live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. it is live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. live from mouth to in singapore, this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio in this is bbc news. it is newsday. live from our studio in singapore. i hello and welcome to the programme. president xi of china is on a state visit to russia, where he s been warmly greeted by president putin. the summit has been the focus of a good deal of speculation following the publication of china s plan to settle the acute crisis in ukraine. mr putin said that moscow was always open to negotiation. but the americans have already warned that the chinese peace plan could be a just a delaying tactic. the visit comes just days after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for president putin, in relation to alleged war crimes. from moscow, our rus
I joined up this is al jazeera life and was a coming out. Guilty verdict the Supreme Court in thailand sentences former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to five years in prison for corruption. The u. S. Defense secretary and nato secretary general in kabul sells a new afghan policy that may not be all that new plus. A show of force from south africas Largest Workers Union its main demand president jacob zuma must go. Iraqs kurdish region is about ten ounces the official results from mondays succession referendum an official estimate say kurds have voted yes iraqi Prime Minister body is ready regional leaders to cancel the results its good morning from me joining us live from bill we waiting on the results what are you hearing how is it going to work. Well were waiting for the results the first said that they were supposed to be announced a short while ago. However the room where the press conference is going to happen is full with journalism everybody is really on standby even the pe
Official referendum results come in the Kurdish People and their government a feeling the heat. Off International Flights to the semi autonomous region and im demanding the airport be handed down. Also on the grid the long journey for women to get behind the wheel in saudi arabia. Finally ending a ban thats been a symbol of female oppression and the ultra conservative kingdom but what does it mean in a country where god. Gave man power over women in so many other ways well be looking at that and also in the rainforests of south america as the hunt goes on for the killers of up to twenty people in brazil they were members of an amazonian tribe one which had no contact with the outside world. Twitter is planning to double its character limit from one hundred forty two hundred eighty some say it will give more meaning. More to the. By the way everything i just. Streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and. Percent ninety percent of iraqi kurds who took part in that controversial re
World news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, 1am in london, and 6 30 in the morning in myanmar, where, on thursday, un agencies will enter Rakhine State for the First Time Since the mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims began. The burmese army has been accused of ethnic cleansing and nearly half a million rohingyas have fled to bangladesh to escape the brutal crackdown, which the army says began after attacks by rohingya militants. The bbcsjonathan head has tracked down a man who claims to be one of those rohingya fighters. Here is his special report. This is where a desperate ring of muslims started to fight back. This town in Rakhine State is now a smoking ruin, with its Muslim Population gone. For years, rohingyas have endured discrimination, abuses, and confinement to squalid camps, but, unlike other minorities in myanmar, they did not rebel against the government. Thats now changed. A Burmese Police officer showed me me where hundreds of men, carrying only machetes and petrol bombs, s