this is yangon's 19th street. does yangon rock? can it rock?t-go place when you are in yangon. >> anthony: meet burmese punk rockers side effect and lead singer darko. >> darko: uh, you can come here anytime. it will be lots of people, like here. >> anthony: so, if you sit here long enough, you'll see every musician in town? >> darko: yeah, you could say that. >> anthony: the citywide curfew used to mean, "close your doors at 11:00 p.m." most shops and restaurants still close early, but not here on 19th street, where you can eat barbecue late into the night. wow. what do we have here? what, uh -- grilled tofu? >> darko: yeah. and this is a porkail. >> anthony: pork tail, oh. >> darko: yeah. >> anthony: this barbecue is awesome. these young men show exactly how determined you've got to be to rock, especially in burma. >> darko: i like to say my early influence was nirvana. and then, sex pistols, ramones, and stuff like that. >> anthony: what american bands do you hate? >> darko: especially, uh, um, creed. >> anthony: yes. >> darko: yeah. [laught

moral man a governess decided to just go back to the chinese this new factory on the outskirts of yangon supplies myanmar rubber to tire manufacturers up in china it's about seventy percent of their business they want to expand to the west but this deepening rift between western nations and the government here might force companies like this and the nation to remain reliant on trade with china. myanmar drew harsh comments from the u.s. last week when it announced the government would buy six advanced su thirty fighter jets from russia. and they were and pins are when it was a political prisoner during military rule he says the timing of the fighter deal and closer military ties with russia are related to the range of crisis after what happened in iraq hein and the discussions at un security council china russia flatly said that they would support him so this is something that i am on that issue especially knows that can't count on. analyst david matheson feels that even though the two nations are providing for me and more now investments in defense assistance there's a long term problem

and that could impede the progress of reform after years of isolation it's got harder al-jazeera yangon. i want to get a minute visit our web site al jazeera dot com is there from all over the world again al-jazeera. the headlines now on al-jazeera. was the russian's efforts to host talks on serious political future have had a rocky start in the resort town of sochi its foreign minister was interrupted several times while he read a message from president vladimir putin to the delegates syrian opposition members yelled out at your jets are bombing our people see what you should use for you. today we have all conditions to turn the tragic page of syria's history considering all the latest achievements a dialogue between various syrian factions is necessary to reach a political solution with the u.n. backed mediation on the ground in syria the government and russia are continuing to attack rebel held areas of eastern go to and live province at least fourteen civilians were killed and dozens others injured in airstrikes rocket attacks and shelling a senior you many a government official say

the journalists were detained on december 12 in yangon at a resta u ra nt detained on december 12 inwith policeman who reportedly gave them documents in relation to the rohingya crisis in mackay and state. outside the court wa lone tells journalists why they think they were arrested. translation: they are charging are stronglyjust to prevent us finding and reporting the right information. we are being treated like this because we are seeking the truth. please protect journalism, fourth pillar of the country, there is truth behind the case. kyaw soe oo's family members have come from western recurrent state and they look shattered. the journalists are facing 1a years in prison if they are found guilty —— rakhine state. their lawyer lodged a request to the court for their release on bail. translation: the reporters are charged with very serious offences. this could damage freedom of expression in myanmar. there has been growing condemnation and criticism about this case, from not only the media circle in the country, by the international community. the european union has called for the

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journalists accused of violating that country's colonial era official secrets act have arrived in yangon court for their bail hearing while the one and who were arrested in december for allegedly require secret government papers if convicted the journalists face a maximum prison sentence of fourteen years. u.s. lawmakers have agreed on a temporary spending bill reopening the government after a three day shut down government said democrats rather have refused to back a spending bill without protections for so-called dreamers those who are migrants brought illegally to the u.s. as children when they back down after republicans promised to hold an immigration vote in the coming weeks. and u.s. bice president mike pence has told the israeli knesset that the white house plans to move the american i was a caesar jerusalem by the end of next year is speech through angry protests from arab israeli lawmakers hence it is the highest ranking u.s. politician to visit the region since president trump recognized the rousseau mess israel's capital last month. well here in germany the country's two bigg

to handle it i really challenging situation that you to pick their day for a grim reporting from yangon thank you all right now i want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world. so you go now to south korea's president at noon today and has said he is willing to meet his north korean counterpart under certain conditions on the moon said the denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north his comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in over two years. two senior british officials have urged germany to support a deal protecting london's finance sector after brags that they used the negotiator has ruled out colluding such a deal in future in future talks on trade with britain while germany's government spokesman meanwhile said brit arlin does not intend to break ranks with the e.u. on this issue. there has been some relief for the roughly thirty thousand tourists trapped in the swiss ski resort of their mob due to have a snowfall trains have resumed service today after being cut

