thousands marching yangon in support of minerals military over the rank of crisis. hello i'm sam he's a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a fifteen hour siege at a hotel in the somali capital is over but at least twenty three are dead. on the pressure after a controversial referendum iraq's kurdish leader is reportedly considering standing down plus. reporting on moves to bring apex predators like wolves back to the scottish highlands after an absence of more than three hundred. rally is taking place in manaus biggest city in support of the military which is facing criticism over the rangar crisis thousands of supporters of turned out on the streets of yangon six hundred thousand rangar muslims of state from bangladesh over the past. right. and also now the united nations is calling the violence ethnic cleansing florence louis. this rally is organized by nationalists and. the message here the criticism leveled by the international community against the myanmar military because of what's taking place in northern rakhine state is ongoing to. the po

and it's like a wet one in yangon. in recent years the sawhill of north africa have witnessed the so-called war on terror . but is this official narrative. masking a larger battle. a battle for the earth's natural resources. shadow war in the sahara at this time on al-jazeera. hello again you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories thousands of people are leaving the iraqi city of kirkuk as government forces advance on kurdish military positions around the city the iraqi military says its forces have captured an air base and the local airport which was under peshmerga control. spain's deputy prime minister has asked for clarity after catalonia leader failed to declare if his region plans to secede and a letter to the central government. asked for more dialogue. now the israeli government has approved the construction of israeli settlements units in hebron in the occupied west bank thirty one new units have been approved the settlements are illegal under international law and so first time the government has

louis has more from yangon. this rally is organized by nationalists and. the. criticism leveled by the international community. because of what's taking place in northern rakhine state is unwarranted. tama. language word for the militate protecting national sovereignty. we have been trying to put across but what it's doing in northern rakhine state is the legitimate counter offensive against what the government considers a terrorist organization not such public demonstration of support for the military it's extremely rare it's not a right. in the country that the country fifty years before starting a democratic transition in two thousand and ten but one hundred has told us that support and the turnout at this event should not necessarily be equated with support for the military. to be aligned when it comes to what's taking place in northern state the government and in particular the de facto leader of this country. criticized with staying silent on the plight of the right for defending the military and one more thing this rally today highlight is that there is

is facing criticism over the rangar crisis thousands of supporters of turned out in the streets of yangon six hundred thousand. state for bangladesh over the past two months thank you as the army of rape murder torture and arson the u.n. has called the violence textbook ethnic cleansing slowey is joining us live from what's the message of these marches. well as you pointed out the military has come under intense criticism. because of what's happening in northern state it's very much in charge right now. the point of view that a. russian. government a terrorist organization. some of the. some of the. criticism. on the day of the. on the day of. when. the tide. in. public. would be. a few weeks ago. it took. a democratic transition in. the country. but the military is still a very powerful institution it retains control of important ministries and has reserved for it twenty five percent of the. and i'm going to. just because event is happening and there are. we should take. a part of the reason why people could be supporting but it's because. of the government and the military seem to be al

forces launched a crackdown in august demonstrators say action is needed to maintain stability from yangon frontally reports. thousands marched some bussed in from neighboring states the rally organized by nationalists and military veterans is to show support for myanmar's troops the military has come under criticism from the international community for its ongoing crackdown against the range of minority in rakhine state people here say the criticism is unwarranted we need to support the military because they are defending the country we need to stand with our soldiers . by being here and supporting our troops we hope to reduce the criticism against our military. the army chief has defended the operation in rakhine as a counter offensive against an armed group of fighters that the government considers a terrorist organization the. nationalists monks at the rally say muslim or hindu or in rakhine are trying to turn parts of the country into an islamic state this is one of several pro-military events since violence broke out in more than rakhine state in august others are planned for elsewhe

as more from yangon it was meant to be an interview about repatriating mohinder refugees but then the minister responsible for their resettlement said this. by flirting with the groups like you make the accusation that this is ethnic cleansing maybe they systematically playing for that reason. i'm saying it could be that i don't know if . they may have been planning for that they may be planning for that to make it come under the definition of ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing is the description used by the united nations for the military campaign which has seen more than half a million one hundred refugees escape to bangladesh since late august un's latest report details indiscriminate killings rape and the burning of homes by security forces in a campaign designed to expel the rohingya and prevent their return a commission set up by the to find solutions to the underlying causes of the wreck and conflict has just break the un security council and called for the safe return of the hinge or they can it will only go back if they have a sense of security and confidence that their lives

