what exactly happened to you while you were in myanmar? a father brings his son up close to the camera. >> this is a bullet right here that went off. do you feel pretty lucky to be alive? >> yeah. >> reporter: happy to be alive. see these little guys here? they're not healthy. hello. this family tells us they witnessed brutal killings. what did you witness? can you show me exactly what you saw? they put a rope around their neck like this and attached it to the car and just drove away and killed them? during our interview this 13-year-old girl sat behind her mother, gently rocking herself. what did you see in that village before you came over here to bangladesh? >> reporter: resources are very limited here. most of the new arrivals escaped with only the clothes on their backs. their makeshift homes are empty of any belongings. they don't have money. the children are suffering from acute malnutrition. and bangladesh does not want them here. why does the government say there are only about 30,000 of these refugees from myanmar? >> bangladesh

a tragic milestone more than half a million or hinge on have now fled violence in myanmar. you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program. turkey's president hosts is russian counterpart in syria is said to top the. british charity warns that war ravaged yemen could not chop its one million dollar a by november. and student voices joined a growing chorus in support of catalonia as independence referendum. new figures from the un and international aid groups to show that the number of are fleeing violence in western man mark continues to grow it's believed now that more than half a million ranger have fled to bangladesh since violence broke out in myanmar's rakhine state last month the un security council will meet to the scuffs the crisis soon the un has accused me of mars army of ethnic cleansing and human rights groups say the army has committed crimes against humanity they're calling for sanctions in particular on arms embargo meanwhile hundreds of children are being separated from their families as they flee the unrest and those who have made

these people belong to myanmar. reporter: myanmar refuses to recognize them as citizens. in bangladesh people have been protesting their treatment. germany has sent a project to the country and the u.s. has criticized myanmar's security forces saying they are not protecting civilians. pressure is being placed on myanmar's poet laureate leader. eu politicians say he has asked parliament to take action. she was awarded parliament's human rights prize in 1990. >> the fact we have given net price to her gives us i think today a form of authority to call on her hand to do something about it. reporter: the current crisis in myanmar began in late august when insurgent group attacked police. the buddhist majority government says it's security forces are fighting terrorists. the u.n. how -- human rights chief has called the violence a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. on wednesday the un security council is scheduled to address the growing crisis. brent: we would like to bring in derek mitchell, a former u.s. ambassador to myanmar. mr. mitchell, it is good to have you. if we l

myanmar denies the accusation. over the past 10 years, scientists in the uk have received eight billion pounds in funding for research projects from the european union. but since the brexit vote last year, there've been concerns that the money will be lost. pallab ghosh reports. british science is among the best in the world. much of its funding comes from the european union. the decision to leave the eu of that funding uncertain. but now, the government has said it wants to negotiate to have access to those funds after brexit. i think it is very encouraging in both its tone and its aspirations, but it is clear that there is going to be a lot of work that needs to be done to hammer out the details of an eventual agreement. the france institute in london is one of the most prestigious in the world. the government has said it values the relationship the uk has with european research funders. it wants that to continue. that has obviously been welcomed by research is here, but many are concerned about restrictions on i

they are fearing an ongoing military operation in myanmar. the foreign minister of bangladesh described it as genocide. today, a u.n. civil rights official also offered scathing words for the government. >> because myanmar has refused access to human rights investigators, the situation cannot yet be fully assessed, but the situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. reporter: scores of refugees have given accounts of rape and murder at the hands of the burmese security forces. this man says -- >> even small children were thrown into flames or slaughtered. reporter: searching for rohingya militants during an attack in august. brent: we want to bring in a deputy director at human rights watch in new york. it is good to have you on the show. your organization has gathered information on ethnic cleansing in myanmar. tell us what you have found. >> our researchers have been to the border at bangladesh and myanmar to hear accounts from refugees, and have been analyzing data that we can access the a satellites that are above

