in bangladesh everyone wants a shot at making it in the ga rment industry. i'm headed to a small factory that does finishing of garments. they're supposed to be finishing garments for walmart. i'm posing as a buyer to get in there. for those who can't open large factories, there's always business in sub-contracting, even if it means putting the finishing touches on garments before they're shipped out. >> do you make anything that ends up in walmart? >> yes >> you've made products that go to walmart? >> were you an authorized walmart subcontractor? >> so is this very common? that a lot of factories subcontract for big labels like walmart without authorization? >> sabina? you're 14? so you started working when you were 13 years old? >> so what's the average age of your workers? >> but we just spoke to a girl who said she's 14. >> walmart told us they don't tolerate child labor in their supply chain - and they're investigating whether this finishing center did any work on walmart products. once we found one finishing house, it wasn't hard to find others. >> wha

bbc news, seven bangladesh. -- seven bangladesh. jane: spanish scientists are investigating the death of pablo neruda. they have found no conclusive evidence that he was poisoned. his former driver claimed that he was given a mysterious injection in his chest at the santiago clinic or he was being treated for prostate cancer. the south african police to mr. has announced that jacob cymer will not have to repay the public money spent on his private residence. it cost more than $20 million and included an animal enclosure and swimming pool. the minister rules that they were legitimate security features. on a whirlwind tour of european capitals david cameron is now in paris to talk to president francois hollande. they want to form a closer political union, cut red tape, and restrict access to benefits by eu migrants. the u.s. defense secretary says the american military leaders are looking to bolster the iraqi forces following the islamic state takeover of ramadi. these comets come after he said iraqi wars is lacked the will to fight.

al jazeera bangladesh. >> let's get the weather with richard now. i believe you've got the upcoming hurricane season. >> it starts first of june and most of the major forecasts have come up with what we can expect. nooaa has lower than usual activity. it suggests things are going to be lighter during the season. the sea temperature is about average, but no more than that. there is another factor, a natural cycle called the amo. the pacific, we have got our first storm of the season. it's heading out further into the pacific ocean. it's formed about 10 days earlier than we'd normally expect to see these storms developing. it raises interest in prospect for the specific season. we're expecting an average of eight, of which five to eight major hurricanes. i think in the coming season, it's here we are going to be interested in weather news. >> still ahead the iraqi government strategy in anbar province may pave the way for isil's takeover. >> why going to school in yemen is not an option for most students. >> in sport, one man stands between seth blatt

. >> yes, well thousands of people fled myanmar and bangladesh seeking a better life and thousands have died on that journey. thailand's foreign minister said the pace of migrants reached an alarming level. i'm here in bangkok where this meeting of 17 countries is just wrapping up. al jazeera is covering the story from every angle. in myanmar capitol, the country at the root of the country and rob mcbride where mass graves found suspected to be linked to smugglers and people in another province and the meeting is wrapping up and expecting a press conference in a few minutes and it has been about a nine-hour day for representatives of the seven countries and focus on the emergency out on the sea and people that came from the boats who are on shore of indonesia and discussing next steps and getting at the root of the problem and it will be much longer but we will hear from them in the coming hour and we will look at the journey of the rohingya and they get on boats in bangladesh and in the hands of human traffickers who demand steep price for passage. once they reach southern thailand the

. ♪ abandon at sea by smugglers and left to fend for themselves more than 1,000 migrants from bangladesh and myanmar mostly rohingya muslims sick and starving landed on the island of langkawi and refugees picked up in indonesia on sunday. they are the latest to be rested from over crowded boats arriving on the showers of malaysia and in indonesia and faced discrimination and persecution in myanmar and they are largely in the northwest myanmar, in the past and used to escape by crossing over land through thailand. and since thailand began a crack down advocates say the rohingya are trafficked to indonesia and malaysia and we are covering this in three countries, myanmar, thailand and malaysia. >> reporter: police in the resort town confirmed for us around a thousand migrants arrived on their shores late into the night, they consisted of the rohingya from myanmar and bangladesh and across the water in indonesia they confirmed earlier today they rescued around 400 people off the shores, if you add up the number of migrants that arrived in malaysia and indonesia in the past few days it's mor