there are very few people in myanmar who will speak out for the ranger florence louis al-jazeera yangon. thousands of people are protesting in paris against the harris meant of women the demonstration follows more than three dozen actresses that claim they were sexually assaulted by the film producer harvey weinstein he denies all the allegations the claims prompted a social media campaign that women to speak out against sexual abuse our correspondent david chaytor joins us live from paris so david the women of france the men of france having their hash tag me to moment as well. that's right just a few statistics perhaps to give you some background every year there are something like eighty four thousand rapes in france and two hundred twenty thousand sexual assaults second gives you an idea of the size of the problem here in france now they do have a gender equality minister. she's. bringing in new laws next year but at the moment the penalties for a sexual harassment are up to two years in jail and thirty five thousand dollars fine for cleaning is really growing here in france is not

military crackdown began six weeks ago let's go to our correspondent at yahoo mail him now she's in yangon myanmar largest city reports of around ten thousand people fleeing on monday why are we seeing this increase yada. well we know that there has been violence since late august initiated by militant military campaign against the rangers well as well as vigilantes the united nations office for humanitarian affairs has also said that there is a new wave of displacement of refugees and that's not just due to the violence but because people are going hungry you've got to remember that now the people that have the river that are left in north right in the in the conflict zone. many in hmong door which is the epicenter of the conflict people there say they're going hungry this is the lean season people and people who are living on a subsistence existence now have restrictions on movements they can't access their fields they can't go fishing they can't access markets so it's making an already very poor group of and marginalized people who are in desperate need of aid. becoming even more isolat

yangon a two day conference is underway in sicily focusing on what's been described as the world's deadliest migrant crossing the organization for security and cooperation in europe first despite the risks people are still making the dangerous journey across the mediterranean to get to europe often on overcrowded unstable one hundred forty seven thousand people have crossed the mediterranean into europe so far. if we look at the tragic situation in the mediterranean last year over five thousand people died or went missing in the desperate attempts to cross the mediterranean in two thousand and seventeen the death toll remains an accepted lehi with almost two thousand eight hundred raked him. in addition to that nobody can say how many people died while taking the similar dangerous nand route through the sahara against this backdrop it is clearly in the interest of all parties concerned not least of migrants themselves to prevent irregular migration. the chinese president's name and ideology have been added to the constitution cementing his status as one of the most powerful leaders in decade

yangon well there's much more to come here on the al-jazeera news hour. pakistan insists that it's committed to the war on terror as the u.s. secretary of state touches time in islamabad. no place to go all the migrants forced to sleep in the rough one year after the closure of one of europe's largest refugee camps. and in sport we'll tell you about a place where baseball is flourishing away from its traditional home. a u.s. republican senator has taken aim at president gone on american t.v. tennessee senator bob corker unleashed his attack against the president on choose the labeling him quote a bully who is quote utterly untruthful and accusing him of purposely damaging the standing of the u.s. on a global scale let's go live to kimberly how could the white house hi there kimberly these have been some extraordinary exchanges haven't they between both corker and the president what's happened. extraordinary exchanges in advance of a very important meeting with the president going face to face with the man who has been trading these tit for tat barbs back

apologize florence louis was reporting for us from yangon sorry about the connection there now the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in india to meet with the prime minister narendra modi the three day visit follows a stopover in pakistan on tuesday and you're in a press conference with india's foreign minister tillerson said the united states share the same regional security current concerns as new delhi. in our discussions with pakistani leadership yesterday that. we had a very open frank exchange around the concerns that the united states shares with other regional partners and allies india but also afghanistan. that there are too many terrorist organizations that find a safe place in pakistan for which to conduct their operations and attacks against other countries we have extended. certain expectations we have of their government and their leadership to deal with in particular these organisations eleven human rights activists accused of supporting terrorist groups have gone on trial in istanbul in turkey they include the director of amnesty international in turkey a german

over its handling of the revenger crisis about thirty thousand people attended this gathering in yangon organized by and sons who cheese national league for democracy but in iraq and state in the country's north a military campaign continues it's already forced more than half a million rohingya to flee to bangladesh in the last six weeks un has described it as ethnic cleansing it's an all say they're leaving not just due to violence but hunger al-jazeera attained this video from a hinge a community leaders in young gone they say this was filmed on sunday in monk in rockland state here a man says they are moving and they have no food left to eat he asked the children not to cry who say they're sad about leaving their villages. we meet a real hinge a community leader who says he was sent other videos from rocket science but he dung township which the u.k. based aid organization burma human rights network says is facing severe food shortages here a woman says they aren't allowed to go to the market and have a shortage of food and medicine she pleads for help. over the last ten days what we