fleeing persecution in buddhist—dominated myanmar. this is godu thara in myanmar. the bbc filmed it in flames last week. the government said the fires were started by rohingya villagers. we found some of those villagers here in bangladesh. this couple watched the bbc‘s pictures of their village. they said the government's version of events is false and they blamed the police and local buddhists, whom they call the rakhine. translation: the rakhine were killing people. police were shooting. they set fire to our homes. they only killed muslims. they even killed people as they tried to escape. this is the rohingya district of maungdaw, a border town in myanmar. we found refugees from there too. again, the government told the bbc that rohingyas had set fire to their own homes. again, we found people who said that wasn't true. translation: in our area in maungdaw, all the houses, including mine, were set on fire by the military and the rakhine. i saw the fires with my own eyes. here at the hospital there are numerous rohingya patients and their families. the humanitar

around 90% of the population of myanmar is buddhist. but a million rohingya muslims, who are denied citizenship, live in rakhine state. the latest violence broke out in august, when rohingya militants launched attacks on security forces. the bbc‘sjonah fisher has seen internal un documents, outlining concerns about the way the conflict and the crisis have been handled. in the months since rohingya muslims first began fleeing into bangladesh, the united nations has been at the forefront of the response. delivering aid and making robust statements, condemning the burmese authorities. the situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. but could, and should, the un have done more before the killing and burning started? really disturbing to think that some of this could possibly have been prevented. caroline vandenebeele is a lawyer and aid worker, and between 2013 and 2015, she ran the office of the top united nations official in myanmar. this is her, renata dessallien, a canadian. it was a stressful time. miss vande

translation: i can't go back to myanmar, we are not safe. i will beg here in bangladesh and that will be better. i used to pray to allah to give me a son but now my sons are gone. their injuries are so bad, it's as if they are dead. it's better that allah takes them. they're suffering so much. this woman will pull through, although she too has lost both her legs. she fled myanmar because she said the military had been targeting her community. she was crossing the border with her three sons when she trod ona landmine. translation: they had already gone ahead and i was behind them, and that's when the explosion happened. we had been fired on, shot at, and they planted mines. we have escaped to bangladesh because we have nowhere else to go. this five—year—old plays with her little brother. she was shot while being carried by her father as the family escaped. the same bullet that hit her killed him. she still cries out for him. she has five other siblings, but in the confusion they were separated. her desperate mother now can't find them. tr

bangladesh's border with me and maher with more i mean shop or the on my backside in nyc on the other myanmar side of the border in between is the nuff river now you can see behind me smoke rising these are villages been burned by the myanmar security forces within the last several days thousands of people are trying to cross into bangladesh through this river crossing many of them are unable to cross because the boat men are charging them exuberant prices ranging from a dollar to two hundred dollars this people are poor they cannot afford to cross because the prices are so high now a lot of these people need to be transferred into the official camp or in the quite appalling area where the presence of international donor agencies right now they're in the marcy of the local donors people from local community are providing them fresh water and food most of these people are a woman and children some elderly people that desperately need aid and they need to be mobilized and move from this area into the official area of cooper long otherwise they won't get the kind of how the need now the amnesty

bangladesh says myanmar is planting mines to prevent the rohingya returning to their villages — myanmar denies this. at the moment, though, people are still flowing from myanmar to bangladesh. sanjoy majumder is there. more rohingya refugees have come today from bangladesh to myanmar and you can see how congested it has become, no space, all on the road. over here they have brought in bamboo, to construct new tents for the fresh arrivals. the camps themselves are in dreadful shape. extremely crowded, the conditions unhygienic. aid agencies are very concerned. they say apart from food there is an urgent need for medical support. medecins sans frontieres see many of the refugees have gunshot wound injuries, and therefore they need as much support as possible. they are all coming in from myanmar because they are fleeing violence. they say their villages are being attacked, set on fire. a bbc colleague has managed to get into rakhine state and he has witnessed a muslim village being set on fire by rakhine youths. our correspondentjonathan head was in rakhine state and tweeted this earlier..

