translator: there is no frost. civil society and the opposition have called for a break. so we can organize our rights. >> reporter: but after weeks of unrest it's been hard for op six supporter to breakthrough the sometimes heavy security. on monday, things in the capital seemed to be back to normal. but some people are scared to be out in public. some protest leaders have left the country others are in hiding. the question is how many opposition members will be on the straight s

official from the country accusing him of exaggeration. myanmarcrammed with hundreds of migrants to an undisclosed, safe location. we meet the kurdish campaigners trying to loosen the grip on power in turkey.

but the myanmar government says it is not the problem, because these people are not from here anyway refuses to recognize that it is its policies driving tens of thousands of people to leave the country. >>> still to come here on the news hour crowding to get what yemenis are now calling white gold. after two months of war, water is a rare necessity. >>> plus -- >> i'm andy gallagher in florida, north america's older city and we'll be showing you how rising sea levels are threatening its very existence. >>> and we'll have all your sport coming up. ♪ >>> an egyptian court has delayed announcing a verdict in the trial of deposed president mohammed morsi for two weeks. they received an opinion from the highest religious authority in egypt. he was convicted of collaborating with hamas and hezbollah in a mass prison break during the revolution that toppled president mubarak. omar is with the institute of arab and islamic studies in the u.k. he says the egyptian government is trying to calm down international criticism of the sentence. >> it was expected that that sentence would be upheld

now, the myanmar government said most of the people on board the boat of 200 are from bangladesh. we don't know the identities of the people the 727 people found last friday. and as far as we know no international aid agencies have been given access to the people. we don't know the continue that they are in. we know reporters try to get to them. they were turned away by the navy. the government will provide the people with food and water and whatever me sin they need before they conduct verification exercises. when we spoke to the government spokesman a day ago, he said that they'd be brought to a safe location before repatriated to bangladesh suggesting that a verification exercise has been completed. we know that that is not the case. the government described these people as beng alley, a term used to describe and disparage the rohingya. an ethnic minority not recognised. they believe that it employs that they are recent migrants. the rohingya are stateless and friendless in this country, subject to restriction, and they can't travel freely. they are stateless, don't have rights

he thinks his only realistic option in the end will be to return to myanmar. but he is still haunted by the memory of fleeing government forces. >> translator: i can't go home out of fear that i would go through the same thing again in myanmar. also, i have family here now. >> reporter: his 16-year-old son was born in the camp. the young man says he doesn't want to live in myanmar where he doesn't know anyone. >> translator: do you want to go back to myanmar? >> translator: no, i want to go to australia. >> translator: why? >> translator: because i have relatives and friends there. >> reporter: a survey done by the u.n. hcr and another group shows that about 90% of the refugees from myanmar don't want to return. apparently being away from the country for many years has made many feel that myanmar is no longer their home. >> translator: we're still not emotionally ready to return to myanmar. >> reporter: as people become refugees in other parts of the world, the pressing challenge is helping them find a place to settle peacefully. >>> buddhism is one of the olde

the myanmar government refuses to acknowledge that they are part of the refugee and migrant crisis and says it is a human trafficking problem, and many of these people on the boats are economic migrants from bangladesh. iraq's prime minister is pleading for happy to fight islamic state of iraq and levant. haider al-abadi says his country needs the international support of the world to defeat i.s.i.l. but is not getting it. we have a report from paris where there was a meeting with allies. >> reporter: in iraq, the bullets and bombs continue. fighting so severe it looks nowhere near over. the hot desert landscape, a tangled web of militaries and militias, all trying to stop the advance of i.s.i.l. in paris, a stark juxtaposition. in this ornate setting diplomats desperate to find a solution for iraq in its battle against i.s.i.l., or as the group is called in arabic, d.a.e.s.h. >> translation: the international community, the international coalition, has to support us, has to support us to destroy d.a.e.s.h. >> reporter: iraq's foreign minister called d.a.e.s.h.'s shocking claims a fail