take you now to me in march to a dave greene unbound he is covering the story for new delhi news in yangon good to see you dave any new developments that you can tell us about. yeah i mean the vision thing that's occurred really in the last few hours is that the myanmar military the senior general minong on the commander in chief in a posting on his facebook page they acknowledged a mass grave belonging to him to muslims that these were the bodies of ten or all hindu muslims and what's interesting here is it's been reported several weeks ago that these two reuters reporters who are in the court today have been investigating that mass grave and had been taking photographs from there the may of our military is saying that those ten bodies that belong to row hinges they say that these people were actually terrorists and that they pose a threat to buddhists there and that's why local buddhist villagers and security forces killed them that is what the military is saying so the military is not admitting to any wrongdoing in this particular case so that was really the latest news of come out the

man a government has decided to just go back to the chinese this new factory on the outskirts of yangon supplies myanmar rubber to tire manufacturers up in china it's about seventy percent of their business they want to expand to the west but this deepening rift between western nations and the government here might force companies like this and the nation to remain reliant on trade with china. myanmar drew harsh comments from the u.s. last week when it announced the government would buy six advanced su thirty fighter jets from russia. and they were and pins are when it was a political prisoner during military rule he says the timing of the fighter deal and closer military ties with russia are related to the range of crisis after what happened in iraq hein and the discussions at un security council china russia flatly said that they would support him so this is something that i am on that issue especially knows that can't count on. analyst david matheson feels that even though the two nations are providing for myanmar now investments in defense assistance there's a long term problem they

north korea today the first bilateral talks in two years between the north and south took place in yangon doubts that it will soon send its athletes to south korea for next month's winter olympics but it also warned not to mix games with war saying its nuclear weapons program is not up for discussion. a friendly gesture after a long time estrangement for the first time in two years negotiators but it's you korea's not the heavily guts of border between the countries after the talks jungen confirmed it was sent a team to the winter olympics in the south next month and neighboring towns like these high status to join the games they may even parade together with athletes from the south during the opening ceremony. but perhaps more significant for the thaw in relations pyongyang and sell also agree to hold talks to reduce tensions along that border and reopen a military hotline linking that country's. good arm the north and south have agreed to make joint efforts to ease military tensions establish peace on the korean peninsula and seek ethnic reconciliation and unity. south and north korea a

let's go now tojonathan head at the court in insein, north of yangon jonathan, welcome to you, what is happen there today? it's an important hearing because the defence lawyers are pushing for these two reporters to get bail, they've been held in detention in a high security prison awaiting very serious charges that can carry up to 14 years in prison. given they were in effect in trap, they simply went to do what manyjournalists do in search of documents because there's so search of documents because there's so little information coming out of rakhine state and were arrested the moment the documents were handed over to them by police, defence lawyers are saying they aren't a flight lawyers are saying they aren't a flight risk, they should be injail but we don't know how it will go and we don't know who in the government oi’ we don't know who in the government or military is pushing this case, which has had an incredibly chilling effect on the media community here and on those who want to dig to find out more on what's happening in rakhine state. there's been a huge international respons

jonathan head, bbc news, yangon.as pulled out of this year's oscar's ceremony. he won best actor last year for manchester by the sea. in keeping with tradition, he was due attend this year to present the award for best actress this year. casey affleck has been accused of sexual harassment by female crew members on previous films, claims he denies. earlier, i spoke to our correspondent in los angeles, james cook, to find out if we have any more details on his reasons for withdrawing from the ceremony. well, what we know is that this dates back, as you say, to these previous allegations against casey affleck, which date back to 2010. and he settled out of court and since then has not offered any kind of comment, public denial, or otherwise, on the allegations against him which were made by these two women, a cinematographer and a producer, but he paid an undisclosed settle m e nt producer, but he paid an undisclosed settlement to them out of court. and really, from then on, his career nonetheless went from strength to

jaw soe oo were detained on december 12th and are due to make their second appearance in court in yangonhe western state of rakhine. an estimated 655,000 rohingya muslims have fled to neighbouring bangladesh. we spoke to reginald chua, coo of reuters, about how they‘ re holding up. we have not had a lot of contact with them. they were held incommunicado for two weeks and then briefly showed up in court did they spoke to reporters and met their family which was great. we only had a few moments although wa lone's wife sat with him. they have had some time with their family and we have hired lawyers. they have had sporadic contact. from what we can see their spirits remain high and wa lone was quoted as saying they are doing the best because they have done nothing wrong. former us president bill clinton is adding his voice for those calling for the pair to be released. how hopeful are you? we have been gratified by the outpouring of support in myanmar and around the world. i guess we will find out in the next few hours when they come back the second court hearing. in an ideal and just world