remember, the ripping you are in muslim minority that come from myanmar. the myanmar authorities deny all this and say they have not targeted civilians, that theirfight is only with rohingya militants, but the volume of the stories here have created a sense of disbelief on the pa rt created a sense of disbelief on the part of many, including the un secretary—general, who today called what is going on ethnic cleansing. the aftermath of hurricane irma is a subject we've returned to a lot this week. that's because as you can see from these pictures, there's still so much to be done. these pictures are from the florida keys — residents are returning to find that almost every home there has been either destroyed or damaged. the situation is just as bad, if not worse, in the caribbean islands that were hit by irma — this is the largest of the british virgin islands, tortola and this is the half french, half dutch saint martin. notably, the european countries responsible for these territories have been accused of not doing enough to help relief efforts. and

meanwhile, myanmar's leader has come under fire. she has refused to condemn the crackdown and called off plans to attend the un's general assembly later this month. sarah: let'get more now. we're joined by the air -- pier re. he is in myanmar. thank you so much for joining us. what is the situation like where you are at the moment? are there any rohingyas left? guest: yes, i am in the capital. the situation here is very difficult. we do not have access at the moment to many of the areas that are affected by the ongoing violence. it's been over 2.5 weeks since the violence broke out. we simply have not been able to get to these areas to assess the situation. however, we are very, very worried about the reports we are getting. with obviously know that 380,000 people at least have arrived in bangladesh. we're getting reports of tens of thousands of more people in the move -- on the move who have not yet been able to reach the border of myanmar. this is an area and a population that has been suffering for a generation now. this is the l

now and that is why they had to flee myanmar for their lives. now they are sheltering in bangladesh. but the myanmar government says 400 people, most of them rohingya militants, they have been killed, including 12 security personnel in the last week. how unusual is it for the last week. how unusual is it for the rohingyas to take up arms and fight by? it is very rare. for the last 20 or 30 years, we have been hearing reports of a crackdown on rohingya muslim villagers, clashes between buddhists and rohingya muslims. people are fleeing. this is a rare case of people taking up arms, if you go by what the myanmar government says. we do not know exactly what happened inside the northern rakhine state. the government does not allow un officials or independent monitors to inspect what has happened. this has been a version of the myanmar government, we do not know what happened inside. but thousands of people are coming into bangladesh. i was speaking to one of the un officials earlier, and she said do almost reaching breaking point in those camps. ban

it was broadcast in the rakhine , then golly, and myanmar -- b enghali, and myanmar languages. the capacity building for police and security forces are being provided in cooperation with the e.u. and united nations agencies. since december 2016, local and foreign media groups have given access to areas previously off-limits in rakhine, even after the outbreaks on the 25th of we arranged for several media august. groups to visit the affected areas. the government is working hard to improve existing relationships with bangladesh. the minister of state for foreign affairs and the national security adviser visited bangladesh in january and july of this year. we were also hoping for a visit from the minister of bangladesh, but it had to be postponed for reasons of other commitments on the part of the minister. we welcome them anytime he is able to come. we are hoping to take forward the arrangements with regard to the security of the border, which we are trying to implement together. there is been a call for the repatriation of refugees who have fled from myanmar to bangladesh. are

have fled myanmar into bangladesh. their tales of atrocity and abuse a reminder of the warnings that went unheard. hard to say which action would have been able to prevent this. but what i know for sure is that whatever was done was never going to prevent it. why not? the way it was done simply was ignoring the issue. jonah fisher, bbc news, yangon. and don't forget for more on the refugee crisis, you can go to our website. you'll also find analysis of the accusation that the un is failing to protect myanmar‘s rohingya muslims let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news... the spanish government has defended its decision to send thousands of extra police to catalonia to try and stop an independence referendum this weekend. catalonia's devolved government has called on schools across the region to open, so they can be used as polling stations on sunday. the government in madrid says the vote is unconstitutional. the extremist group that calls itself islamic state has released an audio recording of w