government and other governments should put more pressure on the myanmar government to gi vgovernment to ge these people -- these are stateless -- the rohingya are stateless. they don't have rights to citizenship, and they should work toward that. in the meantime, they have to have their human rights met and that's something that's not really happening, so i think that is the goal, i think right there. right now, the government in myanmar doesn't want the world to, you know, to believe these people exist. they don't even acknowledge the word rohingya. >> diplomats will not use the term for fear of offending the burmese government. matt got the president a year ago to say the word rohingya in my presence which is a victory. you see most diplomats dealing with the burmese government not using the term which is an abdication of responsibility. >> rose: the catalyst for change is? >> the burmese people wanted democracy going to 19 # 8 when there was a massive outpouring. it was crushed. burma lived through 30 years of awful dictatorship. they put in a civilian figurehead who had been a ge

touring the dark days, china was about the only friend had a myanmar had. in 2011 the government in myanmar cancelled a dam projects built with chinese money. that caused a lot of anger and embarrassment here in beijing. but there was a conflict inside the be be border of myanmar and ethnic leaders a bomb was dropped killing some five chinese citizens, so awngs aung san suu kyi is here trying to mend fences because china is a very important trading partner of myanmar. >> elections are to be held in moimple in november. what does this mean politically myanmar in november. what does this mean politically for aung san suu kyi? >> they are setting the stage now for potentially the league being in a much more powerful position than it is now. so i think it's hedging and that's why it's invited aung san suu kyi here. it's interesting, this is basically a party to party visit. aung san suu kyi is here as leader of the national party for democracy, this is not a state visit, we will have no access to talk to her during her visit in the country. she's here for five d

the incidents prompted china to launch a strong protest with myanmar. they conducted a military drill near the border earlier this month. people in myanmar have been critical of china. they suspect the militants may be receiving its help. observers believed china pushed for the truce to help maintain ties between the two nations. >>> the latest figures show american consumers are heading out to stores to spend more of their money. this after a cold winter kept them at home. ai uchida joins from us the business desk. good morning. so the data shows americans are spending again. >> exactly. retail sales did rise in may. and this actually follows another set of data suggesting that the u.s. economy is firmly on a recovery track. the jobs data last week showed steady improvement along with a moderate increase in wages. the positive trends could help the federal reserve to hike interest rates sooner rather than later. the commerce department says retail sales stood at $445 billion last month, that's up 1.2% from april. that contrasts to sluggish figures throu

right now, the government of myanmar doesn't want the world to believe that these people exist.hey don't even acknowledge the word rohingya. kenneth: it has gotten so bad that diplomats will not use the term for fear of offending the burmese government. in my private meeting with the president i got him to say the word rohingya, which was a victory. officially, they don't exist. you see most of the diplomats not using the term, which is a real abdication of responsibility. the burmese went back to 1988 when there was an outpouring and it was crushed. and burma live through 30 years of awful dictatorship. charlie: did they change the government? kenneth: they put in a civilian figurehead with a general. but burma under severe economic sanctions is looking around and seeing countries like thailand and others booming and recognizing that it had to open up politically in order to open up economically, but they have been doing it begrudgingly. they're are trying to split the opposition. it is an effort at a controls transition, and so far, the west seems more interested in applauding

i'll leave you with the markets. >>> myanmar is due to go to the polls in november. it'll be e the first general election in the transition from military to civilian rule. resolving the international armed conflicts is a vital step in the democratic process. nhk's aiko doe da has more. >> reporter: advises the minister in charge of peace talks with ethnic groups. he attended a conference held by the japanese government on peace building and democratizization in asia. experts came from 12 nations in the region. the audience paid close attention to what was said in the panel discussion. >> we know deep within our heart that it is a rare opportunity for our country to make peace with one for all. failure is not an option for us. >> reporter: 51 million people live in myanmar. in 2011 it went from military rule to a civilian government. since then natural resources and the labor force have attracted foreign investment. but there have been conflicts between government forces and ethnic armed groups wanting greater autonomy. in march myanmar's government and 16 ethnic grou

