A flood persecution in myanmar and are now in bangladesh they desperately need food medicine and shelter will the world given up at todays Donor Conference in geneva also coming up japans Prime Minister ones wins a super majority in snap election hes now expected to pursue reforms of the countrys pacifist constitution that japans military take on an international role. And cataloged leaders consider their next step after spain moves to dismiss the Regional Government there will talk to people on both sides of the divide who want in and to the political brinksmanship. Rule. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program with what the United Nations is calling a textbook. Ethnic cleansing hundreds of thousands of muslims facing persecution and violence and then more have fled to neighboring bangladesh now a steady stream of refugees has been crossing this border on a daily basis in bangladesh while its in need of dire help to cope a un Donor Conference kicks off in geneva today looking for pledges of Financial Aid lets take a look at the scale of this crisis at the moment nearly six hundred thousand i had to have fled to bangladesh from me and mars rock in state since august now more than half of them are children the United Nations says more than four hundred million u. S. Dollars is needed to provide clean water food and shelter for these refugees but so far only about a quarter of that amount has been collected. Thousands of people still flee leon maher every day nearly six hundred thousand rwanda have left for bangladesh in recent weeks almost all of them have experienced great suffering. Not a big home wanders through the refugee camp and cox is bizarre clearly traumatized the eleven year old tells us what happened in myanmar. My father was murdered by me and marys soldiers thankfully i wasnt their neighbors had hidden me and then they brought me to bangladesh. Then i think janet is now searching for her mother she hopes she also made it to bangladesh doesnt even have a tent she sleeps out in the open more than half of the refugees here are children the relief organizations and the government of bangladesh arent able to support them fully. Everything is in short supply tents food and medicine theres just one hospital in the camp where a handful of doctors work around the clock. When they are on the run the heat and the long track are very hard going for those driven from their homes most people arrive here in very Poor Condition most of. The most serious cases are treated in the hospital in the provincial capital gong many refugees have been maimed by landmines were carry the scars of Bullet Wounds all of them accuse the myanmar is soldiers of patel ity. We want support for them just like on drugs medical support and most awfully want that initial call me to get bishop to myanmar to stop these type of inhumane walks me and maher and bangladesh have formed a joint working group to discuss the repatriation route into refugees but very few actually want to return joining us on the city to talk about the ranger try siss vessel michel ski director of Human Rights Watch here in germany thanks so much for being with us this morning as we heard that report theres a question about how many were hinge you want to go back right now to me in mar on sunday we saw a buddhist a demonstration of the demonstration of the buddhist majority against the return of the right hinges you know how long can they stay in the bangladeshi camps and and can they go back well the problem is that they actually khant go back to where they come from to their villages because they are not recognized by by us but many citizens so they ceased all the land. The land they will be in danger of being detained in. Detainment camp was popy. A around inside myanmar maybe inside me and ma and thats nothing thats not a solution we we cant want this and regina want to go back to their villages and anyway every resettlement for the regime has to be voluntary volatility. Should be forced to pay ok now the United Nations the same says their hands are facing a campaign of ethnic cleansing is that an accurate description of whats happening thats absolutely accurate we report to for many yes atrocities against the Muslim Minority in the north of but in the recent two months this is a systematic ethnic cleansing by the me and by. Groups who are helping the burmese army to drive the ruling out of the country ok burma of course being me and maher right ok you know the government in myanmar is denying that theres any rights violation all it saying is fighting is almost insurgency how much is that fighting fuelling the refugee crisis where there is some fighting or was actually some fighting because now this group the Rohingya Group they announced a cease fire a unilateral cease fire. But you know i mean they were. Persecuted killed for many many years so theres no wonder that there will be a resistance and there is a resistance but its not comparable to any muslim groups like al qaeda is they dont even have connections to the international Donor Conference today is appealing for four hundred thirty Million Dollars are you confident that that some will be brought together we often see pledges and the money never appears thats right the dangerous this well of course for now the most imminent problem is the eight. Already there how does it reach the people it only reaches the beginning of the camp but how is it being distributed youve seen those thousands of people on a kind of down small land strips are surrounded by water its very difficult and the danger of an outbreak of terrible diseases is imminent you know that danger is being faced by a lot of children sixty percent of the refugees have crossed into bangladesh are children fact what do they need most right now they need help they need medical help they need fresh water lots of troops are in very thin they suffering from hunger and if this doesnt happen fast if eight doesnt reach them very fast we will see many many people die dying what about bangladesh its not really in a situation to cope with all of this. What can it do right now bang that this is one of the poorest countries we often needs humanitarian aid that as well so this is probably the most unlikely country to cope with such a huge immigration weve seen now almost six hundred thousand was in two months that is a huge number then so michelles the director of Human Rights Watch here in germany thanks so much for being with us this morning. Is to japan now where Prime Minister shinzo abbay has swept to a resoundingly victory after taking a gamble with snap elections his Coalition Government is set to retain its two thirds super majority in the lower house of parliament and that could pave the way to make deep changes to the countrys pacifist constitution well have more on that after this report. Carnation for every seat one a tradition in japanese politics Prime Minister shinzo has many carnations to pin for the resounding victory of his