with the myanmar government. thank you so much forjoining us. the philippines isn't short of problems at the moment. among the challenges the country faces is the fastest—growing hiv rate in asia—pacific, according to a un report last month. now, an anti—hiv drug known as prep is being offered to gay men and transgender women as part of a trial to curb the disease's rapid spread. let's hear more about it. i heard about prep, i knew i had to get it. i was really, really wanted to be involved in the project. i am a 30—year—old young professional, very sexually active, and risky, as well. i first read about prep online. i was excited because before the philippines, prep is offered in thailand already. and it would be very expensive for me to go to thailand and purchase prep, because you have to be there. otherwise, you get it on the black market, and i wouldn't do that. the stigma attached to accessing condoms is pretty much real. even just buying it in the convenience store it... you can get stares, even

in the last month, half a million rohingya have fled myanmar into bangladesh. their tales of atrocities and abuse are a reminder of the warnings that went unheard. hard to say which action would have been able to prevent this. what i know for sure is that whatever was done was never going to prevent it. why not? it was ignoring the issue. sharanjit will have more analysis on the royhinga issue a little later. first let's take a look at some of the day's other news: a chinese research team says it has performed precise chemical surgery on human embryos for the first time. using a technique called base editing, the team from sun yatsen university were able to remove a mutation in the dna code. they say that base editing opens up a new avenue for treating and preventing inherited diseases. the bbc‘s james gallagher has the details. this is basically surgery but on a microscopic level, altering dna itself. so if you can understand what dna is built on, it is called a base. there are 3 billion of them. an error in a single one can cause disease. so what this team

that is why we will fight with the myanmar government till we get rights. we don't want to live without our citizenship, and us rohingyas understand this, we are all united with arsa, we will fight for our rights or we will die trying. >> reporter: are you willing to die? >> ( translated ): of course, of course. i'm willing to die. arsa don't afraid of dying. because the rohingya people have already died. >> reporter: as the violence continues in myanmar, the future for the rohingya refugees in bangladesh looks bleak. stateless and displaced, the sense of desperation is increasing day by day, making the perfect conditions for insurgency groups like arsa to grow. for the pbs newshour, i'm tania rashid in teknaf, bangladesh. >> brangham: stay with us, coming up on the newshour: hillary clinton explains why she thinks she lost wisconsin. and a grandma setting records, in weightlifting. but first, an inside look at the country's overwhelmed immigration court system. john yang has that story. >> yang: william, for all the headlines and debates over how to deal w

the myanmar army retaliated, forcing them to flee. the military says they are plotting terrorist attacks in myanmar and abroad. the refugees say they facemask killings and torched villages. >> we are also human beings. we come to myanmar, as you see, -- they don't css human. reporter: myanmar's leader has not yet commented on the army's campaign. her silence has sparked protests around the world. turkey said it will send aid to myanmar in bangladesh says it will provide housing for the refugees. but the bangladeshi prime minister says the refugees are a big burden for her country. brent: to soccer, for some players international break is over and their returning to their clubs. many of them will be turning up at their team's training base for the first time after an unprecedented transfer window that's our records smashed across the board. but not everyone is happy about the spending. fees for players and agents are skyrocketing. reporter: football went to money mad in august. they spent what could be as much as 180 million euros. clu

the chances are this military operation in myanmar is reaching its natural. as far as the burmese are concerned, these people are a historical problem that's now been fixed. could the us reverse its policy on climate change? secretary of state rex tillerson says it's "open" to staying in the paris agreement. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. the governing party in pakistan celebrates after the wife of the ousted prime minister, nawaz sharif, wins a by—election in his political heartland.