. ♪ more than 1,000 migrants from bangladesh and myanmar muslims have landed on the island and follows several boats carrying 1400 refugees picked up from indonesia sunday and rescued from over crowded boats arriving on the shores of malaysia and indoein doe indoe indonesia and they are clustered in the key state in the northwest part of myanmar and in the past they went to countries crossing over land through thailand and since thailand began cracking down on refugees they have been traveling by sea with the help of human traffickers to malaysia and indonesia and we have phil roberter son who works in rights watch and we appreciate your time and basically over the past three years the muslims have been fleeing from myanmar and why this research surge? >> we have seen a surge in the past 6-8 months because of the increasing desperation in our state. essentially they are locked down and internally displaced persons and camps without access to livelihoods, services such as education and health and other basic necessities. this is a desperation that is driving them out of burma and it's p

the united nations estimates around 8,000 are living near the border with bangladesh. nhk world's mitsuko nishikawa reports. >> reporter: people stranded on this boat are jumping into the ocean to retrieve food aid dropped by a helicopter. many on the boat are lying on the floor. they look malnourished and extremely frail. myanmar's rohingya muslims do not have citizenship. u.n. officials estimate more than 3,000 migrants are still adrift at sea. an nhk crew has entered the state of rakhine, near myanmar's border with bangladesh. clashes there three years ago left many people dead. since then, the rohingyas there have been pushed into isolated areas. many rohingyas make their living farming and fishing, but they face hardships farming poor land with no rice to move freely. >> translator: we need to get approval from the police just to leave our village. >> reporter: this boat anchored to the pier was carrying migrants. they managed to leave their villages but were later caught when the boat was seized by myanmar's military. they say they were adrift for three weeks wit

>> they are coming from bangladesh, and myanmar. they are the ones we registered in bangladesh. >> what should the regional governments do at the source of the people smuggling operations and the destination countries like malaysia? >> there's a long running problem. it's been happening for - the reason people are leaving is people are decades old. they are sailing on the route for a long time. what we need now is for the states in the region to facilitate disembarkation to let people land and get treatment. >> what about the puking letters themselves. themselves. -- people smugglers themselves. these are people making vast sums of money from misery of people. >> it seems they have stopped operating at the moment. there's no more sailings leaving the bay of bengal. there are boats waiting to leave, we believe. what happened can stop them it's difficult. it's a profitable business and they will keep changing the mo the modus operandi, so they can keep on with their inhumane evil and criminal trade. thank you for talking to al jazeera

." >>> we do have some breaking news coming from bangladesh. an alarming trend after another blogger critical of islam is found hacked to death. police say 33-year-old was on his way to work in the northern city when four masked men attacked him and killed him. they were armed with cleavers, he advocated secularism and died a few hours ago. >> this is the third such attack in less than three months involving a critic of religious extremism in the majority muslim country, and we will have a live report on this with more information coming up shortly. >>> in the meantime, a five-day cease-fire in yemen is set to begin in a few hours, but fighting led to that. >> saudi arabia-led air strikes continues to pound houthi rebelrebels saudi officials say one of its citizens was killed by a shell fired from across the border in yemen. >> for more on the fighting in yemen and also the cease-fire we're joined from beirut, so what do you know about the latest in the fighting? are both sides trying to scale this back? >> caller: they're trying to reach the c

al jazeera, bangladesh. >>> live pictures for you here nigeria's new president sworn in just a short time ago and says his country will play a leadership role in the region and muhammadu buhari has been speaking after being sworn in the capitol abuja and inauguration is the first peaceful transfer of power in history and one thing he already said to the assembled crowd is they cannot claire victory over boko haram until the missing school girls have been found and yvonne is there at abuja at the ceremony and joins us live and it certainly seems like an exciting event and time for nigeria, yvonne. >> reporter: that's right, rochelle momentous occasion and the first peaceful transfer of power from one democratic leader to another and the first time in the country's history. just a few seconds ago the new president muhammadu buhari began speaking giving his inaugural speech addressing dignitaries across africa who are here and the u.s. secretary of state and thanked god and nigerians for showing the world they could conduct a free fair and peaceful election. he said the world had come t