be moved to maungdaw close to the border with bangladesh, and where the government is keeping a group of beat people found in myanmarders on the 22 may, 10 days ago. the government says this small a group. most are from bangladesh but we don't know the identities of 720 people found on friday. when we spoke to the government spokesman an tuesday. he said they'd be moved to an undisclosed location before they are repatriated back to bangladesh suggesting that a verification exercise of the identities had been completed, but he later corrected the statement to say the verification exercise will be conducted and is ongoing. this whole attitude - the whole - the way the incident has been handled reflects the government's attitude towards this refugee and migrant crisis, and is in line with the government's eagerness to portray the boat people as being economic migrants from bangladesh. the government refuses to acknowledge that many of the people getting on boats are, in fact the rohingya, and an ethnic minority in myanmar is subject to discrimination and persecution, who had to be segregated few lights and be stateless

it says the migrants do not want to go to myanmar. it is unclear where they are from. >> we are learning the accidental shipment of life anthrax was more widespread than first reported. scientists thought they were shipping inactive strains for research. the pentagon now says the number of labs that received live samples has grown to at least 28. that's across 12 states and the district of columbia. samples were sent to three labs in canada, australia and south korea. the head of the transportation security administration has been reassigned after a report on security lapses at airports. undercover federal agents sneaked mock gangs knives and explosives past the check points on many occasions. john henry smith has more on what the department of homeland security is doing to fix this. >> good morning. i'm going to quote startling numbers in just a moment, numbers that abc news is reporting that came as investigators rerelated what challenges they put to gate agents. >> homeland security secretary has removed acting t.s.a. head and repla

it's also where the government is keeping another group of boat people found in myanmar waters on the*pd of may. about 10 days ago. now, the government says this smaller group. most are from bang los angeles deck we don't note identities of the 727 people found on friday. now, when we spoke to the government spokesman on tuesday he said they will be moved to an undisclosed location before they were finally transferred back or reparticipate righted back to dang los angeles directer, suggesting a fair take exercise of their identities have already been completed but later corrected the statement to say the verification exercise will be conducted and is still ongoing. this whole attitude, the way the entire incidents has been handled reflects the government's attitude towards the refugees and my grants crisis and is in line with the government's eagerness to portrait theming being mostly economic migrant from bangladesh. the government refuses to acknowledge very few of these people getting on the boats to leave are rohingya, an he ethnic minority subject to discrimination and persecutio

some came from unscrupulous people including the burmese navy, the myanmar navy. ould protect them if they are nomads and don't belong to a state. >> they should be gip citizenship. in burma they are eligible for citizenship, but the government doesn't take the steps to ensure they be given i.d. cards allowing them to go from place to place. in thailand it's difficult. they are not given citizenship and they are suffering, being deprived of access to services and facing eviction from lands where they lived for generations. >> do they want to become a part of myanmar or thailand. the report is titled stateless at sea. they live out there. most really aren't identified with either of those countries, they have their own language. >> well they have traditionally moved back and forth. and i think that the importance is that they be given a status be recognised as an indigenous people with rights. i think that given their brothers, they'd prefer to remain at sea. but the main area where they live will increasingly be opened by development as burma opens up. they are bea

>>>a new report points the finger at thailand and myanmar for violating the rights of nomads that live on the see. we look at the plight of the moken people scribed in the study as stateless at sea. >> the lives of the motorbikingen -- mokken men revives from around the water. >> they live from the sea, off the sea and develop this spiritual attachment to the sea since childhood. >> reporter: their way of life is threatened. the massive indian ocean tsunami in 2004 robbed the sea of many resources the mokken rely on. commercial fishing depleted the waters more. now a new report from human rights watch says the mokken are experiencing serious violations of their rites. the mokken face poverty. most are stateless, making them vulnerable to human rights abuses.