sanjoy majumder, bbc news, at the bangladesh myanmar border. the un now says as many as a1 million people have been affected, by heavy monsoon rains across south asia, leading to the worst flooding in the region for several years. across india, bangladesh and nepal, and at least 1a00 people have lost their lives. 0ur correspondent, justin rowlatt, has sent us this report from the city of katihar, in one of the worst affected regions, bihar state, in north east india, where hundreds have died. where we're going can only be reached by boat. the only dry place for miles around is on top of this great embankment, but the embankment that now protects the villagers is the reason the floods had such a catastrophic impact. the torrential rains transformed the normally placid river, the pressure grew and grew. so what happened, the embankment holding back the river breached and the water came crashing in here, sweeping away half the village, devastating their homes, devastating their lives. translation: it felt like we were hit by an ocean of water, iju

you are almost talking about two governments in myanmar, you have a military, be s0 in myanmar, you have a military, be so forces, a lot of important part of the government. to almost different parts of the same government. it is clear that he has failed in political and moral obligations. even if it is ultimately the military is responsible for these abuses. we need to see much more concerned for the situation to end as soon as possible because it really risks wiring out of control. in the meantime, why the political situation is looked out, what about the immediate help for those people who have we have seen, refugees fleeing a dreadful situation? yes, absolutely. bangladesh has closed its border but as we saw from your reporter, there's a huge amount of compassion. a lot of border guards seem compassion. a lot of border guards seem to look the other way and let people come into the country. having said that, we are looking at the potential of a humanitarian crisis. this is one of the poorest parts of bangladesh already, hundreds of thousands of refugees and the fact that so many peopl

the exodus began when myanmar's military cracked down on an armed resistance by the long- persecuted rohingya minority and burning rohingya villages. a united nations official called the actions by myanmar's military a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing." largely silent on the matter is for more on the rohingya refugee crisis, i am joined by reuters' myanmar bureau chief, antoni slodkowski, via skype from bangkok in neighboring thailand. antoni, let me start with the scenes that we have witnessed over the past several weeks. we're talking about hundreds of thousands of humans fleeing one country and going directly to bangladesh, who don't really have the capacity to host them. >> yes, indeed, it's a horrible humanitarian disaster of epic proportions. we're seeing, as you said, hundreds of thousands of people who have fled myanmar in a very short period of time, and humanitarian agencies and the united nations agencies in neighboring bangladesh are struggling with the most basic supplies, such as water, food, and sanitation. so this is really a humanitarian disaster of huge propoor

myanmar is a complex nation. it's complexities are compounded by the fact that people expect us to overcome all these challenges in a short time. it is only fitting i should remind you that our government apart for 18een months. time.ths is a very short time tos is a short expect us to overcome all the challenges we are expected to do. this does not mean we are not ready to go on with our task of overcoming these challenges. because i believe in the community of nations, i am prepared to share with all her friends who wish us well -- our friends who wish us well and sympathize with us what we are doing to achieve democratic stability, peace and and development. i am aware of the fact the world's attention is focused on the situation. as i said at the general assembly last year, as a responsible member of the community of nations, myanmar does not fear international scrutiny, and are committed to a sustainable solution that will lead to peace, stability, and development. i went on to give a brief outline of our pl

they myanmar —— the rohingya ‘s. they we re myanmar —— the rohingya ‘s. they were living in desperate conditions then. in your mind could there be anything in the myanmar line which is, there is terrorism going on, they say this whole campaign was provoked by the burning of police stationed a few weeks back by revving at muslim what they called terrorists. that is certainly true that this group known as the rohingya salvation army carried out those attacks and also in october last year. it is important to say that they are a very small group and not representative of the whole rohingya population and they are a response to decades of desperate persecution. we condemned the actions, they were deeply counter—productive and wrong but the myanmar army has responded grossly disproportionately to them. and therefore i assume that again, coming out of myanmar, we are told they are burning their own villages, you would regard that as a convenient excuse making? absolutely, i don't think there is any credible evidence to suggest the rohingyas are burning their o

it is a friendly appeal to all those who wish myanmar well. i'm from he to help us achieve the ends that i think you would agree are not just for this particular country but for countries all over the world. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> sunday night on "after>> words," suzy hampton on her travels abroad in her book "notes on a foreign country." suzy: there is certainly the question of -- are we exceptional? but also, why had i not thought this was a form of rep. guinta: -- of propaganda, and what was the job it was doing for individual americans? one thing i took a long time to realize is that the very language we use when we talk about foreign countries has been kind of determined for a long , especially countries in the east, we refer to them as whether they were catching up with us or whether they were behind us. that prevents us from seeing able to see