supporters, including buddhist nationalists and monks, marched through the country's largest city, yangon. one monk told the crowd, "only if the military is strengthened will our sovereignty be secured." myanmar's army has asserted that its crackdown began in august in response to attacks on soldiers by rohingya insurgents. myanmar's de facto civilian leader, nobel laureate aung san suu kyi, is facing international criticism for her relative silence on the atrocities. more than 600,000 rohingya refugees have fled into neighboring bangladesh, many describing the razing of their villages, indiscriminate killings of civilians, and mass rape. in thailand today, an elaborate, five-day funeral pageant for a revered king came to end. hundreds of thousands of mourners lined the streets of bangkok as the ashes of the late king were brought to their final resting places in two royal temples. when he died last year at 88 years old, the king was the world's longest-ruling monarch. he reigned for 70 years. the year-long period of mourning ends tonight. thailand spent $90 million on royal funeral event

china sea but it's looking fine across vietnam last two we lost the showers even draw a picture here yangon thirty one draw and sunny it's not often i say that now as we head across into south asia most of india pakistan bangladesh nepal it's all looking fine once you come further south into tamil nadu and across towards carolinas a different picture we still got some heavy monsoon rain you see from the rainfall totals we're getting up continue across sri lanka too so that's where we're going to see further heavy rain occurring in the course of wednesday and indeed through into thursday but for many central northern parts of india all looking fine cooling off a little bit has been pretty hot in new delhi in recent days but just thirty is a nice one they're looking at warm weather thirty five as the maxim here in the arabian peninsula always lovely here at the moment thirty four degrees in doha a humidity so little bit high for this time of year but dropping slightly should be a pleasant day in abu dhabi for the top temperature of thirty two. short films of the hook and inspiration. stories

capital yangon in support of the country's military. hello i'm sammy's a than this is al jazeera live from doha so coming up a fifteen hour siege at a hotel in the somali capital is over at least twenty three dead under pressure after a culture of virtual referendum iraq's kurdish leader reportedly considering standing down. spain says castillo the is the pose the they can run for his old job december's election. rally is taking place biggest city in support of the military which is facing criticism over the rangar crisis thousands of supporters of turned out on the streets of. six hundred thousand rangar muslims have fled raw state for bangladesh over the past two months they accuse the. and. the un is called the violence. ethnic cleansing. is. just a couple of minutes ago. right . here of. how independent. we were. young. and the. security forces in somalia have ended a fifteen hour shooting gunman holding hostages in a hotel in mogadishu. the building on twin bombings in the area. three people were killed. in kenya. this is the targe

joining us is the yangon based freelance journalist poppy mcpherson.n newsday. the un calls there is a cynical operation to expel the rohingya from myanmar, is that is how it is seen there? it's not seem like that here. the narrative here in the burnley ‘s media has focused on the perception that the rohingya, or some rohingya have joined that the rohingya, or some rohingya havejoined an that the rohingya, or some rohingya have joined an organisation which attacked the police in august, prompting this massive army crackdown. so people here are very much seeing the rohingya as extremists, that's the vocabulary being used. so, on this side, there isa being used. so, on this side, there is a lot of doubt about the alleged atrocities coming out on the other side. many people, this group have been persecuted for decades. many people are distrustful of the narrative. what is currently the credibility of the united nations because the bbc did an investigation and it revealed the un's top official in myanmar had suppressed top, internal discussion on the rohin

military which is facing criticism over the crisis dozens of supporters of turned out in the streets of yangon six hundred thousand during the most and so fled record state for bangladesh over the past two months the accused the army of rape and murder torture and arson kenya's main opposition leaders are expected to issue a statement as unofficial results from the repeat election suggest the president has won more than ninety seven percent of the vote the election has been marred by violence with voting suspended in some strongholds it's inside story now stay with us. it was an audacious bid to capture a city in the southern philippines and turn it into a province of leisel. with the smoking room is asia the new battlefront when east investigates at this time on al-jazeera in control of catalonia spain pushes back fire in the government and the police chief but will that simply exacerbate catalans ambitions to split what happens next this is inside story. particle hain and welcome to inside story in less than twenty four hours catalonia has declared independence spain has responded by strippi

yangon. so to come here on al-jazeera strike. the french president egypt's leader abdel fattah el-sisi in paris human rights groups aren't impressed. and this is silly and beaches that once a paradise but are now reminders of the perils migrant face in the mediterranean. welcome back we'll start in a straight here where during the course of wednesday we're like to see most areas drive out of playa perhaps in southeastern areas but sydney's looking quite well now twenty eight degrees fine in townsville some of the temperatures right across western australia is also looking dry and fine heading into thursday not a great deal of change are expected in sydney still in the upper twenty's far as temperatures are concerned so let's head across into news event and here we're looking at showers so if it's in the western side of both islands i think during the course of wednesday through thursday still some fairly strong winds about states coming in from the west or north west so western facing coast like to see the bulk of the share at se