the building to collapse. >>> rohingya muslims have been fleeing myanmar for decades saying they are denied basic rights in the mainly buddhist country. for members who have managed to settle there life can be a struggle. scott heidler traveled there to.report the story. >>> now living if shanghai, he runs a small roti stand. like many of his fellow rohingyans he left to flee persecution but well before the recent spike of migrants. undercover soldier were beating his father before they took ethical prison. years later the incident is still raw. >> translator: i never saw my dad again after he came out of prison. i fled to bangladesh and then india. i fled to myanmar and then ended up in thailand. >> we aren't showing mohamed's face his work permit is for construction not selling roti. but he is better off. >> the ones that just arrive over the last couple years do not have any documents. >> reporter: that's because myanmar's government does not recognize the rohingya. they view them as illegal immigrants from bangladesh. known as being a multicultural community thanks oits location underto its locationon trad

what is the government of myanmar doing politically to address this? >> >> well the government of myanmar has an action plan which claims it is going to try to address the. >>. i think fundamentally that plan sees the rohingya still as being illegal immigrants. it's quite a problematic plan if you think about way to guess protect this very vulnerable population. it's not a plan that thinks of ways to give them a path to citizenship. there is a small group of people offered citizenship through a very complicate citizenship verification process but it's so tiny and the discrimination against the rohingya and in the country is so norm mouse that it really doesn't look like this problem is going to end anytime soon. >> some are saying it really is going to take an international response at this point. lillian joining us from bangkok thank you. >> revelations over an air bag recall the new claims that takata isn't doing enough to solve the problem. >> making the rails safer a lapse in technology that could have prevented the philadelphia derailment. offwelco

the traffickers. >> since may 10th more than 3,000 migrants on boats have landed in indonesia and malaysia. many of them are a member of a minority in myanmar who had suffered persecution in the mainly buddhist country. they were trying to reach muslim countries through thailand. but police have been tightening down their crackdown on the practice. lieutenant general of the royal thai army was arrested on wednesday after turning himself in to police. he is facing multiple charges including human trafficking and illegal detention and ransoming. the interim prime minister suppressed his intention to eradicate human trafficking. >> translator: officials found to be involved in human traffi disciplinary penalties and be interrogated and put through legal procedures. >> human rights groups have been criticizing thai authorities for their tacit approval of human trafficking and occasional complicity. more than 50 people, including mayor of a southern city have been arrested in the crackdown. >>> the chinese communist party says the leader of myanmar's largest opposition party, aung san suu kyi, will visit china five days next week. >> translator:

the country. it's also home to sensitive border areas namely that with china and myanmar. y under the leadership of prime minister modi. has used rail ways to try and stop the threats. >>> lands overrers on the u.s.-mexico border are taking matters in to their own hands to stop undocumented people from crossing in to america. some have even put electric fences up to catch those going through their products, heidi castro reports from brooks county in texas. >> reporter: which it comes to stopping illegal immigration to the united states, brooks county rancher mike vicker sees himself as part of the solution. >> there are two of them. they get over the first one they are going to to get in the second one. >> reporter: located 70 miles north of the u.s.-mexico border, his ranch is prime real estate for people trying to avoid border patrol. that's because it sits just north of within of the busiest immigration checkpoints in the country. when we visiting him last year, he said he saw dozens of people cross his product every property every day. you now he says it's down by half.

the art scene is making a comeback in in myanmar. e man is creating art and recognizes the contribution of hundreds of political prisoners. >> gloves, plaster powder and a video camera all in a day's work for the artist. today he's with an old friend. one of the leaders of the student up rising in myanmar in 1988. he spent more than 17 years in prison for his political activities. without sacrificing we cannot achieve anything, i think. so we should recognize and as a whole community. >> there is no bitterness when he recounts thinks detention. just acceptance and humor. >> sometimes the prison authorities become friends sometimes become foe. >> this process is part of an artwork by, he himself was once a political prisoner. >> i wanted to create a kind of work that is part of the history. it's like that. and then also other things that is important to increase art. >> to date he has made nearly 500 models. he started in 2013 not long after the country started moving away from a military government to a semi civilian one even then, he