over to bangladesh there has been a growing clamor for reply tradition of refugees who have fled from myanmar to bangladesh i would like to stress here that memory is prepared to start the verification process at any time bangladesh and mema our neighbors and our two neighbors who had the experience of such a rep or repatriation process in one thousand nine hundred three we are working to enhance relations with bangladesh i have met with the foreign minister of bangladesh in here in new york last week the minister of the office of the state consul will visit dhaka this weekend to further discuss matters of mutual concern and to find ways and means to move ahead with regard to the situation on our border we have also invited the minister of home affairs of bangladesh we will work on him at any time he is able to come to myanmar and hope to take forward our cooperation on border security matters our stated willingness to discuss the issue of repatriation gives the lie to the assertion that there is a policy of ethnic cleansing on our part mr president the new government in myanmar inherited a c

but as we've been finding out — in myanmar, the crisis is seen but as we've been finding out — in myanmar, the crisis rather differently. the perception here is that it is bernie ‘s board is under siege from militant islam. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. south korea sets up teams of new special forces as cross—border tensions rise — we'll ask a former colonel what message seoul is sending to pyongyang. and we'll hear from the australian researcher whose work on warning doctors when a foetus could be in danger might help save thousands of babies. live from studio in singapore and london. this is bbc world news. good morning. it's 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 5am on the bangladeshi border, where nearly 400,000 rohingya muslims are now gathered in terrible conditions, driven from their homes in myanmar by the military. we have been reporting on their desperate situation for several weeks now as the numbers have gone up and up. mainly on foot, and taking as much as they can carry, the rohingya community talk of their homes being burnt, of landmines, of r

i appeal to the leaders of myanmar including military leaders to condemn incitement to racial incident violence i think the un chief declares zero hinge a crisis the wow factor is developing refugee agency. this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after backing opposing sides in the syrian war the leaders of russia and turkey agreed to work closely to help end the conflict thus. i am. still losing spain joined growing support for catalonia as independence referendum despite strong opposition to also ahead. we'll tell you both a country of the stone you're already has one of the internet's most recognizable brands but how do you replicate skype success. and keep watching to find out how this country is putting tech innovation to. the u.n. secretary general antonio tara says the crisis in myanmar as a kind state is the world's fastest developing refugee emergency more than half a million ranger have fled to bangladesh but others haven't survived the journey diplomatic editor space reports they see men women and children fleeing bloodshed. and the torching of homes in myanmar they

the burmese government has invited the un secretary general to visit myanmar. this comes after mr the terrace told the un security council that violence against retention will slums has spiralled into the world's fastest—growing refugee emergency. the united nations itself has been accused of a series of failures. 0ur correspondent has seen internal un documents outlining concerns about the handling of the wreckage of conflict. in the months since retention will slums first began fleeing into bangladesh, the united nations has been at the forefront of the response. delivering aid and making robust statements, condemning burmese authorities. the situation remains, or seems, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. but could, and should, the un have done more before the killing and burning started ? more before the killing and burning started? quite disturbing to think that this could have been prevented. this woman is a lawyer and aid worker. twin 2013 and 2015 she ran the office of the top united nations official in myanmar. it was a stressful time. she says h

don't want myanmar to bea communities. don't want myanmar to be a nation divided by religious beliefs or ethnicity or political ideology. we all have the right to our diverse identities and we all have the right to strive to fulfil our lives in the ways in which we believe are right. but we also had to work together because we belong to work together because we belong to one nation, and as we belong to one nation, we also belong to this world. it is for this reason that we put great importance, we place great importance on the role of the united nations as an assembly of nations which was created to promote peace and harmony, to ensure that our world should not ever again in future fall into the suffering that we all experienced during the second world war. it was with the intention of putting an end to is to say putting an end to conflicts that the united nations was established. i would like to think that what we are doing here today may be the beginning of a truly... strong and effective movement to bring an end to all