even be allowed to return if they do want to return to their lives all right florence let me live in yangon thank you the three palestinian farmers have been injured by israeli settlers as they try to harvest their all is now this is the latest incident in a growing season beset by harrison and near illegal settlements resources spent the day with one group near the village of south it in the occupied west bank in the pre-dawn light a handful of farmers gather for the chance to get to their land for a few minutes israeli soldiers open the gates id papers are taken and they go from being locked out to locked in they work fast fitting the branch isn't good for the trees but it's quick which helps when you have a six week old baby to tend to as well. each family has just a few days not only to harvest the olives but to carry out maintenance work that would normally be done throughout the year but. the trees don't get the trimming or fertilizing they need the land doesn't get maintained so the production goes yeah. the restrictions of the result of the separation barrier and military road that

likely hundred fifty or him there will now be repatriated each day florence louis joins us live from yangon so first of all let's start with this talk of setting up an economic zone in an area that's been the focus of what the u.n. has been calling ethnic cleansing the violence and military operations how government officials saying that's going to work. well this was an idea that was mooted just some time after the violence of that started on august twenty fifth now and the businessmen local politicians entrepreneurs met in fits way that's the state capital of rakhine state to discuss setting up business opportunities in economic zone in hmong door and that's the area that's been hardest hit by the military crackdown which as you've said have led to six hundred thousand people to flee into bangladesh in just two months alone this is the lead article in the state owned media global new light of myanmar it says on proponents to develop rakhine state now clearly the government is trying to push forward the narrative that normalcy and peace and stability have returned to that part of the state

in a yangon cafe i made i mean mean he's visiting from his home state of mind where he runs a monthly political magazine it's a risky business the twenty eight year old shows me photos of a bombing attack on his house last year which he says was due to his reporting in record time. if we keep trying to investigate the truth about issues in rakhine states my life could be in danger if we reduced our coverage of stories about muslims during the recent incidents and we had to be silent we almost don't cover it because we have to be very careful. more than half a million rohingya have fled maine marta bangladesh since late after a military campaign the united nations has called ethnic cleansing but you're unlikely to hear it reported that way in mean ma it comes to who and your issue. a traitor this reporter says he's been harassed online and even threatened in person for his reporting in record time he doesn't want to reveal his identity because he fears for the public backlash and you're feeling more crammed and you know you feel crap when you're writing the news before it's publish you

thing there are very few people in myanmar who will speak up for the ranger florence louis al-jazeera yangon. thousands of parisians have protest against the sexual harassment of women in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal dozens of actresses have accused the hollywood producer of sexual assault and rape but she denies they were traitors in paris. the anti harassment campaign is going equally viral here in wrong so too in real life and expose your pig just to give you some context something like eighty four thousand cases of rape in the bronx every year two hundred twenty thousand cases of sexual assault. as a sin and without words you can see the scale of the problem here in france as well now the french to have. a gender minister. and she's going to bring in new laws against the catcalling that many women get in the streets and also the horrors when they get in the office at the moment you can get up to two years in prison as a maximum sentence of a thirty five thousand dollars fine most of the women i've been speaking to here the activists say that's not nearly enough so much more h

are meeting to discuss setting up an economic zone in rakhine state thousands of people marched in yangon on sunday to show their support for the military's operation in northern in on the army claims that peace and stability has now been returned to the region the military crackdown was launched after a thai police post and an army base since august more than six hundred thousand were him to have fled to bangladesh florence italy has more from now gone. the government is keen to portray that a sense of normalcy has returned to northern rakhine state now this is the state owned media global new light of myanmar and its lead article says entrepreneurs to develop recurring this follows a meeting on sunday between local politicians and business men to talk about set setting up new industries in morning door as well as an economic zone there and this is the area that's been hardest hit by a military crackdown that started on august twenty fifth an opinion piece in the same paper also said because peace and stability have returned to the area it's time to think about development projects that

ethnic cleansing it's likely that like north and dismiss this report to you i remember al-jazeera yangon the international rescue committee has spent the past two weeks interview overhang of families at shelters in bangladesh and has heard many harrowing stories of torture and death bob kitchen is the spokesman for the group we heard terrible stories of violence that women and children had faced as they were awoken in the middle of the night and forced to run from their homes we heard that now that they are in bangladesh more than one third of the population have no access to a toilet which brings on huge public health risks and three quarters of the refugee population are hungry and having to cut down on the number of meals they eat a day so as to make sure that there's an offshoot for their kids to eat it's a huge task to look after those number of people and while the government of bangladesh has been very welcoming the capacity on the ground of international national n.g.o.s and u.n. agencies isn't currently up to the task of keeping these people alive and safe. the libyan coast guar