with infrastructure projects in bangladesh and pakistan the so-called string of pearls. this is modi's first official visit to china as prime minister. but he and xi have held talks several times before. experts say both sides seem determined to build a relationship of trust. >> i think the communication between the two leaders, at that crucial moment is very important for de-escalation for -- so that they avoid total destruction on both sides. as you also know, china and india are nuclear countries. any miscalculation will have drastic impact on both of the peoples and so the strategic communication is very important for india and china. >> reporter: india and china have different political systems and even came to blows in the past. but india's prime minister seems ready to put past differences aside in favor of a more business-like friendship. abhishek dhulia nhk world, india. >> our reporter in beijing spoke to an expert about what china aims to gain with modi's visit. >> reporter: china is placing a strong emphasis on boosting investment in india. due to its one chi

in the past two days about 2,000 migrants from myanmar and bangladesh have arrived in indonesia and malaysia, rescued swimming ashore, we'll have more on that situation in a moment. first, the european union has asked the u.n. for help, in migrant smuggling across the mediterranean sea almost 1,000 migrants have reached italy and malta since 2015, a huge increase on last year. >> not only a humanitarian emergency but also a security crisis since smuggling networks are linked to in some case finance terrorist activities which contributes to instability in a region that is already unstable enough. addressing this situation is first of all a moral duty for us. but it is also a shared interest of all countries involved. the ones around the mediterranean as well as countries of origin and transit. we are here to act immediately and to act together. we need an exceptional response. let me say that the european union is finally ready to take its own responsibilities. saving lives welcoming refugees addressing the root causes of the phenomenon, dismantling criminal organization he. organizations. >>

in bangladesh, there has been avoidable depravations to humanitarian aid as a result of bangladesh government policy >>> the european union appealed to the u.n. to help deal with its own problems. it's seeking a mandate. tens of thousands crossed from libya to europe. addressing the u.n. security council, the e.u.'s foreign policy chief admits that europe is slow to act. >> 2015 looks worse than the previous year. and considering in 2014, 3,300 migrants died trying to enter by sea. three out of four people perished crossing a border and died in the mediterranean sea. three out of four. this tells us that our first priority is to save lives, and prevent further loss of life at sea. we believe in the european union that this is a responsibility we all share, not some as europeans, but globally >>> greece's government says it will face a cash crisis in two weeks if it can't agree a deal. eurozone members met in brussels. jonah hull reports. >> reporter: it promises to be a long, tense summer in greece the protests are small now, they could grow bigger if the left-wing government is forced by len

meet the bangladesh she people that pay add high price to search of a better life. to sell his ideas of changing the e. u. despite the deepening crieses at the world governing body. he told the opening of fifa congress that he cannot be held responsible for the corruption scandal. the head of uefa, which represents the european association says he asked him to step down. the vote on friday will decide if he get as 50 term as fifa president, something uefa wants to stop. the majority of it's members are expected to back it's only rifle. be uh the russian president has defended him criticizing the u.s. for meddling in fifa repairs. if you had been on the move, you would probably be forgive was nothing but happy. with music and dancing but not even set that they could have met that everything was fine. >> actions of ruin, bring shame and humiliation on football and demand action and change from us all. he said fifa would recover with him in charge, after all, he was not to blame. he, or i cannot monitor everyone all of the time. people want to do wrong they also try to

they deny citizenship to the minority rohingya and say they are illegal migrants from bangladesh. they get on boats in bangladesh falling into the hands of human traffickers who demand a steep price for passage. once they reach southern thailand they are typically held for ransom before being transferred to malaysia. the traffickers began abandoning the rohingya at sea due to a crackdown. representatives from several nations are attending a conference to tackle the growing crisis. >> reporter: thailand planned this meeting weeks ago after the migrant boats were discovered adrift packed with migrants many are still out there. nations directly involved and indirectly like the u.s. came together to better coordinate the crisis at sea. regional governments agreed to set up an anti trafficking task force. but there was disagreement on the root problems behind the mass migration. myanmar accused the u.n. of inaccurately placing blame. >> finger pointing will not solve any problems. >> a legal status for all. >> reporter: but the u.n.'s refugee agency says it is focused on stemming the i