in myanmar glaringly dysfunctional. could the united nations have stopped this burmese army offensive? the answer is almost certainly no. but things just might have been different if there had been a coherent strategy over the last few years demanding that the rohingyas' basic rights be respected, and making aid to other communities conditional on the rohingyas being treated better. after the damaging internal reports, the u.n. announced in june that she would leave her job. but myanmar seems to quite like her, and has blocked her replacement, so she is still here. >> she is fair and she is not biased. whoever is biased towards the rohingya won't like her. reporter: she declined to be interviewed for this piece, but in a statement, her office said, "we strongly disagree with the accusations that the resident coordinator prevented internal discussions," and stressed that she had the backing of the un's secretary-general. in the last month, half a million rohingya have fled myanmar into bangladesh. their tales of atrociti

the united nations security council is to discuss the persecution of rohingya people in myanmar. almost 400,000 refugees have poured across the border into bangladesh since the end of august. north korea has threatened the us with the greatest pain after new sanctions were imposed cuase of its nuclear tests. russia and china have called on the us to resolve the crisis with negotiations. the head of the eu's powerful executive, commission president jean—claude juncker, is to give his annual state of the european union address in strasbourg in a few hours' time.

will talk of a child who is following developments from caucasus bazaar near the bangladesh myanmar border myanmar stop military man many young on his personal phrasebook posting on sunday with this committee do unite. together on the rohingya issues in a facebook posting he referred to the rohingya insurgents as bengali extremists trying to set up through the hole in the right kind state of myanmar province now obviously this is a personal posting but it appears to be a propaganda and a strategy to clearly the man my but this community to show that the range of community in the archive iraq there are kind province rather are nothing more than bangladeshi settlers or after them as bengali extremists some of the reason the insurgency that took place in the beginning of last month that left twelve security personnel are killed he also said that at least one hundred c. and counters of with me and my security force took place within that time and now we know that the myanmar government has referred to the iranian jack community as being the only settler previously also it's nothing new

do you think you'll ever be able to take your baby back home, back to myanmar? translation: everyone has left. there's no—one there. we cannot go back. their home is now a vast refugee camp, along with tens of rohingyas now living in these squalid conditions. many of them eating their first proper meal in days. just four days ago, there was nothing here. it was just a side a hill with a clump of trees on it. but now look at it. it's a vast settlement, a temporary home for all the rohingya refugees who've come over from myanmar and have nowhere to go. even this place is going to reach its limit in a few days. bangladesh is now struggling to cope with the growing numbers of rohingyas streaming in every day. especially as many more are waiting at the border. the mask —— the vast majority of rohingya muslims live here, and these are the latest pictures we have from there, and the army and the confidence are blaming each other. both are saying they are acting to pretend —— protect civilians, which leaves us with the challenge of trying to decide who to beli

also in the programme: pressure mounts on the government in myanmar to end its military campaign against the rohingya muslim community who continue to flee in their thousands. and another royal baby is on the way. the duke and duchess of cambridge announce they're expecting their third child. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news — it's newsday. good morning. it's 7am in singapore, 12pm in london and 7pm in new york, where the united nations security council has been in an emergency session to discuss the threat posed by north korea, following it's latest nuclear test. the meeting though, laid bare the differences between the us and china on what approach to take. the chinese ambassador said beijing would never allow war and urged dialogue between the parties. but his us counterpart, nikki haley, said only the strongest sanctions would work, and claimed north korea was "begging for war". from seoul, the bbc‘s yogita limaye starts our coverage. a day after north korea's most powerful nuclear test, the south displayed its might. missiles were launched fr