. >>> and we'll meet the artist in myanmar who honors the country's political prisoners. >> thousands of protesters have been out on the streets in london demonstrating against budget cuts planned by the conservative government. the march is organized by the people's assemblies against austerity warning against nasty destructive cuts. theafter getting the majority in the elections last month it is due to unveil more cuts. they want to cut $48 billion by by 2018. he said that the aim is to eliminate britain's budget deficit by then. he has already been cutting many government programs, some of them drastically, that is expected to hurt some of the poorest including welfare recipients, welfare and those who sues public services. we're joined live in london, neve this massive march that has been taking place tell us what has been happening. it is getting bigger and bigger by the minute. the house of parliament, every minute or so more and more people are gathering here. this is the end of the march that has been taking place. it started over the bank of england. and it's making its way s

when you visited the camp in western myanmar, what did you see? >> first impression is nobody would live there if they had a choice. they are sort of forced to live there. that is due to the ethnic violence that has flared up over the last three years. there is a feeling of hopelessness. when i saw people with health problems that really needed attention, but there was no means to get attention, the clinic there serves 30,000 people. one doctor comes four days a week for a couple of hours a day, and it is not enough. >> the people you talked to, how do they feel being effectively stateless? >> you can sense it in them. i met three young men who had been tricked. they were so desperate to leave, they were easily manipulated by these human traffickers on to a ship. they are promised a better life , and eventually they were returned after a negotiation of some kind, after months of being at sea. they were so defeated. they would shake your hand in a very quiet way and look away. i had never seen that kind of despair. these guys were young men. they we

is seen as one of the problems because of the way it treats the row -- rohingya. but myanmart says it is not the problem. because these people are not from here anyway and it refuses to recognize that it is its policies driving tens of thousands of people to leave the country. >>> the italian coast guard is carrying out an operation to rescue migrants stranded off of the coast of libya. our reporter hoda abdel hamid reports. >> reporter: we have been sailing for about 16 hours. and we're off of the coast of libya, the area where most of the migrant boats leave from. along the road we have seen for example, the ship of the british royal navy and helicopters in disguise. those are part of that european mission that is now in charge of -- in search of rescue of these migrants who cross the mediterranean sea. this vessel and crew is not officially part of it. but what happens is for example we just -- the crew has just received a call from triton headquarters telling them they have spotted a ship a boat full of migrants so we u-turned and we're heading back toward that boat. but

it's also where the government is keeping another group of boat people found in myanmar waters. he 22nd of may about 10 days ago. the government says most of them are from bangladesh in the smaller group but we don't know the identities of the 727 people on friday. when we spoke to the government spokesman a tuesday he says they will be moved before they are repatriated back to bangladesh, suggest that go a verification exercise of their identities have been completed but he later corrected the statement to say that the fair take exercise will be conducted and is still ongoing. now, this whole attitude that -- the way the entire incidents has been handled being however reflects the government's attitude towards this refugees migrant crisis. and also is in line with the government's eagerness to portray boat people as being mostly economic migrants from bangladesh. the government refuses to acknowledge many of these people getting on boats to leave are the row hundred gas an ethnic minority in myanmar subject to discrimination and persecution who have to live forcibly segregated w

build a foundation here and now, the next generation should be able to continue on with the peace process in myanmar no matter who heads the next administration next administration. >> reporter: is there any specific date or month we should keep our eyes on with regard to ethnic minorities issues? >> i hope the chairman of the election administration commission will announce the date of the poll in the last week of july or the first week of august. so the best thing for us is to sign the agreement by that time. but as of now, i cannot say for sure if we can really do that. >> reporter: myanmar is no longer a reclusive state. also piece is achieved the economy of the entire region could be impacted. aiko doden, nhk world. >>> people who practice one of japan's oldest art forms are taking their work to a wider audience. they are promoting kabuki theater to visitors from all over the world in the lead up to the tokyo 2020 olympics. nhk world reports. >> actors in tokyo put on an event called "discover kabuki." they are hoping to capitalize on the surge in tourists, take advantage of relaxed visa rules

