. >> all right veronica pedrosa live for us in bangkok. step vaessen is live in indonesia where many who were rescued from the seas are recovering. >> reporter: hundreds of rohingya is sigh legal seekers and bangladesh i migrants are crowded here in this storage meant for fish storage others are elsewhere. after their ordeal at sea they are happy to be alive. they are allowed to be here for a year but the authorities are still struggling how to deal with all of these asylum seekers and migrants that arrived by boat. >>> car bombs at two hotels in the iraqi capital baghdad have killed at least 10 people. police say the attacks attacks appear to be coordinated. the first bomb targeted the babylon hotel where government officials often hold meetings. the second hit the sheraton.

veronica pedrosa joins us. >> they are in a very dangerous condition. this is a situation that has been accumulatingment months. it became clear by the people who research this sort of migration, they monitor this every year, and we knew that thousands of people were out at sea. there were warnings to everybody involved that there were offshore camps as they were called at the time, now as we've seen from the pictures, the reality of what that actually means is, thousands of people overcrowded on dangerously rickety boats many of them women and children. i understand that a third are children. one in seven is a woman. and they have diseases like beriberi and diarrhea, they tend on people that we saw approaching the thai waters that the royal thai navy helped by drpingdropping food packets, they said that 10 people died on that boat alone. 100 people died on another goat, boat, no one knows how many boats are out there. we will end up with boat loads of dead people if people don't somehow help. >> the united states has been in touch with the thai governm

we have this report from veronica pedrosa. >> reporter: stopping and searching for perpetrators and victims of human trafficking. for months this joint operation between the down and police has squeezed the business of human trafficking and people smuggling. set up in november the antihuman trafficking checkpoint is emblematic of a that police crackdown. the point is to deny traffickers from using thailand as a transit point on the way to the ultimate destination in malaysia. the thailand police chief proposed examples be built from mean a mar to bangladesh. >> the crackdown is the main agenda of this meeting between the thats and police. >> our joint operations with malaysian police are carried out through legal obligations and humanitarian principles. >> what about the people at the heart. >> thais say they are only allow to bring food to rohingyas in shelters like this. they want conditions to improve. >> translation: we hope the problem of human trafficking could be solved in the best way. they should try to give them dignity and human rites >> reporter: if they escape they are kept in

veronica pedrosa joins us. >> one particular boat that has been the focus of media attention and nationalention is one the royal thai navy found. you remember the pictures of thai helicopters dropping food pacts to the 380 people on board. as food was delivered the people spoke of the immense deprivation that they had suffered. they had run out of food and water ten days previously. they spoke about how one person maddened by grief had thrown themselves overboard and that two other people were dying of starvation. we have now heard that on board there are three particular men whose families are in refugee camps in bangladesh and they've taken it upon themselves to write to the thai government and plead for the thai government to rescue them and save lives. this is a situation though, that is spread right across this crisis. indeed one official from the international organization of migration has said, if something isn't done, urgently, we will have boats full of dead people. >> still to come here on the program. we are in southeast mexico to find out the truth behind the killing of 22 peo

veronica ped pedrosa has the story. ronica. >> that is indeed the situation and the way it is playing out is that governments are trying to push responsibility as it were, elsewhere. it would seem. as you say, there are boats like one that was founder off the coast of satoon province this southern thailand on thursday, that the royal thai navy provided fuel and fuel to. but the situation is absolutely desperate. there are women and children on board and they need medical treatment. the clash between saving liefers lives and what can be done with the rohingya people, have absolutely nowhere to go. let's hear from those people often the boat in this report. this is not a rescue. the thai royal navy found this boat off the coast of satoon province filled with around 380 men women and children from western myanmar and bangladesh. the captain of the boat escaped and they ran out of food and water ten days ago. judge the >> the people are starving, we have nothing to keep us alive. two other people over there are dying from st

. >> veronica pedrosa joins us. military and police officials in thailand and malaysia are meeting where you are to discuss the crisis. they are taking a hard line, what is expected to come out of the meeting? >> we'll get more reinforcement of the fact that law enforcement are serious about denying thailand as a transit point of allowing migrants to come in in unprecedented numbers from the bay of bengal. rohingya muslims are among the most persecuted people and are joined by bangladeshis. the united nations warned that there may be as many as 8,000 people in the sees behind us on boats, and there is nowhere for them to land. as you mentioned malaysia is saying they'll turn back boats that enter their waters. indonesia said the same the other day. there's nowhere safe for them to land. this concentration on human trafficking, the criminal element is on the part of the own >>> we spoke about the rohingya and how thousands are in migration camps. the organization is calling on south-east asian nations to be active, g

veronica pedrosa has more from southern thailand. >> stopping and searching for victims of human travelling. for months the joint operation has squeezed the human trafficking operation. this is emblematic of the thai police crackdown. the point is to deny human traffickers from using thailand as a transit point. thailand's police chief proposed camps be guilt for the migrants in myanmar. crackdowns is the main agenda between the thai and malaysian police. >> the continuing joint operations are carried out according to international legal obligations and humanitarian principles. >> what about the people at the heart of the crisis. >> thai and muslim community leaders say authorities allow them to bring food to shelters like this. they want conditions to improve for the fellow muslims, escaping persecutions. >> translation: we hope that the problem of human trafficking can be solved in the best way. we should try to keep them, the liberty and human rights. at least they survive. mass graves exhumed by the police. if we escape they are kept in another form of detention. futures are uncertain.