fleeing persecution in buddhist—dominated myanmar. this is godu thara in myanmar. the bbc filmed it in flames last week. the government said the fires were started by rohingya villagers. we found some of those villagers here in bangladesh. dildah begum and her husband watched the bbc‘s pictures of their village. they said the government's version of events is false and they blamed the police and local buddhists who they call the rakhine. translation: the rakhine were killing people. police were shooting. they set fire to our homes. they only killed muslims. they even killed people as they tried to escape. this is the rohingya district of mondor, a border town in myanmar. we found refugees from there too. again, the government told the bbc that rohingyas had set fire to their own homes. again, we found people who said that wasn't true. translation: in our area in mondor, all the houses, including mine were set on fire by the military and the rakhine. i saw the fires with my own eyes. people continue to arrive by any means possible, making their way to safety. but

the united states is now calling for action against military leaders in myanmar. formally known as burma. we cannot be afraid to call the actions of the burmese authorities what they appear to be. a brutal, sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority. >> but myanmar rejects claims of ethnic cleansing. the buddhist majority state says violence against the muslim minority is not based on religion but to fight terrorism. >> there is no ethnic cleansing and no genocide in myanmar. ethnic cleansing and genocide are serious charges and they should not be used lightly. >> as the u.n.'s most powerful body grapples for a solution, more rohingya arrive at the border with bangladesh. since august the number of rohingya fleeing myanmar has topped 500,000. >> german police are hunting for a man they say is black mayling companies for millions of euros by threatening to poisoning food including baby food. authorities have released footage of a suspect putting food products on shelves in a supermarket in southern germany. five jars of baby food contained a le

occurred in rakhine state, myanmar. real action is needed, not just statements and condemnations. the government of indonesia is committed to continuing to help address the humanitarian crisis, in cooperation with civil society in indonesia and the international community. >> yang: almost 90,000 rohingya have crossed into bangladesh in just 10 days, fleeing a military crackdown. the government of the largely buddhist nation says rohingya insurgents provoked the trouble. and, the electoral commission in kenya has set october 17 to re- run the presidential election. president uhuru kenyatta was declared the winner, over opposition leader raila odinga, in the august 8th vote. last week, the country's supreme court nullified the results, citing irregularities. still to come on the newshour: we head to houston where cleanup continues in the wake of hurricane harvey. our politics monday team digs into president trump's apparent plans for so-called "dreamers," and much more. >> yang: at the height of harvey's fury in houston,

the entire region being affected as thousands flee the violence in myanmar. look who's coming to dinner at the white house -- donald trump invites the top two democrats in hopes of cutting a deal. and strike up the orchestra. last night a robot took over his conductor and apparently wowed the crowd. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. the humanitarian crisis affecting the rohingya muslims of myanmar has reached catastrophic levels according to the united nations. thethe secretary-general has cad on the authorities in myanmar, a mainly buddhist country, to suspend their military action against the rohingya people. he warns of the crisis is destabilizing the entire region. rita chakravarty starts our coverage. rita: the end of a long journey. rohingyay muslim people live in bangladesh -- arrive in bangladesh, fleeing persecution in buddhist dominated myanmar. bbc filmed it in flames last week. the government said the fires were started by rohingya villagers. we found some of those villagers here in bangladesh. these two

myanmar is a deeply religious. country and if she if she openly defend the ring i think she fears that she might lose the sympathy of the bridge just population do you think that also suchi has a constructive role to play in resolving this crisis. well as i said. her role is limited so she tries she is she's in a tight spot from this and in this situation why because she tries to to to not to lose her i am and the aim is to make me a democratic country and the biggest point of that is to get the military which is now so full full back to the barracks under arrest thank you so much various lawrence a thing was very much as your correspondent and the author of of autobiography of a biography on signs of gee thanks for coming in now to the caribbean where hurricane maria despite being downgraded back to a category four storm is still bearing down on a string of islands and devastating small nations such as domenico the french island of guadalupe also faced an intensive strike on monday night on other islands such as a

more than 35,000 rohingya refugees flee myanmar in a single day. the un warns of a humanitarian disaster in neighbouring bangladesh. a french celebrity magazine is ordered to pay damages to the duke and duchess of cambridge as they win their privacy battle over topless photos. i will start in los angeles and go all the way through colorado.