navy, most of the migrants are rohingya migrants that myanmar's government refuses to acknowledge about migrants are leaving the country myanmar says, to find owner employment not toen invoice to avoid persecution. >> people in thailand's government realize that, the boats of most of the rohingyas floating off the coast of thailand has but the human rights issue on the world's mind more than anything before. antitrafficing people have told me that on previous years they have been no more than talking shops. the keynote address of the president suggests this issue was taken more seriously. he is keen to point out this issue is one of his dwoft's top three priorities, and officials are handing out the amendments to are thailand's anti antitrafficking laws. and much more serious prosecution on those convicted of human trafficking. 140 people were successfully prosecuted last year, a number lower than the previous year, a suggestion that things are getting worse in thailand. unless they have a practical result they're not worth that many. >>> not the home the three iran

president jacob zuma said that they were wrong to proceed with the plan. myanmar's parliament has voted to keep the constitution largely intact, keeping the military at the center of power. it also means the opposition leader on sunk to cheap -- aung san sui kyi is banned from becoming president. she says she was surprised and has urged supporters not to lose hope. a protest over slow inaction in promoting energy efficiency. authorities are investigating what they call a serious breach of security. lemurs are only found in nasa gaster -- madagascar and soon may not even be found there. they are under a threat and that stark warning from a lemurs specialist. to blame -- hunting in deforestation. our science correspondent david shukman went to find out more. david: our first sight of some of the world's most adorable and vulnerable animals, the lemurs of madagascar who only live on this remarkable island. we found this one with the baby peeking out, a poignant image of an infant with an uncertain future. with its spindly limbs and curious nature, it is exploding -- ex

the military years of the junta. >> today he's with an old friend one of the leaders of the student uprising in myanmar88. he spent more than 17 years in prison for his political activity. >> through sacrificing we can thought achieve anything i don't think. that's why the rule of the political prisoners should recognize, as a whole community. >> reporter: there's no bitterness when he recounts his detention. just acceptance and humor. >> sometimes prison authorities become friends sometimes foe. >> making molds of hands of former inmates and record being their stories. >> right now we're in transition. that's why i wanted to create a kind conceptual piece of work, as part of the history. it's like that. and then also other things is important. to increase. >> to date he's made nearly 500 models. he started in 2013, not long after the government moved away from semi-military to a civilian one. fears are going away, the line between art and politics blirg. they are intoms of resistance to former military government. but recent events have also caused some to wonder whether the government is back sliding

the ones that arrived over the last couple of years cannot as they don't have any documents. >> that's because myanmar'sgovernment doesn't recognize the rohingya. it views them as illegal immigrants from bangladesh. he has a centuries old history of baddism and known as a multi-cultural community thanks to its location along ancient trade routes. the recent arrivals hide their identity. >> the mosque was founded over 100 years ago. it's congregation has been growing. >> we can't really identify if they are rohingya. they have told us that they are not rohingya, but burmese muslims. >> for safety, muhammed doesn't tell people his background, as they are many buddhists from my myanmar. the violence in his former home has been drawn along it nick and religious lines. he can't go back but encourages the rohingya still in myanmar to stay on. >> they should stay and fight not with guns, but fight with law and prove that we belong to that country according to our history. >> as muhammed watches that fight from afar, it will be a difficult one, as myanmar's government has shown no sign of changing its treatment

this is the beginning, the message should go to everyone. myanmar is a friendly nation. therefore this is complete cooperation, if the need required. it is part of north-east india. it has traditionally been underdeveloped compared to other parts of the country, and is home to sensitive border areas, namely that with china and myanmar. the b.j.p. party under the leadership used development and the boost of infrastructure like railways and try and counter the long-term insurgency sets >>> india to test a first home-built aircraft carrier. it was undocked after construction was completed. the u.k. u.s. and russia and france are the only other countries capable of building aircraft carriers. >> officials from the european union are in thailand to assess whether the country is doing enough to clean up its fishing industry. if not the e.u. can ban thai imports. growing evidence that fisher many are effectively working as slaves at sea. >> reporter: being on dry land is not what this man is used to. before he was rescued in march, he'd been at sea for 18 years, effectively work