there is freedom of speech in bangladesh and people write on different issues. the people are quite concerned about the recent incident and governments inability to come up with a particular solution for this incident. >> reporting from dhaka, thank you. >> the syrian government is again accused of dropping barrel bombs on neighborhoods in aleppo activists saying 15 people were killed in a huge explosion as a bus station in hajj and holmes. at least three people were killed in three explosions blamed on isil fighters. >> the france president francois hollande is wrapping up his tour in height tee. he made a tour in cuba, meeting fidel castro. the french leader called on the u.s. to lift its trade embargo on cuba. we have more from havana. >> untying the ideological knot, 12 years after the you're union froze ties with communist cuba in response to the arrest of 77 dissidents, french president francois hollande is here to declare bygones be bygones. >> this visit is taking place in a context in which at last it's possible for cuba to have all the necessary condit

al jazeera bangladesh. >> u.s. military commanders are trying to find out how samples of anthrax bacteria were accidentally sent to south korea and nine u.s. states. the pentagon said there is no risk to public health. 22 people may have been exposed in south korea. four staff are being treated as a precaution after a laboratory in utah mistakenly decision patched samples. the disease was used in a now abandoned bio weapons program. a journalist in south korea said the anthrax scare is no the causing alarm. >> certainly no members of the public have been reportedly exposed. this is contained on the air base. it's away from the city center. you're talking about hundreds of thousands of residents in the vicinity. it could have been worst in terms of a populated zone, seoul 64 kilometers away has somewhere in the region of 10 million in the metro area. seems as though the anthrax spores have been destroyed. i would say that both the situation and the panic levels are under control. >> last month's earthquake in nepal

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

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thousands of rohingya a sigh leam seekers have been fleeing myanmar and bangladesh. >> reporter: 10-year-old mohamed and his eight-year-old sister spent two months on a boat. they were hoping to reach malaysia where their father had fled because of ethnic lens in myanmar, the two kids were among hounds of people packed on the boat. they say they had to pay smugglers to get them out of myanmar after soldiers arrested their mother. >> translator: our boat had no fuel and we ran out of food. not only me but everybody was crying and praying to find any stretch of land and god heard our prayers. >> reporter: the land they found was indonesia, a they survived the journey but their tears are still flowing. many are suffering from illnesses and they are very worried about those they have left behind and those still out there at the sea. >> translator: please can someone in the world give us our human rights, our families are still in myanmar and we have no information about them. we are very worried. >> reporter: the asylum seekers tell us they left myanmar with seven boats. one had to be towed afte

on monday malaysia detained 1,000 migrants from myanmar and bangladesh including dozens of children and we have more from malaysia. >> reporter: i'm standing outside the shooting range and this is where the thousand odd migrants as well as bangladeshis are being kept and we are not allowed further beyond this point but we spoke to the police chief here a short time earlier and he said some 1158 people are being held here that the vast majority of them are bangladeshi, around 672. there are migrants from myanmar and 486 of them and among them are women and children over 100 women and 60 children and in a very poor state when they arrived on the showers here. they were suffering from dehydration as well as hunger and we have been told they have been given access to medical aid as well as food and water. now, the police say they are investigating currently the circumstances of how these people arrived. what they can tell us is that they believe the captain of the three boats that the migrants were on as well as the other traffickers had managed to escape on another vessel and had left the

border and 20 # people found on the boat are from bangladesh and crew members as well and the boat is believes to belong to a thai person. now, it says it provided humanitarian assistance to needed it, food and water and we expect and believe the people will be repatriated soon and the government said it's ready to provide humanitarian assistance to boat people who need it but still no indication from the myanmar government that it acknowledges that it is part of the problem. now at least half of the people who washed ashore in places like malaysia and indonesia say they are rohingya from myanmar and rakin state and myanmar but the government does not acknowledge that in fact we had officials tell us these people claim they are from myanmar simply because they believe it's easier for them to get refugee status and get aid. >> thank you for that florence is live. rob mcbribe reports now on how people in malaysia helping to provide food to asylum seekers. >> reporter: a number of aid organizations and ngo are lining um behind the government efforts which is community effort to get the k

it's a group of dang los angeles bang los bangladesh bangladeshi and row thing ans they were sent away on monday, pushed out of indonesian without ores monday, pushed to to malaysia, malaysia pushed them back, basically they are being pushed back and forth and after that pushing back and forth, a huge fight a huge riot started on that boat. so they have been fighting each other. they were stealing food. they were desperate to get food and water from each other. because they were running out for a long time already. then the fighting started. they were using knives and hammers, i have seen the most horrific injuries here. the bangladesh bangladeshi and row rohingya both have really bad injuries i spoke to a 15-year-old boy that lost 12 of his relatives. the effort mats are that around 100 people and probably more, have died at sea during this fight. the thai captain allegedly was also holding them at gun point he should left the ship and a lot of them were also pushed in to the water that's when the fishermen here and aceh managed to get them and west rescue them and bring them ashore.