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repatriate nearly seven hundred thousand rohinton refugees stuck in bangladesh scott heiler has more from yangon. if you listen to government leaders in myanmar this week was supposed to see a trickle of britain's refugees returning to these new repatriation centers in rakhine state they said from tuesday the centers were open and ready to receive but the other country in this equation bangladesh said incomplete paperwork for the refugees is causing a delay no word on just how long some human rights groups think it's much more than paperwork the fundamental problem is that all the operations and set up these plans have been used these negotiations have been done leaving the refugees outside the door and they haven't been consulted they haven't been talked to and many of the refugees are simply too afraid to go back anywhere near the burmese military also this week the launch of a new commission to follow up from a group headed by former u.n. secretary general kofi anon it's members both from myanmar and abroad are supposed to implement recommendations and advice on the range of crisis but even b

at least forty one people have died in a hospital fire in the south korean city many yangon just to the southeast of the capital so the cause of the fire still isn't known but officials do say it started in the hospital's main building authorities say more than seventy people have been injured the country's prime minister has ordered the government to send all available equipment and personnel to help the city. now the german media has revealed a growing concern over the increasing number of islamic extremists in southeastern europe those claims were based on classified documents obtained from germany so-called left party with more now he's our europe correspondent peter of. there's a growing threat from islamic extremism in europe based in the balkans and the german government is keeping it to itself that's according to a highly classified report that's being seen by some left party m.p.'s the media. the german federal government cannot discount the basic threat posed by individuals and splinter groups in the islamist scene in bosnia herzegovina the hush hush document goes as far as to

our corresponentjonathan head told me more from yangon.ing statement by one of only five international members of this advisory committee which was set up by aung san suu kyi to show the rest of the world that she is serious about addressing the problems in rakhine stayed and is willing to carry out implementing the recommendations of the commission that was published last year to overhaul the situation. bill richardson was probably the most prominent member of the commission. it had barely started its work. rest of the members have been taken on a quick trip to rakhine to see the situation for themselves. he backed out and resigned, saying it does not believe he was listened to. he has described it as a whitewash, little more than a photo opportunity. he said that aung san suu kyi is when most of her time blaming international media and international media and international organisations like the united nations for the problems in rakhine stayed, rather than listening seriously to the changes that are needed and giving citizenship to rohi

handle it and really challenging situation that you to pick their day for grim by reporting from yangon thank you. all right we're going to take you now to north africa where more than two hundred people have been arrested and dozens injured after riots erupted in tunisia one protester has also been killed while the violence is being driven by anger and government austerity measures to nisha has been praised for its transition to democracy after the arab spring in two thousand and eleven but tensions are rising over the state of the economy and hardships experienced by ordinary tunisians. bangor new austerity measures spilling over into unrest tunisia's government introduced the measures on january first and placed a strain on the pocketbooks of many tunisians. in many places demonstrators took to looting stores and to board a one man died possibly from breathing tear gas from police. it was seven years ago that the arab spring began here in the west tunisia is seen as an example of a successful transition to democracy not everyone is happy though. we had ten governments in seven years

degrees across the rest of indochina not as cold and certainly brighter more the way of sunshine here yangon thirty two degrees much as you'd normally expect heading down south eastern parts of asia we've got a fair few showers across central southern parts of the philippines scattered showers across borneo java looking a bit better to carter there with thirty one degrees as a high but some heavy showers likely through them in a pinch there for singapore and kuala lumpur will see some downpours but in the forecast on the other twenty four hours that rain becomes quite intense across into port could be some localized flooding here but moving up into thailand across into cambodia and southern parts of vietnam the weather is generally looking dry and fine across into south asia it's dry should expect it smoky i should expect highs to just twenty degrees in delhi further towards the south the risk of a few showers for tamela do through into wards flanker highs of thirty expected in colombo. the way the sponsored by race. explores prominent figures of the twentieth century. influenced the course

developing but otherwise remains fine sunshine across much of me i'm over thirty three as a high in yangon now across into south asia here weather conditions generally looking fine and so lot of visibility problems still across northern parts of pakistan india and through towards bangladesh but otherwise pleasant enough in terms of the temperatures mumbai looking at highs of twenty nine degrees but as we head into choose there we're going to find this area of low pressure developing across northern parts of india so it could be quite wet and quite windy in delhi and the temperatures of just sixteen degrees is going to be decided the chilly not particularly nice i think of twenty four hours for the arabian peninsula we've got quite a brisk wind which has brought dust through catch of last twenty four hours but it's clearing away and the winds are easing right down so but timing it through to choose day the wind to be very light indeed twenty three degrees quite pleasant here and it should be fine across much of the rest of the potential we're looking at twenty six in riyadh and never saw th