al jazeera yangon. telecom for you on the program after five years held captive by taliban linked fighters and eighteen couple of back on home soil. and the fresh face of the right wing who can be on the verge of becoming the wall the youngest. hello the autumn winds are still blowing through northern and then eastern europe bringing cloud and some rain with them so the windy situation is consistent with automobiles maybe less consistent with what's happening further west these are the frontal systems that this would high is a bit of a clue for central western europe it's been sitting pretty the sun's still working hard the temperatures in spain are well above where they should be turned out in madrid over thirty day and alysia this want to spreading it through france towards british isles and the western side of europe is substantially warmer than you might expect and for the time being dry but it is getting windy in particular that's going to be the case for ireland during monday or tuesday the remain

affected in the crackdown by the me and more military against the russian ship florence loyals more from yangon there are a couple of ways to look at this one is that this is simply a practical solution the rice crops are ripe for harvesting and if they were left to just stand in the fields they would go to waste so the myanmar government has put in place a plan to harvest the crops bringing in combine harvesters and neighbors to do the work and agricultural ministry spokesman has told us that the local government is in charge of the harvest and the eventual fail and the proceeds of the sale will go to the local government over there no details on how they plan to use it but the other issue is this raises ethical questions as the asia director of human rights watch puts it you really can't call a crop own unless when you've used a campaign of arson and violence to drive the owners from land and this is what the myanmar military has been accused of doing and the other issue pertains to future use is this harvest perhaps the first step of the myanmar government to appropriate the land from reveng

on al-jazeera yangon. plus more still to come here on. zero. it does not belong to any single country and it is not up to any single country to terminate it well leaders criticize donald trump's attempt to change the landmark nucleated. and forget the health benefits of jumping we'll tell you why running through the streets of sierra leone and you're in jail. hello there are tropical storm is still gaining strength in the south china sea you see quite clearly on the satellite picture this of larry of cloud heya but it's generating all this huge overflow of cloud that works its way all the way across taiwan the eastern parts of china as well taiwan is where we've seen some of the worst of the weather three hundred seventy seven millimeters of rain just in a twenty four hour period that is a phenomenal amount of wet weather clearly giving us a fair few problems there unfortunately there's more wet weather still to come because this storm is moving quite slowly looks like it won't reach china and until monday and then on tuesday or wednesday it wi

thousand fled across the border to balad ash let's get more now from yahoo melon she joins us from yangon yatta so. the minute the chief addressed the country this morning did they make any mention of the range of prices. well no daryn they didn't and we didn't expect them to uncensored she addressed the nation on thursday and she remained silent on the row hinge or issue despite all of the international kind condemnation her government has faced over their handling of the. crisis and i think what's really interesting to point out here is that this is the first time that we've seen. in public together with the military chief. since the crisis began late august the military chief is this is the architect of the current security forces campaign in rakhine state he's seen as the person who holds real power in the country possibly the most powerful person in the country and who can really bring an end to the conflict in iraq state. many human rights organizations have been lobbying really hard for the fight for the focus of any international pressure or sanctions or the like to be shifted awa

for more this we're joined by arab land who is live for us from just south of me in mars' capital yangon the one wonders what has suchi had to say. well for the both bulk of the speech she wanted to announce basically a plan to help rebuild and bring humanitarian aid assistance to wrack hyun state now this is the region where the military has been. waging its operations or campaign against the rohingya which has seen more than half a million row hinge or flee across the border into bangladesh but what was really strange about the speech is that she called on donations from the public to help in those rebuilding efforts basically asking people to give their monies to help rebuild the homes that the military has just destroyed over the last six weeks of this campaign but those donations will also go will go to all communities in iraq and say not just to the row hinge or but as as we know the military operations are continuing just on wednesday just yesterday the un's human rights chief had called for an end to the military operations in iraq and state he came out with a damning report abou

condemnation over its handling of the ranger crisis about thirty thousand people attended this gathering in yangon organized by and sons who cheese national league for democracy. but in iraq and state in the country's north a military campaign continues it's already forced more than half a million rohingya to flee to bangladesh in the last six weeks un has described it as ethnic cleansing and war say they're leaving not just due to violence but hunger al-jazeera attained this video from a hinge a community leaders in young gone they say this was filmed on sunday in monk in rockland state here a man says they are moving and they have no food left to eat he asked the children not to cry who say they're sad about leaving their villages it is from we meet or hinge a community leader who says he was sent other videos from rocket science but he dung township which the u.k. based aid organization burma human rights network says is facing severe food shortages here a woman says they aren't allowed to go to the market and have a shortage of food and medicine she pleads for help. over the last ten days what