florence looi reports from western myanmar, and our correspondent is also in northern bangladesh. >> reporter: myanmar is the only country this woman has ever known. but she has seen her status go from being a citizen to a non-citizen. she has had to surrender her temporary registration card to immigration officials. >> translator: i have already given it up. i don't know what will happen now. >> reporter: she used to hold a citizen shich card. but in the late 1980s, the government took this back from the rohingya ethnic minority to which she belongs. the government sees them as illegal migrants from neighboring bangladesh even though many have been here for generations. they were promised citizenship documents, but were instead issued temporary residency cards. they had some rights but now that is gone. this is one of the offices set up to collect temporary id cards. it's in a former school building. they are still not allowed to travel into town. they live segregated from the buddhist community. there were fighting between the two sides three years ago. it was partly this animosity

on monday malaysia detained more than a thousand migrants from myanmar and bangladesh including dozens of children around 2000 people reached malaysia and indonesia in two days after thailand announced a crack down on smuggling and we have more from malaysia. >> reporter: this is one of three vessels that transported more than a thousand migrants from myanmar and bangladesh to the shores of malaysia this week. many of them were bangladeshi however officials tell us there were more than 400 muslims many of them were women and children. now the conditions on these boats must have been terrible. you can see clothes across the deck and cooking and baby items, there is room clearly beneath the deck as well as on top of the deck to house the passengers, the muslims we spoke to told us that food and water were extremely scarce and they were often beaten as well. police say they are stepping up, they are monitoring the maritime borders because there are reports that thousands more migrants are still out at sea. >> we are stepping up on this on the sea to make sure there are no illegal encroach

. ♪ hello, abandoned at sea by human trafficics and 1,000 migrants from bangladesh and myanmar and many sick and starving landed on the malaysia island and several boats carrying hundreds of refugees have been picked off the coast in indonesia on sunday and are the latest to be rescued from overcrowded boats arriving on the shore of malaysia and indonesia to escape a land that doesn't recognize them as citizens and faced decades of discrimination and persecution in myanmar. and they are in the state in the northwest of myanmar in the past they used to escape crossing over land through thailand and since thailand began a crack down advocates say they have been trafficked to indonesia and malaysia and we have correspondents covering this story in three counters myanmar, thailand and may liesha and we will go to the malaysia capacity cuala-lumpar and tell us what actually happened here. >> well police in the resort town of lankowi confirmed for us 100 migrants from bangladesh community arrived last night and many were women and children and in very poor state and hungry and very thirsty an

we back to bangladesh. they sail us. >> there was great relief and some of them managed to call their families to save their lives. this is the second boat carrying rohingya and bangladeshis that made it to land this week, but international representatives estimate thousands are still stranded at sea. a game of political ping pong between thailand, malaysia and indonesia, a game that is costing people their lives. step vaessen, al jazeera al jazeera malaysia. >> human rights groups have long held that it is meen myanmar government's.spo policies that is driving so's.policies that aredriving so many away. they shy away from discussing the situation but saying myanmar is the source of the problem and it has to do more to address the issue within its borders. this is what they had to say in reply. >> these other people are claiming they are coming from myanmar this is why we until we make the -- we contact the persons we can't say these people are coming from myanmar. it is not a refugee problem, it is a human

the coast of satoon province filled with around 380 men women and children from western myanmar and bangladesh. the captain of the boat escaped and they ran out of food and water ten days ago. judge the >> the people are starving, we have nothing to keep us alive. two other people over there are dying from starvation. one man jumped off the boat because he went crazy. at least ten have jumped off the ship. some made to it nearby fishing boats. >> i don't have anything left and the rakind killed my relatives so i made the decision to follow them. >> the boat filled with ethnic rohingya a thai fisherman reportedlyed the boat to the thai neach. navy. >> thinking first and foremost about how people can be saved. don't think what you're going to do with the boat, take proper care and then can you take the next step. >> many on board said they want to go to malaysia where their family members are. thai navy spent the night fixing the boat engine and let everybody go. there may be as many as 8,000 migrants in these seas but with everyone denying them permission to land they are just going incorporate