Ruling Coalition he pledged to tackle what he called japans two National Crises the military threat from north korea and japans aging population. I believe this election was about firstly the north korean threat you can even say the north korean threat is the biggest threat ever it was also about the declining birth rate if we dont do something now it will be too late this is a National Crisis that cannot wait but how. Does all of the lower house less than a month ago forcing a snap election hes move looks like its paying off his Ruling Coalition has easily retained its two thirds majority in japans lower house this majority is important it means that either has the two thirds of votes needed to amend japans constitution or peace clause in the constitution bans japan from having a military japan has socalled selfdefense troops who are unable to fight something out there wants to change in his third term. In face of the tension over north korea i aim to discuss whether the presence of the selfdefense forces troops who are working hard twenty four hours a day three hundred sixty five days a year is constitutional or not. Once passed by Parliament However constitutional changes would have to go into a referendum which could prove difficult as a leader is deeply unpopular and his victory is being seen as a reflection of a lack of alternatives rather than support for his push to change the constitution. So while ago i spoke with journalist michael pena and tokyo i asked him about Prime Minister robert as main points during his first postelection press conference a few hours ago. Well he is going to you know. Talk about that hes going to offer stability and good leadership for the government Going Forward and essentially hes going to make his case that he that he now has the mandate to continue his leadership for several years into the future ok you know now retains a two thirds majority in parliament does he now have the political mandate to oversee as hes campaigned on changing the countrys pacifist constitution and what would be the timeframe on that. Well in terms of his intentions theres no doubt that he will move forward and the time frame. Still take a couple more years because he needs to line up support even within his own party in his own coalition although i do think were going to see a lot of movement on it next year in terms of the issue of mandate well thats kind of a little bit more tricky because you know the voter turnout was quite low and really the super majority this thumping victory which he won was done with probably less than twenty five percent of the votes of the total Adult Population of japan so theres a lot of. Structure of the electoral system which kind of exaggerates the size of the victory so in many ways mandate is a tricky question and at the end of the day it will be the japanese people themselves who will have a referendum to be able to decide whether or not to go forward to revise and constitution ave will do it but whether the people are behind him or not on that issue remains an open question ok the background to this is of course the rising tensions with north korea could we see any new political moves in that direction during his new administration. Well of course we dont know what exactly is going to happen in the future but Prime Minister inclination is very clear he will continue to back the trumpet ministration hes against any kinds of talks hes in favor of economic pressure and sanctions against north korea basically you know abbate in the japanese context is pretty much a serious hard liner and i think that that kind of hard line we dont talk pressure pressure that will be his approach Going Forward as well i would expect ok and Going Forward as well what are going to be some of the main political challenges hes going to be facing where you see interesting thing one of the exit polls showed that fifty one percent of the japanese public doesnt trust it so even though his party just one is huge majority hes not well liked and hes not trusted by the japanese public so hes going to even though he will have the parliamentary numbers to ram through a lot of things he has a lot of work to do in terms of regaining the faith of the people and to try to you know get acceptance of his policies even though he has the power to push many of them through ok michael penn for us journalists in tokyo thanks very much for that. Lets take a look now at some of the other stories making the news at this hour the Philippine Defense secretary delphine learns on has declared an end to the battle against islamist rebels in the Southern City of. Fighters supporting socalled Islamic State seized control of that city five months ago that sparked the countrys biggest security crisis in years or as honest as philippine troops have now defeated the last group militants. The coalition of argentinas president machree has emerged as the countrys strongest Political Force in midterm elections machree had been expected to lose votes over his governments human rights record but dealt a blow to the opposition specially in the province of buenos aires where former president cristina care center was defeated by the progovernment candidate. Two of italys richest regions have voted in favor of more autonomy from the Central Government in rome along binding ballots took place and benito and lombardy which are home to about a quarter of italys population their original leaders are likely to use the ballot to demand more powers all the Spanish Government is set to temporarily impose direct rule on catalonia bid to to prevent it from declaring independence if spain Senate Approves the move later this week Catalan Leader karlas cruz demands will be out of his job now spains Central Government says it may choose a single representative to replace him in the interim meanwhile the Regional Government in catalonia is preparing to meet today to decide its next step. Of more on the catalogue crisis lets join barbara vais all shes with us now in barcelona barber the Catalan Regional Parliament meeting today have we heard from them yet. And not yet the Steering Committee is just now getting together all of this is on spanish time it takes a little while however what we hear from local sources is that parliament might decide to meet again for a Plenary Session on friday that would then indicate that this parliament here in catalonia intends to sort of go down in flames shaking their fists Singing National songs and redeclare ing independents because that is the exact same time when in madrid the senate will sign the papers to invoke the article one fifty five to set it going from that point in time then the powers will be exercised by madrid so thats the situation it seems the two sides are still circling each other but the trenches are being dug ever deeper ok part of those deep trenches include some veiled criticism of the e. U. Cattle on regional leaders have been saying that if spain seizes power that would undermine the credibility of the European Union if brussels stands by unless that happen. This is of course is the interpretation by barcelona i mean if all the while to try to involve the European Union interpret in you the european treaties and agreements as something that sort of is supposed to hold up their rights basically of course the European Union holds up human rights and the rule of law however they treat is treaties that have been signed between brussels and all the Member States are with madrid are with the spanish state and not with the region that all of a sudden figures out it rather would like to be independent and wants to become a satan or brussels help us so basically the e. U. Officially is not going to touch this crisis was a bargepole they would rather it go away sooner than later ok now weve seen ongoing demonstrations on the streets of barcelona is there the potential for Police Violence like we saw during the balloting that led to this crisis if madrid in fact seizes power. There is of course potential for violence and if after friday they Central Government starts to impose direct rule here it will have to protect central infrastructure its already started to do so even though in a very low key manner however like gas water electricity the local t. V. Station and so on so force will have to protected against civil disobedience against takeover attempts by the Independence Movement as soon as the hated here hated Central Police the cardio civill moves in and then the potential for violence begins because we can draw the force see provocations through independent supporters they want these pictures on t. V. They want to show the world that they are victims of suppression by madrid the more brutal the better and the hardest to deal is known as not being very reticent so this playbook sort of might Start Playing it out over the next week and ok with that in mind what about catalog president karlas push to mont what are his options right now he seems to be rather quickly running out of options his possibility would have been that he on thursday before one five five the article is set in motion to go and say ok folks lets suspend all this i call for elections and lets figure out what the voters and catalonia really want because this is a deeply divided country its not like one hundred percent behind independence not at all however it seems that he is not going to do that hes being pushed by the hardliners in his own coalition to sort of stay was independence and so at the moment he still seems to be hedging his bed but his political career ends on friday definitely that much is clear barbara vais will bring us up to date on the kelong crisis from barcelona thanks very much barbara. Whilst im also now where thousands of people gathered in the maltese capital of a letter to water the murdered investigative journalist and to call for those behind her death to be brought to justice she died in a car bombing last week that shocked the mediterranean Island Police who was uncovering a government corruption scandal. This was not a vigil it was an act of collective anger protesters upset over the assassination of journalist Daphne Khurana Galicia cold for the resignation of the island Nations Police commissioner they threw coins at a banner of Lawrence Catania chanting shame on you and no change no justice. Galicia was an investigative journalist who specialized in Corruption Cases just before her death she posted a message saying that in multi there were crooks everywhere she died when a bomb planted in her car exploded. At another rally close by the capitol valetta people remembered her passion. I would say she was at the mired and her dissented in equal measure there were a lot of people who couldnt stand the way she wrote the gossip element of it especially but in reality she was is one of the ones who really on earth that some of the biggest scandals in recent years. Others in the crowd say they want a new malta. Were here because we want to show that the next generation and believe in freedom of speech we will not be silenced well always speak out against injustice when we see it disappear freedom of speech as its being attacked in the country. The leaders of monsters my own Political Parties were not in attendance and i the rally one said he knew his family did not want him there. Mark has been looking at the Business World and japan and four more years of. Might be a good thing for Business Leaders investors certainly loving it to brian since i was election victories and japanese stocks to their highest level since one thousand nine hundred six the nikkei climbed nearly one percent extending its longest winning streak in the early seventy years while the japanese yen hit a three month low against the us dollar and that is good for japans export oriented economy and a moment will go to frankfurt for an update on trading here in europe but first a look to asia. It was big news for the big board. Japans benchmark stock index has marked up its longest winning streak in its almost seventy year history. Helping drive the market rally victorious Prime Minister shinzo about his economic policies. While we make an effort for Economic Growth and make necessary investments i hope to recover japans primary balance. And promises like that are helping drive down the yen against the dollar giving japanese exports a welcome boost car makers like nissan and honda saw their stocks jump around one percent on the news. Other export dependent corporations Like Electronics giant spends on it and can also gain ground. But markets elsewhere in the region shrugged off the news of bobbys victory. The hong kong and shanghai stock exchanges were flooded in monday trading. Now and here in europe the mood on stock markets is also slightly more sober at the start of the week lets cross over now for more to our correspondent at the French Stock ExchangeDaniel Danielle so no its not fireworks after his election victory whats Holding People back. Well in general monica i can tell you that investors you mentioned that are loving the result of Prime Minister. Again now even gaining more power in a parliament they have called his very business friendly politics in the past the economics effect which means that he is very much also opening japan for Foreign Investors we remember that the japanese economy mostly also depending on exports so investors are now wondering what they most likely can expect after this result most likely that the bank of japan is going to continue the policy of pumping every year billions of dollars in the industry mostly in the export industry and also new projects regarding the infrastructure why we are not seeing this extremely loose this morning is also because of the catalonia crisis thats still going on investors here at the stock market clearly have fears to do Big Investments this morning all right daniel cope in a frankfurt thank you so much for that update. 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