allegations of violence during october last year rejected any claims of wrongdoing yaba moment al-jazeera yangon. u.s. president donald trump's threat to tear up the nuclear deal with iran is strong criticism from international leaders russia china and european governments of all reaffirmed their support for the agreement iran's president has says the united states is isolating itself on the international stage and causing anger into iran saying he has more on the reaction from iran. while most people will have seen the political theater the night before on their smartphones in iran newsstands are still a great place to get a check of the political atmosphere and the morning after divergent speeches from the presidents of the united states and iran headline writers had a lot to play with drugs save the nuclear deal says one illiterate dictator says another and this one simply he's just nagging truman eisenhower for you don't go i think the way he spoke was very road and i don't think that it's possible to have any relations with the u.s. as long as he's president and there's a lot of money. in m

million ranger fled a military crackdown which began at the end of august yarber malham has more from yangon it was meant to be an interview about repatriating the hindu refugees but then the minister responsible for their research on it said this look i got a blow up earlier by flirting with the groups like you make the accusation that this is ethnic cleansing maybe they systematically playing for that reason i'm saying it could be that i don't know it could be. they may have been planning for that they may be planning for that to make it come under the definition of ethnic cleansing ethnic cleansing is the description used by the united nations for the military campaign which has seen more than half a million range of refugees escape to bangladesh since late august un's latest report details indiscriminate killings rape and the burning of homes by security forces in a campaign designed to expel the rohingya and prevent their return a commission set up by the to find solutions to the underlying causes of the wreck and conflict has just break the un security council and called for the safe r

access even more urgent there's a birth thank you very much for that you are joining us live from yangon thank you . let's move on to other news now and u.s. forecasters say as tropical storm nate's become a hurricane as it bears down on the gulf coast it's already battered central america with at least twenty five people killed in flooding and landslides across costa rica nicaragua honduras and el salvador david mercer has more. they could i what is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere tropical storm nate has just made it that much poorer three thousand homes destroyed communications cut the force of the storm ripped boats from the sea and left plot holes large enough to consume cars. centered on this bus were so panicked. escape was the only thing on their minds mate pummeled central america with heavy rains during the week. the flood has taken away almost everything that all these people had in their home they had breakfast in the morning but not had lunch nor a dinner because everything was taken away from them where waiting for any help that would be well received

gone organized by buddhists with right wing views is calling for their him to stay out or is live in yangon for us so you are a face of it sounds like he's saying that i have managed to for all of this the un all the international human rights organizations that documented what they call ethnic cleansing was the un had to say about that. well we've yet to hear really from the u.n. about these claims are still waiting to hear from them there the un's political chief is currently in the young gone he's here for the next few days to discuss the ro hinder crisis but i think it's really important to point out here that when the minister made these claims that. somehow all got together and planned to leave on mass to create the appearance of ethnic cleansing that he didn't really have much evidence to back up his claim except to say that the military operations ended on the fifth of september now this is an assertion that's also been previously made by the chief but the un maintains that the conflict in rank. is ongoing and it's calling for an immediate end to military and security forces operati

kurdish region is meeting to discuss redistributing its powers thousands of people are marching in yangon gone in support of the army in me and ma the minority muslim or hindu community accuses the military of rape murder torture and asinine in the state of rakhine six hundred thousand of them have fled to bangladesh in the past two months demonstrators say condemnation of the army is unwarranted. cuba is denying any involvement in the alleged sonic attacks that led to more than twenty u.s. embassy staff being recall from havana the u.s.s. the staff were injured at the office and in their homes to washington says savannah failed in its obligation to protect diplomats on its territory those are your headlines the news continues here after al-jazeera world twenty five minutes bob i . was. believe it or not. somebody it's all to. the wall the same. folks. that. come unstuck. example i wouldn't accomplish into that day should not supplied it to get me the way out of the deadly brotherhood never. lets look at what's out look up . to god. what dyad the senior look at the use. of the force majeu