nazma akter: my name is nazma akter, i am 40 years old, i live in dhaka, in bangladesh. i am the executive of the awaj foundation and i am responsible for all the activities and all the things. i was working in a factory when i was eleven years old along with my mother and we were facing lots of difficulties and lots of problems, especially harassment, violence, the workers rights issues in this regard. we need to stand up and raise the voice. >> sometimes i spend my time in sleep - that is my leisure time. >> serious? >> yes, i don't have time for my leisure, i work more than 12-14 hours in a day. >> i like all kinds of food, fish is my favorite food, i love the fish. >> the globalization means discrimination and abusing, especially the multi national companies and different trade bodies. because this is not a fair and transparent world, the globalization system. >> i expect in my future that there 'll be more and more nazma, who will raise the voice for the workers especially female workers and their child. >> dugongs, or sea cows, are gentle aquatic grazers thought to

the thailand police chief proposed examples be built from mean a mar to bangladesh. >> the crackdown is the main agenda of this meeting between the thats and police. >> our joint operations with malaysian police are carried out through legal obligations and humanitarian principles. >> what about the people at the heart. >> thais say they are only allow to bring food to rohingyas in shelters like this. they want conditions to improve. >> translation: we hope the problem of human trafficking could be solved in the best way. they should try to give them dignity and human rites >> reporter: if they escape they are kept in another form of detention much >> translation: the thai muslim community here wants to know why the government wants to protect them. they don't want to give them freedom, because they are concerned. >> what is happening in thailand is being mirrored across the region. rohingya and malaysia say they'll turn back boat people. >> there's nowhere in the world for the "rock newman show"rohingya to live safe, free, normal life >>> thousands of migrants from myanmar to bangla

in other news from around the world, a secular blogger has been hacked to death in bangladesh. it is the third killing this year. he is said to have received death threats from islamic extremists. he worked for a website whose moderator was murdered and decker in february. after years of mistrust between two countries, relations are improving with hopes of peace negotiations with the taliban. the afghan president hopes the leader of the islamic that will worked feast. the russian president and the secretary of state met today. secretary kerry said there was an urgent need for the u.s. and russia to cooperate on these global challenges. he was his message to moscow on ukraine. secretary kerry: if and when it is fully implemented, it is clear. the u.s. and the eu sanctions can be rolled back. i also made clear our deep concerns regarding the situation on the ground. continued perceived violations of cease-fire and at the dunn-esque airport, they continue arming and -- and at the donetsk airport they are continue to arm and train. whoever has instigated this, it has gone on for to

bangladesh might be an example. now, in those circumstances they don't have the same rights as far as refugee or asylum but we have a humanitarian concern in regard to their protection. i am merely drawing a distinction between the two because legally there is a distinction between those who were escaping persecution and those who are escaping poverty. >> okay. >> but both have rights. >> okay. a lot of work to be done. good to have you on the show peter sutherland united nations representative for international migration. many of the rohingya migrants stuck on the boats say they are from myanmar but the government there will doesn't recognize them t live in the old capitol in myanmar. so where does this leave those who are fleeing, and why is it that they are fleeing? what's the problem? >> reporter: human rights groups will tell you it is the government, the myanmar government policies of persecution that are decades old that are driving many of these rohingya to escape on desperate journeys and traditionally sout

reporting from pearla state be the camps were used by migrants from bangladesh. >> traffickers would try to extort ransom money from their families. children's toys, cages to hold prisoners and bullet casings have now been discovered. the camps are abandoned. police feel they have found mass graves nearby. >> we have discovered 139 what we believe to be graves. we don't know what are undersneet. we also discovered one highly decomposed body. around we will also bring that down we will conduct postmortem to get to the cause of death. >> many of the camp occupants are thought to have come from myanmar and bangladesh. more than 3500 have come from the indonesia and malaysia alone. if they don't go by sea many try escaping over land borders. the jungle between malaysia and thailand is known to be used by both smugglers and traffickers. similar camps and more graves were found on the thief side of thethai side ofthe border. >> the only thing surprising about this is the malaysian government didn't find these earlier. now they have to investigate what's happening there whether complicity b

we hear about both travelling off myanmar with more bangladesh migrants waiting to come south. the conditions they are scoping from are bad. if you encourage the people to come south, they may well get asylum would you be subjecting them to weeks on a per imous sea journey. >> as the talks are going on outside kuala lumpur where you are, more migrants have been arriving in indonesia. what do we know. >> that's right, we have been following the arrival of several hundred. it appears that the latest arrival is from a vessel that arrived in thai waters last week. the engine was broken the traffickers abandoned them. they were given food engine was fixed and sent on their way again on saturday. it appears to be this boat that has finally, after several months arrived in aceh and stories of how they were treated was harrowing. many faced starvation-type conditions without water and so on. some said when they came through malaysian waters they were threatened at gun point to move on, and if they returned to malaysian waters they'd be bombed. this is their account. we are yet to hear

so they tell us -- they tell us go back to bangladesh. they tell us -- >> reporter: there was great relief when some of them manages to call their families to say they were alive. >> hello. >> reporter: this is the second boat that has made it to land in indonesia this weak but international organizations estimate thousands are still strangded as sea. they say the migrants are the victims of a game of political ping-pong between thailand indonesia, and malaysia a game that is costing people their lives. >>> burundi's president is back in the capitol for the first time since a coup was launched against him on wednesday. his motor cade pass throughed. the general who lead the plot to oust him has been arrested. malcolm webb has been following developments from the capitol. >> reporter: the president is back here in the capitol bu judge bury, and it seems the attempted coup has failed. soldiers loyal to the president are in key locations on the streets. some people tried protesting, people who have been protesting against pierre nkurunziza's

along with migrants from bangladesh. since the beginning of 2014, 88,000 rohingya and bangladeshi migrants left by sea, and in a sign of how desperate they are getting, this year alone 25,000 attempted the journey. nearly 1,000 died. rob mcbride is in kuala lumpur. that illustrates why the emergency meeting was so essential. >> that's right. this change has come amid criticism internationally of the way the three countries handled the humanitarian crisis. in their statement the three ministers insisted that their countries have been fulfilling international obligations towards migrants and more. even so, the controversial policy of pushing back boats is to stop according to the statement. migrants will be allowed ashore given temply resettlement in locations to be designated, while claims for permanent settlement are processed. it will take time for the policy to be implemented. indonesia and malaysia say the policy will be implemented with immediate effect. >> indonesia and malaysia agreed to provide humanitarian assist

they get on boats in bangladesh falling into the hands of human traffickers who demand a steep price for package. once they reach southern thailand they are typically held for ransom. myanmar says it will now tackle the root causes of the migrant crisis in southeast asia. it is being urged to take full responsibility for all of its people. the u.n. refugee agency is calling on myanmar to recognize the minority as citizens in a bid to try to stem the flow of migrants fleeing persecution. veronica is in bang kong where delegates are attending a conference. >> reporter: this meeting is a test of the ability of the governments in the region to deal with difficult issues that are transnational in a culture that has been based on non-interference. that's why the myanmar government responded very bluntly when the representative of the u.n. high commissioner for refugees said any ultimate solution to the migrant boat crisis has to include citizenship by myanmar. myanmar responded that the unhcr is not well-informed. the fact is that this meeting is coming very late too late for thousands of

since november an estimated 20 to 25,000 people have left myanmar and bangladesh. many are from the rohingya, a muslim minority, which has been persecuted by the myanmar government. >> sreenivasan: for more on the exodus from myanmar and bangladesh we turn to sarnata reynolds, senior advisor on human rights at refugees international, a non profit organization that advocates on behalf of refugees. let's bring our audience up to speed. who are these people? why are they getting in boats and running from where they live today. >> they're an ethnic minority in myanmar about 1.3 1.3 million in the country, though 10% have fled on boats in the last years. they have lived in the country for generations. some for hundreds of years. but the government has decided to persecute them and has over the last three years, beaten them with impunity, put them into camps, told them they have to call themselves bengaly or they will be detained and basically left all humanitarian access out so they can't even get food or medical care or go to school. >> sreenivasan: this is ironic beca