city was also alarmed by her response when he raised the issue of two reuters journalists wristed in yangon in december that been investigating the written job crisis i was very unhappy and distressed by downtown for the reaction to my point that this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly . that brought almost an explosion on her part a film a top diplomat richardson is nonfinite goshi outing with some of the wilts most formidable regimes including saddam hussein and the government of north korea but this time he's chosen to walk away a decidedly undiplomatic to patch up media on one hand al-jazeera won this let's bring in southeast asia analyst benjamin so lucky in bangkok via skype good to have you with us what is your response to which is since the patch well i think was courageous on his part but it's also most unfortunate he clearly made the calculation that he could do more good in resigning from this panel than he could have done by remaining on it and so on the one hand it's a rare act of courage on the part of the international community which has really fai

get across into laos and through towards me amar then you get some more typical weather conditions yangon's thirty two degrees have to use you see at this time of the year heading into southeastern parts of asia the really heavy rain across the philippines is clearing away otherwise some showers for java and bali please move up through the malay pinchers looking largely dry and fine for both singapore and kuala lumpur the fine across much of thailand thirty two the high in bangkok. personal stories of lebanese villagers on the border with israel the blue line runs through this period their daily struggles when we go get emergency forces stop us when we go there they shoot at us. and peaceful protests during the manipulation of the interior means the fines and resistance and piecemeal time gets means nothing at night and freedom life on the edge of cross border tension lebannon living on the blue line at this time on al-jazeera. and again the main news this hour on al-jazeera yemen's prime minister is accusing separatists of staging a coup in the city of aden this after several people were k

city was also alarmed by her response when he raised the issue of two reuters journalists wristed in yangon in december that been investigating the written job crisis i was very unhappy and distressed by downtown for the reaction to my point that this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly . that brought almost an explosion on her part a former top diplomat richardson is nonfinite goshi outing with some of the world's most formidable regimes including saddam hussein and the government of north korea but this time he's chosen to walk away a decidedly undiplomatic departure medium mohan to syria that's only one half of the story at the moment of course we've heard plenty of accusations leveled at me in miles military over the range of prices not designs on sochi most notably the u.n. which called it textbook ethnic cleansing but now downright has entered the lexicon as well rights groups say the attacks occurred during a recent crackdown in rakhine state and which has many as seven thousand people i thought have been killed stratford reports now from the cook upon refug

they simply switch back a skate workers don't wish to tighten his lights in the yangon they bought them after old lady with the money that they call travel costs let the canyons oswaldo. or let us hold up. the twenty five year old felt powerless like all the others who shared his fate he decided to stay where he was. in the room and i was probably hoping for a better way out or that someone would help me get away i waited for a very long time maybe two months old and i really missed so the off. position was able to get in touch with the n g o l ten or tivo on a borrowed phone the activists working for alternative or freed him with the help of the local police. the organizations must go headquarters located in the apartment of alexei's parents to be precise in his childhood bedroom. the thirty one year old has devoted his life to political activism which he sees as the juicy. colleague in douglas down this received a call for help from another slave labor. the cooler says he's working on a family. alexei asks if you know his location. he's told by the mom on the phone that there are two

wa lone and kyaw soe oo appeared in court near yangon wednesday. they face up to 14 years if convicted on the colonial-era law. last month, the two were arrested as they investigated the site of a mass grave in rakhine state, where the united nations says burma's government has led a campaign of ethnic cleansing against minority muslim rohingyas. in poland, lawmakers rejected a bill wednesday that would have liberalized the country's abortion laws. the legislation would have removed all restrictions on abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, while funding sexual education and contraception programs. lawmakers with the ruling conservative law and justice party say they'll now enlist the help of polish catholic clergy as they advance a bill that would prohibit abortions for women carrying fetuses with severe deformities. this is barbara nowacka, a polish lawmaker and member of the "save the women" civic committee. >> it shows the vastness of cruelty of the parliament. they do not want to talk about normality, about women's rights, sexual edu

city was also alarmed by her response when he raised the issue of two reuters journalists wristed in yangon in december that been investigating the written job crisis i was very happy and distressed right downtown for the reaction to my point that this issue of reuters journalists being treated fairly and rapidly. brought almost an explosion on her part a former top diplomat richardson is nonfinite goshi a team with some of the world's most formidable regimes including saddam hussein and the government of north korea but this time he's chosen to walk away a decidedly undiplomatic departure media on one hand here in our let's go live now to our correspondent scott haile he's in bangkok but scott you've been covering the issue of of me amar and the range of people in the the crisis that has been unfolding for the last six months or so. how much of a setback then is bill richardson's departure and indeed his words of criticism of the panel. martin i think right now the way you can look at it the only way you can really look at it is this new commission the just really went into action this wee

nurses in an intensive care unit dozens of others trapped inside or rescued in the southern city of yangon. turkey's president has promised to clear out kurdish fighters along the length of its border with syria and make stand its offensive as far as iraq a type one says the operation in a frame will continue to the east including the town of. turkey regards the kurdish y.p. chief fighters as terrorists and i round of un led talks to resolve the conflict in syria are taking place in the austrian capital vienna officials say the summit may be the last hope of ending the seven year long war delegations representing both the syrian government and the opposition are attending the negotiations last talks that were in december failed. joins us live from vienna so what's what's posed to be different this time. well certainly they're trying to find i would say that these are talks about how to initiate substance of talks because regardless of all these meetings tackling the real issues has been the challenge all along they this schedule was supposed to be first a session between u.n. envoys to fun

jonathan head has more on this in yangon. he was part of was ineffective. he has described how he felt it didn't have a mandate to address the real issues. he could have resigned more quietly. he used to visit aung san suu kyi as far back as the early 1990s, when she was under house arrest, and has remained deeply engaged in myanmar, with a lot of projects here. it's a very detailed statement. he describes her as having an arrogance of power, of being trapped in a bubble, surrounded by sycophants and psychopaths, telling her what she wa nts to psychopaths, telling her what she wants to hear. he said he was taken aback by the hostility that she and other officials showed towards international organisations, the media, the un and human rights groups, blaming them for the troubling rakhine state and he felt he could not continue in his role. he has said that she is in effect parroting the generals, speaking their language and not speaking up for the things that she once said she believed in. that is why he says he is so disappoi

to handle it and really challenging situation you to pick their day for grim bond reporting from yangon thank you i want to tell you now about some of the other stories making news around the world john doe no south korea's president moon j.m.s. said he is willing to meet with his north korean counterpart under certain conditions moonset denuclearization of the korean peninsula would be his goal in any talks with the north while his comments come a day after the first high level talks between north and south korea in over two years. two senior british officials have urged germany to support a deal protecting london's finance sector after breaks it they use she breaks the negotiator has ruled out including such a deal in future talks on trade with britain germany some government spokesman said berlin does not intend to break ranks with the e.u. on this issue. aren't staying in germany a long day ahead and a lot of work to do well those were the only comments made by politicians as they arrived this morning to begin day four of exploratory talks about forming a new coalition government wh

degrees across the rest of indochina not as cold and certainly brighter more the way of sunshine here yangon thirty two degrees much as you'd normally expect having done so feast in parts of asia we've got a fair few showers across central southern parts of the philippines scattered showers across borneo java looking a bit better to carter there with thirty one degrees as a high but some heavy showers likely through them in a pinch there for singapore and kuala lumpur will see some downpours but in the forecast on the other twenty four hours that rain becomes quite intense across into port could be some localized flooding here but moving up into thailand of the cross into cambodia and southern parts of vietnam the weather is generally looking dry and fine across into south asia it's dry should expect it smoky as you'd expect highs to just twenty degrees in delhi further towards the south the risk of a few showers for tamela due through into wards flanker highs of thirty expected in colombo. the weather sponsored by cats on everybody's. news has never been more available it's a constant barra

myanmar has dismissed mr richardson's words as a ‘personal attack.‘ jonathan head reports from yangoni as far back as the early 1990s, when she was under house arrest, and has remained engaged, deeply engaged, in myanmar, with a lot of projects here as well. it's a very detailed statement. he describes her as having an arrogance of power, of being trapped in a bubble, surrounded by sycophants and psychopaths telling her what she wants to hear. he said he was taken aback by the hostility that she and other officials showed towards international organisations, the media, the un, human rights groups, blaming them for the trouble in rakhine state, and felt in all conscience, he said, he simply couldn't continue in his role. he's actually said that she is in effect parroting the generals, that she's speaking their language, and not speaking up at all for the things she once said she believed in. that's why he said he is so disappointed, that he expected her to show some moral leadership. he accepted that she's in a difficult position, but he said there's no excuse for not showing any leade