yangon a small port town in northern france has become the new departure point for refugees desperate to reach britain migrants have moved on to the area where strong tight security in the city of kali where the so-called jungle refugee camp was destroyed a year ago as natasha botho reports some locals aren't impressed with their new neighbors while others are welcoming them. an early morning ferry prepares to sail from the northern french port of we to england it's a popular link across the channel but recently it's become a new route for some refugees to reach britain they try to climb on to trucks that are boarding at least ninety refugees mainly from sudan have arrived here in the past few months and then numbers are growing you know with a kid you know it's only like what you takes one year or ten to get to the u.k. we won't give up our dream. we sam is a small fishing town it was etched into history on d.-day when allied forces landed to liberate france in one thousand nine hundred forty four today it's facing a different struggle the mayor says many residents feel unsafe some l

write one us after the mother which i'm sure my journey has a mission in yangon i see. what. i see i am sure i am who bowed to she and her last. but there is a shame and social stigma associated. but mental health which means many are reluctant to seek help. in such a conservative society families don't want their loved ones to be seen by friends or neighbors in a psychiatric ward. known they say x. amount on a specific. this is one this is the one you don't need but i hope that you are thinking out of this one and not. the fighting and bombing still rages in many regions here according to the united nations around three quarters of civilian deaths are the result of insurgent attacks and three percent by coalition forces. retired u.s. air force general david dipped to the man who introduced the drone program to afghanistan claims they're the safest form of modern warfare. there is plenty of evidence. in fact evidence that has been monitored and provided by the united nations that contrary to popular perception remotely piloted aircraft drone operations result in the greatest

to hold up right want to ask after their mother which i'm sure my journey has a mission in yangon i see. what i mean to a magazine about the future i see i am sure i am who bowed to she and her last. but there is a shame and social stigma associated with mental health which means many are reluctant to seek help. in such a conservative society families don't want their loved ones to be seen by friends or neighbors in a psychiatric ward. known they scare are some of the news business. mr shulman this is the one you don't need but i hope. you know what they get out of this one and knowledgeable no doc that you don't visit that where you're stuck i mean what does it mean american way to get the fish when mission control and the plentiful money that you thought was a lot of mostly. positive cost could you as and they get more struck a softener is the largest but the one i. left out why he doesn't mind if you look as softeners in the you must like my line yet you'll be given should i meet jack oh by the time you ignore my past. the fighting and bombing still rages in many regions here accordi

and with a tenuous relationship at best with the government there's not much needs to be done in yangon to maintain this interim as well he thanks very much. known a few moments we'll have the weather with everton but also still ahead here on the news hour togas president breaks his silence off two months of protests against. lebanon is kind of his trade turn south some farmers are finding luck with a new crop. and sports teams ninth inning stern around sees the dodgers levelling the world series and he's here with that story in about twenty minutes. nice pink skies by the time half. hour as the sun sets in the city of angels. just a week ago typhoon land was hitting japan and now we're looking at another system making its way through it's been downgraded to a tropical storm but in this case we are still looking at some damaging winds hundred forty kilometers per hour on those gusts they will move through very quickly thirty seven kilometers per hour pushing further northeast was very close to tokyo within the next two or three hours or so but really i think a greater significance will

brutal crackdown on the rehang minority in the north western rakhine state florence noir reports from yangon. thousands marched some bussed in from neighboring states the rally organized by nationalists and military veterans is to show support for me and most troops the military has come under criticism from the international community for its ongoing crackdown against the range of minority in rakhine state people here say the criticism is on warranted we need to support of the military because they are defending the country we need to stand with our soldiers. by being here and supporting our troops we hope to reduce the criticism against our military. the army chief has defended the operation in rakhine as a counter offensive against an armed group of fighters that the government considers a terrorist organization the. nationalists monks at the rally say muslim or hindu or in rakhine who are trying to turn parts of the country into an islamic state this is one of the. a pro military event broke out in northern rakhine state in august others are planned for. a rally such as that is because t

condemnation over its handling of the ranger crisis about thirty thousand people attended this gathering in yangon organized by and sons who cheese national league for democracy. but in iraq and state in the country's north a military campaign continues it's already forced more than half a million rohingya to flee to bangladesh in the last six weeks un has described it as ethnic cleansing and all say they're leaving not just due to violence but hunger al-jazeera attained this video from a hinge a community leaders in young gone they say this was filmed on sunday in monk in rockland state hear a man says they are moving as they have no food left to eat he asks the children not to cry who say they're sad about leaving their villages. from we meet or hinge a community leader who says he was sent other videos from rock kinds but he done township which the u.k. based aid organization burma human rights network says is facing severe food shortages here a woman says they aren't allowed to go to the market and have a shortage of food and medicine she pleads for help. over the last ten days what we're hear

yangon. it's not more than twelve months since thailand's king died and after a year of national mourning he'll finally become ated in an elaborate ceremony on thursday he'll be seen by many as the father of all thais after he helped shape the country after the second world war these are live pictures from bangkok of people arriving for those. celebrations scott hiver looks at the preparations in the capital bangkok. a member of the national theatre. perform for the late king. day many time but thursday's performance will be like none before she's rehearsing for a play written by the late king on the day the nation will say its final goodbye after a year of mourning. before it was about pride but this time it is totally different i realized this time is did lost opportunity and work for him. as as well. millions of thais around the country are preparing for thursday for the last year tens of millions of the center would flowers have been crafted they've been used in world cremation ceremonies

being the main ethnic group in rakhine state towards many thanks indeed charles louis there live in yangon the un is coming under pressure to do more to ease the humanitarian crisis that the rangers are suffering in camps in bangladesh aid organizations say the u.n. should get local groups involved to improve efficiency and to cut costs the u.n. has raised around three quarters of the four hundred thirty four million dollars that it needs or it says it leaves for relief efforts has more for us now from cox's bazar in bangladesh near the border with me about. looking for food every day by the nearly i've got a refugee is a major challenge they have to go out looking for really a distribution point in various camps and get dry food lentils rice and all those are also the places where the international aid agencies set up a cooking kitchen this particular one set up by turkish cooperation and coordination agency which is known as has been providing for them in this particular kitchen between seven to ten thousand women and children hot meals like . rice and potatoes and the like action for ho

hit in this military crackdown against flora henge a minority lawrence louis joins us live now from yangon so forth how's the houses supposed to play out. well i think there are a couple of ways we can look at this issue on the one hand we can see this as a we can view this as a practical solution by the myanmar government these rice crops sitting in the fields are right for harvest if they were just left there they would simply go to waste so the myanmar government is putting in place a plan to harvest these crops bringing in combine harvesters as well as laborers from around the country to do the work now a spokesman for the agricultural ministry has told us the local rakhine government is in charge of the overall harvesting and eventual sale of the crops the proceeds from the sale will also go to the local government if there are no details on how they plan to use it but there's also an other point of view and this is one which raises ethical questions and the asia director of the human rights of human rights watch puts it you can't really call a crop ownerless when you've used a campai

other thing there are very few people in myanmar who will speak out for the ranger florence louis yangon. they had a police and intelligence in somalia well they've both been sacked after a siege the hotel in the capital city mogadishu that lasted more than ten hours says it was behind what happened at least twenty three people died firefighters stormed the building on saturday after twin bombings in the area and two people hostage security forces killed two attackers and arrested three others catherine sawyer reports now from neighboring kenya hours after the attack on a hotel in mogadishu volunteers and rescue workers are still clearing the debris and pulling out mobile days the siege is over and once again residents of this city are just two weeks after another attack the wost in somalia's history close to four hundred people were killed and dozens are still missing out of how low you have two of the attackers were killed and three others were captured alive after a ten hour gun battle between our security forces and the terrorists we don't yet know the official death toll the rescue

well joining us now from yangon in myanmar is journalist david greene a david myanmar claims that ceased military operations in iraq in state where most of the riches live yet richer refugees are continuing to flee can you tell us what is going on in state. yeah a lot of the rangers who fled rakhine state recently in iraq and bangladesh are saying that they were starving i mean keep in mind that for years many of those were in dozen or more kind i've been dependent on food from humanitarian aid groups but since late august what's the humanitarian aid groups have been shut out from delivering this aid the government is allowing the red cross to operate but it does not have the resources to reach everyone in need and many of her hands are risking their lives to get the bangla desh as your report said earlier we had a boat that capsized just yesterday and many of them died so it is a desperate situation still for many of them even if they're not coming under gunfire their villages are not being burned down many of them say they do are just running out of food and that's why they're leaving

allegations of violence during october last year rejected any claims of wrongdoing yarber moment al-jazeera yangon a canadian man's returned home with his family and is revealing more about a five year ordeal in afghanistan joshua boyle was kept hostage by the a kani network which is linked to the taliban he says he's american wife was raped and one of his children killed caroline malone reports. back home in canada off to five years as a hostage on the border between afghanistan and pakistan joshua boyle spoke to reporters at toronto airport i apologize for the lateness of this opportunity we were delayed due to a medical emergency surrounding one of our children in the aftermath of wednesday's gun battle the pakistani military acting on u.s. intelligence rescued him along with his wife and three children who were born in captivity those who speak high and over his line of ideals are not going to simply raise our family you boil said one of his daughters was killed and his wife was raped three years ago. the stupidity and the evil of the haqqani network so kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily